For the same reasons as in Diocletian's time. Oppressive taxation is a hell of a drug.

Predictably, Iraq, Iran and Turkey all immediately prep for invasion. Hopefully things are a lot less dire than they seem. Certainly the interview with Joe Lauria from earlier would suggest that a lot of this is just sabre rattling.

Spanish thugs say they'll squat on all polling places to suppress the vote.

As expected, the good stuff wins out in the end.

Thankfully, US allies aren't buying the lies.

Claims they are all Nusra guys. Sounds highly suspect.

Looks like even more evidence for it being an "insider attack" is surfacing (Seth Rich with USB drive, likely).

As if it *couldn't* have been true with all the NSA shit wikileaks told us about earlier (and the stuff we even knew in the 90s).

Martial law de-facto imposed to prevent the elections.

B..But it must be 11th dimensional backgammon by Putin!!!1 Wikileaks is in cahoots with them to "hack" Hillary's vagina the election!

Almost as if it was ripped from South Park. It is like they've become self-parody.

The state there really wants to keep their pillage.

Finally, a good use for bluetooth

Bill with scary sounding name (Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act) miraculously gets amended to do something that isn't 100% horrifying. I'm sure the rest of it is loaded with pork and liberty killing provisions, however.

Yay! My favorite scumbag politician.

Formalizing the colonialism. Now they get to enjoy the local girls getting raped by GIs.

Just because someone is literally "asking for it" doesn't mean you should do it.

Useful for everyone who isn't no-hits out there

This could be very useful clinically.

This is the most stupid pearl-clutching I've seen in some time, and that's saying something.

Search and Siezure without warrants. They didn't even pretend to try. And then the nerve to demand they sell all their property for next to nothing to the USG, and are not allowed even to rent it out.

Now nobody will bet a penny on their diplomatic missions being safe around the Americans.

This, I fear is the point of no return in our relations. Like the script the cops have written for themselves by being so arrogant as to brook no challenge to their authority, this too will result in blood. It's telling that YouTube blocked the video.

They're now banking on getting a haircut with their lenders. Methinks they'll get a decapitation instead.

The guy has it wrong, but his finger is directly on the pulse of the zeitgeist. Pretty lulzy overall, being over-the top painfully hip.

Long story short, everybody is living beyond their means (or trying to look like it without actually doing so). And they're pinning their hopes on speculation, and will get screwed.

That was quick

As is the case with all public sector pensions.