American Politics Thread: Orange is the new POTUS (Archive)

[DuffMan]

Sign just seen on tv.

"Tiny hands"
Picture of trump with tiny hands.
"Massive twat"

Haha

[chemgear]

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/...22320128303110
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/...23217025691648

The joint statement of former presidential candidates John McCain & Lindsey Graham is wrong - they are sadly weak on immigration. The two...

...Senators should focus their energies on ISIS, illegal immigration and border security instead of always looking to start World War III.

[Minnie]

If the Koch crew turns their back on you? Wow.

[surferguy]

It scares the hell out of me that the President can just casually throw out phrases like "starting WWIII". I know in that tweet he is trying to blame the senators for it but the fact that he just simply lobs those words out to the world is terrifying no matter the context.


He has no respect for what the last two wars taught this planet and he seems just hellbent on marching down a path dumping gasoline on everything around him. The world is watching every move America is making right now and this administration isn't backing down on any of their decisions no matter the blowback. They simply DGAF

[Fire]

Originally Posted by GGG

What's the wait time for each surgery

Rather wait than have a possibly poorly trained surgeon.

[Drak]

Originally Posted by surferguy

It scares the hell out of me that the President can just casually throw out phrases like "starting WWIII". I know in that tweet he is trying to blame the senators for it but the fact that he just simply lobs those words out to the world is terrifying no matter the context.


He has no respect for what the last two wars taught this planet and he seems just hellbent on marching down a path dumping gasoline on everything around him. The world is watching every move America is making right now and this administration isn't backing down on any of their decisions no matter the blowback. The simply DGAF

He's highly delusional. He doesn't live in reality. It's terrifying.

[ernie]

Would love to see the Fortune 500 companies announce they will put a hold on all future US expansions until the administration decides to remember what America is supposed to be about.

[ernie]

Originally Posted by Minnie

If the Koch crew turns their back on you? Wow.

The Koch crew have always disliked Trump and refused to support his nomination. Generally they are concerned about making themselves richer and disrupting their businesses by stranding mployees etc isn't going to go down well with them.

[nik-]

The Koch's lost grip on their little 2010 rebellion long ago.

[Drak]

What's sad is I'm thinking GWB wasn't such as bad president after all...

[ernie]

Originally Posted by Drak

What's sad is I'm thinking GWB wasn't such as bad president after all...

Well he was a puppet as well and while he isn't a bright man and I may not have agreed with him personally, there wasn't a doubt in my mind that deep down he had the country's interests at heart and was a decent man. The Obama friendship just solidifies that.

Trump and his klan care about themselves and that's it.

[Bunk]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Next up -- asking tourists to give up their social media information and contact lists.


http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/29/po...cts/index.html

Now my guess is that this actually comes from Trump wanting to catch his Twitter trolls at the airport so he can punish them and he doesn't think about anything beyond that, but they'll come up with some other nonsense.

Hawaii, Florida, California, New York, Nevada... and every other State with a significant tourist industry might have a bit of a problem with this.

The Canadian tourist industry will remain silent on the issue, I suspect.

Imagining myself at border control.

Border Control Officer: What's the purpose of your trip?

Me: Personal

Border Control Officer: And, if you have a Twitter handle, please tell me what it is.

Me: Oh, right. Sure thing. It's "@" ..."K" ... "I" ... "S" ... "S" ... "M" ... "Y" ... "A" ... "S" ... "S" ... "T" ... "R" ... "U" ....

Border Control Officer: ... That'll be enough, sir.

[Wormius]

It's not even just tourism per se, but a lot of trade shows and conferences in the US are big draws of foreign visitors.

[Minnie]

Originally Posted by ernie

The Koch crew have always disliked Trump and refused to support his nomination. Generally they are concerned about making themselves richer and disrupting their businesses by stranding employees etc isn't going to go down well with them.

Yeah, which is why wow. Cuz this could be his possible downfall. Maybe more than many other things.

[Drak]

https://www.facebook.com/TheRawStory...5037786502235/

Check out David Harbour's (Stranger Things) speech tonight from the SAGs.


(sorry not sure how to embed facebook vids).

[Itse]

Originally Posted by ernie

Would love to see the Fortune 500 companies announce they will put a hold on all future US expansions until the administration decides to remember what America is supposed to be about.

Public announcements like that seem highly unlikely to me, but I suspect some companies will move their R&D to countries with more stable politics and a more welcoming atmosphere for foreigners. Top research teams pretty much always headhunt globally, and with the atmosphere being the way it is in the US, even Finns on my FB (mostly super white non-muslims) are currently seriously re-thinking their US travel plans.

Even before Trump, the US border control was considered by many people I know to be one of the most unnerving ones to go through. People have often said they feel much safer travelling to Russia, and nobody has any illusions about Russia not being a terrible dictatorship. But at least it's a dictatorship that generally doesn't harass foreign citizens at the border.

Now that the rules of travel for US can apparently suddenly change midflight and without warning, people are seriously starting to consider whether they want to travel there at all. Some in boycott, others just because they don't want that feeling of insecurity.

Since I know quite a lot of people in IT and science (aka people who travel a lot and actually have trade secrets), my Facebook is just lighting up about the topic. I'm not sure how many in America noticed, but among the many executive orders Trump signed was one that officially scrapped all privacy protection from non-citizens, which just adds to the the paranoid atmosphere

It seems to me that if your research center is physically located in Canada or Germany for example, you'll right now have a lot easier time recruiting than if they're located in the US. And if the global science community more commonly share the kinds of attitudes the people I know are displaying, international conferences will probably in the future be more often held somewhere else.

Seems that the Trump administration is working hard to make US fall from the cutting edge of technology.

[Regular_John]

I'm actually quite interested to see what the fallout from the highly mobile & affluent tech industry is going to be here. It's obviously not a cakewalk to set up new campuses/headquarters in a new country... but the Google/Apple/Amazon/Microsofts of the world have the means to move operations if needed.

[Wormius]

The only silver lining is this could be very fortunate for Calgary with our low commercial vacancies right now and the fairly well-educated work force. Low costs relative to Vancouver and Victoria. Even though we are not Silicon Valley, the perks of working and living here are pretty good. I am looking forward to a return of the Nortel era days of Canada.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

I'm actually quite interested to see what the fallout from the highly mobile & affluent tech industry is going to be here. It's obviously not a cakewalk to set up new campuses/headquarters in a new country... but the Google/Apple/Amazon/Microsofts of the world have the means to move operations if needed.

Incentives?

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Wormius

The only silver lining is this could be very fortunate for Calgary with our low commercial vacancies right now and the fairly well-educated work force. Low costs relative to Vancouver and Victoria. Even though we are not Silicon Valley, the perks of working and living here are pretty good. I am looking forward to a return of the Nortel era days of Canada.

Calgary's labour costs make it an unattractive market to move into and our corporate taxation is no longer a strength. There's really no financial incentives for a company to move here.