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Yes. The USA has a huge drug problem. Most of the drugs are coming from Mexico.

No, dumbshit. The opioid epidemic in the Trump states is home grown.

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

Peter Higgs says he would not have survived in this system.

https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

Seriously, the west has been under attack from Russia, CHina, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and a few others, for the last 20 years.

...or are you so far out there you can see Pluto from your house? Paid no attention whatsoever to Wikileaks or Edward Snowden? Attacking other countries networks and trying to spy on everyone is what you do. Just ask one of your top allies, Angela Merkel.

attacks ON Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran were going on LONG before Stuxnet.

FTFY. For christsake you spend more than the rest of the world combined, so stop being a tough guy crybaby.

The test was especially troubling because it exposed the vulnerability of America's dependence on low-orbiting satellites, which are used for military communications, smart bombs and surveillance. In theory, last week's exercise could give Beijing the capability to knock out such satellites - a realisation that underlay the protests from Washington.

So I'm sure intelligence would prefer that Donald use a locked-down Android device. If ZTE want to restore trust in the US market, cosying up to the feds would be a start.

Wouldn't matter. Trump won't let anyone install security updates on his phones.

Trump is reportedly too lazy to have experts secure his iPhones
Trump's 'old, unsecured Android phone' poses major security threat, experts say
Trump’s cell phone use is security “nightmare” waiting to happen, lawmakers say

Trump is that boss that thinks security doesn't apply to him and blames the IT guys whenever he installed the next virus.

I guess 4th grade was too hard for your tiny, tiny brain. Every time you post your mindless dribble it lowers the I.Q. of the entire Internet.

You got modded down, but your comment is spot on.

The left has been just relentlessly awful the past couple of weeks, and the bad part is that it'll only get worse as the midterms get closer.

Trump's son posts a picture enjoying father's day with his kid, and gets a torrent of insults. Trump's daughter shares a picture cuddling her infant son and triggers a tidal wave of hatred.

To believe some celebrities, the US is torturing children at the border right now! It's exactly the same as nazi concentration camps, young children are ripped (note: actual word used) from their mothers and held in cages by the hundreds!

If we could find a way to harness hatred we could run the entire country off of leftist ideals.

Calling them that is an insult to every victim of the Holocaust. I'm old enough to have known dozens of survivors, and you are insulting them with that hyperbole.

This is my favorite new line of argument from MAGA chuds. It's the most cynical kind of virtue signaling.

But before you spout off defending the memory of people who were victims of the Holocaust, maybe we should ask a few Holocaust survivors what they think:

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

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

Except this all started under Obama.

Calling them that is an insult to every victim of the Holocaust. I'm old enough to have known dozens of survivors, and you are insulting them with that hyperbole.

This is my favorite new line of argument from MAGA chuds. It's the most cynical kind of virtue signaling.

But before you spout off defending the memory of people who were victims of the Holocaust, maybe we should ask a few Holocaust survivors what they think:

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

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

I want to work 35-40 hour weeks at a semi-governmental job, get my 4-5 weeks off mandated by law, spend time with family, live a bit. I don't want my work to be the focus of my entire life.

And you think that you, an inexperienced and unambitious American, are just going to stroll into Europe and get yourself a low cost education and then such a cozy little job while many millions of educated European youths are out of work?

Even if you could land such a job, Europe is a ticking demographic time bomb and migrants aren't going to solve the problem, so there is no money to finance those nice traditional benefits And Europe already has shifted massively to the right and towards a dismantling of its social welfare states over the last decade because Europeans have no choice.

Good luck!

It's not "evidence," it's "fear."

“The department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks,” the DHS said in a statement.

“The risk that the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates US national security.”

>so the fraud must be at an acceptable level, as with self-service checkouts.

Huh, no wonder. Waitrose uses Gestapo lever intimidation tactics against accused shoplifters:
Handcuffed in Waitrose: the innocent man in search of justice
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/26/innocent-man-handcuffed-waitrose-mistaken-identity-nightmare-christopher-seddon

They seized me, then handcuffed me with my arms behind my back, stating that they were arresting me on suspicion of shoplifting 17 days earlier, in spite of the fact that on that day I hadn’t even been in Chesham. The security guard thrust a mobile phone in my face [with a CCTV still on it] and screamed ‘do you deny this is you?’ at me. All this was going on in front of dozens of shoppers.”

