Apparently Trump was nudged to reject the Paris Accords because he was intimidated by French president Macron's aggressive handshake, which "irritated and bewildered" Trump. It did not help that the other Globalists in the administration, business leaders and European leaders were outmaneuvered by Bannon's faction in communicating with Trump but in the end, Trump was only worried about his less than bigly hands.
It worries me greatly that he is in charge of the worlds largest military.
Trump's "final, deliberative verdict was the same as his initial, gut-level one," the Post says, basing its "account of Trump's decision-making process" on interviews with "more than a dozen administration officials, Trump confidants, Republican operatives, and European diplomats."
"I won't be swayed by your eloquent arguments that use reason and evidence based outcomes. I'm gonna stick to my gut to do my thinking for me." ~Trump's internal voice
Clearly Trump's gut has s*** for brains.
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It also could have the other affect of making fixes easier. With democracy slowly slipping away in the US serving corporate interests a disaster like trump may finally generate enough outrage for people to demand it to be fixed.
The House of Representatives hasn't functioned since Clintons impeachment.
How does it make fixes easier? A minority of voters in a few states bought his drain the swamp crap and it got them...a bigger swamp. Yet they will back him and think it's getting better because he's their guy. The Republican base doesn't care what happens, they will vote Republican. Full stop. None of this will cost anyone any elections. Sure a couple seats that are always a toss up will change hands but sweeping reform? No dice. C'mon son you know voters are too stupid for that.
Best case scenario the next administration is going to have to literally purge the government of all non lifetime appointees. This will only further entrench those who support him and continue their radicalization while at the same time leading the vulture like media to ascribe malevolent intent to actions that are being done to try and fix the monumental #### up that is this Republican administration. Liberals will continue to attack their own for not being liberal enough, conservatives will continue to back anyone with a (R) next to their name, and we all keep playing the game.
Again it's the long term damage to public trust in insittutions that will be the real problem here and those results won't be measurable for decades at least IMO. Trump isn't an overnight phenomena either but the culmination of the Fox news/right wing hate machine that's been operating for quite a while now.
In the early weeks of the Trump administration, former Obama administration officials and State Department staffers fought an intense, behind-the-scenes battle to head off efforts by incoming officials to normalize relations with Russia, according to multiple sources familiar with the events.
Unknown to the public at the time, top Trump administration officials, almost as soon as they took office, tasked State Department staffers with developing proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, the return of diplomatic compounds and other steps to relieve tensions with Moscow.
These efforts to relax or remove punitive measures imposed by President Obama in retaliation for Russia’s intervention in Ukraine and meddling in the 2016 election alarmed some State Department officials, who immediately began lobbying congressional leaders to quickly pass legislation to block the move, the sources said.
“There was serious consideration by the White House to unilaterally rescind the sanctions,” said Dan Fried, a veteran State Department official who served as chief U.S. coordinator for sanctions policy until he retired in late February. He said in the first few weeks of the administration, he received several “panicky” calls from U.S. government officials who told him they had been directed to develop a sanctions-lifting package and imploring him, “Please, my God, can’t you stop this?”
Belief that climate change is a hoax is so dangerous and destructive that it should be treated with the same derision as eugenics and phrenology.
That all the president's men believe this is a shocking, craven, and profoundly depressing testament to the world we live in.
I'd disagree with you here because technology is the only thing that can save us from climate change and for that to be adopted on mass it needs to be cost competitive with the alternatives.
All of the half measures like the Paris accord don't do anything to address the problem.
Capitalism really is the only hope. Carbon taxes and other measures only will move the mass adoption point by +\- 10 years.
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I'd disagree with you here because technology is the only thing that can save us from climate change and for that to be adopted on mass it needs to be cost competitive with the alternatives.
All of the half measures like the Paris accord don't do anything to address the problem.
Capitalism really is the only hope. Carbon taxes and other measures only will move the mass adoption point by +\- 10 years.
I'd disagree with you here because technology is the only thing that can save us from climate change and for that to be adopted on mass it needs to be cost competitive with the alternatives.
All of the half measures like the Paris accord don't do anything to address the problem.
Capitalism really is the only hope. Carbon taxes and other measures only will move the mass adoption point by +\- 10 years.
This is silly though. Capitalism as a framework, sure. How do you think you get innovation accelerated? By making old ways less competitive, thereby incentivizing new ways of doing things. On the absence of pressure, innovation stalls.
You're post is confusing. The Paris Accord was mostly symbolic, but that's the point. It's signaling to the world that it's time to get serious with policy initiatives to get things moving. To suggest we should abandon all agreements that don't turn down the thermostat completely is a pretty silly argument
The special counsel investigating possible ties between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia's government has taken over a separate criminal probe involving former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and may expand his inquiry to investigate the roles of the attorney general and deputy attorney general in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, The Associated Press has learned.
The Justice Department's criminal investigation into Manafort, who was forced to resign as Trump campaign chairman in August amid questions over his business dealings years ago in Ukraine, predated the 2016 election and the counterintelligence probe that in July began investigating possible collusion between Moscow and associates of Trump.
The move to consolidate the matters, involving allegations of misuse of Ukrainian government funds, indicates that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is assuming a broad mandate in his new role running the sensational investigation. The expansiveness of Mueller's investigation was described to the AP. No one familiar with the matter has been willing to discuss the scope of his investigation on the record because it is just getting underway and because revealing details could complicate its progress.
The most hilarious part of considering only Evangelicals as Christians is that Evangelicals are arguably the worst Christian denomination, certainly the least Christ-like Christian denomination. Also, he loves the poorly educated because he of course is poorly educated.
I've noticed a couple of photos of Kushner today (cover of Time, a shot in The Week) that looked eerily familiar. Patrick Bateman on the American Psycho DVD cover for sure.
