Posts made by Negrescence

Before the ACA, universal healthcare(at least the beginnings of one), wasn't even on the republicans radar. Despite it's flaws, it has forced republicans to incorporate it into their agenda whereas before, they were fine with people dying due to the lack of coverage. They can't just go back to innumerable people dying or suffering debilitating ailments by repealing this law. This is of course what they wanted and intended to do bt even their own constituents started foaming at the mouth when they heard this was a possibility. We may yet resemble western Europe on the Human development index, but we are getting there. Obamacare had some flaws, but many of these flaws were exacerbated by republicans who were deadest on assigning infamy to the law, sabotaging medicaid within their districts, and refusing to come together on amending the law. Their stance was just to repeal and to take more days off than any congress in history.

@raphjd:

Maybe in 30 years the CIA, NSA or whoever will be honest and admit they did it.

You are clearly under the delusion that all conspiracy theories are either proven immediately or they are are fake.    Thanks to Bill Clinton declassifying a ton of documents, we found out that a lot of decades old conspiracy theories were in fact true.

I'm not saying this is true, just pointing out that not all conspiracy theories are false.

I saw an obese man do a back-flip once, I wouldn't go about assuming that all gymnast should just let themselves go and they will be just fine. 99% of conspiracy theories are false. To give them credence just because .1% of them maybe true would see us all wearing tin foil hats and shooting up pizza galleries trying to break up a Hillary child sex ring. The powers of the president gives him authority as an originating authority to observe and release such information if this were true. All originating authorities are directly appointed by the president so there is no reason he wouldn't be privy to shading dealings. The can adjust the declassification date of these documents or render information from these documents into a lower classification, to included unclassified. If you listen to any intelligence briefing concerning Snowden, it's mostly about methods rather than the information that is classified. Trump is full of it and that is why his press sec has been walking a lot of this back.

First of all, Trump has not provided any proof for this claim just like many of the other wild claims he has put forth that have been untrue. Trump has it in his full capacity to reveal the information that would validate his claims. It doesn't have to be to the people who do not have an appropriate clearance, but to our representatives appointed on our behalf. Trump has not done this. 2nd, the president hasn't had the power to enforce wiretapping for decades. People overestimate the power of the president.  The Snowden backlash isn't about him whistle-blowing, it's how he did it. There are channels one takes that allows one to whistle blow and that protects whistleblowers. Snowden instead revealed methods and information to our enemies. This information is kept secret from US citizens by consequence in order to keep it away from those that can abuse this information. This cause great harm to the US you do not seem to understand. You'll never hear how many people died on duty due to his revelations and or how ISIS has used this information to their advantage. Revealing US capacities doesn't indicate infringement. If the CIA has the ability to put camera's in your microwave doesn't mean they're doing it to american citizens. It's like saying a cop with a gun just shoot anyone and everyone just because he has a gun. It's funny, with the information he put out, people skip over the boring stuff that actually protects us just for a feeling of indignation. Snowden had more premature and spurious reasons for releasing such information.

The DOW was already headed there. Trump hasn't been in office long enough to have affected the stock market per se. Much of this is stilll on the coattails of Obama. I would suggest looking at currency markets. As a currency trader, I can tell you the markets are not showing confidence in the US entirely, they're confused and slowing to a crawl. I don't like Trump, but for the love of God release some economic plan and certainty.

If Trump was wiretapped, he could simply reveal the information pertaining to this. As president, trump is an originating authority when it comes to classified information, which means he could simply declassify the information or segments to prove his point. He hasn't done that. Also, the president hasn't had the power to wantonly wiretap people for over 45 years. Those powers were stripped from the president and solely reside  within a FISA court. A FISA court cannot choose wiretap an American citizen unless they have probably cause and suspicion that the person in question is likely an agent of a foreign power or acting in a related capacity. If this was approved by a FISA court then we have alot more to worry about in Trump if they had reason enough to suspect him. Regardless, Obama could not have invoked a wiretap since it is not a power within his arsenal as president. Trump is outright lying here and this should be concerning, especially that there are so many people willing to believe these lies.

No. There is no relation.