He says he was not allowed to call his mother, who he knew would be distressed when he inexplicably failed to return.

What a lovely place to shop.

the National Coalition for the Homeless estimated in 2012 that "only one-tenth of unhoused persons actually exercise the right to vote".

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

people who own and operate successful businesses aren't evil villains

Many of them are, though.

According to recent studies thereâ(TM)s a high prevalence of psychopathy among high-level executives in a corporate environment: 4-8% compared with 1% in the general population.

This makes sense, according to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bryan Stolle because âoeitâ(TM)s an irrational act to start a companyâ.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Stop using practice-babies and have an actual baby instead.
And use cloth, not disposable.

Hey, I'm fighting climate change here!

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

How do you manage to keep safe from these imaginary brown people??

He's probably not a woman, and doesn't attend concerts, swimming pools, jogging, or New Year's Eve celebrations.

You poor snowflake!

How brave of you to brush under the rug the real "rape culture" being imported into Europe and other Western countries.

Oh yeah Obama using Facebook data to win an election is fine https://www.theguardian.com/wo... Now that Trump did the same thing we need congressional hearings.

Thank you for summarizing the mindset that is so wrong with the US. Seemingly there are no issues that can be discussed without falling into partisanship.

Oh yeah Obama using Facebook data to win an election is fine https://www.theguardian.com/wo... Now that Trump did the same thing we need congressional hearings.

The biggest danger is that after Brexit we might be able to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, which among other things guarantees freedom of expression.

Realistically this is one of the things the pro-Brexit lobby want. When they talk about "Brussels red-tape" what they really mean is "stuff that prevents us from doing whatever the hell we want" (remember the UK has no written constitution). Theresa May was openly talking about leaving the EHCR even before the Brexit referendum. And Chris Grayling has openly promoted the idea that the EHCR was necessary in the aftermath of World War II but is not necessary (or relevant) today.

Even though the government already curtails freedom of expression, the ECHR limits how far they can go. Once it's gone they will be unrestrained.

I suggest that they will try to spin it in the same way as Trumps tax reforms; i.e. it's a "big win for freedom and the little guy" when it's really the exact opposite.

Trump is not a great example for your argument. There are better examples!

Trump is mostly driven by emotions, not facts. And while there are many people from the left who are just like him. I am pretty sure we can both agree that people that are mostly driven by emotions, whether from the left or the right, make lousy government leaders. And yes, I do count Theresa May as a lousy government leader as well.

But coming back to President Trump, it also doesn't help his public image that he's incapable of admitting when he's wrong. That makes the entire emotions thing even worse. For instance, this case of the Central Park gang rape. Trump is still insisting that the five boys (four blacks and one hispanic) were guilty. Or the Obama birth certificate. Or even in the case where Trump got all wound up because someone made up a racial incident in Sweden.

Trump needs to apologize when he makes a mistake. Mistakes happen. He's just a human being like the rest of us. But he also needs to put measures in place to double-check information before he acts on it or retweets it. As President, he has the resources to do so. Trump is no longer just a citizen. He represents our entire country. Every single thing he says is dissected and analyzed. He needs to be more careful.

And when he says that players can't kneel, he needs to be careful there too. He's acting as the voice of the government. As a private citizen, he can say anything he wants, but as President, threatening a boycott or threatening to take away a tax status because of political speech, is precisely what the US Constitution was designed to prevent.

That's an...interesting take on the G-7 summit. Perhaps you missed (or are trying to miss) Trump's open treachery on lobbying to get Russia brought back into the G-8. The news shows don't want to use that word, treachery, and have just been calling it highly unusual and risky and whatnot, or with Sen Sasse calling it weak.

But there's plenty enough there to see in this one instance that he is betraying the interests of our country right then and there; the G-8 kicked out Russia for invading and annexing Crimea, and Trump is ignoring that and trying to reward Russia most likely for their aid in getting him elected. I guess Russian information and psychological warfare against the US is ok if it helps Trump, huh? Add in his pretty explicit attempt to start a trade war and sandbag on the other diplomatic measures with our allies, he seems pretty hellbent on tearing apart the post WWII western alliances.

