The Trump era: How wildly doomed are we?
Dec 22, 2016 00:59:35 #
Nickolai wrote:
Man your cracking me up. hypocritical right wing Christians are a dime a dozen they hold them selves up to be these gooood Christians but don't follow the teachings of their master. It's a riot
That is because retards and imbeciles are easily amused.
Dec 22, 2016 01:00:03 #
Blade_Runner wrote:
Like I said, Liberals are brainwashed, this render... (show quote)
Your charts are inaccurate, The National Debt after15 years of depression and war in 1945 stood at 20 % of GDP it declined over the next 35 years to 32 % of GDP in 1979 and then began rising as Reagan slashed taxes on the wealthy and initiated the idea of borrow and spend
Dec 22, 2016 01:01:07 #
Nickolai wrote:
Linda Trump is a flim flam man a con. His gestures are reminiscent of a fast talking used car salesman. He has no chance of bring back the jobs that have been lost to China of brow beating companies in to staying. Spewed all of that to get votes and it worked. At best he could bribe them In to staying by getting rid of their tax burden but that is doubtful and if he bullies big business the oligarchs will do to him what they did to JFK.
You are full of crap. Trump has more dignity and moral fiber in his life then any million dipstick piles of dung called, democraps. You REEK of failure, some slight small stain on the floor that has to be mopped up.....
Dec 22, 2016 01:13:36 #
Nuclearian wrote:
Its always that way with the Libtards. Its the previous REPUBLICANS administrations fault, when a demonrat does something wrong. Its always THEIR credit, when a Republican does something that makes a demonrat look good.
Fact is that everything a demonrat does, turns to crap.
Fact is that everything a demonrat does, turns to crap.
That's bull shit the FDR New Deal lifted millions out of poverty nd into the middle class. By the mid 1950's the average working mans wages had doubled from what they had been in 1929 and the wealthy had seen their incomes cut In half. They were still wealthy but not as wealthy. I was the first in my family to graduate high school. The first to belong to a union, the first to have health insurance the first to purchase a home by the age of 24. The first to earn enough to pay federal income tax, the first to borrow from home equity to start a business. The first to retire by age 60 and Progressive policies made it all possible. The progressive era began in 1892 and lasted to 1972 when the modern conservative took over and led the nation downhill in a rturfn to a new gilded age
Dec 22, 2016 01:19:38 #
kenjay wrote:
Both you and the author are idiots. Please the both of you and your families can commit suicide and do your part in saving the planet. Remember the rest of mankind is depending on you to lead the way. Better get started soon.
I'm not worried form self I have no needs we are quite comfortable in our retirement home on a golf course. It is our little great grand babies that I'm concerned about. When I see the unbelievable changes in my lifetime I can't help but be concerned what they will be having to deal with when they reach my age around the end of this century. An Australian Scientist who name escapes me at the moment is predicting that our species will be extinct with in one hundred years
Dec 22, 2016 01:29:28 #
kenjay wrote:
Sounds like your traits if you just substitute ghetto for trailer park you nasty little chimp.
I have no business even engaging you nasty ass illiterate crackas.....you're the kind I worked hard in life to never have to be around.
Dec 22, 2016 01:30:28 #
kenjay wrote:
Projecting again Kunta last time you were laid it was a baboon.
you call your mom a baboon? that is not nice........
Dec 22, 2016 03:51:22 #
Progressive One wrote:
I have no business even engaging you nasty ass illiterate crackas.....you're the kind I worked hard in life to never have to be around.
What intelligent,hard working and successful people you don't want to be around.
Well that figures you uneducated little ghetto chimp.
Dec 22, 2016 03:59:44 #
Progressive One wrote:
you call your mom a baboon? that is not nice........
Nope talking about your mom you got within fifty feet she would have put two rounds in your head and one in your heart. She loved negros thought they were good natured if a little lazy and that everyone should own seven or eight you stanly ass little chimp. Your mom a good lay was she sambo?
Dec 22, 2016 05:16:09 #
Progressive One wrote:
I have no business even engaging you nasty ass illiterate crackas.....you're the kind I worked hard in life to never have to be around.
