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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#175551: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:48:49 PM

"Exclusive - Trump wants to expand U.S. nuclear arsenal, make it 'top of the pack': Reuters interview" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-exclusive-idUSKBN1622IF

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#175552: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:49:09 PM

Seems more like Cali is close to move in either direction, there. Not sure how congruent it is with Wikipedia's population data, though.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#175553: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:50:41 PM

[up][up] Which would involve getting in another dick measuring contest with Russia, who currently has the biggest stockpile of nukes in the world...

Kayeka (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#175554: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:55:01 PM

[up][up][up]Doesn't that violate several treaties?

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#175555: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:55:57 PM

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/john-boehner-obamacare-republicans-235303

Boehner: Republicans won't repeal and replace Obamacare
He says talk in November about lightning-fast passage of a new health care framework was wildly optimistic.

You know, I have to honestly wonder why the Republicans have such a hard-on for repealing the Affordable Care Act. They're insistence on it as it looks more and more to be more trouble than it's worth has to be something more than "OBAMA BAD!" doesn't it?

edited 23rd Feb '17 12:58:16 PM by sgamer82

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#175556: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:56:30 PM

And the prize for the most predictable political revelation goes to...

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#175557: Feb 23rd 2017 at 12:58:14 PM

[up][up][up] Apparently being the president makes you immune to punishment for doing blatantly illegal shit. He would have been thrown in jail long ago if that weren't the case.

edited 23rd Feb '17 12:58:23 PM by Bat178

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#175559: Feb 23rd 2017 at 1:02:15 PM

So says the party of states rights

Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#175560: Feb 23rd 2017 at 1:03:24 PM

[up][up] So you can't even get high to get your mind away from politics anymore...

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#175561: Feb 23rd 2017 at 1:05:13 PM

@Nukes, Trump has already indicated in a conversation with Putin that he wanted to annul the strategic arms reduction treaties.

AlleyOop Since: Oct, 2010
#175562: Feb 23rd 2017 at 1:17:00 PM

Is Boehner just saying that because he's no longer House Speaker?

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#175563: Feb 23rd 2017 at 1:18:00 PM

I suspect so.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#175564: Feb 23rd 2017 at 1:21:27 PM

But the USA has the best already. What more does he want?

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vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#175565: Feb 23rd 2017 at 1:29:30 PM

To Trump the win doesn't matter, it's the margin of victory that does.

TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
Falrinn Since: Dec, 2014
#175567: Feb 23rd 2017 at 1:41:39 PM

[up][up][up] Trump just wants the biggest nuclear dick on the planet. There is no rational reason.

There's not really any logic to having more then a few hundred nukes when it comes down to it, especially if they are mounted to ICMB's or submarine-launched. If we already have enough nukes to turn every population center in, for example, China to radioactive ash, how many nukes we have after doing so isn't going to enter into their decision making.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#175568: Feb 23rd 2017 at 2:06:03 PM

I was waiting for Trump to prove that he didn't really care about Marijuana or the people that suffer due to medical Marijuana being illegal in their states, as well as those who have been incarcerated over a plant.

How exactly would they "take action" against states that have already legalized it?

You'd think that the guy who is supposed to know so much about economics would appreciate how much legal tax revenue has been generated in states with legal Marijuana. But no, gotta keep that bigoted and failed War on Drugs going!

edited 23rd Feb '17 2:06:42 PM by BearyScary

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CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#175569: Feb 23rd 2017 at 2:18:19 PM

Marijuana is evil is kind of a conservative dogma. Something to do with blah blah moral decay. Anyway, challenging a recriminalization of marijuana is a potential catch-22.
The states can only legalize marijuana because the federal officials would not enforce the ban (under President Obama). All the new AG would have to do is issue a new memo, saying "go after 'em."

There are several ways to challenge such a decision in court but that's a dangerous route. One of the leading commerce clause cases also hinged on a state allowing marijuana while it was banned under federal law, and if it were reversed or "distinguished", the commerce clause gets a hole blown in it, along with the entire regulatory state.
That would make Justice Thomas happy but no one sane.

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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#175570: Feb 23rd 2017 at 2:44:57 PM

I find codeine much more fun, anyway.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#175571: Feb 23rd 2017 at 2:49:25 PM

Or you can ask Congress to keep or expand the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment. Given the bill that the border wall is going to have, somewhere costs need to be cut.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#175572: Feb 23rd 2017 at 3:00:22 PM

A group of religious leaders is apparently setting up an underground network to hide undocumented immigrants from ICE.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/us/california-immigrant-safe-houses/index.html?adkey=bn

Not sure if going public is the best move here. And this could end really poorly.

Also, Trump is calling his deportation program a "military operation".

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/donald-trump-deportation-military/index.html

While this isn't true, its pretty scary when you consider what his mindset is.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#175573: Feb 23rd 2017 at 3:08:34 PM

I like the sound of "religious leaders". House them in churches. Churches are meant to be a holy sanctuary. By Christian doctrine, you aren't allowed to forcibly remove a person from them. So long as they're within Christ's hallowed walls, they're safe.

This will not stop Trump but imagine the damage it will do to his approval ratings among the neoconservative fanbase with when photos and videos of militarized police tearing people out of churches hits the internet.

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sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#175574: Feb 23rd 2017 at 3:09:07 PM

[up][up] Have we really gotten so far into the civil war comparisons that we're getting an analogue to the Underground Railroad now?

edited 23rd Feb '17 3:09:14 PM by sgamer82

StarOutlaw Since: Nov, 2010
#175575: Feb 23rd 2017 at 3:11:17 PM

The war on drugs, or at least making marijuana illegal, was just an excuse to jail hippies, lefties, and minorities back in the 60s, right? Because those groups used it so much, it made them easy to target and a way to put them in prison since all their protesting was protected by the constitution.


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