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He's a Christian (though he doesn't always act like one) so I see that as unlikely.
You were talking dictatorships. Almost all dictatorships are of the left wing variety these days.
Fwiw, there are reports on the Net (at least) that Trump has already said the odd unflattering thing about JC, though these reports are hotly disputed it would appear. That's besides reports of Trump comparing himself to JC, as well as to God. Wikiquotes has a page with tons of quotes by (or about) Trump, many of them pretty ugly IMHO.
It appears you are correct about present day dictatorships in the world, assuming there's only 24 of them:
Trump reminds me of a jackass. Here are some pertinent remarks by Steve Coll from the Feb 6/17 issue of The New Yorker:
" One might wish that the solemn responsibility of leading a nuclear-armed world power would steer a successful seventy-year-old man away from routinely telling whoppers, yet it is hardly surprising that Trump has not changed since taking the oath of office. He has a long record as salesman, provocateur, self-promoter, and self-worshipper. His eruptions on Twitter and on live TV damage American democracy and credibility, but there are even more worrying aspects of the disinformation emanating from and around the Administration. During the campaign, Trump’s advisers mobilized in their service a phalanx of information warriors, including commentators on Fox News and digital upstarts such as Breitbart News, whose offerings included partisan and extremist content. Alongside them worked looser, less visible online networks of racists, anti-Semites, and nationalists. A question now is how Trump’s image shapers, led by Stephen Bannon, the former Breitbart head who is the White House senior counsellor, intend to adapt that strategy—which included the promotion of big lies about President Obama’s birth and Secretary Clinton’s health—as policy, embedded across federal agencies."
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Sadly, Trump & co. don't have a monopoly on racism.
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
Fwiw, there are reports on the Net (at least) that Trump has already said the odd unflattering thing about JC, though these reports are hotly disputed it would appear. That's besides reports of Trump comparing himself to JC, as well as to God. Wikiquotes has a page with tons of quotes by (or about) Trump, many of them pretty ugly IMHO.
It appears you are correct about present day dictatorships in the world, assuming there's only 24 of them:
When it comes to media reports about Donald Trump or climate change I prefer to go back to original sources and data because I don't believe anything in the media or the writings of most climate scientists. It is apparent that much of the data supporting the Paris Accord came from fudged science discarding or adjusting satellite and buoy data to make them less accurate in order to "hide the decline" or pause in warming. One of the positives in a Trump presidency is that these things will be looked at by a fresh set of skeptical eyes.
When it comes to media reports about Donald Trump or climate change I prefer to go back to original sources and data because I don't believe anything in the media or the writings of most climate scientists. It is apparent that much of the data supporting the Paris Accord came from fudged science discarding or adjusting satellite and buoy data to make them less accurate in order to "hide the decline" or pause in warming. One of the positives in a Trump presidency is that these things will be looked at by a fresh set of skeptical eyes.
A fresh set of eyes - maybe, but clearly not impartial or even open to science or reason. I find it hard to believe all the so-called 'hard' data that is crunched to 1/10 of a degree. I think the accuracy of most of the measurements are clearly not anywhere near that accurate, but that is just my skepticism...
Stephen Miller, one of Trump's scariest swamp creatures!
I first saw this guy being interviewed in the election campaign maybe a year ago, he can just makes your skin crawl.
A fresh set of eyes - maybe, but clearly not impartial or even open to science or reason. I find it hard to believe all the so-called 'hard' data that is crunched to 1/10 of a degree. I think the accuracy of most of the measurements are clearly not anywhere near that accurate, but that is just my skepticism...
There is a black joke - a statistician drown in a lake with an average depth of 1 m.
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