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Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom by atonse on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:07PM (#14564373)
Assuming Trump stays for the full term (all signs point that way right now, no matter what impeachment hopes and dreams people have), four years of damage is pretty long.

And you're right, in the grand scheme of things, it may not matter. But four years is a pretty long time in tech-timelines for other countries to start catching up to Silicon Valley's vibrancy.

Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom by douche on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:58PM (#14565797)
In order to be impeached, you have to actually have committed a crime, no?

So far as I know, tweeting dumb shit is not yet a criminal offense.

I've suspected from the outset that four years of Trump would effectively amount to four years of stasis, with perhaps a chance of getting a conservative majority in the supreme court for the foreseeable future.

Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom by camus2 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:51PM (#14564703)
> Assuming Trump stays for the full term (all signs point that way right now, no matter what impeachment hopes and dreams people have), four years of damage is pretty long

Bush damaged US reputation way more than Trump, USA did recover. For entrepreneurs and talents, Canada, Germany or France just can't compete, especially France with a bureaucracy that will crush one's bones.

Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom by bogomipz on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:17PM (#14564926)
>"Bush damaged US reputation way more than Trump, USA did recover"

George W. Bush was in office for 8 years, Trump has been in office for 6 months. How can you realistically compare the two? I also don't understand the past tense. Trump is still a sitting President.

Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom by jerrylives on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:32PM (#14565028)
>USA did recover

Has it? I'm pretty sure most of the country's (and let's be real, many other nations) currents problems are directly related to actions undertaken by Dubya and his despicable administration.

Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom by linkregister on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:59PM (#14565798)
I started out this post by attempting to defend G.W. Bush, but considering the Iraq War and his handling of the Afghanistan War, the worldwide consequences have been catastrophic beyond that of the Vietnam War.
Re:Emmanuel Macron presidency prompts French startup boom by cmurf on Thursday June 15, 2017 @08:06PM (#14565536)
Let's say it's an open question.

If we ignore illegal wars, Bush comes out ahead.

If we ignore the majority of what Trump says or Tweets, Trump comes out ahead.

I wish there were a metric for ignoramus, I suspect Trump would be fully one or two orders magnitude a bigger moron than Bush except when it comes to how to handle fellow con artists. He was apparently adept at handling the mob.