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The Problem is that when you cut programs for fighting domestic terror in a country where white supremacists account for a disproportionate amount of attacks and then say both sides are bad when literal Nazis are rallying, well...

There just comes a time to call a Spade a Spade. I don't care of Trump really drinks the Kool-Aid or is just doing it for the votes or even the lulz. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and hiel Hitler's like a duck, it's a White Nationalist. Sooner we stop living in denial the better. This will not end well for us otherwise. Ignoring reality never does...

#PresidentTweety's ONLY concern is surviving past the election of 2020. Trump has NO long-term plans and he would not care AT ALL if the country collapsed into total bankruptcy the day after the election.

Indeed, it was reported that he basically said so outright:

Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt.

Sources close to the president say he has repeatedly shrugged it off, implying that he doesn’t have to worry about the money owed to America’s creditors—currently about $21 trillion—because he won’t be around to shoulder the blame when it becomes even more untenable.

The friction came to a head in early 2017 when senior officials offered Trump charts and graphics laying out the numbers and showing a “hockey stick” spike in the national debt in the not-too-distant future. In response, Trump noted that the data suggested the debt would reach a critical mass only after his possible second term in office.

“Yeah, but I won’t be here,” the president bluntly said, according to a source who was in the room when Trump made this comment during discussions on the debt.

As I've been saying to all those cheering about liberal tears since the day after the election - you lost too, you just don't know it yet.

Let's not call right-wingers stupid please, it prevents us from taking the threat of right-wing violence seriously, they are malignant and insidiously clever in how they promote hate and violence, hiding their messages behind "memes" and "edgy jokes".

Don't believe me? look at the confession of former white supremacist "meme-lord" Timothy Gionet:

https://elink.thedailybeast.com/view/5bae99853f92a46ecbcf5b739rlr3.15s/0f27da77

Right at the end:

Gionet, who claims that he sees “normie-tier conservatives” being radicalized to the far-right on social media, says he wants to warn other people away from being recruited to white supremacist groups through memes and “ironic” racism.

“I really thought this was just fun memes and jokes and edgy 4Chan posting and all this stuff, and then you get to the end of this rabbit hole and you realize these guys are serious,” Gionet said.

it won't cause famine any more than the last New Deal did. The "Green" part is just there to keep the Green party from spoiling another race.

"Boeing should just scrap the design."

The 2 comments above this one disagreed. I think you are correct. I've done electronic design and computer programming. The entire 737 MAX-8 new system components need re-consideration.

Others agree. For example: Boeing 737 MAX-8 Scandal Grows: Doomed Lion Air Flight Should Never Have Flown. (Yesterday, Mar. 21, 2019)

FBI joining criminal investigation into certification of Boeing 737 MAX . (Mar. 20, 2019)

Pentagon to probe if Shanahan used office to help Boeing. (Mar. 20, 2019) "Shanahan, 56, joined Boeing in 1986, rose through its ranks and is credited with rescuing the troubled Dreamliner 787 program."

Boeing has a history of flawed management: A flawed missile defense system generates $2 billion in bonuses for Boeing (Sept. 2, 2016)

of how China oppresses it's people in creepy ways. I'm actually a bit surprised this didn't make /..

One thing I haven't seen is so much as a peep about this from main stream media or a single politician. Calling out China's gov't is up there with showing a picture of Mohammad or pissing off Vladimir Putin in the list of "Shit you don't do".

What annoys me is seeing folks call for "Regime Change" in Venezuela and Iran while they ignore China (and Saudi Arabia while we're at it). Hell, Xi has basically declared himself emperor for life and Trump didn't just say it was OK, he said we should do that too. Not a peep I tells ya.

I know it's all about money (oil and cheap labor), but damn it pisses me off. Not the hypocrisy (pay a man that much and he doesn't care if you call him a hypocrite), but how they always get away with it.

Obviously you haven't seen (or don't care about) recent the body cam video of a traffic stop in Vallejo California where the driver turned to "get his license" and got off two rounds before the another officer shot him.

Stuff like that is why the cop is supposed to stand behind the A-pillar, and if there are multiple suspects in the vehicle, they are supposed to get backup before approaching... and lots of other rules I don't know. There were literally video games about this back in the eighties, the first three (and especially the first two) of which focus on correct police procedure. You literally can't win the games without it. Instead of teaching correct procedure, apparently, police academies spend their time teaching that there is a war on cops — even though this is the safest time in history to be one.

