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There are retracted news articles all the time, you should be able to do better.

1) This appears to be referring to this article:

http://www.politico.com/story/...

Here is the Fox (Faux) News article you are probably basing your statement on:

http://insider.foxnews.com/201...

Politico seems to have gotten the basic facts correct in this case and Competitive Enterprise Institute seems to have gotten it wrong. The mistake Politico had made in the original article was stating that OneWest had done the foreclosure when it had been CIT who had merged with OneWest. The mistake was using the old company name instead of the new company name. Mnuchin was on the board of CIT when the second foreclosure took place.

"CORRECTION: This story has been corrected to reflect that CIT Bank, successor to OneWest after a 2015 merger, was the entity that filed foreclosure proceedings against Ossie Lofton over a 27-cent payment error. The story has also been revised to clarify that there were two separate foreclosure proceedings against Lofton. At the time the second foreclosure was filed in 2016, Mnuchin had sold his stake in OneWest and was on the board of CIT."

Other fact checkers have confirmed that Fox is wrong and the foreclosure did take place. You can even see the court case yourself:
https://pro.polkcountyclerk.ne...
Search for: "CIT BANK, N.A. vs. LOFTON OSSIE".

Score: Politico: 1, Faux News: 0.

That said, I'm not really a fan of Politico atm. They just posted a totally garbage anti-Semitic article claiming that Trump is linked to Putin because Putin met with a Chabad Rabbi who had once met a rabbi who did a bris that Ivanka Trump went to and thus there is some Jewish conspiracy linking the two men... The way the article is written is a total conspiracy theory. That would be a much better example of fake news. I'm not a fan of Trump, but you don't need to come up with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories to link Trump and Putin.

2) As others pointed out in this thread, it was actually Nancy Sinatra who seemed to change her tune and claim the negative Trump comment she had tweeted earlier was a "joke." Although to be fair, it might have been meant as a joke but there was no way for CNN to know that. I wouldn't call that fake news.

3) If you read the article, there doesn't seem to be anything fake about it. They even mention that it was probably part of the plan to shift to a different site.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

http://www.snopes.com/white-ho...

What you are leaving out is that it has been several months and Trump still doesn't have anything up on whitehouse.gov about these issues from what I can tell. How is the New York times article "fake news"?

4) As someone else pointed out, they reported on people who objected to the content of the speech not that he gave one there. Here is the article you are claiming is fake news. What exactly is fake? Did the people who Washington Post said objected to the speech not really object?

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

5) It sounds like Spicer is lying (nothing new), not CBS. Although CBS seems to be a little misleading as there were some CIA staff who seemed to support Trump, but the facts about Trump bringing people to cheer him on seem to be correct.

http://www.snopes.com/2017/01/...

Newsweek de

he didn't do a thing when Assad crossed his "red line"

Bullshit. He was blocked by Congress:

"So when the president stepped into the sunny Rose Garden that Saturday morning, he announced that he had made two decisions: first, that the U.S. should act against Syria, and second, that he would seek explicit authorization from Congress to do so.
[...]
Despite the administration’s strong advocacy and support from a small minority of hawkish politicians, Congress and the American people proved strongly opposed to the use of force."
( http://www.politico.com/magazi... )

A committee of MPs has lambasted Uber's contracts with drivers as "gibberish" and "almost unintelligible" as the company attempts to ensure its drivers remain self-employed.

WTF is it any concern of the government, what sort of contract free citizens of able body and sound mind enter into with each other?

"egregious clause" which attempted to prevent people challenging their "self-employed" designation

Ah, I get it. After willingly entering into the contract, some drivers are tempted to demand more, and the politicians — always greedy for more taxe... , err, wealth to spread around — are happy to "fight" for them...

Pay no attention to the green men from taxi companies either...

What's hilarious is that Uber is hiring these Left wing celebrities to wage its PR war — Obama's hacks and now Adriana Huffington... Just imagine, what these people would have been saying on the matter, if they weren't bought and paid for by Uber already...

Whether enough new jobs will open up to replace the quantity of jobs lost to automation and outsourcing, one thing is certain: many people will get displaced and hit hard times. Going from a $25/hr factory worker to a $10/hr Walmart greeter will NOT make for happy citizens, especially when they have a family and mortgage to take care of.

