It is a simple shift in reasoning. It has been historically true that people in large numbers want to be lead and told what to believe. Individually, we are capable of reason and logic. However, there is something about the “collective” that makes people easily controlled. It is much easier to subscribe to a…

This is partially correct. Trump doesn’t like to look stupid, that’s why he fills his ranks with people that keep telling him how great he is. That’s all you have to do. Putin didn’t have to blackmail Trump, he called him smart and a great guy. That’s all it took, so now Trump is in Putin’s pocket. Trump has a very…

Technically, he’s delivering on his promise. He wants to run the country like a business. In the US what is the mark of a successful business? Happy employees? No. Fair wages? No. A successful business provides the highest profits to fill the accounts of the people at the top. Trump said he was going to take only $1…

There is nothing in the Constitution that says a President must be a politician. If anything, I think the Founding Fathers had a bit too much faith in us because they thought someone like Trump rising to the level of being a candidate for President, let alone actually being voted into office, was impossible:

Here’s the problem I have with your argument. Trump himself created the environment in which we can question the results of the election. To this day he continues to spread lies about large scale voter fraud. If there were so many millions of illegal votes, why not support Jill Stein’s recount? I think that recount,…

Actually, she isn’t wrong. This is the USA, a country founded on freedoms like being able to express one’s views. She is free to be openly racist, just as we are free to call her and everyone like her out on their bullshit, yet legally protected, views. That’s what people don’t get. The freedoms outlined in the…

All perfectly valid, and good on you for doing your part trying to combat ignorance. I’ve always had strong political views and discuss them freely in my circles as well (when appropriate). I’ve just never really taken to expressing my opinions in places like blogs or website comments sections. But, as I said,…

Good point. I just think, collectively, we are better served with more constructive efforts. I’ve always had a feeling that part of the system we’re stuck in requires us, the citizens, to keep pointing fingers at each other. If we are too busy fighting and casting blame back and forth, who is going to bother actually…

Let me paint a picture for you. You come from a small town in a traditional Democrat state. Your life long exposure to the world is the people in your town and maybe a town over. You grew up and were educated in a vastly different social climate than the one we live in today. When you are struggling who do you blame?…

Well, he can do what he did with United Technologies (owns Carrier) and bribe them into staying. Every loved that “deal” he made with them. No one is looking down the line at how this type of deal making will only work once or twice and how he’s basically passing the cost on to the tax payers in the end. His…

I remember reading reports about White House staffers being in shock over how completely unprepared Trump and his team were. They didn’t have the foggiest idea about the job of POTUS. If I recall, they were estimating within the first week after the election, Trump and crew were already more than a month behind in…

That’s because usually, a president-elect and his transition team spend every single day, from the day after the election to the day of confirmation, working on a seamless transfer of power. They have teams upon teams of people briefing the president-elect, multiple times a day. Before the president-elect takes a…

Ms. Hughes wasn’t wrong, she pretty much nails whats going on regarding how an alarming number of people view facts. We share a reality with people who refuse to accept what reality is. I can live peacefully with someone that has opposing views to my own, as long as we both agree on facts. Math and Science, Logic and…

Definitely! Any accent will do. As long is it helps convey the level of snark I was attempting.

Remember that according to Trump there is no such thing as conflict of interest for the President. Which is great to hear since as of reports I read this morning are saying that the Secret service is going to be renting out 2 floors in Trump Towers for around 3mil to set up a command center there since Mrs. Trump will…

Well, if there is a lesson to be learned from this election is that absolutely ANYTHING is possible.

Staying silent is the biggest part of their failure. I pre-ordered the game with a bunch of friends (not for any promised multi-player support or features). We all felt the same way, cheated. The problems we had with the actual game were minimal as most of us have some background in programming and understand the…

That’s what he’s saying and that’s what he probably understands. The fact is that there are no laws or federal regulations covering conflict of interest for the offices of the President and Vice President. It was largely understood when the government was formed that there were enough safeguards in place to ensure…

My hope is that this will be triggered by a complete implosion of Trump’s transition team. If Trump were to become undeniably incapable of doing the job, I have to think that the electors would vote for someone else. It is already being reported that Trump’s team is a month behind in their transition work and they are…

There are checks in place to make sure that doesn’t happen. Executive Orders are a very powerful tool that a sitting US President can use, but there are processes in place to reverse or revoke them. Trump wouldn’t be able to grant himself dictator-like powers unless he had the full backing of Congress AND the Supreme…