The 'memo' is under hold because the FBI refuses to certify the redaction and declassification of the information.
The President could declassify the "memo" right now. He does not have to wait for anything.
The "memo" is something Nunes cooked up to protect Trump. It doesn't have any of the underlying information, it is just a freshman term paper without citations.
He has 0/10ths because there was never anything to find.
There have already been four arrests and two convictions. That happened in record time for this kind of investigation. There will be a parade of people flipping on Trump before this is over, and it's nowhere near over.
Hell, Trump's own lawyer, Don McGahn has made the entire case for criminal obstruction just in the past few days. And Mueller is ignoring all the baiting and trolling by Trump and quietly and methodically building a case. For someone with nothing to hide, Trump is sure trying his best to hide, cover up his tracks and derail the investigation. It's no longer some case of "maybe he obstructed and maybe he didn't". There's a clear pattern of him trying to stop the investigation in which he is the primary target. The closer we get to the 2018 election, the more you'll see Republicans in congress start to wet themselves. You're already seeing all sorts of "secret society" conspiracy theories and calls for some made up "memo" to be released to try to derail the investigation, all of which never amount to anything. Remember, these are the same members of congress who couldn't even make a case against Hillary stick and they threw absolutely everything at her. We may still see some sitting members of Congress indicted for obstruction of justice along with Trump.
I'm going to look back and miss the excitement of 2018.
Add to that there could not be a bigger, fatter, softer target that Donald J Trump
All I know is that the next time I'm arrested, I pray that the cop sitting across the table questioning me is not Robert Mueller. I mean, Jesus Christ, the guy looks like an FBI hard case out of central casting. He gives me one of these looks and I'd give up my own mother.
If you look at those dates, you will find that none of them were in their first year.
Trump is the least popular president at this point in their presidential term. It took those other presidents years to get to the point of being hated more than Trump.
The bottom line is that if you want Facebook (or anything, for that matter) to go away, please, for the love of God, do not regulate it like we have regulated tobacco.
You might want to reconsider that statement.
Tobacco use has been on a steady decline in the United States since the regulation of the tobacco industry was imposed.
With all the automation and huge increases in productivity, how many of you are working fewer hours than you were 5, 10, 15, or 20 years ago?
I'm willing to bet it's damn few of you. The fact is that automation and increases in productivity do not put money in the pockets of people who work for a living, they put money in the pockets of people who own for a living, which is a very small fraction of the population.
If you're excited by the prospects of automation and AI and all that good stuff, you better come to terms with a massive increase in the social welfare state, because there is no other option.
Bullshit. Not what Marx predicted. Marx said capitalism would die due to zero profit margins. He was wrong in just about every prediction.
I don't know where you're pulling that from, but there are five specific areas in which Mark perfectly predicted the current late-stage capitalist cancer.
1) Imaginary appetites (see, iPhone X and just about every advertisement)
2) Capitalism's Chaotic Nature (see: the Great Recession of 2008 and the increasing economic inequality and resulting social disruption. It's called the "shock doctrine" or "disaster capitalism". For late-stage capitalism to work, the population has to be kept in a state of constant upheaval, apprehension and fear.)
3) Monopoly (see: what every company strives for)
4) The Globalization of Capitalism (see: Wars vs socialism. Capitalism requires ever-growing markets, and those markets will be obtained at any cost, including wars and invasions)
5) The Reserve Army of Industrial Labor (see: the "service" economy. The current levels of underemployment and stagnant wages are required by capitalists. As we saw from the New Deal to Ronald Reagan's inauguration, a prosperous middle- and working-class gains political power and spreads power (women's rights, civil rights, etc). Capitalism cannot survive powerful middle and working classes, so Ronald Reagan declared war on them, using "supply-side" economics as a weapon.
There isn't capitalism, at all, in industries like banking.
What we have in our non-capitalist system elements is closer to Marx's solution than Smiths. Which is why it sucks so bad..
Which is exactly what Marx predicted would happen. You're making his case.
Because the only difference between the two is that the former leaves open the option of punitively damaging those who are successful in order to lower the perceived gap. This should be considered an immoral stance.
Well, now wait a minute. According to a first century moral philosopher by the name of Jesus Christ, the accumulation of wealth for its own sake is immoral.
Why does "moral hazard" only matter to you when we're talking about the possibility of people at the low end being helped?
Capitalism cannot be saved any more than a tadpole can be saved after it has turned into a frog. What we have today in the US doesn't resemble capitalism. We have a crony corporatism on meth. It's what capitalism looks like when it metastasizes.
This was all predicted, by the way, by a little-known 19th century German economist named, Karl Marx.
Even when you posted stuff I absolutely did not agree with you had some intelligence baked into the posts.
