10-15-2016, 11:08 AM
(10-14-2016, 03:37 PM)taramarie Wrote:(10-14-2016, 03:24 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(10-14-2016, 03:08 AM)taramarie Wrote:(10-14-2016, 02:52 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: There are certainly some things about the Trump "sex abuse" tape that some people are questioning; like, why was it released now, after 11 years? Why was it recorded, and for what purpose? Why were two people who were joking and bragging about their "exploits" and "priviledges" in private, recording their banter as a public event? If it was recorded, wouldn't they know it was not just "locker room talk," but a public statement by two stars, one of whom already had political ambitions even then? How can Trump really deny that he was bragging about what he does, if all these women are coming forward now after feeling frightened about doing so, and confirming that he actually was doing those things? Was he even conscious? The Trump situation truly is a puzzlement.Should America take the threat of nuclear war seriously though if she is elected President? I wonder if Russia will follow through on that threat from that politician and what Putin thinks of that threat? While I certainly do not think America should be told what to do from a foreign country regarding who they choose as their president, I do worry about what they will do in less than a month's time.
Does he even really stand for the things he says? After being a Democrat for a while, and saying Clinton was a smart and capable official, and that the economy works better under Democrats, now he spouts a pretty consistent Republican party line, combined with a basic right-wing spiel about nationalism and anti-globalism, and acts like at least a semi-fascist demogogue, as if he might really be Mussolini reincarnate-- and even resembles him in many ways. And yet he still throws in lines like "we need adequate child care" and "rebuilt infrastructure" as if he cares about these things, even though he wants to reduce taxes so much that they could never be paid for.
A part of me thinks that at some level Mr. Trump cares about people and his country, and he really wants it to be great again. But most of me thinks he is carrying on a stunt or project to boost himself and his ego as a great leader that people will look up to. As everyone knows, he is immature, maybe typical of a lot of us boomers. Not a very good representative of our generation.
I still like Hillary, as a better representative; and because she is a feminist, I think she's a genuine liberal at heart; but like most successful leaders, she succumbs to some temptations, priviledges and perks of power. I think she does care, and the care is a greater part of her than the ego. People who work with her, trust her. People who oppose liberal policies, demean her. I like Bill Clinton too. But I could not support him for re-election, because of his neo-liberal compromises. If I vote for Hillary, I can only hope that she doesn't make as many, nor behaves too much like a neo-con. I may vote for her mainly to repudiate the would-be dictator, and hope for the best. I remember that I have yet to be able to vote for any Democratic incumbent president for re-election, although had I lived in a purple state, I might well have voted for Obama in 2012, despite his shortcomings on such things as drone wars and the TPP.
Please realize the nuclear threat is nothing new and in reality it's not conditional on who is elected PotUS. There is a larger chess game going on. Russia and more generally the SCO have been maneuvering for 20 years to get to this point. They view the accommodations set forth by Boris Yeltsin during the early 90s as a type of treason, and seek to create East Bloc 2.0. But this time around, East Bloc 2.0 might as well be deemed the 4th Reich.
Do you have a source on this that I may read? I did not know about this. Have they threatened nuclear war many times over? I would think the era we are in now would also make it more likely for countries to carry out their threats.
During the Cold War days nuclear war was a constant threat, with some near misses like the Cuban missile crisis. For decades people lived in a state of uneasy reassurance that neither side wanted to die.