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What's so controversial about having a policy that says you need to not be jerks to each other?

Remember the school who suspended a teenager for two days because she was supposedly "inciting violence" with her anti-bullying video criticizing the school. That's what we're talking about here.

With overly vague but very strict written rules, that means the people in charge of an organization are free to interpret and reinterpret the rules however it suits them.

For instance, let's say x number of years from now, a FreeBSD committee chairman/president starts padding his/her expense reports with very large unrelated personal expenses, or holds a new election of board/committee members without telling anyone else about it but for a few of his/her personal friends.

Would the rules below be used to silence / banish the members who are asking too many questions?

Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease.

Publication of non-harassing private communication without consent.

Harassing photography or recording, including logging online activity for harassment purposes.

Yes, you can bet they will. It's not that those rules necessarily have bad intentions.

I can certainly see them being used against stalkers and bullies. It's just that those rules are so overly vague, they will certainly be abused if/when a bad actor, or bad actors, ever reach power.

So some Russians held a rally for a candidate and American's showed up? Are you saying the American's showing up violated the law, or the candidate they rallied for violated the law - and there is no evidence presented that Trump asked them to hold these rallies - or is it the Russians themselves the violated the law? Seems to me it is the latter, the Russians broke the law, so how is that Trump's fault?

But on the other side there is video evidence of Democrats planting violent disrupters into Trump rallies for the sole purpose of inciting violence so the media could claim that Trump supporters are all violent racists. Incitement To Riot is a crime under 18 US Code 2102 so we have clear evidence the Clinton campaign violated the law.

...with no prospect of marriage or even a girl friend due to their propensity to abort girls resulting in an imbalance of over 33 million more men than women.

You have to find something to occupy their time.

CNN would NEVER lie.

I would LOVE to see an example of CNN lying. Just one.

Might I suggest you try using that google thingy people talk about using to search for things?

My personal favorite is CNN's Chris Cuomo telling us during the election that it is illegal for us peons to possess or view the Hillary e-mails from Wikileaks - but journalists have different rules so we have to listen to them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Given that CNN is suing the shit out of anyone who says anything bad about them, and issued a DMCA takedown for the youtube video of *this* debacle, try this one. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/....

Another one of my favorites is the "White men account for 69% of violent crimes." http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/...

C'mon, you know how to use the internet.

After a year that saw over $300 million in damages from hurricanes, wildfires, and other natural disasters, the Trump administration is proposing significant cuts to the National Weather Service (NWS) and hopes to eliminate the jobs of 248 weather forecasters.

Is the administration (not Trump, Trump has nothing to do with staffing levels at NWS, get over your Trump Delusion Syndrome) eliminating unfilled positions or eliminating actual employees currently in those positions?

So we've had $300 MILLION in damages from hurricanes, wildfires, etc.? If that's the case, then why are spending BILLIONS to repair cities like Houston and the island territory of Puerto Rico to the tune of $125-150 Billion and $94 Billion respectively?

I'm curious, is the argument that there would be greater damages without our current number of forecasters, or is the argument that we'd have more hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, etc. if not for the current staffing levels at NWS?

It's frustrating. Trump's fundamental belief du jour is military good, everything else bad. There's no option for discussion, let alone argument. This is what he's being told his core supporters believe so he's along for the ride. What he said in the past about military waste be damned.

Wisconsin is paying nothing...

From this:

The Village of Mount Pleasant and Racine County, where the plant is to be built, have also agreed to provide $764 million in tax incentives to help get the facility constructed, including buying the land and giving it to Foxconn for free.

The state expects to spend about $400 million on road improvements, including adding two lanes to the nearby Interstate 94. And it's seeking $246 million more in federal money to help pay for the interstate expansion.

In addition, the local electric utility is upgrading its lines and adding substations to provide the necessary power that will be used by the plant, at a cost of $140 million. The cost of those projects will be paid by 5 million customers in the area.

About half the state's tax breaks depend upon how many workers Foxconn hires. While the state touts Foxconn's plans for 13,000 workers, the company has only committed to hiring 3,000 at this point.

So it the automation shows up but the jobs don't then some of Foxconn's tax breaks disappear. On the other hand, the fixed costs to the state and fed remain.

....a German union responded to increasing automation by striking for a 28 hour work week with a pay increase....and they won.

