has anyone received their 1,200 dollar check/deposit yet? The first 50 million suppose to be today so has anyone here gotten it?

but I see no problem with spending some of that on defending space infrastructure(satellites, etc) and focusing more on advanced technologies(larger space ships, engines to move them and shielding) that could help humanity finally move outwards. Think about it for one second:

1. We could finally have a respectable space station to replace the international space station that will likely be going out of commission within the next 5-10 years. There's no way the republicans are going to fund an replacement so that means we're stuck totally on earth.
2. We could have the ability to send people to mars and the moon in numbers that will make it more then a one off and maybe even create colonies. I know earth firsters are against this, but making it happen means hundreds of billions of dollars in increase economic development and higher paying jobs.
3. Kids and young adults being able to look up and that will motive them to go to college to become scientist. This will once against increase the size of the economy.

Nasa is starved to the bone and will never be able to do it.

If we move outwards we will have something of a space force one day anyways. Hell, at this very moment three branches of the military already do have some focus on it,,,so really this is just bringing them together.

I don't support violence in space but realize that there's a larger picture.

The Trade War Is Already Having A Huge Impact On The US Economy

The trade war has barely just begun, and yet significant ripple effects are already being felt all across the U.S. economy. Once thriving businesses are on the verge of failure, workers are being laid off, and some sectors of the economy are witnessing enormous price hikes. Right now the mainstream media is absolutely fixated on the drama surrounding the recently concluded Trump-Putin summit meeting, but the consequences of this trade war will ultimately be far more important for the lives of most ordinary Americans. As more tariffs continue to be implemented, this will perhaps be the biggest disruption to the global economic system that we have seen in decades. Perhaps you have not been affected personally yet, but for many Americans this trade war has changed everything. For example, just consider the plight of soybean farmer Tim Bardole…

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4187688-trade-war-already-huge-impact-u-s-economy

We'll be lucky if Trumps idiocy doesn't cause another depression.

Brain scan can tell kids if they’re transgender, study shows

Josh Jackman
22nd May 2018, 3:05 PM

A brain scan can reveal someone’s true gender, according to a new study.

Both the physical content and actions of a subject’s brain can show that they are transgender, even before they’ve started puberty. 

The study, conducted by Dr Julie Bakker at the University of Liège’s Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, backs up research from March which showed that trans people are born that way.

Bakker explained in her study, titled Brain structure and function in gender dysphoria, that the scans’ results corroborated subjects who reported having gender dysphoria.
“We found that hypothalamic responses of both adolescent girls and boys diagnosed with gender dysphoria were more similar to their experienced gender than their birth sex,” she wrote.

The professor said that this “supports the hypothesis of a sex-atypical brain differentiation in these individuals.”

As well as this finding, Bakker also discovered that the amount of grey matter found in a brain can reveal both male and female subjects’ genders.

She said: “Grey matter volumes of both gender dysphoria groups deviated from the volumetric characteristics of their birth sex towards those of individuals sharing their gender identity.”
Bakker added that these results were exciting.

Earlier this year, researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Medical School compared the brains of trans and cisgender adults and discovered that they are significantly different.

It was found that the insula – a region of the brain – had a distinct volume depending on whether it was in the brain of a trans or cis subject.

The insula plays an important role in people’s body image, self-awareness and empathy.

Giancarlo Spizzirri, first author of the study – which was published in Scientific Reports – said that the result led them to believe that people are trans in the womb.
“We found that trans people have characteristics that bring them closer to the gender with which they identify and their brains have particularities, suggesting that the differences begin to occur during gestation,” he said in a statement.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/05/22/brain-scan-can-tell-kids-if-theyre-transgender-study-shows/

The more research the more the science supports that transgenersism is a biological construct.

A new report by the Brennan Center for Justice suggests that congressional races are so heavily rigged in favor of Republicans that the United States can barely be described as a democratic republic. The upshot of their analysis is that, to win a bare majority of the seats in the U.S. House, Democrats “would likely have to win the national popular vote by nearly 11 points.”

To put that number in perspective, neither party achieved an 11-point popular vote win in the last several decades. The last time this happened, according to the Brennan Center, was 1982, when a deep recession led the opposition Democrats to a 269 seat majority against President Reagan’s Republicans.

https://thinkprogress.org/democracy-may-be-doomed-65b24b3554d0/

This is wrong and we need to do everything in our power to end this injustice against the American people.

Trump's slurred speech during Jerusalem announcement
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4696325/trumps-slurred-speech-jerusalem-announcement

Really having a hard time speaking and needed the chair to remain standing. I think at anytime he could stroke out.

So proud to be a liberal! why?
Human rights- We have standards and believe in treating all right!
Civil rights
freedom and liberty
The right to be who you wish to be in life(trans, gay, etc or what ever)
The right to marry and love who you wish
Believe in science that has cured and helped billions of people
Believe in good infrastructure to drive our cars on
Believe in clean air, water and food. The quality of life has gone up big time because of liberal ideas.
The unions and anti-trust laws built our middle class. Thanks liberals.
Believe in sound economic policies that care about our poor and old alike.

Conservatives are like the taliban...Backwards and dumber then a box full of shit.

Letting people suffer without medical care or without the means to feed themselves is conflicting the happiness and life part of The Declaration of Independence! It is just cold and don't you think you can't find yourself within this situation at some point in your life republicans. We're better then this and you better wake up or you'll find out the hard way.

Not only this but it is unmoral to allow millions to suffer and what does it serve? The private sector has proven to fail every time it's tried in the healthcare industry and no other developed first world nation uses it...None of these nations suffer from the debt from such a fucked up system that's only purpose is to milk the consumer to the point where him or her could lose their entire life savings from a few months of care. This doesn't happen in Canada, doesn't happen in all of western Europe or any other fully developed country that uses single payer! Hundred of billions flushed down the corporate toilet just for them to want more money from you the consumer.

It is not moral or right...It doesn't need to be forced on anyone and I'd be perfectly happy to support a private sector system in parallel as many developed nations also have...But, what the republican party is pushing for is just evil..Something satan would push for for you so called Christians. Maybe you should listen to jesus and consider the reality that one pushed suffering on people while the other wanted to cure. We're not in the 18th century and we shouldn't look the other way when it comes to suffering anymore.

Could Obama have Trump arrested if he starts a war with China before January 20th? Lets say he started talking about blowing up three Georges if they don't respect us on trade and China reacted with declaring war on the United states. Could Obama have him arrested for doing so before January 20th???

I think Obama would be justified in having the SS lock him in a room while he(obama) tried to make peace. This has never been needed before because most presidents elect respect the current president.