'Catallaxy Files' is an Australian supposed right-libertarian blog site. Terry Colvin, a retired US military chap living in Thailand, sometimes sees fit to forward its blog postings to the Skeptic mailing list. ----- Forwarded message from "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1@mindspring.com> ----- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 17:27:09 +0700 (GMT+07:00) From: "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1@mindspring.com> To: Skeptic <skeptic@linuxmafia.com> Subject: [skeptic] Fw: [New post] Does Australia Need a Donald Trump? X-Mailer: EarthLink Zoo Mail 1.0 Reply-To: "Terry W. Colvin" <fortean1@mindspring.com> -----Forwarded Message----- From: Catallaxy Files Sent: Mar 22, 2018 3:01 PM To: fortean1@mindspring.com Subject: [New post] Does Australia Need a Donald Trump? Sinclair Davidson posted: "DOES AUSTRALIA NEED A DONALD TRUMP? With Tom Switzer, Parnell McGuinness, James Morrow and Miranda Devine Join us after work for drinks and canapes in Sydney on April 3 as we debate whether Australia needs a disruptive leader like Donald Trump. " New post on Catallaxy Files [bla] Does Australia Need a Donald Trump? [2e8639] by Sinclair Davidson DOES AUSTRALIA NEED A DONALD TRUMP? With Tom Switzer, Parnell McGuinness, James Morrow and Miranda Devine Join us after work for drinks and canapes in Sydney on April 3 as we debate whether Australia needs a disruptive leader like Donald Trump. He has turned US politics upside-down by mocking the media, provoking critics, cutting bureaucracies, setting ambitious targets and pursuing them with the unpredictability of a world-class negotiator. By doing so, Donald Trump has revived investment, employment, share prices, consumer confidence and US global power, not to mention grass-roots patriotism. Australian politicians, meanwhile, are constrained by Canberran conventions. Could we use a maverick? Could a shrewd outsider with a showbiz streak do to Australia what Trump has done for the US? Join us as our two panels - Miranda Devine and James Morrow (for) and Tom Switzer and Parnell McGuinness (against) - imagine the consequences. DATE: Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 6pm-8pm VENUE: Hudson House, Level 15, 131 Macquarie Street, Sydney COST: $30 pp/ $15 members. Click here to book ENQUIRIES: Please contact James Mathias at events@menziesrc.org or (02) 6273 5608. Sinclair Davidson | March 22, 2018 at 7:01 pm | URL: https://wp.me/ pScng-kSX Comment See all comments Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Catallaxy Files. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://catallaxyfiles.com/2018/03/22/does-australia-need-a-donald-trump/ * _______________________________________________ skeptic mailing list skeptic@linuxmafia.com http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/skeptic To reach the listadmin, mail rick@linuxmafia.com ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Kevin France <kevinfrance0a@gmail.com> ----- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:11:31 +0000 From: Kevin France <kevinfrance0a@gmail.com> To: Skeptic <skeptic@linuxmafia.com> Subject: Re: [skeptic] Fw: [New post] Does Australia Need a Donald Trump? No one fucking needs Donald Trump. _______________________________________________ skeptic mailing list skeptic@linuxmafia.com http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/skeptic To reach the listadmin, mail rick@linuxmafia.com ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> ----- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 05:59:40 -0700 From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> To: skeptic@linuxmafia.com Subject: Re: [skeptic] Fw: [New post] Does Australia Need a Donald Trump? Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already. I note with appreciation my learned colleague Kevin France's comment. ;-> Further: Quoting Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com), citing Sinclair Davidson at Catallaxy Files:
Sinclair Davidson posted: "DOES AUSTRALIA NEED A DONALD TRUMP? With Tom Switzer, Parnell McGuinness, James Morrow and Miranda Devine Join us after work for drinks and canapes in Sydney on April 3 as we debate whether Australia needs a disruptive leader like Donald Trump. "
There are multiple errors in the question. First, the Toddler-in-Chief is nothing like a leader. He is merely a talentless hereditary mafia don (pun not entirely intended), an infantile third-rater. Second, the correct word is not 'disruptive' but rather chaotic. He doesn't even serve his _own_ agenda, because he doesn't have one.
He has turned US politics upside-down by mocking the media, provoking critics, cutting bureaucracies, setting ambitious targets and pursuing them with the unpredictability of a world-class negotiator.
Third, that's not turning US politics upside-down, but rather introducing a great deal of noise and debasing (his portion of) public discourse, along with emboldening Neo-Nazis and misogynists. Fourth, it's turned out he's an absolutely abysmal negotiator, who merely lied about that along with just about literally everything else.
By doing so, Donald Trump has revived investment, employment, share prices, consumer confidence and US global power, not to mention grass-roots patriotism.
He's done none of those things, actually. Economic indicators are declining, US global power is in tatters and the nation an international laughing-stock, and the only patriotism he's inspired is among those inspired to put an early end to his incompetent misrule.
Australian politicians, meanwhile, are constrained by Canberran conventions.
It's called a functional parliamentary democracy. Fscking it up by inviting a small-handed banana-republic strongman to seize power would be an epic own goal, and if I didnt't already know from repeated forwards that Catallaxy Files is the redoubt of morons, this suggestion would have proved it. _______________________________________________ skeptic mailing list skeptic@linuxmafia.com http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/skeptic To reach the listadmin, mail rick@linuxmafia.com ----- End forwarded message -----