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Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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crazy canuck

#22215
April 10, 2019, 10:57:46 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 10, 2019, 10:39:28 AM
When Trump visits Mt. Vernon...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073

Quote"His supporters don't care, and if anything they enjoy the fact that the liberal snobs are upset" that he doesn't know much history, this person said.



Syt

#22216
April 10, 2019, 11:01:33 AM
QuoteSo, he couldn't understand why America's first president didn't name his historic Virginia compound or any of the other property he acquired after himself.

"If he was smart, he would've put his name on it," Trump said, according to three sources briefed on the exchange. "You've got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you."

Yes, nothing is named after Washington, and nobody remembers him.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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The Minsky Moment

#22217
April 10, 2019, 11:34:40 AM
Indeed the reason that many things are named about Washington and that his name still endures is precisely because he wasn't the sort of egotistical asshole that sought to name things after himself.
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

The Minsky Moment

#22218
April 10, 2019, 11:36:14 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 10, 2019, 10:57:46 AM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 10, 2019, 10:39:28 AM
When Trump visits Mt. Vernon...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073

Quote"His supporters don't care, and if anything they enjoy the fact that the liberal snobs are upset" that he doesn't know much history, this person said.

That is misunderstanding disgust for upset.
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

Oexmelin

#22219
April 10, 2019, 11:45:16 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 10, 2019, 10:57:46 AM
Quote"His supporters don't care, and if anything they enjoy the fact that the liberal snobs are upset" that he doesn't know much history, this person said.

Part of it is true. The fact that he is illiterate is of little consequence for his supporters, because what he extols is his capacity for decision. He doesn't know anything, but that's okay, because you don't really need to. 

And yet history has not entirely lost its role as a validating historical device for so much of his supporter's rhetoric. This is why you see so much being made out of liberals distorting history, or hiding the past of the Democratic party, or that America was once great, and now isn't. While it isn't so much about history (mostly about conspiracy) it is still seen as a legitimate source for patriotism and vindication.
Que le grand cric me croque !

garbon

#22220
April 10, 2019, 03:45:52 PM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 10, 2019, 10:39:28 AM
When Trump visits Mt. Vernon...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073

I had posted and then deleted earlier today when I realised it was about a year ago.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

crazy canuck

#22221
April 10, 2019, 03:48:50 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 10, 2019, 03:45:52 PM
Quote from: Oexmelin on April 10, 2019, 10:39:28 AM
When Trump visits Mt. Vernon...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/10/donald-trump-mount-vernon-george-washington-1264073

I had posted and then deleted earlier today when I realised it was about a year ago.

The report is dated 04/10/2019 05:06 AM EDT - if the Mueller report is released will you decline to read it because it reports about matters that occurred in 2016?  :P

garbon

#22222
April 10, 2019, 03:52:03 PM
No but then that's not really gossip. Gossip a year old is not of great interest to me.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

crazy canuck

#22223
April 10, 2019, 03:55:44 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 10, 2019, 03:52:03 PM
No but then that's not really gossip. Gossip a year old is not of great interest to me.

That is the problem with Trumpism.  It is no longer newsworthy that the President is such an idiot.

garbon

#22224
April 10, 2019, 03:57:33 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 10, 2019, 03:55:44 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 10, 2019, 03:52:03 PM
No but then that's not really gossip. Gossip a year old is not of great interest to me.

That is the problem with Trumpism.  It is no longer newsworthy that the President is such an idiot.

Indeed.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

dps

#22225
April 10, 2019, 04:04:07 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 10, 2019, 03:57:33 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on April 10, 2019, 03:55:44 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 10, 2019, 03:52:03 PM
No but then that's not really gossip. Gossip a year old is not of great interest to me.

That is the problem with Trumpism.  It is no longer newsworthy that the President is such an idiot.

Indeed.

It wasn't newsworthy that Trump was an idiot after July 29, 1986.

Valmy

#22226
April 10, 2019, 04:14:04 PM
Quote from: dps on April 10, 2019, 04:04:07 PM
It wasn't newsworthy that Trump was an idiot after July 29, 1986.

:yes:

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Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

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Oexmelin

#22227
April 10, 2019, 05:06:12 PM
Quote from: garbon on April 10, 2019, 03:45:52 PM
I had posted and then deleted earlier today when I realised it was about a year ago.

The visit was last year. The leaks from Mt. Vernon are recent.
Que le grand cric me croque !

mongers

#22228
April 10, 2019, 05:13:42 PM Last Edit: April 10, 2019, 05:31:09 PM by mongers
Seems the sure-fire way to get into Trump's good books is to murder a few thousand dissidents or innocent protesters.

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U.S. President Donald Trump praised his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as a "great president" on Tuesday, even as a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers' raised concerns about his record on human rights, efforts to keep him in office for many years and planned Russian arms purchases.

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Admiral Yi

#22229
April 10, 2019, 05:25:22 PM
Sisi is high energy.
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