i****d
发帖数: 724 | 1 早晚要爆，一直在靠打鸡血补泡泡，一直在等这天的到来，the day of reckoning, 尽
管没人知道来刺破这个泡沫的针是什么东西，但殊途同归
可怜的是，这把新冠的针，一举刺破了两个泡泡，一个是美国的经济泡沫，一个是美国
的医疗体系包括防疫救治 |
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发帖数: 724 | 2 yeah, 不仅不测，还从联邦到地方各级政府极尽所能downplay新冠病毒的危险性
早知道the day of reckoning来临的时候不好看，没想到会这么惨烈！ |
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发帖数: 7469 | 3 从床铺被选上那天开始就doom了，现在只是reckoning |
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发帖数: 16928 | 4 Florida governor will issue order mandating self-isolation for travelers
from New York and New Jersey
From CNN's Keith Allen
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday he is issuing an executive order that
calls for a mandatory 14-day self-isolation for travelers coming from
airports in New York and New Jersey.
“Today there’s over 190 direct flights from the New York City area to the
state of Florida, and I would reckon, given the outbreak there, that every
single flight has somebody on it who’s posi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2885 | 5 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8163707/Chinas-efforts-blame-
coronavirus-army-delegation-Wuhan-infuriate-No-10.html
“pariah state ”贱民国家
China's behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic will eventually result in
a 'reckoning' in relations with Beijing, close allies of Boris Johnson have
warned.
Senior Ministers think China risks becoming a pariah state unless there are
sweeping reforms when the crisis abates, and they are demanding an urgent
review of Britain's relationship with the Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 6 Sen. Martha McSally is calling on the World Health Organization director
general to step down over what she deems his assistance in covering up China
's underreporting of the coronavirus, part of an escalating series of GOP
criticisms of the organization.
Arthur Ruiz
What is the logic here? Trump believed the rosy numbers coming out of China
and, after the single action of imposing a limited travel ban against people
coming from China, did nothing to prepare?
Soooo... he was dumb enough to belie... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 7 Chris Weigant Political Writer and Blogger at ChrisWeigant.com
To most Democrats, Texas Governor Rick Perry's candidacy for the Republican
presidential nomination has so far seemed somewhat of a joke. At least until
now, that is. The Lefty blogosphere has indeed been having a field day ever
since Perry announced, over some of Perry's off-the-cuff comments, both
past and present. Today's news, however, should go a long way towards
forcing Democrats to start taking Perry seriously -- because accor... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 8 Whitney Houston, Iconic Pop Star, Dies at 48
By SHEILA MARIKAR | Good Morning America – 46 minutes ago
Whitney Houston, Iconic Pop Star, Dies at 48 (ABC News)
Whitney Houston, the iconic American singer whose battles with drugs,
alcohol and ex-husband Bobby Brown marred her star power, has died. She was
48.
Houston's publicist confirmed the singer's death to ABC News. Her cause and
location of death are not yet known. Six police cars were spotted in front
of the Beverly Hilton hotel today, where... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 9 Two reports from New York Times, on the same day.
(1) Hiroko Tabuchi, China's Day Arriving Sooner Than Japan Expected. New
York Times, Oct. 2, 2009 (title in the print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/business/economy/02yen.html?em
Note:
(a) Tadashi Yanai 柳井 正
(b) Yoshiaki Tsutsumi 堤 義明
(c) Nobuo Iizuka 飯塚 信夫
"Though recent wild currency swings could delay the reckoning, many
economists expect Japan to cede its rank as the world’s second-largest
economy sometime next year
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发帖数: 9545 | 12 不错，有前途
some
I
gonna
that
expected.
to
the
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though
seen
assault.
state
into
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reckon
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发帖数: 3299 | 13 What will you choose between two?
1) We keep our status quo and insurance rate grows out of control. Time of
reckoning will arrive in the end. It may be too late to change.
2) We have a bill that has chance to work if all the stars align.
I choose the latter.
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Just |
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发帖数: 2406 | 14 No all the time. Greece will come out pretty bad.
It is pretty close to the end now, I reckon. Only question it how it will
come to an end.
