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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://www.habitablezone.com/2018/06/15/ive-been-entertaining-a-horrible-thought/#comment-41621</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You have linked us to a film clip of a bright, articulate, well-spoken Donald Trump.  We see a man who is intelligent, charming, quick on his feet, and able to hold his own even against a seasoned interviewer known for his ability to verbally dismember his guests. And yet you seem incapable of seeing the contrast between that sharp and capable executive with the bombastic and grotesque buffoon that that you and your fellow knuckledraggers and Archie Bunkers have manged to shoehorn into the White House with the anachronistic technicality of the Electoral College.

Clearly, you are so obsessed with your voodoo ideology that you are incapable of seeing the obvious deterioration of this man&#039;s mental condition.  I do not blame him, clearly, this is a medical issue.  But I do attack his followers and apologists for insisting on pointing to the 2018 Trump as an example of keen political and economic instincts.  The man is an embarrassment, not so much to himself, but to his countrymen and colleagues, and especially to the sycophants who continue to insist on his intellectual capacity and moral virtue. The man needs to be removed from office, not just because of his reactionary politics, but because of his deteriorating mental capacity.

The man is a a pale shadow, a caricature of the clever entrepreneur he once was, and which we see on that clip. And you continue to make excuses for him.  No SDAI, you&#039;re really just making excuses for yourself and the uncouth rabble that have hitched their fortunes and reputations to his.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have linked us to a film clip of a bright, articulate, well-spoken Donald Trump.  We see a man who is intelligent, charming, quick on his feet, and able to hold his own even against a seasoned interviewer known for his ability to verbally dismember his guests. And yet you seem incapable of seeing the contrast between that sharp and capable executive with the bombastic and grotesque buffoon that that you and your fellow knuckledraggers and Archie Bunkers have manged to shoehorn into the White House with the anachronistic technicality of the Electoral College.</p>
<p>Clearly, you are so obsessed with your voodoo ideology that you are incapable of seeing the obvious deterioration of this man&#8217;s mental condition.  I do not blame him, clearly, this is a medical issue.  But I do attack his followers and apologists for insisting on pointing to the 2018 Trump as an example of keen political and economic instincts.  The man is an embarrassment, not so much to himself, but to his countrymen and colleagues, and especially to the sycophants who continue to insist on his intellectual capacity and moral virtue. The man needs to be removed from office, not just because of his reactionary politics, but because of his deteriorating mental capacity.</p>
<p>The man is a a pale shadow, a caricature of the clever entrepreneur he once was, and which we see on that clip. And you continue to make excuses for him.  No SDAI, you&#8217;re really just making excuses for yourself and the uncouth rabble that have hitched their fortunes and reputations to his.</p>
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		<title>By: SDAI-Tech</title>
		<link>https://www.habitablezone.com/2018/06/15/ive-been-entertaining-a-horrible-thought/#comment-41616</link>
		<dc:creator>SDAI-Tech</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2018 06:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s not Trump&#039;s inconsistency they fear, it&#039;s his consistency. He&#039;s incredibly competent and consistent and the gains he&#039;s made has been, he&#039;s accomplished only by leveraging some corporate interests that own Congress against others.  They wanted the tax cuts. They don&#039;t give a damn about the welfare state.  They want open borders and realize they lost the black base that used to guarantee them election wins.  

Pop on a Trump interview from 1986 with Dave Letterman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsAir5fDbs

Cue it to 13:50 and one sees he&#039;s been Johnny one-note for over 30 years.  He&#039;s finally doing *exactly* what he said he would do:
cut regulation, lower taxes, stop foreign countries from ripping off America.  Nothing&#039;s new here. 

But you&#039;re right the GOP hate him as much as the Dems. They all answer to the same foreign or corporate interests.  

Trump has leveraged power and has exposed these parties both plotting against him - and the people he represents.  

Your illusion of a &quot;fascist police state&quot; after the coup failure are completely off base. Trump supporters are now 15% of former Obama voters.  Were those Obama voters fascist in 2008?  

All politics are local.  These people voted for economy and jobs. Another group voted because they saw their neighborhoods crumbling and low skilled immigrants an refugees being flooded in.

By the mid-terms Trump will have 15% of the African American male vote.  By 2020 that figure may be 25%.  A job, low taxes and a rise in local property values may be all they care about.

