Milo and POTUS posted:

I think we can at least all agree on this

egyptian rat race posted:

Not only that, but isn't the fat gently caress billing a ton of this to his own companies?

Milo and POTUS posted:

"He's a good businessman"

loving over the government at taxpayer expense is viagra to these people

Proud Christian Mom posted:

BUT HE DOESN'T EVEN TAKE A PAYCHECK

FrozenVent posted:

Do we have any evidence he’s kept donating his pay check back to the government?

EBB posted:

one last thing: abusing the report system to snipe at people silently wastes my time which is about the fastest way to make me angry

Hot Karl Marx posted:

https://twitter.com/curaffairs/status/1098694954870890496

Nick Soapdish posted:

Death panels but for real (government run this time not like the current private ones)

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The society's "journal" JPANDS has published an article on the supposed link between breast cancer and abortion.[44] It has been roundly debunked.[45][46][47] Near the end of the 2008 Presidential Election the "journal" published a claim that Barack Obama uses neuro-linguistic programming to exercise mind control over people at his rallies.[48]

On their website, former AAPS president Dr. Lawrence Huntoon describes peer review boards which review complaints against doctors as "an insidious and spreading evil which threatens to destroy not only the integrity of the medical profession but quality care for all patients."

Vasudus posted:

I for one can't wait for the inevitable combination of racism and misogyny that would happen if Harris gets the presidency. My uncle is going to be like Who Framed Roger Rabbit waiting for the perfect opportunity to scream.

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1098606527924064256

Not having archivists seems more like a future DJT move since his Presidential Library will just be another grift

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Speaking as a historian: No me gusta.

Viva Miriya posted:

Ahh yes, one of my wayward children Kramer'd in here with a galaxy weedbrain take. Lol stop with this poo poo mad cows.

McNally posted:

You don't get to talk until you translate that last post from whatever moronese dialect you wrote it in into something the rest of us can parse.

Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

I love it when posters ITT and Ann Coulter basically offer the same takes

MaxPowers posted:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuuB6h3C37o

that combat roll!

MaxPowers posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuuB6h3C37o

that combat roll!

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Syrian Lannister posted:

Peter Tork from the Monkees died.

Stultus Maximus posted:

Finally, news I care about.

I fuckin' love the Monkees and I don't care who knows.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Godholio posted:

Watching their dumbass show in syndication was an awesome part of my childhood that I almost never think about. They made some good poo poo.

orange juche posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaBQfSAVt0s

orange juche posted:

What's doubly funny is that the EU derives almost 20% of its annual budget from the UK. If the UK is absolutely hell bent on stepping on the rake of history, and killing itself, it will wind up taking the EU with it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/316691/european-union-eu-budget-share-of-contributions/

orange juche posted:

What's doubly funny is that the EU derives almost 20% of its annual budget from the UK. If the UK is absolutely hell bent on stepping on the rake of history, and killing itself, it will wind up taking the EU with it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/316691/european-union-eu-budget-share-of-contributions/

Milo and POTUS posted:

Putin has to be rock hard at this point

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Adam B. Schiff, a Democrat, represents California’s 28th Congressional District in the House and is chairman of the Intelligence Committee.

This is a moment of great peril for our democracy. Our country is deeply divided. Our national discourse has become coarse, indeed, poisonous. Disunity and dysfunction have paralyzed Congress.

And while our attention is focused inward, the world spins on, new authoritarian regimes are born, old rivals spread their pernicious ideologies, and the space for freedom-loving peoples begins to contract violently. At last week’s Munich Security Conference, the prevailing sentiment among our closest allies is that the United States can no longer be counted on to champion liberal democracy or defend the world order we built.

For the past two years, we have examined Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and its attempts to influence the 2018 midterms. Moscow’s effort to undermine our democracy was spectacularly successful in inflaming racial, ethnic and other divides in our society and turning American against American.

