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And yet, Trump has;

Reduced federal employees by 11,000 since inauguration.

In what relevant and meaningful way? Please give details. The fact is, the turnover in the Federal workforce is sufficient that his mindless hiring freeze would do it, but as the evidence for increase "contracting" shows, it doesn't mean a thing.

Instructed DHS to enforce immigration laws resulting in significant increases in deportations.

DHS enforced immigration laws under Obama, deporting over 2.5 million people. So far, the results for Trump are doing what? How exactly has he saved us?

Appointed a Supreme Court Justice.

The Senate could have voted on that any time since Scalia's death. They refused out of partisan bias, that's not a gainful accomplishment.

Repealed >860 federal regulations.

Wow, and they're important because? What has that done?

Eliminated several Y2K-preparation and planning programs, 17 years after Y2K occurred... Think on that...

Things like this? A meaningless accomplishment of no particular worth at all? Most likely, they existed on paper, not in practice. Not that actually being able to handle dates properly doesn't remain an issue, as I recall happened in one state.

Changed our strategy for military action against ISIS, with notable results.

Nope.

All while being, what, being focused 'almost entirely' on healthcare?

Or was it Twitter? Or the Russians? Or whatever the media claims he's obsessing with...

Yeah, keep on with that. Stay distracted, friend.

You can't deny, he did waste a lot of time on useless barking over Trumpcare. Of course, he was incapable of coming to a rational place on it, but you can't pretend otherwise without being a liar.

Of course, all he wanted was to SAY he had a victory, he didn't want to deal with the results, he'd just blow past them, but that's because he simply doesn't bother with actual substance.

Note your own list of ephemeral accomplishments.

Keep on buying the hot air by the balloon.

Let's try that again! I have to do it manually I guess...

http://s.newsweek.com/sites/ww...

He said that he thinks they should only have to pay 12 a year, not that they already do.

Making fun of Trump is really easy, how did you fuck this up so badly?

Says the apparent new expert of fucking up badly.

"But in one eyebrow-raising moment, Trump told the Times that health insurance costs about $1 per month when you're young. "Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, ..."[1]

Actual Twitler word salad quote: "... Because you are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance,[2]

And for good measure [3]

It's pretty clear that he thinks (to the extent he actually thinks about anything) that insurance does cost 20-somethings only $12 per year. Not that he thinks that's what they should pay. That that's what they're paying today.

Sending you back to seventh grade for a redo on reading comprehension.

[1] http://fortune.com/2017/07/20/...
[2] http://www.newsweek.com/donald...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But man..."smart" guns IMHO are NOT a good thing to have.

To the contrary, smart guns are a good thing to have, and the fact that they can be hacked is almost irrelevant.

The primary useful thing about smart guns is that they prevent your toddler from finding your gun and killing you, themselves, or each other. This happens all the time-- 1300 children get killed by firearms per year. (alternate source)(another story on the subject).

Even, if as you say "I mean, having a firearm that my life may depend on in a home invasion, that may not fire if I'm not wearing a watch" -- that's actually a good thing, because the thing that you should most be worried about in a home invasion is getting killed by your own gun.

Worrying that a hacker is going to break into your home, hack your gun, and then kill you with it is pretty remote.

You really want a gun that only fires when you fire it. A gun that fires when you don't want it to is not a good thing.

Or did you miss the recent article that Mars is inherently self-sterilizing?

If anything we can now me less careful about what we send to Mars, so it's easier to explore.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

Since the US has active trade and diplomatic relations with Russia, it is extremely hard to call interacting with them treason.

Nope
Nope Nope Nope

There is no question that Russia attacked the US. The hacks on voter registration databases, not to mention the hacks on the democratic party are unquestionably acts of war. It doesn't matter whether the US government formally declared war in response, Russia attacked the US.

And not only was Trump aware of the attacks (because they were reported in the news and he started receiving classified briefings in August of 2016) but he actively encouraged the attacks and upon taking office he immediately set out to reward Russia for them upon taking office.

Treason is the exact right word.

