Excited to share a new piece in FP!
— Rush Doshi (@RushDoshi) October 12, 2020
I argue ODNI's claim that China prefers Trump "not win reelection" tells only half the story.
Party texts show China believes Trump is accelerating US decline.
This has triggered a new phase in PRC grand strategy.
1/https://t.co/qTdFBKclYW
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
October 16, 2020
The decline of the US...remember the decline of the British "Empire"?
November 23, 2019
November 15, 2019
The Trump impeachment comedy
A dude heard another dude who heard that a dude told a dude that he overheard another dude talking to a dude about the investigation of another dude. This is an impeachment case built to appeal to the moron class. You really have to be a dope to get suckered again by this. https://t.co/jLuAlKdRUS— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) November 15, 2019
November 11, 2019
Grim Trigger Play in Maharashtra CM politics BJP vs Shiv Sena
A "Grim Trigger" (also called the grim strategy or just grim) is a trigger strategy for a repeated game.
Initially, a player using grim trigger will cooperate, but as soon as the opponent defects (thus satisfying the trigger condition), the player using grim trigger will defect for the remainder of the iterated game. Since a single defect by the opponent triggers defection forever, grim trigger is the most strictly unforgiving of strategies in an iterated game.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_trigger
Initially, a player using grim trigger will cooperate, but as soon as the opponent defects (thus satisfying the trigger condition), the player using grim trigger will defect for the remainder of the iterated game. Since a single defect by the opponent triggers defection forever, grim trigger is the most strictly unforgiving of strategies in an iterated game.
Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim_trigger
October 20, 2019
What is fascism and why ....
Read more at https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism and in detail at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
August 29, 2019
This is ridiculous
One of the finest novels and a classic ever written "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy... cannot be kept at home.
You might be considered antinational...
Read more here
You might be considered antinational...
Read more here
July 14, 2019
Welcome the new Bhartiya Janta Congress Party
Did you vote BJP this time or Congress?
Don't worry... everything is fair in politics... there are no permanent enemies, only common interests... your ideology, criminal background, corruption abilities, principles etc simply does not matter.
Just see the tamasha... elected Karnataka representatives want to defect to BJP, Congress MLAs in Goa have already joined BJP ... Maharashtra next?
The voters always get taken for a ride... fact of life.
Don't worry... everything is fair in politics... there are no permanent enemies, only common interests... your ideology, criminal background, corruption abilities, principles etc simply does not matter.
Just see the tamasha... elected Karnataka representatives want to defect to BJP, Congress MLAs in Goa have already joined BJP ... Maharashtra next?
The voters always get taken for a ride... fact of life.
June 12, 2019
Classic case of "Trump Derangement Syndrome"
This is when you start getting hysterical or hallucinating of terrible events in the future.
Note that the guy making the comment has nothing to lose if he is wrong... be very careful of such people who give this kind of advice.
Note that the guy making the comment has nothing to lose if he is wrong... be very careful of such people who give this kind of advice.
"If he loses... he won't go. I've been saying that since before he got elected."— Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) June 12, 2019
"Real Time" host Bill Maher warns @ChrisCuomo that President Trump may not leave the White House is he loses the presidential election in 2020, saying it's something we have to worry about. pic.twitter.com/znTRm3yyO7
January 16, 2019
Modi Wins 'First-Ever' Philip Kotler Presidential Award – But What Is it?
I want to congratulate our PM, on winning the world famous “Kotler Presidential Award”!— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) January 15, 2019
In fact it's so famous it has no jury, has never been given out before & is backed by an unheard of Aligarh company.
Event Partners: Patanjali & Republic TV :)https://t.co/449Vk9Ybmz
Top BJP leaders praised the PM for winning a prize with no disclosed jury or process – from a marketing group whose organisers ducked questions, calling it "a very confidential award”.
