Leonard Cohen "You Want It Darker" Audio
The dark horse has gained the leadership of America
The beast has arrived!
The supervillain prevails!
Goodnight America!
Welcome to hell!
Donald Duck(a character out of the entertainment world) wins the Presidency.
Americans choose a bufoon to lead them.
America has elected a leader who the rest of the world considers a fool (and in so doing America has made a fool of itself).
The ramifications of a Trump win are terrifying! Horrendous!This is a nightmare!
The hope of building an inclusive society has been dashed.
The factors that enabled Donald Trump to win the Republican nomination and to win enough votes to win America's presidency are very much in play in American society.
Trump has exposed the true nature of the Republican base. And what has been brought out into the open cannot be put back into the box!
Donald Trump represents the dark side of America.
Donald Trump has unleashed some very dark forces beneath the surface in America
Half the population has willingly handed over leadership of their country to the least qualified candidate in favour of the most experienced candidate for President.
It is quite possible that a psychopath has just become the most powerful person in the world.
All humanity has had its eyes on this election because we know that what happens in America will affect the entire world.
This result regresses America by 50 years.All the advances made by the Obama administration will be reversed,and the country will be now turned in a backward direction.Trump will have no difficulty executing his regressive agenda because of the Republican majority in the senate and congress.
This election result is a huge setback for all humanity.
Intolerance,bigotry,racism,misogyny,etc.--have won the day!
Now all the snakes and crazies will feel legitimized and will find the courage to slither out of the shadows!
Wow! That's a very dark analysis!
ReplyDeleteHope its not that bad.
WTF!
ReplyDelete"The meanness and madness is about to begin."
ReplyDelete--michael moore
Choosing the Donald for President instead of Hillary is essentially the people giving the big middle finger to the political establishment..
ReplyDeleteSuch was their antipathy toward the political elite that they were willing to hold their nose and turn a blind eye to Trump's vulgarity,bigotry,and unsavoury character.
By choosing Trump over Hillary they may very well have bit their nose only to spite their face.
He will now shape the world that our children will inherit!
Wikipedia:
"Cutting off the nose to spite the face" is an expression used to describe a needlessly self-destructive over-reaction to a problem: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face" is a warning against acting out of pique, or against pursuing revenge in a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger.
Trump's agenda will actually hurt the working class
DeleteTrump gave the disaffected and the economically downtrodden an enemy(immigrants,the political elite,the policies of the current Democratic goverent,)to blame and unite against.
The working class wch was angry about the wealth generated by the economy not being equitably distributed was misguided in voting for Trump
Much of Trump's agenda will actually hurt the working class.
Trump supporters, were duped into believing that Trump would do something to remedy their plight, though the merest look at his fiscal and other proposals demonstrates the opposite.
The "change" that Trump is likely to bring will be harmful or worse
Trump and the people around him who know how to take advantage of an opportunity—are preparing to stack his team with Wall Street and big-business-friendly insiders and establishment cronies poised to raid the treasury on behalf of the one percent.
Working-class voters who thought they’d elected a populist hero will soon find out what men who live in golden penthouses really think of them
According to current information, Trump broke all records in the support he received from white voters, working class and lower middle class, particularly in the $50,000 to $90,000 income range, rural and suburban, primarily those without college education. These groups share the anger throughout the West at the centrist establishment, revealed as well in the unanticipated Brexit vote and the collapse of centrist parties in continental Europe. Many of the angry and disaffected are victims of the neoliberal policies of the past generation,
working class people who voted for Donald Trump
Deleteare like turkeys voting for thanksgiving!
Yes America needs to be made great again...but Donald Trump isn't the one to do it!
ReplyDelete> https://safeshare.tv/x/UAGOcLSuLX#v
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe." --albert einstein
ReplyDeleteNoam Chomsky: 'The Republican Party Has Become the Most Dangerous Organization in World History'
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ecowatch.com/noam-chomsky-trump-2093271018.html
By C.J. Polychroniou
On Nov. 8, Donald Trump managed to pull the biggest upset in U.S. politics by tapping successfully into the anger of white voters and appealing to the lowest inclinations of people in a manner that would have probably impressed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels himself.Noam Chomsky speaks in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 12, 2015.Ministerio de Cultura de la Nacion ArgentinaBut what exactly does Trump's victory mean and what can one expect from this megalomaniac when he takes over the reins of power on Jan. 20, 2017?
What is Trump's political ideology, if any and is "Trumpism" a movement? Will U.S. foreign policy be any different under a Trump administration?
Some years ago, public intellectual Noam Chomskywarned that the political climate in the U.S. was ripe for the rise of an authoritarian figure. Now, he shares his thoughts on the aftermath of this election, the moribund state of the U.S. political system and why Trump is a real threat to the world and the planet in general.
"...on November 8, the people of America placed total control of their government—executive, Congress, the Supreme Court—in the hands of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, which has become the most dangerous organization in world history. The party is dedicated to racing as rapidly as possible to destruction of organized human life." --Noam Chomski
Deletea passage from book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" written in 1995.
Delete" Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time when the United States as a service and information economy, when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries, when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues. When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority, when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. " - Carl Sagan
the white backlash:white resentment and fear behind Trump victory
ReplyDeleteTrump appoints white supremacist to position of top White House adviser
in his administration
Trump's New Chief Strategist Steve Bannon --the voice of racism
http://time.com/4571258/stephen-colbert-donald-trump-steve-bannon/
Trump's election has emboldened the far right.
The white majority feels embattled.
