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They should be the money men, paying instead of providing soldiers.

And now these tin pot judges are doing the same. The US is supposed to be a democracy. The Constitution is mostly a procedural document (for instance, requiring that the President take care to enforce duly passed laws) with a few rights that require a supermajority to suspend tacked on at the end. Obama was engaged in actively ignoring his duty to enforce the law and trying to micromanage school bathroom in every little town in America. Trump is attempting to uphold his Constitutional duty. Immigration and national security are clearly within the duties of the federal government and Trump is using his lawful power to fulfill his campaign promises. This judge in Hawaii actually wrote in his ruling on Trump's EO, which doesn't mention Muslims, that the EO is a Muslim ban and violates the 1st amendment rights of American Muslims because it might make them "feel badly" as one of his arguments for overturning the ban. If the democratically elected branches of government are not allowed to implement a short term travel ban on a handful of countries then we don't live in a self governing democracy anymore.

Over here the CIA was caught illegally spying on the Senate a few years back. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/10/cia-senate-investigation-constitutional-crisis-daniel-jones https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/obama-cia-senate-intelligence-committee-torture Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims White House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture after 9/11 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/cia-admits-spying-senate-staffers CIA admits to spying on Senate staffers

You guys trust your intelligence agencies to be truthful and follow the law. How cute.

So, two judges have applied the first amendment to non-citizens living in foreign countries. Basically, they said that freedom of religion prevents us from stopping Muslims from immigrating to the US. The logic of this is that our restriction on fascists (fascist belief is also protected by the 1st amendment) moving to this country in the lead up to WWII would have been illegal. It's really an amazing power grab by random individual judges.

I just went and looked up his UK album charting. He doesn't do well there. Do you guys not know that he's way more popular now as a classic / Southern rock singer than he ever was as a rapper? Made in USA according to my hat. Although I think I remember seeing that the factory which makes them is in California, so barely America. His polls are all over the place. Politico just had one that put his favorable rating at 52%.

This is an excellent example of where PC can end up hurting people. There's evidence that the majority of kids who struggle with gender identity get things straightened out on their own by the time they are adults. But doctors and academics who advocate against any physical alterations to children are being banned from conferences and face the potential having their livelihoods threatened if this transphobia deal gets as taboo as homophobia. This is going to have a chilling affect on figuring out the best course of treatment for these kids. And considering the suicide rate of transgender people post physical treatment, this is literally a life and death situation. More controversially, you can argue that mass immigration policy increases racism and potentially subjects people who would never have to face that threat (white British people) to this issue.

That depends on the team. There are various squads in every sport across the country that could go through 20+ years of losing and still have great fan support. Specifically regarding Minnesota, I suspect that the newness will keep people coming out on match day. That will of course only last a year or two, though.

Not sure. Why were the Guardian and BBC reporting it and Democrat politicians like Hillary Clinton hinting about it before Trump ever said anything?

Trump had a nice speech at Andrew Jackson's house in honor of his 250th birthday. It's amazing to see how close the Democrats were to writing the founder of their party and one of the greatest Americans ever out of respectable history, and it shows how under the influence that party is of minority groups who hate America and it's history. Obama attempted to take him off the $20 bill. Across the country, the main even for each state Democrat Party has always been the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner (the two founders of the Democrat Party), but in the Obama years state after state renamed the event. It's great to see Donald stand up for great Americans of the past.

John McCain said that Rand Paul is an agent of Putin and Russia on the Senate floor today. The Never Trumpers are losing their minds. What did he say? Caught the bit about disbanding the 9th circuit. Our system of checks and balances is a bit out of whack since in recent history there's been no checks on the courts to make sure they stay within the law. In the past the other branches of governments would put the courts in check when they overstepped. Time to restore proper checks and balances to protect democracy. It's within the Constitutional power of the Executive and Legislative Branches to disband any court except the Supreme Court if they work together.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps

Y'all haven't busted through to the news here this time. It was a fairly big deal last time around. To the extent that the news is talking about Europe it's Wilders and Le Pen. If you have a neutral hat you can put on in place of your Scotland hat, what are the odds the gap can be closed so soon after the failure last time around?

Shia LaBeouf's anti-Trump, He Will Not Divide Us "art" exhibit was trolled by 4chan nerds for the 3rd time. It was originally a livestream based in NYC, but he moved it to New Mexico after a bunch of fights and trolling at the camera. Same thing in New Mexico. He then put up a white "He Will Not Divide Us" flag at an undisclosed location with a continuous livestream. 4chan studied plane chem trails and star patterns to narrow down the location to rural Tennessee. Then they had people drive around honking their horns until you could hear the horns on the livestream. 4chan than captured the HWNDU flag and replaced with with a MAGA hat.

Regarding the allegation that the GCHQ was spying on Trump for the Democrats, I do remember conspiratorial talk from a few months ago when the GCHQ head resigned a few days after Trump became President. He had only been in the job 2 years and was 51, but he resigned for "family reasons." Interesting timing considering these new allegations from Fox News. It's hard to tell what to believe.

Jesus Christ! Haha. That was amazing. Every douchey Democrat (a subset of Democrats, there are plenty of decent ones) I knew was texting me before 9 pm sure this was going to be the end of Trump. Impeachment was around the corner. How did this happen? What was Maddow thinking? The only thing I can figure is that she hadn't yet seen the tax returns when she hyped her show, and assumed that something scandalous had to be there. People are saying that Trump had to be behind this leak and put out the year where he paid the most. I'd always assumed that there was nothing more scandalous in Trump's taxes than you'd find in any rich persons (or anybody's really), but he figured that taking the hit of not releasing them was better than letting a hostile media take a fine comb to his finances.

Judge Andrew Napolitano has gone on Fox News and said that 3 intelligence sources say Obama used Brit intelligence to spy on Trump. This was one of Snowden's revelations. That the Five Eyes countries use each others intel agencies to get around domestic privacy protections. Judge Napolitano is a bit of a right wing maniac, but he's a former New Jersey Supreme Court judge and has been one of Fox News top legal analysts since I can remember.

Wow! My country is full of fat hillbillies who shoot each other and your life expectancy is less than 1 year more. Your medical system must suck balls.

This is it. People stereotype where I live as giving babies Mountain Dew in their bottles. This actually does happen. It's hard to come back from that beginning.

Yeah, your condition would affect your life decisions here in a way it doesn't in the UK. You'd be limited to jobs with the proper insurance plans. And you'd have to keep a bit of a nest egg to cover COBRA costs (if you lose a job with insurance the law says the insurance company has to keep covering you under the same plan so long as you pay the full premium) if you found yourself inbetween jobs.

I think you are overestimating the odds you'd be fucked in the US. I've know two people in my life who had that disease. Neither were from rich families. Neither do rich jobs as an adult. Both had the surgery where large portions of their colons were removed. I can't say I'm close enough to either to know their financial situation, but I don't notice anything that's obviously off.

We aren't going to see any major reform right now, because any changes to Obamacare have to be passed using budgetary maneuvers unless they can get 8 Democrat votes in the Senate. A lot of conservatives pimp Singapore's system as a more market based alternative to getting everyone covered. I'm not sure what's the best idea myself other than that I definitely don't favor a British style system considering the state of our VA hospitals.

If I get prostate cancer in the US the odds of being alive in 5 years is 97.2%. In the UK it's 83.2%. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/articles/concord-2.htm We always wonder where foreigners get the idea that people are dropping dead for lack of medical care across the US.