I think I’ve figured out Trump’s strategy: he is going to be such a jackass that nothing he does carries the ability to shock anyone, anymore. Once he hits zero credibility, he has nothing left to lose.
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I think I’ve figured out Trump’s strategy: he is going to be such a jackass that nothing he does carries the ability to shock anyone, anymore. Once he hits zero credibility, he has nothing left to lose.
One of the essential tools of political philosophy, I believe, is the technique of modeling how someone else would react if you traded positions with them. I.e.: imagine you do to me what I was about to do to you.
This is depressing; I don’t blame you if you just click ‘Next’.
Americans don’t seem to realize how completely inauthentic campaign rallies and caucuses are. Consequently, we have a huge discussion about what Trump said or didn’t say, supported or didn’t support. I hate it when people who know something is bullshit pretend that it’s not, because they’re committing bullshit too.
A lawyer I was working for once described the doctrine of estoppel as “Seriously, now, who are you trying to kid?”
You probably recall the NSA’s lie about that they were only monitoring citizen’s “metadata” during their illegal data-collection program.
I’m referring, of course, to the US president.
Just a reminder: messing with another country’s civilian power grid is a crime against humanity.
When I was in high school, I was one of the founders of the “Military History Club” – which meant: “the nerdy guys who play Diplomacy and Jutland and Dungeons & Dragons all day. We had a small room in the attic of the school where we could leave our game-boards down and nobody would mess with them.
The Failing New York Times has just done another big reveal on Loser Trump’s taxes.