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The majority of scholars admit that a woman emotionally stable enough to be President of the United States ...

Is on in a million, Margaret Thatcher being one, are you willing to take those odds, especially when Clinton starts out with a known criminal background?

Posted - August 8, 2016

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  • I've read some articles by economist widely acclaimed to be at the top of their field in the world. They believe, based on research including government, reserve bank, commercial banking and business audit figures, that America has the highest net debt in the world and is at serious risk of default. According to them, the interest on the interest on the interest cannot be paid because there is insufficient real capital or income - the system currently works entirely on trust. Another event such as the Lehman Bros collapse or a mass default on sub-prime loans (many exist in leveraging on the stock market) could cause a GFC far worse than the last, and far worse than the great Depression. They estimate that recovery would not be possible. I will try to find those articles and track back to the writers and their sources for you.

    I accept that all governments lie about their current accounts and expenditures, and the accounts of the outgoing administrations, but I don't believe those distortions significantly change the grounds for my reasoning.

      August 11, 2016 6:30 PM MDT
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  • It was not you Ms S

      August 13, 2016 9:11 AM MDT
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  • It's ok.

      August 13, 2016 9:11 AM MDT
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  • I understand. Nothing wrong with trying. You did good.

      August 13, 2016 1:09 PM MDT
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  • 3934

    From which orifice did you pull this "majority of scholars" claim?

    Dressing up your HRC-bashing with sexism does you no credit.

      August 8, 2016 5:14 PM MDT
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  • 1264

    So if I were to say that men are better suited for certain occupations such as Navy Seals, culinary arts, firemen, boxing, fighter pilots, etc etc, that would be sexist or someone who knows the real world. Please!!!!!!!!

      August 8, 2016 5:23 PM MDT
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  • LOL!!! 

    That's the tripe that a Neo-Nazi, White Nationalist was pedaling.  

    Now the true colours of the Trump supporters are starting to come to light. 

      August 8, 2016 5:24 PM MDT
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  • Bez

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    I didn't know Margaret Thatcher was ever the President of the United States. Lol:)

      August 8, 2016 5:26 PM MDT
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  • 1264

    Dude, ask me what women are better suited for and I'll give you a list, please don't show your ignorance by suggesting that neo Nazism has anything to do with this. Do actual research on the reality.

      August 8, 2016 5:31 PM MDT
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  • 386
      August 8, 2016 5:36 PM MDT
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      August 8, 2016 5:44 PM MDT
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  • 2515
    1. First you have to know women are not emotionally disturbed, just because they are women.
    2. Everyone has emotions.
    3. Hillary is as qualified as Bill Clinton or Barack Obama to be President of the US.
    4. Margaret Thatcher was a conservative Republican. That may have been her problem with the way she ran the country.
    5. Hillary is no criminal. She has never been indicted for any crime. If you want to see if Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, and other Presidents who have committed war crimes, I could give you a list of them. They would be qualified for those, although they never have been indicted.
      August 8, 2016 5:44 PM MDT
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  • 1264

    How's 999,000, here's a couple pictures you can frame.

     

      August 8, 2016 6:09 PM MDT
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  • 3934

    @BSD -- First of all, you are not required to like HRC. You can dislike her for any number of reasons or no reason at all.

    That being said, you have made a number of howling logical mistakes in defense of sexism.

    1)  Mistaking averages and extremes for individuals -- Yes, it's true that the VERY BEST fighter pilots in the world, the VERY BEST boxers in the world, and so forth are better than any woman alive at those skills. But if you or I went up against one of the many well-trained female fighter pilots in the world, or got in the ring against Rhonda Rousey, we would quickly have our rear ends handed to us.

    Similarly, if you took 100 men at random and 100 women at random, on average the men would be better boxers than the women. But if one of those 100 wowen was Rhonda Rousey, chances are she'd hand the other 199 people their collective rear ends.

    Where HRC lies on the bell curve of US presidential candiates, we do not know.

    2) Multiple failures around the concept of "emotional stability"  -- You do not define what it is, how you measure it, where HRC lies on any measure of it, nor do you establish what measure of "emotional stability" (assuming you could define it) is either necessary or desirable in a President (keep in mind Presidents such as Andrew Jackson, Dwight Eisenhower, and Bill Clinton were all known for their volatile tempers).

    Throw in the fact you failed to back up your claim about "the majority of scholars" and, yeah, pretty much your claim is HRC-bashing with a generous dollop of anti-women bigotry.

      August 8, 2016 6:51 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    You have les sense than TRUMP. I think the surfboard hit you on the head one time too many.  Lie much?

    Maybe you are mentally unstable.   They say when you point a finger, three are pointing back at you.  Get therapy and stop talking about subjects you know zero about. 

    Is Donald Trump mentally unstable?

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    His critics have used a lot of adjectives to describe Donald Trump: outrageous, flamboyant, pompous, thin-skinned, erratic, egocentric and paranoid, for starters.

    But maybe it's time to use another word: "crazy." Not "crazy" as in wild and funny, but "crazy" as in mentally unstable. Given his bizarre behavior, it's a question more and more people are asking these days.

    One thing's for sure, we know Trump's a pathological liar. He lies with every breath. He lies so often about so many things he makes "Lyin' Ted" look like a truth-teller. Look at his contradictory statements about Vladimir Putin.

    Back in 2014, he bragged: "I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer." Last November, he claimed he "got to know Putin very well because we were both on '60 Minutes.'" But this week, he told reporters: "I never met Putin. I don't know who Putin is."

    Which is it? Did Trump meet Putin or did he not? If he did, don't you think he'd remember? And how could the Republican nominee for president not know who Vladimir Putin is?

