Mitch McConnell may bear an uncanny resemblance to a turtle, but he sure shut down "FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress" fast enough.
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I never thought my candidate would pull it off, honestly (granted, I don't understand the tears we saw from the Hillary Camp - I didn't plan on crying or going into fetal position if Trump lost; but to each his own). I do like his desire to be a president for all Americans. Here's to the next 4 years.
I never thought my candidate would pull it off, honestly (granted, I don't understand the tears we saw from the Hillary Camp - I didn't plan on crying or going into fetal position if Trump lost; but to each his own). I do like his desire to be a president for all Americans. Here's to the next 4 years.
I can only imagine you don't get people being scared because you're not part of much in the way of minority groups. At best for any minority group Trump is neutral, and on plenty he's going to make things worse.
Clinton lost white women. And what is astonishing is not even necessarily that, but the fact that Clinton only barely won white, college-educated women. It was 51% vs. 45%.
So what does this mean, exactly? What conclusions can we draw from this?
I suspect by the next election, Trump support will have died down with a lack of the anti-establishment change desired by his voters and someone moderate who can compromise and therefore get things moving or a left wing candidate promising a different kind of reform will win.
Ok, stop right there.
Implicit in this is that all of the "anti-establishment change desired by [Trump's] voters" will be passed by the end of four years of Trump as president.
That is not a "no big deal" scenario
I said anything about this not being a big deal.
And what makes you think just because Trump won of anti-establishment sentiment that he will actually get to follow through with ALL of it? He lost the popular vote, his party members don't seem to comsistently truly support him and his policies have been inconsistent- I don't see him getting much anti-establishment stuff through. Some , for sure. Serious stuff probably. But not the great revolution many of his supporters have hoped for.
And what makes you think just because Trump won of anti-establishment sentiment that he will actually get to follow through with ALL of it? He lost the popular vote, his party members don't seem to comsistently truly support him and his policies have been inconsistent- I don't see him getting much anti-establishment stuff through. Some , for sure. Serious stuff probably. But not the great revolution many of his supporters have hoped for.
Oh wow, I'm SO sorry DJK, I misread your statement and overlooked the part where you said, "lack of."
Again, that was dumb of me, apologies. In light of what you actually said, yes, I agree.
Up until the final day, I've seen people claiming "Trump simply cannot win." "Hillary has this in the bag" "Trump's a joke" etcetera etcetera. People claiming that the polls simply made it LOOK like they were close to avoid any allegations of bias, while in reality Clinton was leading by a landslide. All this time I've been saying that Trump has a chance, as much as I disliked it, simply due to the faults of the DNC and Hillary's tainted record.
Up until the last week or two, polls showed Hillary with a solid lead. It's only recently that any data we had available even suggested a particularly close race.
Seriously? I'm pretty sure "hoping they'll send a [fictional] Terminator" doesn't count as "calling for his assassination".
Maybe not when it is Trump, but I am sure the politically correct left would agree if it was said about Hillary.
It pretty much was said about Hillary, minus the fictional Terminator part. Remember the "Second Amendment people" doing "something" about Hillary "essentially" abolishing the Second Amendment?
Trump actually carried a higher % of the black and hispanic vote than Romney. The black vote is a little less surprising just because he wasn't running against Obama. But the hispanic vote is pretty interesting. I don't think those were big difference makers, but that's quite an accomplishment for a man that is literally Hitler.
I suspect the Hispanic votes he got were part of the Evangelical Republicans. People voting straight Republican simply because they've pretty much established themselves as the religious party, despite politicians on both sides professing religiosity at a greater rate than the population at large.
It all starts with people born in the USA calling themselves "America". You are Americans but you are not "America". America is a continent not a country.
The USA is literally the only country with "America" in its name, while not being the only country with "United States" in its name.
Screw the parties. Screw the electoral college. All it does it make us more and more partisan and divided. And no one who's ever in power has any motivation to fix any of it.
I mean, the system is pretty much in place in order to prevent demagogues from winning the race. Look how much that worked out.
First thing I noticed is that there was way more discussion about The American Election than there was about the Canadian Election last year or whatever, which got more discussion than what I've seen compared to previous elections.
POTUS is the most powerful single individual on the planet. Of course it's going to get a lot of attention.
Add in some of the more recent wins like Marriage equality I can understand why a lot of people are very concerned at the moment.
