I’m sure Spicer took Trump’s loyalty pledge. If he’s out as Press Secretary, they’ll be another spot for him in the administration — undersecretary of flag lapel pins, maybe.

Nukes become less of a deciding factor when your enemy has a similar capability. And the U.S. would be the pariah of the world if it used nuclear weapons against North Korea now. Americans are only 5% of the world’s population, so we really can’t afford to piss everybody off.

Okay — you’re going to have to explain what capitalism has to do with North Korea launching a missile. And, haven’t we been in the throes of later-stage capitalism since the 1940s?

I’m sure our military honchos have feverishly thought of ways to bomb North Korea into submission. But I don’t see that being any more successful now than it was 60 years ago.

“The 20-year-old said she has depression and anxiety, and this year was also diagnosed with fibromyalgia — a chronic pain disorder.” It might be fair to accuse Ms. Salsbury of being overly dramatic, since her conditions are not directly life threatening.

We still need to have a trial to determine the suspect’s guilt or innocence, not just a Facebook post.

And how do you propose we get rid of him? We’re stuck with Trump a good four years until we vote to elect someone different in 2020.

I can see giving the authorities a key to unlock one specific device without giving them a key that could unlock any and every device. I don’t know if my proposition is feasible, though (not a tech peep.)

Given the government’s tendency to spy on allies ( think Angela Merkel’s phone), this may simply be damning evidence of the pervasive surveillance state we still live in.

Trump will only have ideas if Fox & Friends have ideas.

Without the financial coercion, some people will stop paying for health insurance. So yes, they will have lost the widget (health insurance.)

“Dudes with hyphenated last names are such losers. Sad!”

It’s hard for me to complain about the commercials, because without them we’d surely be paying out of pocket to consume all the content on the internet. They’ve gotten us fully dependent on using the internet now, so we’re stuck paying for the content somehow, be it out of pocket payments or being exposed to ad-laden…

That would be awesome if the Obamas could sue Trump for slander over this. But the bar is probably pretty high to slander a former public official, especially one with Obama’s reputation with surveillance.

It’s actually a good speech! I mean, for once our president doesn’t come across as a kook or a Fascist.

I think Facebook is just willing to play both sides of the political fence to ensure their long-term success. Even Trump the businessman used to brag that he would give to both political parties.

Are we supposed to be able to tell that someone is a stone-cold killer just by the look on his face? I think we need to focus on the BS that comes out of the mouths of these manifesto-writing types, because that is far more telling than whatever someone looks like.

I’m not in favor a Muslim ban, just pointing out the fact that Islamic terrorism is a genuine problem around the world. And since you mentioned the Germans — we had to bomb them into submission before we could reach this current state where we’re best buds.

If we’re just counting the radical Islamic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, probably not a huge number. But if we count all the carnage caused by al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other like-minded groups, we’re talking, what: thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people killed?

We have to be able to gauge the intent of the person delivering a purported “joke” in order to determine what our reaction should be. If the person was just trying to be funny or edgy, we groan when they miss the mark with their joke and move on. I think Disney and YouTube overreacted to this PewDiePie guy because I…