Posted by sigismund on August 12, 2018, at 14:25:07
In reply to born, never asked, posted by beckett2 on August 12, 2018, at 0:46:00
I don't watch TV anymore or read daily papers, so it was not quite apparent, until I looked into it, that the first dog cartoon was simply what was in the news. They are all real places and people and events.
Well, we ain't seen nothin yet, especially with the politics of it all. I'm quite certain how that will go, well, perhaps not quite, every so often a combination of circumstances and personalities (FDR?) can break a vicious circle. And if the next generation ever understands the wicked frivolity of it all? Revenge being the engine of politics? Like my surgeon (no socialist) said to me when I looked at his family photos 'They won't put photos of us up, they'll be using ours for dart practice'.
There was a discouraging climate thing on TRNN where Michael Mann (I think) was talking about how the humidity and heat may make the area between Beijing and Shanghai unliveable, not to speak of food production. It is to be expected and almost amusing that our governments use this either as a wedge issue somehow, or as, more boldly with yours, as a justification for more institutional vandalism. Our worst was the exPM, Abbott, the one who gave a knighthood to Prince Phillip, who wants to use government money to open new coal mines so we can burn it a loss to generate electricity. And help the poor people, the children in India! So he can win a culture war? That is Murdoch's specialty. Trump is bolder than that. But what happens when we need the government knowledge that has been destroyed? There is a method in it somewhere. I suppose with Trump it is like his bankruptcies.......in the chaos he escapes unscathed. There is a lot of misdirection in this.
Ohh, what is behind that curtain? Yes.
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