Trump

[pogo]

It’s just a WordPress blog with minimal advertising. I’m using Safari with Flash and ad blockers installed and did not encounter anything, but I know there have been cases of exploits spreading through legitimate ad networks, and via holes in things like WordPress. The blog, by M Pettis, is one of a couple I read for its China coverage.

[gravy]

It’s just a WordPress blog with minimal advertising. I’m using Safari with Flash and ad blockers installed and did not encounter anything, but I know there have been cases of exploits spreading through legitimate ad networks, and via holes in things like WordPress. The blog, by M Pettis, is one of a couple I read for its China coverage.

Pffft. Here's all you need to know about china

[pogo]

Wisconsin today. Not a big state but the result could be pivotal as Trump is predicted to lose, a state he was predicted to win a month ago. Not only does this dent his chances of winning enough delegates to win before the convention but it blows a hole in the sense of Trump’s inevitability, and hands the momentum to his opponents.

It’s not enough for Trump just to have most delegates. The drawn out primary process is meant to allow voters in the primaries to choose their favourite. In particular later winner-take-all states in the Republican contest mean the leader can drive home their advantage and make themselves unstoppable. If Trump cannot manage that then it is up to the convention, and they could perfectly legitimately choose Cruz or Kasich. In fact that seems very likely: Cruz and Kasich both long ago gave up any hope of getting most of the delegates, and instead are planning to win at the convention, and must surely have been laying the groundwork for this already.

[pogo]

Just to dispel any thought (which I may have suggested) that Trump’s horrible, misogynistic nature is somehow a product of old age. He has always been like that, thinking of women as sex objects, even his own daughter.

Part of me wants me to win the nomination so he will have to debate Clinton. Can’t see him coping well, especially once it turns to details of policy and issues, where Trump is utterly clueless. All he will have is his contempt for women to fall back on.

[pogo]

The Boston Globe is having some fun imagining what the headlines might be a year from now if Trump is elected:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/docume ... t-page.pdf

[merman]

The re-emergence of the Jacksonians

Avast says it's infested.

Yes, with Republicans.

Bernie wins again.

Trump's abortion stance just cemented his loser status, whether or not he gets the nomination. Millions of women will not vote for him now.

[(o)(o)]

[PumaG]

So Obama will leave having doubled the National debt to 20 trillion $, of which he claimed the original 10 trillion was "unpatriotic"

this and arming rebels associated with Al Qaeda (remember them? ) to fight Assad. Now admitting his post Libya preparations were a mistake.

' Libya plunged into chaos with militias taking over and two rival parliaments and governments forming.
So-called Islamic State (IS) gained a foothold, and Libya became a major departure point for migrants trying to reach Europe.'


There must be a lot more to Ugly face Trump's 'disastrous side' we haven't seen, to claim he could beat that.

[pogo]

The deficit rose under Obama due to the financial crisis, which was already underway when he became president.

I encourage you to read the Boston Globe’s special April 2017 front page. It’s satire, bitingly so in places, but it is based on taking Trump at his word and imagining what would happen if he were elected and carried out his policies. Trump has strongly attacked it, which means it has hit home. He does not want his supporters thinking too hard about his policies and what they would require.

Clinton campaign advert. She is still on the primary trail but you can see in this how she can fight Trump, turning his own words against him.

[gumboot]

this and arming rebels associated with Al Qaeda (remember them? ) to fight Assad. Now admitting his post Libya preparations were a mistake.

There's no denying that that was an obvious shithead move from the outset.

Thing is, though, it's just as obvious that it is possible to do much worse; and if you want to do much worse then Trump is the right candidate for that job.

[Darkflame]

The deficit rose under Obama due to the financial crisis, which was already underway when he became president.

PumaG was actually talking not of the deficit but of the Debt - which has even more disconnected with Obama.

You can fault some of Obama's spending here and there in principle, but its very hard to attach anything he has done to any significant impact on the debt. Its been largely on autopilot.

There must be a lot more to Ugly face Trump's 'disastrous side' we haven't seen,

Obama's a big spender yet you are supporting spending $16+ billion on a wall that can be defeated with cheap ladders/rope/tunnels etc?
(also, maintaining the wall that size is at least another few billion a year)

Also, his ACA replacement doesnt have a funding plan for it.

[gumboot]

There must be a lot more to Ugly face Trump's 'disastrous side' we haven't seen,

Obama's a big spender yet you are supporting spending $16+ billion on a wall that can be defeated with cheap ladders/rope/tunnels etc?

As I understood it, Trump's proposals are supposed to be too stupid to take as a serious risk.

(despite the precedent the US government has already established for implementing appallingly stupid ideas)

[Dio]

this and arming rebels associated with Al Qaeda (remember them? ) to fight Assad. Now admitting his post Libya preparations were a mistake.

There's no denying that that was an obvious shithead move from the outset.

But one the Americans have plenty of experience with. See also cold war Afghanistan, Iran/Contra, etc.

[Darkflame]

I always tend to think if the US isn't going to change its way of handling the rest of the world, they could at least invent and give out weaponry with short life expectancy.
"Use by date: One single rebellion"

Yes, its a stupid idea. But I cant help think its still a step up.

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There must be a lot more to Ugly face Trump's 'disastrous side' we haven't seen,

Obama's a big spender yet you are supporting spending $16+ billion on a wall that can be defeated with cheap ladders/rope/tunnels etc?

As I understood it, Trump's proposals are supposed to be too stupid to take as a serious risk.

(despite the precedent the US government has already established for implementing appallingly stupid ideas)

Well yeah. SDI is a similar example of billions chucked down the drain by Reagan pursuing a nonsense defense against a threat hyped up to be far more dangerous than it actually was.