The corporations are pragmatic.  They adapt.  If it becomes possible to make as much money in the US as they did outsourcing to China?  Sure, they will do that. They wont eliminate Trump, they will merely try to thwart part of his agenda. They will fight the wall, Dems will fight for their new illegal alien voters. Every election cycle they hope enough of those babies will win the day for them - as they hoped would happen in &#039;16.

Trump is very smart. He is also very driven. He has been thinking about this for 30 years! Considering how almost everything has gone his way, I think it&#039;s safe to say he has planned for the mid-terms and his re-election as well.  He knows how to make himself invaluable to some very powerful companies and for the first time they no longer can simply *buy* an outcome - so they deal.  He will play one enormous interest against another and try do so in a way that America comes out on top.  

If you still believe anything any msm reports, after all the proven BS on every network, you need to analyze *why* you *want* it to be true.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s not Trump&#8217;s inconsistency they fear, it&#8217;s his consistency. He&#8217;s incredibly competent and consistent and the gains he&#8217;s made has been, he&#8217;s accomplished only by leveraging some corporate interests that own Congress against others.  They wanted the tax cuts. They don&#8217;t give a damn about the welfare state.  They want open borders and realize they lost the black base that used to guarantee them election wins.  </p>
<p>Pop on a Trump interview from 1986 with Dave Letterman:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsAir5fDbs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVsAir5fDbs</a></p>
<p>Cue it to 13:50 and one sees he&#8217;s been Johnny one-note for over 30 years.  He&#8217;s finally doing *exactly* what he said he would do:<br />
cut regulation, lower taxes, stop foreign countries from ripping off America.  Nothing&#8217;s new here. </p>
<p>But you&#8217;re right the GOP hate him as much as the Dems. They all answer to the same foreign or corporate interests.  </p>
<p>Trump has leveraged power and has exposed these parties both plotting against him &#8211; and the people he represents.  </p>
<p>Your illusion of a &#8220;fascist police state&#8221; after the coup failure are completely off base. Trump supporters are now 15% of former Obama voters.  Were those Obama voters fascist in 2008?  </p>
<p>All politics are local.  These people voted for economy and jobs. Another group voted because they saw their neighborhoods crumbling and low skilled immigrants an refugees being flooded in.</p>
<p>By the mid-terms Trump will have 15% of the African American male vote.  By 2020 that figure may be 25%.  A job, low taxes and a rise in local property values may be all they care about.</p>
<p>The corporations are pragmatic.  They adapt.  If it becomes possible to make as much money in the US as they did outsourcing to China?  Sure, they will do that. They wont eliminate Trump, they will merely try to thwart part of his agenda. They will fight the wall, Dems will fight for their new illegal alien voters. Every election cycle they hope enough of those babies will win the day for them &#8211; as they hoped would happen in &#8217;16.</p>
<p>Trump is very smart. He is also very driven. He has been thinking about this for 30 years! Considering how almost everything has gone his way, I think it&#8217;s safe to say he has planned for the mid-terms and his re-election as well.  He knows how to make himself invaluable to some very powerful companies and for the first time they no longer can simply *buy* an outcome &#8211; so they deal.  He will play one enormous interest against another and try do so in a way that America comes out on top.  </p>
<p>If you still believe anything any msm reports, after all the proven BS on every network, you need to analyze *why* you *want* it to be true.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://www.habitablezone.com/2018/06/15/ive-been-entertaining-a-horrible-thought/#comment-41599</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2018 13:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Trump&#039;s followers in government and the bureaucracy realize his incompetence and inconsistency is threatening all the gains they have made in dismantling the welfare state, tax policy, regulatory &quot;reform&quot;, labor relations, environmental destruction and in mobilizing the Deplorables into a unified political force and securing it all with voter suppression and redistricting. For example, Trump&#039;s war on immigrants not only is bad news for illegals, it could also mean that a labor shortage will eventually develop that will force wages to skyrocket. With no desperate and vulnerable foreign labor, employers might actually be forced to paying a living wage, or (&lt;em&gt;The horror!&lt;/em&gt;) start offering benefits to attract domestic workers. The corporate elite isn&#039;t about to let that happen.