Most "new" jobs are given to young people, not to somebody who has been doing the same thing for 20+ years. Agism is real, even in IT; I've seen it myself.

Politicians ignored or downplayed the displaced and look what happened: they elected a human monkey-wrench in protest to shake things up. The lesson: ignoring the displaced will backfire. We may have only seen the first wave of rebellion; much more can happen.

Well.. While we are making stupid claims... How about Obama's trips to the Med, where he and his wife took separate aircraft and a boat load of friends?

You mean the ones where Michelle Bachmann claimed it was 200 million a day? They're lying crap, that's what.

See, that's the issue, you start lying, you keep on lying, and nobody believes you.

But Trump's excursions are all too real. And far too expensive. And way too hypocritical from a guy who claimed to do the exact opposite.

And what makes you think protecting the president in FL is all that much more expensive than having him at the White House? It's not like they don't have SS staff in both places at this point...

There's all sorts of expenses, including the law enforcement in FL. And the NYPD for that matter, for Melania. It's quite a burden.

Why can't he go back to looking for a birth certificate he can't find?

Haters gota hate I guess....

You're the one carrying water for a liar and a fraud. How do you live with yourself?

Well.. While we are making stupid claims... How about Obama's trips to the Med, where he and his wife took separate aircraft and a boat load of friends?

You mean the ones where Michelle Bachmann claimed it was 200 million a day? They're lying crap, that's what.

See, that's the issue, you start lying, you keep on lying, and nobody believes you.

But Trump's excursions are all too real. And far too expensive. And way too hypocritical from a guy who claimed to do the exact opposite.

And what makes you think protecting the president in FL is all that much more expensive than having him at the White House? It's not like they don't have SS staff in both places at this point...

There's all sorts of expenses, including the law enforcement in FL. And the NYPD for that matter, for Melania. It's quite a burden.

Why can't he go back to looking for a birth certificate he can't find?

Haters gota hate I guess....

You're the one carrying water for a liar and a fraud. How do you live with yourself?

Trump constantly contradicts himself. http://www.politico.com/magazi...

This from a guy who basically campaigned on fiscal conservancy.

He campaigned on a lot, but it wasn't on fiscal conservancy. Every candidate gives lip-service to the idea, but it was kind of obvious he wouldn't be that kind of president

http://www.politico.com/magazi...

Ohh the beautify of blissful ignorance.

Examples of Trump's corruption and evil abound. So why give him a free pass on that but not Hillary. At least she's competent and not hateful in every other way too.

I didn't say that I give Trump a free pass. I said that given a choice between putting my dick in a blender, and walking through door #2 - which has a picture of evil clowns on it...I choose door #2.

As for your notes about Hilary not being hateful...she's as racist as anyone. Watch her speak. http://www.dailywire.com/news/...

As for Hilary's competence...she didn't lose the election because she was corrupt, or scandal-ridden, or sexism, or fake news, or Russian hackers, or any of the other reasons her fans claim. She lost because she and her staff were incompetent. Despite all of those scandals, criminal misdeeds, and accusations, half the country turned out to vote for her. She lost because of a HUGE cascade of absolutely stupid decisions during her campaign.

Here's the interesting story about her campaign in Michigan: http://www.politico.com/story/...

Then there's the well-publicized blunder of the millions of dollars approved for transfer from Clinton’s campaign for use by the DNC — which, under a plan devised by Brazile to drum up urban turnout out of fear that Trump would win the popular vote while losing the electoral vote, got dumped into Chicago and New Orleans, far from anywhere that would have made a difference in the election. So she loses the electoral vote but wins the popular vote...which has only been a meaningful metric for news organizations, not for our political process.

You remember HilaryCare? The same Hilary-attempted Obamacare predecessor that was SO bad that it led to Republicans sweeping up elections the following year? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

How about WhiteWater?

Point being - she's as bad as he is. They're both bad. Terrible. They were both the absolute worst candidates. And their respective parties decided to put them out in front of us and tell us to choose between an egotistical, racist, incompetent twat and an egotistical, racist, incompetent twat.

Alternative facts. It figures. Over the years it's actually been a relatively bipartisan support for the programs but also limiting them to defend privacy.
Here's an interesting article from a critical perspective: http://www.politico.com/agenda...