Progressive One wrote:
and you wonder why people want your kind all over the world to exterminate........too bad really good whites look like your filthy inbred cracka ass.......
Years ago, I read a story on how they trained elephants, in the parts of the world that use them as beasts of burden.
They start with them when they are young and pin their leg to the ground with a stake and chain fastened to their leg.
An elephant is a huge animal, so this stake and chain is strong enough so that the elephant can't uproot the stake or break the chain.
The elephant is fed, watered and given some shelter, so it has no excuse to wander and is encouraged to stay put until his master needs him.
By the time the elephant is a young adult, he can be held in place with a stake that is barely pounded into the ground.
He could easily rip it from the ground, but is convinced that he can't, so he doesn't try.
Once the elephant becomes a mature animal, even the chain is not needed. Once he feels the collar on his leg, he will cooperate and not move a chains length from where it was put on him him.
Your like that elephant.
You've been carefully taught what to think and say.
You have no idea what freedom or liberty is, how to use it or even recognize it when you see it.
It's too late for you.
Your masters have taught you well.
You are incapable of breaking from your training.
You're an old dinosaur that will be left in the past by a younger generation coming up behind you.
They will learn of freedom and liberty and use it to live their lives and fore-fill their destinies.
Not because of you, but, in spite of you.
Dec 22, 2016 06:12:17 #
Dec 22, 2016 06:23:01 #
as for the trees in California you thank Jerry Moonbeam Brown a Democrat who won't let Cali capture rain water, and will put severe fines to those who do...he mandated all water to run to the ocean...hence our dead trees...
Dec 22, 2016 06:39:52 #
missinglink wrote:
Tell ya what Rob . The man can sure deliver an eloquently compiled pile of bullshit.
He really should be spending his talents on a site that would listen to his B.S.
Like this one. http://www.marxist.com/
He really should be spending his talents on a site that would listen to his B.S.
Like this one. http://www.marxist.com/
This eloquent pile of BS you speak of did not come from Nicolai's brain link. But he agrees obviously.
Dec 22, 2016 06:40:09 #
zombietracker
Loc: Fema region 6
[Do you think any of this is true??Pass the tree hugger coolaid and drink up. ote=Nickolai]By Mark Morford
More than a third of all the trees in California – more than 100 million of them, covering roughly 7.7 million acres – are dead.
But it’s OK, because the forests are largely empty anyway, given how we as a glorious human species have thoughtfully killed off half of all animals on planet Earth, all in just the past 45 years or so, because people.
It’s a statistic almost too staggering to fathom in scope and heartbreaking desolation, yet it seems to match up shockingly well with the current emotional timbre; there are hundreds of millions fewer birds than ever before in human history, desolated fish stocks, obliterated rainforests, dwindling numbers of elephants, lions, butterflies, rhinos and iguanas and leopards, on and on, everywhere and forever, all gone and most never to return. Sorry, kids.
Kids? Oh, we have plenty of those. There are, of course, many, many more babies swarming over the planet than we have healthy capacity to feed and water and sustain, on ongoing and sort of disastrous procreative commandment driven largely by the efforts of heavily Catholic and/or violently patriarchal cultural posturing, because of course babies are God’s little angels and the Lord will provide and birth control is for heathens, and who cares about all the starvation and water shortages and poverty and vicious wars over dwindling resources?
But really, why worry? The incoming Trump administration is already working hard to assure a quick and bilious doom for all. The scowling orange monster has assembled the most laughably grotesque team of the most cold-blooded demolition experts in American political history – nearly all of them rich white males with the moral compass of flesh-eating bacteria and each hell bent on undoing Obama’s legacy and/or annihilating some indispensable hunk of the U.S. government, like the Department of Energy, or NASA, or the Department of the Interior, or Treasury, or nature, science, fundamental empathy.
Let it be hereby repeated until every Trump voter hangs his head in shame, which they never will: The Trump era is going to be a shameless, leering rape of the American dream unlike few we have ever witnessed in our short history. Odds are tremendously good we will not ever fully recover. You know, just like Jesus intended.
Of course it’s true. But will it make any difference?
