A reduced version of the troll's partial ban on Muslims is now in effect.

Since people actually coming from one of the six singled-out countries would have applied for a visa anyway, it mainly blocks European citizens that originated in those countries.

The Tories considered a plan to eliminate cash in the UK, and track all payments by everyone.

Labour supporters, now is time start organizing to defned cash and privacy when Labour wins an election. This is not one of Labour's basic principles, so we can't take it for granted.

The troll proposed a large arms sale to Taiwan, despite expected resentment from China.

To reduce the effect of China's intimidating global financial power is a good thing. Now who will defy the even more intimidating global financial power of the Koch brothers?

Republican senators may think they can get away with destroying Medicaid because bigots will support them anyway.

The bigots may not be a big enough bloc, though.

Gayle Newland has been convicted of "sexual assault" because the woman who willingly had sex with her had been led to think Newland was male.

Is using a dildo instead of a real penis "assult"??? How absurd.

I can imagine a progression of absurd cases in the future:

2021: "I had not really consented to sex because he pretended to be unmarried and that wasn't true. I found out the truth by looking him up on the internet.
Put him in prison!"

2025: "I had not really consented to sex because she pretended to be blond and that wasn't true. I found out the truth when I saw her pubic hair roots.
Put her in prison!"

2017: "I grabbed her pussy, but it turns out she was a man. How dare he mislead the President of the United States?
Put him in prison!"