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In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)

How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quote:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface." Another quote: "Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017, Bizarro)

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In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims (Nov. 13, 2017, Washington Post)

In a 30-minute interview, President Trump made 24 false or misleading claims. (Dec. 29, 2017, Washington Post)

President Trump's Lies, the Definitive List (Dec. 14, 2017, The New York Times)

Trump has now spent more than a 3rd of his presidency at his properties... (Dec. 26, 2017, Business Insider) "I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me." -- Donald Trump, Aug. 8, 2016. YouTube video of Trump saying that.

Trump Promised to Protect Steel. Layoffs Are Coming Instead. (Dec. 22, 2017, New York Times)

10 Falsehoods From Trump's Interview With The Times (Dec. 29, 2017, New York Times)

How Trump and the Nazis Stole Christmas To Promote White Nationalism (Dec. 24, 2017, Newsweek)

How Trump Is Ending the American Era (Oct. 2017 Issue, The Atlantic magazine) Quote:
"For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation's global standing, things are much worse below the surface." Another quote: "Foreign leaders have begun to reshape alliances, bypassing and diminishing the United States."

Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump's New York Times interview is a scary read. (Dec. 30, CNBC) Quotes:
"President Donald Trump tells a string of falsehoods in his recent New York Times interview that make it difficult to tell whether he is lying or delusional."
"Trump appears to suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect, which holds that the least competent people often believe they are the most competent."
"Trump's comments are, by turns, incoherent, incorrect, conspiratorial, delusional, self-aggrandizing, and underinformed."

Bizarro Cartoon: Santa Claus has limits. (Dec. 22, 2017, Bizarro)

as such things go. And you'll find plenty of SJW stuff in DC. I suspect it's more to do with the movie universe making it's way into the comics and turning off the more hardcore, which are generally the only ones that buy more than an issue or two or maybe a graphic novel when a new movie comes out.

There was a movie meme trend in recent years of the cute, tiny woman who gains super powers somehow, and goes off on a spree of killing men.

By the way, I know this is an intensely unpopular opinion but am I the only one that finds it odd that social justice is a bad word?

Actual social justice should ab a lofty goal. But the warriors are not necessarily about justice. Often it is revenge, or just another form of hate.

Yeah, yeah, the crazy feminist who runs your local community college's woman's studies program is pretty annoying, amiright? But then you've got Harvey Weinstein.

Ah, just the right place to start. Instead of properly attacking the problem of creepy fucks like Weinstein, the crazy feminists you speak of go the #metoo route. Which is making more problems than it fixes. A world where due process is thrown out with the pursuit of justice isn't going to be quite like most women want.

What young women shold be taught to do is turn the guy in immediately after he harasses you. And a much better defined version of what harassment consists of would be a big help. And she needs to understand that by not turning the guy in, she is enabling him to harass more women. The same can go fro men harassed by women. Yes it happens.

Instead, we have now entered a brave new world where men, as the target, are taking measures to protect themselves from claims of harassment. Measures as having a chaperone present to avoid any one on one meetings with women. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1... https://www.theatlantic.com/po... And some are trying to make this illegal! I kinda doubt that will work. Besides, who could object to having a chaperone for both parties protection?

Have you seen NBC's new gender interaction rules? No shared taxis. You will be fired if you do not report anything that you might consider sexual harassment, You will be fired if you do not report a suspected romance between employees. Any interaction between opposite sexes must be reported to Human Resources. And taking a vegan to a steak house is expressly forbidden. Aapparently some vegan was pissed because of a party at - you guessed it - a Steak House. There are very specific rules if you were to hug a person. Quick, and step away to avoid bodily contact. Seriously - I wonder if they have to have a reservation to hug, and a person with a stopwatch to time it? This is the new workplace, because in a world where an accusation from 20 years ago is sufficient evidence to destroy your career, it means that there is no due process, which means none is needed when she sues the company. So in that light, the rules make perfect sense. Google NBC's sexual harassment rules. And the problem is most women and men simply hate this - who wouldn't? But if you listen to the "Crazy feminist" who rather obviouly is a misandryst you'll end up with these sorts of rules as we abandon due process and the rule of law in order to protect women from all men. Most men and women can get along with each other. But in this brave new world, one cannnot be too careful lest they lose everything. I had this happen to me when I simply predicted what was goint to happen with the #metoo witch hunt.

