(November 22, 2016 at 3:48 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Trump on his businesses/conflict q's: "The law's totally on my side, the president can't have a conflict of interest."He doesn't know what he's fucking talking about....which has been evident from the start but a lot of people simply don't care.
When he seemed to be ignorant of what I blind trust was, that seemed genuine.
But when it comes to this, I think he knows exactly what he is doing. He can pretend day and night that he doesn't understand how it's a conflict of interest but he knows that there is already a line outside of his door and he knows what those people want and the only thing left to do is negotiate a price. And when Trump calls himself a negotiator, this is what he has in mind. If he's not a real billionaire now, he will be in four years.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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