The single best thing a president can do is immediately surround himself with the best. The pres is not an expert on everything. They just need to be smart, experienced, and genuinly want to help the country. if you have that, you are 95% of the way there, regardless of age. Trump didnt do any of that at all. Every aspect suffered-- foreign affairs, the environment, HHS, national security...everything.
range wrote:
CrispyChicken wrote:
Well, with talk on the left about "reeducation" and "cleansing", I am a bit apprehensive.
"Some people say...", "I'm hearing...", "many, many people have said..."
One credible source please, just one
Here is a sampling of those who have made the call, or at least the implication:
Michael Beller
Katie Couric
AOC
Sunny Hustin
David Atkins
Kyle Jurek
Jennifer Rubin
David Plouffe
range wrote:
coming for you next wrote:
The Biden voters have no clue what they voted for.
No, I said credible - one nutjob academic, one light-ent newscaster, one summary of a debate that's been raging for years and isn't clear cut and, actually, banning fracking makes good sense. Reinvest in clean energy and there's more jobs created than destroyed.
Not exactly a smoking gun, is it?
Yet another environmentalist that doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. Sorry to break it to you, but increased use of "Clean Energy" require increased use of natural gas (gas which is obtained most often by fracking). Why? Because basically every time they add a wind farm, solar PV farm, etc., they have to pair it with a natural gas turbine plant, because the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine, and the only way to accommodate that intermittency is with either hydro / pump back hydro (which aren't always viable / available), battery storage (which isn't cost effective and has a slew of environmental issues associated with it) or gas fired turbines. So, like it or not, increased use of "Clean Energy" typically requires an increased reliance on natural gas.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2019/10/25/natural-gas-and-renewables-will-rule-americas-electricity-future/?sh=7a4379911e36In summary, a desire to simultaneously increase renewables and ban fracking are not feasible.
CrispyChicken wrote:
range wrote:
"Some people say...", "I'm hearing...", "many, many people have said..."
One credible source please, just one
Here is a sampling of those who have made the call, or at least the implication:
Michael Beller
Katie Couric
AOC
Sunny Hustin
David Atkins
Kyle Jurek
Jennifer Rubin
David Plouffe
As long as individuals on the right are doing the re-education Libertarians and Republicans are okay. Early to mid-1990s Koch brothers altered the curriculum of department of economics at many U.S. colleges & universities. Economics taught as part of business school usually never offered Comparative Economics. Most colleges & universities in U.S. that taught economics in department of economics usually taught Comparative Economics. Early to mid-1990s Koch brothers donated to colleges & universities with strings attached. Koch brothers insisted schools cease teaching Comparative Economics. Koch brothers insisted schools fire economics professors who taught Comparative Economics. Koch brothers did not want far left economics professors teaching econometrics, principle of economics, calculus or statistics in math department, business statistics in business school or sociology in department of college of arts & sciences or philosophy in college of arts & sciences. Koch brothers felt that far left economics professors were a threat to the social order. Maybe Comparative Economics is still being taught at Ivy League schools or other schools with huge endowment accounts. [Comparative Economics is study of socialism versus feudalism and socialism versus so-called free market capitalism.] Thomas Sowell had to denounce all of his prior theories and the heart and soul of his PhD dissertation to be relevant today. Do you believe Sowell when he wrote and spoke from his heart in 1970s or do you believe Sowell now with a gun to his head? What Koch brothers did to left wing economic professors and department of economics is some of the most significant mind control re-education this nation has seen.
