Thread for obviously newsworthy stuff

[Dinner]

Trump has canceled the North Korea summit with Kim:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/24/politics/trump-north-korea/index.html

Guess Trump is afraid that Kim will turn out to be intellectually superior compared to himself
(which, I guess, will be very likely)

Trump is such an incompetent halfwit.

[BeBMan]

[Lorizael]

Sigh. There goes that Nobel Peace Prize.

[BeBMan]

I was about to start a thread on it, oh well.

What a drama queen. Ok that goes for both Kim and Donnie.

At least he didn't sell it as "peace in our time..." meeting

Rather we got a determined "maybe it will happen, maybe not, or yes, but we'll see....blah." for awhile before everything went poof.

[Proteus_MST]

Trump has canceled the North Korea summit with Kim:

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/24/politics/trump-north-korea/index.html

Guess Trump is afraid that Kim will turn out to be intellectually superior compared to himself
(which, I guess, will be very likely)

[Dinner]

Some of you may remember that the government of Ukraine, who had been cooperating with Mueller, suddenly stopped cooperating when Trump made Ukraine getting weapons it badly needed to fight off Russian invaders contingent upon releasing Russia intelligence officials who were arrested in Ukraine and whom Mueller wanted to talk to. It is just one of the dozens and dozens of ways Trump has consistently acted like the guilty criminal he is.

[Broken_Erika]

Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, received a secret payment of at least $400,000 (£300,000) to fix talks between the Ukrainian president and President Trump, according to sources in Kiev close to those involved.

Yet even more governments trying to bribe Trump. I wonder if it could have started a bidding war between Russia and Ukraine over who could give the highest bribes...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44215656

[Dinner]

The right wingers who live in a fact free propaganda bubble always think their uninformed opinions can be used as a substitute for facts. That is why they are objectively wrong on most things

[pchang]

That's your personal business.

Interesting response to stats for the entire US.

[Kidlicious]

That's your personal business.

[pchang]

For the last 40 years, the economy has only been stagnant for you. For the rest of us, it has been a time of unprecedented growth.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita

[Kidlicious]

It sure does. The world economy has grown massively over the last few centuries, and peoples' standards of living have improved massively.

But how much has median income increased in the US over the last twenty years Kid? Compared to overall wealth?

It's pretty stagnant over the last 40 actually. But most of us don't really care. You can see that from Facebook posts. As a Christian I'm more disturbed by the decrease in people who have a biblical worldview. I'm also worried about the lack of morality and the increase in apathy. I could go on. I'm not wealthy, nor do I worry that much about it even though I pushing 50 and need to do a lot of saving before retirement.

Now the younger generation is more socialist, but they don't really want to get wealthy either. That's why they are socialists. They might be stupid but they know that you can't get wealthy in a socialist country. They are more worried about things like getting transgender people in public restrooms and pigs and chickens being treated humanely.

[ricketyclik]

It sure does. The world economy has grown massively over the last few centuries, and peoples' standards of living have improved massively.

But how much has median income increased in the US over the last twenty years Kid? Compared to overall wealth?

[Kidlicious]

In an outburst of individualism and american freedom, Harley Davidson (who, after all, have the image of wildness and freedom) have decided to close one of their factories in the USA (resulting in the loss of 800 workplaces in Kansas and a net loss of 350 workplaces USA wide) and use the huge republican tax cut in order to buy back stocks

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...s-city-factory

Yep. Allowing people to own property creates wealth.

[Dinner]

Guaranteed; Some moron will try to set one off in his arse in order to get more Youtube hits. Then the Darwin Awards will honor him as Chernobutt.

Remember the 17 year old Mexican idiots who already had two kids together who thought a book would stop a 50 cal bullet? So they filmed it live on YouTube while the chick accidentally shot and killed her baby daddy. Sometimes you can't fix stupid but you can at least limit their access to weapons so they are forced to remain just run of the mill idiots instead of Darwin Award candidates.