So his own party decides to eliminate Trump, possibly by violence, possibly by a bloodless coup, possibly by some sort of trumped-up charges or accusations leading to arrest or impeachment or some 25th amendment excuse.  In order to keep his troglodyte followers from resisting the attack on their hero, they will find a way to blame his removal on the Liberals and the Democrats. Obama and Clinton are already being blamed for all of the Right&#039;s problems, even some purely imaginary ones that have been fabricated to distract us from the real ones. The removal of Trump would result in a purge of all Liberals, and any troublesome Conservatives who can be conveniently characterized as Liberals. It could turn into a bloodbath, perhaps not orchestrated by the insurgency, but it would play right into their plan and they would have little incentive to stop it.

I&#039;m serious.  These people already control the legislative and judicial branches, the bureaucracy, local and state government, and by 2020 they may very well have removed all opposition in Justice and the FBI.  The fundowackos can be bought with a comprehensive ban on abortion and the teaching of Darwinism. The business community has a lot to lose, and they will do whatever it takes to keep from losing any of it. They have all the power, funding, media and propaganda resources they need already in place, as well as the guns, fanaticism and patriotic paranoia of the 2nd amendment crowd and the skinhead and Aryan militias. All they need now is a motive, organization and leadership.  And there is nothing like the prospect of a Democratic sweep to provide that.

And of course, the Russians would do everything they could to help things along.  They seem to have a better understanding of our system and more working tools for affecting it than any American institution.

Even if this revolution is defeated and the conspiracy is exposed, America as we know it will be finished. Either the pendulum will swing all the way back to a left-wing dictatorship, or a victorious and re-energized Trump faction will crack down and institute an authoritarian police state more on the classical fascist model. We are still suffering from the legacy of our last Civil War, we will not survive another.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trump&#8217;s followers in government and the bureaucracy realize his incompetence and inconsistency is threatening all the gains they have made in dismantling the welfare state, tax policy, regulatory &#8220;reform&#8221;, labor relations, environmental destruction and in mobilizing the Deplorables into a unified political force and securing it all with voter suppression and redistricting. For example, Trump&#8217;s war on immigrants not only is bad news for illegals, it could also mean that a labor shortage will eventually develop that will force wages to skyrocket. With no desperate and vulnerable foreign labor, employers might actually be forced to paying a living wage, or (<em>The horror!</em>) start offering benefits to attract domestic workers. The corporate elite isn&#8217;t about to let that happen.</p>
<p>So his own party decides to eliminate Trump, possibly by violence, possibly by a bloodless coup, possibly by some sort of trumped-up charges or accusations leading to arrest or impeachment or some 25th amendment excuse.  In order to keep his troglodyte followers from resisting the attack on their hero, they will find a way to blame his removal on the Liberals and the Democrats. Obama and Clinton are already being blamed for all of the Right&#8217;s problems, even some purely imaginary ones that have been fabricated to distract us from the real ones. The removal of Trump would result in a purge of all Liberals, and any troublesome Conservatives who can be conveniently characterized as Liberals. It could turn into a bloodbath, perhaps not orchestrated by the insurgency, but it would play right into their plan and they would have little incentive to stop it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m serious.  These people already control the legislative and judicial branches, the bureaucracy, local and state government, and by 2020 they may very well have removed all opposition in Justice and the FBI.  The fundowackos can be bought with a comprehensive ban on abortion and the teaching of Darwinism. The business community has a lot to lose, and they will do whatever it takes to keep from losing any of it. They have all the power, funding, media and propaganda resources they need already in place, as well as the guns, fanaticism and patriotic paranoia of the 2nd amendment crowd and the skinhead and Aryan militias. All they need now is a motive, organization and leadership.  And there is nothing like the prospect of a Democratic sweep to provide that.</p>
<p>And of course, the Russians would do everything they could to help things along.  They seem to have a better understanding of our system and more working tools for affecting it than any American institution.</p>
<p>Even if this revolution is defeated and the conspiracy is exposed, America as we know it will be finished. Either the pendulum will swing all the way back to a left-wing dictatorship, or a victorious and re-energized Trump faction will crack down and institute an authoritarian police state more on the classical fascist model. We are still suffering from the legacy of our last Civil War, we will not survive another.</p>
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