They actually run a (small) electric current through the rails, and can detect breaks pretty quickly and narrow it down in time to stop the following train.
What that's doing is detecting a previous break. What I'm talking about are the failure that hasn't happened and you can't be sure where the failure is going to happen. When you're looking for the first it's easy to find. When you're doing the second? You're either using x-ray or gamma-ray mobile scanners, the last one that came through my neck of the woods was a giant mobile gamma-ray scanner that would take pictures of 7m of rail at once then was looked over by another crew. If a failure was found, they'd call in, and then switch to the alternate track. If there wasn't an alternate track, they'd either post a reduced speed until the crew could do the repair. Or they'd run off a different line if possible. Eg. They'd switch to a CP or Great Lakes Railway line and take the long trip around while the repairs are done.
Well both heat and cold can do some major screw-ups to other mass transport systems. Here in Canada you see cases where in the summer train speeds are either heavily reduced or the trains are stopped from going down the tracks. Usually only happens when the temps hit 30C for more then a couple of days. Rail deforming and causing derailments is a problem, but on top of that the rails are also susceptible to the cold. So if we see a period of -30C several days in a row they also have to slow down.
Think it was ~2 or 3 years ago that CN had to bring in special crews to check in the mainlines through part of southwestern ontario after an engineer ran the track at 50km/h(city limit it's 80-110km/h most of the time), when the heat advisory had a posted limit of no faster than 25km/h. Think of having to run 300+km of track and having to check every cm for failures because of one person.
Yes in many countries. But it wouldn't surprise me to hear that the police are involved in some way in order to try and find out who is trying to blackmail them. That does happen from time to time, and they use big media blitz's like this to try and flush people out.
This is my guess...or it was someone who managed to talk themselves in through the door. That's one's becoming quite popular too, all you need is someone that's a good bullshitter to pull it off. Remember that bank job(Bangladesh) a year or so back? That one has a lot of inside job markers to it too.
Sometimes I wonder how much effort you people put in to digging up these extremists. I'm progressive, I donate money to progressive political candidates and vote for progressives, I support progressive causes. I've never heard of any of those groups.
I don't. Every single one of those groups has been mentioned multiple times in the media in the last 5 years. Some have even been directly linked to other organizations which don't have a "violent" face. An example: ALF(Animal Liberation Front), has received direct and multiple payments from PETA. Individual actors in ALF, have as well -- before and after they commit attacks against people. Groups like sea shepard and so on have been around since the late 1970's and have a history of violence. If you're not hearing about this from "progressive" sources, it's because they don't want you to hear about them.
Groups like antifa have been popular in europe for years, they have a long history of violently assaulting people there as well and that was long before they crossed the pond. BAMN is a cross between an extremist organization and a violent cult. They separate people out, indoctrinate, force people to cut ties to families. They've been around hmm 15? 25 years? Long enough that the FBI has been watching them.
So we can safely assume that you will be in charge of the ban policy?
A pro-speech conservative libertarian is a bad choice for a job like that. I'd just let everyone spew their shit and let the public make their own choice on it.
That's not scrubbing history, they're usually going into museums.
Which is why several of the statues are now sitting in city junk heaps right? If you're removing them from a place, you're white washing it. If you want to add a counter plaque feel free I doubt you're going to get much in the way of complaints.
Over half of the Confederate states put, in their article of succession, the preservation of the Southern way of life through the institution of slavery as a primary motivation, or even the sole motivation for succession. Sure, it was all states rights, but funny that the "states' right" that they talked the most about was slavery.
Of course it will. But it won't include left wing white radicalized communist groups. So don't worry, you can keep enjoying the antifa, bamn, alf, elf, sea shepard, and all those other violent extremist groups telling people to assault those who don't follow their political ideology.
Scrubbing of history? I support the removal of statues of people who fought a war to preserve the institution of slavery....
So you are supporting the scrubbing of history by removing those statues. You should really dust off a history book, because slavery was actually a very small part of it. There was far more to the issue then just that. If you don't want to look like a book burner, perhaps you'd be better off wanting to show the entire history of it? Which do you think is more likely true: That bigotry and racism grows when exposed, or when it's suppressed and hidden from sight. Where there is no counter arguments against it.
The Confederacy is one of the greatest symbols of our shameful past, where we thought it was fine for a man to keep another man like property. It neither needs to or deserves to be honored, and those statues were a casual, everyday "fuck you" to non-whites, a constant reminder that for many, they are not welcome even after 150 years.
