Trumpland U.S.A

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On 12/4/2016 at 0:20 PM, 17 Moments of Spring said:

 

I have a merry reminiscence of this poem

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r34Vuc4sF4

 

 

there is also one done by Anthony hopkins:

 

This is essentially the story of the USA post 2004.  

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17 hours ago, jj3 said:

 

"The Divided States of America", i don't understand that. I don't find the US more divided than in the past. A country who is not politically divided is a dictatorship. Or Monaco  

 

It's a stupid magazine/stupid article but I do agree that it is 'more divided', politically and economically.. compared to the 1990s.   In a sense, the US is back where they were in the 1930s (secular stagnation, tail end of the business cycle, extreme income inequality) and with all the negative politics associated with it.  Both parties have weak credibility and gallup polls show that people don't trust the mass media anymore.  The US has consumer and governmental debt at around 2 x GDP with extremely inflated health care and education costs.

 

The world is largely waiting for the 4th Industrial revolution.  Trump knows this as well.  Like the 1930s there is a rise of anti-establishment type political leaders.

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17 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

 

there is also one done by Anthony hopkins:

 

 

The lost rider

Lost and ancient, the horseman rides,

Blind the trot of the horse’s feet,

Of the forest that was, of the reeds that waved

The fettered spirits start at their beat.

 

Where the trees of the silent past

Brooded still in the chequered shade,

On a sudden the shapes of a winter’s tale

Leap to life in the listening glade.

 

Here dense and solemn the forest stands,

Here the song of the years of old,

Since the days of our forefathers, fighters sad,

Lives in the deaf mist’s silent hold.

 

Spectral autumn is with us now,

Men are few, and their numbers wane,

In his cloak of eddying mist-wrack treads

Grey November the hill-girt plain.

 

Suddenly, strangely the plain anew

Clothes with rushes and woodlands green

Its limbs of November, its limbs of fog

And hides in the mist of the years that have been.

 

Only bloodshed and mystery,

Footprints ancestral in ancient ways,

Only the forest, only the reeds,

Only the madmen of vanished days.

 

Lost and ancient the traveller rides,

Through new grown brushwood upon his way,

No light shines forth, and no lamp burns,

Unseen the villages of today.

 

Villages unseen, shuddering,

Dream of the past and dumbly sleep.

From the mist and the forest, the ancient, the dark,

The wolf, the bear and the great elk leap.

 

Lost and ancient, the horseman rides,

Blind the trot of the horse’s feet,

Of the forest that was, of the reeds that waved

The fettered spirits start at their beat.

 

 

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Leonardo DiCaprio meets Donald Trump as climate change denier appointed

The meeting follows news the President-elect appointed a climate sceptic and fossil fuel industry ally to head the Environmental Protection Agency

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/leonardo-dicaprio-donald-trump-climate-change-scott-pruitt-denier-fossil-fuel-ally-a7462636.html

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Kanye West visits Trump tower:

 

 

He's lobbying for a cabinet position: Secretary of Humility and Mental Illness

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^ Rumor has it he might be performing at the inauguration and that was what part of the meeting was about. 

 

 

 

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5 hours ago, PinkCouture said:

^ Rumor has it he might be performing at the inauguration and that was what part of the meeting was about. 

 

 

 

They both look very awkward LOL 

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Jillary's FUD has failed

 

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/12/wi-recount-an-exercise-in-manual-and-automated-futility/

 

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As of 12/13/2016,

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Donald_Trump

 

It looks like the US gov't is now being run by Oil & Gas, Heavy Industry, Real estate/construction, the Marine Corps, Wall Street, Christian social conservatives, school voucher advocates, and Fast Food 

 

This is a decided negative towards environmentalism/green industries, employee rights, and public education.

 

The sec of labor is now a Fast Food Tycoon who is opposed to the minimum wage and wanted to grow one of the most worthless and most low paying industries (the fast food business).

 

 

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Speaking of awkwardness, not sure why Getty would post such an unflattering photo ...

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17 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_Donald_Trump

 

 

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Add them all up, and the president-elect is well on his way to building a conservative dream team that has Republicans cheering and liberals in despair.

 

“It’s the most conservative [Cabinet] since Reagan,” said David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth. “But I don’t think he’s using an ideological lens to pick people. I think he’s genuinely looking for people who share his priorities for these agencies.”

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The Trump lovefest marks an evolution for conservative activists, who once viewed Trump with deep skepticism, pointing to his earlier, liberal iterations and past statements on everything from abortion to health care to Social Security.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-conservative-dream-team-231972

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Trump held on to Kanye's hand a couple of seconds too long in that video. I guess now that he is becoming Prez he is settling for grabbing hands...

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Power meeting: Trump with the top Tech CEOs 12/14/2016:

 

Alphabet, Apple, IBM, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla/Space X, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, etc.

 

For such powerful people, they all have expressions of dread...!

 

 

 

 

 

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48 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

Power meeting: Trump with the top Tech CEOs 12/14/2016:

 

Alphabet, Apple, IBM, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla/Space X, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, etc.

 

For such powerful people, they all have expressions of dread...!

 

 

Well, they all of them voted against him, it could explain the happiness  

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Note the hand grabbing in last pict...

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As much as I like Apple, they've been trending down ever since Steve Jobs introduced the iDied.