Good for them. Now let's see how well their products compete.

Seems we're rather fucking oblivious to the fact that price rules over all. Amazon didn't become the dominant market because consumers care about quality...

....a German union responded to increasing automation by striking for a 28 hour work week with a pay increase....and they won.

But that was what I was getting at. My point was that people voted for the polar opposite candidate

An alternative hypothesis could be that a lot of people looked at the two choices they were given and said "fuck it, we're doomed and I'm staying home. I'm not validating this shit we were given." So Trump won not because people turned to him, but because of the people who were left over to vote voted for him.

Harassment is occurring. CNN story. #metoo. Countless other stories published in the past few years.
Not all of these stories end with a lawsuit. That doesn't make them lies.

Claiming that harassment isn't an issue (which is what you're doing) is stifling the discussion, and perpetrating the problem.

Sanctuary cities, literally quoting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel calling Chicago a "sanctuary city".

Koi pond story, no mention of killing fish anywhere.

Trump in China, an excerpt: "Former President Barack Obama also did not take questions from reporters on his first trip to China as president next to Hu Jintao, the Chinese leader at the time." Not 'paraphrased', but actually quoted.

Nancy Sinatra... On this one you were kinda close. CNN did tweet that "Nancy Sinatra is not happy Trump will use her father's song", and linked to this article. What she originally said was to "remember the first line" of My Way, which is "And now, the end is near." After CNN wrote this article she deleted the original tweet, and wrote another linking to this same article saying "That's not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?" CNN then amended the article to include this. So half marks for that one.

0.5/4 = F. See me after class.

Sanctuary cities, literally quoting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel calling Chicago a "sanctuary city".

Koi pond story, no mention of killing fish anywhere.

Trump in China, an excerpt: "Former President Barack Obama also did not take questions from reporters on his first trip to China as president next to Hu Jintao, the Chinese leader at the time." Not 'paraphrased', but actually quoted.

Nancy Sinatra... On this one you were kinda close. CNN did tweet that "Nancy Sinatra is not happy Trump will use her father's song", and linked to this article. What she originally said was to "remember the first line" of My Way, which is "And now, the end is near." After CNN wrote this article she deleted the original tweet, and wrote another linking to this same article saying "That's not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?" CNN then amended the article to include this. So half marks for that one.

0.5/4 = F. See me after class.

Sanctuary cities, literally quoting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel calling Chicago a "sanctuary city".

Koi pond story, no mention of killing fish anywhere.

Trump in China, an excerpt: "Former President Barack Obama also did not take questions from reporters on his first trip to China as president next to Hu Jintao, the Chinese leader at the time." Not 'paraphrased', but actually quoted.

Nancy Sinatra... On this one you were kinda close. CNN did tweet that "Nancy Sinatra is not happy Trump will use her father's song", and linked to this article. What she originally said was to "remember the first line" of My Way, which is "And now, the end is near." After CNN wrote this article she deleted the original tweet, and wrote another linking to this same article saying "That's not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?" CNN then amended the article to include this. So half marks for that one.

0.5/4 = F. See me after class.

Sanctuary cities, literally quoting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel calling Chicago a "sanctuary city".

Koi pond story, no mention of killing fish anywhere.

Trump in China, an excerpt: "Former President Barack Obama also did not take questions from reporters on his first trip to China as president next to Hu Jintao, the Chinese leader at the time." Not 'paraphrased', but actually quoted.

Nancy Sinatra... On this one you were kinda close. CNN did tweet that "Nancy Sinatra is not happy Trump will use her father's song", and linked to this article. What she originally said was to "remember the first line" of My Way, which is "And now, the end is near." After CNN wrote this article she deleted the original tweet, and wrote another linking to this same article saying "That's not true. I never said that. Why do you lie, CNN?" CNN then amended the article to include this. So half marks for that one.

0.5/4 = F. See me after class.

Yes and no. They are intended for entertainment but sometimes hard news is disseminated on these platforms. You can't deny this.

And sometimes the National Enquirer tabloid rag has a fact in it. That doesn't exactly justify it's existence or my need to read it. If the hard news is worthy enough, it will be picked up and reported on by reputable sources, without having to wade through the other 99% of bullshit click-bait.

