OT: The Dictatorship of a Stooge

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

 

[bitrex]

On 2/12/20 3:32 PM, bitrex wrote:

On 2/12/20 2:59 PM, omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.


Watching Trump treat every Republican senator like his bitch on a leash
was sort of worth the price of admission, though. They have to do
whatever he wants to save their own skins.

Sort of a "I dislike your ideas but admire your methods"-kind of feeling.

That is to say he seems to use a lot of his newfound executive power so
far to shit-can his own former toadies looks like he might go after John
Bolton next.

I can't honestly say I'm sad about gleapy John Bolton being prosecuted
for whatever it is.

 

[bitrex]

On 2/12/20 2:59 PM, omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Watching Trump treat every Republican senator like his bitch on a leash
was sort of worth the price of admission, though. They have to do
whatever he wants to save their own skins.

Sort of a "I dislike your ideas but admire your methods"-kind of feeling.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

This applies to electronic design too. A lot.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[amdx]

On 2/12/2020 3:21 PM, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

This applies to electronic design too. A lot.

What's more fascinating is how, "They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma" (or lack of),
cause them to miss all the many positive things for the US population
that our president has got done, even with all the BS going on around
him. Just think if they worked with him. I think it's great that we have
a business man instead of a politician.
Anyone rather live under Bernie's rules?
Mikek

 

[Robert Baer]

John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

This applies to electronic design too. A lot.

Yes, write a book and get rich.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:10:51 -0800, Robert Baer
<robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

This applies to electronic design too. A lot.

Yes, write a book and get rich.

Oh, I'd donate any money that it made. I have enough already.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:02:02 -0600, amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote:

On 2/12/2020 3:21 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

This applies to electronic design too. A lot.


What's more fascinating is how, "They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma" (or lack of),
cause them to miss all the many positive things for the US population
that our president has got done, even with all the BS going on around
him. Just think if they worked with him. I think it's great that we have
a business man instead of a politician.

Exactly. They don't like him (well, I don't like him) so they wilfully
mistunderstand the things that he does.


> Anyone rather live under Bernie's rules?

Even Bernie won't do that.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[bitrex]

On 2/12/20 9:26 PM, bitrex wrote:

Uncle Larry at Thanksgiving dinner is also always ranting about the
Federal Reserve or nano-thermite or communist plots or whatever
right-wing conspiracy-theory is in vogue today, to the great dismay and
eye-rolling of any college-educated younger family member who's gotten
laid in the current century.

  Anyone rather live under Bernie's rules?
                                             Mikek


Sure, citizens who are secure in the knowledge the
President is not habitually off his rocker and in bed with white
nationalists make better customers for me, wondering is war with Iran
today? Tomorrow? Next year? maybe North Korea? Who knows! Anything could
happen!

is bad for business.

as unlike most pensioners here I ACTUALLY WORK FOR A LIVING.

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 10:06:23 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:10:51 -0800, Robert Baer
robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

This applies to electronic design too. A lot.

Yes, write a book and get rich.

Oh, I'd donate any money that it made. I have enough already.

The only way he'd make any money would be by hiring a ghost-writer, as Trump did to get "The Art of the Deal" written.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump:_The_Art_of_the_Deal

He probably have to have got on the cover of GQ to have enough name recognition get anybody to read it, even then.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 8:21:15 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

That would be the Republican Senators. Only Mitt Romney had enough self-respect to admit that Trump was abusing his power.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

Using yourself as a prime example?

> This applies to electronic design too. A lot.

Shows more self-insight than one would expect.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 9:02:05 AM UTC+11, amdx wrote:

On 2/12/2020 3:21 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

<snip>

What's more fascinating is how, "They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma" (or lack of),
cause them to miss all the many positive things for the US population
that our president has got done, even with all the BS going on around
him.

List a few. John Larkin likes Trump's tax cut for small businesses, which puts money in his pocket - for now - but was deficit-funded.

Trump's trade wars have just slapped tariffs on a bunch of stuff that consumers consequently have to pay more for. If that had moved US manufacturing back on-shore it might have looked useful, but in fact it just moved off-shore manufacturing to countries other than China.

> Just think if they worked with him.

He'd have to want the same things from one day to next before anybody could work with him.

> I think it's great that we have a business man instead of a politician.

If Trump were a business man, his casinos wouldn't have collapsed in string of huge bankruptcies from 1991 to 2009, and the banks wouldn't have stopped lending him money.

In fact his reputation as a "business man" was part of the publicity package for the TV show "The Apprentice" which was about as real as the rest of the reality TV shows. He's a confidence man, but since his father had money, his confidence tricks have been on a larger scale than most, and he could spend enough on lawyers to make them look legal.

> Anyone rather live under Bernie's rules?

Bernie Sanders has the slightly un-American insight that the sort of democratic socialism that works very well in Northern Europe would work equally well for the bulk of the US population in the US. It would make life difficult for the top 1% of the US income distribution, who have a lot of money to spend on lying propaganda about him and democratic socialism in general, which they try to equate with communism - which is a very different way of running a country, and one that works even worse than the the US plutocratic system (which isn't great).

Bernie is fighting a century of lying propaganda (most of it aimed against trade unions and properly funded welfare schemes) and I don't like his chances, but his program is extremely sensible.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[bitrex]

On 2/12/20 5:02 PM, amdx wrote:

On 2/12/2020 3:21 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

This applies to electronic design too. A lot.


