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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Difficult to say whether John Quincy Adams was really a Democratic-Republican, since he ran in a 4-way race against three other candidates from the same party, representing four factions that later took up unique names.
edited 13th Dec '16 4:58:51 PM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."So after reading like, 500 pages of "Trump's going to be a worse leader than Satan", I have to ask, as a white male living in the Cleveland area and about to go off to college next year, how likely is it that the next 4 years of my life are going to be shit with him as president? I'm genuinely fearful he's going to mess America up so much that I'll be better off moving to Europe or something.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Unless I grew it. In that case, throw it in the trash.I heard on the radio that the CEO of Exxon, who has a LOT of interest in drilling in Russia (and thus would LOVE for sanctions on Russia be lifted) has been appointed to Trump's cabinet.
At first, I was starting to think y'all had lost it to the tin-foil hattists, but now I would like to add my hat and commence panicking with all the rest of you.
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for youedited 13th Dec '16 5:31:10 PM by Balmung
Former Wrestler Booker T has announced he is running for Houston mayor in the 2020 election as an Independent.
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Calling Reaganomics aka trickle-down "voodoo" is fitting, since it's more or less pseudo-economic crap. It's not really the same thing as supply-side economics. Small wonder trickle-down has never really done much to actually improve the economy.
edited 13th Dec '16 5:42:41 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedSomeone ought to tell the tabloids that they aren't helping. The one I saw in the store today (hooray for holiday shopping) had the headline about "Trump's secret plan to save 25 million jobs" or something like that.
Protip: "Fake news" predates the Internet.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken
In other words, we've all got a little Trump in us.
...<throws up>
edited 13th Dec '16 6:08:19 PM by M84
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If it's the National Enquirer, I've been noticing them running with more or less the Trump/Breitbard line since the Ted Cruz sex scandal (which appears to have petered out and I now doubt if it was anything). At the time it was noted that the guy who owns that rag is a Trump-friend.
I don't actually know anyone who takes the National Enquirer seriously but if they're looking to milk the current climate as a propaganda rag...
edited 13th Dec '16 6:12:34 PM by Elle
Responding to some things....
RE: Castro, imperialism, and the left
Okay, the hero-worship of Castro is getting a little out of hand here. Castro didn't "stand up for the little guy", and he was a threat outside his own borders—he helped impose a succession of Communist dictatorships that brutalized their own populace. His fans love citing his support for Nelson Mandela, but once you get past him the list of decent human beings that Castro supported is a short one. He supported the MPLA which killed 100-200 000 of their fellow Angolans. He supported FRELIMO, which killed between 83 000 and 200 000 of their fellow Mozambicans, depending on who does the counting. He supported Qaddafi, whose crimes against the Libyan people should need no introduction. He backed Mengistu Haile Mariam, arguably the worst dictator in Ethiopian history, whose party murdered at least 500 000 Ethiopians (and that's not counting the famine that followed).
As for anti-imperialism...Castro was, to all intents and purposes, a mercenary, loaning his army to the USSR and its Communist clients in order to pay his debts to the Soviet Union and bring much needed cash into Cuba. To that extent, he repeatedly assisted in the imposition of Marxism-Leninism, a foreign, Eurocentric worldview, onto the local populace. Ethiopia is a case in point—with Castro's aid, the Derg overthrew Ethiopia's traditional leader, Emperor Haile Selassie, and replaced it with Communist dictatorship on the Soviet model—a foreign import if ever there was one. And before you mention that Selassie was an emperor and therefore an imperialist—so where the Derg, who did everything they could to suppress the independence movements in the various regions of the former Ethiopian Empire. It's also worth noting that he refused to condemn the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, earning himself the ire of the rest of the non-aligned movement in the process.
Long story short, Castro, in addition to being a repressive dictatorial ruler at home (who killed between 5000 and 17 000 of his own people, putting him somewhere between Augusto Pinochet and Efrain Rios Montt when it comes to bodycount) consistently exported a murderous Russian political ideology to Third World countries. He was not only a tyrant, he was an outright imperialist.
If you are the kind of person who become enraged at the Americans for "spreading democracy", yet you are prepared to excuse Castro's mercenary work on behalf of Communism, then you have a double standard that is every bit as bad as that of those on the right whom you would vilify. Castro was not the worst dictator in history—far, far from it—but to posit him as any sort of hero in the light of his actual actions, while simultaneously condemning the same actions when undertaken by the USA, is the worst form of hypocrisy.
RE: Trump appointments
Appointing the guy from Exxon-Mobil is pretty much the definition of conflict of interest, but as we all know, Trump doesn't care about that, and neither does anybody else.
RE: Trump and intelligence briefings
Olbermann sums it up well
. At best we get W 2.0. At worst we're heading to a Russian-dominated international community.
A case could well be made that Cuba allying as firmly with the Soviet Union as possible, and providing military support to the Soviet agenda in exchange for defense and funding, was simple self-defense. As you noted, the US has a long history in Latin America and not everyone down there likes how the American Empire has acted.
(And, of course, because I think that the American Empire is generally a force for good in the world, I'm not going to blame Castro for being a firm ally of the Soviet Empire.)

The Republican Party from Lincoln to McArthur have the 2nd longest, from 1861-1885. A total of 24 years.
edited 13th Dec '16 4:41:56 PM by DingoWalley1