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[Michael Scally MD]

 

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[CdnGuy]

Bin there can't lie.. lol

 

[kawilt]

"Remember when America was great? With leader with a 60% approval rating? Respected & admired by the rest of the world? That was last month."
ADMIRED by the world?...Last month?? Maybe about 74 or so!...even then...maybe.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Dr JIM]

Trump wants to stop federal funds to California. What that stupid cocksucker should consider is that democratic states subsidize the ignorant fucks in red states.

I see no reason why one or multiple states should fund or be liable for the failed financial policies of another.

Unfortunately, some states have learned or believe it's OK to run a terminal deficit like our federal government has done year after year with no end in sight.

Pathetic

 

[MassTurk]

Good to see you here doc

 

[Jeremiahflex]

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I'm assuming that's trumps supporters tin foil hat

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

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[Michael Scally MD]

Kellyanne Conway once again put herself at the center of controversy this week when she went on national television and declared she was doing a “free commercial” for Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, ethics laws be damned. Media snarked, ethics watchdogs barked and even White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Conway had been “counseled” on her behavior.

But according to someone who has worked with Conway and knows her thinking intimately,none of that much matters to Conway. She’s taking a long view in her bid to rise in the White House ranks — and she’s performing for an audience of one: President Donald Trump.

And so while critics may squawk, what matters most to Conway is that Trump sees her defending him on national television.

For Conway, the prize for loyalty is eventually landing a spot as chief of staff, becoming the first woman ever to hold the role and cementing her spot at the center of Trump’s inner circle.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

The courts are important, but things won’t really change unless enough Republicans start to see Trump as a liability to their fundraising and reelection chances. That could be quite soon if he can’t fulfill his many campaign promises. Making him look like a loser is crucial. Either the GOP will turn on him or he will be chastened and more likely to compromise. If a demagogue succeeds in claiming credit for wins and scapegoating his enemies for losses, he’s very hard to stop.

 

[CdnGuy]

Watched it last night, good documentary....

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Philosopher Richard Rorty Chillingly Predicts the Results of the 2016 Election … Back in 1998
Philosopher Richard Rorty Chillingly Predicts the Results of the 2016 Election ... Back in 1998 | Open Culture

[M]embers of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers—themselves desperately afraid of being downsized—are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.

At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking around for a strongman to vote for—someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. A scenario like that of Sinclair Lewis’ novel It Can’t Happen Here may then be played out. For once a strongman takes office, nobody can predict what will happen. In 1932, most of the predictions made about what would happen if Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor were wildly overoptimistic.

One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past forty years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. The words [slur for an African-American that begins with “n”] and [slur for a Jewish person that begins with “k”] will once again be heard in the workplace. All the sadism which the academic Left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come flooding back. All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.​

He also then argues, however, that this sadism will not solely be the result of “economic inequality and insecurity,” and that such explanations would be “too simplistic.” Nor would the strongman who comes to power do anything but worsen economic conditions. He writes next, “after my imagined strongman takes charge, he will quickly make his peace with the international superrich.”

Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/b...-book-suggested-election-2016-was-coming.html

Three days after the presidential election, an astute law professor tweeted a picture of three paragraphs, very slightly condensed, from Richard Rorty’s “Achieving Our Country,” published in 1998. It was retweeted thousands of times, generating a run on the book — its ranking soared on Amazon and by day’s end it was no longer available. (Harvard University Press is reprinting the book for the first time since 2010, a spokeswoman for the publisher said.)