08-07-2018, 05:03 PM
(08-07-2018, 03:50 PM)David Horn Wrote:(08-06-2018, 02:57 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote:(08-06-2018, 02:33 PM)David Horn Wrote: The real question: why did anyone take this even a little seriously? Have we entered the era of the post-serious Presidency, where entertainment value trumps all?
Yeah, a lot of leftist loons have been openly hoping that the nuclear negotiations would fail, so that it could be chalked up as a Trump failure. Never mind that it could mean war with North Korea -- to these idiots, war, nuclear fallout, starvation, etc. and anything else is preferable to Trump.
It's like that idiot Bill Maher declaring that he wants a major recession to occur, so that Trump will be blamed. The left-wing racist pigs have been particularly out in force with regard to the unemployment rate for blacks being the lowest in history. These left-wing racist pigs in the Democratic party would rather that the uppity blacks remain in the slaves' quarters rather than be employed and earn enough money to get homes of their own, since then they might vote for Republicans. Better to keep them in slaves' quarters, where they'll vote for Democrats.
Getting back to Korea, a lot of people on the right might agree with you. Instead of negotiating with North Korea, they would have preferred right at the beginning military action, targeting the nuclear and missile development sites. I guess that's your position too. Lovely. Anything's better than Trump. Right?
First: U3 is low, but workforce penetration is abysmal. Chalk that up to the gig economy, and the way we measure unemployment. The GOP hasn't presided over higher employment, higher wages or improved working conditions. Quite to the contrary. So the U3 numbers aren't fake news, but they are mostly irrelevant.
Second: Kissy-Huggy in Singapore is far from a successful negotiation or even a modest breakthrough. You, of all people, should know that.
There are few 'leftist loons' who admire North Korea. The system binds two of the worst examples of government ever -- Stalinism and absolute monarchy. The horror stories from people escaping North Korea are unforgettable. I consider myself rather right wing in contrast to Donald Trump on foreign policy if not economics... it will take China to enforce any deal to remove nukes and ICBMs from the repertory of North Korean terror. Trump ignored this.
He did not get China, Japan, South Korea, or Russia (all of which have a stake in removing the North Korean collection of 'bad-boy toys') in on the deal. The deal has become little more than "trust me" between two capricious leaders. Does anyone trust that? Can anyone trust political leadership that executes a whole family that has one dissident?
It's good for a press conference, and that is about all. It impresses Trump supporters, but few else. It can all go badly because there are no consequences for a violation of trust short of apocalyptic war.
...and yes, the gig economy is wholly inadequate for meeting the American dream. The American economy has the enrichment of elites as its sole objective, all else subordinate to such. Maybe Obama could mitigate that some -- but Trump has opened the floodgate to a level of inequality characteristic of the sorts of countries that many of our ancestors fled for America.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
