Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

God, you are in the winger echo chamber. You may remember the 3000 percent was quickly corrected to 3000 dollars.

Yeah, you want to hate him. I get it.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Addressing China sooner than later may actually be a sound strategy. They are not a benign trading partner. They are intent on surpassing and supplanting while we dither. https://www.amazon.com/Hundred-Year-.../dp/1250081343 (They're demographically fucked, so I'm not sure they could ever get there, but as Remo says when he decides to kill Andy Stern in Casino, "Why take a chance?")

But I do agree with your assessment that Trump might create shiny objects in the foreign policy arena when his promises in the domestic one prove unattainable.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

"I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl!"

That's about all that shit commentary is worth. And that kind of talk, utterly unsupported and unsupportable, is what causes people like me - social liberals who'd otherwise be allies on many issues - to laugh at you hysterical Lefties.

By the way, Russians aren't monolithically "white." Russia is the world's largest country by land mass. They're every color you can imagine. And having that blood coursing through my veins, along with pictures of relatives from that part of the world with very tan and olive colored skin, I can say this with certainty: You are talking out of your ass.*

Were I a shmuck, I'd offer some identity politics here and suggest this thinly veiled hatred for Russians embraced by the Left is quite disturbing. That's what the clearly irony-challenged lot of idiots on the Left wallowing in those behaviors would do were Russians within their category of "Approved Victims."
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* My great grandmother and my grandfather both looked like Afghans more than "white" Russians.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Tearing up the deal and going to war are like the Beatles and Black Sabbath.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I don't like a post-fact world any more than you, but among the basket of deplorable journalists in this cycle, there wasn't a whole lot of daylight between WaPo and Brietbart. When Bezos dictated, for selfish reasons, that his paper would take its editorial cues from HuffPo, and toil assiduously to get HRC elected, the old guard became indistinguishable from the new guard of admitted bullshit artists.

(I have to actually give the Times credit here. The Old Grey Lady was chock full of Leftist tripe, but not much more than usual. And it really was about as even handed as any major outlet. LATimes also gets kudos for printing polls showing a much closer race, despite howling criticism from Lefties.)

The post-facts world was delivered to us by media on both sides of the aisle, and if you thinking claiming this is false equivalence, you need to get the fuck out of your echo chamber. The only difference between the Left's and the Right's fake news is quality, subtlety, and delivery. The Left and the media outlets that carry its water claim to be incensed at the Right's crass, overt bullshit. Actually, they're just jealous that the Right has an audience so easily manipulated. It sucks to have to work really hard to try to cleverly manipulate everybody and fail while your competition shoots fish in a barrel.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I'm not going to address the substance of your post because even bothering to note that it is completely ridiculous absurdist nonsense would be the biggest waste of time and effort that I engage in all day, despite the fact that, at 3:30 p.m., I am planning on spending 15 minutes exclusively devoted to watching a Nyan Cat video loop. So yeah, I'm not touching that. Instead, I am going to ask that we all stop using the term "echo chamber." It might have been a useful metaphor for about three minutes, but now it is just lazy and meaningless and hopelessly trite. The fact that it appears in every seventh post here should be proof enough that I am mainly correct.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

They are going to surpass and supplant (eventually) whether we fight a war with them or not. So let's not.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

Someone purportedly interested in liberty should read this.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

What's the appropriate analogy for one cabinet member who's advocated for it, one who has made statements that imply he's open to it and a deputy to a cabinet member with a long history of suggesting war with "bad guys?"

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

God, you're tiresome.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I agree. The problem is: Democrats necessarily lose this fight because they actually care about having a working government and Republicans are okay with destroying it (or huge sections of it). Dems can't win that game of chicken. And if they can't figure out how to deliver that message, we're all fucked.

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

This insults careful strawman builders everywhere.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

They don't have a choice. Their only option is to play the same game, create the mother of all crises, and then force the people to demand change.

The GOP voter rolls are awash in transfer beneficiaries and recipients of other forms of govt beneficence. When we get a truly gridlocked and broken system, they'll whine for big govt with a shrillness no one's heard before. And the Dems will be their only hope.

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

I think there is something legitimately wrong with you. Really. Where do you get this absolute flaming bullshit?

TM

Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
 

No surprise, but absolutely everything in this post is pure, unadulterated drivel. It is not worth the keystrokes you wasted on drafting it.

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TM