Random Politics & Arguments Over Nothing #16

This isn't a good term for it. Everyone thinks they are hacking the polling machines when really it is just refering to them hacking the emails.

If we are going to go that route, then you have done the exact same thing.

I say that because I have as much evidence as you do.

Zero chance of this happening. Even if I re-enabled it globally someday in a fit of idiocy, yours stays off forever, just because you whine about it so much.

If you really want to put someone's ego ahead of Donald Trump's on the ladder, then maybe you need to admit that you're just rooting for laundry at this point

Yet neither Clinton is in prison for anything, and it doesn't stop you from maligning them.

And there's evidence Trump has abused his own charity...

I am far, far too poor to pay anyone off for anything.

Will you believe it when it comes directly from the god-emperor himself?

That's like having witnesses watching a murder take place, but then you saying the murderer is innocent because a trial never occurred and the murder was never prosecuted.

For someone who's refused to vote for trump you sure are a staunch defender now and quite the supporter of his magnificence...

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Mmmm, that's kinda how the justice system works here.

I'm still waiting to hear from you on why you think that woman is a more credible source than anyone on allepo...

with people who are used to being politically incorrect and honest with each other.

Also, if Hillary were subject to the same justice system as us lowly peons then we wouldn't be having this discussion.

If Donald were subject to the same justice system he'd...

...oh wait. Rich people have always gotten away with sexual assault. Never mind.

Good troll attempt.

I give it a 6/10, the execution could be a little better.

You also lost points for not calling me a racist.

How is it trolling? You didn't vote for him... you clearly said he was a shitty candidate... now you defend him at every turn and call some of his moves quite calculated and great lol...

Is this one of those things where you just call troll to call troll and then move on because you have nothing better to say?

Sorry for the long reply, because she went to Aleppo 4 times, 6 times in Syria in total on her own independent journalism. Interviews among other things detailing the thoughts, along with going up to the UN herself denouncing the corporate media. Basically she went herself, and she has proof that this isn't the case.

This isn't about supporting anyone directly, it's about supporting someone to attack ideas and concepts that he believes negatively effect him personally.

I'm pretty sure Clinton is still going to be prosecuted

Reuters

China's military has carried out its first ever live-fire drills using an aircraft carrier and fighters in the northeastern Bohai Sea close to Korea, state media said.

China's growing military presence in the disputed South China Sea has fueled concern, with the United States criticizing its militarization of maritime outposts and holding regular air and naval patrols to ensure freedom of navigation.

No other country has claims in China's busy waterway of the Bohai Sea, but the drills come amid new tension over self-ruled Taiwan, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's recent telephone call with the island's president that upset Beijing.

Ten vessels and 10 aircraft engaged in air-to-air, air-to-sea and sea-to-air combat drills that featured guided missiles, state broadcaster Chinese Central Television reported late on Thursday.

"This is the first time an aircraft carrier squadron has performed drills with live ammunition and real troops," it said.

China's Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier and a formation of warships carried out aerial interception, anti-aircraft and anti-missile drills, in which Shenyang J-15 fighter jets carrying live missiles also participated, CCTV said.

It broadcast images of fighter jets taking off from the carrier, firing missiles and destroying a target at sea.

The Liaoning has participated in previous military exercises, including some in the South China Sea, but the country is still years off from perfecting carrier operations similar to those the United States has practiced for decades.

On Wednesday, a U.S. think tank said China had been installing anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems on artificial islands in the South China Sea, prompting China to defend its right to install military hardware there.

China's exercises aim to test the equipment and troop training levels, an unidentified navy official told the official China News Service.

Last December the Defence Ministry confirmed China was building a second aircraft carrier to go with the existing vessel, but its launch date is unclear.

China keeps its aircraft carrier program a state secret, and CCTV blurred images showing the cockpit instrument panel of one aircraft involved in the Bohai Sea drills.

Beijing could build multiple aircraft carriers over the next 15 years, the Pentagon said in a report last year.

China's successful operation of the Liaoning is the first step in what state media and some military experts believe will be the deployment of domestically built carriers by 2020.

That is to say, he's doing exactly what all the "sensible, rational, right wing thinkers" here do; ignore that they're exactly the same as everyone on the left they decry.

No chance, for a couple of reasons.

- Team Clinton seems content to slink back and lick its wounds for the time being. Dragging this back to the forefront will just inspire them to cause more ruckus. And before you can say, "so what, we ain't scurred of them", they are still very rich and very influential - they can do quite a bit of damage if they think their backs are against the wall.

- Establishing a precedent of prosecuting opponents is not one The Donald should want to set for what I assume are obvious enough reasons.

He has precisely nothing to gain by that sort of thing going forward, and quite a bit to lose at this point, so even if there are elements that want to do so, I expect he'd put the kibosh on it.

WaPo (Paywall)

President Obama said the United States will retaliate against Russia over its malicious cyberactivity during this year's election, in an interview that will air Friday on NPR.

“I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections . . . we need to take action,” the president said. “And we will — at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be.”

The president did not comment on last week's Washington Post report, that was later confirmed by other outlets, that the CIA has concluded with high confidence that Russia intervened in the election specifically to help Donald Trump win the White House. Seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies publicly announced in October that they had concluded the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta was undertaken by hackers working for Russia.

Speaking to “Morning Edition” host Steve Inskeep, Obama said “there are still a whole range of assessments taking place among the agencies,” and he is waiting for the report on cyberattacks he has ordered to be delivered by Jan. 20.

“And so when I receive a final report, you know, we'll be able to, I think, give us a comprehensive and best guess as to those motivations,” Obama said. “But that does not in any way, I think, detract from the basic point that everyone during the election perceived accurately — that in fact what the Russian hack had done was create more problems for the Clinton campaign than it had for the Trump campaign.”

“There's no doubt that it contributed to an atmosphere in which the only focus for weeks at a time, months at a time were Hillary's emails, the Clinton Foundation, political gossip surrounding the DNC,” he added.