you may be drawing from your personal perspective here exclusively; consider another:

instead he let drug boats come in.

correct; but the US is still flooded with cocaine (though of course, largely due to demand + relatively lax borders).

he instead pardoned his son who made millions selling... questionable things/access.

not op, but in 2011, intel hired musician will.i.am as the "director of creative innovation".

intel had clearly lost their focus.

europeans from posting "free healthcare" and "work-life balance" comments ad infinitum like we're used to seeing.

>1/2 of the US did not vote for trump; see me after class.
-UC San Diego

--signed, none of china's neighbors (save for russia/north korea)

i can play video games much better than my father, but my father's handwriting is infinitely more refined than mine.

this is due to your lack of familiarity with cursive.

setting a fixed resolution display (lcd, oled, etc) to a non-native resolution is a crime.

coffee varies tremendously:
from where its grown, to how its grown, to how its roasted, to how it's stored, to how its ground, to how its brewed, etc etc.
and most of the time its done poorly. often very, very poorly.

if it smells good to you, theres a good chance theres a cup out there youll enjoy.

NPR publicly promoted a political candidate some years back.
for better or worse, this says something, esp. if you believe we all have implicit biases.

people dont mean theyre literally identical;
people mean theyre both shitty in their own ways, where one's distain or distrust toward both is similar.

i think most people honestly dont have a problem accepting that;
from what i observe, what they do find annoying is the way the info is presented, and thus the people presenting the info.

perhaps, but it also created competition for the winners, allowing them to demonstrate their comparative superiority/sustainability.
the large pool of capital provides motivation/attracts participants.

when betting on horses, the losers still affect the race;
without the losers, there wouldnt be a race.

personally i would love this.

biodiesel and synthetic gasoline delivered to my home via electric vehicle.

predictions about the future are difficult, and capitalism is a bit like the english language, adopting things as it goes.

suppose we'll see.