Is Trump Nuts?
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This robot is going to re-seed the grass in the back yard this week. Some nasty critters got a hold of it last summer. This robot is also going to be taking apart a dead car for parts before getting it scrapped so it can have a workshop in its garage again.
You Hilbot... i mean humans have fun saving the world from the robot takeover with your free will.
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Quote:6stringJoker, I am the 1%. When the robots vote Republican I am the one that benefits, not the robots and not the humans who dropped out of work to live free . . . in poverty. Trumpcare gets voted upon Thursday, taking away more of 6stringJoker's safety net. It might fail passing, not because it is too stingy, but because it is too generous to the unemployed, in the opinion of Tea Party Congressmen from Texas.
Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
This robot is going to re-seed the grass in the back yard this week. Some nasty critters got a hold of it last summer. This robot is also going to be taking apart a dead car for parts before getting it scrapped so it can have a workshop in its garage again.
You Hilbot... i mean humans have fun saving the world from the robot takeover with your free will.
If it passes on Thursday, Trumpcare changes the subsidies around, ensuring that everyone who makes less than $75,000 a year gets a subsidy that’s based on age. The older you are, the more help you get. This leaves the neediest families out of luck (think of 6stringJoker). The subsidy isn’t enough to buy an insurance plan if you’re just barely above the poverty line regardless of your age, so the neediest would end up going uninsured and get nothing from the government at all. Not my problem to solve. Your problem, 6stringJoker. Your problem. Either solve it or not. It is your choice.
www.vox.com/2017/3/20/14991184/ahca-magic-asterisk
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6stringJoker, I am the 1%. When the robots vote Republican I am the one that benefits, not the robots and not the humans who dropped out of work to live free . . . in poverty. Trumpcare gets voted upon Thursday, taking away more of 6stringJoker's safety net. It might fail passing, not because it is too stingy, but because it is too generous to the unemployed, in the opinion of Tea Party Congressmen from Texas.
Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
This robot is going to re-seed the grass in the back yard this week. Some nasty critters got a hold of it last summer. This robot is also going to be taking apart a dead car for parts before getting it scrapped so it can have a workshop in its garage again.
You Hilbot... i mean humans have fun saving the world from the robot takeover with your free will.
If it passes on Thursday, Trumpcare changes the subsidies around, ensuring that everyone who makes less than $75,000 a year gets a subsidy that’s based on age. The older you are, the more help you get. This leaves the neediest families out of luck (think of 6stringJoker). The subsidy isn’t enough to buy an insurance plan if you’re just barely above the poverty line regardless of your age, so the neediest would end up going uninsured and get nothing from the government at all. Not my problem to solve. Your problem, 6stringJoker. Your problem. Either solve it or not. It is your choice.
www.vox.com/2017/3/20/14991184/ahca-magic-asterisk
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Healthcare would be all that exists of my "safety-net". I don't get any other benefits. The only reason I get it is because it's forced upon me. I would have to pay $695 in taxes if I refused it.
The work I need done is dental, and they don't cover that because it's considered cosmetic work, so the health care offered to me is useless to me and it's a shame that the state has to pay for it.
If it is "taken from me" it will make no difference in my life. If any catastrophic thing were to happen to me, the hospital would not turn me away and they would not be allowed to take my house or car, both of which I own free and clear.
I'm good either way.
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Nine in 10 people would electrocute others if ordered,
a rerun of the infamous Milgram Experiment shows.
(Thank you, Second.)
A short take on the Milgram experiment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
This shows that about 90% of people will obey an authority figure.
Meaning that 90% of us are not our own authority figure.
I think any successful society must have 90% (or more) worker bees.
If all of us were Queen bees, there'd be constant conflict & no
work would get done.
Now ... as for the ability to think Independently, rationally ...
that'd be a different experiment. I've long thought that only 10%
fall into that category. Else there wouldn't be so many folks around
who still think God created this Universe in 4,004 B.C.
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.
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Originally posted by G:
4004 years... what took him so long? I know god has a different time table, but still.
Oooooooo! Movie idea: what if instead.... god had given us his only daughter???
Janice Christ? Jemima Christ?!
Holy moley, Batman!! I never thought of that!
She's prob'ly yet to come ... saving the best for ...
When/If we're ready to understand her.
... oooOO}{OOooo ...
I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.
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My constant bouts with unemployment I would say are evidence of my falling in the 10% there, as is my need to have zero debt to anybody to a fault.
