Shukaro posted:

I like how they barely even try to present a front of decorum anymore and just outright exempt themselves from their ghoulish healthcare slashing.

Hollismason posted:

I'm pretty sure this bill also still includes the ability for states to set the minimum income requirement to less than the Federal Poverty Level for Medicaid eligibility. I may be wrong though I thought though that was in this bill.

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Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the maker of OxyContin, Criticized For New ‘It Gets You High’ Campaign

“We’re in the midst of an unprecedented opioid crisis in this country—is it really helpful to have thousands of billboards, website banners, and bus ads touting how incredible you’ll feel after just 10 milligrams?” said National Institute on Drug Abuse spokeswoman Tina Walters, adding that brightly lit billboards with slogans such as “What A Rush” and “Take More, Feel Better” represented a dangerous normalization of powerful opioids.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

FlamingLiberal posted:

Doesn't it also basically create a system where if you are in a red state they can limit what insurance companies are required to cover as 'basic services'? I think that made it into the last bill.

Because what we really need in this country is a healthcare system where every state has different coverages and if you happen to live in a state run by horrible monsters like Kansas or Oklahoma, too bad for you.

quote:

Former White House Official and Fox News Host Lisa Boothe: ‘Soulless’ Hillary Clinton ‘Would Literally Sell Her Daughter to Be President’

DreamShipWrecked posted:

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/886286641215795200

Rigel posted:

It sure sounds like Sandoval is not being convinced, at all.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/15/price-verma-governors-health-care-coverage-losses-240590

Rigel posted:

It sure sounds like Sandoval is not being convinced, at all.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/15/price-verma-governors-health-care-coverage-losses-240590

DreamShipWrecked posted:

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/886286641215795200

skylined! posted:

it's pretty amazing that the announcement of an actual meeting with russians hasn't tanked his approval even further, and these polls seem to be post-tuesday-announcement - correct me if im wrong

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo

empty whippet box posted:

How would them paying jr's lawyer relate to the emails exactly? What did he have to do with it?

empty whippet box posted:

How would them paying jr's lawyer relate to the emails exactly? What did he have to do with it?

Your Taint posted:

Bill Nye needs to do his patriotic duty and destroy this fucker.

Simplex posted:

I think this idea that the Republican base consists of the suburbs is overstated. It's a statement that could be interpreted as true, but doesn't really mean that much. The reality I think, is that the greatest concentration of Republican voters are typically areas that Democrats do very well in. To use Pennsylvania as an example, there are 9 counties in the state where Donald Trump received over 100,000 votes, and those counties account for 44% of his total in the state. Hillary won 6 of those 9 counties. Philadelphia County went 85% for Clinton, but that's still over 100,000 Trump votes. Nobody is going to try to claim that downtown Philly makes up a core demographic of the Republican base.

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

wow, the rats are leaving the ship:

http://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/449516/donald-trump-russia-benefit-doubt-now-gone

mod sassinator posted:

Better yet let's get Neil deGrasse Tyson back in this shape for the debate:

(that's really him)

Chilichimp posted:

lol at the national review literally linking a Chris Hayes segment.

Also, man, Chris Hayes is like the male version of Rachel Maddow. Their mannerisms and delivery are almost identical.

empty whippet box posted:

How would them paying jr's lawyer relate to the emails exactly? What did he have to do with it?

glowing-fish posted:

(I know this thread moves fast)

paternity suitor posted:

Dang, NDT was a stud!

Lol @ Giraldo now saying that Watergate wasn't so bad

Flip Yr Wig posted:

So the 8th man never got revealed? Or was it so boring that it immediately got buried?

Mustached Demon posted:

I thought it was that KGB agent dude?

skylined! posted:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/donald-trump-jr-meeting/index.html

updated this am - the translator's name was released but i can't find the 8th person

Mustached Demon posted:

I thought it was that KGB agent dude?

Doctor Candiru posted:

On that note, how do we still not have the mystery eighth person from the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower?

