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At first I thought: Australians, typical!
But it turns out to be Trump's fault....
Passenger arrested after United Airlines flight to San Francisco diverts to Auckland
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11775772 -
The fluffybunny sounds American...
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@booboo said in US Politics:
@Frank said in US Politics:
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Actually no. He thinks Trump has some skeletons and that he might be reluctant to prosecute rather than risk his own image being tarnished.
Perhaps you could watch a few and keep an open mind?Why? This is the Fern remember.
Ok ... so I tried your videos. Got 3 minutes in and found I had insufficient tinfoil.
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@booboo said in US Politics:
Ok ... so I tried your videos. Got 3 minutes in and found I had insufficient tinfoil.
I wanted to point out that it could easily have been 6 steps. Not 5 with step 4 broken into two pieces.
In any case, I like how Stinger missiles are meant to solve everything. I never knew that a shoulder-mounted SAM would so be so helpful in pursuing revolution... not sure what they're going to do for a ground war, but I guess that was covered in the other 15 minutes of garish presentation.
Wish I had that much time to put together daily videos.
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The most cogent argument for electing Donald Trump was made not by Trump, or by his campaign, but by a writer who, unlike Trump, betrayed no eagerness to attach his name to his creations. He called himself Publius Decius Mus, after the Roman consul known for sacrificing himself in battle, although the author used a pseudonym precisely because he hoped not to suffer any repercussions. In September, on the Web site of the Claremont Review of Books, Decius published âThe Flight 93 Election,â which likened the country to a hijacked airplane, and argued that voting for Trump was like charging the cockpit: the consequences were possibly dire, but the consequences of inaction were surely so. Decius sought to be clear-eyed about the candidate he was endorsing. âOnly in a corrupt republic, in corrupt times, could a Trump rise,â he wrote. But he argued that this corruption was also evidence of a national crisis, one that could be addressed only by a politician untethered to political piety. The author hailed Trump for his willingness to defend American workers and Americaâs borders. âTrump,â he wrote, âalone among candidates for high office in this or in the last seven (at least) cycles, has stood up to say: I want to live. I want my party to live. I want my country to live.â By holding the line on unauthorized immigration and rethinking free trade, Decius argued, Trump could help foster âsolidarity among the working, lower-middle, and middle classes of all races and ethnicities.â Decius identified himself as a conservative, but he saved much of his criticism for âhouse-broken conservatives,â who warned of the perils of progressivism while doing nothing in particular to stop it. Electing Trump was a way to take a stand against both ambitious liberalism and insufficiently ambitious conservatism.
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Yeah, that was the ungloated bit re the Carrier rescue too -
GREG HAYES (Carrier CEO): Right. Well, and again, if you think about what we talked about last week, we're going to make a $16 million investment in that factory in Indianapolis to automate to drive the cost down so that we can continue to be competitive. Now is it as cheap as moving to Mexico with lower cost of labor? No. But we will make that plant competitive just because we'll make the capital investments there.
JIM CRAMER (CNN interviewer): Right.
GREG HAYES: But what that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs.IE he directly stated he was using the subsidy to automate. Oddly that wasn't tweeted.
It's the issue no one talked about on the GOP side during the election, Trump will be fanstatic for businesses (and shareholders) but the jobs he's promised simply don't exist. Foxcon has replaced 70,000 Chinese jobs with robots this year. So you could move iPhone manufacture to the US with a nice big tax credit & massive cut in tax rates. But thats zero jobs.
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It's different jobs actually. Someone has to build the factories, maintain them, run the robots/plant itself. Raw materials just don't magically appear there either.
Having the plants in the US absolutely will create jobs. A mixture of shit low skilled jobs and high skilled as well.
Also the benefit of having state of the art manufacturing in the US for IP too, instead of leaving that to China.
Talking about robots, worth looking at what Amazon are doing as well. 2013 they had 1500 robots in their warehouses, now they have 45,000.
Automation is going completely change everything. Lots of jobs are going, but new jobs are being created. Strange times.
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Its going to be interesting over the next few years, with the conflict between Trump and the tech sector on opposite sides of the fence for both automation, and freedom/privacy of information
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@Kirwan said in US Politics:
Talking about robots, worth looking at what Amazon are doing as well. 2013 they had 1500 robots in their warehouses, now they have 45,000.
Automation is going completely change everything. Lots of jobs are going, but new jobs are being created. Strange times.To divert for a moment: It'll be interesting to watch the rate of decline versus creation.
Working for a large retailer, and in the "digital space" (yes, for a bunch of piston wristed gibbons), the speculation about Amazon in 2017 is they'll start to smack not only their tech competition, but brick n mortar retailers as well. These people certainly think so:
https://www.l2inc.com/scott-galloway-and-maureen-mullen-predictions-for-2017/2016/blog
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@Duluth said in US Politics:
Podesta's email password was 'password' and he responded to phishing emails
There was so much incompetence in and around the Clinton campaign
Just laughable. So many of these people have been living in their little political bubble for so long, they have trouble functioning back in real society.
I was reading an article from an ex-staffer who said the US Politician they worked for lost their long-term post, and all the staff with it. They could barely go to the DMV and get their driver's license renewed. Not to mention having to drive a car.
Its a bit like celebrities who are surrounded by yes-men types. The way to more riches for the yes-men is to keep the star happy. And that means never disagreeing with them. They lose touch with reality very quickly.
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