NP - The Witch (movie)

[David Morris]

I didn't catch the reason these idiots voted for Trump. But their sad
anti-existential reasons for nihilistic Trump voting is why we lost.

David Morris

On Sunday, December 18, 2016, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> Michael Moore's pre-election analysis is absolutely spot-on, post-election:
>
> http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/
>
> Point 5 is particularly relevant for people to consider. My daughter
> reports that a sub-set if her friends - millennials, by and large,
> marginally employed, drug-addled, with no future - voted for Trump for this
> very reason.
>
> LK
>
> *Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID*
>
>
> ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ishmailian at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> Krugman, like so many who think like liberals with a conscience missed
> something huge in the recent election and he still doesn't seem to
> realize how wrong he was about the working people who supported Trump
> and how the trade agreements with China and Mexico impacted wages.
> Krugman, who defends trade, and the trade agreements (WTO, Most
> Favored Trading Nation Status for China, for example )that stripped US
> workers of wealth and job security argues that the US  jobs and the
> benefits were lost to technology. This is false and those simple folk
> Krugman claims to care about know it, even though he is a professor of
> Economics,  has the Nobel in Economics and most of them don't have a
> degree in anything. China's gain was the  US loss, in wages, job
> security. Sure, the wealth got skewed more and more to the top 10%
> under US Capitalism while in China the poor were lifted out of
> poverty, so one could argue, as liberals often do, and did when the
> unfair trade advantage was extended to China, that the US needed to
> redistribute the wealth, educate, re-educate, invest in
> infrastructure, productivity, workers...to offset the unfair trade
> that raised the Chinese workers out of poverty and stripped US workers
> of the wages, and that, in the long run, a China without poverty would
> benefit not only China but the US, US workers, and the world. Not true
> of course, but this was the thinking and Krugman was a big cheerleader
> for it. Now he is reluctant to admit that he was wrong. The Liberals
> got it wrong. At least from the American worker's point of view they
> did. The US gave up a lot of manufacturing. It would shift to service
> and knowledge economy. The shift, from Clinton through Bush and to
> Obama, 24 years, failed. The Chinese took full advantage, and they
> manipulated the currency to boot. Workers know this. Will Trump change
> things?
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mackin.paul at gmail.com');>> wrote:
> > I look at the Times everyday and agree about the treatment of Hillary's
> > silly emails, which clearly shouldn't have amounted to a row of beans in
> > this crazy world. Krugman calls it false equivalency and says the
> mainstream
> > press in general was guilty. He recently wrote a scathing piece on the
> > subject.
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:09 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Paul!
> >>
> >> I like the NYT grammarian.  Otherwise I hate the NYT for endlessly
> >> persecuting Hillary's emails and not showcasing Trump's endless lies,
> >> race-baiting, Putin-loving anti-NATO crap. I HATE the NYT.
> >>
> >> Just saying..
> >> David Morris
> >>
> >> On Saturday, December 17, 2016, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mackin.paul at gmail.com');>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> No more than any other English teacher would--Hi David.
> >>>
> >>> p
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 5:35 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> OK.  Is it no different than our English?  You quibble.  Do you have a
> >>>> point?
> >>>>
> >>>> David Morris
> >>>>
> >>>> On Saturday, December 17, 2016, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ishmailian at gmail.com');>>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Shakespeare's language is Modern English, not Old or Middle English.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>> > http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-witch-2016
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > I'm only at the first third, but everything so far is layered in
> deep
> >>>>> > resonances.  The language is faithfully old English, but that's not
> >>>>> > the only
> >>>>> > reason it reminds me of Shakespeare.  The drama is smart and real.
> >>>>> > Cinematography is superb, as is the soundtrack.  In that regard
> this
> >>>>> > feels
> >>>>> > like Kubrick, but without the symmetry and clean edges.
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> > David Morris
> >>>>> -
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> >>>
> >>>
> >
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