I wasn't laid off at my last high paying job because of performance issues. I left that job making nearly double what I started at in 5 years. I always received the highest allowable annual increase and a very good promotion during that time. I was very well thought of by my peers, my manager and his manager. HR hated me though. I frequently spoke my mind and got into battles that weren't even mine to fight. I was laid off because that was a perfect opportunity to get rid of an employee like me without a legal battle on their hands.
That ties into the money aspect. I was free to speak my mind because unlike everyone else around me, I did not "need" the job. Nearly everyone I worked with regularly was married with children and in debt up to their eyeballs. Losing the job would be catastrophic for them. I was sitting on top of a nearly 100k nest egg near the end. I regularly spoke out when I saw others being treated like shit because they couldn't speak up for themselves.
I was similarly fired from KMart for the same reason, and in the end the state granted me unemployment because they deemed it a wrongful termination. I had even spoken with Corporate about it who agreed with me and asked me if I wanted to start the paperwork to get my job back. I had no interest in doing that though because the only reason I was in contact with them was to try to remove the new store management that was causing distress in the lives of the minimum wage workers there who already hadn't received a raise in the last 8 years. They told me that they would not be doing anything about that, so I stopped talking to them since there was no point. I had no desire to keep working there, especially if they weren't going to do anything about removing the problem.
I said last week in another thread that I would not put anybody in jail if I was on a jury, and my ability to live so cheaply would allow me to drag that case out far longer than the other 12 jurors would likely be able to hold out would mean whatever case I was on would equal a not guilty verdict.
It has worked out poorly in the end for me quite a few times. It's not an easy road, and that's why 90% of people won't take it. I definitely don't make things easy on myself.
There's not a chance that I would flip the switch.
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Quote:Isabel. Jesus is from Isa, for annointed, chosen. Bel, of god. chosen daughter of god, Isabel. That's my vote.
Originally posted by G:Quote:
Originally posted by Oonjerah:
Now ... as for the ability to think Independently, rationally ...
that'd be a different experiment. I've long thought that only 10%
fall into that category. Else there wouldn't be so many folks around
who still think God created this Universe in 4,004 B.C.
4004 years... what took him so long? I know god has a different time table, but still.
Oooooooo! Movie idea: what if instead.... god had given us his only daughter???
Janice Christ? Jemima Christ?!
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I like Isabel, too. :)
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I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.
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Some Notes Toward Understanding Our President's Level of Sanity
Trump is vain. He's peculiarly unwilling to learn anything new. He feels endlessly persecuted. His attention span can be measured in minutes. He's paranoid over the slightest sign of disloyalty. He is vengeful. He demands constant attention. He makes up preposterous fictions to sustain his worldview and shield his ego from the slings and arrows of reality. He desperately wants to be liked by everyone. He's domineering. His personal relationships are almost entirely transactional. He never laughs. He can't stand people poking fun at him. He's often unable to control his emotional outbursts.
Being, say, vain and domineering would make him a bit of an asshole, but nothing more. But put all of his bizarre personality traits together, stir in the pressure of being president, and that might be enough to qualify him as detached from consensus reality.
Is it possible that Donald J. Trump truly is some version of unhinged/crazy? When Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott told Richard Nixon he had to resign, Nixon succumbed to reality. What would Trump do in a situation like that?
A mere "liar" would know it was time to go. Do you feel sure that Donald J. Trump would react like that?
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/composite-trump-some-notes-towa
rd-understanding-our-presidents-level-crazy
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Some Notes Toward Understanding Conservatives' Level of Sanity
Trump's tweets are, at various times, ridiculous or untrue. David French doesn't like what defending Trump is doing to conservatives:
The tweets, however, are exposing something else in many of Trump’s friends and supporters — an extremely high tolerance for dishonesty and an oft-enthusiastic willingness to defend sheer nonsense....I’ve watched Christian friends laugh hysterically at Trump’s tweets, positively delighted that they cause fits of rage on the other side. I’ve watched them excuse falsehoods from reflexively-defensive White House aides, claiming “it’s just their job” to defend the president. Since when is it any person’s job to help their boss spew falsehoods into the public domain?
....GOP gratitude for beating Hillary Clinton cannot and must not extend into acceptance (or even endorsement) of presidential dishonesty and impulsiveness. Trump isn’t just doing damage to himself. As he lures a movement into excusing his falsehoods, he does damage to the very culture and morality of his base. The truth still matters, even when fighting Democrats you despise.
www.nationalreview.com/corner/445957/its-not-worth-sacrificing-anyones
-integrity-defend-trumps-tweets
Trump is not to blame for discovering these traits among conservatives. Drudge and Limbaugh and Fox News and Breitbart have been mining this same gold vein for years.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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