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To: Taro who wrote (1018222)

5/29/2017 2:03:11 PM

From: koan

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If you do not understand how dangerous Trump and todays Republicans are then you do not understand the situation.

There is no "responsible" other side where Trump and the Republicans are concerned today.

Would you say people who opposed Hitler and the Nazi's had closed minds? Or Putin and the Russian mafia?

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You are a partisan pig that sees evil in anyone who doesn't think like you and your mind is closed

Having common sense and a brain to go - they mostly go hand-in-hand, though - does not make anybody a 'partisan pig'.
You, however, being deeply entrenched way out to the left as you are, better fit your own political partisan definition and thus possibly position you close to your ideas about being a political partisan pig.

To: Taro who wrote (1018222)	5/29/2017 10:43:04 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578236

Trump’s European trip was remarkable not for what Trump did but for what he didn’t do. First, in Brussels, he declined to endorse NATO’s Article 5, which says that an attack on any NATO member is an attack on all. In effect, he repudiated the central plank of America’s most important alliance. Why, it was almost as if he’s more interested in appeasing Vladimir Putin than he is in defending democracy. Then, in Taormina, he was the only leader who refused to endorse the Paris climate accord, a global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions that may be our last good chance to avoid catastrophic climate change. Why? At this point, claims that trying to limit emissions would cause vast economic harm have lost all credibility: The same technological progress in alternative energy that is marginalizing coal would make the transition to a low-emissions economy far cheaper than anyone imagined a few years ago. True, such a transition would accelerate the decline in coal. And that’s a reason to provide aid and new kinds of jobs for coal miners. But Trump isn’t offering coal country real help, just a fantasy about turning back the clock. This fantasy won’t last for long: In a couple of years it will be obvious, whatever he does, that the coal jobs aren’t coming back. But the fantasy won’t even last that long if he goes along with the Paris accord. So am I suggesting that the world’s most powerful leader might put the whole planet’s future at risk so that he can keep telling politically convenient lies, which will soon be exposed in any case? Yes. If you find this implausible, you must not have been reading the news the past few months. Now, maybe Trump won’t really pull the plug on Paris; or maybe he’ll be gone from the scene before the damage is irreversible. But there’s a real possibility that last week was a pivotal moment in human history, the moment when an irresponsible leader sent the whole world careening off to hell in a golf cart.