And sometimes the National Enquirer tabloid rag has a fact in it. That doesn't exactly justify it's existence or my need to read it.

The president of the USA cites the National Enquirer as a reliable source. He says it has a very good record. Possibly some of that affection comes from the fact that they have engaged in at least one cover up on Trump's behalf.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you or I can recognize bullshit. The president of the USA is susceptible. Likely a sizable group of voters are as well. As you say, we can't fix stupid, but if we want an informed democracy then we shouldn't promote it.

Yes,

She said herself that her email server did not contain classified information, but Mr. Comey testified to Congress that her email server did.

Not only her bathroom server, Anthony Weiner's laptop also had classified information on it.

And the only reason Comey had to go public right with the reopening of that investigation before the election is that Andy McCabe sat on it for months. I'd guess that Comey found out about it not long before the election, leaving him almost no options. If Comey didn't go public with the fact more classified emails had been found on Weiner's laptop, he could credibly be accused of a coverup to aid Hillary. So by sitting on the information for months (presumably to keep it hidden past the election - McCabe can't be presumed to be unbiased...), McCabe wound up leaving no time for the FBI to actually investigate.

So did the guy whose wife got almost $1 million from Clinton cronies have his plan backfire and wind up driving one of the nails into the coffin that Hillary's Presidential ambitions was buried in? Sure looks like it.

Gotta love karma sometimes.

The con artist administration doesn't want to upset private industry by holding them accountable for their actions (or inactions in this case). Wells Fargo is simply a feel-good tactic.

After all, if he won't take responsibility for all his failed businesses, because as he'll tell you none of those were his fault, why should other businesses have to be held liable?

Firstly, there seems to be a lot of deep-state resistance to Trump's agenda. So if someone doesn't do their job, when is it good and when is it bad? Is there a double standard here?

Secondly, the president is responsible for what happens, but not at fault for what happens in the administration. He's not the one making the decisions at the level of the OP, his appointees are. It's hard to tell if this is corruption, incompetence, or... working as intended. The CFPB has come under fire in the past for ridiculous rules and hamstringing business.

Thirdly, it's unnamed sources reporting this. The investigation is ongoing, and the department doesn't comment on those, so... fake news? Isn't this just wishful thinking on the part of the reporter?

Fourthly, even if the article is correct in all its details, you don't have to agree with everything the president stands for (and I don't), but you might want to agree or disagree with larger issues. We've tolerated corruption at all levels of government for so long, it's refreshing to have positive change in ONE aspect, let alone what's happening now. ISIS is all but defeated, we've withdrawn from TPP (and the Paris accord), the economy is doing well, and a lot of corruption in government and MSM is coming to light. Some issues are more important than others.

And finally, his business failures represent a smaller percentage of his total failuures than the average entrepreneur. Much smaller [percentage of failures], when numbers are actually cited.

what are you talking about, look at the huge thing this self-made star did, and he learned from TV!

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01...

This is a gross distortion of the facts. They don't shoot people all the time, it happens occasionally.

It's barely February and American cops have already shot more people than most other countries do in a decade. And that's only looking at lethal shootings, not cases like a 2014 incident where a cop shot a man for following the cops orders who survived.

A lot is expected of cops, regardless of what the bigots in the #BLM think.

The fact that cops can gun people down for no reason and get away with it, throughout most of the country, puts the lie to that statement.

Here ya go

Uh, you do realize that Page publicly admitted to his role in the original spy ring last year, right? The one operating out of New York with Russian government officials and a Russian banker. The one from this story was about the original break up of the ring, and here's one about Page's role revealed last year.

Page was not indicted, he was listed in the court documents as an unnamed male that the Russian spies were talking about and Page had given them some unspecified documents from the energy sector.

What this all means is that he was at least an early stage Russian intelligence asset, which probably falls well short of capital-T Treason but definitely crosses the line of very suspicious individual with plenty of probable cause for US counterintelligence to watch closely to make sure they aren't spying on behalf of their handlers. Why bother with counterintelligence at all if you are going to ignore the people being actively and successfully recruited by spy rings of hostile governments?

If Page got closer to the capital-T Treason in the meantime, then we should wait and see what special prosecutor Mueller finds and whether he indicts Page. That is if Trump doesn't fire Mueller and burn down the DOJ first.

