A new book by Donald Carnage.
Inspired by Max Boot (Corrosion of Conservatism) and George Will (“The shabbiest President ever is an Inexpressibly sad specimen”) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-a-misery-it-must-be-to-be-donald-trump/2019/01/18/d0e05eea-1a82-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html?utm_term=.7bf9d512df93
When “conservative” columnists don’t like “conservative” presidents, something must be wrong with the “conservative” president.
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Saturday, January 19, 2019
Monday, March 20, 2017
Can travelers stop Trump?
I thought I saw an article in BBC News that many people in other countries who could travel to the U.S. are choosing to go elsewhere. For example, a British professor who received a travel grant decided to use it to travel to a conference not in the U.S. In addition, travel to the U.S. supposedly is down. Is this seasonal or because of Trump.
Trump’s travel ban is having an effect on doctors for small towns. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/us/doctor-shortage-visa-policy.html. Many of these small towns depend on foreign doctors because many U.S. doctors aren’t interested in working in low-paying areas.
I wonder how much people leaving the U.S. and people not considering can put a crimp in the support of Trump.
What if all those U.S. residents who are foreign-born decided to go elsewhere? I have many foreign-born friends, some who are also citizens. I would not like to see them leave. But as with the doctors, if large numbers of engineers, professors, programmers moved outside the U.S., would the U.S. economy be hurt enough to get many of Trump’s enablers to abandon him?
What if large numbers of temporary visitors decided to go elsewhere? Would the travel industry feel it enough to complain to politicians.
If this came to pass, I know who Trump would blame: me.
Actually probably not me, but I’m sure he would find lots of scapegoats other than himself.
An additional thought along these lines. How much do U.S. travelers enable other anti-democratic leaders? Could a large enough boycott have an effect on these leaders, or would their countries become another North Korea?
Trump’s travel ban is having an effect on doctors for small towns. See https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/us/doctor-shortage-visa-policy.html. Many of these small towns depend on foreign doctors because many U.S. doctors aren’t interested in working in low-paying areas.
I wonder how much people leaving the U.S. and people not considering can put a crimp in the support of Trump.
What if all those U.S. residents who are foreign-born decided to go elsewhere? I have many foreign-born friends, some who are also citizens. I would not like to see them leave. But as with the doctors, if large numbers of engineers, professors, programmers moved outside the U.S., would the U.S. economy be hurt enough to get many of Trump’s enablers to abandon him?
What if large numbers of temporary visitors decided to go elsewhere? Would the travel industry feel it enough to complain to politicians.
If this came to pass, I know who Trump would blame: me.
Actually probably not me, but I’m sure he would find lots of scapegoats other than himself.
An additional thought along these lines. How much do U.S. travelers enable other anti-democratic leaders? Could a large enough boycott have an effect on these leaders, or would their countries become another North Korea?
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Cartoon of the Day: Political News
Read what the fortune teller in "Wizard of ID" has to say about a future ruler and the media. Look for the January 22, 2013 strip at http://www.creators.com/comics/wizard-of-id.html.
Monday, November 07, 2011
Physician - heal thyself!
Bashar Assad, president of Syria, was trained as an ophthalmologist, but he seems to be blind to what many people in Syria want. Ironically, he was trained in a country, England, where he enjoyed the freedom of expression that he denies his own people. See the Wikipedia entry on him.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
A little thing to help the Egyptian people
On June 23, 2009, President Obama made a strong statement in support of the Iranian people protesting against the official election results.
His concluding remark was:
What you can do is send web-form email to the president asking him to speak out more strongly about Egypt in the same way. You'll find a "contact us" button in the upper right hand corner of most White House pages.
My own message was
His concluding remark was:
As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people have a universal right to assembly and free speech. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect those rights and heed the will of its own people. It must govern through consent and not coercion. That's what Iran's own people are calling for, and the Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government.http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/06/23/presidents-opening-remarks-iran-with-persian-translation
What you can do is send web-form email to the president asking him to speak out more strongly about Egypt in the same way. You'll find a "contact us" button in the upper right hand corner of most White House pages.
My own message was
Please make strong remarks about the situation in Egypt similar to those you made about Iran on June 23, 2009.
Our quest for "national security" has made us more insecure.
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