Chomsky on Trump

[Serial_Apologist]

President Trump was looking tired in his first interview. He is discovering that politics is not as easy as business. For all of our sakes, he needs some sleep.

Permanent.

[vinteuil]

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... if I were a Mexican with a boat, presumably I could go from Ensenada or Tijuana up towards San Diego / National City in California - or from Matamoros towards Brownsville or Corpus Christi in Texas, and drop off in the dark unseen...

How many miles of wall will have to be built up the western and eastern coastlines of the United States??


... to say nothing of tunnels. Or hot-air balloons




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[Pianorak]

Permanent.

[french frank]

... to say nothing of tunnels. Or hot-air balloons

It's beginning to sound like fun! Tunnels would be like The Great Escape.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's beginning to sound like fun! Tunnels would be like The Great Escape.

An alternative could be this launch pad attempt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMCOCnsLf8

[Beef Oven!]

Are there no ladders in Mexico?

[P. G. Tipps]

Somebody on TV this morning suggested that the only reason Theresa May is the first foreign leader to meet Trump is simply because no other leader, especially Angela Merkel, was in any rush to meet him and the UK was probably the only country to apply.

I think it is also likely that Trump and the Republicans were just as anxious for one (anyone?) of their close allies to arrange such a visit in order to give them a bit more 'credibility' in the eyes of the world.

Frankly I cannot think of any two other major world leaders who, right now, lack any sort of credibility with their absurdly naive and old-fashioned nationalistic ideas like a Mexican Wall and Brexit. Only a few months ago both suggestions would had all serious folk rolling in the aisles.

Frankly, they suit each other.

[Serial_Apologist]

Are there no ladders in Mexico?

I'm immediately reminded of the attack on The Alamo in Davy Crockett

[french frank]

because no other leader, especially Angela Merkel, was in any rush to meet him

I would think there's much in that. More keen to distance themselves from him.

Word is from within certain parts of the US State Department that Trump himself expects to be impeached (how much will the GOP put up with?). At which point …

[vinteuil]

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... anyone might think that the BBC aren't True Believers in the Donald's Beautiful Wall -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37243269

[Lat-Literal]

An alternative could be this launch pad attempt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDMCOCnsLf8

Cool.

The world needs more of this sort of thing.

[french frank]

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... anyone might think that the BBC aren't True Believers in the Donald's Beautiful Wall -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37243269

'… he told the Washington Post: "It's realistic if you know something about the art of negotiating. If you have a bunch of clowns negotiating, it's not realistic."' So … guess what I'm thinking about here …

[Beef Oven!]

Theresa May urged to challenge President Trump on torture comments. Great idea - go over there to try and get some sorely needed business and introduce discussions by telling off for his bad behaviour! Why not just tell him we don’t do business with people who use torture, if we mean it!!??

[Lat-Literal]

Theresa May urged to challenge President Trump on torture comments. Great idea - go over there to try and get some sorely needed business and introduce discussions by telling off for his bad behaviour! Why not just tell him we don’t do business with people who use torture, if we mean it!!??

I should imagine he would just refer to the forthcoming case for Jack Straw and suggest waiting for the outcome before giving any sort of lecture. Oddly, what he was saying was one of his more reassuring moments to date. In the small print, he said he would leave it to "experts" to decide which I didn't think he would be capable of doing in anything. He also whispered that they had to comply with the law if only just. It made me wonder if any decision on using the nuclear capability at any time might also be delegated to his "experts". I've heard rumours political accountability in that area rests with the Vice-President given that the President is temperamentally suited to economic and other matters.

[gurnemanz]

Noam's upcoming lecture in Reading: link