Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive

Re:Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive by justinhensley on Monday October 31, 2016 @08:18PM (#12842248)

Regarding the Thiel speech you linked and Trump in general, those are absolutely real and troubling issues for our country. Donald Trump does not offer realistic solutions to any of them. The only thing on the Trump platform remotely resembling a plan is making all health care insurance providers compete with each other nationally. Or as Trump says, "I'm going to remove all the lines, it'll be fantastic."

Thiel's reason of "Trump is an outsider" is not enough for me.

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Re:Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive by refurb on Monday October 31, 2016 @08:53PM (#12842479)

Oh please, every politician does that. I'm going to solve problem X by doing Y. They say it because it gets votes. Not because it's true.

A great example is closing the gun show "loop hole". Is it a smart thing to do? Sure, you can think that. Will it reduce gun crime? Probably not since most guns used in crime are acquired through illegal means.

But it get votes!

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Re:Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive by justinhensley on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:00PM (#12842807)

Except Donald Trump skips the Y part of your equation. He just states it will be the "best" or "great" or we'll do it "bigly".

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Re:Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive by refurb on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:33PM (#12842925)

Sure he does! We have a security problem, or an illegal alien problem, build a wall. Do I actually expect him to do that? Probably not. Just like every other politician.

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