Superman’s possible Judaism shouldn’t be a surprise. The hero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were the children of Jewish immigrants. The comic book industry, where they spent a significant portion of their young careers, was created in New York by Jews like Max Ginsburg, Bob Kahn, and Jacob Kurtzberg, who hid their ethnicity behind names like Gaines, Kane, and Kirby. Over the years there have been scores of books and articles on the subject with punny names like Up, Up, and Oy Vey or “Mensch of Steel.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

Folks don't realize how heavily the US Government subsidized their lives in the 50s, 60s and 70s...the government ain't paying anymore

Actually, city governments heavily subsidize low-density housing for the affluent, wasting land on single-family residential homes that could be used for apartments which house more people, bring in more tax revenue per acre, and require less infrastructure per person. Inefficient zoning is why housing is in such short supply and expensive, why cities have so much traffic, and why cities have budget problems. It's all a big mess, and government is the problem. Yes, much of it started after WWII, with government-backed mortgages and the mortgage interest deduction, but these subsidies continue to exist to this day.

And property taxes assessed on the value of the land perversely incentivize people to come out in droves to oppose anything that can raise the value of their properties. For example, relaxed height limits, minimum setbacks, maximum floor area ratios, and minimum parking requirements--these things all attract NIMBYs like flies to a feast. It's all one big, fantastic mess.

That China icon for stories is getting old, can I suggest a new one that looks something like this:
https://img.thedailybeast.com/... (source TDB)

That China icon for stories is getting old, can I suggest a new one that looks something like this:
https://img.thedailybeast.com/... (source TDB)

Google search for democrat racist policy also turns up at least 3 things. If these aren't enough, I can dig deeper.

If voter photo ID is racist, then I guess you must hate: Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Guatamala, Germany, France, Australia, Greece (the birthplace of Democracy), Netherlands, Sweden, India, and nearly every other country. Where voter ID is REQUIRED. I guess they're all racist, eh?

Democrats also gerrymander districts. The oft-shouted "national vote for House!" is, in fact, false. If you look at House representatives per population you'll see that 8 of the top 10, and 14 of the top 20 States in terms of most people per representative are GOP States. Meaning that they are actually under-represented in the US House. California - oft decried as being "shorted" on Representatives - is in the bottom 40%, with more House members per resident than the average State.

Democrats have their own dog whistles, including the aforementioned racism (any more, if you disagree with the Left on anything, you're immediately branded a racist, Nazi, or both), "gun control", "Diversity" (have you seen the recent Andrew Ngo video where he's berated and assaulted by a bunch of white assholes because he's not supporting their "cause of tolerance"?), and many more.

Back to voting. How is requiring proof of identification, racist? It is incredibly explicit in the Constitution - only citizens have the right to vote. When you come into the US, you have to prove citizenship or at least ID and that you have approval to enter. When you want to draw SS, or any Government benefit, you're supposed to provide ID - including immigration/citizenship status. Why is that all OK, but for voting - where it is explicitly called for in the Constitution - not OK? Does that make Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands (and many others) racist hell-holes?

China has been working to make Chinese immigrant communities, particularly in the US, a fifth column. Chinese migrants/immigrants have also been problematic all across parts of East Asia and Indonesia as well from other things I've read. Then there is the whole problem of China colonizing Africa with millions of "workers."

First world liberals will continue to ignore the problem, and do things like say "but the King of Belgium was a real bastard in the Congo, so who are we to judge***" as the situation gets worse.

*** Gotta love how liberalism functions as a Christian heresy where you have all of the guilt and shame, but unlike Christianity you have no path of repentance and are collectively responsible for the actions of ever asshole before you (Ez 18 explicitly condemns that for Jews and Christians).

It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless.

  He said 'as used'. While in fact fascism - and things related - was very much on his mind.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/...
i shouldn't have used the word fascism, but is that because it has no meaning in common speech or because I'm exaggerating?
I'm not exaggerating but I counted factors I'm not mentioning.

One problem with that is that Putin's sock puppets all use VPNs, except when they forget to use them.