> You mean like how Jeff Sessions lied in front of Congress, about meeting the Russians?

He did *NOT* lie. He was asked if he *CO-ORDINATED THE 2016 ELECTION CAMPAIGN STRATEGY* with the Russian ambassador. He said "No". However, *IN HIS CAPACITY AS A MEMBER OF THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT BUSINESS* he did meet with the Russian ambassador in 2016, as did other congresscritters.

While we're at, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, minority house leader, met with the Russian ambassador http://www.politico.com/story/...
  Should she be investigated.

And Democrat Chuck Schumer, senate minority leader, met with Putin himself http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/03... Should he be investigated?

Typical lib-left do-as-I-say-no-as-I-do crap.

Nor are ranks from California.

It used to be that in the US there were no such things as police sergeants, lieutenants, captains, etc. The quasi-military rank structure came into being IIRC in Los Angeles California(?).

http://www.ci.richmond.va.us/P...

1807: The Richmond Police Department officially was established as one of the first formally organized law enforcement agencies in the United States.
...
1861: Virginia seceded from the Union. The president of the newly formed Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, established Richmond as the capital of the CSA Officers began wearing badges and were considered members of the militia.
1863: With the city's population swollen to almost 100,000 by the Civil War, the Richmond Police Department was overwhelmed. As a result, the Department was reorganized with 13 day officers, one of whom was designated the Chief of Police. The night watch was given one captain, three lieutenants and 40 privates.

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

As the oldest police department in the country, the Boston Police Department (BPD) has a rich history and a well-established presence in the Boston community. The initiation of a formal department began in 1838, when the General Court passed a bill allowing the city of Boston to appoint police officers. The department was structured after the model developed by Sir Robert Peele for the London Police force.
...
The first police force consisted of 260 officers and a chief. Each division had a captain and two lieutenants; sergeants were not appointed until 1857. In these early days, an officer on duty carried a six-foot pole, painted blue and white to protect himself, and a "police rattle" to call for assistance.

Ranks were there back in the day when police officers were armed with RATTLES.

Ranks are NOT militarization. Police all around the world have ranks. Fire brigades have ranks.

Militarization is when regular police starts employing military weapons, tactics and equipment on daily basis.
I.e. When police thinks that it actually needs those "5,638 bayonets ($307,769) and 36 swords and scabbards", or when campus police thinks it really needs those M16s there is something terribly wrong both with their internal philosophy AND their purchasing program.

Could it possibly be that the USA has been staging these huge military operations around the globe since... oh... the Desert Storm?
And could it be that such huge military operations overseas create an increase in surplus of military equipment - while at the same time draining the budget of money that could be spent on local law enforcement, among other things?
Could it also be that unloading all those hundreds of millions of dollars of military equipment onto law enforcement agencies is hiding actual holes in the law enforcement budgets?
And is there a chance that, besides all that surplus military gear, police has also been getting

Put another way, even Google with their near-bottomless buckets of money has said it's too hard for them.

Exactly the example I wanted to cite. Google can count. They know, what cables cost and how hard it is to run it. But the costs and, more importantly, the intangible difficulties of obtaining the permits can not be estimated in advance.

And so it follows, that it were these government-imposed costs and difficulties, that scuttled Google Fiber — because, had it been anything else, they wouldn't have even attempted. Indeed, we already know it quite well, that the real barrier for having nice Internet-connectivity is not the ISPs, who want your money, but the local mayors and city councils, who want free stuff and favors.

And you would notice too, that where they started (and continue to operate) is not exactly the thickly settled — and thus Illiberal-dominated — coastal city... Even though "thickly settled" is the most attractive part for an ISP.

As long as the government can throttle an upstart ISPs — such as by holding them to the letter of some regulation, however imprecise and unclear — the incumbent, who can take the President for a round of golf, will thrive. Thrive without improving service and lower prices.

Yet, some vague rumor about what Trump is doing comes up, and all of a sudden it's "absolute proof".

Or you could listen to the 13 minutes of uncut audio where Trump invites club members to sit in on interviews for his cabinet picks. He refers to the members as "special people".

because a Republican-controlled Congress was dead-set on doing nothing in order to obstruct Obama at all costs. This is, seriously, no shit, because the Republicans would be damned if they even APPEARED to be supporting a president that some still swore was not a citizen.

