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lol its starting to look more likely republicans can't agree on a budget you might ask "why the gently caress do i care" because a budget is non-binding and it's the actual appropriations bills that do all the spending, because for some reason you know about how congressional spending works but no budget means no reconciliation bill, therefore no budget quote:With all parties showing an unwillingness to cave, a darker mood has settled over the conference. Republicans railed for years about the importance of budgeting and fiscal responsibility. But now in control of Washington's key levers, their inability to pass a budget represents a huge embarrassment.
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Vegetable posted:There isn't. The article's point is that the number of people who bought Trump properties under LLCs shot up by 60 percentage points after the election. It suggests those buyers now comprise of a very different group of people, at least. Yeah, that was about the point he became more toxic than a Superfund site. Not saying anything shady is or isn't going on, but if I worked for a real estate company and was considering buying property from a Trump business, I sure as hell would do everything in my power to keep Trump's name far, far away from anything I was doing.
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Priorities, people. The president of the United States of America just blocked Stephen King on twitter. https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/874646427091251201 Pressing issues.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Google "Scottie Nell Hughes" and My favorite election thing is still her getting offended at Ana Navarro saying "pussy" a lot after the bus tape.
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Okay, here's my cognitive dissonance for the day: Washington Post headline: AG Sessions personally asked Congress to allow him to prosecute medical marijuana providers Stars And Stripes (i.e., newspaper of literally the U.S. Armed Forces) headline: How US veterans are helping advance research into medical marijuana as a treatment for PTSD Between this, the Army being unable to seat a non-pro-trans Secretary while the Secretary of Education can't promise to punish schools that discriminate; and the DOD championing green energy and fighting climate change while Pruitt peels apart the EPA I'm really confused about how much I'm supposed to hate the military, guys
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KickerOfMice posted:Priorities, people. The president of the United States of America just blocked Stephen King on twitter. Rowling's gonna slide them into his DMs https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/874646794436739072
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Wow, supposedly Trump actually used a vulgar term to describe AHCA, but AP is being polite about it. wtf
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skeleton warrior posted:Okay, here's my cognitive dissonance for the day: Depends how you feel about brown people being murdered for no good reason, I suppose
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JK Rowling and Stephen King need to get together and write a book.
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Push El Burrito posted:JK Rowling and Stephen King need to get together and write a book. Stephen King is way ahead of you, except he just wrote Harry Potter into the Dark Tower for no good reason
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Jaxyon posted:He's not getting held in contempt. He's a Republican. Republicans may not hold the House for long.
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evilweasel posted:lol its starting to look more likely republicans can't agree on a budget I was optimistic over the AHCA initially looking dead so I'll assume that they'll figure out some hosed up evil scheme to get it to work again
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Majorian posted:Republicans may not hold the House for long. It's a senate committee I thought.
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Bernie finally starting to speak out against Establishment Democrats that have been trying to baldly skullfuck him for years: Link to the NY Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/...eft-region&_r=1
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Lemming posted:I was optimistic over the AHCA initially looking dead so I'll assume that they'll figure out some hosed up evil scheme to get it to work again i think they'll manage to do it because it would be such a tremendous own goal for no reason at all, but we will see
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Overwined posted:Bernie finally starting to speak out against Establishment Democrats that have been trying to baldly skullfuck him for years: I was hoping that the Labour victory might wake some Democrats up in the same way that Trump helped labor but my heart is already dead 
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<Bernie> Democrats are too centrist! Please don't ask me about abortion rights.
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Azathoth posted:Yeah, that was about the point he became more toxic than a Superfund site. Not saying anything shady is or isn't going on, but if I worked for a real estate company and was considering buying property from a Trump business, I sure as hell would do everything in my power to keep Trump's name far, far away from anything I was doing. Sure and if that was your real concern you could, you know, not buy Trump properties. However, if you were someone suddenly quite interested in circumventing bribery and emoluments laws by paying inflated rates for Trump properties, and reporting the official sale prices of those properties as "$10 and other good and valuable consideration" without anyone being able to know who you are or what you actually paid for those properties, then this is absolutely how you do it.
