TRUMP - Some people think......... How do you feel?

[Luce NDs]

Okay, This is a break in the stream. It's something about billionaires in general I should have realized a long time ago. I was writing today about the excessive power of Canadian billionaires, and their unlimited greed.
Then it occurred to me this idea of greed didn't make much sense. There had to be something else that drove them to such excesses,, and such destructive interference. Then I thought of Trump.

He was born with enough money to live the high life for all his life.

So why the rush to get more?

He's a man who has no political philosophy whatever. So why did he want to be president? In that same vein, he obviously has no sense of any general direction to take the country. So what is this all about? Greed comes nowhere close to explaining it.

Then I thought of very wealthy people I have known. Most of them born into wealth. What drove them to search for more? Well, look at Trump.

He didn't marry a good-looking girl. It had to be a beauty queen. And she has had to stay a beauty. Of course. He married for status, public recognition.

He likes to molest women. lots of men do, but keep it a secret. He openly brags about it. Status. Recognition.

With heaps of wealth, he looks for an extra job on a TV show. Status. Recognition.

He adores large crowds and tweeting. Status. Recognition. (Okay. Vanity.)

With no political ideas of any substance or consistency, he ran for president. Status. Recognition. Vanity.

It's a very common weakness of the very wealthy. (For some reason, Mila Mulroney comes to mind.)

Solution: subtlety or partisan efforts to put hubris down ... in politic they say this is the underhand ...in-right!

 

[Luce NDs]

Could be
There are also known psychophysical changes that occur with status change
Even nasty things like immune system compromisation, lowered IQ and mental illness
There are good evolutionary reasons why someone would want to stay in their status...and would want 2 have more?
Good observation, Graeme

No pain, no gain in the reaching for intangible ... insubstantial material like wisdom? Fa route ... that's a journey ... pilgrim!

 

[Delightful Life]

Scott Adams' Blog

 

[Graeme Decarie]

Trump IS a Hitler. His campaign tactics are similar. His use of racism is similar. His appeal to disillusioned voters is similar. I'm not exaggerating when I say that the general tone of American politics since 1945 owes a lot to Hitler. And, yes, that includes George Bush and that nice Mr. Obama and Trump. The latter is just most crudely obvious about it.
In fact, Britain and the U.S. and much of the western world have been murderous, plundering and racist for centuries. We just don't see it when it's us.

As it happens, I just today wrote a blog on an example of that - the mass murder of 200,000 Maya in Guatemala which our news media have never bothered to report.o

You can check The Decarie Report for July 30. (or just trust me.

 

[Delightful Life]

The point of the article was Scott Adams predictions of how the general public and media portrayed Trump is following his predictions so far

Of course Trump isn't Hitler; if he was you wouldn't be writing that and there would be no protests in the USA and etc.

Trump has quite a long way to go yet before he gets to Obama's calibre of monsterousness. Give him time lol

 

[Graeme Decarie]

Trump IS Hitler. his policies are essentially similar to those of Hitler HItler's use of terror bombing (already begun by churchill in 1920) was copied by us - and has been the major American method of warfare, especially since 1945,) Trump is now fighting a war against Yemen by starving millions of its people to death.. How different is this from Hitler?
He has exploited the streak of racism which has been a feature of American life from the colonial days to now. That is what Hitler did. He poses as a man of the people when his policies are designed to feed the wealthy. Ditto with Hitler.
Hitler was a more common type than we think. The British Empire was a hive of racism and plunder. Check opinions in China and India on that.
There is much of Hitler in us, I'm afraid.

 

[Graeme Decarie]

The U.S. has gone beyond Hitler. Its objective since 1945 has been to rule the world. That's why it destroyed the effectiveness of the UN.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

The UK's not far behind, they're just more polite. They have a long history of doing some horrendous things (along with some good things, like the U.S.) but carrying them off with an air of respectable civility. The U.S. has a reputation for being bolder, more crass. We'll speak out but only tentatively. We don't want to hurt the feelings of our 'cousins' down south or across the pond. Canada, is historically and politically sandwiched between the two but we like to think we never adopt the worst of either of their approaches.

Then there's Russia and China - some serious authoritarian abuses there - there's the Middle East, there's Saudi Arabia. Not places I'd want to live in and probably wouldn't survive.

Most of Europe has their own bigotries and xenophobias. Supposedly forward thinking Scandinavian countries included - and a few "strong man" type leaders in Central Europe. Is there anywhere in the world with truly good government? New Zealand maybe? Canada may, all things considered, not be perfect, but one of the better ones.

 

[Luce NDs]

The U.S. has gone beyond Hitler. Its objective since 1945 has been to rule the world. That's why it destroyed the effectiveness of the UN.

This debate about Hitler's resurrection could raise a Fuhrur ... a storm of process from those resting on energy and power and not knowing the waste routes ... in time they'll be nothing but the dead with a bit of success --- God!

Did the Big One have an alternate plan ... subtle at that?

Polite expression of fear and anger of the Xenites (Semites) things avoided by Xenophobes ... which can be mostly everything if properly convicted of being right ... thus the AB solutes that cause dilution of humanity ... they can slap a man in the face with conviction that it is proper ...

Can a friend do that? Thus the requirement of enemies ... poorly understood items ...

