Political Optics

So they are aware of optics.

Speaking of Optics - how about the optics of actually listening to trump, which I’d admit I don’t do too much of. Here David Pakman does a closer review of Trump’s recent Hannity interview.

Lordie, lordie, if you want to know what’s happening in that guy’s MAGAhead, just listen to him.

And if you can find some coherence in his words, during that (9-21-22) Hannity interview

FAUX NEWS - September 21, 2022
Faux News entertainer Sean Hannity sits down with former President Trump in an exclusive interview to discuss the Mar-a-Lago raid and the two-tiered system of justice.

Nothing about that interview surprises me. But, what amazes me is how so many believe in a guy that can’t put together a coherent or factually accurate statement,

And why is he so incapable of engaging in constructive dialogue - because there’s nothing but bluster and self-loathing-insecurity, wrapped up within a shell of narcissistic baby-MAGA-man, who still needs diapers because he’s in content of body, mind and spirit.

The quintessential Ugly American if there ever was one - but so many American love him to hell and back. Now what will happen as their leader implodes in front of them?

Dude is really confused. Unfortunately, so are a lot of voters.

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Not understanding a word is not “incredible”. You get a lot of facts wrong otto. Get off your high horse.

Here’s another learning opportunity for ya Otto,
This isn’t about Democratic hypocrisy or their goals, that is what they want to achieve,
this is about what the Republicans want to achieve, not in some distance further but right now, her in 2022 and 2023, if given the opportunity.

A look at the Republican Agenda for the coming election:

Chris Hayes: “Republicans unveiled their agenda if they retake the House this November. But the most revealing preview into what that’s going to look like actually came earlier this week.”

Fortunately looks as if Americans are finally waking up in a way they hadn’t before, this is personal and this is damned serious and for keeps, time for every American to pay attention., get informed and get engaged, and for gosh sake vote.

Unless you realize your MAGA hero has imploded into pathetic loser you don 't recognize or support - then you might want to take a break this election and spend a little time thinking about what this Mr. Trump has put you (and our country) through and how you have been taken for “chum” to be fleeced until sucked dry.

Trickle down economics does not work. Deregulation and privatisation have been a disaster. I’m not even sure neo-liberalism relates to the two.

Yes, especially the way some use the words in some posts. You just have to ask to how they define the word. It’s like, “You keep using that word, but I’m not sure you know what it actually means”. One of us doesn’t and I may have to look it up in Webster and repost the definition here.

Didn’t you know that Websters is a tool of the leftist conspiracy.
In order to get it right you must take every definition and define it IN
exactly the opposite way.

Then we shall finally arrive at “MAGA TRUTH” .
Or should I say “MAGA FALSEHOOD?”
This “MAGA TRUTH” is truly “CONFUSING!”
Or should I say “ENLIGHTENING?”

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:hushed: Oh so you listened to that Hannity trump interview too ? :scream:

{That one’s worth a peek, 2:40 min highlights.}

I like to watch “crazy people”.
Give me a guy who thinks he is Napoleon and I’ll watch him for hours. Better than TV.

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Educating the “whats wrong with neoliberalism” people with videos like this where truss is trying to double down on thatcherism

Exactly the point. Neoliberal is not classical liberal, it’s pretty much conservatism, and not even the good fiscal conservative kind.

Whatever it is, “trickle down economics” only works in nature. In the human environment, greed sucks up all nourishment before it reaches the lowest levels.

It is the empty promise of the ruling class. This is why unrestricted capitalism is a parasitic economic model that eventually tends to kill the host .

In nature almost all living organisms only take what they need . Humans are one of the few species that classify as “invasive species”.

Compounded by many in the Green movement who don’t wish to discuss issues like VAR, rather, they sell dreams without understanding the actual physical and engineering reality, and that’s before we look at Limits of Growth applied to all the minerals/ores required for renewable build out, notwithstanding no real viable storage solution for excess capacity.

You do know that there are those who push ‘de-growth’ and simplification as an answer to life after FFs??

You should learn and try to understand the “exponential function” and its consequence of steady growth over time.

for those advocating 100% renewables, essentially this is pie in the sky stuff.

Anyhow, I urge all to read link below if they have time to do so as its most enlightening. Essential reading for those who desire a genuinely greener world, one based on facts rather than wishful thinking.

And you think you can control Nature , as if it was people?

Apparently, you are ignorant of the fact that the earth has limited sequestered natural resources. Do you realize that in the next 70 years we will have consumed more energy than we have consumed in the entire 350 years since the industrial revolution? Do you think the earth has as much oil left as we have consumed in the last 350 years? You don’t have a clue as to what you are talking about. I told you, do a little study on the “exponential function”

Here I will help you a little, not that I have any confidence in your desire to face the truth. But I feel obligated to at least make it easy for you to expand your understanding of how things work.

If you would read our posts, yes, we know about simplifying. If you would read anything, you would know that the only possible future is all renewables because the non renewables run out, that’s why we call them that.

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I’ve been around here long enough to get an idea of the policies you are in favor of; they aren’t that different from neoliberalism

And making money as we do it is a liberal value. We can’t even have liberalism without making money.

Biden was in the backseat at best for all of that. Just a placeholder. He has never been an innovator or a risk taker.

I don’t know what you mean by that.