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https://twitter.com/JustSchmeltzer/status/871768624570281985 Also, I don't know Gowdy, I imagine he's somehow worse than Chaffetz?
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evilweasel posted:This is the same misunderstanding of privatization. This is going to be a non-profit government-controlled corporation, not a privately owned for-profit corporation. Then why is it being called "privatization"? I would expect something that gets privatized to end up, well, private.
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Jun 5, 2017 18:23
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/JustSchmeltzer/status/871768624570281985 He was the creator of the Benghazi Committee and made himself Chairman of said committee.
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Jun 5, 2017 18:23
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/JustSchmeltzer/status/871768624570281985 They're close, but Gowdy is very, VERY, VVVVEEEEERRRRRYYYYY stupid and he will twist every hearing to be about leaks or whatever
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Jun 5, 2017 18:24
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Pollyanna posted:Then why is it being called "privatization"? I would expect something that gets privatized to end up, well, private. Because it would be funded primarily through user-fees instead of taxes on fuel.
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Spaced God posted:Also, I don't know Gowdy, I imagine he's somehow worse than Chaffetz? Trey Gowdy is essentially a walking, talking Benghazi inquiry.
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AstheWorldWorlds posted:I wonder what percentage of public services will be privatized by 2100. Capitalists don't seem to really give a gently caress about whether it even makes sense so we can probably consider almost everything on the table. 0, President Wyden will socialize all the things
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Jun 5, 2017 18:25
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evilweasel posted:the proposal is a non-profit
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enraged_camel posted:Not sure if this has been discussed yet. Sounds like its a done deal and an attempt to quash the congressional investigations into Trump.
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Jun 5, 2017 18:26
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Chilichimp posted:Sounds like its a done deal and an attempt to quash the congressional investigations into Trump. That's a massive loving shame and if this guy fucks up the Russia investigations I will be so mad.
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Jun 5, 2017 18:27
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/JustSchmeltzer/status/871768624570281985 He was the chairman of the congressional special committee on Banghazi. He is an establishment attack dog and will absolutely kill any oversight investigation into Trump. He's also the defacto chair of the intel committee which has gone fully partisan on leaks and has all but stopped activity looking into Russian interference.
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Crain posted:What would a "non-compromise" candidate be? Jeff Sessions' KKK hood? compromise between the freedom caucus and the leadership, not between sanity and insanity its a fight over how much control leadership has, nothing more
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evilweasel posted:This is the same misunderstanding of privatization. This is going to be a non-profit government-controlled corporation, not a privately owned for-profit corporation. The non-profit label isn't a magic shield against a profit motive. The NFL is a non-profit. They're good at ignoring safety in favor of profit too, although on a different sort of scale. And if it's the "government-controlled" part that makes a difference... ATC is already government-controlled, why change it?
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Pollyanna posted:That's a massive loving shame and if this guy fucks up the Russia investigations I will be so mad. I recommend beginning the mad-getting right now because that is exactly what's going to happen. Congress can't stop Mueller's investigation--that's under the purview of the DoJ--but I wouldn't expect congressional investigations to continue in any sort of meaningful way.
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Pollyanna posted:Then why is it being called "privatization"? I would expect something that gets privatized to end up, well, private. trump is a dumb man-child
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Ravenfood posted:So's my hospital system, but that doesn't stop it from raking in a shitton of excess revenue that vanishes into the ether. the post was in response to this: azflyboy posted:Aside from the fact that controllers are unionized (which the GOP hates) and the uneven funding other posters mentioned, another reason is that it's because there are a lot of other countries (Canada, the UK, most of Europe) that have privatized ATC, but most of those setups are some kind of non-profit, which Trump doesn't understand. which you should have known, considering it was quoted in my post. did you not read that post, the post my post was in response to, it was quoted for a reason.
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 https://twitter.com/McClatchyDC/status/871675476237991936 Here's what a sane (relatively speaking, of course) Republican thought about that. https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/871712205938577409 https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/871713878371160065
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Harrow posted:I recommend beginning the mad-getting right now because that is exactly what's going to happen. Does the congressional investigation matter if Mueller will come to bipartisan results at this point?