Kennedy was the Republican in favor of Marraige Equality, so a Republican replacement for Scalia isn't likely to reverse that ruling. In fact, if someone tries to get the case heard by the Supreme Court again after we get Scalia's replacement, because it's unlikely to have a different ruling, that would just cement Marriage Equality, making it even harder to overturn later.
I never knew just how prevalent Republican voters really were in this country, and how local to urban areas Democratic support is.
It was kind of amusing to watch the live results coming in for Texas. Basically, it would be red, then the results for some big city would pop up and the state would flip blue for a bit, before turning back red. Then another big city's results came in and it flipped back to blue.
I never thought my candidate would pull it off, honestly (granted, I don't understand the tears we saw from the Hillary Camp - I didn't plan on crying or going into fetal position if Trump lost; but to each his own). I do like his desire to be a president for all Americans. Here's to the next 4 years.
The USA is literally the only country with "America" in its name, while not being the only country with "United States" in its name.
This is a debate which I enjoy a lot, having discussed it with Chilean friends when I was living there, but this is a discussion for a different thread.
POTUS is the most powerful single individual on the planet. Of course it's going to get a lot of attention.
By a small margin in some aspects (mostly due to Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin), but yeah, definitely. And it's a shame that other people with similar amounts of power in other countries don't get more attention from people in the US.
* FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
* SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
* SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure
I never thought my candidate would pull it off, honestly (granted, I don't understand the tears we saw from the Hillary Camp - I didn't plan on crying or going into fetal position if Trump lost; but to each his own). I do like his desire to be a president for all Americans. Here's to the next 4 years.
Also: I've mentioned the climate issues earlier so dig up the links yourself
I don't personally know of any that prioritized the issue of pro life vs pro choice, nor do I know any transsexuals, but I would assume they used their vote to vote in their best interest.
I'm very concerned, but I think that this election has proven that sensationalism is not a good way to look at Donald Trump. So I think we'll have to wait and see. Fingers crossed that Ginsburg doesn't retire in the next four to eight years (as relevant)
Kennedy was the Republican in favor of Marraige Equality, so a Republican replacement for Scalia isn't likely to reverse that ruling. In fact, if someone tries to get the case heard by the Supreme Court again after we get Scalia's replacement, because it's unlikely to have a different ruling, that would just cement Marriage Equality, making it even harder to overturn later.
Even if the appointment did change the balance of the court, it would be unusual to say the least for them to revisit an issue so soon after they've ruled on it. The judiciary still takes the "no backsies" principle seriously.
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Sorry if i questioned your intelligence but you really are just going down all by yourself. And that's why Trump got there. Your nation is one influenced by racism and violence. And by the context of your comment i can't really see you being more "clever" or "cult" than anyone in my country, or continent.
As Winston Churchill once said: "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
PS: Please guys i know this is a forum where citizens of the United States of America are the majority. This isn't against anyone of you personally.
All nations are influenced by racism and violence whether they choose to admit it or not. I like you Winston Churchill quote, I think it is very appropriate right now.
What similarities between the results of this election and the vote for Brexit in Great Britain can be seen?
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* FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
* SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
* SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure
Does climate change operate on "Day After Tomorrow" logic now?
I'm so glad you brought this up. If we continue down the current path we are on, our climate will rapidly spiral out of control. We are already seeing the effects of climate change with things like hurricane Sandy, Snowmageddon, the California drought, etc. If you prefer a more visual illustration, then please take a look at this graph, which nicely illustrates what climate scientists mean when they say the temperature has fluctuated in the past, and shows why they are so worried about our current climate trend. https://xkcd.com/1732/
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Trump appears to be taking the commitments he made to the white lower/middle class voters seriously.
How so? He's not even in office yet. How can you make such a huge assumption? Not to mention he made a much bigger commitment to the upper class than anyone else.
When we could go outside without a fear of someone blowing themselves up solely to terrorize.
Are you legitimately afraid of this? that's kind of silly...
See this argument of "the glory of years past" never holds up because believe it or not life is pretty nice right now for more Americans than it ever has been in our history. More people have opportunity now than in any other period of time.
You're side is not interested in dialogue. Only lambasting the other side and forcing your ideas on them. You never compromise and everything is in absolutes. Look at this thread - still at it eh
I'm terrified and sick to my stomach. If you aren't, please consider helping those who are: if you believe in your candidate, now's the time to explain it kindly and firmly and heal the nation. If you'd prefer to cackle and celebrate misery, consider what in life made you this way and check if you are in fact a bad person.
