If the EU only bothered to stop buying russia's gas and found alternative fuel source. 80% of russia's gas export goes to the EU, shut the valve off and they're screwed.

The EU will never do this they're all stupid too. Should've been done years ago but nope.

Twitter reports out there @ VP used the wrong flag in a tweet for israel.

Not that I remember or had even heard about it at the time, but wanted to see it now....spicy mustard on a burger.



If only Democrats weren't such elitists and could stick to plain old French's, er I mean American Mustard, we wouldn't have a morono-totalitarian as POTUS.

Hillary lost because she carried hot sauce in her purse. Maybe it's the spice - not WASPy at all.

LOOOOOOOOOOL inso0

don't overreact guys YOU'LL MAKE TRUMP WIN

Here's Sean Hannity getting started in the business at a college radio station in 1989:

A bit late but to reply to the AI auto tangent, I just want to make clear that Sylar is certainly wrong in his view of the technology, the industry, and the timeline at which it will all take place.

Over two decades? Buddy you are more likely to have your neocortex connected to the cloud and be living in your own simulated reality by then than we are to not have a fully autonomous shipping industry.

If anyone feels like bandying about any discussion on the topic, fire off whatever in the monthly LC thread and I will address it.

I agree that this stuff won't be happening overnight and will potentially take plenty of time but I have little trust that our government will respond in a smart way towards these issues. Anyway no point in further derailing this thread so here is the report if anyone wants it. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov...on-Economy.PDF

I don't think he forgot, just pointing out how he has no morals other than **** liberals

It's is pretty unamerican to like proper mustard (well French which is almost proper mustard)

Good on him. Probably reads books as well.

The most important part of that entire report:

Ya, no. Lots of German immigrants came to America with their mustard skills.

Fair enough. We get a strange view of the USA from abroad sometimes. It was a very pleasant surprise to discover that that had awesome beer.

I trust our government will do none of those things with the current way the Republican party is. Robust safety net? Combating inequality? lol They are literally trying to create more inequality each day while destroying the safety net.

Of course. But neither would the corporatist democratic party sadly (though of course that would still be much, much more preferable to the corporatist republican party, and infinitely preferable to the corporatist Trump party). In summary, we are all ****ed.

The Republican response is along the lines of the Republican response to stock market crash in 1929.

There is no evidence politeness cures dumbness.

Yeah that's why violent crime has skyrocketed in the last 25 years.

I spend most of my working life in those jobs and there is nothing wrong with the economic power of those. I started of as a industrial electrician for automation. The income in that profession is on the upper end compared to other blue collar jobs and company's are always looking for able people. Then i went to college and now i work as a IT-Manager. With that, my income is at the upper level compared to other college educated white collar workers at my age group. There are always open positions.

The real problem here is not technological progress it is education. If you are a unskilled worker you will be ****ed and you will be replaced. Cap-, lorry-, train- and forklift drivers will be gone within the next 20 years.

To get into one of those new jobs you need education. We need a education system that is open for everybody (all age groups and colors) and it needs to be FREE. Those who need education the most are rarely able to afford it. If studying wouldn't be free (no tuition fee) in Germany i would still be a blue collar worker. It should be a no brainer for every government to invest in education, it pays for itself. i pay thrice the taxes i did 8 years ago. Where else does a government get such a great ROI?

Additionally lower income households have to start and pick up education as a value again. It is a shame that the one thing that allows their kids to have a better life, then them, is disregarded, disrespected and not a core value. The working class should pour to the voting booth every chance they get and vote for those who make free education their prime concern.

Also in the USA and the UK the working class should riot against the fact, that access to education is regulated by access to money.

Well it gets to the idea that a lot of what makes our country run smoothly is based off of norms and not laws. The first amendment is only about government interference of the press, but that the press should have open access to the President and that he, as a steward of the American people, has to answer to the press is a well established norm of political life in the US.

10-50% is a margin in which both cases could be true. That said, the WH isnt a credible source even pre Trump.

Hi Dan! Your vote of disapproval is all the accolade I need. Carry on.

I was waiting for that dude's beard to punch the **** out of that nazi.

Just a note on automated trucking. There have been Live road tests going on for the past year with trucks delivering goods.

Grunching on my way out the door. Without agreeing with anything (Trump is not literally Hitler), I'll ask you to think about how Hitler got away with being literally Hitler.

Please note it has nothing to do with Obama.
They hate Obama not because he is Obama, it is because he is black.

Very good point. Trump is not literally Hitler, but if you consider what he has said on the record: steal the oil, torture and kill families of terrorists, seemingly praising the Chinese government in the Tiananmen Square massacre, etc, it looks like he wants to be Hitler, or at least some form of authoritarian dictator.