“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.” @realDonaldTrump, 6 November 2012
"We can’t let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!"
@realDonaldTrump, 7 November 2012
CBS News: "In several tweets he later deleted, Trump wondered how Obama won even though Republican nominee Mitt Romney had more votes (though in the end, Obama won the popular vote as well)." Note: Not "in the end" - Obama was clearly ahead in popular vote and electoral votes on election night.
“He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election,” Trump tweeted. “We should have a revolution in this country!”
Elvis » Tue Jan 12, 2016 7:00 am wrote:
Prediction: Bernie Sanders, with help from GOP operatives, will win the 2016 Democratic nomination.
Close! I just got it backwards; Donald Trump, with help from Democratic operatives, won the Republican nomination.
“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” ― Joan Robinson
Prediction: Edward Snowden, after returning to the U.S., will run for president.
Seriously. I think he may have already started.
“The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.” ― Joan Robinson
Damn, that's a good prediction. He has it all: the looks, the patriotism, the hipster cachet, the "responsible" "opposition to corruption", and two movies to back up his election campaign.
"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966
Before 2020 hits, Joe Biden will be confronted by a young female reporter looking for scalps. She will brace him on consent, personal space, and the fucked up shit he has said to women in public. He will lose his temper, show his real face, and go down in flames.
Furthermore, when this happens I will be banned from Twitter for harassing him.
Tooze lays out why, by 2012 when you predicted it, this had actually been happening for several years already through the Fed's provision of unlimited swap lines to central banks.
Yes, I just expected it to become overt and public, pundits explaining why this was Good Actually, given the rate the black hole was expanding. Never happened.
(The Saudi thing is just more of wish I make every 10 days or so, good to put those intentions out there.)
China has turned the northwestern region of Xinjiang into a vast experiment in domestic surveillance. WSJ investigated what life is like in a place where one's every move can be monitored with cutting-edge technology. Video: Clément Bürge/WSJ; Image: DeepGlint
For whom the bell tolls .... bleak, very bleak.
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.”
