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Now Trump's tax returns are a liability to the USA and the stock market. If "bad things" are found in Trump's tax returns, the entire nation will suffer because of it. Should Trump be impeached if his relations to Russia are extensive, criminal, and to Trump's financial benefit? Then we would have president Pence.

So "gave out a lot" means "fly off the handle a bit". Thank you for the clarification. Yes Trumpf resembles Hitler in more ways than those listed. He knows "more than the generals" just like Hitler did (not). Trump can go to war with anyone, even Rosie O'Donnell.

More water vapor in the atmosphere means more greenhouse gas, which reinforces a vicious circle of warming because even more water vapor in the atmosphere. When the northern ice cap melts, that is permanent, no more white to reflect sunlight, but dark ocean to absorb more heat. Then the trapped methane gets released for the first time. There is no happy ending, it just gets worse and worse. Ocean levels rise, coastal communities are forced to move inland and then major wars begin.

Could you do me a favor in the future and when you introduce a subject don't just post links without giving a summary of the links. I never read links that are not supported by info. I want to know what you are talking about before going to any link. Could you at least copy and paste something important from the links? Thank you! Here is how to do it: Very interesting, thanks for posting that.

How can Trump be convinced that human-caused climate change is not a hoax? That means he never watches any science documentaries on the subject. In one of the debates Clinton confronted Trump about his Tweet that it is a "hoax created by China." His response was a blatant lie, when he said "No I didn't." He should know his Tweets are permanent evidence. What does that mean? That he is doubting his own Tweet? It would suggest that he doesn't believe his own Tweet.

The job of a president is to deal with crises, Trump may be the first president that systematically creates crises, then blames them on others. He is the master of psychological projection. Hopefully I am wrong about this, that he manages to AVOID creating too many crises. How likely will he be able to build a wall? And make Mexico pay for it? How likely can he get rid of illegal aliens? Repeal Obamacare? How likely can he do the many things he promises? This shows how many Americans that voted for him are as delusional as Trump. Nice going, suckers. Now we are stuck with a freak that cannot do what he said he could do. However, he will figure out how to be constantly in the news. That is a certainty. Now he is an attention-obsessed narcissist like the world has rarely seen. He needs a constant fix of mass attention to keep him happy. The main thing Obama wanted to do after becoming president was closing Guantanamo. Obama repeated this over and over and over in his campaign. But he could never do it. When he faced the reality of being president and learned that his wish was impossible because of forces beyond his control. Trump will do the same. For the first time in his spoiled, pampered life, he will have to confront reality. His wishes will be denied like never before in his Ivory Tower, lap of luxury. He will delegate the hard work to others, so he can stand in front of a TV camera, saying anything he wants. Will his tax returns ever be revealed? He knows better than his generals. The Mosul operation should have been a surprise attack, he thinks. Soon he will be educated.

Why would the militias fight a Trump guvmint with GOP controlled senate and house? They finally got what they always wanted. Also pot makes people less aggressive. "Hmmmmm? What was it we are fighting about? I forget.....oh well....(toke).... let's see what's on TV." Alcohol makes people more aggressive.

For someone who can go to war with a comedian, Rosie O'Donnell, then when will the next war begin? At least here in California we now have legal marijuana for the anxiety.

Funny thing is I met with my older brother on Saturday. We chatted a little about the elections. He listens to Rush Limbaugh, does not have cable TV, and is voting for Trump. He knows I cannot stand Trump. Listening to Trump speak on TV at a rally is very annoying to me. Such obnoxious mannerisms! My brother said Obama was a terrible dictator, and Hillary is just terrible. He told me he just heard in the "news" (some far right-wing media like Rush) that Hillary Clinton was soon going to be prosecuted. Why would Rush tell his fans the opposite of what really happens the next day? Coincidence of course.

Newsflash, FBI director says nothing new found on Weiner's laptop. The FBI reviewed all the relevant emails to and from Hillary and found nothing new. Just watch it on the news.

It's about both, self-anointed REAL Americans just want the drivers seat back...Trump supporters just want power back, and Trump, through his celebrity and clever gift for BSing, has sold a load of bull to his supporters. Yeah, that's the ticket, I'm going to shake everything up, turn everything upside down, do everything you can dream of, because what the hell do you have to lose? Promise them the world, it doesn't matter that I don't even know if it is possible. And he has convinced them he can do what he says to an absurd degree. That is clever con man work. To summarize my theory of "Make America Great Again" is that INSIDE THE MIND OF TRUMP, as an accomplished narcissist, that translates into English as "Make America like the 1960s Again, because that was MY wild and wonderful decade of excellence, and when I turned groping women into an art form. That was topped off by my coronation as King of my fathers businesses. That was the decade, the 1960s, bring back the likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones!" At every rally you hear "You can't always get what you want.....but if you try some time....... you just might find.....you get what you need."

The answer is celebrity worship. People are gullible to a clever con artist. Just tell people what they want to hear and pretend you care, then they will follow you.

Good point. But don't you think the FBI has the ability to take a "quick look" at a few emails without anyone knowing they were ever peeked at? Or is there some kind of permanent record left by just taking a look, and even the experts at the FBI cannot delete their own trail?

