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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOther than for some foolish fucking war name one US President
who was responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 people in under 10 weeks? Clearly all the slave presidents were murderers but even their slaughters were gradual.
leftieNanner
(15,182 posts)(New York Times, I think) that said that if Ass Face had acted just two weeks sooner with shutting things down, it could have saved nearly 60,000 lives, it made me sick! How anyone can still support this idiot is beyond me. There are still 35% of the people who approve of the job he has done with the virus!
An interesting and horrifying way to look at this, malaise.
malaise
(269,237 posts)of running for office. A man with a single shred of decency would already have resigned.
WhiteTara
(29,729 posts)Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)from the likes of Adolph Hitler and Mao Zedong.
PCIntern
(25,612 posts)malaise
(269,237 posts)Good effin' grief.
When will someone be brave enough to demand his resignation?
Buzz cook
(2,474 posts)I think thats the previous record.
Jackson is one of Trump's heroes.
malaise
(269,237 posts)Now the billionaires and their tools will decide who lives and who dies.
Buzz cook
(2,474 posts)I don't think they decide, so much as don't care.
malaise
(269,237 posts)<snip>
Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean
Ask people to name the key minds that have shaped Americas burst of radical right-wing attacks on working conditions, consumer rights and public services, and they will typically mention figures like free market-champion Milton Friedman, libertarian guru Ayn Rand, and laissez-faire economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises.
In thinking about how people make political decisions and choices, Buchanan concluded that you could only understand them as individuals seeking personal advantage. In an interview cited by MacLean, the economist observed that in the 1950s Americans commonly assumed that elected officials wanted to act in the public interest. Buchanan vehemently disagreed that was a belief he wanted, as he put it, to tear down. His ideas developed into a theory that came to be known as public choice.
Buchanans view of human nature was distinctly dismal. Adam Smith saw human beings as self-interested and hungry for personal power and material comfort, but he also acknowledged social instincts like compassion and fairness. Buchanan, in contrast, insisted that people were primarily driven by venal self-interest. Crediting people with altruism or a desire to serve others was romantic fantasy: politicians and government workers were out for themselves, and so, for that matter, were teachers, doctors, and civil rights activists. They wanted to control others and wrest away their resources: Each person seeks mastery over a world of slaves, he wrote in his 1975 book, The Limits of Liberty.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,258 posts)and he's still there. This morning it was his statement on churches opening. That's a pretty shitty way of honoring God, and God ain't gonna' be pleased.
malaise
(269,237 posts)is to check and see if he croaked overnight.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)is approx 102,000. Which trump will likely pass on Memorial Day...
Korea 36,516
Vietnam 58,209
Iran/Afghanistan 6,626
Gulf War 258
Total 101,609