What the right never understands about the global system is that it IS a system. You can’t just do everything you want, get everything you want, and control everyone. Break one piece and another piece will break. The results will be unpredictable because different actors will respond unpredictably to more severe threats. Making other countries believe you are a danger will cause they to behave accordingly. There is no way to control the entirety of the planet.
The best way to prevent disasters coming from various quarters and ensure longer stability is to maximize benefits for everyone—some promise of peace and prosperity and dignity for everyone lessens the incentives to destroy all the working bits, create alliances against you, cause turmoil and suffering.
It's like a full time job settling my Dem friends from freaking out (I'm nonpartisan, so at least they talk to me). : ) I point out the best evidence is Trump's first term. We survived that. We'll survive a second.
Maybe. Trump was pretty naive his first term. His second term will almost certainly start with a purge of the federal bureaucracy, which would give him much more of a free hand.
Yes. In his first term, Trump had a lot of normies in his cabinet, and in John Kelly, a normie Chief of Staff. Some of the crazy things he wanted to do never saw the light of day, as normies slow-walked or ignored some of his orders, hoping he'd change his mind or forget he'd given the order. Other orders were tempered.
Nearly all of these normies, including his VP, and UN Ambassador Haley. have said they will not vote for him in 2024. The ones who will serve, Kash Patel, Russ Vought, Stephen Miller, and possibly Michael Flynn, are awful. There were a few "adults in the room" in the first term. Trump and his cronies will assure that there are nothing but firebreathing true-believers in the second.
“I will be voting for Trump,” Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, said during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington. (AP) So no, she is endorsing him. Others who have no advantage by endorsing Trump have fled, for social as much as political reasons. Furthermore Haley, as bizarre as it sounds, could well become Trump's VP pick. She brings in the critical GOP wafflers, and will sew up the must-win state of South Carolina, which may well drag North Carolina and Georgia with. I'll go even farther out on a limb and predict Michelle Obama as the Democrat nominee, should Joe drop out. Why? This all but guarantees a Dem win. This is fun : )
He has the lawyers working with him now. He will let the termites run free, and open up new venues for them to work in. It will be organized and much more destructive.
Any nostalgia for the interwar period is moot as soon as you consider that energy was a far less sensitive topic, especially with the oil discoveries in East Texas.
Why no reporting of trump and the Epstein trial transcripts? The 7 trips trump made to the island of child sex trafficking? When will that be news?
What the right never understands about the global system is that it IS a system. You can’t just do everything you want, get everything you want, and control everyone. Break one piece and another piece will break. The results will be unpredictable because different actors will respond unpredictably to more severe threats. Making other countries believe you are a danger will cause they to behave accordingly. There is no way to control the entirety of the planet.
The best way to prevent disasters coming from various quarters and ensure longer stability is to maximize benefits for everyone—some promise of peace and prosperity and dignity for everyone lessens the incentives to destroy all the working bits, create alliances against you, cause turmoil and suffering.
This seems to describe the last 14 years of Tory rule in the UK.
It's like a full time job settling my Dem friends from freaking out (I'm nonpartisan, so at least they talk to me). : ) I point out the best evidence is Trump's first term. We survived that. We'll survive a second.
Maybe. Trump was pretty naive his first term. His second term will almost certainly start with a purge of the federal bureaucracy, which would give him much more of a free hand.
Yes. In his first term, Trump had a lot of normies in his cabinet, and in John Kelly, a normie Chief of Staff. Some of the crazy things he wanted to do never saw the light of day, as normies slow-walked or ignored some of his orders, hoping he'd change his mind or forget he'd given the order. Other orders were tempered.
Nearly all of these normies, including his VP, and UN Ambassador Haley. have said they will not vote for him in 2024. The ones who will serve, Kash Patel, Russ Vought, Stephen Miller, and possibly Michael Flynn, are awful. There were a few "adults in the room" in the first term. Trump and his cronies will assure that there are nothing but firebreathing true-believers in the second.
Geez. Worse prospects than most dystopian realist fiction. Thanks a lot!
“I will be voting for Trump,” Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, said during an event at the Hudson Institute in Washington. (AP) So no, she is endorsing him. Others who have no advantage by endorsing Trump have fled, for social as much as political reasons. Furthermore Haley, as bizarre as it sounds, could well become Trump's VP pick. She brings in the critical GOP wafflers, and will sew up the must-win state of South Carolina, which may well drag North Carolina and Georgia with. I'll go even farther out on a limb and predict Michelle Obama as the Democrat nominee, should Joe drop out. Why? This all but guarantees a Dem win. This is fun : )
Just FYI the AI software you're using to generate this nonsense prose appears to be badly malfunctioning.
Ha! Well we'll see.
He has the lawyers working with him now. He will let the termites run free, and open up new venues for them to work in. It will be organized and much more destructive.
Any nostalgia for the interwar period is moot as soon as you consider that energy was a far less sensitive topic, especially with the oil discoveries in East Texas.