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He's all about removing regulations, and then wants to regulate this?
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If he doesn't keep his word we'll have ammo to oust him in 4 years, perhaps impeach him sooner, perhaps revise congress in 2 years. Otherwise, we get the change we want.
I have serious doubts. I think the one thing that this election has proven is that fact-checking is dead. PolitiFact rated 70% of Trump's reviewed statements as at least "mostly false" and there were basically zero consequences. The next election cycle is going to be brutal.
50%+ of the country voted against him. It's up to us hold his feet to the fire and wake up the other 50%.
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I have serious doubts. I think the one thing that this election has proven is that fact-checking is dead. PolitiFact rated 70% of Trump's reviewed statements as at least "mostly false" and there were basically zero consequences. The next election cycle is going to be brutal.
> there were basically zero consequences 50%+ of the country voted against him. It's up to us hold his feet to the fire and wake up the other 50%.
I stopped reading Ars Technica when they gave Trump an F on technology issues and Clinton an overall B+, including a B- on "privacy and security". I mean, how much more partisan can you get than that? The woman was under investigation for leaking classified emails and using an unprotected email server for fucks sake. When a media outlet does something like that, I just can't take anything else they report on seriousl…
Anything not-pro-clinton gets downvoted without explanation on any social media platform I've seen, including HN (which is supposed to be less biased, more objective, and superior to the other networks).
He's all about removing regulations, and then wants to regulate this?
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I have serious doubts. I think the one thing that this election has proven is that fact-checking is dead. PolitiFact rated 70% of Trump's reviewed statements as at least "mostly false" and there were basically zero consequences. The next election cycle is going to be brutal.
Politifact is blatantly biased. Bernie and Trump made the same claim about african american youth unemployment, and they rated Trump a liar and Bernie honest [0][1]. [0]: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/jul/... [1]: http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2016/jun/20/do...
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Bingo. Promises, for Trump, are fulfilled upon announcement, and then forgotten. The examples are legion.
So, he is already a real politician. Any different to Obama promising to close Guantanamo bay? And I say this as an Obama supporter.
Bush, Bill Clinton, Obama, Trump, all the same.
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If anything the people who invest in index funds are freeloaders No. How much wealth could those individuals create if they couldn't sell the companies on the market and invest that money, and had instead to accumulate dividends? The relationship is symbiotic. Yes, Trump created wealth, but the point is that his peers would have created even more if he hadn't used that money himself. To make an analogy, I can swim a…
I may have been a bit hyperbolic about freeloaders. The bigger point I want to make is that the standard deviation on returns of a single venture like Trump's is so large that you cannot meaningfully compare it to a highly-diversified basket of stocks. To use your analogy, it'd be like evaluating the effectiveness of a coach in a swimming event by picking a single one of their swimmers and comparing them to the avera…
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Bingo. Promises, for Trump, are fulfilled upon announcement, and then forgotten. The examples are legion.
So you're saying he's like every politician that has ever made a promise
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Bull. There aren't examples and for you to say hat, speaks falsely to honesty and openness. Check your lies at the door.
A few forgotten promises from the campaign trail: "I will release my tax returns when Obama releases his birth certificate." - http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/04/donald-trump-intervi... "If I run for office I will absolutely release my tax returns." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-5KEt1Abg "Melania will hold a press conference on questions about her immigration." - https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/76315…