- 25 Oct 2019 16:33
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Who knows how many dirty tricks the USA congress, senate and white house will be doing in an election year? In the end, that entire rotten scene is going to have to be dealt with. It is entrenched though. I don't know if the American public truly understands what it is going to take to get rid of the vast majority of those parasites. But that is their problem.
I have very very low expectations of far Right people who are into WASP values Blackjack21. They are not people who are interested in seeing human complexity in the vast majority of humanity. They are fairly one dimensional thinkers in general. They reject in a knee jerk way any discussions of the possibilities that many cultures are valuable. They don't like the terms diversity, equality, multiculturalism, global cultures, etc. They associate it with liberal white pendejos and have allergic reactions. I place you in that category. If you are not that way? You can tell me. But everything you write about is indicative that you are that way. You are surrounded by liberals who spout that stuff but are really racists and limited as well and you associate it with hypocrisy BJ. I am not hypocritical about it. I lived and live it everyday. My entire life is about that...diversity and many cultures. Many languages, many people. All one. It is not a liberal talking point for me. But you? You are reacting to the liberal dominance in your entorno=surroundings. You in your mind are defending your heritage. Some WASP scene. I am glad I was born Puerto Rican I never liked WASP values in general. I understand how someone who is raised in that culture can think it is a great thing to defend. I don't judge you for that. But me personally? I like being Boricua. And if I had to choose that again in another lifetime? I would. Every human being who loves their own culture is finding value in it. That many don't understand that? It doesn't surprise me. But their lack of understanding that truth is going to be very costly to them in terms of placing limits on what they can achieve in terms of international cooperation. And human progress over many hundreds of years.
Yes, and lack of ethics in a nation leads to decline. It does. That is universal. Drugs and American life is a constant. Mexico and many other nations filled with poor people and people willing to go to great lengths for crime and dominance fill that need. That fueling of reliance on narcotic substances in the American psyche is very much at the heart of Latin American drug wars of violence. If there is no massive need to self medicate that society would not be hungry for those substances. Clean up your emotionally empty lives and stop looking for drugs to assuage your lack of meaning in a society with weak community feeling and weak sense of serving others without self interests involved. Drop the greed and the vanity and you might have a better nation someday.
It is debatable for a man you still believes in some far Right notion of what the USA stands for. I don't have any such blinders on about human beings and who they are Blackjack.
The USA is actively pursuing global warming and climate change acceleration. It is also allowing corporations and agro farming corporate style to rule its agricultural output. The Earth has a limit. And everyone is vulnerable to interconnected interdependent ecological systems. To think you got some nuclear meltdown in Northern Japan like occurred recently with that Tsunami that the radiation won't reach California if some horror happened in the Pacific? Is folly. But keep on thinking the USA is an island that will never be affected by other nations or other peoples. It is the illusion of the ones who believe in the Vanity thing. I don't.
Yes we do. Nationalism has its good side. Thinking one should not be so overreaching as to think you have a right to everyone's nations for bankers to pursue their dirty business. But? I am not naive thinking you care about Puerto Ricans Blackjack. You don't give a shit. And would not give a shit about any of us. In that? I find you have a bad heart. But, it doesn't prevent you from understanding what is the logical thing to do. In that we have agreement.
Trump is a symptom of a bad disease. He is not the cause. I understand that. But you must see that Trump has his uses and his limits. What is interesting is that they are having to constantly cover up their own tracks due to his lack of forethought. Lol. I find it all very entertaining, but the reality is that it has to do with a vein in the American government that has always been about unethical and greed filled motivations. It is the true tie that binds all those swampy creatures from the DC Lagoon together. And it will be the thing that brings the power of the USA down with it. Who knows how long a complete collapse will take? I can't guess at that. But that it eventually has to because it doesn't have the ability to right what is wrong? @Atlantis analysis of them being addicted to that easy money and not knowing how to do true reform out of the bad habits already formed and the dependency? It is like Hunter Biden and the drug thing....they are gonna wind up strung out and without any kind of way of swimming out of the SWAMP. Too many years living in that shit to make it go away.
It is not naive stuff Blackjack21, it is about if you don't have a sense of justice why get into politics at all? Why even write about it? Why even get involved in change? One is determined by one's value system. If you want to label mine sweet and naive? Fine. I happen to think I am being true to my Erich Fromme Communitarian humanist socialism. In the end? It works for me. I wind up having a rich life with rich results in what I value. People. Connections. Love and warmth. Todo lo que valoro.
The world is an unpredictable place BJ. I keep telling you that but you think your version of events are the ones that will happen. Harari is very right in his book about Homo Sapiens. The stupidity element in human history is consistent.
Again, Vanity and so on? Is a false thing. It falls into the stupidity element. Human Empires all fall into it. The USA is not doing something different to prevent that fate....if it did? It might have a chance at holding on to power for another two hundred years. But so far? They are following a pattern of decline.
