6.20.2018

Wednesday

Insanity
‘HOW THE WORLD WENT MAD’: A DIAGNOSIS OF THE CONFUSING, TOPSY-TURVY WORLD OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP 
"What if Trump is the new definition of sanity and it is I who am in fact mad. The line between sanity and insanity has been a skipping rope throughout history, pulling people in and out of it. Gays, lesbians, and women have only recently escaped their 19th-century diagnosis as perverts and hysterics. The Trump/Pence victory signaled another swing of the rope."

Security
NSA Posters



Rs and Ds
No More Mr Nice nails it. 
"America is not primarily a conservative heartland that's besieged by a left-leaning minority living on the coasts and using elite status to tyrannize the majority. The major fault line in this country is between Republicans and everyone else in America. I'm not saying that this is a liberal country (although it is on a number of issues), but it is not a conservative country. Republican dominance of our government at the federal and state levels is largely an artifact of electoral gamesmanship and a highly effective conservative propaganda machine that successfully demonizes Democrats; it doesn't reflect majority support for Republican policies. The GOP takes advantage of splits among the rest of us -- conservative/moderate, Democrat/independent, voter/non-voter -- to maintain control of America. The GOP also guilt-trips the media into believing that heartland whites are the only true Americans. But Republicans are the outliers."

The World
Fall of the American Empire
So Trump isn’t making America great again; he’s trashing the things that made us great, turning us into just another bully — one whose bullying will be far less effective than he imagines.
I agree. Trump's trade wars, UN Bashing, Euro Bashing, and all around bullying must have our allies thinking maybe they shouldn't just rely on America. I'd expect at least some effort to create a currency to compete with the dollar, maybe some shifting alliances, the Europeans pulling closer together or maybe closer to Russia? Asia pulling closer to China? Trump is cracking the Pax Americana world.



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