Indeed it's a solid idea. But then this would be a fundamental shift in taxation and has to be deployed worldwide to work (like the Very Good Thing[tm] that's a Tobin Tax). Just one country not playing along, boom. It just won't work with ra-ra-great-again-blah attached.
Our failing... Yes, we accept that the right have mastered dimensional theory, enabling them to be simultaneously full of hate and shit. Or it could just be that extra space in your skulls. But seriously lol on you lecturing anyone on being full of hate, even the Hate Beings of Hatred VI. About whom you probably just heard "alien" and took agin 'em.
Fuck, I'm watching my DVDs of "Spitting Image" (for US peeps, a UK puppet-based political satire from the 80s and 90s, loathed by the government of the day for its vicious takedowns of the high and mighty) and the Reagan parodies are less idiotic than Trump...
My feeling is bewilderment that a large segment of the population thinks Trump is good for the world, and anyone in particular other than himself. Especially if they aren't making big bucks. If you equate this with hate, then I understand the problem a little more.
I remember watching a 25th Anniversary special about Laugh-In back in '93, and they were showing all these clips from the show, with them making jokes about Reagan being President. They were probably a lot funnier before it actually happened. And, as it turns out, the special is on YouTube! (Along with a bunch of the episodes! There goes my productivity for the day.)
I don't think most do, even among his supporters. One part certainly thinks that everything's shit anyway so fuck it and let's go down in style (aka feel great again while becoming even poorer by subjective standards). The other part may believe his bullshit how he and he alone can bring back a world long gone. Even if those two groups sound alike they are fundamentally different. One's pessimistic, the other naively but backwards optimistic.
Some may be in denial but they don't rationalize their support with "fuck it, let's go down in style."
I can't help but feel that Donald's attempts at discussing currency manipulation went even worse than this...
Though (1) I'm at odds with several of Trump's main policies, (2) he's (thus far) failed to enact the policies of his I do want, and (3) I have some real misgivings about how he's handling the office, he's already done the one thing that got him my support in the first place: he put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. Because of that, things would have to get pretty damned bad to make me want to re-cast my vote.
Back in 2015, I was working in this group that did a team-building exercise where everyone revealed something secret about themselves that none of the other team members knew (ideally, something that would be a surprise). When it got to me, I said "Trump 2016!" Got a huge laugh. At the time, I really was joking.
Trump has always been hated. He was a troll way back before internet trolls existed. The right used to hate him for using public money for his real estate deals back in the 90s when he was chummy with the Clinton's and 9/11 Rudy.
I always hated those stupid things. The last timeI was part of one (forced to) when it came my turn to reveal a secret I said "I stalked and killed a coworker who revealed a secret during a team building exercise". Game over.
So it's the left that's "full of hate," but the greatest joy the right can take in Trump being president is "butthurt."
The Left needs to nut up, shut up, or get the hell out of the way just like the Right did while Obama was president.
Well, McCain seems to be the only Republican talking sense right now. He has said to ignore anything Trump says because Trump will take three completely different positions on the same topic in three hours. What he does is the important part and he doesn't seem very good at getting much done. So far he has pretty been reduced to begging Republicans in Congress to send him anything to sign but most of them know if they pass what the party elites want then voters will rebel so they are going back to their strategy of the last eight years to just do nothing.
Trump was who we thought he was. One benefit I hadn't expected was the exposure of just how fractured and unable to govern the Republicans are. I mean the cracks were there but hatred of Obama and ability to use him as an excuse papered them over. But now that they control both ends of Pennsylvania Ave it's all up in peoples' faces. First the failure to repeal Obamacare now the inability to even fund R priorities b/c of the reliance on Dems to pass a spending bill. Complete disfunction in everyone's face every day. Or at least should be. Unfortunately most of his supporters live in the Far Right Bubble so will it even matter?
Well, to be fair, he had kept that promise. It's just he neglected to mention that the people he meant were HYDRA.
A bunch of the talk radio and right wing media types are all saying Speaker Ryan is a complete failure. Which is true. He is unable to actually get anything done and like with the ACA replacement and the tax proposal he came up with intensely ideological nothing sandwiches which were destined to belly flopped and explode the deficit. It should be obvious to even the worst bubble dweller that Republicans don't give a shit about the deficit and that is why it always explodes under them. Worse, they are still pushing feel good horrible policies like trying to defend the IRS. Yeah, except in the real world governments actually need functioning tax services so even dyed in the wool Republicans are backing away and demanding Ryan and the freedom caucus actually start getting real about governing.
It wasn't exactly clear and obvious. You had the shrill Hillary who thought it was simply "her turn" to such an extent that she co-opted the Democratic Party into the Hillary Party, that kind of self-interested vanity project manager is hardly a vote magnet. Then you had King Bullshit. So yeah, two people who put ego before country. Hardly a clear best choice. Two repulsive choices, people just went for the one that repulsed them least.
She certainly had no ability to inspire and just seemed like another shrill self serving politicians who would say anything then stab everyone in the back as she sold out to special interests once in power. The Dems can do better and they need to do better but the first thing is to stop shitting on their base and rigging primaries. Until super delegates are gone the part will remain antidemocratic.
Trump just basically said, regarding peoples' concern about pre-existing conditions in the healthcare bill, "fuck your injured knee, I'd prefer federal government to be focused on North Korea". That whole "American First" BS went down the drain pretty fast, didn't it, unless his supporters are stupid enougb to think even Kim Jong-Ding-A-Long-A-Doohdah would seriously attack the USA, even if his missiles didn't fail to go up more often than Trump's weiner.
2018 is not looking good so for for the republicans. If they can't get health care and tax reform done, then they may get the boot.
Since everything is the fault of Obama, Hillary, and the dems all of trump's success is actually theirs. Unless trump is lying about them being effective because he certainly isn't according to his own tweets.