04-05-2017, 10:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-05-2017, 10:18 AM by Eric the Green.)
(04-04-2017, 11:33 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(04-04-2017, 10:43 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(04-04-2017, 05:10 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote: 1. I assure you the sentiments are intuitive. It's like this odd thing that happened at work, some time ago. There was this insert from Academy Sports from the Oklahoma City paper somebody brought to work. I saw it had this Academy Sports insert and a thought crossed my mind that I'd see this POS in our paper. A month later, sure enough, that's what happened. I'd agree with you that that event was also an intuitive "hit" ... or I'll defer you as to whether that's another manifestation of some sort of woo-woo. It's like just another case of getting some sort of message in the bottle from the future.
Intuitive that she would lose the election? If so, you beat me in the woo dept. That she was as bad a choice as Drump? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.
Quote:2. Auras: I guess so. Red fires can make black smoke.
3. Actually, the DNC should have kept its thumbs off the scales during the primaries. Hopefully, the DNC will learn from this screw up and not do it again.
Maybe they won't do it again; not because their antics made any difference in the primary elections (they didn't), but because folks like you and Marypoza etc. were angry about them, and that cost them some votes against Drump (no-one knows how many in PA, MI and WI).
Quote:4. Trump: Well, you know, sometimes a blind squirrel finds a nut.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ammer-jobs. OTOH, he's off in left field wrt health care and global warming.
Drump hasn't found any nuts yet. Not one. (I see you mean his H-1b policy; well, don't hold your breath on that one). I'm not holding out much hope. I suppose it's possible, but it will have to be forced by future election results, which he would have to notice and adapt to in a yuge way. And they would have to be results that now seem beyond the capability of the American people to deliver (even now, only a 5 point spread D/R according to brower's thread?).
1. Let's leave Trump aside a moment, OK? It's a fact the DNC favored Clinton over Sanders. Sorry, but that's just dirty pool. There's a shakeup afoot: http://sourcesnews.com/dnc-shakeup-under...n-letters/
Note well, this doesn't happen unless there's been some major breakage. Perez is doing a good job so far, IMHO.
Drain the swamp, man.
Yes, and the breakage was precisely the unpopularity of the DNC among Sanders supporters, not any real actual effect on the primaries, which was not remotely-enough to change the outcome. Otherwise yes I agree.
Quote:2. H1-B's. Well, he's on the hook there. Either he tosses a monkey wrench into that awful wage suppression program or he's toast. The tech industry needs to hire US citizens or else... They need to use internships and other means instead of defaulting to the quick and dirty antics of just importing wage slaves as they wish. Like you said, he better deliver or suffer the consequences. I don't bother with polls since they're in real time and don't take the future into account.
I tend to agree with you on this.
Back to the Colbert video: I found that discovery of rickrolling in connection with Nunes very amusing and amazing. Fun and funny! I knew nothing about it, but it was an interesting twist on pop culture in the high-tech age. And it was nice to be reminded of a pretty-good 3T dance-able song too.