Trump seems to be doing well so far...

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I think the Americans need a POTUS such as Trump to put them in touch with reality. There are plenty who don't even vote.
 
Sadly (for those with a left thinking perspective), if trump and his insane behavior were to be gone from office, 3+ Years of Pense as president could be just as bad or worse. Trump is an idiot. Pense is a demagogue and a religious zealot. Looking forward to mid term elections in 2018.
 
The problem is, a lie is a steaming pile of shit and you can't cover it up with another steaming pile and expect nobody to notice.
 
None of this solves the underlying problem. I see Trump as a reaction of middle America to the consequences neoliberal globalism. Getting rid of Trump would not rebuild what has been lost through the advent of China. My feeling is that electing mental incompetent braggards as POTUS, won't solve what is obviously a very complex problem. Neoliberal globalist deregulation gave us the Global Financial Crisis - who are the winners ?
 
Neoliberal globalism arose through the theories of the economist Hayek, which he espoused in his book 'Consitution of Liberty' - the book which Thatcher thumped down on the table at a Tory convention, saying 'THIS is what we believe'. It is good in theory, however the practice leaves much to be desired. It does take into account human nature and 'charity begins at home'.
We have a major problem in controlling our intellectual property when American companies transfer their manufacturing to China along with American quality management systems. In Australia we did cutting edge work on solar panels. I doubt we have even one Australian factory making them. Patents seem to mean nothing except more information, to the Chinese.
The situation with Trump is indirectly a problem which has been created by the American lobby groups through the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund. I suggest that basically it could be partially solved by making it easier for the owners of intellectual property to sue for royalties across international borders.
I have a friend who manufactures engine management systems for Porsches and Ferraris in an Australian factory . He fully expects the Chinese to reverse-engineer them.
 
acotrel said:
In Australia we did cutting edge work on solar panels. I doubt we have even one Australian factory making them. Patents seem to mean nothing except more information, to the Chinese.
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Actually, one of the guys doing the really 'cutting edge' technology on solar panels in Oz was Chinese.
When he couldn't raise even a pittance to get them manufactured in Australia, he took his patents to China,
and became a billionaire. ( and then lost it all on some other project !, but thats life).
But we diverge....

Don't mention the Russians.
"I did once, and I think I got away with it".
 
Implicating the Russians is simply Cold War bullshit not the way to get rid of Trump. We don't do commie-phobia any more. Are we really supposed to step back in time and start calling each other communists every time we discuss politics ? China is communist and has got us by the balls. The way to stop Trump is to modify the neoliberal globalism ideology so that our goods are produced more in Australia and America. It could be done by making it easier to control use of our patents in China. However China is pretty much outside of the reach of international law.
 
Re: Trump seems to be doing not so well so far...

You, obviously, haven't been following the noos too much.
During (and after?) the campaign, seems a number (?) of folks were briefing/discussing/arranging/negotiating with members of the Russian Embassy on a number of matters - when they had no authority to do so. And Mr Trump has recently been said to have disclosed Israeli info on activities in Syria to the Russian Foreign Minister - which it seems the intelligence community clearly are not too keen on, and the Israeli's even less so.
Crisis after crisis after crisis, or is that gaff after gaff after gaff, just snow-balling along.
All fake news of course, if it wasn't for the small matter of the evidence that keeps mounting up.
Good time for an overseas jaunt....
 
Trump doesn't seem to have realised that being president of a democracy is NOT the same as being president of a company. It's run by three separate entities (congress. supreme court and president) which have equal, independent power. He seeme to think he has executive power over the other two. He's either going to get ticked off enough to resign or he'll do something REALLY dumb and get impeached. The sooner the better, but then we get Pence, replacing a raving loony with a fanatical religious nutcase. At least he seems to be a realistic politician that keeps bis religious beliefs separate from his politics.

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Voltaire once wrote in his 'Eternal Optimist' that 'everything happens for the best'. - Hardship builds character ? - What doesn't kill you, might cure you.
 
Isn't it said that
optimists say that everything that happens is for the best,
pessimists are the ones it happens to....

Some days you're the dog, and some days the lamp post.

Not sure where Mr Trump fits into this,
but selling $650b of weapons of mass destruction to the Saudis
sounds like the alt-right policies have flown the coup, and grim reality has set in...
 
The new president of Iran Mr Rouhani, a moderate who agreed a deal with world powers to limit Iran's nuclear programme, pledged to "remain true" to his promises, however, after the sale of weapons by trump to the Saudis he might decide to have a rethink;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39984066

Nothing like screwing up other government’s policy’s :?:
 
Lets be clear here, selling arms IS the name of the game, = $$$,$$$,$$$,
everything else is just window dressing, lip gloss and smoke screens.
If in doubt, follow the money trail....

