quadrophrenic posted:

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/834125113612181505

logikv9 posted:

P sure dems will win the NJ gov seat, chris christie left a stench that carries over to all state Republicans

Scent of Worf posted:

https://youtu.be/2TJQ38Rf_AU

GobiasIndustries posted:

I wonder how things are going in the alternate timeline where Hillary won WI MI & PA. Seems like best case scenario would be a 50-50 Senate plus Trump screaming every day about voter fraud.

mormonpartyboat posted:

gently caress yeah

i wish texas had proper woods

mormonpartyboat posted:

https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=b8e1b2a6876519ca0aedd748e1e491cf&tab=core&_cview=0

calling all ideas guys

euphronius posted:

The GOP is going to tax fringe benefits

They are insane

paranoid randroid posted:

because the GOP has one of those IS YOUR COUNTRY A DICTATORSHIP Y/N? checklists and is going down it implementing each of the steps, but theyre really lazy and garbage so you end up with stuff like trying to ban CNN from useless press conferences and making plans to zerg rush San Francisco with 10,000 ICE agents who dont exist yet

Lindsey O. Graham posted:

you misunderstand, that's where it starts
Putin only does three pressers a year
our news will be propaganda soon, and that's it
that lack of access can be the downfall of a news corporation, information is all about access, without it, you are useless as a journalist

Zyla posted:

Baloogan posted:

eh 4chan isn't super bandwidth like netflicks

Pidgin Englishman posted:

OK but how the gently caress did Donald J Trump, reality TV star and dodgey realestate pretender, get voted President of the United States of America, population 300 million, the country with the largest GDP and armed forces, by its own people?

I mean

sincx posted:

The more I think about this, the more I think this is true.

He should've been the last person to vacation in the BVI after Trump was inaugurated. But he was, and from his photos, he apparently didn't have a care in the world. Why? He knew all this would be coming out.

Utz posted:

trump can't fire reince because bannon won't let him, is my guess

bannon thinks he needs him to keep Rs in congress compliant long enough to do some really radical poo poo and actually seize the state

of course bannon is planning to put reince's head on a pike as soon as feasible, but he probably thinks it'll take another few months

reince knows this and fears bannon, but also hates him

he's bannon's gollum and trump is the one ring

Utz posted:

i don't think bannon's that smart but he's the smartest among them

and you're right that he's impatient, but he obvs doesn't have too long to live when you look at him

he wants to go out with a bang i guess

bucket list: dismantle the state

Parity warning posted:

kopasetic posted:

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/839266475449909249

Augus posted:

ok what's up with the thread title now

beergod posted:

Assuming they wanted to: why couldn't they?

Google tells me it is part of a reconciliation Bill, for which the Republicans would only need 50 votes. If that's the case, why not couch everything into the reconciliation Bill (so the filibuster is meaningless)? This is probably the wrong thread for such serious posting but you guys are the only thing keeping me from full-on madness.

quadrophrenic posted:

good thing he *glub* got all the *glub gurgle* mexicans out *glububblubba*

Weeping Wound posted:

the "sand as commodity" article is pretty drat telling about what folks have to do to keep from sinking

who the hell knows for places that aren't Miami and are on the coast

Weeping Wound posted:

and that is even loving worse, holy poo poo

you can't save 'em Ed Balls, not from the salt water or the rise of it

Weeping Wound posted:

what's up with New Orleans? simply better because of the river delta, better rock, or just because they aren't built on a beachfront at the edge of nowhere?

gradenko_2000 posted:

Reconciliation can repeal legislation, but it can't enact legislation.

So the GOP can repeal Obamacare with just Republican party-line votes, but if they want to pass a replacement, they need Dem votes to break a filibuster.

(I think the time to have the filibuster nuked has already come and gone, and the GOP was unlikely to do that anyway)

The thing is, it looks like enough Republicans hate this bill that they couldn't get a party-line vote even if they only just needed that, so the Dems don't even have to filibuster.

It's a hell of a conundrum: you can repeal Obamacare now, but if you don't have something ready to go to replace it right away, you're going to leave millions of people twisting in the wind and the insurance industry ashambles, with both of those groups of people loving pissed at you.

Even if you did have something ready to replace it, you're basically counting on your caucus/coalition holding together from the repeal vote all the way to passing the new bill. If anyone decides to gently caress up the deal by holding the new bill hostage after the repeal has already passed, you're in trouble.

Now, the situation I'm describing would require Dem Senators to have spines and be willing to play hardball - if you get folks like Manchin willing to work with McConnell for the sake of passing some legislation, then we're all hosed anyway.

But the nice thing is that if Congressional Republicans tear themselves apart over the new bill just among themselves, then the Dems never factor into the equation at all.

It could get really terrible for a lot of people if this goes full anarchy, such as an Obamacare repeal without a replacement ready to go and the thing drags on for months, but hell, it's 2017, poo poo's terrible regardless.

...

Also please make that a double cheeseburger. DOUBLE.