You're confusing me with someone else. As a relative newcomer, you might not be aware that all of my posts are transformed human waste turned into food for astronauts, eaten, turned into human waste again, and then turned into Slashdot comments.
It's cute how there are still people out there who pretend that there is some future for the human race that involves the enormous expense of space travel.
And by the way, the stuff that these scientists created from human dukey is not food. It may have a similar ratio of fats & protein as food, but it's not food. Astronauts will eat each other before they eat some cultured turd yogurt.
I expect that by 2025 we'll be close to the point where you can book a room in a private space station.
You're dreaming. By 2025, 80% of Americans will believe the Earth is flat, space travel will be illegal due to it being "ungodly", and an animatronic Liberace will be president. Nobody's going to "book a room" in any space station by 2025.
And anyone who could have possibly afforded it will be hospitalized due to drinking "raw water".
Ah, who am I kidding? Everyone knows you won't read shit.
Speaking of reading, the EO from the governor of New York doesn't create or impose any regulation of any kind. It just states that the government of New York will not do business with any ISP that violates Net Neutrality rules.
Those businesses are still free to do business any way they see fit, but they won't be getting the business of the State of New York. There is no language of any kind in the FCC regs that state governments MUST do business with certain ISPs, and if there were, it would be unconstitutional.
The State of New York is the biggest customer of any ISP in the state of New York, so this is going to have the desired effect, without running afoul of any FCC pronouncements or decrees.
the so-called "woman's right" was created by judicial fiat, rather than by Congress, or the Founding Fathers.
The FCC regulation "preempting" states was created, not by courts, or by congress or by the Founding Fathers, but by a bureaucrat who is several Constitutional levels below a SCOTUS judge or Congress or the Founding Fathers.
Regulations, while having the force of law, are not laws. When this goes to court, the State of New York will win.
You mean like Article VI Clause 2 of the Constitution? LOL.
That would make sense except for a couple of things:
1) There is no "law" to be "supreme" in this case. The FCC removed a regulation, it didn't create one. So, the supremacy clause refers to federal laws being supreme, but where there is no law or regulation, the states are free to create them. Remember this language:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
2) States have been making their own regulations regarding abortion now since Rove v Wade, even though the "supreme" law of the land, aka a woman's right, can be superseded by a state regulation, you're going to have a hard time arguing against state regulation regarding which communications companies states choose to to business with.
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The President could declassify the "memo" right now. He does not have to wait for anything.
The "memo" is something Nunes cooked up to protect Trump. It doesn't have any of the underlying information, it is just a freshman term paper without citations.
And now we're learning why.
3,000,000 more votes = "huge loss".
If the memo was real, it would have been released already.
There have already been four arrests and two convictions. That happened in record time for this kind of investigation. There will be a parade of people flipping on Trump before this is over, and it's nowhere near over.
Hell, Trump's own lawyer, Don McGahn has made the entire case for criminal obstruction just in the past few days. And Mueller is ignoring all the baiting and trolling by Trump and quietly and methodically building a case. For someone with nothing to hide, Trump is sure trying his best to hide, cover up his tracks and derail the investigation. It's no longer some case of "maybe he obstructed and maybe he didn't". There's a clear pattern of him trying to stop the investigation in which he is the primary target. The closer we get to the 2018 election, the more you'll see Republicans in congress start to wet themselves. You're already seeing all sorts of "secret society" conspiracy theories and calls for some made up "memo" to be released to try to derail the investigation, all of which never amount to anything. Remember, these are the same members of congress who couldn't even make a case against Hillary stick and they threw absolutely everything at her. We may still see some sitting members of Congress indicted for obstruction of justice along with Trump.
I'm going to look back and miss the excitement of 2018.
All I know is that the next time I'm arrested, I pray that the cop sitting across the table questioning me is not Robert Mueller. I mean, Jesus Christ, the guy looks like an FBI hard case out of central casting. He gives me one of these looks and I'd give up my own mother.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/con...
I have a feeling that everyone from the Trump administration who's been questioned by Mueller so far looked exactly like this:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-vEVoMb...
Here in the US, a presidential term is four years.
Don't they teach US civics in your part of the world, comrade?
If you look at those dates, you will find that none of them were in their first year.
Trump is the least popular president at this point in their presidential term. It took those other presidents years to get to the point of being hated more than Trump.
But as conservatives and Trump supporters love to keep telling us, we're not a democracy.
Who's "we"? It's funny that you think you're going to be one of the few elite that does well in an all-automated world.
I assume you were at Davos this week.
Except there are a LOT more horses than riders, and this time, the horses have guns.
