SwitchbladeKult posted:

A guy at my office is convinced Christians are expelled if they are caught praying in public schools, even public Universities. I've tried to correct him but he just waits patiently till I'm done explaining I used to be part of a Christian student club at a public University to tell me how wrong I am and how oppressed Christians are.

Chip Bok posted:

Last week President Trump issued an executive order rolling back President Obama’s executive order to subsidize insurance companies. The subsidies reimburse the companies for reducing certain out-of-pocket expenses to policy holders.

The only problem is Congress refused to appropriate money for the subsidies. So Obama whipped out his pen and phone and and started spending the money anyway. And Trump continued that practice. But a federal district court judge says that’s illegal.

This week two Republican senators, Tom Cotton and Pat Toomey, introduced a bill to to partially end the individual mandate, no longer requiring some people to buy health insurance.

Yesterday two more Senators, Republican Lamar Alexander and Democrat Patty Murray, made a deal to keep the subsidies alive. Trump said nice things about it last night but withdrew support today.

Time.com tries to explain what’s going here.

Sagebrush posted:

Oh, just do it. I wrote a sarcastic email to Brooke McEldowney once (of 9 Chickweed Lane) complaining about his comic strip, and got an equally vitriolic letter back.

the_steve posted:

Plus, all the things on the web are good things.

Equal pay for women, also stop sexually assaulting them! Stop shooting everyone!

I mean, what sort of worthless gently caress head do you have to be to look at those things and say "Yeah, gently caress those ideas."?
It is a rhetorical question, we all already know.

Crazycryodude posted:

Don't be a dick to people with anxiety. Also, I've got a defunct joke account I don't care about so why the hell not.
https://twitter.com/Pepeboner69/status/920849460829097984

Despera posted:

Getting conservatives to hate guns is as easy as giving them to black men.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

VideoGameVet posted:

Indeed

VideoGameVet posted:

Indeed

Fathis Munk posted:

You don't even have to go back this far. During the Ferguson protests the Oath Keepers showed up, walking around open carrying ARs. One of them decided that the black residents of Ferguson should also start open carrying.

Suddenly the Oath Keepers were very much against that idea

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-oath-keeper-who-wants-to-arm-black-lives-matter-20160103

King Possum III posted:

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CNN posted:

(CNN)In his first comments after Donald Trump said he intended to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, on Wednesday called the US president "foul-mouthed" and someone who "pretends to be an idiot."

Speaking before a group of what was described by his office as "hundreds of young elites and outstanding scientific talents," Khamenei said that the European opposition to Trump's decision was "good, but not enough."

"The Europeans must stand up against the US measures ... including the sanctions they anticipate to emerge from Congress," he said.

Last week President Trump said Iran was violating the nuclear accord and has threatened to withdraw the US from the deal of which several countries, including Russia, China, and the EU, are all also party to. So far, the other participants have said the deal stands.

Of Iran's commitment to upholding the nuclear deal itself, Khamenei said that "so long as the other side has not torn up the JCPOA, we will not tear it up either," he said, referring to the accord which is known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Selachian posted:

Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) posted:

“She was crying the whole time, and when she hung up the phone, she looked at me and said, ‘He didn’t even remember his name.’ That’s the hurting part.”

Vib Rib posted:

I wish to god "he knew what he signed up for" would have half the loving staying power as an incriminating, callous phrase as half the poo poo the right still bandy about re: Obama or the Clintons.
But realistically, I doubt we'll see much of it again within a week. Meanwhile we'll still be getting "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" cartoons.

Samurai Sanders posted:

I doubt most people appreciate the difference between some random guy saying that and the commander of the whole military saying it. I dunno how exactly to capture that difference in a cartoon though.

there wolf posted:

I feel like you should have some backup edits to reply with just in case he tweets back.

Vib Rib posted:

I wish to god "he knew what he signed up for" would have half the loving staying power as an incriminating, callous phrase as half the poo poo the right still bandy about re: Obama or the Clintons.
But realistically, I doubt we'll see much of it again within a week. Meanwhile we'll still be getting "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" cartoons.

Alhazred posted:

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

Vib Rib posted:

I wish to god "he knew what he signed up for" would have half the loving staying power as an incriminating, callous phrase as half the poo poo the right still bandy about re: Obama or the Clintons.
But realistically, I doubt we'll see much of it again within a week. Meanwhile we'll still be getting "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" cartoons.

Oxyclean posted:

What's the context of that?

My friend was saying the other day John Oliver had said some time after the election something to the effect of "Trump is so narcissistic that he might be the first president incapable of the simple task of offering condolences to the spouse of a fallen soldier" - I can't imagine there's been an episode of LWT since Trump said "he knew what he signed up for"? But it seems perfect for the prediction.

Vib Rib posted:

I wish to god "he knew what he signed up for" would have half the loving staying power as an incriminating, callous phrase as half the poo poo the right still bandy about re: Obama or the Clintons.
But realistically, I doubt we'll see much of it again within a week. Meanwhile we'll still be getting "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" cartoons.

Pakled posted:

Could you loving imagine if Obama had said "I like guys who weren't captured" in 2008?

Lord Hydronium posted:

If Obama did literally anything Trump did we'd never hear the end of it.

Including being president.

Ularg posted:

... sexual predator... religious fundamentalist... incapable of being a human with emotions

Iron Crowned posted:

You've just described the right itself

Ularg posted:

I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that the right doesn't care about anything other than "You're on our side, right?". It doesn't matter if you are a sexual predator, as long as you are theirs. Doesn't matter if you are a religious fundamentalist, as long as you are theirs. Doesn't matter if you are incapable of being a human with emotions, as long as you are theirs.