And burying that history helps who? So does this also apply to say WWII memorials? How about Nazi memorials? Yeah, burying history helps nobody. Just like trying to pull "all whitey's are racists because of slavery" helps no one.
I'm someone who's enjoying themselves immensely before I head to bed, since I just worked 37 hours straight. Gotta love severe weather right?
Boy oh boy. Look at all those russian bases surrounding the US. I sure would be feeling threatened if I was the US. Sorry you need to swap US for Russia. So you want to tell everyone when you're surrounded by NATO bases like that it wouldn't bother you? Think like a Russian when you do it.
Too bad Canada doesn't have free speech. And as of yesterday we have even less speech that is free. I'll just enjoy myself on that. You thought hard yet why the US should be allowed to project it's power free of consequences, but Russia shouldn't be allowed to do the same with it's interests in the middle east.
fyi, Putin always manages to blame somebody else for his failings
So do all politicians, but right now we're talking about something else. It's not a hard jump in reasoning.
Hey, you at least acknowledged that the Quebec attack happened! That puts you one ahead of Trump.
The real question is, why should Trump acknowledge it? The guy liked him because of a pro-nationalist stance that's it. But let's compare that to someone like Jessee Benn. You know about them right? They're a self-proclaimed Hillary supporter, who wrote for the Huffington Post and wrote an article calling for the murder of Trump because "impeachment isn't enough" in his eyes. Hillary is going to say this is unacceptable right? The DNC? They've been pretty silent so far. Or perhaps someone would like to argue that this type of stuff isn't going to do anyone any good.
Russia's primary concern is oil exports. She was going around the world promoting fracking technology as a means for countries to be more energy independent
Actually this is utter bullshit. Russia's primary concern is natural gas exports. She was going around the world trying to undercut Russia's ability to apply pressure on the EU because Russia supplies ~30% of their natural gas...via a pipeline through Syria. Now ask yourself why this was so important, that the US decided to involve itself in Syria and back the opposing side to overthrow Assad. While Russia supported Assad. Remember that part where the US was funneling weapons to terrorists because they were fighting Assad? How about because they supported a different NG pipeline that would be from Qatar. The same country that's now under pressure by the rest of the middle east for funding terrorists and directly interfering in Egypt.
Or are you going to argue that Russia shouldn't support it's allies like the US does in the middle east? Are you figuring out just how much of a clusterfuck this really is yet.
he republicans are all talk to appear tough for the public...
Someone not paying attention to the senate or house recently. Yep sure looks like it.
Hillary and Obama did not threaten the start of WW3 as much as they threatened to stop Putin's theft from Russia
So let's go with that. You wonder why the Russian government seriously believed that if Hillary was elected that there would be a war. Would you perhaps like to claim that the inquisitr is a right-wing publication to save face before you find out that it's a left-wing publication.
THAT is why Putin was so desperate that he worked to get Trump elected...
Yes, he worked so hard that we have no proof that they were involved. Or that the DNC email leaks show the exact opposite of what you're trying to say, like the fact that Hillary was acting as a front in a cash-for-access program using the clinton foundation to the state department. Would you like to now claim ABC News is right-wing? Or perhaps the washington post which also reported on it.
Remember that part where the previous administration claimed that Russia was behind the DNC leaks, but there's no actual proof because the FBI never had access to actually investigate it. That Comey said that in itself was a "odd occurrence" and in turn there is no positive proof because of that. Remember that part where the founder of wikileaks came out and stated that Russia wasn't the source. The same wikileaks that the left cheered on for leaks under Bush and were quite happy when the information was supporting their side. Shall we continue?
LOL, Putin gives Russians 'dignity' while robbing them blind, and Obama threatened world peace by not collaborating directly with Putin
So why don't you go ask why the average Russian gets jittery over all those NATO bases. I'll give you some time to think on that. Going by your reasoning, the Obama administration "supported democracy" by directly interfering in multiple elections in Europe, Israel and Canada.
Now I'll give you moment to think of why "giving them back some property" is a token dignity gesture, when the sanctions that the US have against Russia have pushed their GDP to -3.8% for the last fiscal year. You still want to go down this route or have you figured out why this is a simple gesture that looks good, but is effectively meaningless beyond an optics level.
So you support the removal of historical statues and scrubbing of history? That's what you're talking about when you're saying that. Would you like me to point out all those fake hate crimes that Clinton and Bernie supporters claimed in order to get in the news and try making the "look at all this violence" that isn't actually happening and several of those people were criminally charged for false police reports. How about those muslims that were filing false police reports against Trump supporters. You want to talk about Loretta Lynch calling for people to violently attack people in the streets. How about when Tim Caine and Hillary did too.