But the attack on our democracy had its limits. Russian President Vladimir Putin could not lead us to distrust our own intelligence agencies or the FBI. He could not cause us to view our own free press as an enemy of the people. He could not undermine the independence of the Justice Department or denigrate judges. Only we could do that to ourselves. Although many forces have contributed to the decline in public confidence in our institutions, one force stands out as an accelerant, like gas on a fire. And try as some of us might to avoid invoking the arsonist’s name, we must say it.

I speak, of course, of our president, Donald Trump.

The president has just declared a national emergency to subvert the will of Congress and appropriate billions of dollars for a border wall that Congress has explicitly refused to fund. Whether you support the border wall or oppose it, you should be deeply troubled by the president’s intent to obtain it through a plainly unconstitutional abuse of power.

To my Republican colleagues: When the president attacked the independence of the Justice Department by intervening in a case in which he is implicated, you did not speak out. When he attacked the press as the enemy of the people, you again were silent. When he targeted the judiciary, labeling judges and decisions he didn’t like as illegitimate, we heard not a word. And now he comes for Congress, the first branch of government, seeking to strip it of its greatest power, that of the purse.

Many of you have acknowledged your deep misgivings about the president in quiet conversations over the past two years. You have bemoaned his lack of decency, character and integrity. You have deplored his fundamental inability to tell the truth. But for reasons that are all too easy to comprehend, you have chosen to keep your misgivings and your rising alarm private.

That must end. The time for silent disagreement is over. You must speak out.

This will require courage. The president is popular among your base, which revels in his vindictive and personal attacks on members of his own party, even giants such as the late senator John McCain. Speaking up risks a primary challenge or accusations of disloyalty. But such acts of independence are the most profound demonstrations of loyalty to country.

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III may soon conclude his investigation and report. Depending on what is in that report and what we find in our own investigations, our nation may face an even greater challenge. While I am alarmed at what we have already seen and found of the president’s conduct and that of his campaign, I continue to reserve judgment about what consequences should flow from our eventual findings. I ask you to do the same.

If we cannot rise to the defense of our democracy now, in the face of a plainly unconstitutional aggrandizement of presidential power, what hope can we have that we will do so with the far greater decisions that could be yet to come?

Although these times pose unprecedented challenges, we have been through worse. The divisions during the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement were just as grave and far more deadly. The Depression and World War II were far more consequential. And nothing can compare to the searing experience of the Civil War.

If Abraham Lincoln, the father of the Republican Party, could be hopeful that our bonds of affection would be strained but not broken by a war that pitted brother against brother, surely America can come together once more. But as long as we must endure the present trial, history compels us to speak, and act, our conscience, Republicans and Democrats alike.

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China wants to make the country’s Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group, more subservient to the Communist Party. It has detained up to a million people in what China calls “re-education” camps, drawing condemnation from human rights groups and a threat of sanctions from the Trump administration.

Collecting genetic material is a key part of China’s campaign, according to human rights groups and Uighur activists. They say a comprehensive DNA database could be used to chase down any Uighurs who resist conforming to the campaign.

Police forces in the United States and elsewhere use genetic material from family members to find suspects and solve crimes. Chinese officials, who are building a broad nationwide database of DNA samples, have cited the crime-fighting benefits of China’s own genetic studies.

To bolster their DNA capabilities, scientists affiliated with China’s police used equipment made by Thermo Fisher, a Massachusetts company. For comparison with Uighur DNA, they also relied on genetic material from people around the world that was provided by Kenneth Kidd, a prominent Yale University geneticist.

On Wednesday, Thermo Fisher said it would no longer sell its equipment in Xinjiang, the part of China where the campaign to track Uighurs is mostly taking place. The company said separately in an earlier statement to The New York Times that it was working with American officials to figure out how its technology was being used.

BigDave posted:

Chinese Communist Party is conducting DNA surveillance using American technology and researchers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-uighur-dna-thermo-fisher.html