Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

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Spindrift said:
Wharton? I wish people would stop saying he went to Wharton. While technically correct it is disingenuous. He went to Penn and got a BBA from the business school (Wharton). He did not go to the renowned MBA program at Wharton but he likes for people to infer that. And he transferred in to Penn with average grades from his first two years at Fordham.
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And, according to the article you posted above, he got in because he knew people and people knew he was rich.
 
Spindrift said:
I was I could live another 50 years so I could know what future historians will call the period. I'm thinking "When America went insane." or "The Demise of America."
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When the world lost its race with global warming.
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When the nuclear age matured into full bloom.
 
Spindrift said:
I was I could live another 50 years so I could know what future historians will call the period. I'm thinking "When America went insane." or "The Demise of America."
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Probably nothing to do with the US, but rather the roots of the new world order that's forming.

What it definitely won't be called, of course, is the New American Century.
 
Oystein said:
I think the pressure to haul in campaign funding from the private sector is what's killing US politics. These funds are dominated by the richest of the rich. The People only get to choose among those candidates pre-selected by the donor class. The Kochs, the Mercers, the few 10,000 of less-known millionaires and managers.

Term limits would not change that.
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But there should be reduced pressure to remain so beholden to the monied interests after being elected. Presuming one weren't compromised by blackmailable shenanigans in the run-up. But of course, the Party would be impacted by donors threatening to dry up, with the obvious internal forces being brought to bear.

Which leads to the far more important point you raise. There should be stringent limits to campaign donations, as is the case in many or most other democracies. The US system, with its ghastly emphasis on money, money, money in politics, is regarded elsewhere as obscene. In conjunction with multi-term elections, this too readily leads to but one subverted and perverted path; that the very richest have their interests represented.

That congressfolk (especially the more junior) have to spend a considerable fraction of their time hitting up former donors, this detracting from their erstwhile duties, is by itself a deplorable dereliction. Little wonder the populace is jaded by the whole sordid scene. Sure explains the advent of the orange fungal stain, and the seeming nihilistic desire in a quarter of the populace to burn it all down.
 
I see the USA has failed to make the 2018 World Cup after a loss to Trinidad & Tobago.

I really hope 45 has something to say about this.9
 
TheSupermeerkat said:
I see the USA has failed to make the 2018 World Cup after a loss to Trinidad & Tobago.

I really hope 45 has something to say about this.9
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#FakeNews

Anyway no-one President Trump knows cares anything about soccer so even if it did happen, it doesn't matter.
 
TheSupermeerkat said:
I see the USA has failed to make the 2018 World Cup after a loss to Trinidad & Tobago.
I really hope 45 has something to say about this.
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A World Cup in Russia, no less. The USA needed some help from an already-qualified Mexico to still have a chance, but no such luck. Woops.

If Trump did have anything to say, it probably wouldn't be nice. Better for everyone that he stays ignorant of football.
 
What a lunatic.

President Donald Trump said he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during a gathering this past summer of the nation’s highest ranking national security leaders, according to three officials who were in the room.

Trump’s comments, the officials said, came in response to a briefing slide he was shown that charted the steady reduction of U.S. nuclear weapons since the late 1960s. Trump indicated he wanted a bigger stockpile, not the bottom position on that downward-sloping curve.

According to the officials present, Trump’s advisers, among them the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, were surprised. Officials briefly explained the legal and practical impediments to a nuclear buildup and how the current military posture is stronger than it was at the height of the build-up. In interviews, they told NBC News that no such expansion is planned.

The July 20 meeting was described as a lengthy and sometimes tense review of worldwide U.S. forces and operations. It was soon after the meeting broke up that officials who remained behind heard Tillerson say that Trump is a “moron.”
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That's a fair reason to call someone "a *********** moron."
 
Stacko said:
What a lunatic.

That's a fair reason to call someone "a *********** moron."
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Is it ?

Increasing the US nuclear arsenal tenfold would have tremendous support within the GOP in general and the Trump base in particular. Any concerns about breaking treaties and the US' standing in the world can be disregarded because that ship has already sailed......

Stoking up the fears of the US electorate, military escalation and creating a sense of being persecuted internationally is entirely in line with what the vast majority of GOP supporters want.
 
Argumemnon said:
Yeah but I think we both know who'd win an IQ contest between him and you!
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:D:D

Presumably everyone's aware that Sarah Huckabee Sanders has gone with the 'get-a-brain-morans, he was just joking' defense.
“He made a joke. Maybe you guys should get a sense of humor, and try it sometime,” she said. “He simply made a joke.”
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