It's got nothing to do with this guy:
Documentary by the Opposition Leader Taken off of Youtube

Since you are asking for speculation - I'll give it to you.

Obama was at war with Fox News during his entire administration:

http://www.newsweek.com/when-o...

Don't think for a minute that if the opportunity to put the screws to Fox presented itself, Obama would have passed.

Quarks come in three "generations". The first, lightest generation has down (mass 4.8 MeV) and up (mass 2.4 MeV). The second generation has strange (95 MeV, a heavier version of down) and charm (1275 MeV, a heavier version of up.) The third generation has bottom (4180 MeV, heaver version of down and strange) and top (172440 MeV, heaver version of up and charm.)

When they combine into particles, you either get paired quark+anti-quark (e.g. up+anti-down is a pi+ particle) or a triple of same type: quark+quark+quark or anti-quark+anti-quark+anti-quark. (E.g. a proton is up+up+down.)

This article says the new particle has two charm quarks.

This article says Xi baryons are a class of particles which have a single up or down plus two more massive quarks: either strange, charm or bottom, and Xi baryons have been known since 1952.

From this I conclude that when they say "light" quarks they mean down, up and strange. (I was very frustrated that they didn't say what they meant by "light" quarks.)

If you act like a complete idiot... and it becomes newsworthy... then you'd better watch out. Because a world of hurt is coming down on you.

Nice sentiment, if it were applied to everybody. Otherwise, just words, with big guns.

I mean, really, Are we going to make a bigger stink over somebody's fantasy than the real thing?

I'd be curious if there's any relationship between a society's "openness" to sexuality and its rates of child sexual abuse.

Japan made possession of child pornography illegal in June 2014; up until then possessing kiddie porn in Japan was 100% legal.

In 2016 child abuse and child pornography cases both reached record highs. I'm not saying that the two are definitely linked, but it's very interesting that child abuse went through the roof right after child pornography was banned.

Our real estate developer in chief preferred to buy his steel and aluminum from China:

http://www.newsweek.com/how-donald-trump-ditched-us-steel-workers-china-505717

http://www.newsweek.com/us-bar...

that was the case, syria, some people posit that the discrepancy was in the fact that the US drew refugees from jordanian refugee camps, and the muslims harassed all the christians out of those. so no christian refugees.

by the numbers. 56 christian refugees out of 10k syrian refugees, the christian population of syria represents 10 percent of the syrian population at the time.

so yeah.

There's so much wrong with this post that I don't even know where to begin.

First off, the article you cite does not claim that "Rightwing Christian terror groups" are responsbile for the statistics you mentioned. I will admit, there was someone mentioned in article with the last name Christian, so perhaps that led to your confusion.

Second, the author of the article that you cite has written a paper in which *he* decided that "hate crimes" and "terrorism" were basically the same thing (at least for the purpose of twisting numbers to make his point). Then, this author, Arie Perliger, further decided that even in cases where you couldn't show that the crime was terrorism or hate crime related, he'd make it so anyway. He says, and I quote:

Collins’ murder, if it was motivated by racist sentiments, should be treated as an act of domestic terrorism

So basically, any chance this guy gets, he's going to paint the picture that

a) As many crimes as possible are hate crimes
b) Hate crimes = Terrorism
c) Because of a) and b), there is more non-Islamic terrorism in the U.S. than AQ/ISIS-style

Oh, and just for fun, he decided that fundamentalist Islam was *NOT* right-wing. You know, because otherwise his argument wouldn't work.

In the USA - in the past 9 years, Islamic groups have launched 63 attempted attacks of which 76% were prevented by law enforcement. 13% of successful attacks had fatalities. Overall death toll: 90 (mostly because of the high deathtoll in the Orlando nightclub shooting - which it is not certain was, in fact, an Islamic terror attack)

Rightwing Christian terror groups planned 135 attacks of which only 35% were prevented. 33% had fatalities. Overall death toll: 79 (pretty close considering they haven't had a nightclub shooting outlier in there - and of course if the Kansas Mosque/Appartment bombing hadn't been prevented - it would have been in the hundreds, and since they get prevented far more rarely, the odds are in their favour).

http://www.newsweek.com/right-...

