CURRENT EVENTS - May 8-14

finesse said:
Liberals don't have that strong core of voters that will vote Republican because of guns, race and God, no matter what the reality of what is best for the country might be. That's not the only people they draw or the only reason they draw them but it gives them a solid voting bloc that Democrats can't match.
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Personally, I have been voting D lately BECAUSE OF God, family values, law and order, supporting our military, and the economy. The MAGA movement seems antithetical to all of that. I could never bring myself to vote “M” just because they pretend to support those values. Their actions show quite the opposite. 🤷
 
Huh? said:
Boeing's fall is a familiar one. They hired management who were more interested in propping up the stock price thru buybacks and expense cuts than they were in building great airplanes. You can't keep making great products or technology without the acceptance of short-term risk for a long-term vision that may or may not work out.
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Honestly, that very aptly describes the reasons for the downfall of much of our economy and the decline of the middle class since the 1980s - too many companies focusing more on their stocks and executive salaries rather than their product line and employees.
 
Paine said:
Agreed. Clinton actually had some good to great policy proposals, but she never seemed to talk about them on the trail. I think she was uniquely unsuited for the moment. Maybe a better campaign would’ve helped her, but I’m not sure it wasn’t just baked into her as a politician by 2016.
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Agreed for the most part, although I do think a good part of her undoing in 2016 was the feeling that they had the election in the bag because there was simply no way that enough people would vote for Donald Freaking Trump for him to win. And to be fair it wasn't just her campaign that felt that way, so did most people, including, I suspect, even most of Trump's voters that year and probably even Trump himself. I'll admit that I felt that way at the time, and I heard plenty of others say the same. And that sense of complacency really helped lead to her downfall.
 
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I am curious as to whether or not the Saudis offered Trump more personal wealth than Putin did, and flattered him more, and he changed alliances.

Or this is all a distraction, but I’m not convinced that it is this time.
 
Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters Party has 39/400 seats in the National Assembly. The ANC expelled him from that party about 12 years ago.

He’s been convicted of hate speech twice.

The EFF is communist and a black nationalist party.

Lots of corruption allegations around the guy.

He’s a LONG, LONG way from being South Africa’s head of state.
 
Zoo_View said:
Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters Party has 39/400 seats in the National Assembly. The ANC expelled him from that party about 12 years ago.

He’s been convicted of hate speech twice.

The EFF is communist and a black nationalist party.

Lots of corruption allegations around the guy.

He’s a LONG, LONG way from being South Africa’s head of state.
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I have it on good authority that Malema is "the likely future leader of South Africa."
 
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