Politics 2016

[Wrath of Dagon]

This is how you cook statistics:

http://nypost.com/2016/12/05/report-buried-trump-related-hate-crimes-against-white-kids/

 

And this is how you get a "97% consensus"

http://reason.com/blog/2016/12/05/the-successful-progressive-conspiracy-to

 

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/154082416051/the-non-expert-problem-and-climate-change-science

 

Edit: Sounds like plenty of fat to cut: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/06/pentagon-reportedly-buried-study-exposing-125-billion-in-waste.html

 

Edit2: More from Pielke: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/12/04/roger-pielke-jr-my-unhappy-life-as-a-climate-heretic/

Edited December 6, 2016 by Wrath of Dagon

[Wrath of Dagon]

More good news: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/retired-marine-gen-john-f-kelly-picked-to-head-department-of-homeland-security/2016/12/07/165472f2-bbe6-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?utm_term=.ebbc181a9202

[Pidesco]

I think you should have taken a page from sports gaming naming conventions when coming up with the title for this thread.

[Wrath of Dagon]

I'm not sure what you mean by that, you're welcome to change it if you think it's unsuitable, if you can.

[redneckdevil]

Mmmm I actually think due to "this" situation, Trumps pretty smart in the amount of military people he's putting in office.

[HoonDing]

I've made my peace with global nucular annihilation tbh.

 

The world needs a reset button.

[Pidesco]

I'm not sure what you mean by that, you're welcome to change it if you think it's unsuitable, if you can.

 

"Politics 2017"

 

It is, of course, ok as is.

[Guard Dog]

You know that one movie, the one that seems like it's always on every time you turn on the TV? You've seen it at least a hundred times and even liked it for the first fifty or so but now you are just tired of it? But you still catch yourself watching it even though you really don't want to? Yeah... you all know that feeling. I just got it when I signed on the WOT board and saw a new political thread. 

Edited December 7, 2016 by Guard Dog

[Malcador]

I see it as the COD of forum threads

[rjshae]

I got to thinking about Donald Trumps provocative tweets today. If had my hands on an IBM Watson and could train it to interpret Trump's stock market impacting tweets, I could then have it make quick market futures investments on the impacted stocks. It could make me a fortune, and hey, it's all legal because it's public knowledge. Amiright?

[Zoraptor]

WWE Hall of Famer Donald J Trump appoints WWE co-owner Linda McMahon as small business secretary or something. I guess there are no hard feelings from when Trump shaved her husband's hair or from when a WWE employee brutally assaulted Trump on live TV with no repercussions. If only he'd taken my advice and gone for Terry Bollea as vice president as well.

[Wrath of Dagon]

More good news, H2B visa program quadrupling to end: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/07/ryan-ends-h2b-expansion/

[Leferd]

Godspeed, John Glenn.

 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/john-glenn-dies.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=

 

A fine American with the right stuff.

[Guard Dog]

Godspeed, John Glenn.

 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/john-glenn-dies.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=

 

A fine American with the right stuff.

One of my heroes. 

[Meshugger]

Godspeed, John Glenn.

 

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/john-glenn-dies.html?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=

 

A fine American with the right stuff.

 

See you in the stars, space cowboy. You were the archetype, along with Gagarin, of what every boy dreamed about being an astronaut

[Barothmuk]

 

 

President-elect Donald Trump is weighing naming as Food and Drug Administration commissioner a staunch libertarian who has called for eliminating the agency’s mandate to determine whether new medicines are effective before approving them for sale.

“Let people start using them, at their own risk,” the candidate, Jim O’Neill, said in a 2014 speech to a biotech group.

 

O’Neill has also called for paying organ donors and setting up libertarian societies at sea — and has said he was surprised to discover that FDA regulators actually enjoy science and like working to fight disease.

 

...

 

O’Neill has also said that organ donors should be allowed to be paid. “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused,” he said in a speech at a 2009 Seasteading conference.

 

source

I for one look forward to being an organbag in our upcoming Bioshock cyberpunk dystopia.

[Malcador]

Ah yes the "**** you I got mine" kind of libertarian. Wastes of life.

[Gfted1]

Whats wrong with selling off redundant organs to those that need them? Is this where we bust out the old "prostitution" laws where were really saving them from themselves?

[Barothmuk]

Can't wait for choice rhetoric to enter the organ harvesting market.

 

"Umm, did you just shame this homeless poc for selling their liver and both their feet so they could afford a sandwich?

 

How dare yuo. Feminism is about choice. Hold on I think I hear someone shaming a sweatshop worker"

[Hurlshort]

I'm more curious how much of a mark up kidneys will have with Amazon 3rd party sellers.  Considering how much Hatchimals are going for, the hottest gift this Xmas, I imagine it will be crazy high.

[Gfted1]

Dont people already sell eggs/sperm? Im asking here. Its a win/win situation. You dont need two of anything to survive so one person makes some good coin and the other gets a lifesaving organ that would (probably) otherwise be binned.

[Hurlshort]

I don't know a ton about it either, but I believe giving up a kidney is a very serious deal.  It's not nearly as simple as giving up sperm.  Eggs are also a somewhat risky thing to give up, although not on the life threatening scale of a kidney.  That being said, I don't have much of a problem with someone getting paid.  But how is this going to be handled insurance-wise?  Are taxpayers going to be on the hook when some desperate for cash guy sells his kidney, blows it on terrible stuff, and ends up in the hospital with major health problems?

 

 I also just don't trust the medical industry with turning it into a more of a for profit business.  It's already a mess. 

[Wrath of Dagon]

Another brick in the wall: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-the-law-already-allows-donald-trump-to-build-the-wall/article/2609082?platform=hootsuite

 

"Secretary Jeh Johnson told the Senate that 1,300 miles of the border, or 66.5 percent, have no fencing at all; 299.8 miles, or 15.3 percent, have vehicle fence; 316.6 miles, or 16.2 percent, have pedestrian fence, and 36.3 miles, or 2 percent, have double-layer fencing. Johnson also said there is no work being done on any additional fencing."

 

Establishment lies notwithstanding, there are only 36.3 miles of secure fencing on the border currently.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Can't wait for choice rhetoric to enter the organ harvesting market."Umm, did you just shame this homeless poc for selling their liver and both their feet so they could afford a sandwich?How dare yuo. Feminism is about choice. Hold on I think I hear someone shaming a sweatshop worker"

The op-eds proclaiming how empowering it is to have your organs as a commodity will be interesting to say the least.

[Meshugger]

 

Can't wait for choice rhetoric to enter the organ harvesting market."Umm, did you just shame this homeless poc for selling their liver and both their feet so they could afford a sandwich?How dare yuo. Feminism is about choice. Hold on I think I hear someone shaming a sweatshop worker"

The op-eds proclaiming how empowering it is to have your organs as a commodity will be interesting to say the least.

 

 

"When i sold one of my lungs to someone else, i didn't remove a part of myself, i enriched the life of someone less priviledged than me and so you should you".

Edited December 9, 2016 by Meshugger