The FBI, and 238 police organisations in the USA all consider rightwing militias the greatest terror threat to US citizens.

Globally the Christian Lords Resistance Army alone has killed more people every year of it's 20 year existence than all the Islamic terror groups combined in total, ever - even 9/11 is a blip on the radar next to the LRA (a group also known for using child soldiers and engaging in cannibalism).

When you add other terror groups however the Islamic numbers turn into a rounding error. They just make better news in the West.

That said there is no religion with clean hands. In 2003 over 3000 Muslims in Southern India were killed by Hindu extremists in an act of attempted genocide, the main ringleader of that attack is now the prime minister of India. Meanwhile in Myanmar as we speak thousands of Muslims have been killed in an ongoing genocide attempt by Buddhists (yes, Budhists - their pacifism apparently does not extend to their Muslim fellow citizens).

But there is no doubt the overwhelming majority of terrorists are Christian - it is only logical, as the largest religion on earth by far, they must also have the largest number of radicals.

Just stop flying down to golf in Florida every weekend.

http://www.newsweek.com/trumps...

What violent acts by the GOP in any form of recent history?

http://www.newsweek.com/homegr...

https://www.adl.org/news/press...

Christians might tell you that you're going to hell and say offensive things to you, but they're thankfully not killing people

Hmmm ... I don't think you thought about that statement very well.
The american forces are chockful of christians of several stripes, and I do believe that the USA is particularly active in killing people these last few decades.
And check this out ...

http://www.newsweek.com/christian-fundamentalists-us-armed-forces-national-security-threat-613428

"Fundamentalist views are decidedly in the minority in the general population, but they have adherents in some of the U.S. military’s most powerful positions, especially in and around Washington, D.C., and in Colorado Springs, home of the U.S. Air Force Academy and the nation’s nuclear command center.

The U.S. military has long been seeded with radical Christian fundamentalists—sometimes called Christian Dominionists or Christian Reconstructionists—who believe a “Warrior Jesus” has their backs while they fight against Islam. They believe they are establishing a “Kingdom of God” on earth, starting with the United States, and are predictably anti-LGBT and unfriendly to females among their ranks. ...

The MRFF estimates that 84 percent of military chaplains are evangelicals, and about a third of them are fundamentalists, defined by the MRFF as Christians who have decided that their evangelizing and proselytizing need not conform to the U.S. Constitution, case law or any DoD directives restricting their behavior.

The Christian right’s willingness to see Trump as a savior for their cause—if not a messianic figure, despite his living as an urban libertine who has had three wives and a history of lewd acts and statements—continues to grow. His selection of an evangelical as vice president, plus the appointment of at least nine evangelicals to his Cabinet, has apparently soothed any concerns the religious right had about his personal life."

They arent the same companies.

That's so cute. Tobacco companies are actively investing billions into funding of e-cigs. They still maintain their public image because that's what good companies do, they hedge their bets. But if you think that big tobacco companies don't have twenty to thirty cents inside of each bottle of juice a person is buying, then they've done their job well.

This is 2016 mind you but you'll be amazed what they've been able to do in a little over a year's time. Just because they've not yet dominated the industry, doesn't mean they don't have the money to do so. I thought we all learned that lesson when MP3, iTunes, Pandora, whoever was suppose to revolutionize the music industry? Umpteen years later, RIAA still big as ever.

Sorry ...

Here's link.

Apparently not.

There is no statute against "leaks" in general. The Espionage Act only covers information related to national defence.

Personally, I'm more tired of the way the media covers EVERY SINGLE LITTLE LAST TWEET as if each one announces an Arab/Israeli Peace Deal. We get it, he doesn't fit the exacting perfect image every president before him portrayed.

That's because the president's tweets are considered 'official statements'

Apologies for replying to my own thread but I do have to acknowledge that that US position on this to this point (not sure in 2017) has actually been worse. Ban on non-Muslims: http://www.newsweek.com/us-bar...