Read more at https://www.thewire.in/business/modi-wins-first-ever-philip-kotler-presidential-award-but-what-is-it-exactly
Read more at https://www.thewire.in/business/modi-wins-first-ever-philip-kotler-presidential-award-but-what-is-it-exactly
The World Marketing Summit India is owned by an Aligarh based company ... and their website at https://wms18.com is down from today morning. I just wanted to see the jury, the process, competitors etc but bad luck.
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Further investigation by The Wire reveals that both the WMS India and Suslence are the initiatives of a Saudi-based team, principally Tauseef Zia Siddiqui, whose online profile describes him as an employee of SABIC – the Saudi Arabian government-owned petrochemical firm, which has been keen to make larger inroads into India’s energy industry.
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Read more at https://thewire.in/business/exclusive-the-saudi-connection-behind-modis-first-ever-kotler-presidential-prize
Full marks to the media team which pulled this off... this will go down in history as one of the finest marketing gimmicks at zero cost and zero pain.
October 31, 2018
Illustration of how little journalists and intellectuals understand the world
Intellectual yet Idiot (IYI): semi-erudite bureaucrat who thinks he is an erudite; pathologizes others for doing things he doesn't understand not realizing it is his understanding that may be limited; imparts normative ideas to others: thinks people should act according to their best interests *and* he knows their interests, particularly if they are uneducated "red necks" or English non-crisp-vowel class....by N N Taleb.
The best example of this is the western media completely miscalculating Trump's victory and then relentlessly pushing down Trump and saying he will not last more than 3 months.
The beginning of the end of the Trump presidency..."
"The tipping point..."
"The walls are closing in..."
"Trump's going down..."
"He will not serve out his term..."
After two years of the mainstream media breathlessly floating 'Russiagate' conspiracies on a daily basis to see just what will stick, Trump remains comfortably in the White House, and as journalist Aaron Maté notes for The Nation, with just days to the midterms, Russiagate is MIA.
Read more at https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-30/taleb-those-idiots-who-emphatically-told-me-he-will-last-3-months-best ... excellent article on how the media hopelessly gets it wrong. Watch the video compilation too.
The best example of this is the western media completely miscalculating Trump's victory and then relentlessly pushing down Trump and saying he will not last more than 3 months.
The beginning of the end of the Trump presidency..."
"The tipping point..."
"The walls are closing in..."
"Trump's going down..."
"He will not serve out his term..."
After two years of the mainstream media breathlessly floating 'Russiagate' conspiracies on a daily basis to see just what will stick, Trump remains comfortably in the White House, and as journalist Aaron Maté notes for The Nation, with just days to the midterms, Russiagate is MIA.
Read more at https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-30/taleb-those-idiots-who-emphatically-told-me-he-will-last-3-months-best ... excellent article on how the media hopelessly gets it wrong. Watch the video compilation too.
April 25, 2018
February 11, 2018
Does anyone remember what Arun Jaitley demanded in 2014 about IT slabs?
Is this the same guy who is our FM now?
If yes, why is he not doing what he demanded 4 years ago?
This is called politics...
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/raise-it-slab-to-rs-5-lakh-says-jaitley/article5931663.ece
If yes, why is he not doing what he demanded 4 years ago?
This is called politics...
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/raise-it-slab-to-rs-5-lakh-says-jaitley/article5931663.ece
How President Trump Changed Your Imagination and Why the Golden Age Starts Now
Do you remember when candidate Trump told us (in effect) that he would be the first non-politician to win the presidency? It seemed impossible to even imagine such a thing. Then he did the impossible.
Do you remember when it was common wisdom that if the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel it would be a huge problem? President Trump did it anyway. So far, it looks like a minor problem at most.
Do you remember when experts said President Trump shouldn’t mess with the Iran nuclear deal because it could cause a huge problem for the United States and its allies? He did it anyway, and it is likely a supporting variable for the Iranian protestors who don’t like how their government is creating problems that don’t need to be problems.
