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Ha! I'm an adult then, sorta. True story, I once leaned over to the right putting my hand and full body weight on a wasp's nest. YEOOOOOOOOOOWWWWW! No...

Thanks Michael and Jamalrob. Jamalrob, I voted for Sarah Palin because she can see Russia from her backyard. :-) So your application is accepted.

Could commentators please share the following information about themselves? 1) Have you ever been to America? 2) At what point in American history did...

Exactly, what we need in America is to follow the example of Cuba and Venezuela! Brain dead cojones, that's what is needed!!! He can not go to the pod...

Which of the two do you want in control of America's nuclear weapons? It's amazing to me that all the oh so very clever analysts here and elsewhere ca...

It ain't over until it's over. He just fired the Sec of Defense, not an encouraging sign.

It might be helpful to think of Trump as the lead singer in a rock band. Think Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, almost the inventors of modern white...

The sun rises in the east. A simple, readily observable provable fact. Except that the sun doesn't rise. From one perspective the answer is clearly ye...

Yes, Jeb is much like his father. Decent guy, competent at governing, but not such a great candidate. Anyway, the Bushes are over, so it doesn't reall...

What we fail to grasp about the knowledge explosion is that it feeds back upon itself, resulting in an accelerating process of change. Yes, everyone w...

Yes, Jeb Bush does have a significant charisma deficit, agreed. I would describe him as a competent technocrat. Conservative, but reasonable and intel...

What's driving globalization (and automation) is the development of knowledge. Globalization and social insecurity are symptoms of the knowledge explo...

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Ok, that makes sense. Is that what happened here? I still think it would be smarter to simply wait until a deciding state officially announces a winne...

Yes, votes for Trump are fundamentally a rejection of the status quo political class. The evidence for this is Bernie Sanders, who represents the same...

Generally speaking, America is made up of the folks who had the gumption to get off their ass, take a big risk, and leave other countries that were fa...

Well yes, one can make various calculations and projections. I get that. But why be fancy pants about it? Why not just wait until all the votes are co...

Agreed, that's most likely the script for the short term. For the longer term the GOP is in a death spiral. America is in transition from being a Euro...

Sounds good to me. At that point, all discussion of Trump should end, or if we're going to talk about him after that it should be to investigate why w...

Ah, I see, was that the case in Pennsylvania? I was following it for awhile but perhaps didn't make it that far. Ha! Yea, that pretty well nails it.

Don't you find it odd that the whole world is celebrating Biden's victory because.... The Associated Press says he won. I don't doubt they're right, a...

Casting my vote here.

That's a danger for sure. But I'm as yet not willing to rule out some larger danger. I don't know what, but we shouldn't take it as a given that Trump...

I have a prediction! :-) Trump will announce his candidacy for 2024 on FOX at the same time Biden is taking the oath of office on Jan 20. You read it ...

Ditto.

Agreement! I was listening to NPR yesterday when Trump came to the microphone. They played it just long enough to see it was going to be nothing more ...

I think they might say in reply that there is no law to be broken. Chinese Communist leaders have the final say on everything. They are the law, which...

Trump will remain President until January 20 of next year. What kind of trouble might a humiliated narcissist cause during the transition? Is the wors...

What's the equation if a country willingly chooses by election some form of dictatorship? Trump won nearly half the American vote, twice, in a legal d...

I hear ya. Like hippies everywhere Baba Hippyhead once dreamed of moving to California. Had to let that one go. Much the same story here in Florida th...

It's an interesting question. Would the Republican Party embrace Trump again? Imagine that Trump spends the next four years building on his near victo...

You obviously know what I'm referring to better than I do, which answers my question. Ojai always sounded like a nice place, so I'm happy for you that...

I'd prefer he get hit by a bus, but failing that, I like your theory.

Have you been to the Krishnamurti school? http://ojaihistory.com/krishnamurti-and-the-ojai-valley/

Will Trump run again in 2024?

Yea, sounds good! Post some pics if you can.

Don't mean this personally, but you are hereby dismissed as a commentator on this subject.

If Biden wins.... I cast my vote that we do a find and replace on the forum database and remove all references to... He Who Shall Not Be Named Another...

Ok, fair enough, maybe less than perfect writing on my part, which is not improved by my snarkiness. I didn't mean to say we should automatically agre...

Thanks for enjoying them. Winter hiking season has finally arrived and I'm back in the woods almost full time. Nothing any philosopher has ever said c...

If you'd like to actually read my posts before commenting on them I wouldn't mind at all.

The moral clarity is a requirement for credibility in such conversations. That's how I look at it anyway. If Saddam and his sons moved in next door to...

Yea, well, this is a philosophy forum so we tend to think everything is about rational analysis. I think one of Trump's great gifts is that he's a cle...

Imho, the appropriate place to start a debate about tactics is with the clear minded moral vision which Paul has provided. I'm totally on board with t...

I dunno. Perhaps they saw Trump accurately as a purely transactional actor, and concluded that he would deliver on his end of the bargain, which he di...

All of us are bright in some ways and stupid in others. Some people are just politically stupid. Voting Republican doesn't equal being stupid. Jeb Bus...

One thing I can say in favor of the kind of air war Paul suggests is that such operations do communicate to the despots that we can take them out with...

They ARE psychopaths gunning down innocent people you nimrod. I stand with Paul in rejecting all such pseudo intellectual supposedly sophisticated fan...

The hubris is a weakness, the moralistic ideology a strength. Paul has the morality right, and other posters see the weaknesses in his tactics. The me...

What the Libyan example seems to illustrate is that while it is indeed possible to depose the dictator from air, that doesn't automatically lead to de...