"Lindzen clearly relishes the role of naysayer. He'll even expound on how weakly lung cancer is linked to cigarette smoking."

http://www.newsweek.com/truth-about-global-warming-154937

I like the idea of experimentation, but how often do states find that things work and the rest of the country does them? Usually, idiot states like Alabama wallow in poverty watching other states do smart things. The conservative Romney Care worked. So all states should do that right? But if you give states choice they'll reject the same thing by another name like it's going to kill them.

I never said that US citizens are arrested for pushing LIKE.

That's good, because unlike Switzerland, we aren't. There are mountains of ambiguity in it, even if it weren't considered free speech. Who exactly pressed the "like" button? Are there degrees of like? To your idea that they are spreading the untruth, is laughing, upset, or even disliking emoticon still a punishable offense since by your definition, the crime is the repost. Even outside of the like buttons, If a person comments on the bad posting, be it agreement, commiserating, or disagreeing, they further spread the posting.

Can it be proven that the like button was pushed in earnest? I've seen accidental "likes" pretty often. Touchscreens or oversensitive touchpads can get you an accidental click here and there

This concept has holes big enough to drive a container ship through. Regardless, here among the savages, we don't arrest people who use a constitutionally protected right, and we have the higher court rulings to prove it.

European propensity to amp it up on these sort of things makes for interesting situations. Now that there are places in Great Britain where a male can be arrested, charged and convicted of a "Hate crime" - something we Neanderthals across the pond save for racial/religious murders and terrorist events - and his crime? Saying hello to a woman http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-eng... http://www.newsweek.com/uk-pol...

Unwanted communications, yikes! Note that I used an example a bit similar to my cite about the guy who violated a Protection from abuse order in a previous post.

When "hello" or a page like can now be a hate crime, and liking something is a crime, by gosh, I'm going to just sit back with my popcorn, maybe a shot of cheap tequila chased with lemonade, and watch as our superiors descend into whackyland.

And I'll call it "Thoughtcrime" too, because by jingo, I can do that! It isn't against the law here in the backwoods.

Incorrect: sorry but the has done SEVERAL things pro-Russia. I've listed them above but will list them here as well:

1. He wants to lift sanctions against Russia. There are many articles but here is one: http://www.newsweek.com/how-co...

2. sharing unfiltered classified data to Russia which was been reported by experts to put sources that Russia is not friendly to at risk. again, MANY articles, but here is one: https://www.washingtonpost.com... In addition to Trump trying to stop any investigation into his ties with Russia which even Republicans are starting to agree is getting concerning. What part of this is NOT pro-Russia?

During the campaign Trump said he wants to "open up libel laws" to make it easier to sue the media for reporting things he disagrees with. In his own words.) He keeps accusing the media of being "fake news". He reportedly asked Comey to start jailing reporters.

The Brexit vote and the U.S. presidential election form part of Russiaâ(TM)s campaign of propaganda and disinformation to undermine and interfere in democratic processes in the Western countries.

http://www.newsweek.com/brexit...

"And Apple does not spy on you, in any way, whatsoever, right?"

Only the bare minimum required to protect their intellectual property and enhance your user experience.

See http://www.newsweek.com/apple-...

I wish I could be more agreeable, but if you actually consider the impact of the issues, the D's almost always have a big lead over R's. Net neutrality is a big deal, and R's are for big businesses even though it will hurt the whole industry - almost everyone. Clinton's email server, I'm sorry, was not a big deal compared to this. Poisoning Flint's water supply hurt everyone in an entire city, Bill Clinton got a BJ and "ruined" one young lady's life (granted she was able to sell her story and made $ off it). The Iraq War and related conflict has killed over 1 million people (thousands of Americans) the neocon R's lied to the country to get us into that. In Benghazi a few Americans died, and if Hillary personally shot them it'd still be _absolutely_ nothing compared to Iraq. I know, Obama continued it but by then the decision really was a lose-lose. Obama did increase the drones and they've still killed some tiny % of the million+ overall picture, and few (or none? idk) were American.

