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Are you familiar with how a wall works? A ladder? If your border security can be defeated by a ladder, your border security is laughably pathetic. Spending $5B on security that can be defeated by your typical lower-class Mexican is the peak of ignorance and stupidity.

The $5B aren't enough to complete the wall. That would require on the order of $25B. The $5B thing can be defeated by walking around it.

between 2C-4C is fine

Lol, if you say so. Yes we can "deal with it" - at the cost of hundreds of billions annually in adaption costs, not to mention displacing billions from coastal areas, threatened sea ecologies from CO2 acidification, famines from shifting agriculture in undeveloped nations, etc etc. Better to avoid those costs wherever possible, don't you think?

If you want to believe that fine

I believe the research. Linear kinetics models suggest an atmospheric lifetime of 30-95 years. Equilibrium models tell us that even after equilibrium is reached once more, it will be at a higher atmospheric concentration than today, meaning some of that CO2 will be keeping our temperatures high for thousands of years.

We can precisely measure solar irradiance (with the SORCE satellite among many other methods). We know that average solar irradiance has not increased, yet our temperatures have. Your assertions that CO2 is not much of a factor are entirely unconvincing. The planet will of course deal with all that CO2 in the much longer term (past CO2 pulses have taken hundreds of thousands of years to fully stabilise), but the issue is all the costs to us, in dollars and human suffering, that we'll experience along the way.

it's the only thing that can literally destroy our species

Heh, it's not even in the top 12. We've already proved we can keep the planet warm without even trying.

That's just common sense

Your "common sense" is contradicted by reality. The negative effects are already outweighing the positives, and we're now observing significant net decreases in yields for staples like wheat, rice and maize (and corresponding price hikes, reversing the historical trend). Cited there are numerous studies showing "large negative sensitivity of crop yields to extreme daytime temperatures around 30C", for example, and that's not likely to improve anytime soon. And far from being "nonsense", the research is showing substantial aridification for a massive 32% of the planet's land surface, for the mid-range RCP4.5 scenario.

It's past time you re-evaluated those firmly-held beliefs of yours, and took a hard look at the actual science.

Let's put it this way: the evidence for warming from CO2 is good. The sensitivity is nothing like the scenarios you suggest. The evidence for all the feedbacks needed to generate "runaway warming" is flimsy to non-existent.

Nobody claimed it was a runaway effect. The estimate is based on past, present and projected pollution. The report has 500 pages explaining this or you could have simply read the article.

There's been a 14% greening of the planet over the last 33 years as a result of the extra CO2 in the atmosphere (from satellite studies). This remarkable fact has been almost invisible to the mainstream media, NGOs and other activist scientists involved in perpetuating the paradigm.

I'm aware that the planet is getting greener as a result of CO2 and climate change. It's understood that flora will flourish in some regions while dying in others. The issue with climate change has always been about the death of fauna and the migration of arable regions of land. It's when the weather becomes erratic that crops are threatened but some flora will thrive. This doesn't mitigate the damage of climate change.

I would suggest you turn down your hysterics knob a few clicks.

You dismiss science as being hysterical instead of pointing to research that counters the evidence put forth? You response is as sound as that of an anti-vaxxer who is certain autism is a just a shot away.

I don't think this is about the iPhone. From the https://www.washingtonpost.com...

From all the comments here, everyone has been assuming this is about the iPhone or other mobile products. But Apple has it's fingers into other areas too.

So, is it really far fetched that the statement is false? Especially seance their already has been arrests.

By 2100 it's going to be 7*F hotter globally and that's a conservative estimate.

Good grief. Do you really believe that? It's complete and utter nonsense.

Perhaps you should tell that to the Trump administration because that's what they reported.

Unfortunately it will probably work out that rather than produce more food, which will subsequently lower food prices, they'll devote more land to growing high starch corn for bio-fuel.

Bio-fuel is a nice idea, but currently there are too many down sides and loopholes to relying on it that most people don't consider. It's like how paper mills have used black liquor, a byproduct of paper production, for decades as fuel in the plants. Then they mixed in a gallon of diesel, called it 'biofuel' and raked in billions from biofuel subsidies.

Consumerist stories about Comcast.