The UK voters not willing to give the Conservative a desicive majority, and
they will pay a very steep price for it in the next few year.
Nov. mid term may have a similar outcome, indecisive, big problem |
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发帖数: 10233 | 15 pussy value.
"The current welfare state is unaffordable," said Uri Dadush, director of
the Carnegie Endowment's International Economics Program. "The crisis has
made the day of reckoning closer by several years in virtually all the
industrial countries."
Fiscal crises threaten Europe's generous benefits
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100523/D9FSPCAO1.html |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 Obama will have to produce birth certificate to run again
Posted: January 25, 2011
7:42 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WorldNetDaily
U.S. President Barack Obama greets the media as he walks on the South Lawn
of the White House upon his return to Washington, November 14, 2010.
President Obama is back in Washington after a 10-day trip to Asia. UPI/Yuri
Gripas/Pool Photo via Newscom
It could be a game-changer.
A plan in Arizona to require presidential candidates to prove their
eligibility to o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 By Jack Kerwick
In a word, race promises to play at least as large a role in the next
election as it played in the last presidential race. Rest assured, it is on
this that Barack Obama and his cronies are counting.
For decades now, whites and non-whites have been engaged in a kind of racial
game with one another. Like any other game, when played long enough, it
becomes a ritual of a sort. But when it becomes ritualistic, there is an
imminent danger that it will be forgotten as play and be tre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 雷曼兄弟破产时，风险与资产比是31：1，而今天德国主要银行的风险与资产比是32：1
，这些银行目前持有大量希腊债务
Sovereign Debt Crisis Won't End Until Global Financial Collapse
In the past, there certainly have been governments that have gotten into
trouble with debt, but what we are experiencing now is the first truly
global sovereign debt crisis. There has never been a time in recorded
history when virtually all of the governments of the world were drowning in
debt all at the same time. This sovereign debt crisis is never going to end
until there ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By Richard Baehr
The Obama administration wants to "pivot" to jobs. A bit late, I would say.
They wasted a year pushing health care reform. That passed with zero
Republican votes in the House and Senate, and about the same number of
Republican ideas. When the Democrats controlled both branches of Congress
and the White House, they shoved their approach down the throats of
Republican in Congress, and an American public that opposed it then, and
still opposes the legislation by a 3-to-2 margi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 I can’t wait to see what those courageous atheists come up with for Ramadan.
Christmas in America is a season of time-honored traditions — the sacred
performance of the annual ACLU lawsuit over the presence of an
insufficiently secular “holiday” tree; the ritual provocations of the
atheist displays licensed by pitifully appeasing municipalities to sit
between the menorah and the giant Frosty the Snowman; the familiar strains
of every hack columnist’s “war on Christmas” column rolling off the
key... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4050 | 21 Economic Legacy
Reagan Policies Gave Green Light to Red Ink
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 9, 2004; Page A11
The line is not likely to make this week's eulogies to Ronald Reagan, but
when Vice President Cheney allegedly declared, "Reagan proved deficits don't
matter," he summed up an enduring argument from the former president's
economic legacy.
In late 2002, Cheney had summoned the Bush administration's economic team to
his office to discuss another round of ta... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 David Cameron has risked souring Britain's relations with Berlin in the
runup to next week's crucial European summit by calling on Germany to play a
larger role in safeguarding the single currency.
Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, the prime minister said
resolving the ongoing crisis was not just the job of indebted countries such
as Greece and Italy, which have been forced to adopt punishing austerity
measures; "surplus" countries, such as Germany, should also have to play
their par... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 Paul A. Rahe · Feb. 10 at 5:21pm
You have to hand it to Barack Obama. He has unmasked in the most
thoroughgoing way the despotic propensities of the administrative
entitlements state and of the Democratic Party. And now he has done
something similar to the hierarchy of the American Catholic Church. At the
prospect that institutions associated with the Catholic Church would be
required to offer to their employees health insurance covering contraception
and abortifacients, the bishops, priests,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 EVER since the 18th century, England’s established church has harboured a
suspicion of religious enthusiasm. Anglicanism’s cosy ubiquity as a
reassuring, if vestigial, presence in every English suburb and village is
regarded as a defence against the sort of fanaticism that leads to social or
ethnic conflict. But every so often in English church history, compromise
and emollience have triggered a countervailing reaction: an upsurge in faith
of a more passionate kind. Such a change may be under wa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 by Reid Smith
Last Wednesday, in an op-ed for The Orange County Register, the Cato
Institute’s Gene Healy made the case that while amazing, our newest “R/C”
space crusade to Martian terra firma is ultimately unaffordable:
“At 2.5 billion and counting […] it's a hell of a neat trick that NASA
just pulled off, and it's sure to generate a lot of amazing video. And yet,
Houston – and Washington – we have a problem. By the end of the year, the
Congressional Budget Office warns, federal debt will ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Carney: Poor-mouthing Obama is outraising Romney by $125m
President Obama has fooled plenty of people into thinking Mitt Romney is
beating him in the race for campaign cash. This allows Obama to pose as a
scrappy underdog and man of the people even as he raises and spends more
money than his opponent. It's quite a trick, supported by three money
machines:
First, Obama's campaign has outraised and outspent Romney's campaign.
Second, the Democratic National Committee outraised and outspent the
Rep... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 27 By DAVID A. STOCKMAN
GREENWICH, Conn. -- The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor’s 500 indexes reached
record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the
stock market’s last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be
very afraid.
David Stockman
Over the last 13 years, the stock market has twice crashed and touched off a
recession: American households lost $5 trillion in the 2000 dot-com bust
and more than $7 trillion in the 2007 housing crash. Sooner or later —
within a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 WSJ的帖子，讲得和顶楼的一模一样，你会不会也笑了？
Venezuela’s Election Downshifts Views on Economy, Debt
By Charles Roth
We hear elections have consequences, which are usually obvious if the winner
’s mandate is strong. Venezuela’s snap election over the weekend has major
implications for the economy and the oil-rich nation’s debt, thinking on
which is changing fast.
The anointed heir of Venezuela’s defunct leader, Hugo Chavez, eked out a
wafer-thin majority of votes in Sunday’s snap presidential election, a
surprise ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2842 | 29 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: jigao (左季高), 信区: Military
标 题: 底特律要宣布破产了，呵呵
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jun 3 21:04:43 2013, 美东)
今天的华尔街日报
Reckoning Nears for Detroit
Emergency City Manager to Call Meeting That May Be Precursor to Bankruptcy
By MATTHEW DOLAN
DETROIT—Detroit's emergency manager plans to call unions and creditors to a
meeting in mid-June amid signs he is laying the groundwork to take the city
into bankruptcy within a matter of months.
Kevyn Orr, appointed by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in Ma... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4091 | 30 发信人: chichazi (吃叉子), 信区: USANews
标 题: 推荐一个六十年代的科幻短篇，道尽aa本质，可笑可悲可叹
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Oct 19 14:09:30 2013, 美东)
成篇于1961，你不得不佩服少数智者对于未来的洞察力。一如1984的作者，勇敢新世界
的作者，等等
故事背景是所有高于平均智商者都要在耳朵里装上一个干扰器发出随机噪音以干扰佩戴
者的思绪，结果降低智商至平均之下。
不仅是高智商要被降低，美丽女子也必须要戴上面具，但目的是为了“平权”，俊美的
兰陵王和狄青戴上狰狞面具杀敌的故事是不会在这个乌托邦里流传了。
aa的本质就是想搞均智愚，口号是造反有理傻婢万岁。
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
HARRISON BERGERON
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the la... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4091 | 31 成篇于1961，你不得不佩服少数智者对于未来的洞察力。一如1984的作者，勇敢新世界
的作者，等等
故事背景是所有高于平均智商者都要在耳朵里装上一个干扰器发出随机噪音以干扰佩戴
者的思绪，结果降低智商至平均之下。
不仅是高智商要被降低，美丽女子也必须要戴上面具，但目的是为了“平权”，俊美的
兰陵王和狄青戴上狰狞面具杀敌的故事是不会在这个乌托邦里流传了。
aa的本质就是想搞均智愚，口号是造反有理傻婢万岁。
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
HARRISON BERGERON
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal
before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter
than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Dr. Hanson：美国总统已经变成了一个虚拟职位，半数美国人和大部分媒体不管怎么样
都维护，剩下的人靠自己奋斗
Is Obama Still President?
