Yeah, except he’s having a hard time finding representation lately.

It’s true, you really can’t parody Trump, because there’s no way of exaggerating the stuff he says. Trump makes Frank Underwood look pretty good. People have referred to the Russian scandal as “Stupid Watergate”, but you might also call the Trump administration “Stupid House of Cards”.

Really? Trump is one of the most interesting things on Twitter, IMO. In fact, I could never really get interested in Twitter until the Donald decided to run for office for real this time. One-hundred-forty characters isn’t enough to complete any useful thought, but it’s perfect for snarky one-liners and pithy responses to his none-too-bright followers. As others have pointed out, it’s comedy gold, and since you can’t really parody Trump, it’s best to go right to the source.

Good lord, do they teach anything in school anymore? This one can spell, or has at least enabled his spell-checker, which is remarkable these days, yet has no basic understanding of chemistry. Got some bad news for ya, bud. You’ve been eating nothing but chemicals your whole life, and indeed, are made entirely of them. But, don’t despair. Many chemicals, such as dihydrogen monoxide, are quite harmless when used properly, and are not known to cause cancer, not even by the State of California.

I’m convinced that the failures of our education system have brought us to where we are today. In an age where you can find out almost anything instantly by consulting a pocket-sized device, ignorance is rampant.

Yeah, just because the smoke is so thick we can barely see, doesn’t mean there’s any fire. Let’s just keep asking for proof that’ll stand up in a court of law, and discrediting the media, and maybe it’ll all go away.

Flynn got his security clearance by lying. Then he got fired when it caught up to him. Obama didn’t want to be seen as interfering with newly-elected Trump. He chose to sanction the Russians instead.

This is always the question, right? Whether to wait for new tech, or buy now, has been a consideration since at least 1986, when I first started buying them, (I decided to wait because, c’mon, expandable to 4 MB of RAM? Hell, yeah!). But, over time, I decided that, whenever I need a new machine to just go out and get it. Otherwise, you’ll be waiting forever, because there’s always something better coming.

Good Lord, Apple! Clean your cache!

That’d be a bad bet. Alcohol can kill you, psilocybin can’t. Alcohol causes liver, (and other organic), damage, psilocybin doesn’t. I would say pot and ‘shrooms are equally safe. No one has ever been known to overdose on either. Alcohol, not so much. But any recreational drug, including alcohol, if used in moderation is not going to cause you any harm. Few recreational drugs are as dangerous as, say, Tylenol, (acetaminophen), which is a liver toxin.

Yeah, except that no one has ever died from psilocybin mushrooms. You cannot overdose on mushrooms. And the people in the study who did call for medical assistance had been using alcohol as well. RTFA. This is almost always the case, just as the vast majority of “heroin overdoses” involve the use of alcohol, or other CNS depressants such as benzodiazepines. It’s rarely heroin alone.

Yeah, back in the days before the internet spy game got started. Then someone decided that everyone ought to be making money off the internet, and the commercialization of the web began. Advertisers taught everyone just how valuable personal data could be.

Since we have zero knowledge of, or evidence for, aliens, I don’t see how that can ever be the most likely answer. Considering that we have no idea how life arose, and that all evidence indicates that it only arose once in the one place we know it arose, even though there are certainly a lot of stars, we can’t really make useful predictions from a sample of one. When you consider the immense distances between stars, and the vast aeons of time our galaxy has existed, even if life had arisen elsewhere and, against all odds, evolved intelligence, the chances of them being our contemporaries is, well, astronomical. Also, Fermi’s Paradox. If, and when, we begin to find evidence of biological activity elsewhere, then we might be able to say something about it. For now, it’s all pure speculation. Plug any numbers you like into Drake’s Equation.

Intelligent aliens are only slightly more plausible than gods. Which is to say, not very.

Actually, there is a question of constitutionality in holding people for ICE. It’s more probable that so-called sanctuary cities are complying with the Constitution than that the Feds are by asking local governments to hold people in jail beyond when they should normally be released.
Obama not enforcing immigration? Are we talking about the same Obama who deported more illegal immigrants than any other president?
The Trump administration has done nothing counter to the Constitution? Are you aware that the Emoluments Clause is part of the Constitution? I won’t even mention the, as yet, unproven violations.
I’m glad to hear that you had the sense not to vote for this obvious demagogue. I just hope you didn’t fritter it away on a third-party candidate. This was not the election for protest votes.

I’ve been aware of Trump since the eighties. He’s always been an idiot. People assume that, just because he has a lot of money that he can’t be an idiot, but his wealth is easily explained without having to resort to intelligence, or even business acumen. I’m sure you’ve experienced this yourself, that some of the smartest people you know are not wealthy. Wealth and intelligence aren’t that heavily correlated.

Flashlights and stars both produce light. ::rimshot::

For most people, no explanation = God(s). But for a small group of people, no explanation = aliens. You know who you are. Then there is that third group who is willing to admit that we simply don’t know the answer yet, without jumping to extraordinary conclusions.