The actual candidate is a wash. Obviously. But its so much more than that. Outside of an apparent all out internet hate for "white conservative catholic males". I'm reluctant to cast a vote for the very people trying to remove us from the equation. Hillary is also just another puppet master, from the elite inner circle protecting their interests and their investments. She wasn't "for" the American people. I'm not claiming that Trump IS the answer, or that he's "for" the American people either. But we know for certain the course we are on right now, and we know that course would continue.
- A mismatched President, house and senate doesn't actually get anything done.
- Protecting the town Christmas tree from the two rotten people who want to ruin it for the entire town
- Religion in general is being gutted, despite ~70% of the country being Christian/Catholic
(and thus waging war on %70 of the population is a stupid idea that doesn't get you votes)
- "Its 2016 already". Note the age of the church; its not disappearing. People will have to learn how to live alongside it.
- Loss of states rights, issues that WE voted on, legislation passed by people who don't even live here
- Strike for $15. If it happens, I want another $20 an hour.
- Sweeping legislation that completely ignores demographics. This isn't NY NY... our money scale is different.
- BLM vandalizing the walk of fame, their own neighborhoods, taking conventions over
- Slain cops. Sorry, I'm totally blue
- "I don't CARE if he had a gun" and "Not ONE more." Right - start following the law
- Table of 20 with a $550 bill leaving $5 to split among 3 servers. Then leave in Cadillacs. Because "America owe me."
- Special bathrooms for a fraction of a fraction of the population. We don't have more pressing things to worry about I guess
- This administrations unwillingness to send boots to defeat ISIS despite all military advisors current and former supporting it
- I happen to work for the military, and most people don't know how military spending cuts affect Americans. They think they do.
- Pulse night club. San Bernardino. People on the terrorist watch list can kill civilians on home soil
- No screening, background check or investigation on people coming into the country (see above)
- Small minded people thinking that a trillion dollars spent since Nixon is some huge amount of money
- ( $550 billion spent on Medicaid last year alone )
- "Not in our interest" to defeat the cartels. Our special forces could have it done in days. No pressure on Mexico either
- Legalization/decriminalization as an answer. The new notion is heroin and that can't happen
- Narcan free. So that heroin users can recover and and keep using heroin. Epi pen $600
- All of our industry is setting up foundries and moving the work to Mexico. They work for $2-3/hr. Tariffs not nearly high enough to discourage it
- "White no degree". That's racism. Its code word for backwater cajun, hillbilly corn farmer, white trailer trash put into acceptable words
- Millennials/GenZ who want top dollar pay for their first job, and a position where they can come and go as they feel like working.
- "Press 1 for English" Catering to the uneducated ( non-white no degree??)
I suspect everything on that list is already "well known". As far as cackling.... eh. Just looking at all the "never happen" posts in the other thread.
but that's quite an accomplishment for a man that is literally Hitler.
My family immigrated from Germany to escape the holocaust. People really shouldn't throw the name Hitler around so lightly. It carries more gravity than a person might realize. I'm not pretending to be offended, but thought you should know.
This also means I wasn't born into money and businesses, receiving some proverbial baton. I grew up relatively poor.
You're side is not interested in dialogue. Only lambasting the other side and forcing your ideas on them. You never compromise and everything is in absolutes. Look at this thread - still at it eh
My side is not interested in fairy tales:
1. That you can cut taxes & increase government revenue at the same time
2. That building a wall will solve our problems
3. That evolution is not the way the world works
4. That global warming is just a "theory"
There's a world. It works in measurable, understandable ways. Science & Data allow us to determine what affect our actions have on the world. No amount of bloviating will change that. If you want to be a conservative within the bounds of how systems and the world works, then fine, we can hash it out and have a conversation. If you want to totally ignore all of that, then, yeah it's going to be hard for us to talk.
For 8 years republicans refused to do their jobs. To compromise to do anything. They took the ball and sat on it. And now we've handed the whole country over to them without any stop gaps. Whatever they do in the next 4 years is totally their own decision. They won't consult us. They won't compromise. Maybe it won't be that bad, but history suggests otherwise.
