Speaking of that, I’m re-reading McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom at the moment.
Sound familiar?
Incidentally, they also had a revolution in transportation and communications at the time (the railroad and telegraph) that had an impact of comparable size to the internet and IT in general. Economic disruption, social disruption, political disruption.
He goes in and out and in and out…
And relatedly:
It’s OK, Rand Paul wrote a plan that will reduce the cost of insurance premiums by allowing them to defeature the plans!
Jeepers
Listen to your doctor.
Pretty big ‘if’ there, persecuted white citizen.
Definitely way less crazy than ‘Obama is a sleeper Muslim who wanted to be president to destroy America’.
Trump simultaneously says he wants to do a deal with Russia to cut nuclear weapons in return for easing sanctions, and that NATO is outdated. The reason that not every state in Europe is nuclear armed is because the USA was acting as a guarantor. I predict Trump will precipitate a massive proliferation of nuclear weapons
…Less than a month since he declared that he was totally pro-nuke and that arms races are the bestest thing ever.
I’m becoming less and less bothered by what Tangerine Mussolini has to say, and more and more bothered by the complete lack of coherency in any of his policy positions.
The idea of someone who is unable to take SNL’s gentle ribbing without having a shitfit on Twitter being in control of the nuclear football terrifies me, even more so when he doesn’t seem to have any kind of principles that would otherwise temper his anger.
Oh look, someone agrees with him!
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/820927210492039169
Trump’s already implicitly recognizing Crimea as a separate state from Ukraine:
People on the right have been arming up for this for quite some time.
wanna bet they give him just some old codes rather than the actual codes.
And Taiwan from China.
His connection with Russia is overtaking how badly he is pissing off China. If they choose to give Trump a taste of Trump economic policy by fiddling with their global trade it will hurt everyone - but hurts China the least.