If Trump's not a puppet of Putin, then it is getting to the point that is pretty hard to see that distinction, and maybe doesn't even matter anymore. He's giving Putin precisely what Putin wants: the US and our alliances divided, weak, and focused internally.

Sure. This leads right to a bunch of links
Here is one that is not sensationalist about it.
Wiki
Basically, CHina COULD decide to clean up the oil that they burn in those ships, but, that would mean major cost increases for exports.
Instead, they use the cheapest, which means almost straight oil.

I've updated this from a comment I made before. To me, it seems like a more in-depth understanding of Intel's management in the past 15 years.

Intel's insufficient management: Intel has had many years of insufficient management, in my opinion. (Jan. 22, 2018)

Here is a comment of mine posted exactly 12 years ago: Lower prices are not the answer. Proposal. (June 9, 2006)

Intel's poor marketing: It is not difficult to find other evidence of insufficient management at Intel. Since the beginning of this year I've gotten 40 poorly considered, poorly written marketing emails from Intel. Whoever writes those ads seems to have almost no technical knowledge and no ability with sophisticated communication. This is an amazingly foolish sentence from emails I got from Intel on March 6 and March 8, 2018: "Up your marketing game with segment-focused campaigns..."

Recent background: Meltdown and Spectre: 'worst ever' CPU bugs affect virtually all computers (Jan 4, 2018) "Meltdown is currently thought to primarily affect Intel processors manufactured since 1995, excluding the company's Itanium server chips and Atom processors before 2013."

Linus Torvalds Calls Intel Patches 'Complete and Utter Garbage'. (Jan. 22, 2018)

Two previous errors in design of Intel processors: Pentium FDIV bug (1994) and the Pentium F00F bug (1997)

More EXTREME evidence of insufficient management at Intel: Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off $24 million in company stock. (Jan. 3, 2018)

Will Intel be allowed to PROFIT from many years of producing processors with vulnerabilities? Will Intel be treated like U.S. banks in 2008, when many banks profited and many finance system managers got bonuses after the financial crash?

If vulnerabilities are profitable, would Intel deliberately allow vulnerabilities in its products? Were the previous vulnerabilities deliberate? Did the CEO know about the vulnerabilities previously? Do others at Intel profit from the vulnerabilities?

Do a little research on illegal logging in the rainforest - it's a major problem, with loggers coming in, "strip mining" the most valuable (economically and ecologically) old-growth trees first, and moving on before the authorities are informed.

Not to downplay the damage done by farmers and ranchers - but they're not the only villains.

And an example from the farming side:

"The report claims that between 2005 and 2010, almost 353,000 hectares of peat swamp forests were cleared – a third of Malaysia's total – largely for palm oil production."
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Freedom remain central in France

Well, unless you want to wear something the government deems inappropriate. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Except the stats don't back up the 'sky is falling' position...the world is much better now than ever before. And it is much better for the poor than it was before.

I, for one, don't miss polio, small pox, massive deaths in wars, and a lack of access to information.

Leftist, centrist, rightist...the one thing they all have in common is they are pessimists. Put on some Louis Armstrong, enjoy the sun, and then make the world even better for the future.

Whataboutism.

You can only milk the "whataboutism" defense for so much. USSR's approach to it was "but what about Negroes beaten in the US"? That was the pure "whataboutism" fallacy, because a) the racial strife in America had nothing — zilch — to do with the invasion of Czechoslovakia, their reckless experimentations in Chernobyl, or their prevention of immigration; b) the US actually was and remains concerned about the remnants of racism in itself.

But your attempts to portray GP's argument as "whataboutism" are bogus. Because — whatever it is — you can not object to X doing it any louder, than you did, when Y was doing it. And anyone calling you out on it is not a "whataboutist".

BTW, the principle works in the other temporal direction too. For example, whoever objected to Bush's incarcerating suspected terrorists, have exposed themselves as hypocrites, when they ignored Obama's flat-out killing the same suspects.

It was, briefly, legal in the UK, until a number of corporate cunts challenged the law in the high court.

However, officially legal or not I shall continue to do it under my interpretation of fair use.