Take your pick.
Pennsylvanians receive mysterious letters promising to expose them if they do not vote
Mailers attempt to 'embarrass people into voting' by revealing voting history to neighbors
GOP Mailer: We’ll Tell Your Neighbors If You Vote Democratic
Sleazy voter shaming letters coming by email, too, and some are inaccurate
A mysterious group is publicly shaming Pennsylvania residents with their voting records

And Minnesota too.
Creepy but legal: 'Voter shaming' letters showed up in Minnetonka mailbox

You do know how to use Google, right?

What followed was a âoeviolent assault,â according to Lost Tycoon. Donald held back Ivanaâ(TM)s arms and began to pull out fistfuls of hair from her scalp, as if to mirror the pain he felt from his own operation. He tore off her clothes and unzipped his pants.

âoeThen he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified⦠It is a violent assault,â Hurt writes. âoeAccording to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, âhe raped me.â(TM)â

She changed her story later, probably in response to threats from Trump. And maybe she'll reveal why at some point in the future. But he clearly raped her, and you're clearly trying to make excuses for rape. That makes you rapey AF.

> The value is in creating chaos. In the Clinton case, in order to believe there was substantive criminal activity, one must believe that the whole of the FBI and intelligence community were in cahoots with Clinton.

No, it's more than that, there's still too many people looking at the whole Russia-Trump-Clinton thing through the eyes of US politics, let's be clear here, the morning Wikileaks leaked the damaging material on Clinton, Nigel Farage attempted to sneak into the Ecuadorian embassy to meet with Julian Assange - the US House Intelligence Committee has since received intelligence that this was to provide Assange with a thumb drive and that Farage was a Russian conduit:

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

https://www.france24.com/en/20...

If you're looking purely through the lens of "My candidate won, you're just bitter" then you're missing the point here. Let's be absolutely clear - Nigel Farage is incredibly friendly with a guy in British politics called Arron Banks. Arron Banks is a guy who no one had ever heard of until he dramatically appeared on the British political scene around 2015 with a story about how he was going to defect from being a major Conservative party donor to being a UKIP donor, despite the fact no one in the Conservative party had any idea who he was, he suddenly had £1million pounds to dramatically donate to UKIP. Since then he has come under investigation, because no one can explain the source of all his wealth as it's hidden incredibly well behind a cascade of fake businesses in places like the Cayman Islands which are well known conduits of Russian money. Of course, you could fairly trivially dismiss this as paranoia if it weren't for the fact that Arron Banks is married to Ekaterina Paderina. Who you ask? Someone a Russian defector described as one of their greatest intelligence assets, someone who had an affair with a much older MP who just happened to be in charge of one of the constituencies where Britain's nuclear submarines are housed:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

On top of that, Farage has consistently refused to condemn Russia even when it annexed Crimea, he has attended Russia's far right convention in St. Petersburg where a number of far right anti-EU parties in Europe were granted support and funding from Russian state entities:

https://themoscowtimes.com/art...

So at this point, if anyone things it's about Clinton or Trump, they really are failing to see the bigger picture. There's a massive web here with ample evidence trailing all the way back to Putin's doorstep, and what's more, it stems from before Trump was even a US political candidate at all, which in itself highlights the fact it's got nothing to do with "bitter Hillary" supporters or whatever justification people like to use for refusing to acknowledge it.

At this point, if you really don't think Russia is involved in interfering in Western politics in an incredibly serious manner, and if you don't think Putin had anything to do with Brexit, Trump, Hungary's Jobbik, France's NF, Greece's Golden Dawn and so on and so forth then you're in denial over such an overwhelmingly large body of evidence that you genuinely only can be either pro-Russian and anti-Western, or the kind of useful idiot that these kind of intelligence operations rely on in the first place.

Assange and Wikileaks are just one part of a massive web

Of the two most violent incidents at Charlottesville the one most closely resembling a violent riot was instigated when one of a group of BLM members

First, you appear to be forgetting the fact that only two incidents led to charges (and convictions) and they were both violence perpetrated by white supremacists (see below).

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

Second, go fuck yourself you nazi-defending piece of shit. Supplying you with a citation took about eight times more effort than you deserved.