One of the stories: Comcast: 2014 worst company in America. In 2014, Comcast was selected as worse than Monsanto!

Comcast is disliked so much, the company is now calling itself Xfinity.

In my experience, it is Comcast policy to be abusive to customers. One result is that Comcast employees abuse Comcast.

How Comcast is Shortchanging Customers In Vermont

Does the U.S. culture accept lies? In 710 days, President Trump has made 7,645 false or misleading claims

I notice you accused me of backtracking without actually pointing it out. Seems rhetorically effective, but it's dishonest, I think you know it's dishonest, and a lie. Yes, paperwork is processed, but that doesn't mean services are operational. For instance, the fact that the FDA has some money left over from 2018 to do some approvals is a small caveat on a larger point... the shut down will prevent new approvals. If you discovered an cure for cancer right now, there is nothing you can do to get FDA approved.

You are right that Trump changed the position on shutting down outdoor parks (although the websites that host the official shutdown plans seem to in fact be shutting down). It's a pretty new change, so I wasn't aware of it. You can see it's causing issues.

Wrong, if they still had money they'd be providing services but they are not.

Yes, but money is running out. The Smithsonian and the National Zoo shut down today. Enjoy!

The country is run by a bunch of old rich people who see their own health as being fine and therefore don't understand the problem.

Everyone, with the exception of the rare misanthrope, wants to make the social safety net more robust and reduce the number of people who are exposed to potentially bankrupting medical bills. But there is a whole spectrum of ways to attempt to do that, and some of those ways do more harm than good. Government is not the only way to make the social safety net more robust. Arguably, it is not a way at all, because absolute poverty would have been eliminated decades ago if unnecessarily burdensome governments hadn't made economic growth much less exponential than it otherwise would have been.

In 1900, approximately 0% of Americans had health insurance. By the time Obama was elected, the figure had grown to about 83%. Going from 0% to 83% is a huge improvement in the robustness of the social safety net, and it did not happen because of any freedom-sapping mandates. It happened organically: economic growth gave most people the means to buy health insurance (or, it made their labor valuable enough that their employer willingly provided health insurance to the employee's entire family).

That progressive upward trend, borne by economic growth alone, would have continued if it hadn't been tampered with. For those who are unable to obtain insurance, there is private charity (which already funds a surprisingly large fraction of the U.S. social safety net, and always grows faster than GDP, for reasons I won't get into now), and Medicaid. That is why there are exactly zero headlines in the U.S. that read, "Joe Smith died of cancer because he couldn't afford chemo."

Any honest person who doesn't have a totalitarianism fetish, and gives thought to the matter, would agree that if you can make the social safety net more robust, and at the same time increase the fraction that is funded by voluntary charitable contributions, and decrease the fraction that is funded by the coercive takings of the Internal Revenue Service, that's a good thing.

But the unthinking nanny-state types (funded by old rich people like George Soros, and led by an objectively uber-arrogant technocrat) didn't see the steady progress (going from 0 to 83% insured); they only saw 17% uninsured, and wrung their hands in anguish until they came up with what they thought would be a quick fix: Obamacare. It's neither sustainable nor organic -- which is ironic because the left repeats those two buzzwords ad nauseam when it comes to environmental practices.

Also -- unless the "clever" Judge O'Conner gets overruled by a higher court -- it is unconstitutional.

So, there's this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/facebook-zuckerberg-apologies/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.35c4cf1ea48a

Which I think I first heard about from this:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/11/21/1817219/14-years-of-mark-zuckerberg-saying-sorry-not-sorry

And I've never been a FB customer, nor have I joined up to any of the other social media sites. It never appealed to me.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India initially courted foreign companies to invest more in the country after his 2014 election victory, but his administration has turned protectionist as his party's re-election prospects have dimmed in recent months. Mr. Modi has increasingly sought to bolster Indian firms and curb foreign ones through new policies, including one that requires foreign companies like Visa, Mastercard and American Express to store all data about Indians on computers inside the country.

The current BJP govt did not get protectionist all of a sudden. E-Commerce policy changes are not an important topic for any partys re-election prospects.

