We *must have a champion! We demand a fight to the finish!

Regarding the makeup glasses thing a few days ago, it would be totally cool if Amy started a fashion trend for lady-monocles.

Furthermore, regarding the importance of degrees, it's at least possible that CRISPR will allow hobbyists to effect great strides in biology and maybe other sciences.

Possible.

Chinese vision, this about which I did not know.

And who doesn't admire a well-husbanded grudge?

Both left- and right-sided newspapers agree: "WTF?"

So, that's what they mean by "All the news that's fit to print."

Sorry if you're offended, but but Socialism leads to misery and destitution.

"...capitalism has been the most effective way to eliminate poverty in history."

Conservatives Are Losers

"Conservatives have lost on every battlefront: free speech, the military, the universities, marriage, nuclear family, child education, the media, the government, Boy Scouts, business, law and justice, Christianity, patriarchy, immigration, the welfare state, and capitalism. The right to bear arms is the only battle they’re not losing in a rout, but I’m confident they will lose that too within a decade’s time."

"Why are conservatives such losers? Because they desire to merely hold the line while their enemy rushes at them full speed. They don’t want to conquer new lands, kill their enemy, or inflict real harm. They want to maintain the status quo while the left froths at the mouth to win, energized with momentum and passion. "

"Conservatives have also shown to be comically susceptible to leftist ideas when it’s presented as “human rights.” Two decades ago, the vast majority of conservatives would have stood against gay marriage, but a few years of cheesy “love is love” commercials was all it took for them to change their mind. "

"The biggest reason why conservatives will continue to lose is that they’re still not ready to kill the left even though the left is ready to kill them. Liberals have been getting conservatives fired on a daily basis while suing their businesses out of existence while the conservative loser merely whines about it on Twitter."

Forgot the link -

http://www.rooshv.com/conservatives-are-losers

I think that is one of the big attractions of Trump - he is a fighter.

Meanwhile, the Chinese see Trump as the most savvy US president in decades. Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, spent time in Beijing and reported his finding in The Financial Times:

"In the west, most foreign policy experts see him as reckless, unpredictable and self-defeating. But though many in Asia dislike him as much as the Europeans do, they see him as a more substantial figure. I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by his skill as a strategist and tactician."

"They think the US president’s goal is nothing less than remaking the global order."

"They think Mr Trump feels he is presiding over the relative decline of his great nation. It is not that the current order does not benefit the US. The problem is that it benefits others more in relative terms. To make things worse the US is investing billions of dollars and a fair amount of blood in supporting the very alliances and international institutions that are constraining America and facilitating China’s rise."

"In Chinese eyes, Mr Trump’s response is a form of “creative destruction”. He is systematically destroying the existing institutions — from the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to NATO and the Iran nuclear deal — as a first step towards renegotiating the world order on terms more favourable to Washington."

"Once the order is destroyed, the Chinese elite believes, Mr Trump will move to stage two: renegotiating America’s relationship with other powers. Because the US is still the most powerful country in the world, it will be able to negotiate with other countries from a position of strength if it deals with them one at a time rather than through multilateral institutions that empower the weak at the expense of the strong."

"My interlocutors say that Mr Trump is the US first president for more than 40 years to bash China on three fronts simultaneously: trade, military and ideology. They describe him as a master tactician, focusing on one issue at a time, and extracting as many concessions as he can. They speak of the skilful way Mr Trump has treated President Xi Jinping. “Look at how he handled North Korea,” one says. “He got Xi Jinping to agree to UN sanctions [half a dozen] times, creating an economic stranglehold on the country. China almost turned North Korea into a sworn enemy of the country.” But they also see him as a strategist, willing to declare a truce in each area when there are no more concessions to be had, and then start again with a new front."

"For the Chinese, even Mr Trump’s sycophantic press conference with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in Helsinki had a strategic purpose. They see it as Henry Kissinger in reverse. In 1972, the US nudged China off the Soviet axis in order to put pressure on its real rival, the Soviet Union. Today Mr Trump is reaching out to Russia in order to isolate China."

"In the short term, China is talking tough in response to Mr Trump’s trade assault. At the same time they are trying to develop a multiplayer front against him by reaching out to the EU, Japan and South Korea. But many Chinese experts are quietly calling for a rethink of the longer-term strategy. They want to prepare the ground for a new grand bargain with the US based on Chinese retrenchment. Many feel that Mr Xi has over-reached and worry that it was a mistake simultaneously to antagonise the US economically and militarily in the South China Sea."

Hopefully, these Chinese officials are correct and there is a method to Trump's madness, 'cause he's got some serious madness going on.

Here's a job for Amy, should she want to show them true diversity.

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11167

Two decades ago, the vast majority of conservatives would have stood against gay marriage, but a few years of cheesy “love is love” commercials was all it took for them to change their mind. "
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I find it hard to believe that they DID change their minds. (Tony Perkins is still the president of you-know-what group, for one.) But it depends a lot on whether we're talking about political conservatives or social conservatives. And whether we're talking about how people actually vote in private or about which profanities they've stopped using in public. (Or other nasty language.)

> I think that is one of the
> big attractions of Trump -
> he is a fighter.

Yeah… right.

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  Did you ever know that
  you're my heeeee-roe

You guys love the man more than any policy (or than any policy failure. You're old enough to be licensed to drive, and you sit around calculating his "attractions."

Death in the 20th century

How many and whodunnit

Graphic bloon style for the, erm, statistically impaired among us.

> Did you ever know that
> you're my heeeee-roe

Yup!

This is probably worth the price of admission...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-anxiety-disorder-mental-health-political-divide-us-1.4762487

TIL:

'Trigglypuff', aka Cora Segal, is the daughter of deceased Harvard professor Charles Segal, once a scholar of classic literature at that bastion of Ivy Leagueness.

RIP to the professor and to the once-serious study of humanities.

Trump's approval rating remains basically unchanged since May 1st... think about how many times the media has freaked out about something over the last 2 months and realize that almost no one cares

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1024039200876883968

> Trump's approval rating

He makes the sun rise for you in the morning. You love him more than your family and friends. It's important to you that everyone else love him as much as you, because that one guy is the single component of your political beliefs.