Their identity and their privileged status is being eroded by minorites.
They feel their position in society is under threat, and they are being overrun by immigrants and minorities.
Their loss of power,dominance,privelege
makes them feel threatened, and Trump's ascendancy gives them permission to vent their anger against minority groups who they target as blame-worthy.
This is why Trump's election validates bigoted attitudes and behaviour towards minority groups.
cbc.ca/the current/van jones "Beyond the messy truth"
DeleteThursday October 19, 2017
cbc.ca/the current/van jones
CNN commentator Van Jones bringing together a divided America
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-october-19-2017-1.4360698/the-whitelash-of-trump-politics-cnn-commentator-van-jones-1.4360736
White supremacy is now institutionalized in America.
ReplyDeleteHow could anyone think that the character,personality,and temperament of the man would not affect what he does as President.
Donald Duck is ridiculous!
DeleteAnyone who voted for donald deserves him...and anyone who didn't vote also deserves him!
Only in America
ReplyDeleteFrom laughing stock to President
How long can Trump keep it together?
Is he hardwired to selfdestruct?
Will he blowup the world in the process?
The world is spinning out of control.
How could a cartoon character (Donald Duck)become the leader of the largest democracy in the world?!
If Donald Trump can become President of yhe United States...then all things truely are possible!
We should all be inspired by this result to strive for the impossible!
Perhaps the lesson is that the way to gain political power in America is to be more evil!
DeleteApparently becoming president doesn't change a man's character:
Deletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-blasts-meryl-streep-after-golden-globes-speech-124418222.htmllobes-speech-124418222.html
when "style" trumps "substance"
Deletesuperficial entertainment/performance aspects of politics take precedence over in-depth analysis of policy issue ramifications
News coverage driven by commercial pressures. CBS president says "Trump may be bad for America, but good for ratings."
a new bunch of reptiles has taken over the swamp in Washington
ReplyDeleteTotal control: Republicans now control the presidency,congress,senate,and supreme court.
Governments with that much power develope a sense of invulnerability. ..and hubris.
The corrupting influence of power is never greater than when that power is unchecked--especially when it is wielded by those of dubious moral character whose main goal in seeking power is not to serve others but to better serve themselves.
Where will they take the country?
Of coarse they will enact laws wch will preferentially further their own interests.
Beginning down the wrong path:
First act of new Republican government is to gut ethics committee and give themselves the freedom to disregard all moral accountability.
They want the freedom to do what they want without any oversight.
When they realized that such an action would be perceived as an attempt to give themselves carte blanche permission to be as self-serving,corrupt,and unethical as they wanted, they retracted the proposed legislation.
This about turn was not motivated by pangs of conscience but by a belated realization that such an action might be viewed with disapproval and cause a backlash by the people who voted for them to clean up Washington.
This can only be achieved by compelling politicians to abide by more (not less)ethical constraints, wch would mean granting the ethics commitee more independence and more power(not less) to investigate and punish ethical violations.
Looks like Trump's executive orders and his extremist agenda won't get much of a challenge....now that two of his lackies are on the Supreme Court
DeleteMost important Supreme Court vacancy in a generation!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/justice-kennedy-retiring-trump-gets-2nd-supreme-court-180417906--politics.html
the weaponization of information in the digital age
ReplyDeleteRussia bought advertising intended to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential election
" Russia ran Facebook "fake news"ads in favor of Trump against Hilary Clinton. This foreign meddling influenced the election results. Trump's campaign team has been implicated in having collaborated in this interference.
"Fake news" was rampant on social media during the election.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/rebuke-trump-key-senate-panel-endorses-finding-russia-attacked-2016-election-210143332.html
In rebuke to Trump, key Senate panel endorses finding that Russia attacked 2016 election
Michael Isikoff Yahoo News July 3, 2018, 9:01 PM GMTYahoo News photo Illustration; photos: AP, Getty
WASHINGTON — The Senate Intelligence Committee, rejecting doubts conveyed by President Trump as recently as last week, has become the latest body to officially conclude that the Russian government conducted a wide-ranging campaign — including cyberattacks — to influence the 2016 presidential election.An unclassified seven-page report, released by the committee Tuesday with full bipartisan support, was based on an extensive, year-and-a-half-long investigation into the U.S. intelligence community’s January 2017 assessment that the Kremlin carried out its campaign in part for the purpose of promoting Trump’s candidacy and discrediting Hillary Clinton.The committee’s conclusion: The assessment, which had been ordered by President Obama, is a “sound intelligence product” that was prepared by analysts who “were under no politically motivated pressure to reach any conclusions” and was based on a “range of all-source reporting,” albeit much of it still classified.The panel’s findings are hardly a surprise. All of those who have reviewed the January 2017 intelligence community assessment — including the most senior officials of the Trump administration — have endorsed the conclusions that the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee and undertook a wide variety of other measures to interfere in the U.S. election.The only outlier continues to be the president who, in a tweet written shortly after the announcement he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this month at a summit in Helsinki, once again cast doubt on the findings of his own government.…. “Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with meddling in our Election!” Trump tweeted on June
Russian hackers hijacked US election:
ReplyDeleteTwelve Russian military officers indicted for interfering with 2016 US presidential election. Rosenstein investigation identifies and charges 12 intelligence officers with conspiracy.
John Brennan former head of CIA says Trump aided and abetted Russia
ReplyDeleteTrump's press conference in Helsinki "nothing short of treasonous"
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/john-brennan-donald-trump-treasonous-vladimir-putin/index.html