There are far more serious issues for Indian electorate...farmer distress, rising unemployment, promises not being kept, effects of super stupid demonetization, GST implementation etc. Add social polarisation of the country with Hindu-Muslim division being played for the BJP's right wing Hindu support base .

Stray cows roaming around is probably more of a problem for Indians than whatever E-commerce stuff. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/07/16/amp-stories/why-india-has-million-stray-cows-roaming-country/

What is wrong if payment processors are asked to keep data inside geographical boundaries? (Tho technically it doesn't make much sense.) It cannot be seen as "protectionist" or "isolationist".

story showing Canada is so GREAT that your governors are going to Miami to get healthcare because they know its better.

"This was my heart, my choice and my health. I did not sign away my right to get the best possible health care for myself when I entered politics," Williams said.

Keep on lying, but actions speak louder than words.

A tornado knocked down an Amazon warehouse wall on November 2, killing two contractors. There was no tornado warning from the weather service.

Two weeks later, the Washington Post reported on Amazon Prime delays in the region. Limited Prime Now service resumed about a week before Christmas.

Yeah, and now that everyone climbs the mountain, it's a complete sh*thole for anyone else that wants to.

An hour long train ride is not a good substitute for building housing where people actually want to live. I live in Silicon Valley, and we have mile after mile of low-rise sprawl. There is plenty of space to build high density housing in the core area where the jobs are.

Liberals love to criticize Republican tax cuts for the rich, but coastal city zoning regulations contribute as much to income inequality by keeping people of modest means away from the best job opportunities.

Zoning laws and the rise of inequality

Fighting inequality through zoning

The left is waking up to inequality cause by zoning

When it comes to inequality, liberals need to stop asking "Who can we blame for this problem" and start asking "What can we do to fix this problem."

When I watched it I thought something looked wrong, but I couldn't say exactly what.

All the major news outlets and FOX covered it:

FOX:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/f...

CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18...

ABC:
https://www.abcactionnews.com/...

NBC:

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new...
https://www.nbcchicago.com/new...
https://www.nbc-2.com/clip/147...

CBS:

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/...

Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

New York Post:
https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/...

Huffington Post:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

BBC:
https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...

I think the New York Times is the only major news organization that didn't cover it from what I can google, but I don't have a subscription so I may have missed their coverage.

Is lying to Congress a crime?
Clapper lied to congress and wasn't charged.
Eric Holder lied to congress and wasn't charged.
Hillary Clinton lied to congress and wasn't charged.

However...
Michael Cohen did get charged for lying to Congress.

With selective prosecution like this, I think being an associate to Trump is a crime but lying to Congress is not. This is what tinpot dictators do. Pass laws that make everyone a criminal and only prosecute those you don't like. Its called a dictatorship, and is run by the DNC not Trump.

Vote Tyranny, vote DNC.

That's an expected part of a natural cycle you asshat, even WaPo could tell you that:

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

But apparently you only read and mindlessly parrot climate conspiracy blogs. And even with this cooling, 2018 is on track to be the 4th hottest year on record:

https://www.carbonbrief.org/st...

Easy. You stiff them.

Facebook is neither an advertising company or a tech company. It's a databroker. Their true power lies in getting data about user behaviour into the hands of banks, insurers, governments, etc. That can be used to inform ads. Or it can be used to inform hiring decisions, manipulate elections, etc.

"Facebook, longtime friend of data brokers, becomes their stiffest competition"
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

"Facebook, the new king of databrokers?"
https://www.wired.com/insights...

Apparently health services aren't a tax anymore. Well well well, three holes in the ground.

I was just a kid back then, but what I heard bothered me, and in the years since, I've said that I think Clinton should have been prosecuted for lying under oath after he left office -- I didn't think it warranted impeachment because it wasn't a lie regarding the country or economy or anything related to the office. But, to be fair, we should forgive Trump one felony level lie. So, pick one of the 14 from the list, forgive it, and we'll only focus on the remaining 13. And the violation of the emoluments clause.

1. Collusion is not a crime except in an anti-trust case financial case. Not an issue here

2. There is ZERO proof there was any cooperation between the Trump campaign and the Russians (we won't talk about the proven connection between Hillary and Russia).

