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Office Pig posted:I wonder if he’s doing this because he can’t bomb NK? Dude wants to be a big boy and he thinks that means he has to play with the big boy toys.
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Mr Hootington posted:Meanwhile more cool stuff is going to happen. Oh boy I sure can’t wait to see what kind of vomit-inducing “bipartisan compromise” comes out of this.
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"The paper of record," ladies and gentlemen. edit: tl;dr: David Brooks writes another "Democratic support for abortion rights is why they've lost and is in fact the only reason they've lost since the '70s" piece.
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readingatwork posted:Oh boy I sure can’t wait to see what kind of vomit-inducing “bipartisan compromise” comes out of this. What's the constituency for this though?
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RuanGacho posted:What's the constituency for this though? None. Has that ever stopped them before?
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Grapplejack posted:There is, of course, one other option; you could split Afghanistan apart and give pieces to Iran and Pakistan and whatever rump state is left becomes the new Afghanistan. Like the gazillion tribes in Afghanistan would tolerate Iran or Pakistan any better than they do America
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Would the DSC and its donor structure be in part the main reason why the democrats are so pathetic right now? Why did we let this happen?
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Grapplejack posted:There is, of course, one other option; you could split Afghanistan apart and give pieces to Iran and Pakistan and whatever rump state is left becomes the new Afghanistan. That would go wrong in so many new and interesting ways.
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Feb 2, 2018 06:11
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LinYutang posted:Like the gazillion tribes in Afghanistan would tolerate Iran or Pakistan any better than they do America That's their problem at that point. 
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Good morning to everyone except the fash https://twitter.com/igd_news/status/959266093310230528
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Everyone needs to read this article. I was going to take some quotes, but just read the whole thing. This is horrific. edit- I lied, I'm going to at least single this out: quote:“This policy is about helping people achieve the American Dream,” Verma told reporters. “We see people moving off Medicaid as a good outcome.” This is why America is loving broken. No, moving people off of Medicaid is not a good loving outcome. Getting people good jobs and making sure they have good healthcare is a good outcome, but moving people off of government assistance that is improving their lives is not in and of itself a good loving outcome. Welfare policy should not be focused on moving people off of welfare. That is insane and evil. Paradoxish fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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E: Holy poo poo, wrong thread.
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Paradoxish posted:This is why America is loving broken. No, moving people off of Medicaid is not a good loving outcome. Getting people good jobs and making sure they have good healthcare is a good outcome, but moving people off of government assistance that is improving their lives is not in and of itself a good loving outcome. Welfare policy should not be focused on moving people off of welfare. That is insane and evil. You just don't understand. Clearly if they get pushed off Medicaid millions of well-paying jobs will suddenly create themselves and the number of people needed for currently low-wage work will randomly decrease.
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Define “surveillance.” Did they actually do wiretapping? Are we going to have endless  from Trump supporters now?
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All the memo says is that the FISA court authorized electronic surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump aide, based on the Steele dossier. The thrust of the Republican argument is that the FBI omitted evidence that would call into question the credibility of the dossier and thus the FBI's argument before the FISC. Essentially accusing the FBI of doing what it always does but this time to a well-off white Republican dude
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Paradoxish posted:This is why America is loving broken. No, moving people off of Medicaid is not a good loving outcome. Getting people good jobs and making sure they have good healthcare is a good outcome, but moving people off of government assistance that is improving their lives is not in and of itself a good loving outcome. Welfare policy should not be focused on moving people off of welfare. That is insane and evil. No you see God rewards the pious with riches and punishes sinners with poverty. If we provide the poor with charity, then we are interfering with God's will. Without charity, the poor will either repent and be rewarded with riches or God will strike them down in judgement.
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Iron Twinkie posted:No you see God rewards the pious with riches and punishes sinners with poverty. If we provide the poor with charity, then we are interfering with God's will. Without charity, the poor will either repent and be rewarded with riches or God will strike them down in judgement. Book of loving job people
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:https://twitter.com/JohnDingell/status/959488355644968960 This is the youtube version of posting goatse.
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The Trump administration is going to perform nuclear tests in Nevada and all the while people are allowing their brains to break over the pit of total nothing that is the Nunes memo. We really need to have those nukes taken away.