If you want to have a belly laugh, take a look at Greece's military spending recently.
For a country on the brink of 'financial extinction', how could they possibly afford sooo much hardware,
500 military bases, and be spending MORE in a time of 'austerity' ?? !! (with no-one to fight either).
That salesman must have made some serious commission....
 
Once the 98% of the world finally realize that the 1% don't give a rats ass about any of us, maybe things will change. and that Iranian election result makes it clear that so many of us, all over the world, just want peace.

Fuk with the militarism and nationalism. Its just their (the 1%) way of hoarding resources. If 1% of the citizens own over 90% of the wealth, who's county (besides theirs) is it anyway?? Are we willing to murder or be murdered just so they can enrich themselves?

Oh, they'll pay us to do their dirty work.......
 
In politics there are several choices - Democracy or Authoritarianism , - Progressive or Conservative, - Proactive or Reactive. It might be a matter of finding balance ? What interests me are the people who believe in leaders such as Trump . They see him as the great white hope when all the warning signs are there. Perhaps I was a middle manager for far too long ?
 
When you play the FUD factor in politics (fear uncertainty doubt), a lot of folks will follow blindly.
Hopefully this isn't the case here, for all our sakes, but time will tell.

Meanwhile China is stepping up to the plate with the US supposedly withdrawing into itself.
With a massive expansion of its trading network - re-opening the Silk Road of ye olde times,
to much fanfare and a massive budget...
 
Our problems with China started with the lobby groups in America. Much of the GATT activities in the 70s were about preventing quality issues from becoming barriers to trade. Australia and America both have highly paid, well educated workforces. So the only way we can compete and justify our overheads is on the basis of quality - in the same market niche as the Germans. When our manufacturing goes offshore to where there is little OHS&E regulation and poor labour laws, quality must suffer. A lot of the Chinese stuff is very good - made under American quality management systems. However a lot of it is not. Chinese motorcycles often have horrible metallurgy. They are 'fit for purpose' however lack 'attention to detail'. In Australia we have had failures of imported steel bridge fabrications, building cladding has been found to be flammable, and the Chinese wheels on our trains have been wearing too fast. In Australia, our employers have been too slow to move upmarket and most people only buy on price because they don't appreciate the importance of quality . In short, it is our own slack culture which is defeating us.
Donald Trump and Pauline Hanson etc. are simply taking advantage of the bad consequences of neoliberal globalism to promote themselves. They are not an answer to anything.
 
acotrel said:
and most people only buy on price
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They are not an answer to anything.
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It has oft been quoted that the BIG problems with combining democracy and capitalism is that politicians never look beyond the next election, and capitalism never looks beyond the lowest price or best return.
So LONG TERM and BEST solutions get shoved down the drainpipe.

Its going to take a supervisionary of a politician (or a revolution ?) to ever change that culture,
and looking backwards to past glories is certainly not going to advance mankind much ??

There is an exception to this however, as bleak as this picture might be.
Somewhere in NASA's history, someone quipped that
"its not very comforting to know that everything in this thing (space capsule)
has been done by the lowest bidder".
Then there was the flash fire that killed 3 on a test/simulation, and NASA completely overhauled its safety mantra, with duplicate systems and quality taken to the max.
A different bunch re-learned these lessons the hard way with the shuttle program, but thats the never ending cycle of life....

I'd also comment that if you look into the history of railways (and practically every other form of transportation and technology) a century or 2 back, the English were struggling with the metallurgy of their rail tracks and rail wheels, and bridge metal quality too - look at all the rail failures and wheel failures and bridge collapses that taught the English about the required metallurgy. Japan had a reputation for dodgy quality at the beginning of their industrial revolution, and look at them now, Taiwan too. So it will be with the chinese and indians etc etc in a few more years also (?).

Empires have risen and fallen with regular monotony over the millenia and centuries and even decades of recent ages, so its going to be fascinating to see if Mr Trump can inspire a real revival, or just be another politician with the gift of the gab....
 
Trump does NOT have the "gift of the gab". He contradicts himself every time he revisits a topic. He's definitely out of favor with the people of Brussels, which he is visiting today on his trip for meetings with NATO. He called it a "hell hole" not very long ago. According to today's news reports over 9000 people came out to protest his visit. One sign said "Get the hell out of our hole".

I don't remember a recently elected president getting so much negativity, but IMO he deserves it.
 
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