1. Deregulation between the 70s & 90s has caused measurable damage to our economy. And austerity now will do that again
2. 20 million people losing health care may spare a few from losing their businesses, but it'll cause way more to suffer in medical bankruptcy, and we'll return to an extreme path of medical debt
3. Breaking up children from their families will cause broken families and create more poverty
4. Doing nothing about global warming will destabilize ecosystems and drown our coastal cities. The xkcd comic shows just how uncharted this territory is. There's some truth that some adaptation will happen, but we're in the largest species die off since the last mass extinction and the acidification of the oceans is going to have real consequence. Opening up the remaining oil reserves might just making things worse (best case) or they might totally tip the scales on Armageddon.
5. Growing the wealth gap with regressive government policies will feel pretty good in the immediate, but this populist uprising isn't going away. We elected wolves and an alpha wolf to curb the wolves, and that's throwing bad after bad.
Also, if your argument is that this is a Christian country. I'm not interested because it's not.
If your argument is that Social Justice is awful, I'm not interested because Social Justice is just making sure everyone is treated equally under the law, a ******* normal endeavor totally in line with our values that was created by judeo-christian orthodoxy.
If I'd heard anything resembling a plan in the last 8 years instead of a bunch of moaning and grumbling then maybe I'd take the other side seriously. Instead, all I heard was that my pres was from Kenya, that I was trying to ruin America, and that human beings should be treated as less than. That this was a Christian country with a capital C and if I didn't like I could move the **** out. I heard, "Liberals can't get anything done" while the republicans held congress and refused to do anything other than investigate Benghazi 12 times and pass pointless Obamacare repeal after repeal. And then they degenerated into chanting "Lock Her Up!"
I'm sorry. Are you really claiming that you want to talk to me? Because I don't believe you.
You have some great points, we ARE NOT a christian country, **** the christians, **** the jews, **** the muslims, **** every GODDAMN mono-theist alive in the whole damn world.
Sorry had to get that out after the last few days, people really need to start taking a super deep look at Ancient Astronaut theory and reconcile religion/science for good
So we are only saying **** to monotheists? seems unfair to me.
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Note how the predicted average temperature increase over the next century if business continues as usual is +6 degrees C. ~6 degrees is apocalyptic.
Actually not trying to be cute; just finding it difficult to believe that 4 years of business as usual will mean death. I think you're being overly dramatic.
I'll take you at your word that 6 degrees is apocalyptic. Science is not my forte and I can't even claim that I fully understand the entire research paper you posted.
Based on my understanding of the article and the summary, Earth is currently in its warm phase and so the temperature increase from CO2 may be worse than previously expected; further research needs to take this into account.
Trump appears to be taking the commitments he made to the white lower/middle class voters seriously.
How so? He's not even in office yet. How can you make such a huge assumption? Not to mention he made a much bigger commitment to the upper class than anyone else.
He led the 100 day plan with this-
* FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;
Note how the predicted average temperature increase over the next century if business continues as usual is +6 degrees C. ~6 degrees is apocalyptic.
Actually not trying to be cute; just finding it difficult to believe that 4 years of business as usual will mean death. I think you're being overly dramatic.
I'll take you at your word that 6 degrees is apocalyptic. Science is not my forte and I can't even claim that I fully understand the entire research paper you posted.
Based on my understanding of the article and the summary, Earth is currently in its warm phase and so the temperature increase from CO2 may be worse than previously expected; further research needs to take this into account.
Is that about the gist of it?
It's somewhat analogous to driving a car down a steep road with a cliff at the end. If you brake now, you might have enough road left to stop the car before it goes over. If you wait longer before braking, you very likely won't have enough road to stop because your car will have accumulated additional momentum in that period in addition to the shorter road left. The fact is that the +2C target via the Paris Accord is already the most optimistic scenario we have. There are a lot worse projections.
Luckily, if you live in US/Canada/Europe your nation is probably wealth and resourceful enough that it can somewhat mitigate the oncoming environmental damage. People in poorer places such as Bangladesh won't be so lucky and mass migration away from damaged areas will be the likely result. Global refugee crises may occur which will certainly exacerbate political reactions in the wealthier countries. I know this may sound alarmist, but the current Syrian refugee crisis would pale in comparison.
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I can only imagine you don't get people being scared because you're not part of much in the way of minority groups. At best for any minority group Trump is neutral, and on plenty he's going to make things worse.
You know what's really surprising to me about this election?
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/clinton-couldnt-win-over-white-women/
Clinton lost white women. And what is astonishing is not even necessarily that, but the fact that Clinton only barely won white, college-educated women. It was 51% vs. 45%.