You act like the NRA is some sort of boogy man out there operating against the will of the US public.

Yeah, about that.

https://www.rollingstone.com/p...

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/01...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

If I were a Chinese strategist, evaluating the strong and weak points of each side:

1. Americans sure have the technology... We are trying to steal it, but that's slow and much of what we get, we can't replicate.
2. What do we have? We have people, millions of people — 5 times more than America has. We can call up many more troops, if the shooting begins, and we can throw many more eyes and brains at any analytical problem.
3. But Americans may be able to create artificial intelligence — both to help their analysts and to create autonomous weapons...
4. So, let's plant — and help propagate — the idea, that using AI for military purposes is unethical! It will not affect our efforts — we can't develop such AI yet anyway, but it will impede Americans!
5. Will that work? It should — thanks to Soviet efforts of the past, large swaths of the American public hate their country's foreign policy and holds the very notion of "patriotism" in contempt. Our army of influence agents should be able to capitalize on that. Better yet, because the American-born will turn down any such work, the ethnic Chinese will take it — and we can count on the loyalty of at least some of them...

I am a lot less concerned about the PRC being allowed to view the code for Oracle DB or Windows than I am about allowing Chinese citizens to be employed to work on them. The human intelligence network run by PRC intelligence puts anything the US or Russians have ever had to shame because they can rely on Chinese nationalism in the civilian population to get part-time assets in places we never could. It should be taken as a given that the PRC has agents in Microsoft and Oracle because that's how they roll.

If any of that sounds outlandish, read this. As just one example, in terms of influencing public policy, the PRC is way worse than anything most liberals believe about Russia.

Ah, so you confirm that the problem isn't immigrants setting fire to the woods, it's that people start fires despite the drought cause by Global Warming. Thank you.

No I'm not.

I'm saying plenty of fires has been voluntarily made by people. As long as those people aren't caught we don't know whom each individual is. But as we know we import our enemies by the tens of thousands and that they are fine stealing our stuff, robbing our elders, raping the women, murdering people, setting cars, schools on fire, attacking our emergency services, setting immigration homes on fire and so on it's safe to assume it's our enemy which had found yet another way of attacking us.
I know you prefer ignorance and denial over common sense and acceptance of the world as it is. But that doesn't change the fact that they have shown a lot of times how they are totally fine attacking both us and our property.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/...
It's close to risk free to set Sweden on fire.
Here were I live the closest public grill had at first one sign warning about not using it in Arabic but someone removed that one so it got another one and then a second one of which one has been destroyed again. I haven't seen anyone use that grill since they popped up then again I haven't been watching. But just ~20 meters from there there's a black zone in the forest along the walking past where part of it has burned and 1-2 months ago there was another black spot around the same walking past in the same forest but at another place maybe 300 meters or so from here.
Cars has burned at my closest parking lot multiple time, 1-2 weeks ago one person was driving a car violently into a beam holding up the car parking roof multiple times and threatened a woman with a knife to her throat, the centrum building was set on fire and the store damaged a lot, the community youth center they tried to lit on fire, the care center has burning stuff thrown inside too, I've walked past the school as a moped was burning there, the sort-your-trash-building on the parking lot has been set on fire, my bike was stolen, before that it had the front wheel stolen, my cellar storage has been broken into at-least 6 times in a bit over 1 year, at a party near by a person had his hand chopped off by a sword, supposedly my neighbor drugged and had sex with young girls, I know of just one murder here for the time I've lived here but that doesn't mean there has only been one. That one I wouldn't know about unless it happened just outside the court my friend lived at and he heard the shot.

Maybe ignorance feel like bliss for you but it's stupid and dangerous.

June 25 2018: The Intercept draws attention to buildings they allege contain NSA splitter-taps taps on communications networks, and especial cooperation by AT&T.
June 28 2018: NSA jumps the shark releasing 'limited hang out' claiming they oopsied 685 million 'records' and are deleting them like good Boy Scouts.

The records are supposed to gather attention away from the buildings and the idea of full intercept of gathering of communications. It's a shell game, and you're supposed to think "they were naughty but are sorry and they took care of it." Watch now as the 685 million records eclipse the prior story and the news networks start talking about 'records' and not 'taps'. Mission accomplished.

