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It's so odd, he couldn't get 50 votes for his biggest thing, so he wants to change the requirement to 50 votes so he can pass his biggest thing. Half the reason the bill didn't pass was because he's stupid and his solution to the problem is to be more stupid.
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facialimpediment posted:It's so odd, he couldn't get 50 votes for his biggest thing, so he wants to change the requirement to 50 votes so he can pass his biggest thing. I think Trump for once is not quite wrong (broken clock etc.). The Senate only tried to pass skinny repeal because they couldn't rip out important (and expensive) parts of Obamacare through reconciliation. Mitch could likely have crafted a bill that stood a higher chance of getting to 50 votes if he didn't need to follow reconciliation rules. On the other hand, pre-existing conditions, medicare expansion and letting kids stay on their parents plan are very popular, and the GOP has largely abandoned the effort to undo these parts of the ACA. I'm not sure if there are 50 votes to get rid of them, at least Murkoswki and Collins seem sure to vote against any such measures. So maybe Mitch would not be able to pass Obamacare repeal if the filibuster were abolished. But I think the chances of the Better Health Care Act (or whatever it's called) passing would have been quite a bit higher.
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Torrannor posted:On the other hand, pre-existing conditions, medicare expansion and letting kids stay on their parents plan are very popular, and the GOP has largely abandoned the effort to undo these parts of the ACA. The old Gypsy woman's curse continues. https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/403960097346293760
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Remember about a month or two ago, when South Korea was upset about finding out the US was supposedly deploying more THAAD systems than allowed, and threatened to end cooperation involving THAAD deployment altogether as a political move? https://twitter.com/ChrisALosee144/status/891287162750152705 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-norhtkorea-missiles-thaad-idUSKBN1AE02L?il=0 /edit: Looked for a teaser for the article to embed, but unfortunately, we can only embed tweets in this bizarre reality of ours, so you're welcome for that tweet by renowned geopolitical expert/journalist CHRIS A LOSEE ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTY FOUR
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Jul 29, 2017 15:12
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Nick Soapdish posted:Trump is up and mad at Senate rules. Remember, kids: if at first you don't succeed, just lower the bar for success!
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Fister Roboto posted:Remember, kids: if at first you don't succeed, just lower the bar for success! - Trump Family Motto.
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How was John Kelly as a general? He seems very loyal, but doesn't strike me as philosophical or intellectual the way Mattis or McMaster are. Anyone here serve under him?
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Suicide Watch posted:How was John Kelly as a general? He seems very loyal, but doesn't strike me as philosophical or intellectual the way Mattis or McMaster are. Anyone here serve under him? Having hitched his wagon to the Trump train his judgement seems poor unless he's..... deep state agent.
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I'm just going off of the top of my head here so I could be wrong, but how has NKs missile capability gone from everyone treating it like a joke 6 months ago to "can hit the entire US" so fast? e: I'll go check out the airpower thread
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sharknado slashfic posted:I'm just going off of the top of my head here so I could be wrong, but how has NKs missile capability gone from everyone treating it like a joke 6 months ago to "can hit the entire US" so fast?
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Could someone be supplying metallurgical or booster tech to NK on the sly? I seem to recall Pakistan got implicated/busted doing it in the last 18 months or so.
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sharknado slashfic posted:I'm just going off of the top of my head here so I could be wrong, but how has NKs missile capability gone from everyone treating it like a joke 6 months ago to "can hit the entire US" so fast? North Korea has been treated like a joke for like 20 years. The problem when you're trivializing an entire regime outright on the basis of its lovely infrastructure, ludicrous leadership, and desolate state of its military for decades, is that it's hard to go back to reasonable, sound threat assessment in the eyes of your own political leadership. Now imagine your leadership being the well-oiled machine of reason that is the Trump administration. I sifted through the TFR thread, and there are some folks arguing that this missile isn't exactly an indication that they can deliver a nuclear weapon NOW as much as it shows the platform for the delivery is apparently ahead of schedule. Actually sizing down a warhead for the reentry vehicle, and testing "throw weight" (a term I've now learned) seems to be a different discussion, and there are still a bunch of question marks. The problem is that this trivialization still isn't going away.
