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I'm wondering when it will be time to merge the "Trump Presidency" thread with this one. I don't see the Senate as willing to stand up to Trump's picks, and each is worse than the last. I thought Bush's incompetent ideologues were bad, but this is so much worse. It's like a parade of horribles. No, it IS a parade of horribles. When Mitt Romney is the "best" choice... good god!  
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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When Mitt Romney is the "best" choice... good god! Donald's Fun House of Mirrors. 
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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A partial list of "Trump affiliated companies" in Russia: Google Docs
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NWP opined:
It's like a parade of horribles. No, it IS a parade of horribles. Horribles rhymes with deplorables.
Just a Missouri school teacher ... stubborn as a mule and addicted to logic.
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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"The Best of the Leon Russell Festivals" DVD
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Donald Trump announced today that in 15 days he will make an announcement. Donald Trump Tweets He'll Leave His Business to Focus on Presidency. On its face that would seem to be a good thing, but there are several underlying issues that leave me with misgivings. First, he states that now? It is yet another indication he didn't expect (want?) to win. Second, he announced it like he's making some grand concession. You are about to become President. Of course that is your only job! Third, it's going to take two weeks to figure this out? Finally came the realization that this, too, is just a scam. By divesting his interests into a private company controlled by his children, his conflicts of interest will be shielded from scrutiny. He has never disclosed his taxes. We've never seen his holdings. And now, we never will.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I watched part of a movie last night on Netflix, a Scandinavian historical thing set in about 1200. I fell asleep about an hour in, not because it wasn't good but because that's what I do.
Anyway... kings, power struggles, poison cups of alcohol, intrigue, bastard baby living elsewhere heir to the throne, battling factions, murder, murder, try to get the baby to the city to stop the coup from taking place, yadda, yadda...
This morning my wife, who quit the scene early, asked if the movie was any good. I thought it was, at least the extent of what I watched. Then it struck me just how ludicrous the whole human drama of it was. I mean, a hitherto unknown bastard baby could seriously be the winner of the "Who Has A Right To Be King" contest?
It makes our situation with Trump, seriously over-underqualified as he is to be president, look downright benign. It's the record of history that humans do really stupid things and have to battle back out of it. So battle we must...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Yes, hereditary rule is unbelievably stupid. Many royal families have produced totally unfit "kings" which generally end their line. It is reinforced by all the inbreeding: Most European royalty married cousins of some degree for 1000 years. The result is that a line that started with a mighty warrior and brilliant statesman has come to subnormal IQs and genetic defects. I have heard the English royal family is in that state now.
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Yes, hereditary rule is unbelievably stupid. Many royal families have produced totally unfit "kings" which generally end their line. It is reinforced by all the inbreeding: Most European royalty married cousins of some degree for 1000 years. The result is that a line that started with a mighty warrior and brilliant statesman has come to subnormal IQs and genetic defects. I have heard the English royal family is in that state now. It is a bad idea when cousins marry. Just look at Charles...
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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' Darkly amusing that they did it because they thought they were intermarrying in order to concentrate their "superior blood" in the way they did with thoroughbred racing horses. It just goes to show !! ---  .
Once, weapons were manufactured to fight wars; today, wars are manufactured to sell weapons
It is far easier to deceive folks than to convince them they are deceived
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