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David Remnick at the New Yorker, first paragraph:

Funny, but there's nothing red about Putin's Russia..

Axelrod is just joshing of course, but consider the stupidity of this tweet by Joy Reid:

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/774288003678277633

Oy veh.

Anyway Trump continues to astound: I hear Rex Tillertson will soon be announced as the new Secretary of State with John Bolton as Deputy. This will likely be a shock for the sissys and bureaucrats who populate the place. They haven't had to do real work or face accountability for anything in a very long time. That will likely change fast.

There was a similar tedious monotone uniformity to the massive home and suburb building that went on in the US after WWII as well. There was no wartime destruction, though new construction virtually stopped during the war. I suspect the drivers for us were the massive social disruption that occurred during and after the war with the until then unresolved dislocations associated with the depression, the wide-scale drop in the rural farming population, the migration of African Americans from the South and the large scale pent up family startups after our rapid demobilization. As was evidently the case in Europe, the new facilities were in many ways a more modern step up for many , but happily change continued.

georgeob1 wrote:

There was a similar tedious monotone uniformity to the massive home and suburb building that went on in the US after WWII as well. There was no wartime destruction, though new construction virtually stopped during the war. I suspect the drivers for us were the massive social disruption that occurred during and after the war with the until then unresolved dislocations associated with the depression, the wide-scale drop in the rural farming population, the migration of African Americans from the South and the large scale pent up family startups after our rapid demobilization. As was evidently the case in Europe, the new facilities were in many ways a more modern step up for many , but happily change continued.

So, you don't pay attention to the history of this country either. Didn't anyone in your family serve in the Great War or WWII? I really don't care about your effete views on political difference, but it really pisses me off when you dismiss all those veterans who fought and died to provide you the right to be an officious dilettante who cavalierly thumbs your nose at the efforts of the American military and the people who kept the country going while the men were overseas.

"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."

(Winston Churchill)

"I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes. It would spread a lively terror.”

(Winston Churchill)

"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.”

(Winston Churchill)

"I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race."

(Winston Churchill)

"[Gandhi] ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back.”

(Winston Churchill)

"I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes. It would spread a lively terror.”
(Winston Churchill)

"...The moral effect should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a minimum… gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected. "

How did you get any of that from Georgeob1's post?

Perhaps his scorn for the pathetic efforts of the US after the wars.

This week, Donald Trump picked a climate denialist to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, and tapped a businessman — whose company has repeatedly violated workers’ rights — to head the Labor Department.

These moves followed the appointment of a man too racist to be confirmed as a federal judge in 1986 to lead the Justice Department (and, thus, to oversee the enforcement of federal civil-rights law), as well as the selection of a retired neurosurgeon who thinks the Fair Housing Act is “communist” as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

As liberals stomached these bitter pills, fear of the final “it would be funny if it weren’t vomit-inducingly scary” appointment loomed over their heads — what half-psychotic misanthrope would Trump make America’s chief diplomat?

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