 What's more fascinating is how, "They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma" (or lack of),
cause them to miss all the many positive things for the US population
that our president has got done, even with all the BS going on around
him. Just think if they worked with him. I think it's great that we have
a business man instead of a politician.

Most intelligent people under 35 have little patience for blustering
geriatrics whose entire persona seems to feed off old grudges and
vendettas that they experienced long before most of them, or even I, was
born.

Uncle Larry at Thanksgiving dinner is also always ranting about the
Federal Reserve or nano-thermite or communist plots or whatever
right-wing conspiracy-theory is in vogue today, to the great dismay and
eye-rolling of any college-educated younger family member who's gotten
laid in the current century.

 Anyone rather live under Bernie's rules?
                                            Mikek

Sure, citizens who are secure in the knowledge the
President is not habitually off his rocker and in bed with white
nationalists make better customers for me, wondering is war with Iran
today? Tomorrow? Next year? maybe North Korea? Who knows! Anything could
happen!

is bad for business.

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 10:05:18 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:02:02 -0600, amdx <nojunk@knology.net> wrote:

On 2/12/2020 3:21 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:59:30 -0800 (PST), omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

Sad how many people have lost their minds, or maybe never had one.

Politics is trivial and boring. But what's fascinating is how most
people could think but few do. They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma distort both
their perceptions and their opinions of causality. I should write a
book.

This applies to electronic design too. A lot.


What's more fascinating is how, "They let tribalism, peer pressure,
fear, greed, authority, power, fashion, and charisma" (or lack of),
cause them to miss all the many positive things for the US population
that our president has got done, even with all the BS going on around
him. Just think if they worked with him. I think it's great that we have
a business man instead of a politician.

Exactly. They don't like him (well, I don't like him) so they wilfully
misunderstand the things that he does.

Trump hasn't done much, and hasn't got much understanding of what he has done.
His cozying up to Kim Jong-un generated a lot of photo-opportunities, which is easy to understand. Imagining that he expected persuade Kim Jong-un to give up his nuclear weapons or his ballistic missiles is a wilful misunderstanding of how shallow Trump really is.

Anyone rather live under Bernie's rules?

Even Bernie won't do that.

He could do it - by emmigrating to Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, France or even the UK - but he has the quixotic idea of improving the lives of the people who have voted for him.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

omnilobe@gmail.com wrote in news:adfbd47b-127b-449d-99f0-0a94c6ebd944
@googlegroups.com:

Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.

All things Stooge point back to Putin.

 

bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in
news:UhZ0G.184211$db6.117459@fx33.iad:

On 2/12/20 2:59 PM, omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.


Watching Trump treat every Republican senator like his bitch on a
leash was sort of worth the price of admission, though. They have
to do whatever he wants to save their own skins.

Sort of a "I dislike your ideas but admire your methods"-kind of
feeling.

Funny, just saw a vid of him saying that Sanders has good ideas.

His main platform is the removal and defeat of Trump.

It is really funny what the Buffoon On The Hill spouts.

 

Sea <freshness@coast.org> wrote in
news:r232nn$13t8$1@gioia.aioe.org:

On 02/12/2020 10:36 PM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org
wrote:
bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in
news:UhZ0G.184211$db6.117459@fx33.iad:
On 2/12/20 2:59 PM, omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.


Watching Trump treat every Republican senator like his bitch on
a leash was sort of worth the price of admission, though. They
have to do whatever he wants to save their own skins.

Sort of a "I dislike your ideas but admire your methods"-kind of
feeling.

Funny, just saw a vid of him saying that Sanders has good
ideas.

His main platform is the removal and defeat of Trump.

It is really funny what the Buffoon On The Hill spouts.

Not so funny that our govt's underpinnings, the bedrock, amounts
to nothing. Took a couple hundred years to find out the three
branches, checks-and-balances crap's been an illusion.

It to me has been a wake up call that we need legislation that
provides severe penalty for federal public servants commiting certain
acts.

So, don't worry... it will get fixed and more folks than just you
see the damage done and the potential damage to come.

He has not merely shot himself in the foot this time though.
Recent acts is more like Donald John Trump shooting himself in the
head. His intervention in the Stone sentencing should land several
folks including him in prison, and their should immediately be yet
another impeachement of the rotten, illicit idiot.

We should ALL DEMAND REDRESS!!! Do NOT just sit around.

We should get the FCC after the punk for all his cussing in
broadcasts. He took the BROACASTER'S OATH, for heaven's sake.
He also took the SAG oath. He should be fined $1M for each time he
has cussed on air since 2015!

 

[Sea]

On 02/12/2020 10:36 PM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:

bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in
news:UhZ0G.184211$db6.117459@fx33.iad:
On 2/12/20 2:59 PM, omnilobe@gmail.com wrote:
Greetings, USA.
The USA Senate has given its verdict in a trial.
They had the final word and they retained Trump
as the commander.

You citizens of the USA are now seeing the history
of The Dictatorship of a Stooge. A great European
power has blackmail and extortion pressure on their
stooge. See him acting for his master.


Watching Trump treat every Republican senator like his bitch on a
leash was sort of worth the price of admission, though. They have
to do whatever he wants to save their own skins.

Sort of a "I dislike your ideas but admire your methods"-kind of
feeling.

Funny, just saw a vid of him saying that Sanders has good ideas.

His main platform is the removal and defeat of Trump.

It is really funny what the Buffoon On The Hill spouts.

Not so funny that our govt's underpinnings, the bedrock, amounts to
nothing. Took a couple hundred years to find out the three branches,
checks-and-balances crap's been an illusion.