True, and for that reason he'll be easier to rein in than Trump; he actually listens to the people around him. It's the people around him we need to worry about.
I nearly vomited up my dinner while watching this unfold in the Nineties. I will never forget it. Every time some numbnut tries to justify the Middle Eastern mess, I bring it up because I can. Infuriating!
Did you get a payslip with your cash, or just cash? If you were working off the books receiving cash in hand, there's no paper trail to follow to prove your case. That's why you need to ensure you get a contract of employment and payslips so you have evidence of what you earned and what you were paid.
Old guy, earnest well-meaning democratic socialist, as opposed to the corporate socialists currently running the country into the ground.
Look, if we're going to describe giving unearned money or benefits to natural persons as socialism, let's call giving unearned money or benefits to corporate persons as socialism too.
You're assuming a complicit cabinet and party. Put three Dems in a room, you get five opinions.
The difference between Dems and the GOP is you can talk to Dems. Biden is basically conservative, and leans towards authoritarianism. The rest is a mixed bag of everything from democratic socialism to neocon.
I also suspect / am afraid Trump is a scorched-earth kind of guy. I think he will willfully sabotage the US from the Presidency once he fears his removal from office is near. So the US as we know it still has yet to survive Trump's first term.
I can see that, alas. Malignant narcissist is malign.
Nor do I want another GOP authoritarian -- one who knows how to use the intelligence and police states to hunt dissenters -- to have a second go after a Democratic administration proves it is either incompetent, toothless or still in the pockets of the oligarchic establishment.
I'd LOVE to know why Obama gave Trump those extra powers on his way out of the door. What was that about, because it totally does what you're saying here.
Sixty-three million voters felt Trump was entirely electable for reasons I only guess at (racism?, or raging at the establishment that wasn't being very helpful to our overworked laborers?, or because saving fetuses from abortion is a higher cause than saving the entire species from toxic waste?)
All of the above. Many voted for him just to watch the world burn, per Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic.
when everyone is still miserable and doing gigs and one paycheck away from homelessness while our billionaires are swimming through their lucre like Scrooge McDuck, it's going to be really easy to blame it on the brown people again. And someone from the GOP is going to try to do that and will get votes for it.
We can help prevent that by getting out and talking to these people. George Wallace tactics only work to get people stomping the floor when that's all they know. It's the "all they know" that we should be working on.
He'll say his presidency was the best there ever was, and our voters will pretend it is true, if just to get the current bum thrown out of office.
I'll say this; Obama won two terms in the teeth of fierce partisan obstructionism. If the next incumbent wins both Houses, that's the time to get stuff done. It's the getting stuff done that will determine who gets in afterwards.
Heck, I bet Trump has said at least one hundred stupider things in his tweets alone.
He did. I think people are reluctant to believe the electorate of their home country is riddled with idiots who only care about how their echo chamber thinks things are going. DH has fallen into that rabbit hole. I follow people whose view differ from mine for a reason: we need to keep an eye on them. Remember, we've got disinformation farms running full throttle to complete the dismantling of liberal democracies all over the world. There's work to be done so let's roll up our sleeves and get to it.
He's a glove puppet for the Far Right and he's turned the sane people in the world against America. We think you're crazy. Ineffective? He's been very effective at:
Pulling America out of the Paris Accord
Caging kids - some have died
Family separations - kids taken from their parents and adopted out without their consent, then the parents were deported
Imposing damaging tariffs on China, hurting US farmers, who are basically receiving welfare
Rocketing the deficit
Rocketing the national debt
Cutting SNAP and other benefits to the poor while providing welfare to the rich via tax cuts
Rolling back environmental protection laws
Wasting America's money on a wall that people can either climb, tunnel under, or walk around
That is WHY so many people voted for Trump. They wanted change, not more of the same. Unfortunately, except for Bernie, that's all that's on offer.
This is not to say that Bernie is the best choice, but assume the self-admitted socialist gets in; he then has to implement his policies. Without the weight of Congress behind him he'll be limited to what he can get done via Executive Orders and believe it or not, you can't rule by fiat.
The fact that Trump's Executive Orders are being treated as Holy Writ in some quarters is because people who share his opinions are running the show there.
What I'm saying is, if Bernie gets in, he's unlikely to be able to fully implement his agenda because checks and balances will get in the way -- not every Dem is an all-out left-wing proggie. You might as well vote Blue. Anything is better than Trump.
Mate, they weren't shut down, they were sent away, where they consolidated their power, then proceeded to work behind the scenes to foment the wars we're still embroiled in today. That whole mess in the Middle East is of their making.
Why the hell do you think nobody invaded Saudi Arabia over 9/11 even though most of the hijackers were Saudi?