I have actually donated to causes that fight superpacs and money in politics in general, so trust me, I'm with you on #thankscorporateamericaandyoursuperpacs. But the organizations that fight it always seem to have more D's (ask watchers of Colbert and Oliver), while the R's do stuff like Citizen's United - wait, does that have anything to do with what you care about - who pushed that one?

That's why, for example, judges and jurors are sought to be impartial.

There you are! Justifying Trump's dismissing a judge as "biased" because he was of Mexican descent...Racist, racist, racist!

Of course, attacking a judge because of his ancestry is indeed, racist, and Trump's admissionsa actually showed his own realization of the bias and animus he had been demonstrating.

That is what Trump chose to do. He picked a deliberate course of racial antagonism to attack a judge in a lawsuit where it was immaterial. In the media. Nothing more. Remember, Trump University? It didn't get filed as a request for recusal in court, it was merely engaging in political aggrandizement. You don't get a judge to act in a case just because you go on CNN and pout like a crybaby.

You do know this, right? Trump was whining about a judge. He chose to do it with an included racist spin, so it only reflects on Trump. Not the judge. In the realm of public opinion. At least, until it becomes relevant to a legal matter. Now personally, I blame Trump's political advisers, who should have at least made Trump temper his remarks, but he still has a problem with running his mouth. Or twitter fingers, as the case may be. But he's not the only one with a problem with that in his administration. That sort of thing can reflect on you.

Which was why when somebody takes your statements, applies them to you, in a legal case, and submits them to court, well, then you have a judge rule on it.

Now if you want to see a judge who got in trouble because of their own actions, let's try one. That's one where a

...then it stands to reason that he may have lied about other important matters, such as Snowden.

Strangely, Snowden supports Comey in this matter.

DONALD TRUMP'S LATEST APPROVAL RATING PLUNGES AS WHITE MALE SUPPORTERS FLEE THE PRESIDENT

Come again?

Where is this up 10%?

Where?

I'd ask for a citation for your claim, but I'll be honest, you seem to be spreading out some codswallop.

The drone thing again, eh? Obama's drone strikes killed 117 civilians over 8 years. Trump's drone strikes killed 200 civilians in one day this month. And if you're going to bring up killing kids, don't forget the 8 year-old American girl Trump killed.

Where is the right trying to "deplatform" left-wing speakers?

On News Corp platforms, Breitbart, twitter, 4chan, all sorts of places?

Just look for all the hand-wringing over "BLM" and "Anti-Trump" riots, against "Planned Parenthood", all the "Birther" claims, and you''ll find it.

Let's see, who is committing the violence [rollingstone.com] and trying to prevent the speech of others? That would be the left.

Also, case in point, here, by a user named Raenex. Who will never look at the right's actions.

But you, you want us to be upset over Milo's hiring a bunch of guys in masks to disrupt his own rallies and get attention. But Milo is out so you didn't even get your memo about that.

Which political party responds to critiques of Islam with cries of "Islamophobia" and "racist"? Which political party is against restrictions on Muslim immigration? Which political party has apologists for Sharia law leading [breitbart.com] women marches?

The left went from fighting political Christians to embracing Islam.

Which political party denounces Islam and creates lies about Sharia law? Which political party tries to convince us that Islam is a material threat? Which political party wants to ignore the terrorists among us?

Which political party lies about Planned Parenthood? Which political party has been found in court to engage in unlawful gerrymandering? Which political party is threatening judges who dared to reject Trump's unlawful ban? Which political party attacks how women dressed? Which political party claims to be pro-life, but resents paying for maternity care?

The right is the party that loves everything about radical Islamists, except the name they operate under.

I know I shouldn't feed trolls, but having someone yell insults from the short bus is irritating. I can understand that without the brainpower to metephorically turn on an LED, it might seem like South Africa is a failed socialist state, especially if you rabidly consume the alt-right dogma.
However, it might be that there is more to the story.
A history of colonialism, apartheid, restricted access to education and all the other shit that South Africa has dealt with... This makes for a poorly prepared electorate and tends to allow dysfunction and corruption.
But I guess that doesn't play as well to your base.