I'm all for artists (and indeed the industry as a whole) making money on their work, but I'm buggered if I'm paying for the same song 5 times so I can listen to it on my PC, laptop, phone, stereo, and in the car.

Economy is in good shape and getting better. We're finally addressing the failures of NAFTA, killed the TPP, and getting China (and the EU, to a lesser extent) to have real talks about protectionism and free trade. Not to mention getting a little sit-down with North and South Korea. And pulling us out of insane agreements with Iran (who never signed in the first place) that exclude inspections of all military sites. Great jobs report. Positive trends among public opinion that we're on the right track. Actual progress on prison reform. Unleashed the dogs of war against ISIS and effectively ended them (via elimination of 99% of all ISIS-held territory).

But other than those, and many more, yeah - what's he ever done for us?

The UK has considerably increased minimum the minimum wage since it was implemented at £3.60 in 1999 to £7.83 now (notably above inflation) and has seen a decrease in unemployment. I haven't seen any credible analysis yet that shows a clear correlation between minimum wages and unemployment, perhaps you'd like to share some? I assume you must be basing your view on credible and extensive analysis because if you weren't it would be a little hypocritical to claim other people can't argue logically.

And what about unemployment in low-skilled and/or low-education groups?

What has that done?

Oh, yeah:

Youth unemployment rate is worst for 20 years, compared with overall figure

Young people are nearly three times more likely to be unemployed than the rest of the population, the largest gap in more than 20 years, according to an analysis of official figures.

The number of people aged 16-24 who are not in full-time education or employment has increased by 8,000 over the last quarter. With 498,000 in that age group without a job, an analysis by the House of Commons library for Labour shows that young people now fare comparatively worse than at any point since 1992.

Their unemployment rate is 14.4%. The overall unemployment rate now stands at 5.7% of the total working population, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

How does that contradict the claim that minimum wage increases price young, unskilled workers out of the job market and entrap them in poverty.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo... (12 Jul 2013)
Recall "... newsletter entry stated that NSA already had pre-encryption access to Outlook email"

MS likes to help with tricky new crypto. Help the NSA.

According to this article this was a part of the invisble ordinary matter, not the dark matter:
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...

The problem I have with your argument is that all of your sources are from monsanto.

A 2 second web search provided tens of articles, here is six:

monsanto-sues-farmers-seed-patents
monsanto-sued-farmers-16-years-gmos-never-lost
monsanto-patents-sue-farmers
the-enemy-of-family-farmers
monsanto-wins-lawsuit
seeding-fear-the-story-of-a-farmer-who-took-on-monsanto
All of which tell a different story.

What's Bayer's ethics like? Will we see any change in "evil" Monsanto?

nope, evil acquiring more evil.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/23/aids.suzannegoldenberg

This is fucking amazing, should be on every front page, everywhere.

It is and it is :-).

At least it's front page on:
http://www.abc.net.au/news
http://www.npr.org/sections/ne...
http://www.theguardian.com/uk

You do make an important observation, though: it is leftists that have been going around after WWII to make groundless accusations against others of being fascists and neo-Nazis. Every Republican president over the last couple of decades has been denounced as a "fascist", "Nazi", and/or "white supremacist" by the left. Every conservative commentator or intellectual has been denounced as such.

Actually, it's conservative commentators that have a problem with it. Perhaps not every single one, but enough, that you're just being a hypocrite and fraud, protesting your own crimes that you ascribe to others.

And then you one-up'd it: By going further.

Perhaps you can blame Democrats for it, you do tend to falsely accuse them of being responsible for everything you do.

I tripped the alarm with my pet turtle yesterday. Top that, Jeremy
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

It was staged aka he faked his death

You mean like the the 5 trillion dollars per year that is subsidizing the fossil fuel industry?

I don't wanna sound racist or anything, but unfortunately I think China will have a very long way 'till it gets even close to western countries on this matter, which is still not ideal.
Setting US aside, let's consider some european countries and whatnot. There are very few countries that are really getting there, but still not quite.

Currently, China as a society has evolved at unprecedented speeds in comparison to the history of evolution of other societies.

I still remember a time when China was mostly rural, exporting mostly primary resources, and didn't have much in the way of technology to talk about. This was the case not that long ago. If you are too young to remember this, probably your parents will know.
Over just a few decades, less than a lifetime, China went rushing through industrial revolution, raising extremely modern metropolis in cities formerly pretty run down and primitive, and now the country is activelly participating at the forefront of technology and research in some areas.