You know - the guy whose wife got almost $1 million from Hillary! cronies - while he was "investigating" Hillary!'s illegal email server.

Yes, Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Director of the FBI. A long-time and close Clinton ally, Terry McAuliffe, directed in total $760,00.00 to Jill McCabe's campaign for Virginia State Senate.

FBI No. 2 did not disclose wife's ties to Clinton ally, records show

Clinton Ally Aided Campaign of FBI Official’s Wife

Bureau boss McCabe under Hatch Act investigation>

Jill McCabe's campaign appears to be have been a front for receiving a monetary bribe in exchange for obstructing or delaying the Clinton server-gate investigation past the presidential election. There is unquestionable evidence that he tried sitting on it:

Justice Department investigating McCabe’s handling of Clinton email probe

McCabe, FBI Knew About More Clinton Emails Well Before Comey's Announcement in 2016.

Washington Post: IG was investigating why McCabe appeared not to act on Weiner emails

$760,00.00 is an insane amount of money to donate for a state senate seat in Virginia, vastly disproportionate to both the value of the seat to the Democrat party and to what other candidates receive. What you need to know to understand that this was actually a monetary bribe directed to her husband is that in Virginia any money which is not spent on a campaign can be kept for personal use.

Leftover campaign money can fund almost anything in Virginia

If we include the recent revelation that McCabe's signed the FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campagin, it then appears that, all together, Hillary Clinton bribed McCabe at the least to:

- Help Hillary win the election by covering up or delaying revelation of evidence against her.

- Make false charges against Trump before the FISA court and then spy on the Trump campaign.

Clinton allies in the Obama administration gained access to secret FBI intelligence on Trump using hundreds of unmasking requests.

They're asking for permission to... Remember, any information they release to corroborate or deny information in this memo has to be voted for within the republican-controlled committee, and then vetted by the President if it contains any information that may be classified (like more context regarding information given to the FISC).

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30...
"The committee voted along party lines on Monday to make the Nunes memo public, while rejecting a motion from Schiff to also make the Democratic memo public at the same time."

A bit too much publicity stunt in it for my taste as well. Someone should encourage the monopoly man protester to come up with something.

Or, maybe, your very premise is incorrect and Trump does not, actually, want to be an authoritarian despot?

I dunno. I mean, Trump did get 2 scoops of ice cream, when everyone else gets 1.
If that isn't authoritarian despot behavior, what is?

Your sources are crap

When your only rebuttal is the opponent's sources, you are usually done for. Because none of them are lying, nor have any obvious conflict of interest. But, hey, how about the below citations, this time from unimpeachable sources?

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You are speculating and aren't particularly convincing. Would the electricity reach Americans any faster, had the work of Tesla and Edison been done by a government agency instead? Would we have had airtravel any sooner, if Wright brothers worked for the Feds? Hitler's government created "People's Vagon" in the 30ies — decades after Ford's private enterprise created an affordable car for the masses. (Cue in the "Why can't we be more like Europe?!" lament.)

government has an opportunity to act like a VC firm

Bzzz! Stop right there. The government can not be a "VC firm", because none of the government officials are putting their own money on the line. This allows them to spend the monies confiscated from you and me at gun point on pies-in-sky and without any responsibility. The best we can hope for, is that they aren't outright corrupt — investing taxpayers' monies in exchange for kickbacks. But even if they are sincere and honest, they can simply make stupid decisions — with our money.

A real venture-capitalist backing something like the infamous Solyndra would lose his shirt and not invest again. Has anyone been fired from the DoE for actually investing in Solyndra?

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOL... "I thought the definition included any activity by [me], where [I] was the actor and came in contact with those parts of the bodies" which had been explicitly listed (and "with an intent to gratify or arouse the sexual desire of any person"). In other words, Clinton denied that he had ever contacted Lewinsky's "genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks", and effectively claimed that the agreed-upon definition of "sexual relations" included giving oral sex but excluded receiving oral sex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There is a difference between screwing up and treason to the heart of our democracy.

The traitor in chief just failed to do his job again. link.

He fired the head of the FBI
He effectively fired the deputy head of the FBI
He tried to fire the special council
His thugs now have investigations into the FBI and the justice department
He destroys all legitimate sources of news, or tries to, because it is better for him to destroy democracy himself, than to own up to his sins.
He destroys the agencies that are sworn to defend us, because it is better for us to be vulnerable than for him to possible go to jail.

