All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[Kevinroc]

Trump to consider elephant trophy imports on 'case-by-case' basis

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-env...mpression=true

Cartoonishly evil.

[Kevinroc]

https://apnews.com/ed9c5b1e404a4f229...mpression=true

AP NewsBreak: Miss. Sen. Thad Cochran resigning April 1

Cochran is resigning for health related reasons.

[worstblogever]

https://apnews.com/ed9c5b1e404a4f229...mpression=true

AP NewsBreak: Miss. Sen. Thad Cochran resigning April 1

Cochran is resigning for health related reasons.

This will put another GOP seat up in November, with Roger Wicker's seat up as well. Expect any Republican looking to challenger Wicker to back out, and let the incumbent win and instead, enter an open primary for the seat to finish Cochran's term. This would make the front-runner in that race super-racist white nationalist Chris McDaniel, who if he wins the nomination, could potentially choke it away against a Democrat.

[BeastieRunner]

This will put another GOP seat up in November, with Roger Wicker's seat up as well. Expect any Republican looking to challenger Wicker to back out, and let the incumbent win and instead, enter an open primary for the seat to finish Cochran's term. This would make the front-runner in that race super-racist white nationalist Chris McDaniel, who if he wins the nomination, could potentially choke it away against a Democrat.

I believe we're officially at 40 now.

[SuperiorIronman]

Trump to consider elephant trophy imports on 'case-by-case' basis

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-env...mpression=true

Cartoonishly evil.

My feelings towards this is that the Republican fuckwits overturned it to put elephant heads in Republican offices. By all means go ahead and hunt and kill endangered species to convince us they don't have a tiny penis. Yeah lets hunt an endangered species! The pieces of shit.

[Tazirai]

Well, I hate to say it but he's the best looking candidate for any office I've ever seen.

Gus that's my dog in the race then.

[Tami]

Sam Nunberg was just on The Beat and wow. I wonder what tomorrow's headlines are going to be? Nunberg in jail for Contempt? Or Nunberg changes mind and hands over E-mails to Muller?


Will he have his immunity revoked?

[aja_christopher]

On the topic of Republicans "securing the voting process" as Mets claims is necessary -- the Republicans are so concerned about ensuring the integrity of our elections that they are doing absolutely nothing to prevent Russia from interfering in our elections again.

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"Trump and the Republicans Are AWOL on Russian Election Meddling"

"A top national security official told lawmakers on Tuesday he had not been directed by Donald Trump to disrupt Russian efforts to meddle in US elections, and that Vladimir Putin had come to the conclusion there was “little price to pay” for such actions.

Adm Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and chief of US Cyber Command, told the Senate armed services committee: “Clearly, what we’ve done hasn’t been enough.”

Asked if he had been granted the authority by Trump to counter Russian cyber-attacks at source, Rogers said: “No, I have not.”

He added: “I need a policy decision that indicates there is specific direction to do that. The president ultimately would make this decision in accordance with a recommendation from the secretary of defense.”

Trump has dismissed investigations into Russian interference in the US election – and potential collusion between Trump aides and Moscow – as a partisan exercise."

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/10/...tion-meddling/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ng-mike-rogers

[TakoM]

OOOh can I Join in?^^

Fair question. A lot of it comes down to regulations and spending. I think Democrats often want to spend money poorly, and advocate for excessive regulations.

I went into more detail in a post a few months back on why I'm not a Democrat.

I briefly read it sounds mostly like my own arguments here basically trying to regulate stuff with penalties which are entirely avoid reality. In the EU we have a rule which came 2008 about how much pollution in cities can be freely interpreted it says the air in cities must be as good as on the country side the result is this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...an-cities.html

Other thing is we are shutting down nuclear power plants building up renewable energy and the someone comes around the corner and says : Let shut down the coal-fired power station too
In short this doesn't work

Income inequality is partially the result of globalization, so a big part of it is progress in the literal sense of something that could only happen following technological and social changes.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles...ity-study-says

You can call thinking about globalization my hobby. The reason why I'm not a fan of globalization is not only because of all the risk, inequality, and money transfer there is a difference between technology advancements and globalization . You can if in times of need control technology with laws but in opposite to this globalization controls you as a nation. E.g you could theoretically tax or ban robots in factories but you can't because you are in competition with other nations through globalization. You are not master in your own house anymore.(until you are willing to do something like Trump sad but true)

Gay marriage is a relatively recent addition. No Democratic candidate for President was willing to support it in 2008.

We had something which were called :' public registered partnership' instead of calling it marriage when 2 LG partner marry because of the changes in the US some thought lets do this too.
There were some limits in the adoption right with 'public registered partnership' but in the end it was all about the word 'marriage'. The problem is really marrying can only the church and they won't do it ever, here you must also go to the bureau of vital statistics to 'marry' again in the eye of the state to make basically your ' public registered partnership'. So its kinda funny but honestly I don't care at all let them do what they want.

[InformationGeek]

Old Sarah Sanders has responded to what is going on with Nunberg with this...

“I definitely think he doesn’t know that for sure because he’s incorrect,” Sanders said. “I’ve said many times before that there was no collusion with the Trump campaign. Anything further on what his actions are, he didn’t work at the White House so I certainly can’t speak to him or lack of knowledge that he has.”

Well Nunberg has recently just hit her back.

“She’s a joke,” Nunberg said. “OK fine, yeah, she’s unattractive, she’s a fat slob, but that’s not relevant.”

“The person she works for has a 30 percent approval rating,” he continued. “If she wants to start attacking me, that’s fine. She can do that.”

He's also saying things like Roger Stone is like a surrogate dad, Muller totes won't put him in jail, says he hates Trump after minutes earlier saying he was a support, doing "WHAT ABOUT HILLARY", and he also said his lawyer won't return his calls. Can't imagine why.


Sooooooo, is he drunk or something?

[TakoM]

And massive tax cuts that benefit almost wholly the rich while ensuring the government is less equiped to mitigate the effects on the middle and lower classes only makes the inequality worse.

I did not say these tax cuts are the reason for income inequality, they are part of the problem. The are a vehicle for wealth accumulation at the very top.

Is that so hard to understand?

Globalization happened to Europe as well, yet they do not have the inequality we do. And they have a better safety net including Universal Health Care.

I'm crying about you ignorance the inequality in UK is one of the highest of the world and the southern EU nation have still an extreme high unemployment rate.
https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm

Some deeper info to the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HMs0kkUvq8

[InformationGeek]

So I got my answer. Erin Burnett, interviewing him basically said that she smelt alcohol on his breath.


To sum it all up:

[Kirby101]

I'm crying about you ignorance the inequality in UK is one of the highest of the world and the southern EU nation have still an extreme high unemployment rate.
https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm

Some deeper info to the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HMs0kkUvq8

Nope.

[TakoM]

Nope.

Can't you read it ?

[Kirby101]

Can't you read it ?

Yes, can you? Inequity is higher in the US than in Europe and Europe has a better social safety net.