Some people might not realize this, but it's because lots of people don't really know China. There are cities there that are basically on par with Japan in terms of technology, public transportation, technology in common spaces and whatnot. There are research areas like biomedicine and genetics that China is arguably ahead. Read some of the recent news... China just launched a communication probe in space to aid a mission that will be launched still this year to explore the dark side of the moon.

It's crazy how fast it has evolved. It almost doesn't make sense when you think about the comparison on how technology evolves versus societies.

But all that has a huge side effect. China did not evolve uniformly, these transformations had and still has huge costs, and of course things are not that simple.
It became a country of enormous contrasts. You have cities that look like Tokyo or modern european capitals, while you have towns in the countryside with people starving and living a life of subsistence. You have billionaires and huge investment groups that are among the richest in the world while you have multitude of workers slaving away to a state they prefer suicide instead of living like that. Most of western societies also have huge wage gaps and inequalities, but it kinda pales in comparison to China when looking at extremes.

Sexism can't be seen and treated in isolation, and people should not have some fantasy that it's gonna be solved anytime soon there because there are major shifts yet to happen before it even starts being addressed.

Remember people, China is a country where not that long ago, baby boys were hugely favored over baby girls. And this is a cultural phenomena that endured over decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/0...
This is a huge problem that cannot be solved in few years time, and it has massive cultural effects. Because it effectively created an artificial distortion... there are way more men than women in China when compared to proportions of other countries.
It's not only China too, it's just something that happens a lot in poor countries or developing countries all over the world.
https://www.npr.org/sections/g...
http://www.ibtimes.com/deadly-...
Even though some of these countries don't necessarily have a majority of people of faith in patriarcal religions and systems, it's just a matter of favoring boys because of base manual labor necessities and a prejudiced view that comes with it. The concept also became ingrained in culture, so up to this decade the tendency still remains.

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Scalp 'em.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/rur...

https://www.theguardian.com/au...

Life is objectively, scientifically going downhill. I don't blame the boomers for anything, but they did live their lives on the top of the hill, being born after a long ascent from badness, and dying just before a clear and obvious descent into badness that will probably span hundreds of years.
This is reality:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...
And this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/in...
And I could give you loads more from reputable government, scientific and military sources detailing coming food security crises, mass refugee chaos and other hell coming from perfect storm of global problems. The unique stress young people today face doesn't come from badness in the present moment, but rather well justified anxiety of what the future holds.

Tesla's big battery in Australia will pay for itself in less than a year by outcompeting fossil fuel power plants to provide grid power (from wind).
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
https://futurism.com/teslas-au...

>Except the US.

And many others!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

France, Canada both allow gun ownership.

And why does the USA have the most guns? It's fucking simple--well, only if facts are allowed in this discussion: The USA has LUXARY GOODS because it's a super-high-GDP country. The rich in the USA buy nice China, nice cars, and nice guns. They buy nice guitar, nice, boats, nice TVs.... and more guns.

The people who own the MOST GUNS in the USA (3% of all citizens own 133M guns!)[1], are rich people, who aren't using a single gun to commit a single crime. (But then, we can't play the "guns == violence" card anymore. So let's ignore that.)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us...

So the question is, if a few people own most of all guns... and aren't committing crimes with them. What's the actual crime rate of actual guns owned by the 97% of the rest of the population, and how does that compare with the rest of the world?

Because the UK has nil legal gun ownership, and they still have mass shootings. And as we all know, drug and alcohol prohibition worked great, so gun prohibition is a sure thing.

Got it. Every software in "the field of user-behavior analytics" works exactly the same.

BTW I have written a search engine for my 23.2 MB personal notes. That qualifies me to comment on how Google works internally. Source code shmource code - what matters is that I comment on it with confidence.

https://www.theguardian.com/co...
http://ide.mit.edu/news-blog/b...

Nuclear power and GMO foods are going to save us? Really?

Solar is dwarfing nuclear.

As for GMO crops, um, no. Just no.

Do you realize the connection between the nitrogen cycle, fossil fuels, and the 1973 oil embargo?