3. The FEC is on record with stating that hush money is not an election violation, and said so in the issues around John Edwards' 2008 campaign.

not all of them, but the Evangelicals are.

I'm inclined to think it has less to do with religion and more to do with the ruling class wanting to keep a lid on the working class. Too much education and critical thinking will get folks to start demanding better pay and working conditions.

Everybody stay calm, it's just treason and tax fraud and babyeating

You mean like you drill for oil in the Gulf, or how they still do mine for coal in Kentucky and West Virginia, as recklessly as is economically feasible?
   

First sign someone does not know what they are talking about is when they call America a Democracy.

There is nothing democratic about America.
Hillary lost the presidential election because Trump won the electoral college. She got more votes than Trump, because the president of American is NOT elected democratically, where is the "democracy" in that?
When congress creates a law the President can VETO the law. There is NOTHING democratic about a single person being able to veto a law, a super majority is required to overturn a veto... is this a Super Democracy? If the President DOES sign a bill into law or it gets a Super Majority it can STILL be challenged in court where a Judge(s) can strike the law down on constitutional grounds... where is the "democracy" in that? In a democracy the only power a court needs is interpreting the law enough to find people innocence or guilty... definitely not in finding if the law itself is legitimate or not... that is the job of the "democracy" not the courts!

In every case in the operation of the American government a Majority can be defeated by a very small minority... there is ZERO democracy in that, not a single freaking speck!

Democracy in ANY form requires a "majority" of some kind and since a minority can destroy the majority puts into place we are not a democracy. We are not even democratically voting in our representatives... representatives can lose to a minority vote anyways, and this problem is even made worse by gerrymandering issues where elections are stacked against certain voters. where is the freaking democracy in that? If you are voting in a democracy then you don't need an executive branch being able to affect any laws. Heck if "democracy" was even possible you would not even need a government because people would enforce what is right or wrong through majority activity anyways. And everyone already knows that would not work... because far too many people actually do not support what is right and far too many people are not just ignorant of things, they are grossly ignorant, easy to buy off and corrupt when it suits their interests... and why the founders specifically set America up to NOT be a democracy and to additionally put in stop gaps to prevent a Democracy as much as possible.

Everyone calling America a Democracy are the same people that falsely mislabel things to socially engineer things to perpetuate a lie. If you are okay with that... then you have no right when people call you how for perpetuating that lie.

America is NOT a democracy and neither is anything Democratically done here. Not even in vaunted California where "democratically elected laws" can be overturned by a single Judge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

One thing I can tell you for certain is that anyone that espouses "democracy" actually do not support democracy because if they did... they would for starters stop trying to challenge laws in courts to have them overturned. They would instead encourage voters to change the law the way a democracy should change laws... through voter turn out and yet... they don't! The only do one thing... tell people to vote only for those parroting the party lines... they do not vote in candidates that actually run on a platform of actually turning America into a Democracy. Instead they have focused their energy on convincing people of a massive lie, and don't say that is not possible. There are multiple examples throughout history that you CAN fool most of the people most of the time. In fact we are in the information age and misinformation is a problem so serious that problem is in the news labeled as fake news, alt-facts, and people that will seriously debate the simple fact that A is not the first letter of the English alphabet and that science is wrong when it bumps up against their political religion.

If you think this is just because of Trump, you may want to look back at the number of incidents which actually occurred when Obama lived there, including an armed intruder jumping the fence and actually ENTERING THE BUILDING and a mentally ill woman getting shot to death with a baby in her car after panicking, ramming the east entrance, and fleeing. Seriously, knock it off with the partisan shit. I know about 45% of the readers on this site blame Trump, Republicans, and straight white men for the entirety of the world's evils, but nutters being attracted to the White House are a completely non-partisan phenomenon.

everybody is talking about how bad the email was instead of the breach itself.

Not even remotely. Just because we're talking about one thing doesn't mean we aren't talking about something else. This is only one article on one site. Even a cursory search of news will show that people are very much talking about the breach itself, it's affects on people and what the company is doing about it.

Hell the most recent story on the news isn't even about the email. It's about Marriotts responses to fraud, here's one from only a couple of hours ago, signficantly newer than TFA: https://www.washingtonpost.com...