I am not a VANITY soldier from your political column Senor Blackjack21. All I am is someone who has dedicated her academic life to studying old and ancient human civvies who committed the sin of thinking they could manipulate all the elements, force out all the enemies, create incessant wars, and exploit their peons with impunity and they all wound up having to abandon their lofty plans and live with nothing for centuries. Be defeated by other nations, be raided by foreign germs and foreign people and wind up being forgotten or reviled because the new conquerers thought their version of oppression and truth was the Trump card that changed their destinies. They should have learned to something very simple....treat others as you would want to be treated. Make equality and respect for all your daily bread. And you have nothing to fear in the world.
If you don't do that? And follow the path of wanting to dominate and wanting to impose? All you shall get for it is defeat. That is a pattern. One I have studied for many many years.
blackjack21 wrote:It's going to be interesting. Trump is a very different animal from what they've experienced before. John Durham now has subpoena power, a grand jury, and the ability to indict. That's a pretty big stick for a president on his way to re-election. Neither Trump nor Barr will not be turning a blind eye, nor tolerating things that swamp creatures like Jeff Sessions would tolerate. They understand the stakes and they understand that playing defense is a losing game in an election year.
Who knows how many dirty tricks the USA congress, senate and white house will be doing in an election year? In the end, that entire rotten scene is going to have to be dealt with. It is entrenched though. I don't know if the American public truly understands what it is going to take to get rid of the vast majority of those parasites. But that is their problem.
What makes you think I believe in some far Right WASP paradise?
I have very very low expectations of far Right people who are into WASP values Blackjack21. They are not people who are interested in seeing human complexity in the vast majority of humanity. They are fairly one dimensional thinkers in general. They reject in a knee jerk way any discussions of the possibilities that many cultures are valuable. They don't like the terms diversity, equality, multiculturalism, global cultures, etc. They associate it with liberal white pendejos and have allergic reactions. I place you in that category. If you are not that way? You can tell me. But everything you write about is indicative that you are that way. You are surrounded by liberals who spout that stuff but are really racists and limited as well and you associate it with hypocrisy BJ. I am not hypocritical about it. I lived and live it everyday. My entire life is about that...diversity and many cultures. Many languages, many people. All one. It is not a liberal talking point for me. But you? You are reacting to the liberal dominance in your entorno=surroundings. You in your mind are defending your heritage. Some WASP scene. I am glad I was born Puerto Rican I never liked WASP values in general. I understand how someone who is raised in that culture can think it is a great thing to defend. I don't judge you for that. But me personally? I like being Boricua. And if I had to choose that again in another lifetime? I would. Every human being who loves their own culture is finding value in it. That many don't understand that? It doesn't surprise me. But their lack of understanding that truth is going to be very costly to them in terms of placing limits on what they can achieve in terms of international cooperation. And human progress over many hundreds of years.
Trump is president precisely because of the lack of ethics. The electorate does not trust the establishment. I posted a funny little thread that demonstrates the serious lack of competence among establishment politicians and what they face in upstarts like Trump or AOC. Another mantra you may hear from me is that many of these people MUST be on drugs like cocaine in order to explain their insouciance and arrogance as they think their actions are genius while they make one dumb mistake after another. Hunter Biden seems to have had quite a battle with cocaine. Personally, I think the entire Obama administration was cocaine addled.
Yes, and lack of ethics in a nation leads to decline. It does. That is universal. Drugs and American life is a constant. Mexico and many other nations filled with poor people and people willing to go to great lengths for crime and dominance fill that need. That fueling of reliance on narcotic substances in the American psyche is very much at the heart of Latin American drug wars of violence. If there is no massive need to self medicate that society would not be hungry for those substances. Clean up your emotionally empty lives and stop looking for drugs to assuage your lack of meaning in a society with weak community feeling and weak sense of serving others without self interests involved. Drop the greed and the vanity and you might have a better nation someday.
I think that's quite debatable. It certainly happened to Britain, and that may be Britain's fate if it doesn't accept the necessity of a no deal Brexit. However, post-Soviet Russia is doing well enough. The US is protected by two oceans. Nobody can project enough power to cause the US a military defeat at home. Yet, if the US does something like withdraw from the Middle East, it may be a loss of US prestige, but it will be an actual loss for everyone in the region and beyond who benefited from the US maintaining the peace. Consider Shirvan's view of post-WWII power--he's from Azerbaijan.
It is debatable for a man you still believes in some far Right notion of what the USA stands for. I don't have any such blinders on about human beings and who they are Blackjack.
The US sits on the largest slab of arable land in the world. We're going to be fine.