Remember, none of the materials on the Clinton server were marked classified at the time they landed there, only in retrospect were any of them deemed classified at the lowest level.

That's not true; she got materials that were marked classified, she got stuff that was Top Secret at the time of sending (even if it wasn't marked properly, she should have known it was as part of her duties), and only some of the stuff was retroactively classified.

Certainly, some of it is political grandstanding, but not all.

We'll see so far there are no scandals. NSA lied to Pence and Trump. He's out. Controversies? Define controversy? Something the opposition disagrees with? You mean like Obamacare? Or invading Iraq?

Are you blind or willfully ignorant?

So far nothing of note. There may be. There not.

That sums up Trump's first three weeks in the White House despite issuing 45 executive orders and presidential memos.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/president-trump-has-done-almost-nothing-214775

Outside of the anti-trump bubble, he's doing great.

It's amusing to me that you see much of the rest of the world as living in a "bubble" and your little Trump train love fest as "the real world". I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
 

For any [citation needed] requests:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2...
http://www.politico.com/story/...
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/...

The polls showing Trump's precipitous fall in popularity

Don't fool yourself. His approval rating is basically unchanged from the day after the election.
Disapproval is up, but that's mostly a conversion from undecideds. The people who voted for him are still with him, and more importantly, still with the rest of the republican party who are using the minority president as cover to enact the most hard-right agenda of the modern era.

Approval rating Nov 9-13: 42%
Latest approval rating: 40%
The margin of error is +/- 3% so those two numbers are essentially the same.

Outside of the anti-trump bubble, he's doing great.

The threats around the world are constantly evolving and changing. We have been getting a decent track record so far at keeping the terrorists out, but in 2001 we screwed the pooch and just 19 terrorists killed 3000 people and caused $3 trillion in damage and loss of life. If we let in 100,000 refugees and our screening process is 99.9% effective, that means we let in 100 terrorists. If they carry out similarly effective attacks, we are looking at 15,000 dead and $15 trillion dollars in damage. It would effectively destroy our economy for years. The margin for error on the screening of immigrants from Islamist countries must be zero or it makes no sense to invite them in. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim nations must be forced to get off their asses and use their UN military troops to create safe zones for civilians, which they should have done years ago. The US can easily provide food and shelter for these civilian refugees at no risk to our population. We can then use our military in cooperation with the Russians and Asad to turn ISIS into a fine red mist and then these refugees can go home.

Letting in refugees from Syria and Iraq and the other 7 countries right now is like if the US had let in 100,000 Japanese civilians, 2:1 male to live in the general US population in 1943 by simply asking them if they were pro American. It would have been suicidal and insane and there probably would have been thousands of Japanese spies and saboteurs mixed in and it probably would have destroyed the US if we had done that.

http://www.politico.com/magazi...

Re citation needed
"Uttered in 2008, still haunting Obama" (04/05/12)
http://www.politico.com/story/...
"It’s just that it will bankrupt them"

The republicans will happily throw him under the bus if he starts to make the republicans unpopular.

There is little evidence of that. http://www.politico.com/story/...

The more batshit insane he gets, the closer to impeachment he becomes.

Right now, it's the Democrats, their representatives, and their street thugs that look increasingly batshit insane.

No. You are throwing a distraction and I'm not going to bite. The initial claim was that the audience in attendance was bigger.

I'm not going to argue it was the most-streamed event*. That's not what their point was. I don't care who had a bigger audience, Trump cared. They lied because they pointed to pictures and said, "this is framed badly, we had a bigger audience," when clearly from the pictures you could see much more empty space. Not once during this fiasco did they point to online streams, they said, "audience" which can be bent by any person to mean anything. The language is vague on purpose. They all pointed to picture evidence, Trump's ridiculously-worded anecdotal evidence and "bad framing".

* And beside the point, it doesn't give numbers. It is not concrete and would be insane to draw specific numbers from.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/...

"The 17 million streams are the total number of streams, not the average number of people watching. That 17 million figure may include people that reloaded the webpage, or that clicked in and watched for 30 seconds, or people where the inauguration started to auto-play on the CNN story they clicked through."

yeah, let's keep our eyes on the ball. Trump, someone who repeatedly casts the free press as the enemy is now the president. Obama and GW have their faults, but at least they are not tribal narcissist with little or no empathy for the opposition. It's going to be a tough ride until Trump is removed.