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Honestly at this point every country with an interest in the peninsula should just gangbang NK and let China repopulate it and run it with a puppet government or something
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It'll be fun when the Sorks get nukes to use on / counter the Norks. http://amp.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article164177042.html
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milk milk lemonade posted:Honestly at this point every country with an interest in the peninsula should just gangbang NK and let China repopulate it and run it with a puppet government or something Works well enough in Civ, give it a go.
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milk milk lemonade posted:Honestly at this point every country with an interest in the peninsula should just gangbang NK and let China repopulate it and run it with a puppet government or something NK is so hosed up that you'd have to maintain hard rule over them for at least a generation to start getting them re-educated, and the West doesn't have the stomach for that.
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The Orgasm Sanction posted:NK is so hosed up that you'd have to maintain hard rule over them for at least a generation to start getting them re-educated, and the West doesn't have the stomach for that. I don't think you quite get what is being suggested.
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Better idea: let the UN run it as a protectorate or something and start really dipping our toes into the NWO
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The only way to get rid of Kim that doesn't end in a military and humanitarian clusterfuck is if China removes him and tells whatever military leadership is around that they can rule but there's some stipulations
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1) Enlist the entire north Korea army in the newly created American Foreign Legion. 2) invade Syria 3) endless war
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Confirming that america needs the equivalent of sardaukar legions.
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If the US gets serious about NK, including earnestly thinking of the military option, then it makes even less sense to rip up the Iran nuclear deal.
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Smiling Jack posted:1) Enlist the entire north Korea army in the newly created American Foreign Legion. this would turn into real life battlegrounds so fast. bunch of people scrambing around ruins looking for guns and supplies, shooting everyone they meet
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milk milk lemonade posted:Better idea: let the UN run it as a protectorate or something and start really dipping our toes into the NWO It might make sense for the UN to actually hold territory. Maybe make it a new rule that failed states become UN territory. Encourage regimes to actually come up with something workable.
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RFC2324 posted:It might make sense for the UN to actually hold territory. Sounds like a fantastic way to make dictators all the stronger. Revolutions don't happen because of a lack of nationalism.
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Syncopated posted:Give North Korea to the Palestinians, part of the deal is they have to repress the North Korean populace. Boom done Better than anything this White House will come up with.
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 We are closer to Skynet than I though quote:Facebook kills AI that invented its own language because English was slow http://www.pcgamer.com/facebook-kills-ai-that-invented-its-own-language-because-english-was-slow/
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Considering the state of the english language, I don't see a problem with letting robots have a do-over.
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Sounds like their lovely AI is just too dumb to count
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Oh goody a trade war with China. Thank god fox com is putting a slave factory in the states so I can still get my gizmos.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I...what A lot of this stuff makes more sense when you picture Trump as Generic Fox News Viewer. He's old as gently caress, shouts out opinions at random times, and actually has no idea what he's talking about. The producers just pick what random thing to get angry about on that given day. Most days, he has about as much power as a Generic Fox News Viewer too. Senators have essentially figured out that all of his lashing out is just a brain-broke old gently caress trying to push off blame on to anyone like a Reverse Truman, so they've tuned it out.
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facialimpediment posted:Most days, he has about as much power as a Generic Fox News Viewer too. Senators have essentially figured out that all of his lashing out is just a brain-broke old gently caress trying to push off blame on to anyone like a Reverse Truman, so they've tuned it out.
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shyduck posted:I'm more concerned (I can't use that word the same way now) about how China, or anybody else on the opposite end of these rants that aren't involved in the day-to-day of Washington might handle these tweets. Like is China doing the same thing, thinking Trump is just larding off and it'll amount to nothing? I have a feeling they do, since everybody talks, but there's that lingering doubt, and it's really unnerving. I think at this point every world leader is pretty much doing their best to ignore him. I mean, wtf else are you going to do.
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facialimpediment posted:A lot of this stuff makes more sense when you picture Trump as Generic Fox News Viewer. He's old as gently caress, shouts out opinions at random times, and actually has no idea what he's talking about. The producers just pick what random thing to get angry about on that given day. The Buck Stops Anywhere But Here
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