Do you remember when experts said China will never help squeeze the economy of North Korea because China fears a refugee crisis? President Trump encouraged China to squeeze anyway. Then he helpfully provided satellite photos of tankers cheating on the high seas. After South Korea grabbed and held a second cheating tanker, the economics of smuggling oil have turned negative, or will soon. And North Korea is sounding — at least to my ears — more flexible than ever.
Do you remember when it was common wisdom that we couldn’t put enough pressure on Pakistan to make them stop harboring terrorists because Pakistan is also an ally in many ways? President Trump just cut off their funding and put them on notice.
Do you remember when experts said withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord would be a catastrophe? President Trump did it anyway because he didn’t like the deal. I’ve seen no indication that exiting the deal made the climate worse. Here I’m only talking about the quality of the Accord and what little impact it would have had in the best case scenario.
The big wildcard in our many “impossibles” has to do with the tax bill and the deficit. Experts say it is impossible to get enough growth from the tax bill to pay for the deficit. But the experts are blind to the persuasion of it all. If President Trump persuades the economy higher, let’s say to 5-6% GDP, there’s a good chance he will accomplish the impossible once again and pay for those tax cuts. The tax cuts alone won’t get us to that GDP, but as part of a larger package of persuasion-by-optimism, it is strong sauce.
The meta-impact of President Trump routinely doing the “impossible” is that it changes how all of us view our world. If Trump can keep doing the impossible, time and time again, why can’t we?
Sometimes things are literally impossible. But much of the time we are only limited by our imaginations. Many of us simply couldn’t imagine that a number of the things President Trump has done would work out well. These were not simple surprises; these were failures of our imagination.
In 2015 I told you that candidate Trump would change far more than politics. I said he would change how we understand reality itself. And one of those biggest changes is in the scope of our imaginations. One year ago it was hard for me to imagine Saudi Arabia taking a sudden turn toward modernization. One year ago it was hard for me to imagine an uprising in Iran that could reshape its destiny. I assume it was hard for the Iranian public to imagine it as well. But they sure are imagining it now.
President Trump isn’t the only variable in the world. But he does create a pattern in our minds of making the impossible seem achievable. Don’t underestimate the impact that pattern has on the imaginations of everyone watching.
And don’t be surprised if 2018 is the year when people all over the world shed their mental prisons and take on the “impossibles” in ways we have never seen. Thanks to President Trump, people everywhere are beginning to recognize the difference between real impossibilities and simple failures of imagination.
Welcome to The Golden Age. It starts now.
Source: http://blog.dilbert.com/2018/01/02/president-trump-changed-imagination/
Do you remember when it was common wisdom that if the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel it would be a huge problem? President Trump did it anyway. So far, it looks like a minor problem at most.
Do you remember when experts said President Trump shouldn’t mess with the Iran nuclear deal because it could cause a huge problem for the United States and its allies? He did it anyway, and it is likely a supporting variable for the Iranian protestors who don’t like how their government is creating problems that don’t need to be problems.
Do you remember when experts said China will never help squeeze the economy of North Korea because China fears a refugee crisis? President Trump encouraged China to squeeze anyway. Then he helpfully provided satellite photos of tankers cheating on the high seas. After South Korea grabbed and held a second cheating tanker, the economics of smuggling oil have turned negative, or will soon. And North Korea is sounding — at least to my ears — more flexible than ever.
Do you remember when it was common wisdom that we couldn’t put enough pressure on Pakistan to make them stop harboring terrorists because Pakistan is also an ally in many ways? President Trump just cut off their funding and put them on notice.
Do you remember when experts said withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord would be a catastrophe? President Trump did it anyway because he didn’t like the deal. I’ve seen no indication that exiting the deal made the climate worse. Here I’m only talking about the quality of the Accord and what little impact it would have had in the best case scenario.
The big wildcard in our many “impossibles” has to do with the tax bill and the deficit. Experts say it is impossible to get enough growth from the tax bill to pay for the deficit. But the experts are blind to the persuasion of it all. If President Trump persuades the economy higher, let’s say to 5-6% GDP, there’s a good chance he will accomplish the impossible once again and pay for those tax cuts. The tax cuts alone won’t get us to that GDP, but as part of a larger package of persuasion-by-optimism, it is strong sauce.