So what does this mean, exactly? What conclusions can we draw from this?
I said anything about this not being a big deal.
And what makes you think just because Trump won of anti-establishment sentiment that he will actually get to follow through with ALL of it? He lost the popular vote, his party members don't seem to comsistently truly support him and his policies have been inconsistent- I don't see him getting much anti-establishment stuff through. Some , for sure. Serious stuff probably. But not the great revolution many of his supporters have hoped for.
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Again, that was dumb of me, apologies. In light of what you actually said, yes, I agree.
A question I've never really gotten an answer to from a Trump supporter: what time period is being referred to when you say "again"?
I binged on chocolate tonight, does that count?
It pretty much was said about Hillary, minus the fictional Terminator part. Remember the "Second Amendment people" doing "something" about Hillary "essentially" abolishing the Second Amendment?
I suspect the Hispanic votes he got were part of the Evangelical Republicans. People voting straight Republican simply because they've pretty much established themselves as the religious party, despite politicians on both sides professing religiosity at a greater rate than the population at large.
I hear Canada's immigration website crashed due to heavy traffic today.
The USA is literally the only country with "America" in its name, while not being the only country with "United States" in its name.
I mean, the system is pretty much in place in order to prevent demagogues from winning the race. Look how much that worked out.
POTUS is the most powerful single individual on the planet. Of course it's going to get a lot of attention.
Kennedy was the Republican in favor of Marraige Equality, so a Republican replacement for Scalia isn't likely to reverse that ruling. In fact, if someone tries to get the case heard by the Supreme Court again after we get Scalia's replacement, because it's unlikely to have a different ruling, that would just cement Marriage Equality, making it even harder to overturn later.
It was kind of amusing to watch the live results coming in for Texas. Basically, it would be red, then the results for some big city would pop up and the state would flip blue for a bit, before turning back red. Then another big city's results came in and it flipped back to blue.
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Semi-related: ISIS ******* love Trump, and so do White Nationalists.
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Also: I've mentioned the climate issues earlier so dig up the links yourself
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I think that it's supposed to refer to Reagan and the economic boom around the time.
I couldn't binge on either alcohol or anything else because of where I was at the time... But I think that's mostly a good thing.
This is a debate which I enjoy a lot, having discussed it with Chilean friends when I was living there, but this is a discussion for a different thread.
By a small margin in some aspects (mostly due to Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin), but yeah, definitely. And it's a shame that other people with similar amounts of power in other countries don't get more attention from people in the US.
Did I miss something?
Does climate change operate on "Day After Tomorrow" logic now?
Trump appears to be taking the commitments he made to the white lower/middle class voters seriously.
Let's see how well the actual Republicans play along with it, since I believe a good chunk of it goes against their current platforms.
I don't personally know of any that prioritized the issue of pro life vs pro choice, nor do I know any transsexuals, but I would assume they used their vote to vote in their best interest.
I'm very concerned, but I think that this election has proven that sensationalism is not a good way to look at Donald Trump. So I think we'll have to wait and see. Fingers crossed that Ginsburg doesn't retire in the next four to eight years (as relevant)
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That was uncalled for, but:
Here are the links you shared on Global Warming.
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Note how the predicted average temperature increase over the next century if business continues as usual is +6 degrees C. ~6 degrees is apocalyptic.
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All nations are influenced by racism and violence whether they choose to admit it or not. I like you Winston Churchill quote, I think it is very appropriate right now.
What similarities between the results of this election and the vote for Brexit in Great Britain can be seen?
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I'm so glad you brought this up. If we continue down the current path we are on, our climate will rapidly spiral out of control. We are already seeing the effects of climate change with things like hurricane Sandy, Snowmageddon, the California drought, etc. If you prefer a more visual illustration, then please take a look at this graph, which nicely illustrates what climate scientists mean when they say the temperature has fluctuated in the past, and shows why they are so worried about our current climate trend.
https://xkcd.com/1732/
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Back during separate but equal? Back when people owned other people? So never? Are you legitimately afraid of this? that's kind of silly...
See this argument of "the glory of years past" never holds up because believe it or not life is pretty nice right now for more Americans than it ever has been in our history. More people have opportunity now than in any other period of time.
