Re:Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
by jknoepfler on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:29PM
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I hope they realize that their elected legislative representatives matter a lot more for this... The president is chief diplomat, chief military and legal executive, a veto holder. They also do a lot of appointing. Not much else, in reality. So we elected a bloviating racist to be our chief diplomat, because we don't like corporatist legislators? Ok...
Re:Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
by krapp on Sunday November 05, 2017 @08:12PM
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>So we elected a bloviating racist to be our chief diplomat, because we don't like corporatist legislators? Ok...
Yes. I believe the phrase used to describe Trump was something along the lines of "a brick through the window of the establishment."
Re:Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
by fjsolwmv on Sunday November 05, 2017 @04:47PM
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I'm sure that electing a regressive corporatist was a wonderful improvement.
Re:Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm
by goliatone on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:01PM
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I guess is harder to pretend that things are ok? Many people wanted change. I doubt the reality of how that changes is materializing is keeping up with what those who voted for Trump wanted
Their reasoning: "Why delay the inevitable? How else to wake up the country but to elect a disaster? As things get worse we're ready as we'll ever be."
(FYI: I'm in Michigan where enough of us held back our Clinton vote to send a message that we need a progressive non-corporatist. Margin of victory for Trump was smaller than empty presidential sections. It's over in Michigan for the DNC.)