Dodd and Frank were two house reps who proposed a bill to put in place regulatory checks and restrictions on Wall st. after the 2008 crash.
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Ta. So the inference being that Trump will be looking to look after his mates? Like he did with not banning immigration from any country he has hotels in?
Nice.
Dodd was a Senator at the time
Dunno much about Dodd but Frank was a rep from Boston when I moved here first.
Fun fact.
In the film Good Will Hunting there's a scene filmed in a bar where Damon schools some posh Harvard kids, 'How d'ya like them apples'. In the movie they call these kids Barneys which is local slang for an educated liberal type because they always voted for Barney Frank.
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No, guys, he's looking out for the AVERAGE American! Trump only wants whats best for AMERICA by trying to dismantle a lot of the checks that the country implemented after idiots tried their best to burn the country to the ground for a few billion dollars.
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Pretty important Senator from CT in his dayDunno much about Dodd but Frank was a rep from Boston when I moved here first.
Fun fact.
In the film Good Will Hunting there's a scene filmed in a bar where Damon schools some posh Harvard kids, 'How d'ya like them apples'. In the movie they call these kids Barneys which is local slang for an educated liberal type because they always voted for Barney Frank.
Friday's dragging a bit
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If people (in serious media, as opposed to nut bars) actually compared him to Hitler, the it's obviously daft.
However, if you don't think what's gone on lately is cause for alarm, you're simply not paying close enough attention.
The way the media is being treated by the administration is absolutely terrifying, just for starters. The national security stuff (elevating Bannon to the permanent group while effectively demoting CJCOS among others) is something everyone with half a brain should find utterly alarming.
I also find fault with the logic that the media's major duty is to remain impartial at all costs. Balance for balance's sake is utterly unhelpful.
It was the same thing with Brexit. BBC would host a panel, and they'd put 1 economist for and one against up there, giving the impression that expert opinion was evenly split, when in fact it was anything but.
The media's duty is to inform - and in this case (against a backdrop of the administration doing everything it can to stymie reporters) the public needs to be informed in the strongest terms possible that what is going on is NOT normal.
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The bowling green massacre though.
He's helped radicalise a new kind of irrational hatred from within.
We worry about Islamic fascism, where the clear and indicative danger lies within. Radicalised young and old white men that feel that because of their race/gender/religion, they have the right to dictate everything and anything they want.
Putrid.
We worry about Islamic fascism, where the clear and indicative danger lies within. Radicalised young and old white men that feel that because of their race/gender/religion, they have the right to dictate everything and anything they want.
Putrid.
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we're trying though!
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-martin/kevin-oleary-donald-trump_b_14272122.html
The parallels between O'Leary and Trump are striking and eerie. Both are reality TV stars. Both are successful businessmen although, in keeping with Canada's more modest achievements, O'Leary is a multi-millionaire not a multi-billionaire. Both men are voluble and abrasive pontificators with outsized egos and a penchant for delivering fact-free rants. Both have managed to acquire a grandiose ironic nickname: "The Donald" for Mr. Trump and "Mr. Wonderful" for O'Leary. Like Trump, O'Leary is skilled at the use of social media. He likes to be combative and loves tagging his opponents with disparaging nicknames like "surfer dude" for Justin Trudeau and "bozo" for Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson.
Perhaps most importantly, O'Leary is joining a leadership race populated by weak candidates. Just as Trump made mincemeat of an unimpressive Republican slate, O'Leary might easily defeat his less-than-stellar Conservative adversaries.
What would have been unthinkable for Canada even a few months ago is now becoming not only possible but even likely. The early ridicule of O'Leary is quickly turning into serious analyses of his candidacy which seem to include an undercurrent of fear.
Mr. O'Leary may have a chance to win the Conservative Party leadership but he's too right wing to ever become prime minister, say some. Other commentators point out that he is not fluent in French which is usually a fatal flaw for any Canadian politician seeking national office.
He's starting to sound more reasonable and less abrasive. He's tapping into the public's disenchantment with the media and the political elite. And as for French, O'Leary recently noted that he spoke the language growing up in Montreal until the age of seven which suggests it wouldn't take him long to regain his fluency.
I'm hoping that Canada's multicultural society and our multi-party system will make it difficult for O'Leary to succeed. I'm also hoping that our commitment to socialized medicine and a generous social welfare system is more than skin deep and will ultimately stop us from electing a bloviating blowhard of the Trump persuasion.
If I'm wrong, however, at least we'll have more than half of the American electorate to console us.
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Canada is definitely not too good to vote for him, as anyone who survived 2006-2015 well knows.
poor, pathetic, culturally useless Canada. even our aspiring fascists have to plagiarized from the Americans
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I knew a non exec woman who always brought her dog to board meetings, Trumps wife is no dog........
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