There's too many examples of injustice to list. It feels like we're letting the chick

Jeff Bozo, who owns Amazon, also owns the NYT

Jeff Bezos does not own the New York Times, he owns the Washington Post, as I recall.

Both exclusions by the presiding judge are cited here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

Yes! This article is to my knowledge the best concise description of the warming trend as well as increase in extreme temperatures:

https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

It should be noted that this is just data. No models, no predictions, just historical data.

>but using pejoratives like "SJW"

Historically the term was not pejorative. BUT then the people discovered the ones calling themselves SJW: mostly people shooting insults, very aggressive whatever the reason - or no reason at all -- and leading public inquisitions. What a surprise the term is used now to describe irrational dogmatic aggressive behavior pretending having a moral high ground. 100% with me or you are against me.

Some recent examples:
- Laurier University Inquisition
- Bret Weinstein

I find the term SJW quite gentle to characterize this kind of behavior: url url

I disagree with you. It turns out a lot of scientists disagree with you as well. The Dutch also disagree with you.

The leading 100% renewable plan has been debunked by the national academy of science. It is not feasible with current technology. Energy storage is expensive. Yes nuclear is expensive as well, but 4th generation reactors can be factory built. The Dutch are innovating in that technology.

We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There is a reason the world's leading climate scientists have repeatedly said nuclear power is the only viable path forward on climate change

Also Germany tried what you did and they have failed. Only 34% of German electricity is clean. Germany has spent a quarter of a trillion dollars, and their electricity is 10x dirty then their neighbor France. Scroll to the third graph comparing Germany and France. You will notice that Germany emits 560 grams of CO2 per kWh and France emits 58 grams of CO2 per kWh. That is almost 10x.

That's actually the way pensions should be funded. Not as nebulous future payouts based on unrealistically optimistic projections of investment returns, which saddle future generations with debt when the actual returns fall short of those projections. It was literally Wimpy's "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" ad infinitium. The Republicans caught a lot of flak for changing the requirement, but they correctly saw that the pension funds were being abused to shift debt from the present into the future (instead of giving the union a wage increase, you promise them a bigger pension). They changed the funding requirement to stop that abuse cold. You can no longer promise the postal union barrels of free beer in their retirement, and leave it up to future generations to figure out how to pay for it. You make the promise today, you have to pay for it today. This was crucially needed because without it, wage negotiations amounted to unions demanding the world, and managers agreeing to give it to them because they knew they'd be retired by the time anyone had to figure out how to fulfill their concessions.

Pre-funding the pension and spinning it off so the money is untouchable except by the people who are supposed to receive it prevents the possibility of pension bankruptcy. The way most pensions are set up (merely as a separate account within the company) leaves them vulnerable to abuse (embezzlement, underfunding) and bankruptcy. If the company goes bankrupt, the pensioners become merely creditors. They may not get paid until after other creditors, with the possibility of receiving only pennies on each dollar they were promised in pensions if they're far enough down the bankruptcy totem pole.

With a pre-funded pension operating independently (like a 401k or IRA), this cannot happen. The company made an obligation to pay Joe into his retirement, and they put the money to pay for it into his pension plan while he was working, thus insuring he gets paid even if the company ceases to exist. The only catch is instead of giving Joe a guaranteed fixed pension in his retirement, the pension should be defined as $x/mo being invested on his behalf while he's working, and his pension is whatever that works out to after compounding interest when he retires and begins collecting it (since his lifespan and investment growth is unpredictable).

Social Security has the same problem. The money you pay into SS is not being "saved" for your retirement. It's being used to pay current retirees (with a buffer of about a decade). Likewise, when you retire, the money you get from SS will not be money you put into it. It'll be money that the then-current generation of workers are paying into it. This happened because when SS was first enacted, the very first recipients got paid even though they'd never contributed a dime into it. (This is why SS is often accused of being a pyramid scheme, although that's slightly different.) If you want to guarantee SS solvency, you have to change it to a system that's pre-paid, like the USPS pension. Otherwise it could stay solvent or it might not, depending on inflation (cost of living), population growth, and increases in the average lifespan. Right now, there are about 2.9 workers per retiree. As that number goes down (due to decreasing birthrate and increasing lifespan), the risk of SS insolvency goes up.

