seemslikeadream » Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:39 pm wrote:sorry for not addressing the substance of the article you posted BS .....I just hadn't gotten over your last reply to me in the other thread from last night .....I just didn't feel up to a discussion just like you were and never are up to a discussion with me and as far as commenting on the author instead of what she wrote .....welcome to my world....happens to me all the time here
I find the lady from Australia needs a bit of schooling about the U.S. and it's citizens before she lectures me on the government I live under. I am also not fond of living with a president who is beholden to a mob guy that deals all over the world in stolen nuclear materialBelligerent Savant » Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:53 pm wrote:.
Why don't you just post a naked photo of her? You've already brought this place down to that level anyway.
SLAD: I should have avoided submitting my somewhat impulsive reply in the other thread. Let's just say we differ in our approaches towards expressing viewpoints. Ain't nuthin' wrong with that: it's what makes us all uniquely human, after all.
My bad. You do you -- though you certainly don't need me to tell you that.
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Burnt Hill » Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:09 pm wrote:And promoting the similitude allows you to say this -Belligerent Savant wrote:Trump is a deviation from 'softer' tactics -- perhaps part of an exprimental program, or a means to re-set the baseline, or a variation of both and more -- but business continues as usual while half the nation froths at the mouth at the latest Trump headline.
Trump is more much more than a deviation. And this - "part of an experimental program, or a means to re-set the baseline, or a variation of both and more" -
implies this is far beyond business as usual, doesn't it?
Not quite my point. Net results: wars overseas, power concentrated among fewer hands, disenfranchisement of working/middle classes, etc., remain the same. The optics, however-- the vehicle(s) implemented to pursue agendas -- may well change every decade or so (911 and the immediate aftermath marked a substantive shift in agenda more egregious than any current Trump-isms, for example).
Trump represents the current overt representation of an ongoing, over-arching agenda.
Business as usual under differing guises per era.