Call me when Trump actually tells his supporters to bring a gun to a fight.

Like Obama did.

Stop the "Trump is MOAH HORRIBLES THAN EVAH!!!" bullshit.

Trump and his wonderful deregulations just announced today that Cable providers don't need to do this. I have to wonder if Comcast was aware of this before their announcement?

Seriously, you think, Comcast, which spends millions of dollars lobbying various governments, could possibly have been unaware of developments at FCC? Or, more generally, that Comcast, whose CEO played golf with the President, is not benefiting from the barriers to entry imposed by the regulations?

The much more likely explanation is that Comcast, facing competition from the likes of Verizon, is trying to do, what the customers want. And they'll only have to do more of that, if FCC makes it easier for more competition to appear.

Heck, if you want to speculate about a communication-provider making a mistake due to a political miscalculation, take a closer look at Alphabet (Google) freezing its own broadband effort. Google executives were Hillary Clinton to win Presidency (and were actively helping her) and thus had no reasons to expect an improvement of business-climate. Had they known, Ajit Pai will soon become head of FCC, maybe, Google Fiber would've kept expanding...

AC wrote: You have the most clearly written and factual explanation to the matter. Yet Trump supporter will still say you're wrong. They just can't seem to see any of his flaws.

You are correct.

http://www.politico.com/magazi...
"
The One Weird Trait That Predicts Whether Youâ(TM)re a Trump Supporter

And itâ(TM)s not gender, age, income, race or religion.
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Trumpâ(TM)s electoral strengthâ"and his staying powerâ"have been buoyed, above all, by Americans with authoritarian inclinations
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A primary trait of authoritarians is that when their chosen leader says something, they want to believe it is true. So they do believe it is true. Even when it makes no sense.

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11...

Authoritarians prioritize social order and hierarchies, which bring a sense of control to a chaotic world. Challenges to that order â" diversity, influx of outsiders, breakdown of the old order â" are experienced as personally threatening because they risk upending the status quo order they equate with basic security.

Authoritarians prioritize social order and hierarchies, which bring a sense of control to a chaotic world. Challenges to that order â" diversity, influx of outsiders, breakdown of the old order â" are experienced as personally threatening because they risk upending the status quo order they equate with basic security.

There's more. it's worth reading.

Gainfully employed bartender in Vermont is a just-so story.

One year previous to your "couple of years ago", Vermont had the highest rate of illicit drug usage in the US.

Did your "free-roaming vacation" take you past the burnout hovels in St. Alban, Winooski, Brattleboro, Barre, Rutland? If so, I'm guessing you didn't have an hour-long wait at the bar in a Rutland Saturday night friends-and-family shooting gallery.

My point is that your just-so story about how a single (or a dozen) hard-working bartenders in Vermont provide a much better population context for socialist governance than people "three generations deep in Section 8 housing and welfare" is an anecdote that says nothing about the benefits of socialist economic agenda in urban and rural contexts.

If you found out that Clinton announced the closing september would that surprise you?

Surprise!

Did you that the "Clinton Global Initiative" just shuttered operations?
I mean, who could have seen that coming?

Everyone?
They announced it back in September when they still thought Hillary was going to win.

You gotta figure out how to get out of that bubble where they only tell you half the story.

Not asshole enough. A true master asshole would plant a gigantic car-dealership-sized US flag there. Then whatever legal maneuver he tries, they go on Fox News and complain about how unpatriotic Zuck is.

Well then there is nothing to worry about and we agree that Obama should not pardon Hillary.

As for the "Clinton Crime Syndcycatge Rhetoric" being over, you have heard that she is contemplating running for mayor of NY.

I can show you intent:
http://www.politico.com/story/...

pants on fire.

You mean the US electoral college and Putin, because in popular vote terms, California preferred Clinton.

FTFY. And of course those who want citations: http://www.politico.com/2016-e....

California chose Hillary by 3.4 million cotes. Hillary won nationwide popular vote by 2.9 million votes. The entire difference and then some is the state of California.

Aaaaaaaand..... your point being that California is not..... a part of America?