What on Earth do James O'Keefe and Roy Moore have to do with this?

You could have read the links. Well, maybe not, aren't you sworn only to let yourself see that which comes from authorized and approved channels?

Wouldn't want you to break your solemn oath.

It's not like anyone is disputing the fact that Black Bloc rioted on inauguration day.

It's not like anyone believed you when you were crowing the truckers either.

Yes, it's an obvious jump and it's already being reported by mainstream news outlets: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Large tax breaks to corporations generally equate to those companies spending between 10 and 20% of the initial take on employees wages and bonus's. This is already known.

[citation needed]

Correct, nowhere near 10-20% of large tax breaks goes to employees. Of the $300 billion companies saved from the 2004 Homeland Investment Act, about 92% of it went to shareholders in the form of share buybacks and dividends. The top 15 companies, who accounted for half of the repatriated money, cut 20,000 net jobs in the three years following the tax break.

But the remaining 8% didn't even all go to employees. I couldn't find exact figures, but some of that also went to capital purchases. At best you could say 5%-10% of large tax breaks go to employees, but even that is probably a bit high.

There is no honest debate on whether this tax bill will meaningfully boost the economy and help American workers. It won't. It will boost the stock market (or more likely already has) and create the illusion that the economy has improved, but that is about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

But ministers, officials and analysts in much of the rest of the world have said it could create an uneven playing field and set off a race among countries to cut corporate taxes. Because the United States already offers a large and wealthy domestic market, relatively light workplace regulation and large amounts of venture capital, lower tax rates had been one lever that other countries had used in an effort to lure companies.

Asian and European officials have speculated that some of the measures in the revamped tax code could help encourage United States companies produce goods domestically for exporting. European leaders, for their part, have raised the specter of a trade battle and implied they may challenge the overhaul before the World Trade Organization.

NWO is freaking the fuck out because Trump is making America winning. We're no longer the bitch-ass serfs of the NWO globalists! We Americans set our own destiny, we NEVER FOLLOW that of others; specifically on a path to misery (communism/socialism)!

And no you did not personally witness 10000 dead because there were not even 100 dead from Chernobyl.

Given the realities of climate change it is immoral to oppose nuclear power.

Jeff Bezos is ultra rich and probably doesn't care. The merely rich, OTOH, are a bit more price sensitive.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/18/business/dealbook/tax-bill-wealthy.html

Not according to the new york times. Scroll to the chart halfway down the page You will see that that Germany is only 2% cleaner then the United States (34% vs 32%). You should remove the adjective "much" from your statement. Germany is slightly cleaner than America.

The changing rooms stuff was Obama trolling people. Under his rules not only did post op transsexuals get to use the bathroom of their choice anyone who felt a bit [the other gender] that day did too.

Basically this was the coastal NY/CA types trolling the heartland by telling them they had to let boys into the girls' changing rooms and then attacking them as transphobic bigots when they complained.

See Obama could have have set the Title IX rules to say the school must provide unisex changing facilities and that only post op transsexuals could use the bathroom of the gender they were changing too. But he didn't because he knew forcing the heartland to let 'intact males' into the girls changing rooms would cause a backlash which his supporters would enjoy.

He was just as much of a troll as Trump is, just in a more subtle, bureaucratic way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/0...

A transgender high school student in Missouri is facing backlash from her peers after requesting to use the girls' bathrooms and locker room.

More than 100 students at Hillsboro High School, about an hour south of St Louis, walked out of class on Monday in protest.

"I'm hoping this dies down," said Lila Perry, the 17-year-old who began identifying as a girl publicly in February. "I don't want my entire senior year to be like this."

Ms. Perry, who began feeling "more like a girl than a boy" when she was 13, said school officials gave her permission to use the girls' facilities as the new school year began.

The district's superintendent, Aaron D. Cornman, issued a statement saying the district "accepts all students no matter race, nationality/ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation."

Continue reading the main story
The student protest came on the heels of a school board meeting on Thursday attended by so many parents it had to be moved to a bigger location.

"My goal is for the district and parents to have a policy discussion," said Derrick Good, a lawyer who has two daughters in the district and wants students to use either facilities based on their biological sex or other gender-neutral facilities.

He worked with the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian advocacy group, to draft a "student physical privacy policy" and submit it to the district, which has about 3,500 students.

