Doom 2016 Quotes

And so the 5 months of hyper nationalism bites the chilly winter frost! The 5 point plan got so shady that even the murkiest water of dal couldn't wash the blot on our conscience, proving yet again the resilience of a common Kashmiri to withstand economic doom and social ambiguity from past 140 days and still have Herculean courage to start all over . .... from the grounds up !

For Biden, as for other Democrats who had considered running in 2016, Hillary’s ability to co-opt the major institutions, political leaders, operatives, and financiers of the Democratic Party was deeply frustrating.

President Obama gave voice to exactly this sentiment in the speech he delivered as the first American president to visit Hiroshima, on May 27, 2016: “Science allows us to communicate across the seas and fly above the clouds, to cure disease and understand the cosmos, but those same discoveries can be turned into ever more efficient killing machines,” said Obama. “The wars of the modern age teach us this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us. The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.” Our

After the 2008 campaign, two of her aides, Kris Balderston and Adrienne Elrod, had toiled to assign loyalty scores to members of Congress, ranging from one for the most loyal to seven for those who had committed the most egregious acts of treachery. Bill Clinton had campaigned against some of the sevens in subsequent primary elections, helping to knock them out of office. The fear of retribution was not lost on the remaining sevens, some of whom rushed to endorse Hillary early in the 2016 cycle.

2016, the most scandalous and tumultuous election season of my generation. On the national stage, the two presidential candidates were strangely similar. They both had remarkable wealth, a litany of personal scandals, and a disturbing ability to stir up pure hatred in their opponents. The media rejoiced. Nothing produced more dramatic headlines than these two people. In the meantime, I was furious. There was so much coverage of them, each of whom were purporting to be good leaders. There was also an unceasing cry of doom and fear from all sides. Above all, I was most angry that for some it wouldn’t matter all that much who got elected. We who are economically stable would figure out a way to preserve our interests. But for the most vulnerable among us—the unborn, the poor, single mothers, immigrants, refugees, minorities, prisoners—it would matter a lot. Unfortunately, it would happen in different ways depending on which candidate was elected. But the news wasn’t about the people who would bear the brunt of our broken politics. It was about politicians as celebrities and the salacious details of their lives of sex, money, and power.

However, it is worth stressing that our study has shown that empire is a completely inescapable reality of human life. The independent nation-state is an anomaly, little more than a political fiction. This is relevant because much political chatter since 2016 has cast ‘globalists’ versus ‘nationalists’, but it strikes me that ‘nationalism’ is only ever a short-run phenomenon which takes place in specific circumstances such as during Toynbee’s ‘withdrawal’.

Was i Doomed from the Start? Some pundits have also said my campaign was doomed from the start, either because of my weaknesses as a candidate or because America was caught up in a historic wave of angry, tribal populism sweeping the world. Maybe. But don't forget I wan the popular vote by nearly three million, roughly the same margin by which George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in 2004. It's hard to see how that happens if I'm hopeless out of step with the American people. Still as I've discussed throughout this book, I do think it's fair to say there was a fundamental mismatch between how i approach politics and what a lot of the country wanted to hear in 2016. I've learned that even the best plans and proposals can land on deaf ears when people are disillusioned by a broken political system and disgusted with politicians. When people are angry and looking for someone to blame, they don't want to hear your ten-point plan to create jobs and raise wages. They want you to be angry, too.

The lesson for Sanders in 2016 was clear: For every Democratic politician who endorsed Hillary and for every major donor who wrote her checks, there was a debt to be paid. Bernie could run without that baggage. Beholden only to his supporters, he could be more agile and more pure than Hillary. He could be like Obama.

The advent of the internet has greatly magnified the potential for misinformation and disinformation to spread, to the extent that we may speak of twin plagues in 2020: one caused by a biological virus, the other by even more contagious viral misconceptions and falsehoods. This problem might have been less serious in 2020 had meaningful reforms of the laws and regulations governing the big technology companies been implemented. Despite ample evidence after 2016 that the status quo was untenable, almost nothing was done.

Her country crumbling to dust, and with broken men all around, Queen Shuri went off to her doom. I could have gone with her. But someone had to fight and someone had to live. And after we parted, I wondered- still wonder- how a man walks away and leaves his only sister to die.

I know the danger. I know we may not come back, and in so doing, doom a nation. I would give my life for my nation. But I will not give the life of my sister. I will not, yet again, be parted from my own blood.

But October 7, 2016, was no normal day. It was the most unusual, portentous day of an incomprehensibly wild presidential election. At 4:32 p.m., WikiLeaks, the online purveyor of hacked and stolen government documents, published the first batch in a series of e-mails pilfered from Podesta’s Gmail account. WikiLeaks announced the release in a tweet that was quickly and widely picked up by major media outlets. Bang-bang-bang: Three blockbusters, any one of which could alter the course of the campaign, pushed out in two hours.