Doomsday Clock ticks 30 seconds closer to midnight, thanks to Trump

[NightDragon83]

Alkibiádēs said:

NightDragon83 said:
I like how over the past several years the so-called doomsday clock has been closer to midnight than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis which was arguably the height of the Cold War. Apparently they see global warming / climate change, which are both naturally occurring events, as bigger threats to the planet than mutually assured destruction due to nuclear war.

Alot of the things being said about Trump today are the same things people were saying about Reagan in the 80s... that we've got an old senile dude in the White House with his finger on the proverbial nuclear trigger. Despite all the alarm bells being rung by the media and the political left in the 80s, things turned out pretty well (for the most part) under Reagan. It will be no different under Trump, so everyone can just relax with the hysteria.

The rich got richer and the poor got poorer. That's your definition of things turning out pretty well? Not to mention that he mishandled the aids epidemy. 

Overall yes.  Things were sure as hell better in the late 80s than they were in the 70s, or even a good chunk of the 60s.  The rich being rich is nothing new.  They've been getting richer for a long time now through both Republican and Democrat administrations.  They got REALLY rich in the 90s under Clinton during the height of the tech / dot com bubbles, but for some reason nobody ever brings that up, it always goes back to Reagan.  And the rich did even better in the 8 years under Obama in the aftermath of the '08 crash while the little guy got stuck with the bill for it.

Boy, we really showed Wall Street a thing or two and taught them a lesson, huh?  And we were all set to install one of the biggest Wall St cronies of them all into the White House - Hillary Clinton - before Trump went and ruined her coronation.  Now we've got to move the Doomsday Clock forward to almost the closest to midnight it's been in its entire existence, all because the global elites' candidate of choice lost the White House in a humiliating defeat to Donald Trump of all people.  Add Brexit and the potential breakup of the EU on top of that, and one thing's for certain... there won't be a One World Government anytime soon.