mcmagic posted:

Trump doesn't understand the philosophical differences between what he said during the campaign and the people he hired to write his budgets and it is going to hurt him A LOT politically.

PhazonLink posted:

He's a tortoise, get it right.

mcmagic posted:

I know but Trump doesn't understand how damaging what's in his budget is going to be to him politically and none of it is because of his ideology.

Moatman posted:

All of his Rs and Ns are uppercase. That's unusual but at least consistent.
His Os are all over the place, though.

WeAreTheRomans posted:

Shhh if you keep mentioning his name he'll find his way to this thread, all he does is Google himself all day long

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Why the gently caress do these idiot racists always continue to stand there and talk into the camera? Just loving leave and get in with whatever your racist rear end was gonna do!

HappyHippo posted:

When does the CBO score come out? I'm concerned that the top line numbers are going to look "better" than the last one for reasons that will be difficult to explain concisely - for example, there will probably be fewer uninsured than the last bill, because people will have lovely cheap plans that don't cover anything. And for the same reason they'll probably predict that premiums will be lower.

Huzanko posted:

Everyone with any decency already left the GOP. As has been said many times here before: Why would you be a Republican unless you're interested in tax cuts, punishing the poor, or hating and restricting the rights of minorities of women, or care more about dead babies than living ones?

They're not a party with a vision for the future. They're just a party that wants to fellate the rich while selling an imagined fantasy of the past.

evilweasel posted:

lol the georgia race has gotten so expensive local tv stations are reorganizing their lineup so they can show more political ads:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/henrygomez/georgia-special-election-has-republicans-wondering-about?utm_term=.kgKq6bxz4v#.shA4rRLvnZ

quote:

"Retirement age voters are leaving in big numbers," Malloy added.

Captain Invictus posted:

I really, really hope she's part of the russian collusion, and they can seize her assets if not jail her. At the end of this, she deserves to be left penniless or worse for loving with the education of children and bringing back discrimination that hasn't been seen in nearly three quarters of a century.

Hollismason posted:

The problem with a lot of those religious schools is it leaves students unprepared for college in many ways.

Fart City posted:

Yeah, I had a kid drop into one of my creative writing classes that had exclusively gone through a religious education system, and he could barely interact with people. The sheer volume of baptist-anime sci-fi he submitted to workshop didn't help things, either.

Chilichimp posted:

So am I reading this right? The right-wing has been duped into believing the democrats were funded by George Soros... so they started laundering Russian money through PACs to gain "even footing?"

There Bias Two posted:

This is exactly the kind of poo poo that worries me.

Al Borland Corp. posted:

If you want money from a Republican president, you better loving elect a republican governor. If your state is blue gently caress you.

That's the message.

Chilichimp posted:

And Paul Ryan.

And the diet of a green bay packer fan.

RuanGacho posted:

WI isn't allowed to show it's face in public until Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and Donald Trump are out of office.

Own your sins.

RuanGacho posted:

They aren't capable if they don't run the government.

It is time for the egalitarian renaissance.


Yeah I get it I'm just ribbing you guys.

I know how hard it is, I have to do all I can to get rid of Dave Richert next election.

Ripoff posted:

Prester Jane is a time traveler from the future her to warn us about a great calamity that will befall us, I'm convinced. I still chuckle about how drat hard she nailed down Donald Trump's character all those months ago.

_{I cry about it more than I laugh, though.}

LeeMajors posted:

Sean Hannity isn't a journalist in any possible, remote interpretation of the word.

scuz posted:

Groovelord Neato posted:

in a just world paul ryan would be ripped apart by a mob of poors like that fat pope in game of thrones.

B B posted:

Sorry to bring back Zuckerberg chat, but he's giving his commencement speech at Harvard . . . and it's incredibly political. To summarize, he referenced New Deal and Great Society and said that it's time for a new social contract to include universal basic income and health care that isn't tied to employment; he also said that rich people like him should be paying for these sorts of social programs.

Certainly sounds like he's running for something.

Party Plane Jones posted:

https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/867831270495080449
https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/867832255951011840

Chilichimp posted:

So they automatically take out 10% of the left-wing respondents to account for voter suppression?

axeil posted:

The people gnashing their teeth and screaming THIS IS HOW DEMOCRACY DIES when the Dems lose a race in an R+20 district by 6 points instead of 20, when there are 120 seats less Republican than that one and confirms a nation-wide shift of about 15 points towards the Dems need to pull themselves together and get some perspective.

They're like Clevleand Browns fans who are FURIOUS they failed to win the Super Bowl last year despite never really having a shot from the start.

More people should become football/sports fans, it's a great way to learn expectation management.

And I say that as someone who famously melts down after every Eagles loss.

BootStrap posted:

I really think that he may be cognitively impaired. There was an article on CNBC.com comparing his speech patterns and vocabulary from interviews in the 1980's and 90's to his current speech patterns. The contrast was remarkable.

business hammocks posted:

Trump right on schedule to steal 40 cakes.

The funny thing is that before he became dc comics president, Lex Luthor divested from his business interests.

Shooting Blanks posted:

Hiding it with the amount of publicity the President gets, at his age, and with him already aware of just how much he's in over his head will be a challenge at best. We've got a few more years at the very least. It'll be interesting to see just how much Trump family/Pence/Cabinet/GOP try to shield him from the spotlight if he declines, vs. just throwing him under the bus.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Trump's USDA and Department of HHS have given Scott Walker approval to require drug testing for all Wisconsin residents on food stamps, Medicaid, or unemployment insurance.

The Wisconsin joint finance committee just approved it on the state-level today.

This will be the largest public drug testing program in the United States; even more than the Federal government.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...5391bb6d48.html

Hollismason posted:

Didn't they do that in FLorida and find that it was incredibly cost prohibitive?

Hollismason posted:

They'll probably input super harsh sanctions on things that don't affect Russia at all like " All Volkswagen imports from Russia are completely BANNED". Etcc. So it'll look like really tough sanctions but then in reality they do nothing.


" We completely banned all avocado imports from Russia, as you can see we are very tough on Russia".

Spun Dog posted:

Didn't Brownback try this too and now the state is basically bankrupt?

Fansy posted:

making states bankrupt is the GOP's goal

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Nah, transferring wealth to established businesses and high-income individuals is the GOP's goal.

They've proven that they are willing to fund the government or raise taxes as long as the tax is regressive and used to subsidize established business interests.

BarbarianElephant posted:

I don't see why this would be a problem. Just take your helicopter.

Unless you are some sort of *poor.*