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Posted on 09/18/2016 7:37:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week Hillary attacked Trump supporters as “deplorables”, accusing half of them of them of being racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic. In this she was following Obama’s disparaging of millions of voters.
As Victor Davis Hanson observed:
On his recent Asian tour, President Obama characterized his fellow Americans (the most productive workers in the world) as “lazy.” In fact, he went on to deride Americans for a list of supposed transgressions ranging from the Vietnam War to environmental desecration to the 19th century treatment of Native Americans. “If you’re in the United States,” the president said, “sometimes you can feel lazy and think we’re so big we don’t have to really know anything about other people.”
The attack on supposedly insular Americans was somewhat bizarre, given that Obama himself knows no foreign languages. He often seems confused about even basic world geography. (His birthplace of Hawaii is not “Asia,” Austrians do not speak “Austrian,” and the Falkland Islands are not the Maldives).
Obama’s sense of history is equally weak. Contrary to his past remarks, the Islamic world did not spark either the Western Renaissance or the Enlightenment. Cordoba was not, as he once suggested, an Islamic center of “tolerance” during the Spanish Inquisition; in fact, its Muslim population had been expelled during the early Reconquista over two centuries earlier.
In another eerie ditto of his infamous 2008 attack on the supposedly intolerant Pennsylvania “clingers,” Obama returned to his theme that ignorant Americans “typically” become xenophobic and racist: “Typically, when people feel stressed, they turn on others who don’t look like them.” (“Typically” is not a good Obama word to use in the context of racial relations, since he once dubbed his own grandmother a “typical white person.”)
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Very VERY good article. Thanks for posting.
Lazy, said Obama. Interesting as I cannot find a single moment in his life that was energetic, productive, and non-grifter.
We need a president who doesn’t hate America. Is that too much to ask?
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
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Speaking truth to power.
As “Beasts of England” posted: “Four years to the day after she let four people get killed in Benghazi - and blamed it on a YouTube video -- an unknown guy with a YouTube video has ended her political career. Booyah.”
You’re welcome
That arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave uses psychological projections like all “progressives” So don’t let it bother you.
Today’s sophists...
” The Sophists challenged and criticized and destroyed the foundations of traditions and the moral and social order and they put nothing in its place nor did they care to. While Socrates looked for objective and eternal truths the Sophists were promoting ideas of relativism and subjectivism, wherein each person decides for him or herself what the true and the good and the beautiful are. This appealed to the mob, the crowds, the unthinking horde but it is not an approach that serves as the foundation for a common life. Conflicts are resolved through the use of power. The Sophist held that might makes right. Society’s demand for wisdom required more than what the Sophists offered. Socrates attempted another approach and in part due to the Sophists lost his life in his quest. Plato would be inspired by Socrates to take up the challenge and find answers to the questions that were most basic and most in need of answering in the quest after wisdom and the GOOD.”
From http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/SocialSciences/ppecorino/INTRO_TEXT/Chapter%202%20GREEKS/Sophists.htm
You said it, and no it isn’t
What is really funny about Taleb is how many people who hear the words Black Swan and think they understand what he is saying.
CUNY of all places. Wonders never cease.
"I bought this thinking it would be a how-to book. I wanted "How to set up your own Foundation for fun and profit." Also, would like to have seen a chapter on "Ten easy steps to setting up your own secure server in a bathroom."
I do hear there's going to be a sequel, tentatively called "The Art of the Shakedown." Should be interesting.
His really good book, published earlier, was "Fooled By Randomness." "Black Swan" is a title obviously chosen by the publisher to sell a popular book. I found it almost unreadable compared to "Fooled by Randomness" which I think one of the most important books of our time - I try to get all of my scientific colleagues to read it.
I’m sure they fail to recognize themselves in that paragraph.
Inflated ego can render one blind.
I think he knows Austrian.
Donald Trump is a MASTER of using social media (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter) to get around the Left-leaning MSM. And he very well knows that the social media companies--even with their corporate heads being politically Left--would NOT dare to censor Trump's official account on social media out because the last thing those companies want is being accused of censorship of a major political figure.
Look at just how much more popular Trump is on social media--he has 25 to 50 percent more followers than Hillary Clinton, who seems to not know how to properly use social media because of her 1990's election mindset.
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