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Senate races? Enthusiasm for Trump is falling and if republicans don't show up to vote then it's very likely that democrats will get control of the senate. The
by m_ke 10y ago
Senate races? Enthusiasm for Trump is falling and if republicans don't show up to vote then it's very likely that democrats will get control of the senate.
Then there's Palantir. Even if Trump doesn't win, the "law and order" rhetoric is resonating with a lot of americans. Trump wants to ban muslims, put together a deportation force, bring back stop and frisk, more border control, nukes for everyone, boots on the ground to fight ISIS, more surveillance, more military spending. All of these would lead to more government contracts for Palantir.
- morgante 10y ago> Then there's Palantir. That's a fair point. Palantir is very well-positioned to be the IBM of Trumpism.
- rodgerd 10y agoAm I meant to infer "do for Trump what IBM did for Hitler" from that?
- morgante 10y agoYes, though Trump is obviously not a carbon copy clone of Hitler.
- rodgerd 10y agoHitler never ran for a public office that gave him access to nuclear weapons, for starters.
- jacquesm 10y agoThat wouldn't have stopped him either. Given that nuclear weapons did not exist it would have been highly surprising if he had. Oh, and the Nazis did try to make them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapon_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapon_project