I worked election security for 2 years in California and watched them throw third party ballots into the trash while somehow reporting third party election results. When I brought it up, I was told that they do not bother counting them. Election workers also took ballot boxes home instead of directly to where they are suppose to be opened and counted.

So, ya, insofar as California is rife with election fraud, it is part of the United States.

Indeed it's overdramatizing stating that DNC had their own people there directly - however, that D leaning media (ie CNN, NYT, The Hill..) gave Clinton preferential treatment at the expense of their journalist integrity is no secret, it was widely covered during the election even by neutral media such as politico. Interestingly, right after that those same media started pushing the narrative these emails are "planted documents" by Russia.

http://www.politico.com/story/...

The "Don't be a little bitch." rule. You can QQ all you want, but you should expect others to tell you to STFU when you do because everyone's sick of hearing it.

Translation: I can't stand hearing what you're saying, so I'm going to whine and pout, and cry a bunch of crocodile tears and yell at others to shut up because of my own weakness.

See how that works? You try to silence others, you just prove them right to speak out against you. But we get it, you supported a petulant child, and want to act like a toddler yourself, but that only makes other people recognize how full of bullshit you are.

Of course, it doesn't help you that false claims like "massive landslide" and "political mandate" abound.

That's right, so obsessed with appearances, they claim, falsely, to be a dramatic winner, when the reality is starkly different.

No, I think we'll stick with the mockery. It's what you deserve. You've earned it, and will keep earning it. Not only did Trump lose the popular vote, he can't even admit it, but has to make up stories about illegal voters.

Which makes it even more relevant.

That gets under your skin, I suspect.

You mean the US electoral college and Putin, because in popular vote terms, California preferred Clinton.

FTFY. And of course those who want citations: http://www.politico.com/2016-e....

California chose Hillary by 3.4 million cotes. Hillary won nationwide popular vote by 2.9 million votes. The entire difference and then some is the state of California.

Aaaaaaaand..... your point being that California is not..... a part of America?

You mean the US electoral college and Putin, because in popular vote terms, California preferred Clinton.

FTFY. And of course those who want citations: http://www.politico.com/2016-e....

California chose Hillary by 3.4 million cotes. Hillary won nationwide popular vote by 2.9 million votes. The entire difference and then some is the state of California.

The Left is rediscovering hawkishness now.

http://www.politico.com/magazi...

The actual story is "the Russians hacked a couple of people at the Democratic Party (maybe) and embarrassed the hell out of them"

The actual actual story is that the Russians hacked some people at both parties, but selectively chose to release only a selection of the ones stolen from the Democratic party.

You're spreading fake news. Your own source contradicts you: "An initial scan by POLITICO of the Republican-linked emails did not uncover any bombshell revelations". GOP e-mails were released, too - but there was nothing damning in it. Maybe, just maybe, the Democrats are dirtier than the GOP?

The actual story is "the Russians hacked a couple of people at the Democratic Party (maybe) and embarrassed the hell out of them"

The actual actual story is that the Russians hacked some people at both parties, but selectively chose to release only a selection of the ones stolen from the Democratic party.

Politico, no friend of conservatives or the GOP, has a story about 91% of Trump media as negative. And Mother Jones, a decidedly left-of-center outlet, shows that Trump got significantly more negative press than Hillary. Anyone who claims the media constantly hammered Hillary over her (Wikileaks-proven) lies about her private server and ignored Trump is either ignorant or a partisan whackjob.

I will go on microphone saying only 1 senator from the republican party believes that the russians hacked the election.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/p...

http://www.politico.com/story/...

So, I have 4 more GOP names to add to the seven already on my list.

They'd love to create a constitutional crisis and embroil Trump et al. in a world class scandal.

Trump et al will put the Nixon and Reagan administrations to shame when it comes to controversy, scandals and prison terms.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/donald-trump-corruptible-214541

A bunch of political fake news garbage that suckers like you want to lap up.

Sorry, I don't watch Fox News.

when the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor violence tends to break out.

Or worse, Trumps break out ;-)

Even some plutocrats agree with you.

Are you seriously suggesting that the cost of ripping up 15 miles of road (the only road for about half the distance), dynamiting the bedrock, to lay another pipe is minor?

