Re: Three Body Problem

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:35:08 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:21:26 +0000, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:52:07 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

What!?! Jesus Christ, do people never learn? When has freezing prices and
forcing markets under political control ever benefitted anyone except,
maybe, politicians?
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Sounds like the US is up for a huge left torn in case Cackles wins. But
let's hope and pray that Trump wins. All else will be a huge disaster.

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A Trump victory is what would be a huge disaster.
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He denies the science of global warming; he interfered with states
taking
necessary public health measures against COVID-19, and he spewed lies
about
a stolen election that contributed to the January 6 insurrection.
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However, while grocery price-gouging makes a nice scapegoat... in
Canada,
we have a movement to boycott Loblaws, as if it's to blame for the rise
in world food prices. Apparently people haven't noticed Russia invading
Ukraine... which, of course, is another _big_ reason why a Trump win
would be a disaster for the whole world.
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Kamala Harris should indeed stay away from policies that will be
perceived
in the U.S. as wild-eyed socialism. Particularly when indeed there is no
need for them.
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Still getting our Putin/Trump Talking Points from wherever, I see.
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I suggest getting a grip and consider Trump's telling his Christian
voters that this November is the last time they will ever need to
vote. Political nonsense, at best.

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At least this particular remark wasn't promising a one-party
dictatorship.
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He was merely stating that he would shift what was normal so that
evangelicals
wouldn't feel pressure to vote, since America would be back where it was
in the
1950s, so neither party would pursue policies they found threatening.

That's his claim.

I think he is well-aware that, if he loses, he won't get another
chance. Even if he makes to November without ending up in a rubber
room in a straightjacket.

And, if he wins, since he is limited to two terms, he won't need any
voters, however rabid and loyal, any more.

Which means that, come what may, after the election he can do what he
likes and ignore their complaints because they will no longer be of
any use to him. Trump only does what helps himself, and they will be
irrelevant to that.

Nonsense, yes. Moving the needle of what is considered 'normal' is not
done in
a single Presidential term.

It won't happen at all, even if he had 100 terms.

Look at the anti-demonstrators in Britain. That is, look at the
majority, not the crazed few.

And the 50's weren't what the people he was addressing think they
were. They were children then (as was I, that is, a child) and were
/shielded/ from the nastier aspects of the then-current reality. And
who wouldn't want to go back to a time when other people fed you and
housed you and coddled you and you had no responsibilities, as adults
have them, at all?
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"