"Make America Great Again" Does anyone know when exactly, in American history, Trump Is referring to? At first I assumed he meant after WW2 the US emerged as a great world economic and military power. America helped conquer great evil in Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo. America's greatness would be the period starting in 1945 and into the 1950s. The generation emerging from WW2 is often known as the "Greatest Generation". Now I think he means the decade of the 1960s because he started high school in a military academy in about 1960 and graduated, with honors, in about 1964. Then he went to the Wharton School of Economics to graduate in 1968. The most significant period in a person's life, IMO, is from the start of high school, through graduation from college. Those are the most structured, intensive, and memorable period in the life of most people (who get a bachelor's degree). We love music from that period of time because it takes us back to our wild, wonderful years in school. After that life is a blur. That was my own experience, was that true for you also? So I think the period he is referring to that was so great was the decade of the 1960s. Don't you think? As the ultimate narcissist, the greatest period of America was Donald's greatest period. "...Due to behavior problems, Trump left the [Kew-Forest Grammar School] at age 13 and was enrolled in the New York Military Academy (NYMA), where he finished eighth grade and high school. In 1983, Fred told an interviewer that Donald "was a pretty rough fellow when he was small", and at least two people who resided nearby or attended his elementary school recall him as a bully, though others, including Trump himself, recall him as rambunctious. During his senior year, Trump participated in marching drills, wore a uniform, and attained the rank of captain. In 2015, he told a biographer that NYMA gave him "more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military". Trump was born [in 1946] and raised in New York City and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971 [at the age of 25] he was given control of his father Fred Trump's real estate and construction firm..." What did you accomplish by the age of 25? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

His letter to congress only said that the FBI learned or existence of "emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation". They must have read some sampling to decide they "appear to be pertinent". Comey's letter to congress regarding the email discovery: "In previous congressional testimony, l referred to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton’s personal email server. Due to recent developments, I am writing to supplement my previous testimony. In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation. Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony. Sincerely yours, James B. Comey Director https://fellowshipoftheminds.com/tag/james-comeys-letter-to-congress/

I always use the name Hillary so as not to confuse her with Bill. I'm afraid I don't remember Huma last name, and I don't know Comey's first name. Weiner's last name sounds descriptive. The FBI had the emails for weeks but are only now getting a warrant to review them. Is there not a way for Comey's team to get a hundred technicians busy doing a cursory exam, working 14 hours per day, of all the emails that may take only a few days? Then he can announce that they did a limited scope audit of the emails and still have not located any smoking guns. Don't you think this is a high priority project?

Recently FBI Director Comey announced they found Clinton email's on Weiner's laptop, that were between Hillary and her aid, Weiner's x wife, Huma. He said something like they haven't found anything bad yet, but they are going to continue their investigation into Hillary's emails. I also heard that the FBI had known this for weeks. Do you think that Comey's team did a quick survey of the emails over the past few weeks, and either found something significant, or found nothing, and Comey decided that he would be damned either way, so he decided the lesser of evils would be to announce 11 days before the election, they were investigating the new emails and haven't found anything bad yet. But Comey, as a reasonable man, would probably not want Trump as president. Even though he and his team could not find anything very bad among the emails, he would announce in the next few days that they did a cursory examination of the emails and found nothing significant, yet, which would help his candidate? Or do you think Comey will make no more comments before the election? I just saw a Fox News story that the hacking of the DNC was not done by the Russians, but by disgruntled NSA agents.

If the universe has an average density of about one atom per cubic meter, it is hard to imagine how space itself would cause light to bend in any consistent direction. It will bend when it passes near a massive object, but such masses are randomly distributed, so the curvature would be random, right?

Even if Trump loses this election, he will never quit trying to put Hillary in prison, right? His "Birther" obsession will shift into a "Crooked-Hillary" obsession that will never end. He will try to destabilize the Clinton administration as much as he can, in every way he can, without much regard for our country or the world, but merely to satisfy his own obsession. We will still be forced to see his huge face on TV and his big, nasty, contorted lips flapping in every way imaginable, because he knows how to insert himself into the news, on a daily basis, for the rest of his life. He's a "star", and "stars" can do "ANYTHING".

Is there a way to explain how a 3D volume can be "curved"? The only curvatures I know about are 2D, such as the surface of a balloon or the surface of the Earth, or the 3D space curvature near the gravity of some massive objects like a planet, star, or black hole. To me the universe, which is mostly space with only a tiny sprinkling or matter, seems entirely different from all those examples of curvature.

How can that 2D analogy be extended into 3D space? Can you think up a 3D analogy for a finite-sized universe? Trying to understand the reality of 3D space is too great a jump from a 2D analogy for my feeble mind. For example, imagine some huge irregular shaped blob that is about twice the size of our observable universe. That huge irregular blob has a center of gravity, right? There you have it, center of the U.

Thanks for trying, but the 2D "Balloon Analogy" does not make sense to me.

Maybe I just keep using imprecise words, I'm not an expert on this. You say there are no boundaries to a universe or big bang that is finite in size. Then how can a universe or big bang be finite in size? Finite in size implies that the edges of the big bang do NOT extend to infinity, right? What do the edges of a FINITE big bang extend to? What am I missing? I am not saying the universe must be finite in size, I am asking HOW can a big bang be FINITE in size? Can you think of another analogy beside the balloon analogy?

What about the dark ages in Europe while technology was advancing in China (gun powder, paper, etc), and science and math was developed in the Middle East by the Arabs? Europe later used the science and math from the Arabs and technology from China to develop other technology. Or am I missing something?

Is the title of this discussion not racist? It makes the assumption that the white race is more advanced than others, which is absurd.