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You obviously have no fucking clue on the history of US-Saudi relations (I'm not surprised, you're fucking clueless on damn near everything). Newsflash, the US has been happily selling them weapons for the last 60 years so that they can oppress their own people and wage proxy wars on all their neig...

And then they cut up his body and shipped it back to the Kingdom, if Turkish sources are correct. This whole affair is a new low and really quite despicable in its barbarism. Apparently the crown prince wants his critics heads on pikes, quite literally it would seem. The moral bankruptcy of the curr...

The destruction inland is also quite significant as the storm maintained its power far into Georgia. Not much on national outlets about the inland damage yet but between the last two hurricanes the Carolinas have gotten really hammered by flooding and now wind. I'd put the odds at least 50% that I c...

Well the outcome of Kavanaugh being appointed was pretty much assured at the beginning of this process. We just got another lesson on how screwed up our political discourse is in the meantime. We can now look forward to decades of republican party rule here in the US. With the court on their side we...

The true colors of Kavanaugh were certainly revealed today and I'm not talking about the sexual assault testimony. His response is certainly telling. He goes on a diatribe spinning a tale about left wing conspiracies out to get him. So much for any pretext of being an impartial arbiter. Taking the h...

So, why are people acting like this specifically is some sort of outrage? Trump presumably knows whether he colluded with Russia and he's already repeatedly said that he didn't. At this point you can't make a claim like that without saying that the FBI and company are lying/delusional and unreliabl...

After the Helsinki fiasco I wonder if anyone in the Intel community will offer their resignation seeing as Trump told the world he believes Putin more than them. I don't see how you could keep working for the executive after that if you had any integrity. Even more ridiculous after the indictment of...

It's a small thing, but Paul Ryan has zero influence on a judicial nomination. Confirming Presidential appointees is the domain of the Senate alone. You are correct. Which does not prevent Ryan and McConnell from conniving, of course, but the decision power will ultimately rest with the Senate. The...

Once the next cuckoo land Federalist Society justice is appointed we're fucked. I expect abortion rights to not last the year and that's just the tip of the iceberg. A wide range of environmental laws, economic regulation and civil rights legislation will also be shitcanned in short order. If you th...

Another reason why immigration and border guards are almost always the worst type of bureaucrats. Self important little men who hold a lot of power over others.

It seems everyone in the world wants to roll back the clock to when everyone got into nationalist dick measuring contests over trade and everything else. Since that worked out so well in the 20th century. Christ neoliberalism kinda sucks but it looks like my dear old boss Trump wants to go back to t...

Trump's just testing the water so that when his lawyer I mean bagman is indicted he'll be immediately pardoned and no one will react.

There is no treaty, true. That is irrelevant since for several decades now presidents make all foreign policy decisions that count. How many different wars are we in now based on that single authorization after 9-11? I don't recall congress declaring any for quite awhile even before that. Congress's...

This "woman" should be up against the wall, not up for a posting . Agreed. Being intimately involved in a torture program is officially a good career move in today's US government. The new director is also heavily responsible for deleting the tapes if the torture that were produced. Frank...

This is why it sucks to be a mercenary sometimes. They are used because they can die and no one will give a damn. Meanwhile the Syrian civil war just enters another phase with no end in sight. I gotta wonder what the US plan is. Occupy parts of syria forever? Leave in a month and let Turkey attempt ...

To be clear, are the charges related to the open-air standoff in or near the Bundys' ranch (translation: area in which they hunt feral cattle formerly owned by their rancher ancestors)? Or are they related to the armed occupation of a site on... Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, now that I remember...

What we really need to take from this is there are serious problems at the FBI. You don't get a case dismissed like this without breathtaking misconduct. This combined with one of their supposedly most elite agents getting busted for covering up firing his weapon during the Oregon case is telling. T...

The outcome here depends a lot on the fuel type and terrain this take place in. Being on a flat plain with three foot grass on a paved road is way different from being in mountainous terrain with mixed conifers on a two track dirt road. Also a wildfire can be everything from 6 inch flame lengths in ...

Slate and most other sources seem to be throwing out the figure of 15500 for the number of trans people likely in the military. (Posting from the phone, sorry for lack of links.) Certainly not an insignificant number. Trump isn't happy with clamoring for banana republic style government he insists o...

The whole rationale behind MAD was that neither the US nor USSR really wanted a war and both feared accidentally triggering one. That's why it worked - both sides wanted peace (in the sense of not a direct war between them) even if they were enemies and often in conflict. The problem is that North ...

The amount of hyperventilating that comes from these tests in Washington is hard to countenance. It's not like thousands of warheads aren't already aimed at the US or anything. Living under the threat of impending doom from Russia and China is ok I guess but the possibility of a few warheads from No...

The difference? One was a fleeing terrorist . The other was a twelve year old child who's only crime was playing with a toy gun while black. I'm not saying Finicum got what was coming to him, but its a lot more understandable for the police to be trigger-happy in his case. Ambushed terrorist. You m...

I'll have to disagree that Finicum's and Rice's shootings are at all comparable. Rice was a kid playing at a park. Finicum was a militia wingnut who talked again and again about his willingness to shoot it out with police. He then fled a felony motor vehicle stop at a high rate of speed before almo...

I'll have to disagree that Finicum's and Rice's shootings are at all comparable. Rice was a kid playing at a park. Finicum was a militia wingnut who talked again and again about his willingness to shoot it out with police. He then fled a felony motor vehicle stop at a high rate of speed before almos...

The problem is that ISIL is so obviously terrible that it's almost impossible for people with that simplified chest-thumping concept of strategy that seems to take over politicians brains to say "Let's stay out of there instead of fighting ISIL." . True. Our entire strategy in the war on ...