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On 3/17/2017 at 00:51, harry94 said:
Weren't you the one posting pictures of Obama trampling on the constitution a few months back?
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.
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On 3/17/2017 at 11:35, The_Kincardine said:
Jesus. GCHQ spying on Nicola and Eck making sense? Only if you're a 'drain the swamp' nutter.
Over here the CIA was caught illegally spying on the Senate a few years back.
QuoteUnbeknownst to Jones, Udall or Feinstein, the public reference to the Panetta Review so alarmed the CIA as to prompt a milestone event in its history. Since 2009, the CIA had maintained a firewalled network on which the Senate could view internal documents relevant to its torture inquiry. It was known as RDINet, for “rendition, detention and interrogation.” By mutual agreement, the CIA was not supposed to access the Senate’s side of the network for any reason aside from picayune IT help. But at least five agency officials would surreptitiously transgress the network firewalls, view the Senate investigators’ work, and reconstruct Jones’s emails. Their rationale, established in a subsequent internal investigation, was to determine if the Senate deliberately exploited an evident flaw in the architecture of the network to digitally acquire the Panetta Review – which they did not want the Senate to have.
It was an extreme step. After Congress overhauled the CIA in the 1970s, the agency was not supposed to spy on Americans domestically except in extremely circumscribed circumstances. Now it was turning its spywork onto the elected officials tasked with overseeing it.
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On 16 January, according to CIA documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act by Vice News’s Leopold, the agency called upon a digital unit called the Cyber Blue Team, which hunts for vulnerabilities in agency networks. The next day – the day Feinstein put her refusal to join an inquiry into her staff in writing to Brennan – Cyber Blue Team reviewed “forensically reconstructed emails” between Senate staffers only accessible on their side of RDINet. The team prepared a report that same day assessing the Senate use of the network, delivering it to “senior agency leadership” on 21 January.
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
QuoteThe director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, issued an extraordinary apology to leaders of the US Senate intelligence committee on Thursday, conceding that the agency employees spied on committee staff and reversing months of furious and public denials.
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You guys trust your intelligence agencies to be truthful and follow the law. How cute.
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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.
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5 hours ago, Granny Danger said:
I don't know what "beefed with a rapper" means and it's nothing to do with me being desensitised to the current world situation.
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7 hours ago, JamieThomas said:
Back to the days of the Great Chinese Famine in Beijing because some c**t who hit number 47 in the album charts in 2001 has a fucking barbecue on sale.
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?
8 hours ago, mjw said:In your face China?
Will they be shooting Trumps MAGA garments out of the sky as well?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.
6 hours ago, Baxter Parp said:Most popular politician in US is a Jewish socialist. We live in interesting times.
His polls are all over the place. Politico just had one that put his favorable rating at 52%.
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8 hours ago, RussellAnderson said:
It's all very well saying that when you aren't the target. I'm assuming you are white, so correct me if I'm wrong.
Racial hatred is a backward step, not a forward one. Ditto with homophobia, transphobia, sexism.
I won't tolerate it.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.
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On 3/12/2017 at 16:01, 1320Lichtie said:
Won't last if this keeps up. Americans don't back losing teams.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.
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3 hours ago, mjw said:
What about these wiretaps?
More than the never trumpers losing their minds by the look of things.Not sure. Why were the Guardian and BBC reporting it and Democrat politicians like Hillary Clinton hinting about it before Trump ever said anything?
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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.
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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.
1 hour ago, mjw said:Some rally this he is having in Nashville.
Toys out the pram because he can't get his own way.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.
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17 minutes ago, kilbowie2002 said:
Thank you for the quote linked to a bizarre story I have no interest in. Have a lovely day.http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/20/is-trump-trolling-the-white-house-press-corps
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45 minutes ago, Shades75 said:
Trump is sooooooo last week.
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?
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19 minutes ago, kilbowie2002 said:
Oh sorry we've got interesting stuff happening over here now we dont care anymore, you can f**k off now. Thanks for filling the gaps.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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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23 hours ago, Baxter Parp said:
Life Expectancy UK 80.54
Life Expectancy US 79.68
And our healthcare is free at the point of service. Imagine.
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.
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12 hours ago, ThatBoyRonaldo said:
The NHS in Scotland does a very good job - there are a large number of things we are absolute world leaders on.
However ultimately it doesn't matter how good your *health system* is if the basic structure of society is saddling people with reduced life chances from the off. Even a world-class hospital isn't going to fix health problems whose root causes are in a broken society. The US *healthcare system* is by all accounts pretty effective, in the sense that it's an attractive place for doctors to work, hospitals are generally well resourced etc. But ultimately if you're from a poor black family in (say) Flint, even if you have health insurance you're probably worse off in terms of healthcare than someone else living in equivalent conditions here in the UK (not to mention paying more).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.
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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.
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4 minutes ago, pandarilla said:
There will be rates that we compare better and some we don't.
But we all know that you will get the best shot here no matter your background (to as close an extent as is possible).
I've got quite severe crohns disease (diagnosed at 11) and would be absolutely fucked in the states. I'm on an injection that when I started on it a few years ago cost around 800 quid per pop. I've been on one a week for the last few years and it's worked brilliantly.
Pre existing condition. f**k off.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.
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12 hours ago, Cerberus said:
I would like to see ACA directed towards something like German healthcare.
Universal health care will happen one day, Republicans and Democrats want it but drug companies and insurance companies need to be reigned in from charging and doing whatever they want.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.
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26 minutes ago, pandarilla said:
Whatever fucked up propaganda has been perpetuated in the states - it's worked very well.
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.
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The Official Former President Trump thread
in The Politics Forum
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They should be the money men, paying instead of providing soldiers.