It's a reasonable concern that if companies were to, say, start bringing asteroids into earth orbit for mining that there would be adequate safety precautions in place.

Well, let's see. Who keeps dropping shit on people to kill them? Oh, right, the US government. A bomb every 20 minutes, from the Nobel Peace Prize winner.. And drone killings everywhere.

Yes, we should put adequate precautions in place so that crazy people don't start dropping rocks on populated areas, and the foremost precaution should be to stop the US government from having any control over rocks in space.

If you really believe that, then you have no idea how the economy works.

1: It COSTS money to round up those illegal immigrants. So your taxes will go up in some ways. (data point: http://www.newsweek.com/how-mu...)

2: Those illegal immigrants most of who are working and actually contributing to society. (in the form of taxes and general purchasing) they may be illegal but they are give far more than they take). - (data point: http://www.politifact.com/pund...)

3: The places that employed them were doing so not out of the goodness of their heart, but cheap labour, which means they will now have to pay standard wages.. which means, costs where they were working will go up, which WILL be passed on to you the consumer. (ie: Post Tax money from you)

4: A tourist, in general, is a net positive gain for a country, ie: someone that spends money, but consumes so little in services that they are net positive for a country (its a reason why lots of countries with little industry go to tourism, as its a vehicle for revenue and requires relatively little investment.

So 3000 per year for one family may not sound like a lot, but lets assume most spend half that, and in 2015 there were 38 Million visitors to the US.. (so lets quarter that for families (figuring a typical house of 4) or about 9.5 million families visit. Now lets assume about half of them are business travelers (and many companies are looking to stop sending bodies to the US and go virtual) so we have 4.75 tourist families.. now lets assume half them are skipping the US (which most I know are.. I know personally the CEOs the top travel agencies in the Europe (western) and Asia (east) and they are have noticed that since Trump's election, over 20% of the reservations they had for families that were coming to the US have cancelled or changed their plans to other places). We have no stats on personally booked travel and other travel agencies, but if their numbers are similar, then a 50% reduction is not far off, which puts us at about 2.35 Million familes that won't visit. Which means a reduction of 3,562,500,000 dollars (3.5 Trillion dollars) annually gone from businesses (some of which depend on tourists), which means those businesses will reduce staff (ie: more people looking for work).

Add that to the other things going on...

Well, its not good.

Germany is stopping modernization? Excuse me? Wat? Wat?

Link for pretty in depth story on the email scandals.

Hopefully Donald will step in and remove these burdensome regulations that plague Panasonic and other companies. Bribery is a form of free speech and is protected by the constitution.

Its only free speech when you use your slush fund of a charity to bribe I mean talk to the AG investigating your university.

Hopefully Donald will step in and remove these burdensome regulations that plague Panasonic and other companies. Bribery is a form of free speech and is protected by the constitution.

I'm starting to wonder if it isn't the other way around: a power grab in the US with terrorists as the boogey man (since the Soviet Union and Cold War is over). I used to think it was just ineptitude, but it is just too consistent for that. The US policy in the Middle East always seems to create future enemies that need to be fought, benefiting military contractors. Every bomb dropped needs replaced, just look at those revenue numbers skyrocket! Then of course rebuilding everything afterwards requires expensive contractors as well.

* US backs Shah against democratically elected officials, creating theocracy and a future enemy.
* US trains Bin Laden and others how to fight against a superpower, creating a future enemy.
* US provides weapons to an enemy in the Iran Contra scandal.
* US alllows it's companies to sell key technologies to Iraq, which aided them in their chemical, missile, and nuclear programs, building up a future enemy.
* US, with drones and other planes bomb weddings and children on a disturbingly frequent basis. The military and intelligence agencies know this will create blowback, more future terrorists, yet on it continues.
* US destabilizes Iraq, allowing ISIS to get built up and armed. Say what you will about Saddam, he kept jihadists in check. This enabled an enemy to rise to power, which is still our enemy.
* US provides weapons and aid to jihadists in Syria (same CNN link above) . Come on, if you've been paying attention you know what these people will become right? Future enemies! So predictable!