Here I'll even help you for your next reply. Maybe you would like to toss in a claim that the kid in Quebec was a Trump supporter? Except he only like Trump because he holds a "US First" stance, much like LePen and several others. Want to know what's interesting on that one? He was a freverant leftist, who supported groups like the PQ(a leftist nationalist pro-separation Quebec group). You know there was another group like that in the past too, it was called the FLQ. They were marxist leftists with a pro-nationalist, pro-quebec separation stance. Just think if they were around today. How would you argue the marxist organization that just bombed downtown montreal, or kidnapped a politican and murdered him. Would that be a pro-Trump organization in your book?
How about groups like BAMN? That are far-leftist violent marxists, who believe that they're "fighting for free speech" by violently assaulting people.
Regular formal communication, presence in the Oval Office, return of seized compounds, softer rhetoric.... oh, wait, you're a troll...
So you're saying that the US shouldn't have formal communication with a country that has a massive nuclear arsenal? Remember what happened the last time that went on, and the only reason we're having this discussion is because the USSR captain refused to pull the trigger. You mean the same presence that other nations have? The one that Obama pulled because reasons. So you want to argue that a Russia surrounded by NATO bases, shouldn't have some of their dignity back under a new administration. Are you that eager for a war or is it something else?
Keep in mind that most governments consider treaties "gentlemen's agreements" nothing else, unless there is some type of oversight. As long as neither side is openly doing things, and aren't violating the spirit of that agreement anything goes and it's always been like that. USSR or Russia, US or GB everyone plays by those same rules. But wouldn't it be interesting to find out that this was actually the case? It would sure lend credence to the CIA and NSA being state actors using their tools to fake attacks from other foreign actors in order to apply pressure against them. Something that was directly listed in the last 2 rounds of wikileaks documents,
Why talk about the topic at hand when we can talk about a completely different topic?
Maybe you should ask the parent poster.
It's getting old and us moderates are tired of the idiots on both sides. Before you go there (I know you will), no, I ddidnt vote for the candidate you likely call Killary.
If you're an actual moderate, then you wouldn't be lashing out when someone points out that she was the worse candidate and likely the one that would have caused another world war. You were the one who said that not me.
So how are the republicans "putin-friendly" when they not only maintain sanctions, but are following Obama's same playbook. You do realize that Russia's main concern was Hillary would do something that would trigger WWIII because she was so incredibly hawkish that it made neocons blush. You can even see that in her emails, where she wanted to directly bomb russians in Syria, and start seizing assets from them. Pretty easy to figure out why the Kremlin was cheering when Trump was elected, it might just have something to do with that non-war. And if you don't think it wouldn't be nuclear? Look at it this way, the US has double the tonnage in the ocean of Russia and China combined. Plus better and closer force projection for troops. That means the only option would be a first strike using nuclear or limited nuclear exchange in the hopes of winning.
Hillary did work with the russians, so did numerous members of the DNC, many even took direct payments from organizations or companies with direct ties to the russian state. She also directly obstructed justice(destruction of devices, deletion of emails), the previous administration directly obstructed justice by Comey's own testimony(Lynch asking him to call it a "matter." The infamous document talk in her office, where she told him to leave--when he had info on Clinton and the Clinton foundation getting direct payments from foreign nationals). And incase you missed it, the left are trying to burn the country down. Or have you missed all the deranged lefties over the last 8 months doing everything from rioting(in DC, Berkeley, Seattle), violently assaulting to shooting at conservatives and basically anyone to the right of Mao. You can try to pull the "not all..." bullshit, but the left owns this just like the left claimed the right owned firebrand preachers and people shooting abortion doctors.
Remember that part where antifa showed up like this to attack people first though? No? That's the difference in what's happened. That's what happened in Berkeley and Seattle for example, it wasn't until they started violently assaulting people that things started going down this road.
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They actually run a (small) electric current through the rails, and can detect breaks pretty quickly and narrow it down in time to stop the following train.
What that's doing is detecting a previous break. What I'm talking about are the failure that hasn't happened and you can't be sure where the failure is going to happen. When you're looking for the first it's easy to find. When you're doing the second? You're either using x-ray or gamma-ray mobile scanners, the last one that came through my neck of the woods was a giant mobile gamma-ray scanner that would take pictures of 7m of rail at once then was looked over by another crew. If a failure was found, they'd call in, and then switch to the alternate track. If there wasn't an alternate track, they'd either post a reduced speed until the crew could do the repair. Or they'd run off a different line if possible. Eg. They'd switch to a CP or Great Lakes Railway line and take the long trip around while the repairs are done.