Senators do this too. Ask them a question about buildings or taps, or the infrastructure for continuous warrantless surveillance, and they'll pretend you asked them about that handy voluntary call record sharing program. Press firmly and they'll do it again. Press harder and they move on to the next question.

More,
>Reddit post on 5EYES and NSA splitters
> Things have got to change, But first, you gotta get mad!
> NSA and the Desolation of Smaug
> I am Sam. Uncle Sam I am.
> I really hated Men In Black
> Am I the first to suggest... BLACKMAIL??
> Sherlock Holmes: training wheels for NSA surveillance
> Stick a fork in the Republic, it's done. HR4681/309 (failed submission)
> The backbone, then (1980s) and now
> Whatever happened to the 'old' NSA? Directive 18?
> Last Wish: The Pact (dystopian fiction)

As an American it saddens me to truthfully say that most Americans today are dumbasses. ...

You might enjoy this from a few nights ago. The Daily Show interviews Trump supporters about Space Force

(Note: The above snippet on Twitter is an excerpt from a longer segment about the recent Trump South Carolina rally.)

Some excerpts from an article on the segment:

But when Kosta asked a series of Trump supporters what “Space Force” is, all he got were answers like “something we’ve been missing for a long time,” “a little bit of everything” and, in the words of one older gentleman, a “cloud computer.” That same man was worried that “terrorists” might threaten our “freedom” from space. “I think Space Force could help us prevent the next 9/11,” he said.

While NASA is “only going to tell us what they want us to know,” these Trump fans believe that the president will “tell us the truth about what’s out there.”

And then there was the guy who thought the formation of “Space ISIS” was a real possibility. “It doesn’t make a lot of sense and would be wasting a lot of dollars,” he said. “But at the same time, it’s going to be cool.”

Abuse of power is all fun & games when you're in power, the problem is when you're on the receiving end.

Your memory is incredibly short - remember it is the Democrats that abused power, not Republicans.

The ACA passage? Some political manoeuvring, but not abuse of power. In fact, if it weren't for the fairly extraordinary policy of "no GOP Senator is allowed to vote yes" it would have garnered quite a few GOP votes, it was afterall a GOP concept.

Why is it so darn hard for the FBI to describe when and why they started their Trump Investigation?

It's not hard, Carter Page blabbed his mouth to a diplomat about the leaked emails months before anyone knew of leaked emails. That's a good and very valid pretext.

Why did the FBI pay individuals to try and infiltrate/influence the Trump campaign?

When even a top GOP member disagrees with you it means your conspiracy theory

Why were there so many "unmasking" requests from the US Ambassador to the UN in the final year of the Obama administration? (Her defense is that it wasn't her, it was her "staff"!)

I can't recall this one off-hand but I'll look into it, I'm not hopeful that it has any more validity than your other points.

How we spent 1 billion overthrowing Libya

Obama's worst mistake The Atlantic

The us ruined Libya

Did they ever release any actual evidence the Russians hacked the DNC?

Mueller's investigation has been almost entirely without leaks, but it was learned that Guccifer 2.0 did in fact slip up and failed to activate his VPN client and exposed himself as being a particular GRU officer who was working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow. This is a fact that is now accepted across the political spectrum.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...

Even the sitting President's own lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is now working from the talking points that say that the Russian interference in the election (including the hack) was a "gift" from Russia and so it's not collusion.

"Giuliani initially disputed the notion that Trump’s daily citing, in the final month of his campaign, of Russian-aligned WikiLeaks and its release of Russian-stolen emails constituted “colluding” with Russia.

“It is not,” Giuliani said.

Then he switched tacks.

“OK, and if it is, it isn’t illegal... It was sort of like a gift,” he said. “And you’re not involved in the illegality of getting it.”

Yeah, right

They got a huge tax break instead of an all-but-guaranteed tax hike.

Yeah, actually not. Clinton's plan contained significant cost reductions for people making under $50K/yr. Under trump, we got tax cuts for millionaires and tax bills for the middle class.

Unemployment is way down.

Not for rural whites. In fact, its still so bad for them that Michigan republicans are trying to exempt them from their draconian medicaid work requirements.
Also, those people at that Carrier plant that he "saved?" Yeah, they got fucked.

The stock market is way up.

