The Next President of the United States

[Woodsey]

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[DMorgan]

Well, the world didn't end with a Trump victory. So what happens now? How many of his flagship policies will actually happen and how many will be consigned to the dustbin with the £350m for the NHS?

Whether by accident or by design he has a pretty broad range of avenues to pursue his policy goals since he rarely address how he was actually going to achieve them and when he did he would flip flop and usually outright deny saying the first thing despite the footage being there for all to see.

I guess I'm in denial because I still just don't see Trumps immigration enforcement team forcibly removing immigrants from schools and workplaces, but the markets are not.



The biggest stock riser is the largest provider of private prisons and immigration detention centres

[Marky147]

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[Jon MW]

Generally things seemed pro weed/ pro capital punishment/ pro republican and pro min wage increases?

Did I miss any issue that was heavily voted on?

How weird is all this too. Florida vote on GM mosquito release

I changed the link to make it easier to see what it relates to if people can't be bothered to click the link.

I'm not sure if it made it onto the ballot paper in the end, but I mentioned your post to my fiancee as she's studied this on her degree. She tells me one of her professor's has actually done this trial in Africa and it was broadly a success, so there's plenty of reason to try further tests to see if it'll work. As a side note she said that her professor spent a lot of the lecture explaining how hard it is to bring mosquitos through customs

[rfgqqabc]

Generally things seemed pro weed/ pro capital punishment/ pro republican and pro min wage increases?

Did I miss any issue that was heavily voted on?

How weird is all this too. Florida vote on GM mosquito release

I changed the link to make it easier to see what it relates to if people can't be bothered to click the link.

I'm not sure if it made it onto the ballot paper in the end, but I mentioned your post to my fiancee as she's studied this on her degree. She tells me one of her professor's has actually done this trial in Africa and it was broadly a success, so there's plenty of reason to try further tests to see if it'll work. As a side note she said that her professor spent a lot of the lecture explaining how hard it is to bring mosquitos through customs

I actually spent an hour or so reading about this last night. Would your fiaancee have voted in favour?  From what i read it seems like a bit of a no brainer but i do feel a bit of personal discomfort at thw thought of humans playing god. It might only take one big mistake to cause real problems, not that it really matters now when they have been tested 5 times. The arguments about which part of government deals with it is kinda funny.

 Thanks for the link correction,  posting from mobile isn't the greatest.

What are people's thoughts on climate change? Read a lot today about how Trump might really affect previous agreements and this could really set the world back. America has been a stumbling block for a while and heading in the wrong direction here sends put a lot of bad signals globally.

[Karabiner]

Generally things seemed pro weed/ pro capital punishment/ pro republican and pro min wage increases?

Did I miss any issue that was heavily voted on?

How weird is all this too. Florida vote on GM mosquito release

I changed the link to make it easier to see what it relates to if people can't be bothered to click the link.

I'm not sure if it made it onto the ballot paper in the end, but I mentioned your post to my fiancee as she's studied this on her degree. She tells me one of her professor's has actually done this trial in Africa and it was broadly a success, so there's plenty of reason to try further tests to see if it'll work. As a side note she said that her professor spent a lot of the lecture explaining how hard it is to bring mosquitos through customs

Isn't about time you made an honest woman of your fiancee, have you named the day yet and are the blonde community invited to the wedding?

[Woodsey]

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[Redsgirl]

Ooh,  it's all going on here.
People are out in force protesting, there are more police than you could ever imagine one city could have, helicopters circling,  sirens galore and they just rolled out a water cannon! 

[Woodsey]

Ooh,  it's all going on here.
People are out in force protesting, there are more police than you could ever imagine one city could have, helicopters circling,  sirens galore and they just rolled out a water cannon! 

As I said a lot of parallels with Brexit, these are the US remoaners out in force.....

[MintTrav]

Mint she is guilty of similar offences to Snowden no? She was careless handling classified information, she was found to have no intent and not be "innocent" as it were.

Yeah, she is the same as Snowden, who stole government information he was not authorised to have and passed it on to journalists, with no regard for the consequences, deliberately undermining international relations and quite likely leading to deaths, while she held government information potentially insecurely, and co-operated fully with the FBI investigation, which found nothing criminal occurred and there was no evidence that anyone got hold of any information they shouldn't have.

So her situation is just like Snowden's, except in every way possible.

[rfgqqabc]

Would her use of the server not come under "unauthorised communication of national defence information"? I struggle to see how Comey can say without intent if no offence bad been committed?

I did use similar and a question mark because I wasn't sure and the case is still open.

[MintTrav]

Yeah, maybe. My point is that she was careless with information, rather than setting out to do something wrong.

Trump's threat seemed more aimed at fraud of some kind, possibly through the Clinton Foundation, which there is no evidence of.

[MintTrav]

Donald Trump's mother was British? Proper British, born and bred (not some American second-generation pretend-British), emigrating to the US at eighteen.

How did I not know that?

[tikay]

Ooh,  it's all going on here.
People are out in force protesting, there are more police than you could ever imagine one city could have, helicopters circling,  sirens galore and they just rolled out a water cannon! 

Do be careful.

Make sure you are back in the hotel before it gets dark, wear a vest, & have a spoonful of cod liver oil & malt before you go to bed.

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[tikay]

Mint she is guilty of similar offences to Snowden no? She was careless handling classified information, she was found to have no intent and not be "innocent" as it were.

Yeah, she is the same as Snowden, who stole government information he was not authorised to have and passed it on to journalists, with no regard for the consequences, deliberately undermining international relations and quite likely leading to deaths, while she held government information potentially insecurely, and co-operated fully with the FBI investigation, which found nothing criminal occurred and there was no evidence that anyone got hold of any information they shouldn't have.

So her situation is just like Snowden's, except in every way possible.

I'm currently reading "The Snowden Files", a book about the whole Snowden thing. Proper good read it is, too.

I'm just over half way through, & so don't know if he gets arrested, killed, sent to prison for life, holed up in a Foreign Embassy somewhere, or meets a beautiful young lady, gets married & lives happily ever after.
 
NO SPOILERS PLEASE.