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horncyclist

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  1. Well, time to cancel the SpaceX commercial crew program contract. If Obama was for it, it must be a mistake. In other news, USA! USA! USA!. Hell yeah, back to space. Edit to add that it's sad that it's an ex President tweeting about our technical achievements while the president is silent, tweeting at his politcal enemies instead. This is the type of cool shit that used to unite us.
  2. Adding to my thought a second ago. I don't know there's been enough discussion on how significant this statement is in the June 3, 2016 email from Goldstone to Don. Jr: "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump - helped along by Aras and Emin." All of this in one sentence: (1) Makes clear its the Russian GOVERNMENT that is supporting Trump; (2) Suggests that as part of that they're doing shady shit to support Trump; (3) Shows that the Trump campaign, by that date at the latest, knew of such support; (4) Assumes prior knowledge by Don Jr. of such efforts by the Russian government (so they likely knew even earlier). It's incredibly damning. And we know that meeting actually took place. The email and the meeting alone are enough to prove the elements of conspiracy. What I have difficulty understanding is if it's this clear that the Trump campaign was activitely working in coordination with Russia, whether as part of an overt agreement or tacitly, why is it taking Mueller so long to move against Trump? Especially when he's continuing to act like a possible Russian agent?
  3. I'd consider that "sharing the profits." UT is certainly profiting off his likeness.
  4. Well, that and I would add his efforts to obstruct the counterintelligence probe into the continued attacks. Continued denial that there was even in any influence. This is setting aside all the meetings, roger stone/wikileaks coordination, polling data transfer, knowledge of Russia's efforts to support his candidacy (see Trump Tower meeting invitation email: "This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." ) It's all out there, but no one's doing a very good job of putting it together. My hope is that synthesis is what we get from the Mueller report. If this were any other case, any reasonable prosecutor would feel comfortable connecting the dots and bringing a case, even with just what we know publicly. And there's zero chance Mueller doesn't know more than what's been revealed publicly.
  5. Well, for the guy elected to undo everything Obama did, it was only a matter of time before he wrecked the economy: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/business/economy/jobs-report.html I haven't dug into the jobs numbers and know its just one indicator. Also, the business cycle. But Trump's policies have been a net negative on the economy in my view. And by exploding the deficit with a premature and ineffective tax cut to the rich stimulus, he's made it difficult to respond to a slowing economy.
  6. This is a nice statement of where we are:
  7. There's no reason why schools can't share more of the profits with students. Increase the stipends, create a fund that you receive at the end of your playing time-- can be used for grad school or whatever you want, or maybe some cash and some guaranteed grad school tuition. When their coaches are making millions a year, these players are getting screwed.
  8. Yeah, but did that guy live an otherwise blameless life?
  9. Happening now. Here's a livetweet from the court room.
  10. I'm not sure. I just want it to be over. In other news, I saw George Conway at a deposition today. He seemed chipper.
  11. If Trump pardons Manafort after Manafort got caught lying about matters at the "heart" of the Russia investigation, that should be it right? Can I even hope?
  12. Scott Gottlieb resigns. Probably the most reasonable and competent person in the Trump administrator. I think that might be Rick Perry now? God help us. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/scott-gottlieb-resigns-fda.html
  13. Going to have to veto resolution ending his national emergency. I'm hoping more republicans grow a spine and jump on board to send a message.
  14. This is true too. There's a certain amount of despondency and learned helplessness in the would be electorate. Plus all the voter suppression. There are many reasons people don't vote.
  15. Give it time. We're testing that.
  16. Was it the pee tape or the hitting Melania elevator video that the Cohen house testimony focused on? I had the same thought as Cohen was saying he didn't believe the President would do something like that. If that's the case, then why do you spend all this effort trying to catch and kill the tape that cannot exist?
  17. Looks like MTP maybe tweets as they're recording it? Saw some clips on MTP twitter. Jordan also denies Trump has lied about Russia apparently. And why can't he wear a fucking jacket?
  18. 46% approval rating. Jesus fucking christ we're fucked.
  19. Yang explains this. Repetitive cognitive tasks are much easier to automate than difficult physical tasks here there's a lot more variability. It would be very hard to make a robot that could repair an airconditioner but you can train AI to read xrays, write articles, conduct legal research.
  20. This is what a political world without facts looks like: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/01/trump-deficit-democrats-1198671 I honestly don't know how to respond to the complete disregard of truth and intellectual honesty within the GOP, and I don't know if Democrats do. They're going to run on a platform of stopping the invasion of ms13 Muslim terrorists, democratic baby murderers and now fiscal responsibility after wildly driving up deficits for two years. All fictions.
  21. And about 40% continue to support him. Think about that.
  22. My favorite part of this is Tucker says " why isn't anyone else talking about this and instead talking about issues that don't really matter" and then for the next segment he turns to the camera and says "MS-13...."
  23. I'm still waiting for a response to the 11-year old raped by a 65-year old who wants to "get out what he put inside [her.]" How do you defend forcing such cruelty on a child?
  24. No response to that article I posted? Prolifers, what say you?
  25. Still liking Warren-Beto this afternoon. That'd set us up for a nice 16 year run of competency, ideas and inspiration.
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