Well both heat and cold can do some major screw-ups to other mass transport systems. Here in Canada you see cases where in the summer train speeds are either heavily reduced or the trains are stopped from going down the tracks. Usually only happens when the temps hit 30C for more then a couple of days. Rail deforming and causing derailments is a problem, but on top of that the rails are also susceptible to the cold. So if we see a period of -30C several days in a row they also have to slow down.
Think it was ~2 or 3 years ago that CN had to bring in special crews to check in the mainlines through part of southwestern ontario after an engineer ran the track at 50km/h(city limit it's 80-110km/h most of the time), when the heat advisory had a posted limit of no faster than 25km/h. Think of having to run 300+km of track and having to check every cm for failures because of one person.
Yes in many countries. But it wouldn't surprise me to hear that the police are involved in some way in order to try and find out who is trying to blackmail them. That does happen from time to time, and they use big media blitz's like this to try and flush people out.
Oh wait. Maybe it was an inside job?
This is my guess...or it was someone who managed to talk themselves in through the door. That's one's becoming quite popular too, all you need is someone that's a good bullshitter to pull it off. Remember that bank job(Bangladesh) a year or so back? That one has a lot of inside job markers to it too.
Snap bracelets and colour changing shirts.
Sometimes I wonder how much effort you people put in to digging up these extremists. I'm progressive, I donate money to progressive political candidates and vote for progressives, I support progressive causes. I've never heard of any of those groups.
I don't. Every single one of those groups has been mentioned multiple times in the media in the last 5 years. Some have even been directly linked to other organizations which don't have a "violent" face. An example: ALF(Animal Liberation Front), has received direct and multiple payments from PETA. Individual actors in ALF, have as well -- before and after they commit attacks against people. Groups like sea shepard and so on have been around since the late 1970's and have a history of violence. If you're not hearing about this from "progressive" sources, it's because they don't want you to hear about them.
Groups like antifa have been popular in europe for years, they have a long history of violently assaulting people there as well and that was long before they crossed the pond. BAMN is a cross between an extremist organization and a violent cult. They separate people out, indoctrinate, force people to cut ties to families. They've been around hmm 15? 25 years? Long enough that the FBI has been watching them.
So we can safely assume that you will be in charge of the ban policy?
A pro-speech conservative libertarian is a bad choice for a job like that. I'd just let everyone spew their shit and let the public make their own choice on it.
That's not scrubbing history, they're usually going into museums.
Which is why several of the statues are now sitting in city junk heaps right? If you're removing them from a place, you're white washing it. If you want to add a counter plaque feel free I doubt you're going to get much in the way of complaints.
Over half of the Confederate states put, in their article of succession, the preservation of the Southern way of life through the institution of slavery as a primary motivation, or even the sole motivation for succession. Sure, it was all states rights, but funny that the "states' right" that they talked the most about was slavery.
You must have read one that belonged in a different timeline, because the ordinances of secession spell out something that's fundamentally different then that.
If you can prove she committed a crime, lock her up.
Comey already did that remember?
What do you mean going to? That deal was approved under the Obama regime and there's no actual back-track mandate available in the deal.
Of course it will. But it won't include left wing white radicalized communist groups. So don't worry, you can keep enjoying the antifa, bamn, alf, elf, sea shepard, and all those other violent extremist groups telling people to assault those who don't follow their political ideology.
Scrubbing of history? I support the removal of statues of people who fought a war to preserve the institution of slavery. ...
So you are supporting the scrubbing of history by removing those statues. You should really dust off a history book, because slavery was actually a very small part of it. There was far more to the issue then just that. If you don't want to look like a book burner, perhaps you'd be better off wanting to show the entire history of it? Which do you think is more likely true: That bigotry and racism grows when exposed, or when it's suppressed and hidden from sight. Where there is no counter arguments against it.
The Confederacy is one of the greatest symbols of our shameful past, where we thought it was fine for a man to keep another man like property. It neither needs to or deserves to be honored, and those statues were a casual, everyday "fuck you" to non-whites, a constant reminder that for many, they are not welcome even after 150 years.
And burying that history helps who? So does this also apply to say WWII memorials? How about Nazi memorials? Yeah, burying history helps nobody. Just like trying to pull "all whitey's are racists because of slavery" helps no one.
