[ExI] Trump's idea of what heavy research is

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sun Jul 9 21:05:15 UTC 2017


On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 1:50 PM, William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> BillK, the longer I live the less I think of our good old USA.  We were
> brilliant for many, many years and produced some of the finest ideas in
> history, such as our Bill of Rights.  We have been in decline for some time
> now, starting with the Vietnam war.
>
> No, we are not better than the Russians, the Chinese, and others.  Maybe in
> some ways worse.

There are a few things worse, but have you really LOOKED at Russia and
China these days?

We might not be as much better than them as we used to be, but we're
still better in most of the ways that count.  Declining from A to B or
C still leaves you better than the Ds and Fs, for the moment.



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