His cadences soar on, through scandal after fiasco after disaster.
By Victor Davis Hanson
We are currently learning whether the United States really needs a president
. Barack Obama has become a mere figurehead, who gives speeches few listen
to any more, issues threats that scare fewer, and makes promises that almost
no one believes he will keep. Yet America continues on, despite the fact
that the foreign ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 Germany: Muslims Attack Protesters of Muslim Violence Against Christians
True to form. They certainly are consistent, both the Muslims and the dhimmi
police.
" Cologne Germany: Aggressive Muslims disturb Protest against
Persecution of Christians – Police watch idly" Posted by PI News: (
translated by Carpe Diem)
If one has spent a day like we did yesterday – in the shadow of the
beautiful cathedral of Cologne, but under very unpleasant circumstances- it
gives you something to brood ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 56 | 34 Revisiting an old argument about the impact of capitalism
Jan 4th 2014 | From the print edition
INEQUALITY is one of the most controversial attributes of capitalism. Early
in the industrial revolution stagnant wages and concentrated wealth led
David Ricardo and Karl Marx to question capitalism’s sustainability.
Twentieth-century economists lost interest in distributional issues amid the
“Great Compression” that followed the second world war. But a modern
surge in inequality has new economists wo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3173 | 35 Dear MoveOn members,
All eyes are on Baltimore. Massive protests are ongoing in memory of Freddie
Gray, a 25-year old man who died of spinal injuries he sustained while in
police custody.1 Media coverage has focused largely on episodes of violence
in the streets—often missing essential pieces of the rapidly unfolding
story.2
In this moment of crisis, we can learn something from Ferguson: the most
important voices to listen to right now are local ones. And the most
important images and videos wil... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Let freedom ring,
let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know
that today is a day of reckoning |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Progressive “Thought-Blockers”: Income Inequality
An ideological construct that exploits envy and resentment for political
advantage.
February 10, 2016
Bruce Thornton
Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom
Center.
Throughout this primary season, Hillary Clinton and self-proclaimed
socialist Bernie Sanders have both been flogging the “crisis” of “income
inequality,” which is “at the center of their campaigns,” according to
CNN. Both have scourged the “greed” ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 38 他年轻时对这种高大blonde超模身材非常来电。
Donald Trump Reckoned He Could Have Had Sex With Princess Diana
“She had the height, she had the beauty, she had the skin – the whole
thing,” the Republican presidential candidate once said.
Donald Trump claimed he could have slept with Princess Diana if he had
wanted to, according to a radio interview recorded months after her death on
the The Howard Stern Show.
“Why do people think it’s egotistical of you to say you could’ve gotten
with Lady Di?” Stern asked the Republ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2239 | 39 左臂最愚蠢的就是不明白“过犹不及”的道理。
O8 and what Demo led in last 8 years will face their day of reckoning.
就像Merkel作的，直接的结果是把更多的中间派推到了右边。 |
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发帖数: 6361 | 40 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: netherlands1 (一二三四), 信区: Military
标 题: 菲律宾新总统炮轰美国:中东动荡是你的错
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Jul 8 20:17:40 2016, 美东)
这他妈就尴尬了，我帝刚好在南海找了一个铁杆盟友，到头来还的自己自由巡航
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/08/world/asia/ap-as-philippines-duterte-us.html?_r=0
MANILA, Philippines — The new Philippine president on Friday blamed U.S.
intervention for the bloody conflicts in Iraq and other Middle Eastern
countries in his latest criticism of Manila's closest security ally.
President Rodrigo Dute... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 41 Thank you! Thank you for that amazing welcome.
And Chelsea, thank you. I'm so proud to be your mother and so proud of the
woman you've become. Thanks for bringing Marc into our family, and Charlotte
and Aidan into the world.
And Bill, that conversation we started in the law library 45 years ago is
still going strong. It's lasted through good times that filled us with joy,
and hard times that tested us.
