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F6, a good idea .. it will provide a good research source for any number of purposes .. i'm sure many will appreciate it all even more in
the future .. lol .. even though a future robot could do as well without it, i guess, am thinking humans will find it useful for a time .. chuckle ..

i'm still struggling with the fact that such a torrent of lies could take Trump so far in America .. i guess, along with the blinkers of many of the so-called elite
(hence so many feeling marginalized and fearful), the more forceful and focus of the seriously authoritarian conservative crowd has something to do with it ..

The fate of the Philippines should make us realize how high the stakes are in our own election. America may seem far more stable than the Philippines, and it is, but we would be in for profound and disturbing changes if we elect the Rodrigo Duterte of America. Donald Trump is a demagogue who shares Duterte’s vulgarity, his ignorance, his admiration of dictators, his contempt for liberal democratic norms, and his tendency to flip-flop on the issues.

But Trump has much grander aspirations. Duterte is in charge of a poor country with scarcely any military power. Although Duterte can damage the efforts of China’s neighbors to contain Beijing’s expansionism, most of the harm he is inflicting is on his own citizens. If Trump were to win the presidency, by contrast, he would be in charge of the most powerful nation in the world, with thousands of nuclear weapons at his command. He needs to be taken seriously when he threatens, inter alia, to rip up free-trade agreements, impose costly tariffs, build a wall on the Mexico border, deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, abandon NATO, pull U.S. troops out of countries such as South Korea and Japan, recognize Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and generally turn his back on decades of American international leadership. The example of rowdy “Rody” Duterte — along with countless others, from Juan Perón to Benito Mussolini —suggests that demagogues have a disturbing tendency to act in office much as they said they would do on the campaign trail, no matter how unhinged their ideas may appear to rational observers.
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Oh, and the focus on profit of so much of the MSM rather than doing their job to fact-check, and properly inform, of course. Shouldn't forget that.