    We also know that Donald Trump can't take criticism. He has a compulsive need to strike back at anybody who doesn't lavish him with praise: banning from his rallies reporters who wrote critical stories and belittling Republican politicians who were slow to endorse him.

    Trump couldn't even tolerate criticism from speakers at the Democratic National Convention -- who, it should have come as no surprise to him, were invited for that very purpose. In response to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Trump tweeted: "I was going to hit one guy in particular, a very little guy."

    And then there was his sick, ill-advised diatribe against Gold Star Mother Ghazala Khan and her husband Khizr, parents of Army Captain Humayun Khan, who heroically gave his life to save his fellow soldiers in Iraq in 2004. As powerful as Mr. Khan's convention speech was, it would have been soon forgotten had Trump not kept it alive with five days of mean, personal, and ugly attacks. At some point, even he must have known he'd gone too far, but he couldn't let it go. He couldn't help himself.

    But when you add up all of Trump's erratic behavior, there appears to be more to it than just an occasional offbeat moment. Might Donald Trump, in fact, be mentally unbalanced? Some experts have started to say so openly.

    Physicians and radio talk show host Dr. Drew Pinsky told CNN's Don Lemon that while Trump does not fit the strict legal definition of insanity, he does show signs of multiple mental illnesses. Writing on the website Big Think, New Yorker science and psychology writer Maria Konnikova suggested that Trump might actually suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD.

    Dr. Robert Geffner, president of San Diego's Institution on Violence, Abuse and Trauma, told me there were three forms of aberrant behavior psychologists look for: NPD, where people have a grandiose opinion of themselves; impulse control disorder, where people act and react strictly on impulse, with no control filters; and anti-social personality disorders, where people manipulate without blinking, say one thing one day and the opposite the next day, with no remorse, guilt, or empathy. When found together in one person and combined with bullying, the results, he said, could be "dangerous and frightening."

    Now, I'm no shrink. But if that doesn't describe Donald Trump to a "T," I don't know what does. Need further proof? On August 3, the online magazine Jezebel compiled a list of every bonkers thing Trump did in the last 24 hours.

    He continued insulting the Khan family, accused two fire marshals of playing politics by not cramming thousands of extra people into his rallies, called Hillary Clinton "the devil," kicked a baby out of a campaign rally, joked about being gifted a Purple Heart medal, refused to endorse Paul Ryan and John McCain, and said if his daughter were sexually harassed, he'd just tell her to find a new job.

    It makes you wonder how someone so unstable got this far. As for Trump's mental health, or lack thereof, we may not know until it's too late.

    Isn't it ironic? Candidates for the Secret Service must pass a strict psychological exam before being hired, yet there's no such requirement for candidates for president. Whatever you do, don't give Donald Trump that test. He'd flunk it.

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      August 8, 2016 7:06 PM MDT
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  • 386

    That's better, but the majority of scholars still didn't say that. Next time, open with that. You've already given away the game.

    I don't have pictures of Hilary Clinton, and I have no use for yours. The fact that you have them to give is quite telling. I'm sure they come in handy on those lonely nights.

    So, quit stalling and frame them your d*** self.

      August 8, 2016 7:35 PM MDT
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  • Neo Nazism and White Nationalism go hand-in-hand. 

    I've done my research and one thing I've learned is that there is a thin veil draped over one in attempt to differentiate it over the other.

    I suggest that when you make a statement or ask a question and invite feedback, you behave a little more civil to those that respond.

    Fact's are facts...White Nationalists, Racist, Ne-Nazi's are all excited bout the prospect of a trump presidency and they will do anything and say anything to ensure that happens. That includes bring up a mysoginistic, false belief that men are superior to women.  

    White Nationalists Love Trump’s Convention: “GOP Is Becoming The De Facto White Party”

    http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/07/20/white-nationalists-love...

      August 9, 2016 9:26 AM MDT
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  • 691

    There are plenty of great female politicians who would be excellent candidates.  Instead we are running this hillary thing so we lose if we win.

      August 9, 2016 10:56 AM MDT
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  • HRC doesn't even count as female as far as I'm concerned. She is a psychopath and all normal female psychology doesn't apply.

    Women generally lack perspective. They have a tendency to get things completely out of all proportion, focusing on issues of minimal importance while ignoring the elephant in the room. They are overly concerned with feelings.

    Women have evolved to care for children. This has led to a nurturing psychology that is designed to prioritise the short term immediate needs of a child. This is the absolute opposite of the long term strategic thinking a country needs. Women's morality tends to be more compassion based, instead of justice based. This has caused them to support excessive welfare programs at the expense of individual rights and long term fiscal sustainability.

    We let the genie out of the bottle when we gave women the vote, and it's irreversible now. Leaders, male or female, will pander to the women's vote, so emotional politics is here to stay.

      August 9, 2016 11:12 AM MDT
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  • May I ask what your profile ID means? 

      August 9, 2016 1:08 PM MDT
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  • It's a reference to the Austrian School Of Economics.

      August 9, 2016 1:15 PM MDT
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  • 1523

    No.  She shouldn't  be President, IMO.

      August 9, 2016 2:14 PM MDT
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  • He didn't say men are superior to women. He said men are generally better leaders.

    It takes all sorts to make a world. Men and women are different and bring different things to the table. If you see leaders as being superior to the people who follow them, that's your issue.

     

      August 9, 2016 2:34 PM MDT
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  • OK... I was wondering if was referring to Hitler's home country.

    The  thinking reflected in your statement is psuedo-science and was very much the same that was in place back in earlier days.  I would love to hear your opinion of domestic abuse  (or as it was called back in the day, Discipline).

    I may be wrong, but your comment could have very well been written by a male in one of the muslim societies such as Saudi Arabia where women are rquired to wear a Burkah and be subserviant to men.

      August 10, 2016 8:28 AM MDT
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