TheOven wrote: » Unfortunately for them, that is what they are getting. The republicans having unchecked power often leads to recessions. They will be the first affected and the last to heal from it. They will turn on the government again but it will just give the democrats more problems to fix and then they will be annoyed that nothing has changed again and repeat.
TheOven wrote: » If they want personal responsibility let them have it.
My name is URL wrote: » Personal responsibility would mean not blaming everyone else for the position they find themselves in. To them everything is somebody else's fault. ... I doubt that many of them know what the word responsibility even means.
Widdershins wrote: » People who clearly want to work don't deserve that. Stating the facts of what happened to their businesses and industries is not ''blaming''. How on earth could they themselves be at fault? No wonder they voted for someone who doesn't take that attitude.
My name is URL wrote: » lol. Have you listened to any of the rhetoric from certain parts of his support base... especially those living on the rust belt? Personal responsibility would mean not blaming everyone else for the position they find themselves in. To them everything is somebody else's fault. The immigrants fault that America is a dangerous place. China's fault that there are no manufacturing jobs for them any more. Then they blame Obama for increasing spending on things like healthcare, which is to benefit those very people. I doubt that many of them know what the word responsibility even means.
seenitall wrote: » Haha... Surely a joke? Europe is not even capable of policing itself or its own, internal or external, borders, it lives in an echo-chamber, soft bubble of pastel colours, social security cushioning and political paralysis, and resembles a defenceless baby surrounded by a pack of wolves more and more each year. World police? More like the world's laughing stock...
MadYaker wrote: » I'm not so worried about what he's going to do once in office, and I don't know if he meant all the things he said about women or muslims or mexicans. But what I do know is that when he said those things there was a very nasty and hate filled section of American society who agreed with him and now that he has won those people feel vindicated. Where they had previously felt that they were a dieing breed who had to keep their racism/sexism/mysoginy to themselves they now feel that it's acceptible to have these views. His victory has in a way legitimised these views in the eyes of the people who hold them and I think that is far more dangerous than Trump himself will be. One has only to look at the twitter feed of David Duke to see examples of this. Neo nazis and white supremacists across the US and the world see this as their victory and that's worrying.
gandalf wrote: » You mean someone who is a populist and in reality a fantasist? Do you know what his "plan" is for these jobs then?
gandalf wrote: » So you have no idea then?
ZeroThreat wrote: » Wonder when Putin will finally make the move on the Baltics, Finland & Poland.
tonycascarino wrote: » The EU will get even weaker with Brexit and the now much stronger possibility of Le Pen taking over in France as well as others like Merkel (thank god) and co. losing their seats. The world is definitely changing.
signostic wrote: » Latvia seems to be the most vulnerable of the Baltic states with 34% of the population Russian and in the majority in the south east of the country on the Russian border. Estonia has a 24% Russian pop and Lithuania 6%. A weak Nato, a blind eye by Trump on his pal Putin and similar situation may develop in Latvia as in the Crimea. Already sources in Riga are stating that the destabilization of the country by Russia has begunhttp://www.baltictimes.com/riga_officials__moscow_using_russian_organisations_to_destabilise_latvia/
Jimmy Garlic wrote: » That article is pure hyperbole. Hysterical nonsense.
Grayson wrote: » Yeahhhhhh.... The EU will be in far better shape than the UK. If the UK loses passporting then it could lose up to 100k jobs in London alone. The service sector will be decimated. Even if Trump puts the UK to the front of the queue it will take years for a new agreement. The UK is entering a phase where it can't get everything it wants. The best case involves paying into the EU, having no say, but accepting all the rules. Even Le Pen and AfD don't want to leave the EU. They want it strong.
The flying mouse wrote: » And at least he is still going to welcome the shamrock next year, Where Enda can grovel and say he was talking about a different trump last year and he is more than welcome to visit his golf course in Sligo.
Grayson wrote: » To be fair at least 50% of the world leaders have commented negatively about him at some point. It's really only the more authoritarian ones that did't.
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: A billionaire Saudi prince has congratulated US president-elect Donald Trump after previously calling him a disgrace who should have pulled out of the race.
My name is URL wrote: » Then they blame Obama for increasing spending on things like healthcare, which is to benefit those very people.
20Cent wrote: » 20 million people losing their health insurance. People with pre existing conditions not being able to renew. The wall won't be built, wall st put in charge of the treasury, national debt skyrocketing, racial tensions, LGBT rights removed, net neutrality gone, abortion rights attacked, and a load of other stuff. Yay freedom. They made their bed.
Widdershins wrote: » Do you actually give a flying feck about anybody? Or is it all point scoring? I was responding to the other posters extremely mean spirited comment about quite a lot of people in difficulty. I won't ignore or be diverted from the human element to this.
Herb Powell wrote: » Takes some doing these days, but holy god, that was THE most fuccking stupid thing I have read so far. Take a bow.
Pherekydes wrote: » Trump may appoint Ben Carson as Secretary of Education. Anti-science and anti-environment so far. People think this isn't going to be bad? You're delusional.