Who would work for a government more concerned with covering its own fat ass than doing the countries work?

I very much fear that some terrorist group will take advantage of this chaos to cause further problems. You can probably flush a certain portion of votes right down the drain, because you know all of putin's candidates are going to get as much help as he can give, because von clownstick doesn't do shit, probably because of the dirt Putin has on him.

This country has sold its morals and its soul to the republican party and they did it quite often in the name of what was right. You talk about scare tactics on foreigners. Von Clownstick started his fucking campaign saying Mexicans were rapists and murderers, but "some were good people."

We are no longer the nation of "Give us your tired, your poor"

We are the nation of "Fuck You! I've got mine and you can go to hell."

The truly sad part is it is often the so called religious right that are leading us on this lovely nature trail to hell.

I know logically we will survive his term of chaos and that someday our great great grandchildren will pay back the debts incurred now, that the arc of history must somehow bend towards what is right, or at least I pray that.

I am reminded of the Styx song. show me the way. In the beginning there is a question, "Will your father vote for war or for peace?" The question of the day is, "Will you vote for what is right or what is easy?" That decision is coming. We should vote as if it was our last chance to choose. It might be.

Oh I'm sorry - did you think you were proving your case by citing 2 conservative blogs and a progressive blog that SAYS WHAT I SAID refutes me?
You've just proven you are being obtuse.
And a moron.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
(note the use of "universal health care" and not "nationalization")
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11...
(note the use of "comprehensive health care reform" and not "nationalization")
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI...

Why is this modded down?

I'm running XP at the house and still get security updates because, via registry hack, the computers think they are ATMs or POS.

The hack, as reported by ZDNet, fools Microsoft into thinking the system is running Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, a variant of XP that's used by ATMs and cash registers. Those systems will keep getting security updates until 2019.

Lots of ATMs still run XP.

95% of bank ATMs face end of security support (2014).

I'm not sure I buy the security angle though. Phones are likely fast enough to encrypt conversations end to end real time, but maybe our government doesn't want to implement that :)

As illustrated by the latest Strava revelation, sideband/meta-data information is quite useful and end-to-end encryption often doesn't protect against leaking this information. Things like Tor reduce the leakage of this type of sideband, but as we also know, actual implementations like Tor cannot be perfect (nor the users that use the technology).

The same emasculated faggots that released a story extolling the benefits and virtues of cuckolding ?

Because nobody gives a shit what subhuman cunts like that think about anything, ever.

The rape allegation is nothing but a pretext to get him into custody so he may be interrogated by or outright handed over to the United States. If it wasn't, the government of Sweden would have taken up Assange years ago on his offers to be interviewed by investigators remotely or in person at the embassy. Or to return to Sweden outright if they promised not to hand him over to U.S. custody.

The response to this inconvenient fact is generally a pithy "since when do wanted suspects get to negotiate terms". Well, since cops negotiate with suspects all the time. Lets say Dallas cops had Micah Xavier Johnson on the phone and were trying to get him to surrender. They would of course say no to crazy demands like a million dollars and a getaway car. But if Johnson had offered to give himself up on the condition that he not be flown to Guantanamo to be tortured, the SWAT commander would roll his eyes and say "sure, we wont fly you to Cuba, so drop your guns and walk out with your hands up".

Assange's fear of being handed over to the U.S. isn't remotely crazy, though, since Sweden handed people over to the CIA who were then tortured and Obama had Manning tortured with months of solitary confinement. So, yeah, a suspect gets to negotiate terms when dealing with entities known for kidnapping and torture, two things the people screaming about alleged rape DGAF about.

The response to that is a pithy "well Assange offered to give himself up if Obama commuted Manning's sentence so he's bluffing". EXCEPT - the very credible threats of persecution and torture is why Ecuador granted Assange asylum in the first place. If Sweden were to take extradition and interrogation by the U.S. off the table, the reason for that asylum disappears. So if this is really about alleged rape, let it be about the alleged rape and nothing else. Either Sweden takes Assange up on his offer because the threat is real, or Sweden takes Assange up on his offer so Ecuador will show him the door.