(A) Doesn't mean squat for majority of people because they don't own stocks.
(B) Rate of growth in the stock market is slower than it was under Obama.
(C) China has stopped buying soybeans. Not just tariffs, full stop, buying em from somewhere else. China is the #2 largest market for US soy and soy is the #2 US crop export.

Denuclearization, peace, and potential reunification in Korea,

Not anything to do with trump. The sanctions only resulted in a ~20% increase in black market currency exchange, showing that it wasn't a big deal for a country that survived the great faminine of the 90s on nothing but Juche. Moon Jae-in is leading trump around by the nose. Though I guess you could say the fact that trump is so easily played by Moon is a point in trump's favor. So sure, promise that gloryhound a nobel prize if that's what it takes to keep him from screwing up everybody else's work.

Tons of sex cults and human trafficking rings have been broken up.

Ah, so now you reveal yourself as one of those RWNJ dumbasses. In fact, its the nothing of the kind. If anything, they've been cracking down on easy targets - adult sex-workers, not trafficking victims. Meanwhile Trump knowingly endorsed an actual pedophile.

Corrupt leaders and former leaders of many countries are actually being brought to justice.

Yeah. Putin. Duterte. Netanyahu MBS They've all been locked up!!! Yay!

The wall is being built.

Lol. He couldn't even get his own republican party to pay for it. Much less mexico.

Next year there will be no unconstitutional personal mandate for health insurance.

Yay! That's already working out so great for republicans.
Never mind how he totally fucked rural whites with empty promises about the opioid epidemic.

So can you give me some links to the "Pentagon trolls?

Sure, here is some relevant reading:

Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda
Pentagon ramping up public relations offensive: Agency moves to bolster image in face of mounting criticism of Iraq war
U.S. Media Knew Kosovo Reports Were Propaganda
Meet The State Department Team Trying To Troll ISIS Into Oblivion
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi -- "The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers..."
Pentagon Paid for Fake âAl Qaedaâ(TM) Videos
The Government's Social Media Propaganda Machine
âoeOn the Offensiveâ: US State Dept. Gives $40M Boost to âoeTroll Farmâ Propaganda Efforts
How the American government is trying to control what you think

That should get you started.

Of course, our mass media tends not to emphasize such American skulduggery and propaganda. They'll do an initial report on the issue, but it's rarely, if ever, put into the news loop and repeated over and over and over again. Funny how that works, eh? It makes one think of Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, who once bluntly said, "There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear."

If you want any more you'll have to search for it.

It won't work anyway. the press is regulated, and expected to consider things like the public interest value vs. privacy.

Explain Fox "News". Regulation of the press in America is a pathetic joke.

All this outrage and calls for regulation and boycotting - because it was Trump of course - over something that Trump didn't use.

Cambridge Analytica is owned by the Mercers and the Mercers have been laundering Russian money for years.

Cambridge Analytica's admission that they used Ukrainian prostitutes to blackmail politicians is interesting because Breitbart (another outfit owned by the Mercers) is the one that broke the news that Representative Conyers (a Democrat) had Congress pay 27 thousand dollars for a sexual harassment claim (out of the 17 million dollar fund that a number of other representatives used, although their names haven't been exposed).

So the question then becomes, which other US politicians are the Russian-backed Mercers blackmailing? And is this the reason why the RNC is so unified behind President Trump? Did they also receive Russian money? And how many of them have actually been blackmailed with prostitutes? or blackmailed through the paper trail that Congress has on the sexual harassment settlements they've made?

Frankly, it doesn't matter if Trump was the mastermind. He may not have been the mastermind, he very well could just be a pawn in this entire affair. But it can't be good to even have a pawn in the white house.

Maybe, but that particularly incident went VERY poorly.

Not from the capitalist state's perspective. They killed the people they wanted to kill, let some more burn, and their insurance company had to pay out only $1.5 million in a civil lawsuit.

Maybe, but that particularly incident went VERY poorly. I'm pretty sure that especially in today's environment heads would roll if such a thing were to happen again.

No heads rolled over the brutal crushing of the Occupy Wall Street and DAPL protests, the latter of which saw some impressive hardware deployed if not used. The state had previously legalized the use of weaponized drones, and was even ready to use freaking missile launchers against protestors who had...tents.

