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posted by on Wednesday March 01 2017, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the totally-normal,-right? dept.

America's new president gave an address to a joint session of Congress. The Los Angeles Times posted a full transcript of the speech (along with remarks from its staff that may require Javascript to view); Bloomberg uploaded a video of the event.

The New York Times called it "the most presidential speech Mr. Trump has ever given — delivered at precisely the moment he needed to project sobriety, seriousness of purpose and self-discipline."

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday March 02 2017, @01:55AM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday March 02 2017, @01:55AM (#473668) Journal

    I have a bit of a different view. I am tired of Wall Street and media talking heads and politicians talking to me like I'm fucking stupid, that the status quo is the best of all possible worlds, and that I'd realize that if only I would grow up and be mature about it. Meanwhile, watching the numbers, I see the wealth and vitality of the American people being sucked into the maws of a thousand lamprey eels.

    So if Trump directs his outrageous and offensive behavior at those parties, then I'm fine with that. In fact, I wish he'd be more outrageous and offensive to them. I wish he'd publicly haul out guys responsible for the sub-prime mortgage crisis and behead them on the National Mall. (Sadly, instead of that he hired a couple of those fuckers to run the economy) But he has taken aim at Congress, whom I hate, and at the federal bureaucracy, which I mostly despise. He has bullied some of the giant corporations that have been cutting our throats.

    In short, the jury's still out. I really wish the contest had come down to Trump vs. Bernie, and that Bernie had won, but if Trump beheads some of the 1% assholes who have been destroying the country, I'll consider it a net win.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 02 2017, @06:31PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 02 2017, @06:31PM (#473984)

    The problem with your attitude is that this "beheading" does not happen in isolation.
    The collateral damage he is doing in the process is enormous.
    So yeah, great, a couple of deserving 1% got whacked. And millions of 99% did too.

    And if your response to that is "well those 99% were getting fucked anyway" then you are way too close to being a 1%er yourself.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday March 03 2017, @12:08PM

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday March 03 2017, @12:08PM (#474328) Journal

      What collateral damage is he doing? Failing to fill several hundred positions in the federal bureaucracy because they're not needed? Yes, that does sound like enormous damage is being done to the DC gravy train. Or are you talking about the agita he's giving the professional worriers? Most of those people are already in therapy and on prozac, so that problem is being handled.

      It is possible to take out the 1% without taking out the 99%, too, but it takes political will and the intent to do so. In a pre-revolution context it means arresting the people for the crimes they have committed, and for which there is ample evidence, and convicting them instead of giving them untold sums of money and patted on the back with a mild admonition of, "do better next time, old chap."

      It does not look like Trump means to do that to Wall Street, but it would be nice if he at least did it to Big Pharma or something. Some is better than the none that Hillary would have done.

      Trump is not natively disposed to take down the 1% the way Bernie was, but he lives and dies on the adulation of his supporters so I expect for that reason he'll take somebody down to keep them cheering.

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