When will this madness end? No wonder everyone in the Middle East hates the US, just look at history and it's all laid out to see.

Microsoft doesn't have File watching?

If you agree to the EULA, you give them ability to watch everything

“your typed and handwritten words are collected,”

Government regulation on toxic water pollution resulted in industries having to PAY to dispose of toxic fluoride pollution which resulted in the push to put it into drinking water. Instead of paying to dispose of something that used to be free pollution (which harmed people and nature, hence the regulation) it was turned into a revenue stream.

Yes, fluoride helps teeth but you spit it out and do not absorb it throughout your body just to help your teeth. (Drinking water is used to wash/soak your body.)

Studies show fluoride in the water does not help teeth; differences between populations show other greater factors - here is the 1st link i found on the topic:
http://www.newsweek.com/fluori...

Last couple of years have seen the wealthy in China resort to more and more elaborate schemes to exfiltrate their wealth, which they are officially restricted to moving just $50K/yr.

Like suitcases of cash brought on "vacation" to Hong Kong

And buying a $170M painting on a credit card.

Bitcoin is just the current fad for circumventing foreign exchange restrictions. When China clamps down, the wealthy will move to some other method, and bitcoin pricing will probably collapse.

It's like the Toyota HiLux (Tacoma), which seems to be the most popular gun truck of the world's war zones ("the vehicular equivalent of the AK-47").

The Democrats won't renew themselves. In their own eyes they have no fault, it's the electorate that's to blame and to be "renewed".

Yes an electorate that chose a bombastic lying bastard over a credible candidate is at fault. It may not be PC to blame the voters, but I blame everyone who voted for him, and everyone who was too damn lazy to vote. There was a difference. Hillary may have been a mediocre candidate, but she was still an order of magnitude better than Putin's Puppet who continues to lie about anything and everything. You would think at this point his primary concern would be the country, but hell he is still tweeting about the f**king apprentice.

Representative Democracy is only as good as the choices of the people. We must demand and possibly pay for better and more accurate news. We must vote for better and more honest candidates. Our country cannot be destroyed by terrorists, but we can quite easily give away our hard won freedoms with our complacence.

Think about it. The pope has certainly got this one right. He compared those who consume fake news with those who have an obsession with eating feces. link Heck we even elected a person who picked a fight with the Pope over the wall nonsense for goodness sake. Even if you are not religious, a certain amount of respect is due such an obviously good man.

A country that regularly invades other country to force a change in government gets its panties in a twist over a theory that someone might have taken an interest in their election.

Correction. President Obama and his fellow sore losers in the Democratic Party got their collective panties in a twist because they lost to Donald Trump. As an American it doesn't surprise me at all that Russia wants to meddle in our affairs. We need a much tougher man in the White House and it's my hope that Trump will be that tougher man. Obama always struck me as too fawning and effete to be effective in a world inhabited by the likes of Vladimir Putin

Okay, let me get this straight. Your completely ignoring the fact that the result of a national election was dictated by a foreign country in favor of a cheap shot against democrats? Seriously? Is this what passes for patriotism? The election was close. Months of stolen emails did hurt them considerably, and no there was nothing there that might not have been worse from the other side.

Also, you want a tough guy, you know like Trump who appears to be all but ready to molest Putin with how much praise he heaps on him? That is your tough guy? Seriously?

Obama stands up to the guy who attacked us and does what he can. Trump says, thank you, your such a wonderful awesome special and misunderstood man. We are talking about the guy who has a record of lead filled enemies and who has invaded at least the one country, not to mention has helped Assad murder his own people. Link That Putin?

I don't know, maybe Trump is afraid Putin will put some polonium in his Cheerios. That or call his bank loan due.

The only evidence I see about Obama maybe being weak on this was he didn't hit Putin harder before during the election because Mitch McConnell threated to cry about it. That may have been a little weak, and in hindsight stupid, but that is a tempest in a teacup to how spineless Trump has been. I seriously begin to wonder if he really is Donald J Puppet.