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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Take the recent NAFTA spat for example. Word gets out that Trump's planning to announce the US leaving NAFTA on his 100th day. Immediately, the Presidents of Mexico and Canada contact him directly, and we see the shift to talks of "renegotiation."
I think there's good reason to believe this is a deliberate strategy, bluffing in order play at being the boss man. But I also think there's good reason to believe that he genuinely wanted to chalk up some "accomplishment" without any regard for the consequences. And that he genuinely wants to be pampered and fawned over by other leaders, like the simpering attention-whore he has consistently proven himself to be.
Hopefully, in any future negotiation, other parties will know that they cannot expect any good faith from the United States.
Guess who's back? Milo's back. Tell a friend.
Yet his allies turned on him. Yiannopoulos was subsequently forced out of Breitbart in disgrace. The American Conservative Union disinvited him from CPAC, and Simon & Schuster canceled a six-figure book deal.
But as the free-speech conflagration he ignited at Berkeley continues to burn, Yiannopoulos is planning a way back in. Days after releasing a video touting his return to the campus, Yiannopoulos told the Hive that he would be launching a new media venture in the coming weeks with what he says is a $12 million investment from backers whose identities he is protecting. (Yiannopoulos showed me a page from the contract with the investors' names blacked out.) Another person involved with the company, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, was similarly secretive: "Milo has the best instincts about these things," he said.
The business, which will be called Milo Inc., will be even more focused on stoking the sort of ugly political conflict that's closer to the surface than ever in these early months of the Trump administration. As Fox News remains busy with its latest scandal, Milo Inc. promises to be the latest incumbent in a growing far-right media sphere that is overwhelmingly populated with politically incorrect, and often jarring, provocations once considered verboten by conservatives. Yiannopolos will compete not only against sites such as The Blaze and Alex Jones's Infowars but also against his very own former employer, Breitbart, which has become a formidable force in the space after its former chairman, Steve Bannon, helped usher Trump to victory and later joined his administration. Yiannopoulos, for his part, is relying on a formula that he employed at Breitbart. He said that Milo Inc. would be dedicated to “making the lives of journalists, professors, politicians, feminists, Black Lives Matter activists, and other professional victims a living hell.”
Initially, Yiannopolos will be the company's main talent. “I’m the proof of concept,” he said, but added that he hoped to eventually expand the company. “The thing about me is that I have access to a talent pipeline that no one else even knows about. All the funniest, smartest, most interesting young YouTubers and all the rest of them who hate feminism, who hate political correctness. This generation that’s coming up, it’s about 13, 14, 15, now have very different politics than most other generations. They love us. They love me, and I’m going to be actively hunting around for the next Milo.”
Ugh.
edited 28th Apr '17 3:21:25 PM by MadSkillz
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Great. Like I needed more reasons to think the generation that came after mine is as dumb as a sack of hammers. Like it wasn't bad enough that their popular music and books sucked worse than most of my generation's, they just had to dive headlong into sociopathy and fascism on top of that.
edited 28th Apr '17 3:34:09 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary![]()
Radicalized parents, relatives, and friends, 4chan and similar sites, stupid teenagers being stupid teenagers at exactly the wrong moment, etc.
In defense of their music or in support of my point? Because I'll have you know that I don't much like my generation's stuff either.
edited 28th Apr '17 3:50:27 PM by TrashJack
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryThe major difference is that millenials grew up in the Obama Era or previously when inclusion, tolerance, etc were the hot topics. The Trump Era produced different kinds of celebrities and tis the nature of celebrities to have some following somewhere and the nature of youth to seek experiences. Stir and you get your poisoned soup.
That still doesn't mean [whatever the next generation's name is] are lost causes. Even among millenials, the generation is far from uniform, and the next generation will likely grow up in a polity where LGBT persons are mainstream, health care is a basic right, and, if we screw up, will only ever know the US president as a buffoon but what fun is perfection? Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
It was implied very heavily that he got molested as a teenager or younger so he thought it was okay for older men to molest teenagers or younger.
Really fucked up when you think about it I know but thats still not something that should reach young impressionable kids or people in general. Especially if they have been in or are in that situation....
Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the economic expectations of The '90s combined with the economic reality of The Noughties helped fuel the rise in sex-deprived twentysomethings. Who, as we know, fueled the rise of the alt-right as soon as they realized that they can't be punched in the face over the internet.
So now that the Government woun't shut down for another week, what are the chances of them being able to have an actual bill in time?
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/331133-trump-signs-one-week-funding-bill-to-avoid-shutdown?amp
edited 28th Apr '17 5:28:53 PM by megaeliz
Wait, are we really discussing why kids these days are the worst generation ever?
News flash, guys. "Kids these days" have always been the worst generation ever. Fifty years ago it was hippies and stoners instead of edgelords and internet trolls. Same shity, different decade.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

He also apparently killed South Korea's stock market with his idiocy. I think he just made both Koreas antagonize the US.
edited 28th Apr '17 2:44:04 PM by FireCrawler2002