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M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon

tastefully arranged labia posted:

check out this boot bitch

They give out GWOT-S out of boot now? Pussies

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orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Hexyflexy posted:

Reminds me of the one time I've read a story about the marines in Japan that actually suprised me. I can't find the story because searching for "Marine Rape Japan" quite frankly brings up a disturbing number of articles, but several years ago, according the reports I read, a couple of very young marines on their first overseas trip managed to:

a) Get dropped off wherever US military people get dropped off, miles away from anywhere.
b) Having no transport, go and find the nearest bar, in a country they don't know and with no language knowledge, and get wasted.
c) Rape a girl.
d) Get to the base they were supposed to get to.

In under 2 hours.

I gave up being disgusted and just boggled at the logistics. Or whatever the gently caress they managed to do to spacetime.

Marines can accomplish their mission with minimal resources and under tight deadlines.

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon
I'm still to this day confused why so many people I worked with thought they also got to wear a GWOT-E

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus

orange juche posted:

Marines can accomplish their mission with minimal resources and under tight deadlines.

:boom:

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/887123822733914112

trumplovestruck(2).jpg

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012






I'm just glad it is at the top of a new page so it can get the love it deserves

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Turtlefuck changed course and gave up on repeal-and-replace.

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/887142244146401281

The new plan is a time-delayed two-year Obamacare full repeal.

It likely needs 60 votes to advance, so it's just a show-vote, again.

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/887134287350439936

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

what a fuckboi

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!



https://twitter.com/samstein/status/887129431306899457

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

facialimpediment posted:

It likely needs 60 votes to advance, so it's just a show-vote, again.

I was wrong about this, it looks like that 2015 bill actually can get through reconciliation, at a cost of 34m uninsured and a premium increase of 100%, per an old CBO score.

But really, that correction is just to post this conference call gem: https://twitter.com/JaxAlemany/status/887144137459421185

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I think this is Fuckface McTurtle trying to spread the poo poo around and get a little on everyone. If he can't have his lovingly handcrafted poor-loving bill to put on the trophy wall to show to his donors he'll throw full repeal out to everyone and force them to vote on it.

That's my immediate reaction anyway, because I don't see there being any way to expect something that obliterates medical care in this country to pass. There weren't enough people in the Senate that wanted to own the last destructive plan. Making it blow up even bigger isn't exactly a good negotiation tactic.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

He wants to force a vote on it so they can put it to bed (or to the grave) and get on to giving tax breaks to people who don't need any more money.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

psydude posted:

He wants to force a vote on it so they can put it to bed (or to the grave) and get on to giving tax breaks to people who don't need any more money.

I dont think they can do tax breaks at all without massive cuts, like the Medicaid ones that the moderate Rs ran from

KirbyKhan
Mar 20, 2009



Soiled Meat
This is a big stick to use against current republicans. Anyone who voted yes on that bill in 2015 will have to answer why they didn't vote for it this year. The answer is obvious, but now people will have to say it out loud.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

bird food bathtub posted:

Making it blow up even bigger isn't exactly a good negotiation tactic.

Rand "gently caress you got mine" Paul and Zodiac Killer will vote it up now.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

suboptimal posted:

trumplovestruck(2).jpg

OH MY loving GOD LOOK AT SPICEY

https://twitter.com/pbump/status/887148964163850242

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





hahahahahaha

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit
A good thread

https://twitter.com/AJentleson/status/887137073785909250

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

quote:

Senators want to get things done. McConnell's pitch to his fellow Republicans was always, let's get power & THEN we'll get things done. 10/

Their problem now is that the tactics McConnell employed to accrue power undercut their ability to get things done.

Earth, scorched. 11/

I'm confused as to what these sentences mean. Is he referring to basically never compromising with Dem's or something during the last years of Obama?

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012




That is the face of a man who has hit rock bottom.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate


New Republic's story on Trump being a russian mob front for money laundering

wanna see a rico warrant

edit: maddow did a bit on manaforte's loans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfIFqMi-9E0

Nostalgia4Butts fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Jul 18, 2017

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Nostalgia4Butts posted:

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate


New Republic's story on Trump being a russian mob front for money laundering

wanna see a rico warrant

edit: maddow did a bit on manaforte's loans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfIFqMi-9E0

Christ he really does work like a mob boss. Disconnected from everything while surrounded by shady as gently caress poo poo.

Mueller, make us proud.

my kinda ape
Sep 15, 2008

Everything's gonna be A-OK
Oven Wrangler

Yowza, that is some shady poo poo. Even if only 10% of that is true (let's be honest it's all true and there's plenty more we don't know about) then anyone can see he's corrupt as they come.

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016
https://twitter.com/travon/status/886818708299145216

Yes this 100% totally happened

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
The Obamacare replacement bill is dead, so hey let's just pass "repeal and probably replace it a couple years from now"

https://twitter.com/SenateMajLdr/status/887142105583431680

Oxygenpoisoning
Feb 21, 2006
I'm from Kentucky and I say kill'em all!