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Jaxyon posted:It's a senate committee I thought. This one is, but House committees can hold someone in contempt. I'm not saying to hold your breath for it, because obviously there's going to be a lot of time between now and next November, and that's making the big assumption that the Dems win. But this is something that concerns Republican legislators right now, and it should have Sessions worried. Petr posted:<Bernie> Democrats are too centrist! Please don't ask me about abortion rights. Bernie's record on abortion rights is pretty good. 
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Jaxyon posted:It's a senate committee I thought. Well, presumably a Democratic House intel or justice committee could subpoena him.
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Duke Igthorn posted:With that much plastic surgery she drat well better be attractive. dude, don't slut shame
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Chilichimp posted:dude, don't slut shame That's not what slut shaming is.
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Jaxyon posted:That's not what slut shaming is. Yeah, I know.
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Majorian posted:Bernie's record on abortion rights is pretty good. I would avoid a qualitative assessment of his record on abortion rights and just say that his standpoint is well reasoned and has not wavered over the years. It's funny that Petr wants to drag the most polarizing political issue into a conversation where no mention has been made about it. And also in such a vague way as to imply that Bernie has anything to hide about it. He would tell you straight up what his views are. He's not hiding a god damned thing.
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Here's a sentence I'm gonna have to get used to typing: I just learned something about reconciliation that I didn't know before. We knew that the house bill had to save at least $2B over 10 years to be eligible for reconciliation and they blew way past that, saving $133B. What I didn't know is that since the house bill saved that much, the Senate is now locked into passing a bill that saves at least $133B or more to qualify for reconciliation. That does not leave them with a lot of room to make the bill substantially less evil without giving up some of the precious tax cuts for billionaires that they crave.
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Depends how you feel about brown people being murdered for no good reason, I suppose Are we talking about Mattis or Sessions?
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RevKrule posted:Rowling's gonna slide them into his DMs what What the gently caress. The great sweeping actual dangers that are happening lately I am able to hold out at arm's length and examine. It's the tremendously juvenile poo poo like this. So petty, so spiteful. This man has a warmachine at his command. How did we get here? I need a drink.
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Your Taint posted:"This healthcare bill is mean and written by stupid dumbheads. We need something gooder that will heal people's owies." I rpomised everyone easy answers to tough questions, so you are going to deliver easy answers
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Overwined posted:Bernie finally starting to speak out against Establishment Democrats that have been trying to baldly skullfuck him for years: Excellent picture of Bernie eeking out a sick-nasty fart.
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Petr posted:<Bernie> Democrats are too centrist! Please don't ask me about abortion rights. You: Why can't those dumb anti-abortion voters see they're voting against their own interests based on a single issue? Also You: Bernie isn't a true progressive because I don't think he's sufficiently pure on an issue.
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skeleton warrior posted:Are we talking about Mattis or Sessions? yes
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Pander posted:You: Why can't those dumb anti-abortion voters see they're voting against their own interests based on a single issue? You can't both blast "centrists" yet be willing to compromise on women's rights. There is a long and unfortunate habit of things that are men's issues being "people's issues" and women's issues being "women's issues". That said, the stuff he put in there is pretty democratic mainstream at this point.
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Overwined posted:It's funny that Petr wants to drag the most polarizing political issue into a conversation where no mention has been made about it. It's totally off topic for this thread, but only in so far as "Bernie Sanders is awesome!" is off-topic, and I'm not the one who started that. In the interests of not derailing, folks can google "bernie sanders abortion" themselves.
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Petr posted:In the interests of not derailing, folks can google "bernie sanders abortion" themselves. Nah that's ok, I already saw his campaign the first time.
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evilweasel posted:lol its starting to look more likely republicans can't agree on a budget I always wondered how Republicans planned to pass a budget as well as do an ACA repeal with reconciliation. I vaguely recall that Republicans can pass another reconciliation bill after summer recess but that may have been bullshit. So, do they have to roll an ACA repeal and a budget together into one reconciliation bill before summer recess?
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What does Donnie mean when he says mean? Dos he mean mean as in meaning bad or mean mean as in meaning good.
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Petr posted:<Bernie> Democrats are too centrist! Please don't ask me about abortion rights. Actually I think you'll find he answered levelly when asked about what you're alluding to, but keep dangling those worms out 
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