Ms. Perry previously used a unisex faculty bathroom, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Mr. Good said he got involved after hearing about a female student who encountered "an intact male" in the girls' locker room.

"It's a violation of my daughters' rights to privacy to not have a policy," he said.

The protesting students assembled outside the school for about two hours. Mr. Cornman said he did not believe any of them were penalized.

Ms. Perry, who dropped out of the physical education class that prompted her use of the girls' locker room, spent the two hours in her guidance counselor's office.

"I was concerned about my own safety," she said.

She said she knows of other, younger transgender students in the district and wants to open a dialogue so they have a better high school experience.

"It feels really awful that people are going to these extremes against me, not just in school but all over the Internet," Ms. Perry said. "But I've also received so much support. It feels really surreal to be in the middle of all of this."

The Missouri Gay-Straight Alliance Network will host a rally supporting Ms. Perry on Friday.

"I think that there are a lot of folks that don't understand the difference between sex and gender and only see Lila as her sex at birth," said Morgan Keenan, the group's founding director.

It's not the first case to stir public debate about the matter.

A 13-year-old transgender student at a junior high school in Idaho was given permission to use the girls' bathrooms ea

From the article: "Do German consumers benefit from negative prices? Not directly. The wholesale costs of power make up only about a fifth of the average household electricity bill in Germany. The rest is a stew of taxes, fees to finance renewable-energy investments, and charges for use of the grid. That means their bills are lower than they otherwise would be, because power prices are sometimes negative, though household energy bills have been rising overall anyway. Basically, utilities are not depositing money in customer's bank accounts." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

Not only does Germany pay more, they pollute more. Germany has spent a quarter of a trillion dollars, and they are still **10x dirtier** then France. Any way you put it Germanys energiewende is a failure . Here is a second source And here is a previous slashdot story about it.

These "Democrats"?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

Who you gonna call? Temple Grandin.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f...

How much money do you make, what State do you live in, and do you have dependents? My guess is that if you actually ran the calculations your taxes would go DOWN.

Real median earnings for males peaked in 1974: https://economix.blogs.nytimes... The reason "household income" is up is because there are far more person/hours being worked per household. Fifty years ago single incomes per household were quite common - Today everyone works.

Oh sorry, cold fjord, that is not supporting the claim above:

Most immigrants end up costing the government more a lot more in services than they ever pay in taxes.

Note the immigrants part does not mention legality or not, therefore, you'd have to factor in both. Except your report does not even attempt to reflect all immigration, so it is not even necessary to point out the flaws in it, because well, you neglected to address the issue of immigration in the entirety at all.

Ooops! Your bad there. You needed to consider net immigration.

Sorry, but those numbers work out differently regardless.

Ask the guy who tried to do VPNs in China just how well that worked out for him... Sure, you can get away with it for a little while, but when you're caught - well, 5 years in a Chinese prison is just about a death sentence.

That's total revisionist bullshit. The conflict in Syria started due to a civil uprising in 2011 as part of the so-called "Arab Spring" movements.

The only people to blame for the Syrian conflict are Syrians. It's idiotic to blame anyone else.

The only reason they're in Europe is because European leaders didn't do the right thing and strictly enforce the integrity of Europe's borders, preventing these third-worlders from entering Europe in the first place.

Yeah, because the Arab Spring was an entirely grassroots movement organized by the Syrian people with no leadership.

Here you go. It's even from one of your officially approved propaganda outlets.

Thanks to wonderful Utah Senator Orrin Hatch(R)

OP is about naturalized citizens, not non-citizens.

The government *may not* discriminate against any citizen (natural born or naturalized) wrt security clearance. See this for a ruling from 1988 reaffirming that a citizen is a citizen is a citizen. We even have a naturalized US citizen serving in the US senate.

As far as I know the only exception is the position of commander in chief.

Before assuming you'll be screwed over by the tax plan, I suggest using the nytimes' calculator to see what your tax changes will be. As it stands, virtually no poor or middle class citizens will see a tax increase. https://www.nytimes.com/intera... (I myself will see a few thousand dollar decrease in taxes)

As has been very widely reported the tax bill is front loaded with expiring sweeteners for the Middle Class that expire after some years, while the tax cuts for corporations and the rich do not ever expire.