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Chomskyan posted:All the memo says is that the FISA court authorized electronic surveillance of Carter Page, a Trump aide, based on the Steele dossier. The thrust of the Republican argument is that the FBI omitted evidence that would call into question the credibility of the dossier and thus the FBI's argument before the FISC. Essentially accusing the FBI of doing what it always does but this time to a well-off white Republican dude Wasn’t it also originally GOP opposition research during the primary? A couple things stuck out to me. First was that it doesn’t say whether the stuff in the dossier is true or not. It just impugns it by saying it’s partisan. But the FISA process is supposed to prevent that. It was specifically in response to Hoover’s FBI looking into citizens information and so on. As far as I know it’s a rubber stamp, but that’s what it’s there for anyway. The obvious next question should be, so did they find anything? And then the Wyden question: where was you when I was screaming to the rooftops about abuses of FISA during the Bush years?
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bitter lol: "The Obama administration did approve limited plans in Montana and Indiana that stripped insurance for Medicaid enrollees who failed to pay, but some of the proposals go further: They would impose fees on people at lower-income thresholds and increase the severity of penalties for missing payments." When the hell are Dems gonna learn that opening the pathway for the GOP to do even worse down the road is not a winning strategy for themselves or for the country? Dems complaining about Medicaid waivers is like Dems complaining about state-based abortion restrictions (for which their own William Casey Sr. led that particular horse to battle).
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Chomskyan posted:https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/959499923346677762
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So this memo is basically a hot take from 16 years ago? I mean we all knew FISC was a joke and that the government spies on everyone all the time right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:So this memo is basically a hot take from 16 years ago? I mean we all knew FISC was a joke and that the government spies on everyone all the time right? The surveillance state is only bad when it applies to rich old white guys in power.
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They were literally hacking senators and Feinstein just gave them a tut tut.
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Ron Jeremy posted:They were literally hacking senators and Feinstein just gave them a tut tut. I'm still amazed nothing really came of that. At the time it seemed like such over-the-top obstruction.
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Ron Jeremy posted:They were literally hacking senators and Feinstein just gave them a tut tut. It makes more sense when you realize that by turning a blind eye to extremely unethical poo poo like that, she's amassed an absurd amount of power on the SSCI. (which, to be clear, is not a good thing)
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Feinstein is one of the worst Dems around and it looks like CA is ready to send her back for 6 more years! Really disappointing.
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https://twitter.com/JChengWSJ/status/959555277270917120 This is an editorial from one of South Korea's largest newspapers and it's really something quote:According to Cha’s Washington Post piece, some ultra-hardliners have argued that the risk of endangering the lives of the 230,000 Americans living in South Korea if the bloody nose strategy escalates is worth taking in terms of “long-term interests” and the “safety of Americans living in the continental US.” The fates of 50 million South Koreans don’t even warrant a mention. Red and Black fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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I see we're going to go with the Falkland War strategy for dealing with bad re-election prospects.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Feinstein is one of the worst Dems around and it looks like CA is ready to send her back for 6 more years! Really disappointing. that's on the california electorate you could always phonebank for [challenger]
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Lightning Knight posted:I see we're going to go with the Falkland War strategy for dealing with bad re-election prospects. i dunno it's pretty smart given the number of feckless dems who'll immediately jump to defend war with north korea
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The Muppets On PCP posted:i dunno it's pretty smart given the number of feckless dems who'll immediately jump to defend war with north korea I mean, the Falklands worked out for Thatcher because it was a quick war and she was on the winning end. Likewise, it took the American public a long time to realize how much of a gently caress up things like Vietnam and Iraq were because we weren't getting trashed. If Trump goes hard into North Korea and it turns into a full on war, it's going to be a nightmare, and the scale of devastation in South Korea will be crazy. I don't see this one working out the same way.
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The bloody nose thing is bully psychology. Do something violent, noone dares do anything about it, proving you're on top and also how big your dick is. Trump failing to advance that ambassador is troubling since it shows the are trying to psych themselves up into believing the North Koreans won't dare respond.
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"Lawmakers in Ohio and Iowa are considering bills that would create new penalties for people who attempt to disrupt the operations of “critical infrastructure” such as pipelines. The bills make the states the latest of at least eight to propose legislation aimed at oil and gas industry protesters since Donald Trump’s election."
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GreyjoyBastard posted:that's on the california electorate The issue is that her war chest is insanely stacked; she's got over ten million dollars for this election campaign, and with how big and expensive it is to campaign in California her advantage is beyond enormous.
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