Thiel, who himself is gay, has supported gay rights causes such as the American Foundation for Equal Rights and GOProud.

Interesting story about GOProud.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

in case you haven't paid any attention to what's coming out India already and what is rapidly coming out of the Philippians. But it's _never_ cheap enough. Ever. At least not until you're able to wake them up at midnight with nothing more than tea and a buscuit

>Ross Ulbricht

You mean the guy they gave immunity to, or the guy they gave immunity to? You forgot the one important thing, none of them ever go to jail.

And if Hill-dog did nothing wrong (God, we're still talking about it...), why did everyone around her get immunity deals?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

http://www.washingtonexaminer....

https://www.politico.com/story...

Yes, this! The manipulation of Trump's supporters was so overt that it's mostly uninteresting and just tragic. The manipulation of Bernie supports is the really fascinating thing to me.

As opposed to the mountains of 'schrooms necessary to be a Hillary supporter? This is the woman who said her Iraq vote was a mistake (while blaming Bush) but went on to repeat that same "mistake" in Libya and Syria. This is the woman who spent years being harassed by the GOP and the media for trumped-up scandals on Vince Foster - yet knowing the scrutiny she'd be subjected to, thought it would be a great idea to spend months lying her ass off about being shot at in Bosnia? And to blast the Bush Administration for using private email, only to set up her own private email server within two years?

Serious question time: with Hillary's track record of incompetence, bloodlust and hypocrisy, what business does she have running a Keurig machine, much less a country?

it can't be the primary one.

That is not true at all. Bill Clinton was impeached for Obstruction of Justice (perjury).

You made two mistakes:

Clinton was never indicted for any crime other than obstruction of justice. For one thing, only the house of representatives could start such an action against a sitting president. Just go ahead and ask any lawyer you know whether or not you'll go to jail for lying to the police. It happens all the time. It is illegal no matter why they are interviewing you. This is why a girlfriend can go to jail for obstruction of justice if she provides a false alibi for her boyfriend without committing any other crime. Look it up. Ask a lawyer. Lying and obstructing an investigation is illegal.

I would consider the firing of Comey to be obstruction of justice

Of course, you would — such is your hatred of Trump. And this, too, presumes, Trump was guilty (of something else), was afraid Comey would uncover it, and fired him to avoid the uncovering. For this to make sense, you still need to show, what that "something else" could possibly have been. Until you can state an actual (primary) charge, your complaints of "obstruction" make no sense.

Further, what if I told you, multiple Democrats demanded Comey's firing months and days before Trump done did it? Here:

“My confidence in the FBI director’s ability to lead this agency has been shaken,” said Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia.

If the opposition demanded the man be fired, they can't turn around and cry "crime!" when he finally is fired. And Trump had perfectly good reasons of his own to do it — the leaking of information alone is a fireable offense.

First of all, I do not hate Trump. I have no reason to hate Trump. Do I think he is an idiot? Yes. Do I think he's an embarrassment to the office of the president? Yes. Do I think he only acts in his own best int

>THE RUSSIANS DID IT

Lmfao it never ends with you guys, does it?

> Twitter’s internal analysis has thus far found that authentic American accounts, and not Russian imposters or automated bots, are driving #ReleaseTheMemo. There are no preliminary indications that the Twitter activity either driving the hashtag or engaging with it is either predominantly Russian.

Keep it up though, it'll never stop being entertaining. Plus, the longer you stay distracted by Reds Under The Bed the longer you fail to confront the real reasons you keep losing.

it can't be the primary one.

That is not true at all. Bill Clinton was impeached for Obstruction of Justice (perjury).

You made two mistakes:

I would consider the firing of Comey to be obstruction of justice

Of course, you would — such is your hatred of Trump. And this, too, presumes, Trump was guilty (of something else), was afraid Comey would uncover it, and fired him to avoid the uncovering. For this to make sense, you still need to show, what that "something else" could possibly have been. Until you can state an actual (primary) charge, your complaints of "obstruction" make no sense.

Further, what if I told you, multiple Democrats demanded Comey's firing months and days before Trump done did it? Here:

“My confidence in the FBI director’s ability to lead this agency has been shaken,” said Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia.

