President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I won't hold my breath waiting on sanctions on Saudi Arabia for election meddling.

 

At first glance it looked like Terence Trent D'Arby was a Trump fan back in the day.

Then you rewind and see that it reads TRIUMPH

 

No. #savedyouaclick

 

QATAR AIN'T PLAYED NOBODY LIKE BAMA, PAWWWWWWWWWL!

 

That piece is way more complex and interesting than that twitter headline. Thanks for sharing.

 

Happy to do it. Hope you're thriving.

 

It's a bad Twitter headline. You probably won't agree with its ultimate conclusion - be a little more like Sweden - but it's not a rant.

Perhaps a better way of arguing against capitalism is to say: Sooner or later, the people who have been screwed over repeatedly will turn to the one advantage they have: Physical threat. When they do that, it will be immoral and wrong, but it will be a natural response capitalism eventually produces.

 

You can't be serious. For starters, the question was long and rambling, with only a small, completely hypothetical reference to MS-13 at the end. The rest of it was just about challenges to ICE in communicating with federal databases.

But read Trump's response. He immediately - the first words he said - pivoted past MS-13 to a much more vague, expansive "people trying to come into the country" whom he's going to let us "take out." The entire point of that feint is trying to conflate groups - "people trying to come in" are conflated with gang members who are conflated with "not people, animals." There's always some real offense by some specific member of a disfavored group that's brought up to rationalize the nebulous "they" who are, in this case, animals and savages. But the specific case (which is barely even nodded at here) is merely a pretext for the generalization.

Of course, MS-13 isn't representative of either the "people trying to come in" or those being "taken out." The point of the dehumanizing language is to allow you not to think about who the people affected really are.

 

The problem with capitalism today is that it differs completely with free market capitalism as it was invented or discovered. It works in a largely localized agrarian economy where similar products aren’t differentiated by any thing other than price. And it works in that economy with other goods and services that he consumer has full information as to who made the product and who is delivering the service. Money markets and equity markets and commodity markets which largely drive the decision making process for suppliers of raw material and the creation of goods and services have almost no transparency. Insurance and reinsurance along with a lack of personal liability for owners and easy bankruptcy laws for large commercial debtors have taken the risk out of business. Capitalism is not a fair marketplace any longer.
But democracy, which is an anathema to capitalists and conservatives, is necessary for free markets to exist. Capitalists hate capitalism. Their goal is monopolies.