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/JustSchmeltzer/status/871768624570281985 Trump's voters are loving morons. They probably see the optics of him signing anything and think he got a "win" or accomplished something.
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Rigel posted:
It's ok rick, voter suppression will take care of the rest
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enraged_camel posted:No, he is mad because he thinks air traffic controllers redirect planes to fly over Mar-a-lago just to piss him off. In highschool we moved to El Vedado street, which is directly underneath the path of the planes but closer to the airport. They were legitimately loud as gently caress, so the airport paid for all the homes to basically be soundproofed. Used to walk to the Southern Blvd bridge to fish with my brother, and when we got thirsty I'd go through the Mar-A-Lago workers entrance by the courts and steal the sodas that the club laid out in bowls of ice. What I'm trying to say here is that I repeatedly and successfully commit petty theft against Donald Trump as a kid, and this makes me feel fuzzy for some reason.
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Of course they're going to go after the media. The hell else have they got to run on?
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They seriously saw "Man wins election after bodyslamming reporter one day earlier" and concluded it was a winning strategy.
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WaPo has a tl;dr on the ATC Privatization Proposal:quote:Instead, Congress has expressed enormous frustration over the pace of the FAA’s modernization program, called NextGen.
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Jun 5, 2017 18:36
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Covok posted:Lex Luthor is more eloquent than this Not if he's the new lovely movie version.
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Ballz posted:They seriously saw "Man wins election after bodyslamming reporter one day earlier" and concluded it was a winning strategy. The poor bastards, God help them if the media starts doing journalism.
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Jun 5, 2017 18:37
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Spaced God posted:Does the congressional investigation matter if Mueller will come to bipartisan results at this point? Honestly don't know the answer to that. The benefit of a congressional investigation is that eventually their findings have to be made public, and many of their hearings would be public, too. It'd be a way for us to learn about what's going on (and, in a political sense, a potential goldmine for anti-Trump soundbites when 2020 rolls around). But with Mueller's independent investigation being the only one even remotely likely to result in real charges, that's definitely the more important investigation.
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Unrelated, but my wife just told a family member that dinner tonight would be at 6. And that that wasn't a hard 6, but a soft six.  I'm 11 years old 
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TARDISman posted:Not if he's the new lovely movie version. You mean Lex Jr.?
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This is the "Memes for Horny Bourgeois Teens" guys, right? pro click if so
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Skippy Granola posted:The poor bastards, God help them if the media starts doing journalism. The media as a whole has been on Trump's rear end since the inauguration. This will only make them go at him, and the GOP, even harder. Meanwhile Fox News and its ilk will continue to slip in the ratings since they can't cover the subject that people are eagerly devouring on all the other networks, that is Trump constantly loving up. And yes 30ish of people will still buy into the GOP anti-media narrative yadda yadda yadda we know so shut up.
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Chilichimp posted:Unrelated, but my wife just told a family member that dinner tonight would be at 6. I'm giving that story a hard 5 to a light 6
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/871782329362022400 It's telling that Trump's disaproval is so much higher even when the approval is the same. And wasn't the fact that Bill won the election in a 3 way race partly to blame for his early low approval ratings? He only won a plurality not a majority of votes right?
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Rigel posted:
I don't get why this strat is dumb, Trump already proved you could rail against fake news and lose the popular vote by three million votes and still win.
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enraged_camel posted:No, he is mad because he thinks air traffic controllers redirect planes to fly over Mar-a-lago just to piss him off. That's so beautiful. At this point, we can trace Trump's stupider moves to petty beefs he's had with people. Obama loved the ACA, so screw that. Hillary was in charge of the State Department, yep let's gut that. Air traffic controllers may have routed planes over his club, let's privatize them. The secret to getting Trump to do what you want him to do is make another group piss him off. If it wasn't for the Secret Service we could sell range targets with Trump's head at a gun show and Trump would suddenly be pro-gun control. Stupid Secret Service.
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:I don't get why this strat is dumb, Trump already proved you could rail against fake news and lose the popular vote by three million votes and still win. House and Senate aren't gated by the EC, so...
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