If the opposition demanded the man be fired, they can't turn around and cry "crime!" when he finally is fired. And Trump had perfectly good reasons of his own to do it — the leaking of information alone is a fireable offense.

Vetted on a party line vote by people who have never seen the evidence? :

Sources: Devin Nunes Memo Is ‘100%’ Wrong About Andrew McCabe and Steele Dossier

Rep. Devin Nunes’ just-released surveillance memo claims that one of its central points about surveillance abuse at the FBI was affirmed by a senior FBI official. But two knowledgeable sources say the memo fundamentally mischaracterizes the official’s still-secret testimony.

Andrew McCabe, a frequent Donald Trump target, announced this week that he has relinquished his duties as deputy FBI director, accelerating his timetable for departure. The White House says Trump played no role in McCabe’s decision, though Trump’s son has tweeted that McCabe was fired.

The memo, released on Friday against FBI objections and with Trump’s approval, makes a particular claim against McCabe. In its attempt to claim that ex-British spy Christopher Steele’s salacious dossier played a central role in the surveillance of Trump aides—a claim the memo’s own admissions undermine—the memo claims that McCabe told the House intelligence committee that Steele was a pillar of information for a surveillance warrant application.

“Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information,” the memo claims, referring to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Asked if that was a true representation, a source familiar with McCabe’s testimony responded: “100% not.”

A senior Democratic House intelligence committee official agreed.

“The Majority purposefully mischaracterizes both what is actually contained in the FISA applications and the testimony of former FBI Deputy McCabe before our committee in December 2017—the Minority’s memo lays out the full facts,” the official said.

You do realize who Devin Nunes is, right? He was part of the Trump transition team, right in the middle of the Flynn mess. He is ostensibly recused from the Russia investigation - and not for that, but for his little escapades sneaking off into the White House in the middle of the night to coordinate conspiracy theories and give them information about the investigation against them. But he puts out some congressional fan fiction, which even Senate Republicans have been expressing hesitation about, and blocks the Dems from contradicting him, and... viola!

LBJ was famously quoted at the time as saying under his breath about the Democrat entitlement programs; "I'll have those n1gg3rs voting Democrat for the next hundred years!"

Sorry, BS, but you can't find one single contemporary source for that quote. It was only proclaimed in a book published in 1995.

Sorry, but you, like many people, are prone to succumbing to the idea if you repeat something you want to believe in, that nobody knows how false it is.

Of course, we also know about the history books.

Sorry, but you ruined your own argument by relying on a spurious quote and thinking we didn't know the rest of the story.

This is the most polluted site in the US

Child, please. It's not even in the top twenty.

LOL. Sorry, but when your evidence includes James O'Keefe produced material, and you're not prosecuting said convicted criminal, you have as bad a credibility problem as certain Alabama loser.

Don't worry, you have this genius to make you look better.

"They" never asked for government's protection of the monopoly.

Sure man, and this book was never written.

Your beloved FDR forced it upon "them".

With what, a time machine, to go back in time and force AT&T's monopoly into existence? Anti-trust action against AT&T began while FDR was still Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Sorry man, some of us have access to more history than your preferred narrative. We don't all get textbooks from the DOC.

Unfortunately, that process is slow and remains reversible — thanks to government.

It's not my local government's fault that AT&T stopped them from building high speed internet. No wait, it's not. At least blame STATE and FEDERAL government, not local.

Sorry mi, as usual, your moronic argumentation is falsehood-ridden, and easily exposed as a fraud. I guess the only thing I can say is...thank you for being a troll.

I'm not even sure how you imagine them taking action against unhappy people. Like, if someone's suicidal, Facebook can call the cops and say "This person is clearly suicidal, send help." But if you call the cops and tell them "This person is unhappy," they'll laugh and say "Cool. Call back when you have a real emergency."

Bollocks.

Right. The earth has signficant history with higher temperatures and higher levels of airborn Co2 and somehow life prevailed. The recent cool/dry periods are outliers and resulted in the extinction of many large mammalian species such as the mammoth. My guess is the people in sub-saharan Africa welcome the rain.....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

Yeah. This is exclusively my thing and no one has else argued the same.

https://www.economist.com/news...

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

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

If it's any consolation you're not the first country going down the populist road.