1. Don Jr.
2. Kushner
3. Manafort
4. Goldstone
5. Lawyer lady on a suspended visa
6. Former KGB who looks like the Eraserhead guy.
7. Translator
8.

cant cook creole bream posted:

Where exactly did the number 8 come from anyway? As far as I know some news site suddenly said, "Actually, there where 8 people in there. Here are the names of some, but not all of them." Where did they get that information? Did they check the amount of seats?

cant cook creole bream posted:

Where exactly did the number 8 come from anyway? As far as I know some news site suddenly said, "Actually, there where 8 people in there. Here are the names of some, but not all of them." Where did they get that information? Did they check the amount of seats?

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Despite Trump, Resilient Support for Republicans in 2018 Worries Democrats

Veteran Democratic Pollster Stanley Greenberg has presented the Democratic National Committee with the results of hundreds of hours of focus groups and phone polls with over 6,000 voters. The results have some Democrats nervous. Democrats had hoped that President Trump's low approval ratings and the lack of legislative successes from the Republican-controlled Congress would be a boon for Democratic congressional candidates in the 2018 election. However, the data from Greenberg, which is the most comprehensive analysis of American attitudes collected since the 2016 election, paints a more mixed picture. The highlights from Greenberg's focus groups and polls of voters in all 50 states include:

- Increased interest and expression of likelihood to vote among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, but that increase is wiped out by an almost equal rise in the same sentiments among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.

- Despite poor personal ratings for President Trump (he is underwater on most personal questions in polls and a common theme in the focus groups is worry about his temperament impacting his ability to get things done) the Republican Party as a whole has not seen a decline in standing among Americans on character and competence issues. Even with Trump's low personal ratings, Americans still perceive the Republican Party as one that "Can make tough decisions that are best for the country" and "Best able to handle national security threats and strengthen America abroad."

- Unsurprisingly, many Americans say that they are tired of politics and don't think that the political process represents them. Voter interest in 2018 is higher among partisans on both sides, but lower among America as a whole. Surprisingly, it seems that the election of President Trump has resulted in a larger percentage of Democratic voters who say they won't vote or participate in 2018. Traditionally, opposition participation increased when one party control all the levers of power in Washington. The election of President Trump seems to have hurt the motivation of Democrats and rallied Republicans; a first for this type of finding.

- Despite a 57% disapproval for Congressional Republicans, 79% of Americans say that they would be willing to vote for Republican for congress. In focus groups, Americans overwhelmingly said that they vote for "the person and not the party."

- Only 17% of Americans support the GOP plan to replace Obamacare, but the saving grace for Republicans is that only 11% of Americans approve of the current state of healthcare in America. 82% say that the GOP bill "couldn't make it much worse" for most Americans to access and pay for healthcare in America.

- The overall picture from Greenberg is an America that is tired of politics, politicians, and elections. Even though there is discontent with President Trump's policies, many Americans have decided to tune out of politics (a disproportionate number of them Democrats - a worrying sign for DNC officials) and just cast a pox on all their houses. Americans are dissatisfied with President Trump's time in office so far, but they do not consider him a President who is "out of the mainstream compared to other Presidents" and consider him "about the same" as President Obama when it comes to partisanship, divisiveness, and the percentage of his actions that are "political and not practical."

This points to a 2018 election that looks a lot like 2016; with Republicans gaining a few seats, but otherwise maintaining the status quo due to a lack of voter participation or any wide-spread change in voting habits.

skylined! posted:

Trump Jr.
Kushner
Manafort
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
Rinat Akhmetshin
publicist Rob Goldstone
translator Anatoli Samochornov
mystery person

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CNN has now confirmed that at least eight people were in the room, including Trump Jr.; Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner; Trump's then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort; Akhmetshin; Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, publicist Rob Goldstone, who helped set up the meeting; a translator; and a representative of the prominent Russian family who initiated the meeting. This information came from sources familiar with the details of the meeting who did not provide all the attendees' names.