However difficult it may have been to do, maintaining it is still harder.

government to enforce the regulations involved in delivering clean water

With proper competition this regulation becomes unnecessary — cellular phones, TV-sets don't need to be regulated to "enforce delivering" anything. If they aren't performing to customers' satisfaction, people simply don't buy them. Reviews on Amazon and/or at Consumer Reports work much better, than a government regulator, who quickly ends up in the monopoly's pocket.

Buy a plot of land and build your store

Lay the pipes, and let the water flow through them. Or, maybe, invent a high-volume water-recycling system and offer homeowners an option of reusing their water forever, replenishing what little evaporates once a month.

The people do have control on which areas the store can be built as well as a community plan about where the new housing developments are taking place.

Stipulating, such control is a good thing in the first place, so what? You also have control of where the pipes were laid... You just need to allow multiple companies to lay them, instead of picking a single one and allowing it to become a monopoly.

UN GA just days ago adopted a resolution finally admitting that Ukraine is a victim of the Russian military aggression.

For better or worse, the part of the United States' electorate, to whom you want to appeal, view the United Nations with skepticism. So, instead of appealing to a questionable authority, try the following argument...

Imagine, Americans, Mexican government declaring Trump's election "a coup", his assemblage of generals — a junta, which placed the Latinophobic Nazi in power, contrary to the wishes of most Americans. Out of concern for the brotherly nation, Mexican government is encouraging volunteers to cross into California, Arizona, and Texas to help the local Spanish-speaking "self-defense" militias protect themselves against the White English-speaking bigots, who've persecuted the Spanish-speaking minority for years. In places stolen from Mexico before, these polite volunteers in military uniforms without any official insignia are already organizing a referendum to leave the US and join Mexico.

Patriotic Americans attempting to resist the invasion are denounced as racists and shot at with military-style efficiency. Although officially Mexico is not a party to this "civil war", its troops are regularly encountered on the battlefields — all of them are then found to have been "on leave" from their units. Artillery bombardment of American forces seems to originate from across the border, but no one can say for sure.

Would you still say, it is a civil war — Americans fighting other Americans?

$7 million for 1000 jobs over 10 years, about $700 per job per year in a TAX CUT not spending.

I'll note when it was the fad to boast about jobs "created or saved", the Obama administration was routinely bragging about projects that had costs in the tens to several hundred dollars per job per year range (for example, this bragging about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which had $250k spent in stimulus per job "created or saved" for jobs that lasted from a few months to a few years, until the stimulus went away). That's two to three orders of magnitude better than anything the Obama administration does.

Doesn't change the reality - Podesta's email was not hacked. As for stirring up the China-Taiwan situation, it should be. China is going to have a larger military than the US at some point, so either stand by your allies now, or you'll end up with even less credibility, same as Obama kept drawing "big red lines" that shouldn't be crossed, and when the barrel bombs and the chemical warfare started, did absolutely NOTHING.

And you're ignoring the facts if you claim that the DNC process wasn't rigged, you're being wilfully ignorant. resigned over it and was immediately hired by clinton. But first, she tried to muzzle MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, demanding he resign after he complained about the DNC's bias against Sanders.

As for Sanders scaring people to the republicans, give me a break. Polls showed Sanders with a 20 point lead over Trump. The only reason many people voted for Trump was because they couldn't bring themselves to vote Clinton. Look at the 3rd party votes - how many of them would Sanders have scooped up?

Clinton was unelectable, even after the DNC diverted funds to support her campaign that were supposed to be shared with the state campaigns, reserving 99.5% to Hillary. And let's not forget the scam to get around FEC maximum donor contributions.

Certainly hypocritical for a candidate who said they would fight for campaign financing reform and undo Citizen's United.

And we have yet to see any proof that Russia interfered. However, given that Clinton herself admitted that she tried to interfere with Putin's election, stop being so damn hypocritical. The US has interfered in elections in many countries, including it's allies. Why not look at how the CIA undermined ally Japan's election as just one of over 50 examples since ww2. Or go back further and look at the origins of the term "banana republic".

It's stuff like this that has nobody believing anything the government says without ironclad proof. All we've heard is people citing other people's opinions. Opinions are like assholes - everybody has one, and they tend to be full of shit on a regular basis.