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Interesting points about why wind, solar, and electric vehicles are nowhere near being viable due to the limitations of batteries: LINK

Plus McGregor is getting $100 million to fight.

Yeah, Harrison Ford is Han Solo, Tom Cruise could have played Luke, but not really Han (IMO).

Lots of movies I am going to have to see, War for the Planet of the Apes, Dunkirk, the new Star Wars movie, maybe the new Bladerunner, etc....

Funny coincidence: valerian root really stinks.

Gotta love those old monster movies

Yep and it backfired on the English and the Scots fought for their freedom.

What I was citing aren't "talking points." Regarding the people I cited, yes Tucker is very right-wing, but Jonathan Turley is Democratic-party legal scholar. As for Mueller being a Republican and having bi-partisan support, so what? The GOP has been out to get Trump too, and Mueller is good friends with James Comey. Comey was widely-respected with bipartisan support too, until he proved himself to be a hack.

While it is not a direct comparison, Trump vs the political class keeps reminding me of this scene from Braveheart at 1:34:

The more I hear about this, the more it just seems like a witch hunt by the political elites to bring down Trump. A good point made I think by Jonathan Turley and Tucker Carlson is that Russia's legal system is incredibly convoluted. I have read that that is one of the things that even inhibits economic growth there, because you may have to break the law in one way in order to adhere to the law in another way. So the result is that any business dealings in Russia could probably be construed in some way to be illegal according to American law, and used by a determined prosecutor. Tucker pointed out how originally Mueller was supposed to investigate about collusion with Russia by Trump on the election, and now it is investigations into things like a mansion sold by Trump to a Russian back during the Bush administration. A point Turley made in reference to that is that such special investigations often become broadened over time, but the problem is that this investigation was started from the get-go with a very broad mandate that you could basically drive a truck through, and then you throw in Russia and the fact that the special prosecutor has unlimited funds and no time limit and it becomes very dangerous.

Another thing is that if the investigations continue into everything, they are bound to be able to find "something," because you can't have the level of business dealings Trump has and not have something they could consider a "crime." Reminds me of the legal example of how you could end up convicted of a crime for being in possession of a lobster.

How is Trump dragging the anchor? All these investigations, all these leaks, and nothing solid has yet come out. Watergate was just a few guys and they couldn't keep that secret, Clinton couldn't keep getting a Monica in the White House secret, but Trump colludes with Russia to win the election and is somehow still keeping it secret?

Is Mueller's team all Democrats still? If so, he should have been fired already.

Coolbeans, will have to see it.

The Man Who Ignored A Tornado

Yes, that is how it is supposed to function. We are not some monolithic political entity, we are a federation of semi-sovereign states, each with a degree of independence from the federal government. The federal government is structured so as to prevent any one state or area of the country from dictating to the rest in both the legislative and the executive branches, hence for example the Senate where each state gets two representatives. Otherwise, the more populous states would dictate national legislation. With the presidential election, the system is structured similarly to prevent any one state or area from dictating to the rest. What I find really ironic is California making a statement to Trump about how Trump has to learn that the states have a degree of independence and sovereignty from the federal government and cannot just be dictated to by the federal government, YET the Democrats then complain about the Electoral College AND the Senate, and multiple Democratic party-controlled states even have a plot to try to nullify the Electoral College (basically where states agree to give all of their electoral votes to whomever wins the popular vote).

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I do not like Trump's admiration of Putin and wish he would be more adamant about the sanctity of NATO. On McCain, remember his wife also is worth I think around $100 million or so.

Quiet you. Grownups are talking.

I can. One could easily flip that and say that those Democrats who pushed Obamacare would not themselves have to utilize it. Also the GOP does not want to just remove 32 million from healthcare, they want to fix the flawed system that is Obamacare.

He won the popular vote unless you count California. A popular vote loss with an electoral win only happens if the popular vote is lost due to the population of a few very populous states voting against you. If you win the popular vote in the majority of each state, you win that state's electoral college votes, and hence the election. So saying that he lost the popular vote is really meaningless.

I was responding to Kevin2772's thoughts.

Rationalize what? I stated that failing to repeal-and-replace O'Care would have pluses and minuses. That doesn't mean I rationalize everything with Trump. As for re-elected him, unless the Democratic party changes their tune away from being a party of big-city elitist types who want to ram economic micromanagement, environmental theology, and gun control down people's throats, who are more concerned with what they think of us in Brussels than Beijing, who will do nothing to secure the border because they want to legalize all the illegals and have more constantly pour in so that they can increase their voter demographics, who want to gut the military, etc...I will be voting for Trump and the GOP.

The problem with the GOP isn't that they are stupid, IMO, it's that they are too divided. There is the hardcore libertarian wing and then the more moderate wing. To both wings, whatever is proposed is either too close to Obamacare or too right-wing and thus neither can be satisfied.