The USA is actively pursuing global warming and climate change acceleration. It is also allowing corporations and agro farming corporate style to rule its agricultural output. The Earth has a limit. And everyone is vulnerable to interconnected interdependent ecological systems. To think you got some nuclear meltdown in Northern Japan like occurred recently with that Tsunami that the radiation won't reach California if some horror happened in the Pacific? Is folly. But keep on thinking the USA is an island that will never be affected by other nations or other peoples. It is the illusion of the ones who believe in the Vanity thing. I don't.
Awww... At least we share a common view that Puerto Rico should be independent.
Yes we do. Nationalism has its good side. Thinking one should not be so overreaching as to think you have a right to everyone's nations for bankers to pursue their dirty business. But? I am not naive thinking you care about Puerto Ricans Blackjack. You don't give a shit. And would not give a shit about any of us. In that? I find you have a bad heart. But, it doesn't prevent you from understanding what is the logical thing to do. In that we have agreement.
There are a lot of people in the West doing that right now, because the establishment lied to them about global trade. It is having profound political impacts. As they try to stop Brexit, Lege, Trump, Wilders, AfD, etc., simultaneously the establishment doesn't understand why they can't stimulate aggregate demand. There are negative interest rates in a lot of places now. Jump back to Hunter Biden and the cocaine problem, extrapolate that to much of the deep state gunning for Trump now, and you start getting a picture of why they are freaking out and losing their grip.
Trump is a symptom of a bad disease. He is not the cause. I understand that. But you must see that Trump has his uses and his limits. What is interesting is that they are having to constantly cover up their own tracks due to his lack of forethought. Lol. I find it all very entertaining, but the reality is that it has to do with a vein in the American government that has always been about unethical and greed filled motivations. It is the true tie that binds all those swampy creatures from the DC Lagoon together. And it will be the thing that brings the power of the USA down with it. Who knows how long a complete collapse will take? I can't guess at that. But that it eventually has to because it doesn't have the ability to right what is wrong? @Atlantis analysis of them being addicted to that easy money and not knowing how to do true reform out of the bad habits already formed and the dependency? It is like Hunter Biden and the drug thing....they are gonna wind up strung out and without any kind of way of swimming out of the SWAMP. Too many years living in that shit to make it go away.
That's very sweet, but almost impossibly naïve.
It is not naive stuff Blackjack21, it is about if you don't have a sense of justice why get into politics at all? Why even write about it? Why even get involved in change? One is determined by one's value system. If you want to label mine sweet and naive? Fine. I happen to think I am being true to my Erich Fromme Communitarian humanist socialism. In the end? It works for me. I wind up having a rich life with rich results in what I value. People. Connections. Love and warmth. Todo lo que valoro.
They've been doing that to their detriment for awhile now. The EU is becoming increasingly aware that they do not control their destiny. Sitting back and doing nothing is no longer sustainable.
China is in trouble, and they are trying to maintain internal cohesion by becoming externally more aggressive. China is an aging country that depends on foreign agriculture for its needs. It's efforts at soft power are starting to blow up too--note the NBA fallout. If NBA players don't think it's important for Chinese people to be able to vote, why do they think it's important to be able to vote themselves? If NBA players think Hong Kong Chinese lives don't matter, why do they think black lives matter? Everything is getting turned on its head.
Yea. The Democrats are facing an implosion. Their political masters have sent them on a kamikaze mission.
The US doesn't need oil from the Middle East, but you do.
The world is an unpredictable place BJ. I keep telling you that but you think your version of events are the ones that will happen. Harari is very right in his book about Homo Sapiens. The stupidity element in human history is consistent.
Again, Vanity and so on? Is a false thing. It falls into the stupidity element. Human Empires all fall into it. The USA is not doing something different to prevent that fate....if it did? It might have a chance at holding on to power for another two hundred years. But so far? They are following a pattern of decline.
I am not a VANITY soldier from your political column Senor Blackjack21. All I am is someone who has dedicated her academic life to studying old and ancient human civvies who committed the sin of thinking they could manipulate all the elements, force out all the enemies, create incessant wars, and exploit their peons with impunity and they all wound up having to abandon their lofty plans and live with nothing for centuries. Be defeated by other nations, be raided by foreign germs and foreign people and wind up being forgotten or reviled because the new conquerers thought their version of oppression and truth was the Trump card that changed their destinies. They should have learned to something very simple....treat others as you would want to be treated. Make equality and respect for all your daily bread. And you have nothing to fear in the world.
If you don't do that? And follow the path of wanting to dominate and wanting to impose? All you shall get for it is defeat. That is a pattern. One I have studied for many many years.
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I suppose you've never heard of people getting injured, hurt, handicapped, etc.? Have you heard of children, before?
come on Donald we are really really tired of your bullshit act. YOU are the scam and we have known this from the get go. You are a pathetic lying dog and we are sick of you. Give America a break and go back to your pretentious tower...……….. sad 
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