Lordy, what are you an RT rep?
I'm someone who's enjoying themselves immensely before I head to bed, since I just worked 37 hours straight. Gotta love severe weather right?
Boy oh boy. Look at all those russian bases surrounding the US. I sure would be feeling threatened if I was the US. Sorry you need to swap US for Russia. So you want to tell everyone when you're surrounded by NATO bases like that it wouldn't bother you? Think like a Russian when you do it.
Too bad Canada doesn't have free speech. And as of yesterday we have even less speech that is free. I'll just enjoy myself on that. You thought hard yet why the US should be allowed to project it's power free of consequences, but Russia shouldn't be allowed to do the same with it's interests in the middle east.
fyi, Putin always manages to blame somebody else for his failings
So do all politicians, but right now we're talking about something else. It's not a hard jump in reasoning.
Hey, you at least acknowledged that the Quebec attack happened! That puts you one ahead of Trump.
The real question is, why should Trump acknowledge it? The guy liked him because of a pro-nationalist stance that's it. But let's compare that to someone like Jessee Benn. You know about them right? They're a self-proclaimed Hillary supporter, who wrote for the Huffington Post and wrote an article calling for the murder of Trump because "impeachment isn't enough" in his eyes. Hillary is going to say this is unacceptable right? The DNC? They've been pretty silent so far. Or perhaps someone would like to argue that this type of stuff isn't going to do anyone any good.
Russia's primary concern is oil exports. She was going around the world promoting fracking technology as a means for countries to be more energy independent
Actually this is utter bullshit. Russia's primary concern is natural gas exports. She was going around the world trying to undercut Russia's ability to apply pressure on the EU because Russia supplies ~30% of their natural gas...via a pipeline through Syria. Now ask yourself why this was so important, that the US decided to involve itself in Syria and back the opposing side to overthrow Assad. While Russia supported Assad. Remember that part where the US was funneling weapons to terrorists because they were fighting Assad? How about because they supported a different NG pipeline that would be from Qatar. The same country that's now under pressure by the rest of the middle east for funding terrorists and directly interfering in Egypt.
Or are you going to argue that Russia shouldn't support it's allies like the US does in the middle east? Are you figuring out just how much of a clusterfuck this really is yet.
he republicans are all talk to appear tough for the public ...
Someone not paying attention to the senate or house recently. Yep sure looks like it.
Hillary and Obama did not threaten the start of WW3 as much as they threatened to stop Putin's theft from Russia
So let's go with that. You wonder why the Russian government seriously believed that if Hillary was elected that there would be a war. Would you perhaps like to claim that the inquisitr is a right-wing publication to save face before you find out that it's a left-wing publication.
THAT is why Putin was so desperate that he worked to get Trump elected ...
Yes, he worked so hard that we have no proof that they were involved. Or that the DNC email leaks show the exact opposite of what you're trying to say, like the fact that Hillary was acting as a front in a cash-for-access program using the clinton foundation to the state department. Would you like to now claim ABC News is right-wing? Or perhaps the washington post which also reported on it.
Remember that part where the previous administration claimed that Russia was behind the DNC leaks, but there's no actual proof because the FBI never had access to actually investigate it. That Comey said that in itself was a "odd occurrence" and in turn there is no positive proof because of that. Remember that part where the founder of wikileaks came out and stated that Russia wasn't the source. The same wikileaks that the left cheered on for leaks under Bush and were quite happy when the information was supporting their side. Shall we continue?
LOL, Putin gives Russians 'dignity' while robbing them blind, and Obama threatened world peace by not collaborating directly with Putin
So why don't you go ask why the average Russian gets jittery over all those NATO bases. I'll give you some time to think on that. Going by your reasoning, the Obama administration "supported democracy" by directly interfering in multiple elections in Europe, Israel and Canada.
Now I'll give you moment to think of why "giving them back some property" is a token dignity gesture, when the sanctions that the US have against Russia have pushed their GDP to -3.8% for the last fiscal year. You still want to go down this route or have you figured out why this is a simple gesture that looks good, but is effectively meaningless beyond an optics level.
So you support the removal of historical statues and scrubbing of history? That's what you're talking about when you're saying that. Would you like me to point out all those fake hate crimes that Clinton and Bernie supporters claimed in order to get in the news and try making the "look at all this violence" that isn't actually happening and several of those people were criminally charged for false police reports. How about those muslims that were filing false police reports against Trump supporters. You want to talk about Loretta Lynch calling for people to violently attack people in the streets. How about when Tim Caine and Hillary did too.
