Duck and cover, America.
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And NYT: Trump Speaks with Taiwan's Leader in Affront to China. Taking care of business folks. Trump's money and Trump's personal business.
Trump is effectively pitting the interests of a relatively small group of people, those who work in factories, against hundreds of millions of consumers. Seven years ago, the Obama administration accused China of unfairly subsidizing tires. It imposed tariffs reaching 35 percent. A subsequent analysis by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a nonpartisan think tank, calculated the effect: Some 1,200 American tire-making jobs were preserved, but American consumers paid $1.1 billion extra for tires. That prompted households to cut spending at retailers, resulting in more than 2,500 net jobs lost.
The rules are pretty simple:
1) who to talk to, not who talks
2) it's the long game - 2018 or even 2020 or worst 2024. Burrow in, hunker down
3) chip away every single day.
4) they lied, they lied, they lied - here's why - make them wear it, all the pain & suffering & outrage. this time, don't let people forget, whatever "fake news".
The New Republic describes the 3 pressures predicting a further fall.
Below Huffpost 3 years ago showed the decline of unions in 1 chart.
The conclusions seem to be thus obvious.
Americans vote their pocketbook. Memorize, live by this lesson. "I Feel Your (monetary) Pain". Never ever ever forget, or we'll be back here again.
From WaPo:
For all her white papers and all her slogans on the economy, Hillary Clinton never offered a tangible vision of what millions of new, more dignified jobs would look like; how struggling workers would find them; and what she would do, as president, to make sure those jobs sprouted in their back yards.
Sometimes less is more. Trump's message was "I'll do anything outrageous to make a buck".
He's a fighter, she's a bureaucrat offering new policies (and regulations).
America likes action movies, simple dialog, clever Rambo/Arnie lines like: "Do we get to win this time?"
Apparently I've written "fake news" on behalf of Russia without ever receiving a dime from Russia or realizing what I was doing. It took the intrepid reporting of the Washington Post to alert me to what I have been engaged in. My "fake news" has been published in at least 18 Russian propaganda outlets included on the Washington Post-endorsed Enemies List.
Permit me to sit out the Great Media Apology Tour of 2016. Since election night, we have been fed a steady stream of mea culpas for the press’s failure to see it all coming, and especially for negligently ignoring the fear, anxiety and despair in the Rust Belt, the oil patch and rural America. Benighted Trump voters were singing the Red America Blues while we elites were tuned to Live from the Met or some such.
What a crock.
Tim O'Reilly discusses fake news and how to start putting mob verification into news, rather than meekly accepting millions of likes as authoritative. Of course the ratf*ck gang can continue to approve of and endorse even fake news - but maybe moderators become involved at some point or some other coherent method is used.
Christopher Ketcham: I received the following note in the wake of an op-ed I recently published at the Daily Beastcalled “Anarchist for Trump: Time For Liberals To See America As It Really Is.”
The popular notion of “city” and “country,” one progressive and “vibrant,” the other regressive and dying, misses the basic geographic point: the largest metropolitan constituency in the country, far larger than the celebrated, and deeply class-divided core cities, is the increasingly diverse suburbs. Trump won suburbia by a significant five percentage point margin nationally, improving on Romney’s two-point edge, and by more outside the coastal regions.
That didn't take long--drunk with impunity, the brownshirts cavort in the full daylight...
The lady was so corrupt - so they had to replace her with a convicted huckster 100x worse?
Be careful what you wish for.
For Doc Cleveland or whoever else needs to plot the intrigues in these dire times. Who's Donald, who's Duncan, who's MacBeth, and most important, who's Lady MacBeth, since we know there's a woman's cunning behind all this mischief.
After cutting of roads west of Mosul, continue the steady re-taking of neighborhoods inside.
Impressive Kurdish news site gives its thoughts.
Previous impressive story about Iraqi hero Spongebob here.
Yep, as of Jan 20 he can pardon whomever he wants. Or likes. Or pays him enough. And he will. Family member? No prob. Donor? no prob. Trump Tower visit tor? No prob. AltJ freak? No prob. America is open for business and all-forgiving. Kinda.
Let that little thought take root for the rest of your wonderful day.
You're welcome.
But hey, say "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary" 3 times and then discuss how "both sides do it".
Remember the big revelation with the Clinton Foundation was someone was trying to use it for personal business and Chelsea got mad and shut him down. Scandal.
My classroom becomes a totalitarian state every school year toward the end of October. In preparation for teaching 1984 to seniors, I announce the launch of a new program aimed at combating senioritis, a real disease with symptoms that include frequent unexplained absences, indifferent reading, and shoddy work. I tell each class that another class is largely to blame for the problem and require, for a substantial participation grade, that students file daily reports on another student’s work habits and conduct; most are assigned to another student in the same class.
After cutting of roads west of Mosul, continue the steady re-taking of neighborhoods inside.
this election was proof of the utter failure of either party to be relevant to 99 percent of American life — to even acknowledge the desperation that is a fact of life for most of the country.
I'm so tired of this shit and I see it everywhere. If that were true Hillary wouldn't have beaten Sanders nor would she have beaten Trump by 1.7 million votes and counting. Some pundits claim that her margin will likely be over 2 million when the counting is done.