It may surprise you that people can talk about more than one thing at a time.

give 'em a break. maybe they just wanted to read a book?

Bush didn't avoid dealing with Hussein because he wanted to avoid mission creep, he did it because BushCO and the Hussein family were buddies.

The friendship you cite is with King Hussein of Jordan, a different family, and a very different ruler. In his later years Hussein was involved in various peacemaking efforts and gave political opponents position in his government. A quite different person than the Iraqi ruler who coincidentally shared the same last name.

Dan Quayle? The man who spoke out against single mothers? Remember when Murphy Brown stopped her hit TV show, broke character, and spoke directly to him and all the misogynist bigots just like him, vigorously defending single mothers?

History judges such people harshly.

Really? I can find no less a liberal site than the Washington Post defending Quayle. Here's what Quayle actually said, BTW, since you didn't bother to quote it and instead prefer to let us imagine something far worse:

“Bearing babies irresponsibly is simply wrong,” the vice president said. “Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesn’t help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes today’s intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.”

The article goes on to point out that yes, single parents are on the rise and it's harmful to the children, and this is backed by scientific research.

Second, a wealth of research strongly suggests that marriage is good for children. Those who live with their biological parents do better in school and are less likely to get pregnant or arrested. They have lower rates of suicide, achieve higher levels of education and earn more as adults. Meanwhile, children who spend time in single-parent families are more likely to misbehave, get sick, drop out of high school and be unemployed.

This raises the question: why are you denying science based on the word of a has-been celebrity like Murphy Brown?

Bush didn't avoid dealing with Hussein because he wanted to avoid mission creep, he did it because BushCO and the Hussein family were buddies. And hey, what do you know, they were in bed with bin laden as well. Trump may be worse for the country, it's hard to say really, but Bush was clearly more evil. George pervert fucker bush may have been the worst human being ever to hold the office of the presidency, INCLUDING Trump.

A lot of people in rural areas were hoping that Trump would help them as their industries declined, but it was false hope.

That's a very popular platitude, but the facts seem to be pointing in a different direction.

From the article: "The biggest drivers of the blue-collar hiring surge are the rebound in oil prices, the need to rebuild after disasters such as Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, and rising demand generated by a growing economy."

I know Trump has a lot of hot air, but even he cannot cause hurricanes. :-) And the economic growth started long before Trump took office, so we can pretty much attribute that growth to momentum. And although maybe Trump pissed off enough oil-producing allies to drive up the price of oil, I'm not sure I'd call that a net win....

The effects of Trump's trade wars will take at least another couple of years to be fully recognized.

The problem that restaurants have with cash is that the IRS can confiscate their cash for making daily deposits under $10,000 that appear to deliberately avoid reporting requirements for depositing $10,000 or more. If the restaurant keeps cash on site to comply with the IRS reporting requirements, robbery becomes a greater risk. Going cashless fixes both problems.

A lot of people in rural areas were hoping that Trump would help them as their industries declined, but it was false hope.

That's a very popular platitude, but the facts seem to be pointing in a different direction.

and even where action is possible it takes many years and long term policies

To the extent that's true, that's even more reason not to throw out words like "false hope" this early in the game.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump...

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

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

1. There are conspicuous mentions of Trump and his family.
2. Putin’s spokesman appears to have helped cover this up.
3. This ties the Trump family’s efforts to the Russian government.
4) The deal apparently died the day The Post broke a story about Russian hacking.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...

anybody in the world can open a US company, or buy one

What?

China is routinely blocked from buying US companies.

Lattice

Whirlpool, Qualcomm and many others.

Zharkova? Her sunspot modelling was in the news several years ago, but turns out that what she actually did was theoretical modeling of the solar dynamo, she did nothing whatsoever that predicted temperature. The news was quite seriously hyped by the usual scare media. (the fact that you had to go to a fringe site like electroverse should have been a warning that this was more hype than real science.)
Here's a discussion

- defeat ISIS

You are a complete fucking idiot. Really, there's little else to say about you. Because Trump says so doesn't mean shit, except to you guys on your knees sucking him off daily.

https://www.dni.gov/files/docu...