student of economics wrote:
CrispyChicken wrote:
Here is a sampling of those who have made the call, or at least the implication:
Michael Beller
Katie Couric
AOC
Sunny Hustin
David Atkins
Kyle Jurek
Jennifer Rubin
David Plouffe
As long as individuals on the right are doing the re-education Libertarians and Republicans are okay. Early to mid-1990s Koch brothers altered the curriculum of department of economics at many U.S. colleges & universities. Economics taught as part of business school usually never offered Comparative Economics. Most colleges & universities in U.S. that taught economics in department of economics usually taught Comparative Economics. Early to mid-1990s Koch brothers donated to colleges & universities with strings attached. Koch brothers insisted schools cease teaching Comparative Economics. Koch brothers insisted schools fire economics professors who taught Comparative Economics. Koch brothers did not want far left economics professors teaching econometrics, principle of economics, calculus or statistics in math department, business statistics in business school or sociology in department of college of arts & sciences or philosophy in college of arts & sciences. Koch brothers felt that far left economics professors were a threat to the social order. Maybe Comparative Economics is still being taught at Ivy League schools or other schools with huge endowment accounts. [Comparative Economics is study of socialism versus feudalism and socialism versus so-called free market capitalism.] Thomas Sowell had to denounce all of his prior theories and the heart and soul of his PhD dissertation to be relevant today. Do you believe Sowell when he wrote and spoke from his heart in 1970s or do you believe Sowell now with a gun to his head? What Koch brothers did to left wing economic professors and department of economics is some of the most significant mind control re-education this nation has seen.
Sowell changed his view of economics in 1960. He explains it here (no one pointed a gun to his head he just came to his senses after working for the government):
https://youtu.be/uiYH66HznW0?t=380CrispyChicken wrote:
range wrote:
"Some people say...", "I'm hearing...", "many, many people have said..."
One credible source please, just one
Here is a sampling of those who have made the call, or at least the implication:
Michael Beller
Katie Couric
AOC
Sunny Hustin
David Atkins
Kyle Jurek
Jennifer Rubin
David Plouffe
Add in Ben Rhodes who is calling for "detox of disinformation" by Trump supporters through use of Homeland Security
https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1352008834626297858Domestic terrorism laws headed our way to criminalize dissent, particularly criticism of American government's actions toward Israel.
Be afraid.
Precious Roy wrote:
coming for you next wrote:
https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1352226035119616000147 Republicans voted to overturn a Presidential election in the US based on a conspiracy theory after an attempted coup inspired by the same conspiracy theory. There has been no concerted effort in the Republican party to refute Qanon or Trump's blatant lies about winning the election by a landslide. The Republican party has made it clear that they are willing to create a mass hysteria by spreading lies about election fraud in order to subvert our democracy to retain power when they are unable to do so through a free and fair election. This crosses a line that goes beyond academic freedom, free speech and so on. This is embracing the intentional destruction of our democracy in order to keep a minority party in power.
People who have embraced this cannot get a free pass back into the good graces of our society. This is not like advocating supply side economics or austerity or other legitimate issues that we resolve as part of our democratic political process. This is saying that our democratic political process must be burned down by any means necessary when the minority party loses power. It is a systematic embrace of sedition as political policy. If there are no consequences for crossing that line in our democracy, then our democracy will fail as it will merely become a contest of how far a party will go to trample our democracy to grab power. If you believe that it is ok to knowingly lie to the public to try to get them to violently overthrow the government or have the congress throw out a free and fair election simply at the whim of the party that lost power, you have no place in government, academia or any other position of prominence. You can work at a car dealership.
I just want to second Precious R's comment, which is terrifically written and right on-point.
How do I work this? wrote:
Legit No. Biden will be replaced by Kamala soon and she knows who is in charge.
There could be no president worse than Jimmy Carter. His presidency was a never ending sh!tstorm.
No kidding he had all those scandals compared to Reagan.
