Posts made by Verrax

Agreed, it may be years before the investigation uncovers (potentially) anything.  If Trump is so confident that there was no meddling on behalf of the Russians then why does he not just sit back and let the investigation vindicate him? The fact that he keeps either trying to discredit claims or halt the investigation through various means lends itself to suggest that he or his campaign members may have done something that they shouldn't, even if they thought it was fine at the time.

It'll be interesting as both Obama and Trump stepped back when their healthcare bills were being crafted and at least with Obama he wished he had been more hands-on with it to prevent some of its aspects that people didn't like.  That being said, I'm not sure that Trump would be able to assist in the creation of a bill, but that aside I'm curious what his stance will be in the event that it gets passed and is equally (if not more) unpopular.

I'm a centralist and I don't think Merkel has a particular prejudice against the LGBT community. Her father was a Lutheran minister if I'm not mistaken and that undoubtedly shaped her view on marriage.  While she feels that marriage is between a man and a woman (which she is entitled to believe) she felt that her beliefs shouldn't have to apply to the entire German population and that's why she put marriage equality to a free vote (as opposed to forcing her party to vote in line with her) where the members of her party could choose whether to allow gay marriage if they felt it to be what was right, which they did.  That's just my personal view on the subject.