"ISIS and al-Qa‘ida and their respective networks will be persistent threats, as will groups not subordinate to them, such as the Haqqani Taliban Network."

"ISIS core has started and probably will maintain a robust insurgency in Iraq and Syria as part of a long term strategy to ultimately enable the reemergence of its so called caliphate. This activity will challenge local CT efforts against the group and threaten US interests in the region."

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

"The Islamic State may still have in excess of 30,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq and appears to have rebounded from some of its worst setbacks, according to two new reports that call into question whether the militants are as close to defeat as the U.S. military has suggested."
“The collective discipline of ISIL is intact,” the report said. “The general security and finance bureaus of ISIL are intact. The group’s immigration and logistics coordination office is also intact, although it is having difficulty communicating and its chief has been killed.”

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideas...

"While U.S. and allied forces in 2017 and 2018 successfully liberated most of the territory formerly held by the group in Syria and Iraq, IS leadership remains at large and IS fighters appear to be evolving into an insurgent force. The group’s international affiliates continue to operate, and individuals inspired by the group continue to attempt attacks in Europe and elsewhere. The stabilization of areas recovered from the group in Iraq and Syria remains an ongoing challenge, and a U.S. military spokesperson for the counter IS campaign warned in August 2018 that, “We cannot emphasize enough that the threat of losing the gains we have made is real, especially if we are not able to give the people a viable alternative to the ISIS problem.”

Quote from DoJ spokesperson in 2013:
“The problem the department has always had in investigating Julian Assange is there is no way to prosecute him for publishing information without the same theory being applied to journalists,” said former Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller. “And if you are not going to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, which the department is not, then there is no way to prosecute Assange.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

"No one in any administration, be it Sweden, UK, or the United States has given any stated reason by way of freedom of the press for not pursuing Assange.

Glenn Greenwald on November 16, 2018 wrote "As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom"
https://theintercept.com/2018/...
where he cites this Washington Post article by Sari Horowitz from November 25, 2013 "Julian Assange unlikely to face U.S. charges over publishing classified documents" https://www.washingtonpost.com... which includes this quote from teh then DoJ spokesperson:
“The problem the department has always had in investigating Julian Assange is there is no way to prosecute him for publishing information without the same theory being applied to journalists,” said former Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller. “And if you are not going to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information, which the department is not, then there is no way to prosecute Assange.”

So we have had a stated reason for nearly five years.

I must have been a dog in a past life.

In a past life? Yeah right. You can't fool me!

The WaPo article this is based on doesn't directly link Musk's behaviour to the investigation, which is also looking a Boeing.

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

Seems like they are just doing their due diligence and checking out both the companies that will be putting humans in space for them.

Ranked-choice would be better, but we need to address the rampant gerrymandering.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

How you choose matters little if your vote doesn't carry the same weight as others.

On top of the gerrymandering, we have the problem that the Constitution confers an larger influence on the Presidency and the House (and originally, also the Senate) to voters in small states.

Then, there is voter suppression going on in multiple states.

why is Trump's daughter high enough in the administration that this matters? Can you say Conflict of Interest? How about emoluments clause? And yes, I'm not ashamed I had to google how to spell "emoluments".

the DNC has neutered the super delegates. They stopped short of eliminating them (old power structures are hard to kill completely) but they're basically gone baring a miracle.

But to be blunt, the DNC's shenanigans are tiny, tiny potatoes next to the Sheldon Primary

Basically, it's not just cheating that kept Bernie out of the Whitehouse. America has a ruling class. We don't like to acknowledge their existence, but they're there. And they're not shy about it either.

So the DNC delt a blow to that ruling class, but it was a pretty minor blow. At the end of the day they still choose most of the political candidates out there, and they'll continue to until Americans make refusing corporate PAC money a litmus test to get past the primary.

This is an agency with broad authority, but no accountability to or oversite by elected officials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

It got so absurd that the former head of the CFPB felt he had the authority to name his own replacement. And their budget comes from the fed and not Congress.

"Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney, served on the firm’s advisory board "

Really doesn't sound like "His Company"

It was enough Whittaker's company that he made promotional videos for them and wrote threatening letters to customers who complained about the fraud. He was apparently very involved with the company.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/d...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...

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