First Daughter at G20 Table | 32 comments (32 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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tbh just another day in the death of America.

They wanted him, they can deal with him. Right now, if it weren't for elon Musk, the place would be a write-off

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Mon Jul 10th, 2017 at 03:20:33 PM EST

Re: First Daughter at G20 Table (4.00 / 3)

Well, Dylan, Chomsky, Krugman, Saunders, Warren, the Coen brothers, Kyle Eastwood, Ron Carter...

There are still a few good people!

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue Jul 11th, 2017 at 10:05:01 AM EST
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What the US has is 'Dollar Democracy' - one dollar, one vote - and THIS is what 'dollar democracy' buys.

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Jul 12th, 2017 at 01:04:00 AM EST
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No. One dollar one vote would have given us a second Romney term. Trump was not the big-money choice.

by Zwackus on Wed Jul 12th, 2017 at 07:19:07 AM EST
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Trump was the Bigger Money choice, and so far he's working out just fine.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed Jul 12th, 2017 at 10:09:50 AM EST
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They were both big money choice, one more for Koch-ed up extraction industries, the other for the MIC.
And surprise, they meet in the middle.
Either way Wall St cleans up.
We thought derivatives were bad, now they need saltier betting odds to get the profit juices flowing.

Like extinction.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Jul 13th, 2017 at 01:10:15 AM EST
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I continue to disagree.

An establishment Republican would have shut up about the wrong things long enough to get at least one major piece of legislation passed through a friendly House and Senate, whether it was "tax reform" or an "Energy Bill" or Obamacare repeal. Trump can't even do that much. He is gumming up the works.

Trump beat out the big money puppets in the Republican primaries by being a white-nationalist racist asshole, which surprised everyone by being the winning ticket in 2016. They have been working on him ever since, with no small degree of success, but the utter and complete incompetence of his team at every level has most certainly not been in their favor. Control of all three branches of government used to mean something - Trump has shown us just how much execution matters.

by Zwackus on Thu Jul 13th, 2017 at 04:51:48 AM EST
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Who benefits from an incompetent, ridiculous, toothless US?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jul 13th, 2017 at 12:46:54 PM EST
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Not everything is to the benefit of everyone. Sometimes there is just fail, where pure stupidity and incompetence hurts everyone.

by Zwackus on Fri Jul 14th, 2017 at 12:36:24 AM EST
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That's unpossible: our opponents are super villains, not fallible humans.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Jul 14th, 2017 at 10:59:45 AM EST
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Obviously I'd have thought Putin benefits cos he'splaying a zero sum game where America's disengagement is always to his advantage.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jul 14th, 2017 at 03:24:43 PM EST
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A US withdrawal from the western Pacific frees China to look north to the biggest region of untapped natural resources on the planet. They've already built the logistic structure needed for military operations north of the Amur. They have just as many nukes than Russia. The Liberation Army dwarfs the Russian army and is just as - if not better - armed, trained, and supplied.

It's not all Advantage Putin

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Jul 14th, 2017 at 05:04:50 PM EST
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No, the Russian's disengagement from E Siberia is probably a result of other issues closer to home, such as Ukraine, Caspian oil and the Baltics.

However, they've reacted to previous Chinese civilian incusion into siberia (a noughties entrepreneurial market across the whole N Amur region) by totally freaking out and led to a border closure.

the Chinese have Mongolia to plunder.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jul 14th, 2017 at 09:01:22 PM EST
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○ ChinaRussia Relations and Regional Dynamics | SIPRI - 2017 |

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sat Jul 15th, 2017 at 12:55:29 AM EST
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