The thing that’s scared me the most about modern war is how high civilian deaths always are even among small opposing forces. Indiscrimate shelling and bombing becoming the go to plan of attack since WW2, and militaries will always take the opportunity to kill 200 enemy soldiers at the cost of 800 civilians if a more…

This is where I break with the Jacobin/ Intercept left. Aleppo was under horrific fire from Russia before the election. In the last year, Russian shelling killed more civilians than ISIS has in all of Syria, and twice as many civilians as the entire UAV drone strike program has since 2004.

She was a non-profit employee, not a government employee. Her Board protected her speech after a threat from the state governing board. Pamela Taylor, noted social media racist, wasn’t protected because she works for the government and they couldn’t do anything. The government protected her because they agree with…

The part that really gets me is that you KNOW this woman played the victim the whole time she was out. Like she didn’t do anything wrong. That said, she probably HAD to be reinstated. A private employer could fire her for bringing negative attention to a business, but the First Amendment actually protects people from…

Why give her her job back? you want to keep it out of the media, just fire her 100%... pay out her benefits package and wipe your hands of that bigot. surely, it cannot be that difficult to find a replacement

I don’t know. I think she is an asshole which makes me sad cause I liked her. once a week supervised visitation is bs. He was cleared by social services the police and the FBI, he is doing voluntart drug testing and counciling, wtf else does she want? And yet somehow people like Brook Mueller keep getting custody of…

In my state (WA), as long as there is consent by both parties and full disclosures by counsel, insofar as conflicts of interests being waived etc., the parties can retain the same atty, or even just a professional mediator, to settle the issues. Very cost-effective, and nothing need take place before a court, The Land…

Just a cautionary note - should the Electoral College not cast 270 for any one candidate or end in a tie, the House of Representatives elects the president with each state getting 1 vote. Guess who they will choose.

They argued against having to vote for Clinton, not that they actually planned to if they’d won, in an attempt to set a precedent for the other states that also bind their delegates so they could unbind Trump votes.

As a child of a family practically named dysfunction I, unfortunately, had a bad feeling about Brangelina’s failure from the start.

For god’s sake, seal those records for the sake of the children! But if you don’t, I’ll be back to read ‘em. Nomnomnom.

When you owe someone that much money, you have tons of leverage on them. It’s a well known banking idiom.

we owe them 1.157 trillion dollars, right?

He probably owes them a ton a money too but they won’t give them the IOUs that he’s used to getting elsewhere which is why he can’t get off China. I don’t believe the cheeto-elect is playing with real money.

Although thinking about it... China simply barring iPhone exports is possibly the sole thing that might convince his followers that things are possibly not going well.

Is not just that. The number one buyer of our exported agriculture is China. And thousands of other goods. We need them more than to just cover our debt.

Let’s do it like this - let’s appoint whoever we have to appoint, even if it means putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department, to completely dismantle, deplete and destroy whatever infrastructure this country has over the next four years, so that in the fifth year, trump-owned companies can reap the benefits…

Can’t he just declare bankruptcy and make it all go away? Seems to work for him, generally.

“I would borrow, knowing that if the economy crashed, you could make a deal,” Trump told CNBC. If the U.S. borrowed too much and invested its fresh cash in unproductive products, Trump would tell creditors to accept less than what he’d initially agreed to.

Judging by some of his previous comments I think he’s under the impression that China owes the US.