“This time of uncertainty only underscores the need for calm, steady, experienced leadership in the White House to protect Americans’ pocketbooks and livelihoods, to support our friends and allies, to stand up to our adversaries, and to defend our interests,” she continued. “It also underscores the need for us to pull together to solve our challenges as a country, not tear each other down.” (Soon-to-be Madame President Hillary Clinton)
Wise, as usual. Thank you, Hillary!
Hill, let’s concentrate on the USA. What happens to the British is their problem.
Sure. After all, there’s an ocean between us. It’s not like anything that happens in Foreignerland could ever affect America!
Not in the global economy. It’s everyone’s problem! Notice the dow this morning?
This is a great response, and exactly what I had hoped she would convey.
We need competent, pragmatic experienced people, not newbies dazzled by untested or discredited ideology
Thank you, Hillary, for trying to combat the politics of fear.
Our first task has to be to make sure that the economic uncertainty created by these events does not hurt working families here in America.
Clearly, English isn’t your first language. Try using Google Translate
P.S. Thank you Madame Secretary.
The same xenophobic fears are being stoked here too. We see how Britain’s vote has affected the world’s economy just with this one reactionary referendum – just imagine what will happen if we elect Trump. Here is the guy they want as their next Prime Minister
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Hillary will have her work cut out for her. Fortunately, she’s figured out how to handle our ignorant, lazy, but rapacious press corp.
Here’s a great article by Brit Economist and Krugman colleague, Simon Wren-Lewis regarding the role of Britain’s Murdoch-owned rightwing press in propagandizing the Brexiteers. The application to Fox News is obvious. Freedom of the press, notwithstanding, this is alarming; a threat to democracy
In 2015 I argued that mediamacro had won it for Cameron and Osborne, and pretty well no one took this seriously. Just a year later, the united voice of economists has been successfully dismissed as Project Fear. Not by the people, but by politicians working together with most of the tabloid press, and a broadcast media obsessed with ‘balance’. The tabloid press has groomed its readers for Brexit. If any good is to come out of this, it will involve defeating most of the tabloid press, and then forever reducing their influence. And given the power of that media, this can only be done by a united opposition that is prepared to cooperate in an effort to beat Johnson and Farage.
There is also a very big warning here for the US. Clinton may be ahead now, but do not underestimate the power of the media (which is still giving Trump much more coverage) to turn that around.
Brexit is perhaps the first major casualty of the political populism that has followed the financial crisis and austerity. That populism triumphed in the UK because the establishment underestimated its power and did nothing to tackle the resentment on which it feeds and the misinformation on which it thrives. It has been strong enough to turn a traditionally outward looking nation into one that turns its back on its neighbours. The leaders as well as the people of other countries should not make the same mistake as the UK just made.
Buddy of mine is in intense negotiations with a few Vulcans he knows…One of them (Spock’s great grandfather) is working on a Vulcan Mind Meld…which does the following…
- In a group manner, this Mind Meld REVERSES the American tendency for voting participation rates and I.Q. scores to approach -1.00
It is actually much much worse that this. What you describe is pitting old, hateful, resentful and high-voting sectors of the country between younger people who simply do not have the proper points of reference to even contemplate the vast evil they are now confronted with…
They are thinking in terms of the last social media missive from Steph’s wife, not grown-up stuff. Bernie’s actions (in which he is continuing to act like a 16 year-old) prove that.
Yes. There is a certain familiarity there, isn’t there?