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!



Given Trump's Golf Habits, The Coast Guard Plans To Cut Off Potomac River Access



Oh my god, gently caress Orange Gropenfuhrer so hard. This area was so nice to kayak in :(

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.

Maybe it's like the word oriental, where it's OK to use regarding art and food!

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

A :perfect: response from C-SPAM:

Squizzle posted:

🗡️🐲

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/887302632687251456

Trump has literally no idea what just happened in the senate.

Gobbeldygook
May 13, 2009
Hates Native American people and tries to justify their genocides.

Put this racist on ignore immediately!

Zeris posted:

Maybe it's like the word oriental, where it's OK to use regarding art and food!
~three years ago I was present for an elderly professor giving a presentation in which he struggled for a moment to come up with a word to describe a subject and came up with "young oriental boy". I think it's like unironic use of "colored" or "negro" where if you're old enough that it's your go-to word everyone should just congratulate you on living a long and not too racist life and let you be.

edit: This came up recently when a British politician used the phrase "friend of the family in the woodpile". Linguist defending him, another linguist calling bullshit on that and similar phrases.

Gobbeldygook fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Jul 18, 2017

boop the snoot
Jun 3, 2016

Gobbeldygook posted:

~three years ago I was present for an elderly professor giving a presentation in which he struggled for a moment to come up with a word to describe a subject and came up with "young oriental boy". I think it's like unironic use of "colored" or "negro" where if you're old enough that it's your go-to word everyone should just congratulate you on living a long and not too racist life and let you be.

Post + username combo

One of my accounting professors says the two Asian kids in class are her math geniuses and it's hilarious.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Best Friends posted:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/887302632687251456

Trump has literally no idea what just happened in the senate.

Emptyquoting because oh my god he is retarded.

Thwomp
Apr 10, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer

Best Friends posted:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/887302632687251456

Trump has literally no idea what just happened in the senate.

I mean, he's just restating what every president has said of the senate. And it's true that there's nothing preventing the Senate from abolishing the filibuster and going full majority rules.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Thwomp posted:

I mean, he's just restating what every president has said of the senate. And it's true that there's nothing preventing the Senate from abolishing the filibuster and going full majority rules.

The Obamacare repeal/replace was being done with budget reconciliation, a process that already nullifies the filibuster and goes to majority rules.
And they couldn't get a majority, even though there are 52 Republican Senators and they don't even need a real majority, just 50 votes with Pence as tiebreaker.

So you apparently also do not know what just happened in the Senate.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Senate Obamacare repeal vote count update: lol

Turtleman can only lose three senators. Collins is a confirmed no. Capito is a confirmed no. McCain is still out post surgery, so the bill at a minimum won't pass until he's back.

And Portman is saying poo poo like this: https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/887317342388191232

They're hosed, just waiting for that confirmed third no. If Portman is making GBS threads on the plan, it doesn't have anywhere close to 50.

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

The Republican Party, just self serving enough to attempt to shoot America in the head and not charitable enough to dome themselves by doing it.

Thwomp
Apr 10, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer

Stultus Maximus posted:

The Obamacare repeal/replace was being done with budget reconciliation, a process that already nullifies the filibuster and goes to majority rules.
And they couldn't get a majority, even though there are 52 Republican Senators and they don't even need a real majority, just 50 votes with Pence as tiebreaker.

So you apparently also do not know what just happened in the Senate.

I guess we're talking past each other a bit.

This whole budget reconciliation process was to just get something that could be called "repeal and replace" done (along with a big tax/spending cut). They don't have 60 votes to pass actual legislation that would repeal the ACA.

If the Senate was a simple majority for all legislation, they could do complete repeal on a simple majority vote. This is what frustrates presidents. They have a majority but still can't proceed with their legislation unless they get bi-partisan buy-in (or get a super-majority).


facialimpediment posted:

Senate Obamacare repeal vote count update: lol

Turtleman can only lose three senators. Collins is a confirmed no. Capito is a confirmed no. McCain is still out post surgery, so the bill at a minimum won't pass until he's back.

And Portman is saying poo poo like this: https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/887317342388191232

They're hosed, just waiting for that confirmed third no. If Portman is making GBS threads on the plan, it doesn't have anywhere close to 50.

Wouldn't full repeal require 60 votes given that it wouldn't be strictly be about budgetary matters?

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facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Thwomp posted:

Wouldn't full repeal require 60 votes given that it wouldn't be strictly be about budgetary matters?

They did some goofy poo poo with the 2015 repeal bill that let it use reconciliation and the 50-vote threshold. I originally thought it was a 60-threshold, but everything I read says this particular bill passes the Byrd Rule reconciliation threshold of 50. If I find a full explainer (and the bill isn't dead yet) I'll post it.

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