Wow! Hits on Google! What was I thinking??? Obviously CNN is a sack of liars if Google returns results! I notice you don't link to one of their articles where they're purporting lies. I wonder why.

Look at how many hits there are. Wow.

Here's a much more useful link if you're trying to discredit CNN. You might have linked to something like this and tried to explain why swift, responsible, and aggressive handling of misreporting is the same as lying. They have a stellar track record of getting the facts straight or immediately correcting themselves and you've provided nothing to counter that. If you'd like to trade examples of CNN being inaccurate regarding DJT for examples of DJT being inaccurate about the world around him, I'm definitely game. If you'd like to trade examples of CNN doubling down on misinformation for examples of DJT doing the same, that sounds like fun too.

I'm waiting to the link to their article full of lies. The assertion was that they never write an article that isn't full of "propaganda stuffed with obvious lies".

Since then, they can't post a single article without propaganda stuffed with obvious lies...

They have a shit ton of articles up right now. Would you mind linking to one and pointing out these obvious lies that can't be missed?

This is the same bad maths again, and from the kind of people that are suposed to be experts in the field.

On Feb 2, 2011, an Allstate Insurance Company press release displayed the accident rates of drivers according to their zodiac signs using real data based on the birthdays of customers actually involved in accidents.

But, why bother to consider that the zodiac signs distribution is not uniform and Virgo is 45 days long while Scorpio is just 7 days?

And when called about the lousy maths, next day they yanked the press release from the company site and argued that was just a joke. No problem, right?

The distribution of the sample matters. In fact if you choose the distribution from where to sample you can cook the result that more suits your taste. Or pocket.

It is how the Constitution is setup. For good or for bad state's rights enable each state to regulate when the Fed fails to do so. Unfortunately this balkinization also causes massive problems for national/international organizations. This was simply not a problem when the Constitution was written. With additional rules being put in place by each state, at best they will supplement each-other, at worst they can directly contradict each-other. Now each ISP has to comply with each states net neutrality regulation in an ever growing quagmire of bureaucracy.

To see an older example of this cluster fuck balkinized bullshit look at the state by state sales taxes and how shit is all fucked up for internet taxation, for decades creating a uneven playing field that fucked small and mid sized organizations in favor of the truely massive who could game the system. http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/2... .

This all could have been avoided if the anti-government savage leaders even bothered to list their anti-government savage followers. http://thehill.com/policy/tech... . Even the most savage of people had to admit that net neutrality was a good thing.

and when done in the correct order he can talk to someone?

Yes which is why it took so long to get the information out. Calling individual media outlets is an incredibly inefficient way of disseminating information. For better or worse in any emergency twitter will get the information to a wider audience and will be picked up by the media faster than anything else these days.

I heard there's a tsunami warning in the USA.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0... : Count 1 official Twitter source
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-... : Count 1 semi-official Twitter source, 2 unoffical twitter sources.
https://www.theguardian.com/us... : Count no link to Twitter, but a quote in the article from an official's twitter account.

He should have issued a quick news conference and or radio broadcast.

That's a great way of getting information out 10minutes AFTER most news outlets have published a tweet.

Go to major news sites right now and find out about the tsunami warning. I challenge you to find one that doesn't reference Twitter. Here's the first I found: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0... the tweet is half way down the page.

Why would he rely exclusively on Twitter when there's an entire industry whose job it is to disseminate information?

Phone number to the media? Are you a time traveller from the 90s? The only thing the "news media" does now is publish tweets wrapped in clickbait headlines.

No I'm not being facetous. Let's have a look shall we. I heard there's a tsunami warning current. Let's check CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/0... Oh look, their source: https://twitter.com/SF_emergen...

How many times does Trump have to literally extinguish all life on planet earth before you fools listen?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/29/opinions/trump-signs-earth-death-warrant-jones/index.html
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-could-destroy-entire-human-species-says-yale-psychiatrist-who-warned-772328
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-nuclear-weapons-holocaust-congress-710653
https://news.grabien.com/story-cnn-govt-shutdown-risks-undetected-asteroid-strike

Despite the sensationalist headline, 1.6M displaced workers out of the total number of jobs is hardly worth the billions that will be demanded for federal programs. Considering 5 million jobs - over 3 times this sensationalist number - have been outsourced since 2000
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/2...
maybe the time to scream has passed....
Considering the GOP has the House, Senate, and Oval Office, the stomach in the US for additional programs is small....