Any other option outside of a massive increase in the welfare state ends in guillotines and a lot of very wealthy blood in the streets.
If the population goes hungry, you watch how fast the table gets flipped over.
You might want to reconsider that statement.
Tobacco use has been on a steady decline in the United States since the regulation of the tobacco industry was imposed.
With all the automation and huge increases in productivity, how many of you are working fewer hours than you were 5, 10, 15, or 20 years ago?
I'm willing to bet it's damn few of you. The fact is that automation and increases in productivity do not put money in the pockets of people who work for a living, they put money in the pockets of people who own for a living, which is a very small fraction of the population.
If you're excited by the prospects of automation and AI and all that good stuff, you better come to terms with a massive increase in the social welfare state, because there is no other option.
I don't know where you're pulling that from, but there are five specific areas in which Mark perfectly predicted the current late-stage capitalist cancer.
1) Imaginary appetites (see, iPhone X and just about every advertisement)
2) Capitalism's Chaotic Nature (see: the Great Recession of 2008 and the increasing economic inequality and resulting social disruption. It's called the "shock doctrine" or "disaster capitalism". For late-stage capitalism to work, the population has to be kept in a state of constant upheaval, apprehension and fear.)
3) Monopoly (see: what every company strives for)
4) The Globalization of Capitalism (see: Wars vs socialism. Capitalism requires ever-growing markets, and those markets will be obtained at any cost, including wars and invasions)
5) The Reserve Army of Industrial Labor (see: the "service" economy. The current levels of underemployment and stagnant wages are required by capitalists. As we saw from the New Deal to Ronald Reagan's inauguration, a prosperous middle- and working-class gains political power and spreads power (women's rights, civil rights, etc). Capitalism cannot survive powerful middle and working classes, so Ronald Reagan declared war on them, using "supply-side" economics as a weapon.
Which is exactly what Marx predicted would happen. You're making his case.
Well, now wait a minute. According to a first century moral philosopher by the name of Jesus Christ, the accumulation of wealth for its own sake is immoral.
Why does "moral hazard" only matter to you when we're talking about the possibility of people at the low end being helped?
Capitalism cannot be saved any more than a tadpole can be saved after it has turned into a frog. What we have today in the US doesn't resemble capitalism. We have a crony corporatism on meth. It's what capitalism looks like when it metastasizes.
This was all predicted, by the way, by a little-known 19th century German economist named, Karl Marx.
You're confusing me with someone else. As a relative newcomer, you might not be aware that all of my posts are transformed human waste turned into food for astronauts, eaten, turned into human waste again, and then turned into Slashdot comments.
It's cute how there are still people out there who pretend that there is some future for the human race that involves the enormous expense of space travel.
And by the way, the stuff that these scientists created from human dukey is not food. It may have a similar ratio of fats & protein as food, but it's not food. Astronauts will eat each other before they eat some cultured turd yogurt.
Visual Basic for AI
That there is some pure, uncut horseshit, presented in this article without challenge.
Show of hands, please (Trumpers too!): Who here thinks "broadband reaching all Americans" is anywhere near a "priority" for Ajit Pai?
You're dreaming. By 2025, 80% of Americans will believe the Earth is flat, space travel will be illegal due to it being "ungodly", and an animatronic Liberace will be president. Nobody's going to "book a room" in any space station by 2025.
And anyone who could have possibly afforded it will be hospitalized due to drinking "raw water".
Speaking of reading, the EO from the governor of New York doesn't create or impose any regulation of any kind. It just states that the government of New York will not do business with any ISP that violates Net Neutrality rules.
Those businesses are still free to do business any way they see fit, but they won't be getting the business of the State of New York. There is no language of any kind in the FCC regs that state governments MUST do business with certain ISPs, and if there were, it would be unconstitutional.
The State of New York is the biggest customer of any ISP in the state of New York, so this is going to have the desired effect, without running afoul of any FCC pronouncements or decrees.
Checkmate, FCC.
The FCC regulation "preempting" states was created, not by courts, or by congress or by the Founding Fathers, but by a bureaucrat who is several Constitutional levels below a SCOTUS judge or Congress or the Founding Fathers.
Regulations, while having the force of law, are not laws. When this goes to court, the State of New York will win.
That would make sense except for a couple of things:
1) There is no "law" to be "supreme" in this case. The FCC removed a regulation, it didn't create one. So, the supremacy clause refers to federal laws being supreme, but where there is no law or regulation, the states are free to create them. Remember this language:
2) States have been making their own regulations regarding abortion now since Rove v Wade, even though the "supreme" law of the land, aka a woman's right, can be superseded by a state regulation, you're going to have a hard time arguing against state regulation regarding which communications companies states choose to to business with.