I guess I didn’t know what you’re talking about because you randomly changed the topic from how American universities produce more scientific and technological advances than all the other countries combined to some sort of unimportant math literacy score among each nation’s bachelor degree holders. This is ridiculous, stop trying to poke holes and predicting the demise of, what is to our knowledge, the most powerful and amazing nation in the Universe.
Of the Universe, no less. Including the Silastic Armourfiends of Striterax.
These are the only ones of which
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And there may be many others
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madmonk28 is not a 20-something, but if he was he would be a better informed 20-something than you.
From the 90’s onward non-partisanship in the US congress began to vanish rapidly. Prior to that, voting crossover was common. Congresspeople often voted for a statute simply because it was a good statute.
From the mid-90’s this changed. Congress became more and more partisan.
This isn’t simply a feeling or a guess. Read this and weep for the US. The visual representations of the change are stunning.
Precisely as madmonk28 says, losers now have no reason to work with winners. There is no dialog or crossover or co-operation. Proposed legislation is now “ours=good” or “theirs=bad”.
And IMHO its now reaching a new level, with the incoming executive expressing a need to raze to the ground any changes made by the outgoing executive (even if they know those changes were achievements). To do otherwise might involve having to admit the previous executive achieved something. And the pre-election absolute demonization of the previous executive’s changes means that the incoming executive feels compelled to undo those changes, consistent with their own rhetoric.
Not to upset you unduly, but Trump could destroy the entire world, so you’re not out of reach.
Watch for developments in the Middle East early in his term. If we avoid attacking Iran over his first year in office, we might very well survive. There’s also the threat of war with China over their artificial islands out your way.
Stay tuned and hang on tight.
Read or re-read On the Beach.
As long as cobalt bombs aren’t used (likely the case), places like Monkey Mia are probably safe.
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Consistency to the rhetoric doesn’t seem a high priority for this bunch, that I can see.
I’m out. I have my Native American health card. God help the rest of you. Republicans are acting like Republicans. Democrats are acting like Republicans.
Ve con Dios.
I have the same fear. To paraphrase a quote, “it’s the Supreme Court, stupid!” (Not directed at you personally, Der Trihs.)
The predecessors of Barack Obama’s two confirmed appointments–Kagan and Sotomayor–had each been appointed by a Republican President, but over their years on the Court had changed to a decidedly more liberal point of view. The chance to seat a successor to Antonin Scalia, in the opinion of Geoffrey R. Stone of the University of Chicago School of Law, would have been the first time since 1967 that a Democratic president would have had the opportunity to materially shift the ideological center of the Court.
(My opinions below, not necessarily those in the article linked to)
And the Republicans would have none of it. Instead they abrogated the president’s Constitutional right and duty to fill the vacancy, and abandoned their own duty of advice and consent. They spit in the faces of all of us who voted for Obama in 2012, because the mandate of a president to appoint federal judges comes from the voters, and not from the Senate. Apparently that now applies only to Republican presidents, though. Eventually, Obama should have been able to seat a replacement for Scalia, possibly one who might not have been fully to the liking of progressives and liberals. Such an appointment, though, would have been infinitely superior, from a progressivist perspective, than the replacement we will now be getting in the near future, as directed by Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.
As this fiasco unfolded through most of last year, I came to realize that the America we knew is eroding away.
The Supreme Court and the Republican Coup-d’Etat, by Geoffrey R. Stone
Great. Me and Flipper can hang out until the end of days.
As long as you can learn to eat sand.
EH-er-EH-EH-eh-eh-eh-err-er-er-errrr.
I’m just waiting for the first car bombing of a Trump-branded building somewhere. I expect Trump to demand immediate nuking of the nearest convenient Muslims. Even worse if he actually owns the building instead of just renting out his name, and it hits his wallet as well as his ego.
Maybe they should re-design the “nuclear button” so someone with small fingers can’t operate it.
Hmm. I should stop reading these threads. I’m re-thinking my “stay put” strategy. A pacific island is sounding better and better.
Somebody commented earlier that Obama should hide the launch codes in a science book, where Trump and the Republicans will never find it.
The codes could be hidden in ANY book without pictures.