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https://apnews.com/article/mex...215ae0e08a40eff8a64f Mexico’s likely next president would be its first leader with a Jewish background Mexico elects its first female president, a leftist climate scientist https://justthenews.com/world/..._campaign=newsletter _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | ||
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Mexico elects its first female president, a leftist climate scientist Sheinbaum will start her six-year term Oct. 1, succeeding her mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. I'm more concerned with the "leftist climate scientist" part than with the Jewish or female part of this. Margaret Thatcher was a great Prime Minister. Female is not the problem. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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So am I but I did mention it because it is historic. _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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What comes to mind is that this is the Mexico City elites taking care of each other while the rest of the country is increasingly in the hands of the narcotics cartels and their corrupt allies in government. The newly elected president is likely to have more in common with the elites of other countries than the citizens of her own nation. Wonder what will really change in Mexico beyond proclamations about "climate change". | |||
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I believe that's the first time I've ever seen "leftist" and "scientist" in the same sentence. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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She is the current/former mayor of Mexico City, with it's massive population imagine that the big city vote pushed her into office. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
Golda Meir, also great, was female AND Jewish. Serious about crackers | |||
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This is great, because climate change is obviously Mexico's biggest problem. No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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She's a buddy of the present office holder/socialist so probably more of the same. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
^^^ Come to think of it, when was the last time Mexico is not more of the same old corrupt shithole? Q | |||
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Well, every now and then they have a revolution and become a different flavor of corrupt old shithole. My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Just because it's redundant for most cases, it bears specifying. I suppose to specify a non-leftist scientist as appropriate is more correct. But leftist climate change scientist is also what intrigues me. What kind of serious scientist gets involved in politics anyway? "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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That's the bigger angle to this election. Same party, same mind-set, nothing will change. She campaigned that she'd be tougher on the cartels, tapping into the belief that AMLO was much too soft....we'll see. Her opponent was the conservative candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, who despite a really good background story, stupidly pushed the 'Jewish' angle, rather than economy and crime issues, not to mention the overly cozy relationship Schienbaum's Morena party has had with Latin American despots and tyrants. | |||
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Follow the money... You've got to get funding to be considered serious ... and you've got to be a leftist to get funded. Just ask Tony Fauci. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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I have nothing against the OP, but the coverage of this on BOTH Fox and the WSJ has emphasized "first female" in the headline, like who gives a shit? Historic, shmistoric, she's worse than the previous guy. Of course I could be wrong, but I see no good at all coming from this for Mexico or the US, or all of Latin America. Another Leftist, when the real changes are occurring where white males are in charge like El Salvador and Argentina. Why even write about it? Sexist as hell. _________________________ “Remember, remember the fifth of November!" | |||
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Sensationalism sells. That's all they care about. And that's a reflection on a large part of humanity. They care about meaningless shit. "Ooh, first this" and "last that", when the house continues to crumble. Q | |||
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From today’s WSJ:
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Ah yes, democracy.  Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as Mexico's first female president Sunday following the deadliest election campaign in the country's modern history. More than three dozen candidates were assassinated, including a local government candidate in central Puebla state who was killed on Friday, increasing the total number of those killed to 37 ahead of Sunday’s vote, according to data from security consultancy Integralia obtained by Reuters. Across the country, there were more than 20,000 positions to fill and 70,000 candidates vying for the spots. https://www.yahoo.com/news/mex...-know-184442748.html ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Mexico- It's own worst enemy since 1821. | |||
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Sort of like a boiling hot ice cube. . | |||
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