Even comedians are getting nervous. Hecklers are turning pro. No longer just loutish, drunken rednecks who don’t get the joke, they’re newly empowered defenders of ignorance, an army of mal-educated trolls who feel it’s their Trump-given right to stand up and grunt their illiteracy, their sexism and their racism at the screen, the stage, the performer, this hamburger, that Starbucks cup, whatever and whomever they like, to the point of violence.
All that tact and grace, intelligence and kindness that so distinguished the Obama era? Drowned like dogs in favor of the howler monkeys of panic and white male fear. Hate is oozing into American thought-stream like acid from a rusting car battery. Noam Chomsky has it exactly right; the GOP really is the most dangerous organization in the world.
Behold this misshapen snapshot, one of a thousand forthcoming: It’s Trump, surrounded by all the leaders of modern technology, the lords of Google and Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, Facebook and Tesla, et al (and of course, three members of Trump’s own insufferable family).
And there was Trump, trying his damndest to hang, to pretend he’s smart and lucid enough to actually belong in their educated, savvy, largely liberal clique, when each of them – with the exception of insufferable Trump ring-licker Peter Thiel – think the man is a tyrannical ignoramus with the mind of a frog.
Does all this ring a bit too bleak? Possibly. Surely some good news is afoot. Surely it’s mildly heartening that, say, Facebook just decided to take the epidemic of fake news seriously. Though you might also agree that it’s sort of tragic they didn’t choose to do so, oh, about two years ago, back when armies of trolls, neo-Nazis, Russian hackers and misogynistic thugs dredged up from the sewers of Gamer Gate started swarming social media and dumbing down the (older, whiter) electorate?
Perhaps you’re heartened by Michael Moore’s prediction that Trump will never actually make it to the Big Chair, or that some secret legal or constitutional mechanism buried somewhere in the fractured American Dream will suddenly kick in and block the Trump administration from gutting the nation like a hog?
We can certainly hope. Then again, if North Carolina just taught us anything, it’s that the GOP is the biggest and most shamelessly corrupt middle finger to democracy and fundamental decency we have ever witnessed. There is, quite literally, nothing they will not do to derail progress and maintain grunting white male power.
One thing is certain: It is perilously easy to become dismayed. It is wildly tempting to say all is lost and to hell with our once-semiproud country because it turns out Obama really was our last and finest hope to stave off the demons of ignorance, of climate destruction, of moral incivility and desperation. Which is to say: History will show that Obama was extraordinary for an entirely different set of reasons than we first imagined.
Is it true? Are we running out of road, far more quickly than we can calculate? Or does hope survive in strange nooks and corners and unexpectedly successful Dakota pipeline protests? Will the backlash to Trump’s intended rape of America’s moral center whiplash us into a radical new awakening? Right now, anything is possible and all bets are off and it sure as hell would be nice if that felt far less terrifying than it is. Hang on if you dare.[/quote]
More than a third of all the trees in California – more than 100 million of them, covering roughly 7.7 million acres – are dead.
But it’s OK, because the forests are largely empty anyway, given how we as a glorious human species have thoughtfully killed off half of all animals on planet Earth, all in just the past 45 years or so, because people.
It’s a statistic almost too staggering to fathom in scope and heartbreaking desolation, yet it seems to match up shockingly well with the current emotional timbre; there are hundreds of millions fewer birds than ever before in human history, desolated fish stocks, obliterated rainforests, dwindling numbers of elephants, lions, butterflies, rhinos and iguanas and leopards, on and on, everywhere and forever, all gone and most never to return. Sorry, kids.
Kids? Oh, we have plenty of those. There are, of course, many, many more babies swarming over the planet than we have healthy capacity to feed and water and sustain, on ongoing and sort of disastrous procreative commandment driven largely by the efforts of heavily Catholic and/or violently patriarchal cultural posturing, because of course babies are God’s little angels and the Lord will provide and birth control is for heathens, and who cares about all the starvation and water shortages and poverty and vicious wars over dwindling resources?