This is more than a bit like "introductory interest rates" on loans or credit cards that jump up after a period of time.

You don't understand. This tax plan is intended to help the middle class.

It will make them try harder to be richer, so that their tax cuts will never expire.

The Republicans are all about you helping yourself!

Before assuming you'll be screwed over by the tax plan, I suggest using the nytimes' calculator to see what your tax changes will be. As it stands, virtually no poor or middle class citizens will see a tax increase. https://www.nytimes.com/intera... (I myself will see a few thousand dollar decrease in taxes)

As has been very widely reported the tax bill is front loaded with expiring sweeteners for the Middle Class that expire after some years, while the tax cuts for corporations and the rich do not ever expire.

This is more than a bit like "introductory interest rates" on loans or credit cards that jump up after a period of time.

Before assuming you'll be screwed over by the tax plan, I suggest using the nytimes' calculator to see what your tax changes will be. As it stands, virtually no poor or middle class citizens will see a tax increase. https://www.nytimes.com/intera... (I myself will see a few thousand dollar decrease in taxes)

I'm sure there are some instances where a handful of people will see increased taxes, but don't believe every front page post you see on reddit. There's no incoming middle class decimation along with this bill, and waving your arms and screaming about it won't make your statement any more true.

You do realize that Republicans like illegal immigration, because it forces working class wages down, right? If someone lowered the boom on people illegally employing illegal immigrants, it would solve a lot of problems. The Republicans aren't about to do it.

The mainstream Republicans are weasels about immigration, but it was the Democrats who pushed abominations like the Motor Voter law

https://leginfo.legislature.ca...

Existing law makes it a crime for a person to willfully cause, procure, or allow himself or herself or any other person to be registered as a voter, knowing that he or she or that other person is not entitled to registration. Existing law also makes it a crime to fraudulently vote or attempt to vote.
This bill would provide that if a person who is ineligible to vote becomes registered to vote by operation of the California New Motor Voter Program in the absence of a violation by that person of the crime described above, that person's registration shall be presumed to have been effected with official authorization and not the fault of that person. The bill would also provide that if a person who is ineligible to vote becomes registered to vote by operation of this program, and that person votes or attempts to vote in an election held after the effective date of the person's registration, that person shall be presumed to have acted with official authorization and is not guilty of fraudulently voting or attempting to vote, unless that person willfully votes or attempts to vote knowing that he or she is not entitled to vote.

I.e. they're adding illegals to the voter rolls and decriminalising them voting.

And Democrats are even now fighting Trump's Wall. The reason for this is that Hispanics voted 2:1 Democrat to Republican

https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

And you have people like this

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

Saying that real change will only be possible when whites are a minority. Which, thanks to their immigration policies will happen in 2043.

There will be no bans on hate speech. In the US, "hate speech" is a matter of personal opinion, and will continue to be

40% of Millennials support bans on hate speech.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fac...

Given the Democrats believe the constitution is a living document and have already managed to reinterpret it to make gay marriage a right, and Hillary believed that DC vs Heller was wrong and that the Second Amendment needs to be reinterpreted so that individuals do not have the right to bear arms, who's to say that the Democrats next major initiative might be to reinterpret the First Amendment to say that hate speech bans are fine?

Thank the GOP got in and got Gorsuch on the SCOTUS basically. Otherwise Hillary would have nominated someone who'd have blown away big chunks of the Bill of Rights so the Second Amendment ended up meaning what it does in NYC - you have the right to bear arms, so long as you're a cop, an ex cop, rich or know the right people. Actually NYC passed law against misgendering too, so the First Amendment means jack shit there too. I'm sure if Hillary had got in she'd have nominated a SCOTUS judge who've have pushed this crap on the rest of the country.

Not to mention she said 'the unborn person has no constitutional rights'. Which honestly sounds like the Democrat position prior to the civil war that slaves people had no rights.

Given a choice between the somew

You missed this comparison of the lies of Trump and the lies of Obama :-)

  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/14/opinion/sunday/trump-lies-obama-who-is-worse.html

He was right about everything he said. That doesn't excuse his actions, but everything he has predicted has and is coming to pass.

You don't like the internet of things?

I wanted to post the whole manifesto, but I got the "lameness filter". That's like calling Emerson lame. Whatever. Here is a link so you can read it at your leisure:

https://partners.nytimes.com/l...

