Trump - hoće li biti impeachment ili 8 godina drugačijeg predsednikovanja?

[Peter Fan]

7 hours ago, Paul said:

nagovjestio obracanje naciji, spremte kokice 

 

placipicka   

Ima tu jedna druga teorija (ne direktno u vezi zida, vec uopsteno njegov MO):

 

Saboteur in Chief, recenzija knjige The Fifth Risk

 

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/12/06/trump-saboteur-in-chief

 

Najvazniji detalji, koga mrzi da cita sve:

 

Most of us are conditioned to regard these incidents as mere proof of Trump’s inability to control his impulses. But his urges are powerfully honed by decades of collusion with the scandal-mongers and gossip columnists who made him famous and helped him to create his brand. The outbursts and asides establish and maintain his alpha-male reputation in the eyes of his fans (though they might not quite put it like this) by not allowing anyone to “dictate his attitude or virtues to him.” Trump’s flaunting of his own most shameful qualities deflects the damage that any revelation can do to him. When he displays his vices so openly, the drama of revelation leads only to a shrug of the shoulders: tell us something we didn’t know. His outbursts normalize the outrageous—habit, as Samuel Beckett has it, is a great deadener. Most subtly but most effectively, they play havoc with one of the things we think we know about politics: the game of distraction.

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We all know that people in power deploy distraction as a professional skill, much as magicians do. We are used to it. In every act of political communication, “Look at this” is always the explicit obverse of an implicit “Don’t look at that.” But Trump confounds us by using as distractions the very things that other politicians want to distract us from. In democracy as we think we have known it, the art of governance is, in part, the skill with which our attention is diverted from the sordid, the shameful, the thuggish. Yet these same qualities are the gaudiest floats in Trump’s daily parade of grotesqueries. This is his strange, and in its own way brilliant, reversal: instead of distracting us from the lurid and the sensational, Trump is using them to distract us from the slow, boring, apparently mundane but deeply insidious sabotaging of government. He is the blaring noise that drowns out the low signal of subversion.

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What’s going on here is easily enfolded within the terms that the big narratives of the Trump presidency offer us: chaos, ignorance, incompetence. The terms are not inapt, but they are radically insufficient. They demand modifiers. In the entire nexus of right-wing politics and business interests around Trump, deliberate chaos, willful ignorance, and strategic incompetence can be embraced as virtues. If you despise the food stamp program as a disincentive to the shiftless poor to buck up and take responsibility for themselves, if you make your profits from supplying junk food for school meals fed to 30 million American children, if you think that ensuring that pregnant women and new mothers get proper nutrition is socialist tyranny, then the easiest thing to do is nothing. Avoid briefings so you don’t have to know what these programs do and why they do it. Let the knowledge and experience embodied in people like Concannon just vanish into thin air. Leave vacuums of leadership, authority, and accountability that will, with any luck, lead to drift and demoralization. Let public agencies rot on the vine and then point to the rottenness as proof that Big Government doesn’t work

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Here we come to another way of wrecking government. Alongside malign neglect, Trump has a second option: appoint the worst possible person. Trump’s pattern of appointing to the top layers of government people who were openly antagonistic to the very departments they would run—Wilbur Ross, Betsy DeVos, Scott Pruitt, Ben Carson, and Rick Perry among them—was obvious enough. But arguably of even greater import was his approach to the appointment of the people who actually run things, the low-profile technocrats and bureaucrats crucial to a competent administration.

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Lewis is at his vivid best in teasing out the implications of this, for it is a story in which a little movie-style melodrama is entirely justified. He points out that Myers has spent much of his career trying to make the NWS look bad. Why else would people pay for his service when the government provides the same information for free? But now he will acquire the power to actually make it bad, to limit its investment in refining and communicating its forecasts:

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The dystopic endgame is not difficult to predict: the day you get only the weather forecast you pay for. A private company will become better than the Weather Service at knowing where a hurricane will make landfall: What will it do with that information? Tell the public or trade it inside a hedge fund? You know what Hurricane Harvey is going to do to Houston before Houston knows: Do you help Houston? Or do you find clever ways to make money off Houston’s destruction?

[Gandalf]

Edited January 8, 2019 by Gandalf

[Paul]

2 hours ago, Peter Fan said:

Ima tu jedna druga teorija (ne direktno u vezi zida, vec uopsteno njegov MO):

 

ne znam, men to vuce na teoriju zavjere...ocem rec, pripisuje mu se iq visi od sobne temperature...u stepenima celzijusa   

[Peter Fan]

Moguce da mu se pridaju vece sposobnosti nego sto ih ima, ali isto tako mislim da ga vecina potcjenjuje jer mu fali "nacitanost". U svjetlu toga, prije bih se slozio sa autorom, nego sto bih to otpisao kao teoriju zavjere.

[Paul]

ja bih prije rekao da mu se moze jer je ustav malkice :d anakronican, jelte, ako se ne reformise ostaje jedino nada da barem checks and balances jos funkcionise

 

na stranu izborni sistem u americi

 

i ope, zadnje obracanje naciji jednog potus'a bijase 9/11 ako se ne varam, ovaj kuka jer mu nedaju da uzalud trosi beton 

 

tako da...placipicka

[mustang]

1 hour ago, Peter Fan said:

Moguce da mu se pridaju vece sposobnosti nego sto ih ima, ali isto tako mislim da ga vecina potcjenjuje jer mu fali "nacitanost". U svjetlu toga, prije bih se slozio sa autorom, nego sto bih to otpisao kao teoriju zavjere.

 a sta kaze autor, i ovo skraceno je previse dugacko. 

[Gandalf]

 

Edited January 9, 2019 by Gandalf

[darXtar]

 

[3opge]

https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/02/roger-waters-considers-performing-pink-floyds-the-wall-on-us-mexico-border/

[mjone]

6 hours ago, 3opge said:

https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/02/roger-waters-considers-performing-pink-floyds-the-wall-on-us-mexico-border/

sad je stvarno gotovo

[Ayatollah]

 

[Tsai]

 

 

Braća Karić

[mustang]

tulsika sa havaja ide u trku za predsednika. moja ljubimica. skepticna sam da ce dnc da joj pomogne. 

[3opge]

https://www.thenation.com/article/its-not-a-government-shutdown-its-a-right-wing-coup/

[Pečorin]