Putting Trump in charge is probably similar to just deciding which bills are vetoed and which aren't via coin flip. He could make some really good decisions, or some really bad ones. He might do better than Hillary, or worse. It just depends which tweets from which people made him angry that day.
Except he has already showed that he knows how to make decisions, or at least, how to listen to people who do. Do you think he knows every aspect of business inside and out? No, no one does. It's too broad of a topic. But he knows how to pick advisors and listen to them. If he didn't he would not have been so successful in business. Do you think he just got lucky? Out of 500+ entities with his name on them, he's had, I believe, two or three bankruptcies. 99%+ success rate. And even that, bankruptcy can be argued as a legitimate business strategy. He has a track record of success.
Because he thinks it's the Toilet Paper Pirate that's been emptying the TP holders in his hotel.
Or because he actually has a grasp of what it is and how damaging to the country it could be. I know, it is utterly impossible to see past your current notions. You just can't fathom that you could possibly be wrong and that Donald Trump might actually be intelligent. Next time, instead of getting your information from memes and left-leaning news sources, just watch a Trump speech all the way through. Watch the upcoming debates. Listen to him straight from the source, not second or third hand.
This is what I always see. When confronted, conservatives tend to reply with rebuttals. Liberals tend to reply with attacks.
Conservative: "Here's some statistics and studies that prove my point..." Liberal:"Racist! Sexist! Stupid!"
Not always true, but at least in my experience it's usually true.
A lie repeated does not become truth, though it may be believed.
Fucking pseudo-intellectual garbage. You just had that one in the chamber, didn't you? Supposedly meaningful insight, on what was clearly a humorous post. You're not some great speaker, you're some jackass on Slashdot, just like me.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln
See? I can do it too. And I can actually give credit to the better man than me who said it.
I think it is the first time he has mentioned it. I'm more interested that he stop the TPP and renegotiate/cancel the anti American NAFTA trade giveaway.
Trump has already stated that he opposes the TPP.
But we could achieve the same tomorrow simply by impaling any person caught with any ivory on a stake at the entrance of the airport where they're found. The screams and groans of the impaled criminals would depress the price of ivory just as well,
I can't tell if you're joking, you seem serious. That is ludicrously excessive. I am amazed that some people have such a high level of emotion for animals, but won't even blink at the idea impaling a man (one who is likely hunting the elephants out of sheer desperation). It's garbage like that keeping normal human beings from taking animal rights activists seriously.
Because if they can bring species back from extinction, then keeping endangered species from going extinct becomes trivially easy. And if they do, just bring them back again.
Also, in a world where elephants/mammoths can be reliably (and cheaply) cloned and bred, ivory would become about as valuable as beef, thus negating the benefits of poaching.
But since I'm not a nutcase who thinks "they'll be able to do this in ten years!", for now I'm all for keeping the endangered animals we already have alive.
I know I will likely take a lot of flak for this, but what is the real, practical use for a device like this? I'm not even trying to be sarcastic, can somebody please explain it to me?
Buying one of these will do little more besides possibly get you put on some sort of watch list, if the NSA even cares enough about you to do so. Just simply carry your private data on a flash drive that stays on your person, and only plug it into a special system that is offline, running a live OS with no data saved to the hard drive.
If you get captured by the government goons, snap it in half, swallow it, whatever. And buying a flash drive isn't considered suspicious, unlike buying one of these. If they're going to such great lengths to get to you, you're fucked anyway. At that point, you might as well hole up in your basement with a gun pointed at the door, anything less will not suffice.
Memory fault - where am I?