No, I never claimed there's no evidence of a connection between Trump and Russians. On the contrary, there's plenty of evidence of such ties, as even Trump has said he's received loans from Russian banks and oligarchs. What I claimed was that there's no evidence of collusion between Trump and the Russian government to…

There are a lot of problems with the claim of "evidence" of Russia hacking the DNC. Not the least of the problems is that the DNC refused to allow the FBI access to their servers, which means that the FBI had to rely on Crowdstrike, a security company in the pay of the DNC, whose CEO is a Democratic Party and Clinton…

By "so-called left" I mean people who claim to be leftists but whose behavior is virtually indistinguishable from the right. To give you an example, it wasn't that long ago, during the Benghazi hearings, when leftists were arguing (correctly, IMHO) that the difference between the left and the right was that the left…

Yeah, what does the CIA know?

While I share your concern, and certainly agree that it's unprecendented, I have to disagree when you say there's "very little evidence." In reality, there's no evidence of either collusion or so-called "election hacking." None. And while, yes, you're right, I believe, to point to the Trump administration's deceit and…

I agree. There's evidence of Trump's ties to Russia. What's usually not mentioned is that the Clintons also have extensive ties to Russians, both in business and government. For example, Bill Clinton received $500,000 for a speech in Moscow to a Russian bank, as well as multiple "donations" to the Clinton Foundation…

See my response to Fancyarcher as I don't have time to repeat myself ad infinitum. So-called "suspicious activity" is not evidence of collusion or Russian "hacking the election." And so on. If you have evidence—evidence, not suspicions—you should present it, otherwise it just ends up being nothing more than a…

So, I've been through this "there's plenty of evidence" stuff more than once, and I end up having to explain exactly why it's not true. I'll just say, because it's kind of a waste of time otherwise, that the intel report presented by the DNI, NSA, CIA, FBI, etc., etc., doesn't contain any evidence, as Clapper himself…

Based on what we know, the Podesta and DNC emails were most likely leaked (not hacked) by an insider. There is no evidence Podesta or the DNC were hacked. None. This is the left's Benghazi or Whitewater. It could be that, in a few years, Trump will be impeached for getting a blowjob from an intern. But there's no…

…increasingly evident collusion between Trump’s campaign and a foreign power.

I always got a creepy incest vibe from the Blossom kids, and it crossed my mind that the show may take a dark turn down the road into this type of territory. Then, I dismissed such thoughts entirely from my head. This is a CW show, after all. The revelation of, um, incest, I guess, between distant, barely related…

After reading through the comments, you'd think Colbert faced life imprisonment or summary execution. At worst, he'll pay a fine. So don't worry, he'll be OK, it's no big deal. Everybody needs to fuckin' relax. That being said, as much as you may (rightly) dislike Trump and his repugnant policies, it still doesn't…

Colbert is getting lazy. This type of comedy is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. While I wasn't offended, and don't see why anyone else should be, it also wasn't particularly funny. I thought this type of humor went out of fashion years ago, y'know, insinuating someone's gay, I don't know, seems like something high-school…

Which reports though?!

Not exactly. According to the media sources, the news reports and his daughter motivated Trump to decide to attack Syria. Whether Trump would have taken the decision based solely on his daughter's encouragement is unknown. What is known is that both were involved, to one degree or another…

Once again, I have sufficient evidence to support my claim. In logic, this takes the form of modus ponens or modus tollens arguments, both being forms of propositional logic ("if-then"). You can argue that the evidence is not sufficient to support the claim, and you'd have to show exactly why it isn't sufficient, or…

Why would the Trump administration be influenced by reports of their own fake intelligence?

So, let's see. We know that the justification given by the Trump administration for the attack on Syria was fraudulent (see the link below for evidence). That much is known. So, the question remains, what was Trump's motivation for the attack? Since we've eliminated the supposed "evidence" of Syrian culpability (there…

Sure. Here's one piece of evidence. The first article that popped up on Google.

There is no evidence that Russia "hacked the election." We've already established that. There is evidence that the government, intel agencies, and mass media have lied us into wars (see Iraq 2003). This establishes a pattern of previous behavior. Given what we know (the lack of evidence and previous bad acts), and…