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12. i doubt very much our new overlords give any shits about healing national divides or science

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 05:57 PM

Dec 2016

OTOH, they are likely to be quite interested in modifying the tax and regulatory systems to net them and their donor buddies maximum payouts over the next 80 years.

and thanks to about 80000 suckers in the rust belt, their word will be absolute as far as the federal gov't goes.

we're not getting out of this one unscathed or even "mostly okay". these guys aren't going to stealth it up like W, pretending to make nice in the name of national unity while making out like bandits -- that's so 2001. now they're going to tear it down and put up an edifice of Trump's making, architected by military industrialists, resource extraction industrialists, Goldman-Sachs and the religious right.

this election will have consequences. brutal consequences.

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nor is it the way to do science. MBS Dec 2016 #7

i doubt very much our new overlords give any shits about healing national divides or science 0rganism Dec 2016 #12

In that case...... pangaia Dec 2016 #16

THANK YOU MBS Dec 2016 #19

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You bet. MBS Dec 2016 #27

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Even worse. MBS Dec 2016 #33

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