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However, Philip Morris V Australia was an ISDS case. They lost over jurisdiction, but the threat of litigation is the issue here. "Stop passing laws that threaten our business or we'll sue!" can make a government think twice about suing, even if they end up getting their costs back later.
How? When Iran tried that the Americans dismantled the government, installed the Shah, and provoked the revolution that gave us the Ayatollahs. The corporations are even now pushing for a piece of the Iranian oil pie. Again.
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True, and for that reason he'll be easier to rein in than Trump; he actually listens to the people around him. It's the people around him we need to worry about.
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You forget that his party will more easily rein him in.
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They still are. The Establishment ones fear Bernie because they're basically GOP but more subtle about it.
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I nearly vomited up my dinner while watching this unfold in the Nineties. I will never forget it. Every time some numbnut tries to justify the Middle Eastern mess, I bring it up because I can. Infuriating!
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Did you get a payslip with your cash, or just cash? If you were working off the books receiving cash in hand, there's no paper trail to follow to prove your case. That's why you need to ensure you get a contract of employment and payslips so you have evidence of what you earned and what you were paid.
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Trump would have been jailed years ago.
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Old guy, earnest well-meaning democratic socialist, as opposed to the corporate socialists currently running the country into the ground.
Look, if we're going to describe giving unearned money or benefits to natural persons as socialism, let's call giving unearned money or benefits to corporate persons as socialism too.
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You're assuming a complicit cabinet and party. Put three Dems in a room, you get five opinions.
The difference between Dems and the GOP is you can talk to Dems. Biden is basically conservative, and leans towards authoritarianism. The rest is a mixed bag of everything from democratic socialism to neocon.
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If he's got Warren, Wyden, and Bernie as baggage, we're sorted.
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I can see that, alas. Malignant narcissist is malign.
I'd LOVE to know why Obama gave Trump those extra powers on his way out of the door. What was that about, because it totally does what you're saying here.
All of the above. Many voted for him just to watch the world burn, per Conor Friedersdorf in The Atlantic.
We can help prevent that by getting out and talking to these people. George Wallace tactics only work to get people stomping the floor when that's all they know. It's the "all they know" that we should be working on.
I'll say this; Obama won two terms in the teeth of fierce partisan obstructionism. If the next incumbent wins both Houses, that's the time to get stuff done. It's the getting stuff done that will determine who gets in afterwards.
He did. I think people are reluctant to believe the electorate of their home country is riddled with idiots who only care about how their echo chamber thinks things are going. DH has fallen into that rabbit hole. I follow people whose view differ from mine for a reason: we need to keep an eye on them. Remember, we've got disinformation farms running full throttle to complete the dismantling of liberal democracies all over the world. There's work to be done so let's roll up our sleeves and get to it.
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He'd be much, much easier to rein in. He certainly wouldn't do policy by tweet.
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At least Trump is largely ineffective.
He's a glove puppet for the Far Right and he's turned the sane people in the world against America. We think you're crazy. Ineffective? He's been very effective at:
Biden is a prat, but he wouldn't do that!
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That is WHY so many people voted for Trump. They wanted change, not more of the same. Unfortunately, except for Bernie, that's all that's on offer.
This is not to say that Bernie is the best choice, but assume the self-admitted socialist gets in; he then has to implement his policies. Without the weight of Congress behind him he'll be limited to what he can get done via Executive Orders and believe it or not, you can't rule by fiat.
The fact that Trump's Executive Orders are being treated as Holy Writ in some quarters is because people who share his opinions are running the show there.
What I'm saying is, if Bernie gets in, he's unlikely to be able to fully implement his agenda because checks and balances will get in the way -- not every Dem is an all-out left-wing proggie. You might as well vote Blue. Anything is better than Trump.
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If that's true we can all stop blaming the black guy for All The Things!
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Mate, they weren't shut down, they were sent away, where they consolidated their power, then proceeded to work behind the scenes to foment the wars we're still embroiled in today. That whole mess in the Middle East is of their making.
Why the hell do you think nobody invaded Saudi Arabia over 9/11 even though most of the hijackers were Saudi?
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Can you imagine the cost of bringing a case?
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However, Philip Morris V Australia was an ISDS case. They lost over jurisdiction, but the threat of litigation is the issue here. "Stop passing laws that threaten our business or we'll sue!" can make a government think twice about suing, even if they end up getting their costs back later.
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Okay, you get that one; suit was filed in domestic courts.
The point is, the threat of litigation can have a chilling effect on legislation in the public interest. ISDS isn't held in domestic courts.
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Which is settled where, exactly, and by whom? How are they held accountable for the decisions made?
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How? When Iran tried that the Americans dismantled the government, installed the Shah, and provoked the revolution that gave us the Ayatollahs. The corporations are even now pushing for a piece of the Iranian oil pie. Again.
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