 

[Delightful Life]

The U.S. has gone beyond Hitler. Its objective since 1945 has been to rule the world. That's why it destroyed the effectiveness of the UN.

Your rhetoric here is that since the US has done and is continuing to do these horrific things, then any POTUS is Hitler.

I getcha.

(Thatd be kinda neet, amongst the security levels there would be a "Beyond Hitler" lol. Aliens as a part of their initial survey of Earth klaaxons and sirens would blare...)

LA DI DAH!!

 

[Delightful Life]

Or maybe we could collectively think of some sort of metric, like Trump so far is 2 Hitlers, where Obama is 200,000 Hitlers, and Stalin was 1 Gadzillion Hitlers?

 

[Graeme Decarie]

Stalin was very vicious, indeed. But look at the situation. Russia was run by a Tsar and an aristocracy - both of which were unspeakable greedy and incompetent. Russians were certainly worse off under them. (But we sent troops to Russia in 1919 to fight for the old regime.)
And Lenin and Stalin, starting from scratch and having very little time, rebuilt Russian industry so so raised russian morale that they could stop the Germans who would have been able to walk over a Russia operated by Tsars and aristocrats.
Without the Russians as recreated after World War 1, we would have lost World War 2. We beat Germany because up to 90% of the German army was tied down by Russia. The Russians lost huge numbers, but the national spirit overcame that. That's quite amazing.

Oh, and the rebuilt Russian industry was able to outproduce Germany in weapons. In fact, far the best tank of World War 2 (and in huge numbers) were the Russian ones.

 

[Delightful Life]

Oh Christ
Someone has already thot of using Hitler as a unit of measure
New SI Unit: One Hitler • r/reddit.com

Go Internet!!!

 

[Delightful Life]

And since someone mentioned Nazis
Woah...who knew they were also environmentalists?
The Fascist History of De-Extinction: The Nazis and the Aurochs

 

[Luce NDs]

And since someone mentioned Nazis
Woah...who knew they were also environmentalists?
The Fascist History of De-Extinction: The Nazis and the Aurochs

You don't know until the strange hits you as a leer ... or Shakespearean shift as the King strikes you ... hit Leer? Almost Freudian if you follow history of the psyche as a fearful organ ... the alternate is: "don't think" .. and the consequence appears clear as sheep in the night ... dog-ed consumption? And weal's have cogs ...

 

[Mendalla]

The White House continues to look more like a TV show than a functioning administration. To whit:

- Anthony "The Mooch" Scarmucci is hired as communications director over the protests of several other officials. Press secretary Sean Spicer resigns over it (replacement is his deputy, Susan Huckabee Sanders, a professional campaign organizer and communications wonk).

- Scarmucci bad mouths several colleagues in spectacularly vulgar fashion to the media.

- One of those bad-mouthed, Reince Priebus, the chief-of-staff who is the one who should be managing this bunch of clowns, gets canned or resigns (likely the former)

- Priebus's replacement is retired Marine general and National Security Advisor John Kelly.

- To no one's surprise, "The Mooch" is the next one out the door after only 11 days in office. Between a Marine general and a loudmouthed ass of a businessman, I know who I'd put my money on and I'd be right. It will be interesting to see how long Kelly lasts given that conflict with his boss and colleagues like Steve Bannon is almost inevitable.

- Final irony: The Mooch is gone while Spicer is technically still around, since Sean's resignation is not effective until August.

Now, I must say that Kelly as CoS and Susan Huckabee Sanders as press secretary seem to be bringing a certain measure of order to the madhouse now. However, as multiple commentators have pointed out, the weak link remains the President himself and his penchant for making policy on the fly on Twitter, not to mention his perpetually risking obstruction of justice charges with his attacks on the Russia investigation and AG Jeff Sessions.

 

[Graeme Decarie]

Well, in defence of jae, I have to say somethng kind about Trump.

He's not really worse than his predecessors.

For seventy years, U.S. policy has been to conquer the world - all for the benefit of the country's billionaires. For the last 16 years, the U.S. has fought disastrous wars which have left regions like the middle east in chaos - with no gain for either side.

(Occasionally, Trump has actually given the impression he has some understanding of what has happened. Unfortunately, he has no consistent policy on anything except making the rich richer.)

Under Bush, Obama or Trump (or any one of several others over the years) we shall be very lucky to escape a world war.

Yes, the good thing about Trump is that he's really not worse than all the puppets of billionaires who preceded him.

 

[chansen]

 

[Luce NDs]

Well, in defence of jae, I have to say somethng kind about Trump.

He's not really worse than his predecessors.

For seventy years, U.S. policy has been to conquer the world - all for the benefit of the country's billionaires. For the last 16 years, the U.S. has fought disastrous wars which have left regions like the middle east in chaos - with no gain for either side.

(Occasionally, Trump has actually given the impression he has some understanding of what has happened. Unfortunately, he has no consistent policy on anything except making the rich richer.)

Under Bush, Obama or Trump (or any one of several others over the years) we shall be very lucky to escape a world war.

Yes, the good thing about Trump is that he's really not worse than all the puppets of billionaires who preceded him.

Thus crazy is a sense of ad infinitum? Thus it still goes on ...

 

[Delightful Life]

Things r happening so fast now I can't keep track...