By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--January 27, 2017
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In announcing that the Doomsday Clock was moving 30 seconds closer to the end of humanity, the group noted that in 2016, “the global security landscape darkened as the international community failed to come effectively to grips with humanity’s most pressing existential threats, nuclear weapons and climate change.” But the organization also cited the election of President Trump in changing the symbolic clock. “Making matters worse, the United States now has a president who has promised to impede progress on both of those fronts,” theoretical physicist Lawrence M. Krauss and retired Navy Rear Adm. David Titley wrote in a New York Times op-ed on behalf of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock largely because of the statements of a single person. But when that person is the new president of the United States, his words matter.”Geriatric hippies (the only people who actually think this clock has any actual meaning) cried out in unison. "Trump is going to destroy us all!" Apparently, we should all be buying extra food and storing bottled water because Donald Trump is going to incinerate all of humanity in a global storm of nuclear hellfire. Yes, these sad saps believe that the U.S. and Russia - the only two nations with the firepower to do so - are about to end the world.
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The left, of course, wants none of this. To them, "engagement" equals capitulation. In a bizarro turnaround, the party of peace and love in the 60's has become the party of hawkish anti-Russian rhetoric in the present. they're positively salivating over the prospect of conflict with Russia. They've gone from "we shouldn't police the world" to "we're the only ones who can police the world" in the space of 25 years. Today, Democrats demand no fly zones, cruise missile strikes, and anti-Russian redlines with all the regularity of a Metamucil addict. Anything that might exacerbate relations between the Russia and America is catnip to them. Heck, Hillary Clinton actually campaigned on the escalatiIn a speech in the US on Thursday, PM May said of her advice on Russian Pres. Putin: "Engage, but beware."
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) January 26, 2017
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