After seeing what can happen to innocent citizens, http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/... and https://www.engadget.com/2017/... , I would have been terrified to see what was waiting outside the door. I know that the examples which I cited are an exception to what happens however it still is something which would immediately come to mind if I were in such a situation.

Electric already kicks non-electric ass on the Nurburgring:
"The all-electric NIO EP9 is the fastest road-legal car ever to take to the Nürburgring." https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0...

Unless of course we are actually fighting a war now - but nobody recognises it?

I nearly finished Tamim Ansary's Destiny Disrupted (2009) last night, a book which I highly commend to anyone as ignorant of the history of Islam as I was before picking up this book.

It reads like hanging out in a bar with your favourite egghead drinking buddy, who casually injects 100 times more information than what you've ever known during an extended bull sessions about the history and politics of the Middle East. Rated against anal-retentive scholarship, there are no doubt many bones to pick; rated against general-information bull sessions, it's an epic romp.

The Great Game

East of Iran, the Cold War simply looked like the Great Game revisited. The differences were only cosmetic. What had been czarist Russia was now called the Soviet Union. The role once played by Great Britain now belonged to the United States. The dynamics, however, were the same: the intrigues, the pressures, the threat of violence, and the actual bloodshed. ...

The core battlefield of the Great Game had been Iran, Afghanistan, and central Asia, and this region remained in play. The Russians of the nineteenth century has wanted to push south through Afghanistan to the Persian Gulf to secure a warm water port for their navies and shipping. The Soviets had the same interest, but with added stakes: geologists were now confirming that roughly 65% of the world's petroleum lay under and around the Persian Gulf ...

Huh. I wonder if any American troops are stationed in Afghanistan this very minute?

Afghanistan: 16 years, thousands dead and no clear end in sight — 2017
The Forever War — 2017
Trump shifts gears on Afghanistan — 2018

"My original instinct was to pull out and, historically, I like following my instincts. But all my life I've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office," Trump said as he revealed the strategy.

Wow, what an amazing reveal—it sure is news to me that he's ever heard that once in all his natural born days.

Here's to your having a blast with your now spectacularly doubt-free "are we really at war?" executive time in the coming days and months, Mr Trump.

You don't follow world news do you.

China built 25,000km high speed rail in 5 years, through deserts, glaciers, mountain ranges, forests, how many km have the Germans built?

Chinese trains have become so good that Germany's Deutsche Bahn wants to buy them.
According to DW columnist Frank Sieren, the railway can no longer afford to give preferential treatment to German companies.
http://www.dw.com/en/sierens-c...

Chinese train technology rolls into Germany
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/w...

China is on track to build high-speed rail in just about every corner of the world
https://qz.com/292321/china-is...

France and Germany now have to team up to compete with China

France-Germany rail merger aims to take on China
http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/2...
The deal aims to counter China's growing clout in global rail markets. Beijing stepped up its efforts in 2015 by merging two big companies into state-backed giant CRRC, which describes itself as "the world's largest supplier of rail transit equipment."

What you call chain migration others call reuniting families.

If you can't bear to be without close proximity to your family, just stay in your country. Chain migration only results in a massive influx of unskilled labor and welfare recipients. We accepted the immigrant on the basis of merit, if he brings in 10 unvetted people through Chain migration, it kind of defeats the purpose of vetting any of them based on merit in the first place.

If you miss your family, go visit during the holidays. No need to bring them here and clog up our welfare programs.

He could also undo the Obama era rule allowing H1-B worker's spouses to work in the States. Again, stroke of a pen, no input from Congress, he could do it today. The fact that he doesn't shows you something. It shows you who he really works for.

Errr... are you comfortable with that foot up your ...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/15/technology/h1b-visa-spouses-h4-trump/index.html

What is that I hear ? Your narrative shattering ? Good job playing yourself.

By far the most worrying thing for them is the government taking the money they've earned and giving it to others they feel are less deserving of it.

Where race is the primary determinant of who is deserving and who is not.
Just listen to all the complaining about illegal aliens getting welfare - which does not actually happen.
Hell, even legal immigrants do not qualify for welfare until they've been here for at least 5 years.