coming for you next wrote:
student of economics wrote:
As long as individuals on the right are doing the re-education Libertarians and Republicans are okay. Early to mid-1990s Koch brothers altered the curriculum of department of economics at many U.S. colleges & universities. Economics taught as part of business school usually never offered Comparative Economics. Most colleges & universities in U.S. that taught economics in department of economics usually taught Comparative Economics. Early to mid-1990s Koch brothers donated to colleges & universities with strings attached. Koch brothers insisted schools cease teaching Comparative Economics. Koch brothers insisted schools fire economics professors who taught Comparative Economics. Koch brothers did not want far left economics professors teaching econometrics, principle of economics, calculus or statistics in math department, business statistics in business school or sociology in department of college of arts & sciences or philosophy in college of arts & sciences. Koch brothers felt that far left economics professors were a threat to the social order. Maybe Comparative Economics is still being taught at Ivy League schools or other schools with huge endowment accounts. [Comparative Economics is study of socialism versus feudalism and socialism versus so-called free market capitalism.] Thomas Sowell had to denounce all of his prior theories and the heart and soul of his PhD dissertation to be relevant today. Do you believe Sowell when he wrote and spoke from his heart in 1970s or do you believe Sowell now with a gun to his head? What Koch brothers did to left wing economic professors and department of economics is some of the most significant mind control re-education this nation has seen.
Sowell changed his view of economics in 1960. He explains it here (no one pointed a gun to his head he just came to his senses after working for the government):
https://youtu.be/uiYH66HznW0?t=380
You read my post and all you got out of my post was Sowell? Sowell was not the gist of my post. I was responding to a poster who stated left wing re-education. You read my post and instead of trying to find contrary facts stating Koch brothers did not force removal of Comparative Economics and left wing economists, you read my post and you felt you needed to search internet for Thomas Sowell youtube? 1960s or 1970s, who cares. Did Sowell get scared as a leftist when he learned Ernesto Guevara was assassinated? Did Sowell believe Nixon was not going to tolerate a leftist movement in U.S. and Sowell became a Right winger? During Nixon era, left wing Black men were simply assassinated by U.S. law enforcement. Did Sowell realize there was far more money to be made as a right winger? Sowell obtaining a PhD stating leftist principles then stating 180 degree opposite a dozen years later is like a scientist 400 years ago stating theory of gravity then stating a dozen or so years later there is no such thing as gravity. I saw Robert G. "Bobby" Seale speak at Tulane U., 1980s. I thought he was going to state leftist principles. Instead Bobby Seale had us all there to hear him tout his B-B-Q cookbook. Most that day in New Orleans were mad at Seale. I was not mad at Seale. I understood. I am not mad at Sowell. I understand.
Coevett wrote:
SeattleSilver wrote:
And one thing is very clear -- Trump is the easy winner in the head to head sex misbehavior sweepstakes.
That's odd. There have been women claiming that both men are rapists. But until either are convicted, we should accept both are equally innocent.
What we do know is Trump being recorded decades ago in private engaging in locker room talk using crude language about 'grabbing them by the xxxxx'. It doesn't appear he was being literal but making a crude claim about women loving bad boys and powerful men. The other thing with Trump is a comment he made about I think a 13 year old girl saying he'd date her when she was 19 or something.
On the other hand, Biden has been filmed in public in front of many people openly sniffing the hair and putting his hands on 13 year old girls and younger, and young women, to their clear discomfort. If Trump had been filmed doing that multiple times, nobody would dispute he was a paedophile sex abuser, but with Biden, YouTube and Twitter actually delete the videos on the grounds that they constitute 'child exploitation' (on the part of the people posting them).
Words have meanings, neither Biden nor Trump putting hands on the shoulders of a girl or woman justifies and accusation that the man is a "paedophile sex abuser" [sic].
Early to mid-1990s Koch brothers donated to colleges & universities with strings attached.
A huge difference between a private agreement and government action. The colleges and universities could have refused the money. But, those evil Koch brothers probably applied a Vulcan mind meld on the presidents and boards of the institutions to force them into the agreement.