Here I'll even help you for your next reply. Maybe you would like to toss in a claim that the kid in Quebec was a Trump supporter? Except he only like Trump because he holds a "US First" stance, much like LePen and several others. Want to know what's interesting on that one? He was a freverant leftist, who supported groups like the PQ(a leftist nationalist pro-separation Quebec group). You know there was another group like that in the past too, it was called the FLQ. They were marxist leftists with a pro-nationalist, pro-quebec separation stance. Just think if they were around today. How would you argue the marxist organization that just bombed downtown montreal, or kidnapped a politican and murdered him. Would that be a pro-Trump organization in your book?
How about groups like BAMN? That are far-leftist violent marxists, who believe that they're "fighting for free speech" by violently assaulting people.
Regular formal communication, presence in the Oval Office, return of seized compounds, softer rhetoric.... oh, wait, you're a troll...
So you're saying that the US shouldn't have formal communication with a country that has a massive nuclear arsenal? Remember what happened the last time that went on, and the only reason we're having this discussion is because the USSR captain refused to pull the trigger. You mean the same presence that other nations have? The one that Obama pulled because reasons. So you want to argue that a Russia surrounded by NATO bases, shouldn't have some of their dignity back under a new administration. Are you that eager for a war or is it something else?
Keep in mind that most governments consider treaties "gentlemen's agreements" nothing else, unless there is some type of oversight. As long as neither side is openly doing things, and aren't violating the spirit of that agreement anything goes and it's always been like that. USSR or Russia, US or GB everyone plays by those same rules. But wouldn't it be interesting to find out that this was actually the case? It would sure lend credence to the CIA and NSA being state actors using their tools to fake attacks from other foreign actors in order to apply pressure against them. Something that was directly listed in the last 2 rounds of wikileaks documents,
Oh here we are. Are you the pro-russian troll, or the teabagger obsessed with the Clintons? It has become so hard to tell these days.
See that ID? Yeah. So what are you? A paid shareblue poster trying to cover up for the Clintons. Maybe you can explain why when Clinton lost the election that the international arm of the clinton foundation shut down almost right away as the donation stream abruptly stopped. Would you like to explain why when people wanted to talk with the Obama administration they'd be stonewalled, then suddenly when they made large contributions to it they had access. And they used it to directly gain access to special favors at the state department.
Why talk about the topic at hand when we can talk about a completely different topic?
Maybe you should ask the parent poster.
It's getting old and us moderates are tired of the idiots on both sides. Before you go there (I know you will), no, I ddidnt vote for the candidate you likely call Killary.
If you're an actual moderate, then you wouldn't be lashing out when someone points out that she was the worse candidate and likely the one that would have caused another world war. You were the one who said that not me.
So how are the republicans "putin-friendly" when they not only maintain sanctions, but are following Obama's same playbook. You do realize that Russia's main concern was Hillary would do something that would trigger WWIII because she was so incredibly hawkish that it made neocons blush. You can even see that in her emails, where she wanted to directly bomb russians in Syria, and start seizing assets from them. Pretty easy to figure out why the Kremlin was cheering when Trump was elected, it might just have something to do with that non-war. And if you don't think it wouldn't be nuclear? Look at it this way, the US has double the tonnage in the ocean of Russia and China combined. Plus better and closer force projection for troops. That means the only option would be a first strike using nuclear or limited nuclear exchange in the hopes of winning.
Hillary did work with the russians, so did numerous members of the DNC, many even took direct payments from organizations or companies with direct ties to the russian state. She also directly obstructed justice(destruction of devices, deletion of emails), the previous administration directly obstructed justice by Comey's own testimony(Lynch asking him to call it a "matter." The infamous document talk in her office, where she told him to leave--when he had info on Clinton and the Clinton foundation getting direct payments from foreign nationals). And incase you missed it, the left are trying to burn the country down. Or have you missed all the deranged lefties over the last 8 months doing everything from rioting(in DC, Berkeley, Seattle), violently assaulting to shooting at conservatives and basically anyone to the right of Mao. You can try to pull the "not all..." bullshit, but the left owns this just like the left claimed the right owned firebrand preachers and people shooting abortion doctors.
Correction: It wasn't. It was after the riot, when he was asked about his gay experiences.
Remember that part where antifa showed up like this to attack people first though? No? That's the difference in what's happened. That's what happened in Berkeley and Seattle for example, it wasn't until they started violently assaulting people that things started going down this road.