But really, why worry? The incoming Trump administration is already working hard to assure a quick and bilious doom for all. The scowling orange monster has assembled the most laughably grotesque team of the most cold-blooded demolition experts in American political history – nearly all of them rich white males with the moral compass of flesh-eating bacteria and each hell bent on undoing Obama’s legacy and/or annihilating some indispensable hunk of the U.S. government, like the Department of Energy, or NASA, or the Department of the Interior, or Treasury, or nature, science, fundamental empathy.
Let it be hereby repeated until every Trump voter hangs his head in shame, which they never will: The Trump era is going to be a shameless, leering rape of the American dream unlike few we have ever witnessed in our short history. Odds are tremendously good we will not ever fully recover. You know, just like Jesus intended.
Of course it’s true. But will it make any difference?
Even comedians are getting nervous. Hecklers are turning pro. No longer just loutish, drunken rednecks who don’t get the joke, they’re newly empowered defenders of ignorance, an army of mal-educated trolls who feel it’s their Trump-given right to stand up and grunt their illiteracy, their sexism and their racism at the screen, the stage, the performer, this hamburger, that Starbucks cup, whatever and whomever they like, to the point of violence.
All that tact and grace, intelligence and kindness that so distinguished the Obama era? Drowned like dogs in favor of the howler monkeys of panic and white male fear. Hate is oozing into American thought-stream like acid from a rusting car battery. Noam Chomsky has it exactly right; the GOP really is the most dangerous organization in the world.
Behold this misshapen snapshot, one of a thousand forthcoming: It’s Trump, surrounded by all the leaders of modern technology, the lords of Google and Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, Facebook and Tesla, et al (and of course, three members of Trump’s own insufferable family).
And there was Trump, trying his damndest to hang, to pretend he’s smart and lucid enough to actually belong in their educated, savvy, largely liberal clique, when each of them – with the exception of insufferable Trump ring-licker Peter Thiel – think the man is a tyrannical ignoramus with the mind of a frog.
Does all this ring a bit too bleak? Possibly. Surely some good news is afoot. Surely it’s mildly heartening that, say, Facebook just decided to take the epidemic of fake news seriously. Though you might also agree that it’s sort of tragic they didn’t choose to do so, oh, about two years ago, back when armies of trolls, neo-Nazis, Russian hackers and misogynistic thugs dredged up from the sewers of Gamer Gate started swarming social media and dumbing down the (older, whiter) electorate?
Perhaps you’re heartened by Michael Moore’s prediction that Trump will never actually make it to the Big Chair, or that some secret legal or constitutional mechanism buried somewhere in the fractured American Dream will suddenly kick in and block the Trump administration from gutting the nation like a hog?
We can certainly hope. Then again, if North Carolina just taught us anything, it’s that the GOP is the biggest and most shamelessly corrupt middle finger to democracy and fundamental decency we have ever witnessed. There is, quite literally, nothing they will not do to derail progress and maintain grunting white male power.
One thing is certain: It is perilously easy to become dismayed. It is wildly tempting to say all is lost and to hell with our once-semiproud country because it turns out Obama really was our last and finest hope to stave off the demons of ignorance, of climate destruction, of moral incivility and desperation. Which is to say: History will show that Obama was extraordinary for an entirely different set of reasons than we first imagined.
Is it true? Are we running out of road, far more quickly than we can calculate? Or does hope survive in strange nooks and corners and unexpectedly successful Dakota pipeline protests? Will the backlash to Trump’s intended rape of America’s moral center whiplash us into a radical new awakening? Right now, anything is possible and all bets are off and it sure as hell would be nice if that felt far less terrifying than it is. Hang on if you dare.[/quote]
Dec 22, 2016 06:42:00 #
Wolf counselor wrote:
I will definitely be watching.
If Trump fails to deliver, I will be the first to call him out on it.
And you will always have your memories of Obammys time in history.
You stayed loyal to him so I can't fault a man for sticking to his choices.
I'm optimistic about the future but I'm prepared for anything.
My greatest trust is in Jehovah, and not whoever may be president.
If Trump fails to deliver, I will be the first to call him out on it.
And you will always have your memories of Obammys time in history.
You stayed loyal to him so I can't fault a man for sticking to his choices.
I'm optimistic about the future but I'm prepared for anything.
My greatest trust is in Jehovah, and not whoever may be president.
Amen to that Wolf.
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