Well done S.Korea. Any tips for US?
It's too bad Hilary wasn't president. We could have had a double impeachment!
What offenses do you think she would she have committed while president that she would have been impeached for?
South Korean President Impeached
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#112This is somehow connected to geopolitics in the area and the THAAD project, since the US government is worried the next administration may not be so in favour of it (left leaning parties tend towards disarmament, as crazy as that sound with an insane neighbour north of the border)
>as crazy as that sound with an insane neighbour north of the border
Not every country sees international relations as a form of game theory, with mutual assured destruction as an important component. Korean reunification can be a preferable option instead of threatening the people that used to be part of your community, but had the bad luck to be at the wrong side of the ideological fight between the US and the USSR.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's too bad Hilary wasn't president. We could have had a double impeachment!
What offenses do you think she would she have committed while president that she would have been impeached for?
literally anything, assuming the congressional votes were the same and we ended up with a Republican house and senate. The would try to impeach her from day 1
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
What offenses do you think she would she have committed while president that she would have been impeached for?
literally anything, assuming the congressional votes were the same and we ended up with a Republican house and senate. The would try to impeach her from day 1
I asked what they thought she would do, not what congress would have thrown at her.
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Not Trump?
Trump appears to know what he wants, and has surrounded with people who believe in his vision of America. There might be some disagreement on the specifics of implementation, but in general they're all keeping the same goal.
Remember Trump supposedly offered Kasich the VP post, telling him that as VP he can run all the policy, to which Kasich asked "then what will you do?" and rejected the offer. I think a lot of Trump decisions we're seeing are Pence decisions, especially when he does things that get praise from establishment republicans. And we've seen he's delegated quite a bit to folks like Bannon and Miller, to the point where those two are writing executive orders and Trump has complained about being improperly briefed on them after signing.
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Sanjay Gupta? Al Roker? I really have no idea.
John Oliver?
Not really respected by the Right, and a lot of people in the Boomer generation might not be aware of him. Plus he's a comedian, and would probably see taking that role as absurd and self-destructive. I hope.
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#117This is somehow connected to geopolitics in the area and the THAAD project, since the US government is worried the next administration may not be so in favour of it (left leaning parties tend towards disarmament, as crazy as that sound with an insane neighbour north of the border)
>as crazy as that sound with an insane neighbour north of the border Not every country sees international relations as a form of game theory, with mutual assured destruction as an important component. Korean reunification can be a preferable option instead of threatening the people that used to be part of your community, but had the bad luck to be at the wrong side of the ideological fight between the US and the USSR…
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Trump appears to know what he wants, and has surrounded with people who believe in his vision of America. There might be some disagreement on the specifics of implementation, but in general they're all keeping the same goal.
Remember Trump supposedly offered Kasich the VP post, telling him that as VP he can run all the policy, to which Kasich asked "then what will you do?" and rejected the offer. I think a lot of Trump decisions we're seeing are Pence decisions, especially when he does things that get praise from establishment republicans. And we've seen he's delegated quite a bit to folks like Bannon and Miller, to the point where those…
He has to delegate somethings. In a typical company you hire separately for different roles. In the executive branch, there's only one hiring decision---President.
All power derives from the President, and thus cabinet, department heads, and various appointed positions exist only to accept delegated powers.
Additionally, due to the way many laws are written, the President has wide latitude to determine policy at various government branches, but obviously cannot actually do all of those jobs personally.
I think Trump is acting as the analogous 'visionary' CEO---he decides policy but is largely hands-off as to implementation. However if your actions blow up in his face, he'll fire you instantly. Some leaders are far more hands-on and even in large companies they cherry pick certain segments and micromanage them on occasion. Trump isn't that way. It's not good or bad, it's just his management style.
In a way, due to his life as a public figure and businessman, we knew what Trump's management style was going to be long before he entered office. Obama on the other-hand was a dark horse candidate, and no one really knew how he was going to make the jump from teaching students to setting policy for a massive number of governmental departments.
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Should children vote?
Crazy thought: would it really be that bad? If the votes end up being noise, it comes out in the wash. And we already have protections against compelling people to vote one way or another, so carrot-sticking children for votes would (continue to be) a serious crime. It might even grow our children into a less apathetic public.
I agree, and not a crazy thought. The reasons for voting of the median adult in both parties -- described as charitably as possible -- are suboptimal. The fact that children might be slightly less informed doesn't excuse the disenfranchisement. If anything, children's relative lack of bias might offset their propensity to be less informed.
Our laws and attitude towards "age discrimination" in this country are bizarre and flagrantly hypocritical. The ADEA forbids age discrimination, but only for those 40 or older. This would be analogous to forbidding racial discrimination, but only against some one particular race. Kind of takes away the moral high ground.
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Educate your electorate.
Major flaw with democracy, 50% of electorate has below average IQ.
I was being a little flip of course, IQ is generally accepted to be a Gaussian distribution which is symmetrical, the mean and average are at 50 percentile so it is a little bit of a math joke that of course then, 50% of the people in a large enough sample will be below the 50 percentile.