student of economics wrote:
coming for you next wrote:
Sowell changed his view of economics in 1960. He explains it here (no one pointed a gun to his head he just came to his senses after working for the government):
https://youtu.be/uiYH66HznW0?t=380You read my post and all you got out of my post was Sowell? Sowell was not the gist of my post. I was responding to a poster who stated left wing re-education. You read my post and instead of trying to find contrary facts stating Koch brothers did not force removal of Comparative Economics and left wing economists, you read my post and you felt you needed to search internet for Thomas Sowell youtube? 1960s or 1970s, who cares. Did Sowell get scared as a leftist when he learned Ernesto Guevara was assassinated? Did Sowell believe Nixon was not going to tolerate a leftist movement in U.S. and Sowell became a Right winger? During Nixon era, left wing Black men were simply assassinated by U.S. law enforcement. Did Sowell realize there was far more money to be made as a right winger? Sowell obtaining a PhD stating leftist principles then stating 180 degree opposite a dozen years later is like a scientist 400 years ago stating theory of gravity then stating a dozen or so years later there is no such thing as gravity. I saw Robert G. "Bobby" Seale speak at Tulane U., 1980s. I thought he was going to state leftist principles. Instead Bobby Seale had us all there to hear him tout his B-B-Q cookbook. Most that day in New Orleans were mad at Seale. I was not mad at Seale. I understood. I am not mad at Sowell. I understand.
I was just pointing your lie about Sowell. You lied when you implied that Sowell was a proponent of socialism in the 1970s and only switched to being a proponent of capitalism because he had a gun to his head.
Also your writing is terrible for how smart you think you are.
deydododohdontdeydo? wrote:
For all the hate Trump gets rightly or wrongly, we knew Russia would never go to war or try anything stupid, same for China, Iran and even North Korea.
Now it's all a big uncertainty.
The economy was booming until Covid, and Trump kept America's enemies in check while being the first President for decades to avoid starting a war.
China seems to have already become more belligerent in recent weeks knowing Trump is going - refusing access to WHO and threatening Australia with a 'counter strike'. North Korea dared to show off huge new mega warheads while boasting of it's development of nuclear submarines that could wipe out any American city in minutes. Do you guys think Putin is afraid of or respects Biden?
And Biden himself. The guy clearly has dementia and is a sexual pervert hiding in plain sight. However much you hate Trump, how can Americans not be just a little apprehensive of what the future holds?
I almost think it would be good to get in a major war with China, as the USA is so divided now, We were far more divided in 1941 and then Pearl Harbor happened and everyone united to Fight for the USA, Sports stars like Ted Williams, Joe Louis, Politically connected multi millionaires like George H.W. Bush, people too old or too young tried to lie so they could fight for the USA, It would be cool to see that unity and love of country again. Though Biden said he wants to unify the Country without a war that would be better, but everything is so divided we might need a war to unify us.
amen
coming for you next wrote:
student of economics wrote:
You read my post and all you got out of my post was Sowell? Sowell was not the gist of my post. I was responding to a poster who stated left wing re-education. You read my post and instead of trying to find contrary facts stating Koch brothers did not force removal of Comparative Economics and left wing economists, you read my post and you felt you needed to search internet for Thomas Sowell youtube? 1960s or 1970s, who cares. Did Sowell get scared as a leftist when he learned Ernesto Guevara was assassinated? Did Sowell believe Nixon was not going to tolerate a leftist movement in U.S. and Sowell became a Right winger? During Nixon era, left wing Black men were simply assassinated by U.S. law enforcement. Did Sowell realize there was far more money to be made as a right winger? Sowell obtaining a PhD stating leftist principles then stating 180 degree opposite a dozen years later is like a scientist 400 years ago stating theory of gravity then stating a dozen or so years later there is no such thing as gravity. I saw Robert G. "Bobby" Seale speak at Tulane U., 1980s. I thought he was going to state leftist principles. Instead Bobby Seale had us all there to hear him tout his B-B-Q cookbook. Most that day in New Orleans were mad at Seale. I was not mad at Seale. I understood. I am not mad at Sowell. I understand.
I was just pointing your lie about Sowell. You lied when you implied that Sowell was a proponent of socialism in the 1970s and only switched to being a proponent of capitalism because he had a gun to his head.
Also your writing is terrible for how smart you think you are.
Personal attacks makes you the loser. Just say you lost. Have a bit of honor.