However, I've never really had anybody defend that position with actual quotes, taken in context about some topic that's actually material to the governing of the country.

Then you haven't bothered to look. 20 seconds on google would get you endless lists of his lies documented and refuted or explained. Serious news organization are keeping track of them.

I get that he's abrasive and spouts off stuff of questionable sources at times, but I don't see him as the kind that just lies to hear himself speak, or lies for political advantage like some from the other side of the isle have in the past.

Then you are truly a clueless idiot.

"Tapped my wires" tweet which was widely condemned as a lie but was pretty much true looking back on what we know now.

I don't know where you get your information but it was a lie then and it is a lie now. There is no evidence for this claim.

Also, you know, it's not precisely fake news now is it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

So the HHS said calling it a ban was a "mischaracterization", which means they have admitted something was said on the topic but are claiming the reporting was bad. But, they've not gone further and relased a statement of what they said.

Bleatig about fake ews makes you sounds foolish, because you're drawing an equivalence between this and something like pizzagate which was completely fabricated.

Er, except in reality the CDC recommended to itself not to use the words, in order to trick those meanie Republicans into fully funding them as much as they wished. Since they just knew those knuckle draggers were knuckle draggers.

None of it came from Trump or Republicans at all.

So, yeah, it kinda was fake news.

It's kinda like watching an SNL parody, and then blaming a Republican for something that Tina Fey said (not that anyone would actually do that, lol)

I just want to remind you that all attempts to create a libertarian state fared much worse than Venezuela?.

Nice try, comrade.

NOT.

It's really, really, really hard to go broke sitting on top of the largest oil reserves on the planet.

But Venezuela did just that.

Do you have the balls to look at the images of late-stage socialism in failure? Starving babies, an entire population with no food or access to medical care?

Grow some BALLS, you chickenshit son-of-a-bitch (and you most certainly are a chickenshit son-of-a-bitch for even trying to defend a system that resulted in what you can see if you had the balls to read that entire linked article), read, and LEARN:

Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. But in the last three years its economy has collapsed.

Hunger has gripped the nation for years. Now, it’s killing children.

The Venezuelan government knows, but won’t admit it.

For five months, The New York Times tracked 21 public hospitals in Venezuela. Doctors are seeing record numbers of children with severe malnutrition. Hundreds have died.

SAN CASIMIRO, Venezuela — Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death.

His father left before dawn to bring him home from the hospital morgue. He carried Kenyerber’s skeletal frame into the kitchen and handed it to a mortuary worker who makes house calls for Venezuelan families with no money for funerals.

Kenyerber’s spine and rib cage protruded as the embalming chemicals were injected. Aunts shooed away curious young cousins, mourners arrived with wildflowers from the hills, and relatives cut out a pair of cardboard wings from one of the empty white ration boxes that families increasingly depend on amid the food shortages and soaring food prices throttling the nation. They gently placed the tiny wings on top of Kenyerber’s coffin to help his soul reach heaven — a tradition when a baby dies in Venezuela.

When Kenyerber’s body was finally ready for viewing, his father, Carlos Aquino, a 37-year-old construction worker, began to weep uncontrollably. “How can this be?” he cried, hugging the coffin and speaking softly, as if to comfort his son in death. “Your papá will never see you again.”

Hunger has stalked Venezuela for years. Now, it is killing the nation’s children at an alarming rate, doctors in the country’s public hospitals say.

Venezuela has been shuddering since its economy began to collapse in 2014. Riots and protests over the lack of affordable food, excruciating long lines for basic provisions, soldiers posted outside bakeries and angry crowds ransacking grocery stores have rattled cities, providing a telling, public display of the depths of the crisis.

But deaths from malnutrition have remained a closely guarded secret by the Venezuelan government. In a five-month investigation by The New York Times, doctors at 21 public hospitals in 17 states across the country said that their emergency rooms were being overwhelmed by children with severe malnutrition — a condition they had rarely encountered before the economic crisis began.

“Children are arriving with very precarious conditions of malnutrition,” said Dr. Huníades Urbina Medina, the president of the Venezuelan Society of Childcare and Pediatrics. He added that doctors were even seeing the kind of extreme malnutrition often found in refugee camps — cases that were highly unusual in oil-rich Venezuela before its economy fell to pieces.