The meta-impact of President Trump routinely doing the “impossible” is that it changes how all of us view our world. If Trump can keep doing the impossible, time and time again, why can’t we?
Sometimes things are literally impossible. But much of the time we are only limited by our imaginations. Many of us simply couldn’t imagine that a number of the things President Trump has done would work out well. These were not simple surprises; these were failures of our imagination.
In 2015 I told you that candidate Trump would change far more than politics. I said he would change how we understand reality itself. And one of those biggest changes is in the scope of our imaginations. One year ago it was hard for me to imagine Saudi Arabia taking a sudden turn toward modernization. One year ago it was hard for me to imagine an uprising in Iran that could reshape its destiny. I assume it was hard for the Iranian public to imagine it as well. But they sure are imagining it now.
President Trump isn’t the only variable in the world. But he does create a pattern in our minds of making the impossible seem achievable. Don’t underestimate the impact that pattern has on the imaginations of everyone watching.
And don’t be surprised if 2018 is the year when people all over the world shed their mental prisons and take on the “impossibles” in ways we have never seen. Thanks to President Trump, people everywhere are beginning to recognize the difference between real impossibilities and simple failures of imagination.
Welcome to The Golden Age. It starts now.
Source: http://blog.dilbert.com/2018/01/02/president-trump-changed-imagination/
November 10, 2017
Modi's preoccupation with presentation can cost him dear, says The Economist
All governments have their ups and downs. Mr Modi’s recent setbacks, however, stem in large part from his preoccupation with presentation over substance," says The Economist.
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The shambolic implementation of the GST is likely to make matters worse. The government convened a midnight session of parliament to herald its adoption—something that had previously been staged only to mark India’s independence and associated anniversaries. Mr Modi triumphantly declared the GST a “good and simple tax”. But he did not listen to his own advisers’ suggestions on how to make it so. He plumped for six rates instead of three, burying small businesses in paperwork and allowing politics to seep into the rules
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It does not help that the government bridles at criticism and harries its critics. Media firms are anxious not to offend it; journalists who take it on often lose their jobs. Even comedians who imitate Mr Modi have mysteriously disappeared from the airwaves.
Read more at https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21730880-consequences-are-beginning-catch-up-him-indias-prime-minister-focuses-too-much
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The shambolic implementation of the GST is likely to make matters worse. The government convened a midnight session of parliament to herald its adoption—something that had previously been staged only to mark India’s independence and associated anniversaries. Mr Modi triumphantly declared the GST a “good and simple tax”. But he did not listen to his own advisers’ suggestions on how to make it so. He plumped for six rates instead of three, burying small businesses in paperwork and allowing politics to seep into the rules
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It does not help that the government bridles at criticism and harries its critics. Media firms are anxious not to offend it; journalists who take it on often lose their jobs. Even comedians who imitate Mr Modi have mysteriously disappeared from the airwaves.
Read more at https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21730880-consequences-are-beginning-catch-up-him-indias-prime-minister-focuses-too-much
October 20, 2017
Gujarat Model Is Nothing But a Jugglery of Words,’ Says Former Gujarat CM
Even as the BJP is gearing up to use the ‘Gujarat model of development’ in the upcoming assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh as its USP, former BJP chief minister of the state Suresh Mehta, who has had a long-standing political career there ending in 2002, has come down heavily on its industrial model. In an interview with The Wire, he listed the failures of successive Gujarat governments over the past decade.
Citing the government’s own data, he also questioned the priorities of the Gujarat model, which he says favours only the rich.
Read more at https://thewire.in/188030/suresh-mehta-gujarat-model-interview/
Citing the government’s own data, he also questioned the priorities of the Gujarat model, which he says favours only the rich.
Read more at https://thewire.in/188030/suresh-mehta-gujarat-model-interview/
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