In a nutshell: World populations grew faster than land based plants can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. The natural carrying capacity of this planet using sustainable traditional agriculture is about 2 billion humans. Oddly enough, about the time that the world population level reached 2 billion humans, the most technically advanced society at that time created a process to make large scale artificial fertilizers (and explosives) and a major engine of the industrial revolution. Both powered by fossil fuels. Farming commenced on a massive scale. And war, but that's just entertainment for idiots and of no real importance.

Fast forward to 1973. A new world power (USA) pisses off the a little Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and finds itself with insufficient energy to function. Everybody scrambled to find a way to fuel airplanes, cars, and tractors. Monsanto discovers that a chemical chelator that removes calcium, manganese, magnesium, copper and zinc (trace elements essential for most forms of life on earth), also kills weeds. Go figure. This seems to suggest a way to conduct large scale farming without having to till the earth, which greatly reduces the fuel needed to farm. Fast forward a bit, and now we have GMO crops that survive occasional applications of this new miracle herbicide. And then there's the unregulated application of this new herbicide on wheat. Because Profit.. And it seems to be everywhere.

Sadly, many forms of animal life that come in contact with Monsanto's creation get cancer, have the epithelial lining of their intestines die, and get misdiagnosed as having Celiac disease. And those that aren't so lucky end up morbidly ill and dying prematurely due to complications of a diet high in high fructose corn syrup (high cholesterol, heart disease, etc.)

Now connect the dots... stay with me here:

GMO foods today have their origin in a lack of energy and environmental planning. These are contributing to CO2 levels and a whole collection of ensuing health and environmental disasters.

Stop spewing carbon, stop processing food with short sighted techniques that result only profit for some and misery and death for most. And please realize that messing with plants has the potential to cause death and misery on a truly global scale. Do you really want to go there, for profit?

Cause this time he didn't just manage to sound like his usual Creutzfeldt-Jakob incoherent self.
He also managed to sound like a teen or a twelve-year-old tweeting "You don't break up with me! I'm breaking up with YOU!" at a porn star he's been having an imaginary Twitter romance with.
And at the same time, begging to be taken "back".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/bri...

But the most hilarious part is when the White House gift shop web site crashed under the weight of the global schadenfreude.
Thanks to millions of people going there to see the commemorative "challenge" coin being discounted after the cancellation of the summit.

There goes that Nobel peace prize all those Republican brown nosers tried to sign him up for, I guess.
That's IF they've managed to spell Norway correctly this time.
That W... very much like an M... all them straight lines...

Hey, here's one for $90 T:

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

If it's only going to cost $20T to fix the effects of AGW, why would be spend $44, $50, or $90 trillion to prevent it?

The EU has achieved its prime goal with great success. Maybe you should look up what that goal was, what life was like pre-EU, and why so many countries want to join.

Good summary. One, Facebook-specific thing, I would add: Zuckerberg appeared in person before the EU parliament but has flatly refused all demands to appear before the UK parliament. He clearly feels that, as CEO of a multi-billion dollar multi-national company, he can safely ignore most national governments; but the EU parliament (representing 27 European countries) cannot be so easily brushed off.

I come to this place for actual news. Amazon has done this for years.

He apparently has ended a 70 year war in Korea by mocking the fat, ugly imbecilic dictator on the other side over the internet.

If only! He did indeed have the opportunity to end the war fall into his lap like manna from heaven, yes, because North Korea's nuclear research complex was destroyed in a semi-natural disaster. Then with John "War Fetish" Bolton's help, the fat ugly imbecilic wannabe-dictator snatched crushing defeat from the jaws of free glorious victory by reminding North Korea what happened to Libya (and Gaddafi) along with demonstrating that the USA's word isn't worth jack shit, and now it's all going to fall through. So don't count your chickens before they hatch.

The economy is doing ell and employment is about the highest it's ever been. He's another Bill Clinton - horrible person, fine President.

The economy is doing well, yes, but as in the Reagan years, the massive and permanent wealth transfer to the 1% will come back to haunt future generations. He's cooked another goose that lays the golden eggs, and again the conservatives are saying "Mmm mmm tasty goose! Such a great decision!"

He will almost certainly go down in history as the worst US president ever on all fronts.