For many low-income families, the crisis has completely redrawn the social landscape. Parents like Kenyerber’s mother go days without eating, shriveling to the weight of children themselves. Women line up at sterilization cl

As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger
New York Times 2 days ago

Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. But in the last three years its economy has collapsed.

Don't click on that link if you have a weak stomach. The images are horrifying.

Late-stage socialism at its finest - Venezuela has run out of other people's money.

Candidate Trump won by a landslide - 306 to 232 - in the electoral college, the election that determines the Presidency of the united states. Hillary Clinton won the meaningless "Popular Vote".

I can't believe how willing so may of you are to spread #FakeNews. Even I believed it was real (and stupid) at the time, so compelling and well-crafted has the #FakeNews industry become.

My good man, this isn't twitter. It's kind of tacky trying to use hashtags here.

Also, you know, it's not precisely fake news now is it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

So the HHS said calling it a ban was a "mischaracterization", which means they have admitted something was said on the topic but are claiming the reporting was bad. But, they've not gone further and relased a statement of what they said.

Bleatig about fake ews makes you sounds foolish, because you're drawing an equivalence between this and something like pizzagate which was completely fabricated.

That is one of the easiest things to take into account. Personally, I like the NY Times Rent vs Buy calculator. I had fancier spreadsheets, but this gives you an easy means of screening.

The hard factors to account for are the relative inflation rates of renting and buying.

Except that where it's allowed to work, it usually works really well. The only thing pushing back against it are entrenched lefty entities like teachers union bosses and the city/county councils with which they have an ugly little symbiotic relationship at the expense of students and their families.

Except for the religious agenda being promulgated that seems to be all too common. Not to mention the profiteering.

Sorry ScentCone, I get it, your dogma requires you to recite the shibboleth. Same as the testing agenda and your exhortations against Common Core.

Maybe if you tell more absurd lies, you'll get a prize too.

Except that where it's allowed to work, it usually works really well. The only thing pushing back against it are entrenched lefty entities like teachers union bosses and the city/county councils with which they have an ugly little symbiotic relationship at the expense of students and their families.

Except for the religious agenda being promulgated that seems to be all too common. Not to mention the profiteering.

Sorry ScentCone, I get it, your dogma requires you to recite the shibboleth. Same as the testing agenda and your exhortations against Common Core.

Maybe if you tell more absurd lies, you'll get a prize too.

And yet all the riots, violence, and looting have come from far-Left wing nutjobs...

Hmm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/1...

Simple solution. The government will prohibit the word 'power-outage' and presto, no problemo.

Don't worry, you'll also discover that WAPO lied to you ... again.

Lower your intake of fake news. Trump wants to resume sending astronauts to the moon.

Even from the NYT: https://mobile.nytimes.com/201...

Money launches rockets, not words.

Trump offered words. The exact words of the national space council. Additional money to make this happen: nope.

Another "fake news" dickhead corrected. Also, Trump is a fucking clown.

The article in post fails to mention the New York Times story which has DOD video from an F-18 sensor recording of a UAV they are tracking.

The BBC article posts a link to the CIA declassifying 13 million documents under the CIA's CREST archive.

Enjoy!!

Maybe.

And yet here you are writing things and I'm reading them without any of those companies being involved. But my ISP is still in the loop.

Check the news some time.

Google was recently caught reading the content of documents stored online, and locking people out of access to their own files because Google felt the content was inappropriate.

Twitter bans, shadow-bans, and permanently deletes accounts that have inappropriate content.

Reddit got rid of lots of conversations that had inappropriate content. Note that those conversations are opt-in; meaning, you have to seek them out to view them. People who don't participate in those conversations got those conversations banned because they don't like other people talking about certain things.

It seems conservative viewpoints are overwhelmingly censored for nothing, while liberal viewpoints that flagrantly violate the rules are given a wink and a smile (viz: "let's kill all white people").

Ajit Pai's recent video defending the NN decision was censored by YouTube.

You can post 1-line vanilla text is an anecdote.

The plural of anecdote is not "data".

Chinese Spy Phones at very affordable prices.

Just my thoughts too. THe Kaspersky thing may happen again. Heck, the ongoing farce of "Russia collusion" may, bucking the proverbial trend, come back as a real tragedy next time — because Chinese, generally, have their excrement together much more than Russians these days.