You're side is not interested in dialogue. Only lambasting the other side and forcing your ideas on them. You never compromise and everything is in absolutes. Look at this thread - still at it eh
The actual candidate is a wash. Obviously. But its so much more than that. Outside of an apparent all out internet hate for "white conservative catholic males". I'm reluctant to cast a vote for the very people trying to remove us from the equation. Hillary is also just another puppet master, from the elite inner circle protecting their interests and their investments. She wasn't "for" the American people. I'm not claiming that Trump IS the answer, or that he's "for" the American people either. But we know for certain the course we are on right now, and we know that course would continue.
- A mismatched President, house and senate doesn't actually get anything done.
- Protecting the town Christmas tree from the two rotten people who want to ruin it for the entire town
- Religion in general is being gutted, despite ~70% of the country being Christian/Catholic
(and thus waging war on %70 of the population is a stupid idea that doesn't get you votes)
- "Its 2016 already". Note the age of the church; its not disappearing. People will have to learn how to live alongside it.
- Loss of states rights, issues that WE voted on, legislation passed by people who don't even live here
- Strike for $15. If it happens, I want another $20 an hour.
- Sweeping legislation that completely ignores demographics. This isn't NY NY... our money scale is different.
- BLM vandalizing the walk of fame, their own neighborhoods, taking conventions over
- Slain cops. Sorry, I'm totally blue
- "I don't CARE if he had a gun" and "Not ONE more." Right - start following the law
- Table of 20 with a $550 bill leaving $5 to split among 3 servers. Then leave in Cadillacs. Because "America owe me."
- Special bathrooms for a fraction of a fraction of the population. We don't have more pressing things to worry about I guess
- This administrations unwillingness to send boots to defeat ISIS despite all military advisors current and former supporting it
- I happen to work for the military, and most people don't know how military spending cuts affect Americans. They think they do.
- Pulse night club. San Bernardino. People on the terrorist watch list can kill civilians on home soil
- No screening, background check or investigation on people coming into the country (see above)
- Small minded people thinking that a trillion dollars spent since Nixon is some huge amount of money
- ( $550 billion spent on Medicaid last year alone )
- "Not in our interest" to defeat the cartels. Our special forces could have it done in days. No pressure on Mexico either
- Legalization/decriminalization as an answer. The new notion is heroin and that can't happen
- Narcan free. So that heroin users can recover and and keep using heroin. Epi pen $600
- All of our industry is setting up foundries and moving the work to Mexico. They work for $2-3/hr. Tariffs not nearly high enough to discourage it
- "White no degree". That's racism. Its code word for backwater cajun, hillbilly corn farmer, white trailer trash put into acceptable words
- Millennials/GenZ who want top dollar pay for their first job, and a position where they can come and go as they feel like working.
- "Press 1 for English" Catering to the uneducated ( non-white no degree??)
My family immigrated from Germany to escape the holocaust. People really shouldn't throw the name Hitler around so lightly. It carries more gravity than a person might realize. I'm not pretending to be offended, but thought you should know.
This also means I wasn't born into money and businesses, receiving some proverbial baton. I grew up relatively poor.
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So we are only saying **** to monotheists? seems unfair to me.
—Nicol Bolas
Actually not trying to be cute; just finding it difficult to believe that 4 years of business as usual will mean death. I think you're being overly dramatic.
I'll take you at your word that 6 degrees is apocalyptic. Science is not my forte and I can't even claim that I fully understand the entire research paper you posted.
Based on my understanding of the article and the summary, Earth is currently in its warm phase and so the temperature increase from CO2 may be worse than previously expected; further research needs to take this into account.
Is that about the gist of it?
He led the 100 day plan with this-
* FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;
It's somewhat analogous to driving a car down a steep road with a cliff at the end. If you brake now, you might have enough road left to stop the car before it goes over. If you wait longer before braking, you very likely won't have enough road to stop because your car will have accumulated additional momentum in that period in addition to the shorter road left. The fact is that the +2C target via the Paris Accord is already the most optimistic scenario we have. There are a lot worse projections.
Luckily, if you live in US/Canada/Europe your nation is probably wealth and resourceful enough that it can somewhat mitigate the oncoming environmental damage. People in poorer places such as Bangladesh won't be so lucky and mass migration away from damaged areas will be the likely result. Global refugee crises may occur which will certainly exacerbate political reactions in the wealthier countries. I know this may sound alarmist, but the current Syrian refugee crisis would pale in comparison.
That's a document he released back in October. That's the commitment part, not the action part.