And I've even gotten a few words in along the way.
On Tuesday night, I was so happy to see tha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1304 | 42 作者：神仙兔八哥
链接：https://www.zhihu.com/question/51129739/answer/124268109
来源：知乎
著作权归作者所有，转载请联系作者获得授权。
【She Follows The Money 】
中文翻译 + 英文原文
11月8日，我们将赢下选举入主白宫。
On November 8th, we are going to win this state and we are going to win the
White House.
这将是所有美国人民的胜利。
It’s going to be a victory for YOU, the American people.
我们将结束克林顿式的腐败，重塑政府的尊严与诚信。
We are going to end the Clinton Corruption and restore dignity and honesty
to government service.
希拉里克林顿是一个只为金主和她自己服务的局内人。
Hillary Clinton is an insider who f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5443 | 43 作者：神仙兔八哥
11月8日，我们将赢下选举入主白宫。
On November 8th, we are going to win this state and we are going to win the
White House.
这将是所有美国人民的胜利。
It’s going to be a victory for YOU, the American people.
我们将结束克林顿式的腐败，重塑政府的尊严与诚信。
We are going to end the Clinton Corruption and restore dignity and honesty
to government service.
希拉里克林顿是一个只为金主和她自己服务的局内人。
Hillary Clinton is an insider who fights only for her donors and for herself.
而我，是一个为美国人民战斗的政治门外汉。
I am an outsider fighting for you.
我们首先要做的一件事就是重建美国的法律和秩序。我的好朋友，克... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2117 | 44 The day of reckoning is coming soon. Trump 2016! |
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发帖数: 2117 | 45 The day of reckoning is coming soon. Trump 2016! |
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发帖数: 2555 | 46 2016/04/27
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced former House speaker J. Dennis
Hastert to one year and three months in federal prison — a term above what
prosecutors had recommended and one that clearly took into account the
sexual abuse allegations that generated the criminal case against the
Illinois Republican.
Prosecutors called the sentence a “day of reckoning” for a man who was
once a revered high school teacher and wrestling coach in Illinois and who
ascended to the highest ranks of Ame... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2482 | 47 There is nothing the political establish will not do. No lie they won't tell
to hold their prestige and power at your expense. And that's what's
happening. The Washington establishment and the financial and media
corporation that funded exist for only one reason to protect and enrich
itself. The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election
as one example just one single they'd like to pass involves trillions of
dollars controlled by many countries, corporations and lobbyists.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2482 | 48 "A moment of reckoning."
This will go down in history as one of the greatest speeches. |
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发帖数: 5443 | 49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF8rs4CYAPI
“我加入竞选前，有人警告我，说参加总统竞选会把我打入地狱。我本来可以不来趟这
场浑水的，我商业经营很成功，旗下多家公司，我拥有一个幸福的家庭，我本来可以每
天坐在家里舒舒服服享受生活的。但这个国家现在千疮百孔，我想帮这个国家。我本来
也是掌控这个国家的少数上层人士之一，但我现在跟他们决裂了。我从那个小团体出来
，因此我深知这个国家肮脏到了什么程度。也正因为我从那里出来，我也是治理这个国
家的最佳人选。”
Trump的出身和本人的能力、经历决定了他的视野。有心人汇总了他年轻时（四十岁前
后）的电视采访内容，对美国的种种担心和今天在演讲中说的高度一致
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxf1XmVZ9qY
他表面上是个肤浅的花花公子，实际上是个能够严肃思考、缜密分析的聪明人。身为商
人却有诸多义举，实较那些满口仁义道德的政客要高尚得多。
他本可以继续留在超级富豪俱乐部里享受，对本国中产插管吸血，却在古稀之年站出来
揭穿皇帝新衣的谎言，开启自己人生的最后一场大战。没有大金主... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12895 | 50 This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I
didn't need to do this, folks, believe me — believe me. I built a great
company and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the fruits and
benefits of years of successful business deals and businesses for myself and
my family. Instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies,
deceptions, malicious attacks — who would have thought? I'm doing it
because this country has given me so much, and I feel so stron... 阅读全帖 |
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