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two fun facts that you might not be aware of: 1) a business cannot plead the 5th 2) michael flynn, traitor, owns a business that he likely conducted his treason through do you know who else knows these fun facts? https://twitter.com/politico/status/867121312858353664
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May 23, 2017 22:10
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There Bias Two posted:We can't have a history-making week in politics every week... I thought that too, and then the Post dropped another big one last night.
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May 23, 2017 22:45
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ReidRansom posted:What was the Post drop? I actually work and sleep and do other things sometimes and don't catch everything (a) Trump asked his CIA and NSA head, personally, to deny that there was any collusion (b) Trump's aides asked the CIA and NSA if they could make Comey shut down the investigation
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May 23, 2017 22:57
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i am starting to wonder if hannity is having a glenn-beck esque mental collapse where the mask finally started wearing him and he really just needs a straitjacket and a padded cell
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May 23, 2017 23:36
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Today's leak. It's just Trump Is A Bad President not Trump Is The Worst Criminal Of All Time: https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/867155091089960961 quote:Trump’s call with Duterte, during which he extended an invitation to visit him at the White House, was met with skepticism from some foreign policy analysts and human rights groups. Since taking office in June, Duterte has moved to hedge on the Philippines’ long-standing defense alliance with the United States by establishing closer relations with China. And his administration has overseen a brutal extrajudicial campaign that has resulted in the killings of thousands of suspected drug dealers.
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May 24, 2017 00:10
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Democrats have won two state legislative elections in districts that went for Trump: https://twitter.com/NYWFP/status/867201289888960512 https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/867174605693255684 (for clarity, in New York you can run as a nominee of multiple parties, she's a nominee of the democrats AND the working families party) evilweasel fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 24, 2017 |
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May 24, 2017 03:27
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JBP posted:What on loving earth? Religious businesses are scams far more often than non-religious ones.
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May 24, 2017 03:31
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STAC Goat posted:Legit, Donald Trump thinks if you make nice with him you're his friend. Then if you talk bad about him he thinks you betrayed him. He displays this cycle all the time, most obviously with Obama. hell hillary said one seemingly nice thing to him in a debate and he suddenly went all buddy-buddy
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May 24, 2017 03:50
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TyrantWD posted:Why waste the money? This ad buy is not even a drop in the bucket compared to the coverage the CBO score will get. Forget cable news and national newspapers, healthcare is going to be the lead story for every local news affiliate in every market in the country. It's more about helping Ryan by showing he's helping his caucus, even if that help doesn't do anything.
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May 24, 2017 04:00
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TyrantWD posted:The healthcare plan is not helping his caucus. It's doing the opposite. It had a 17% approval before they made it worse to get the HFC on board. Ryan spent his entire time as speaker telling anyone who would listen to go to the GOP website to see his amazing healthcare plan that would provide better healthcare to more people for less money, so while a lot of Republicans may be waiting for the Obamacare repeal, I don't think they are eager about replacing it with something worse, that even harms their employer-based plans. I know that. Hence the token $2m advertising, to try to make it seem like he's helping them.
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May 24, 2017 14:02
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I think they were in the "should have known" category. McConnell and Ryan had enough evidence -- hell, us posting here -- had enough evidence pre-election to strongly suspect Trump had Russian ties. But if you don't WANT to believe it, you aren't going to, and they had every reason to not want to. They were literally given the evidence by the Obama Administration and McConnell told Obama if he went public with it McConnell would claim he was trying to interfere in the election.
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May 24, 2017 14:08
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Why didn't Obama say "gently caress you McConnell you would claim that anyway, this is real" Because he couldn't release the evidence.
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May 24, 2017 14:13
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Drone posted:At what point did decorum finally and truely die within the Republican party? Ford? Joe McCarthy, probably.
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May 24, 2017 14:17
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RiggenBlaque posted:This feels a little embarrassing to ask, but what specifically did Joe Lieberman do that everyone hates him? I live in CT and it seems like literally everyone in the state despises him. Killed the public option, campaigned against Obama and for McCain, endorsed Michael Flynn as national security advisor, general scum.
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May 24, 2017 14:39
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Your Taint posted:Is that today? Yes. And Montana special election is tomorrow.
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May 24, 2017 14:43
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Right, and Paul Ryan is on tape talking about how Trump's paid by the Russians. But if you're in denial you're in denial. I mean that it's less then pretending to themselves it's not happening and more making their peace with it for political power.
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May 24, 2017 14:49
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TyrantWD posted:Quist better spend the next 24 hours blanketing the state with the CBO score. If you can't win off the immediate reaction to that, you might as well give up trying to win these seats. He is campaigning on health care as his closing message.
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May 24, 2017 14:49
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https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/867381637675454466 lookin forward to must-see c-span
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May 24, 2017 15:08
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Chilichimp posted:Who the gently caress is this guy and why is he getting interviews? A friend of Comey, and he's getting interviews because he'll talk on the record while nobody else will.
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May 24, 2017 15:12
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mcmagic posted:I mean she was impressed with him at one point in her life which doesn't reflect well on her since he's never been anything other than oafish buffoon. She's always seemed pretty eyes-open about the deal she's effectively struck so it really all comes down to the prenup and what she gets for her ten years of loyal service as soon as she's replaced with a younger model.
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May 24, 2017 15:13
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Bottom Liner posted:Trump's budget director being unable to count is the icing on the cake of this stupid administration. Good thing these dumb fuckers are so stupid or else we'd be in a lot deeper poo poo. They're literally too dumb to enact their evil plans. I actually believe him when he says he did it on purpose, I just don't believe he meant to say that out loud. He's the poster child of "run up giant deficits, use giant deficits to argue we must cut spending, repeat". He wants to claim the budget balances while blowing a massive hole in it so that social security and medicare have to be cut to fill it in later on.
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May 24, 2017 15:16
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Chilichimp posted:I can't believe Comey has any further contact with this person. This seems so scummy. Depends on if Comey is wink wink nudge nudge don't say anything about this in public to him. It seems pretty clear Comey deliberately set up a bunch of the leaks when he told his friends "don't talk about this WHILE I AM DIRECTOR OF THE FBI but Trump...", so it's really a question of if he's actually doing what Comey wants or if he's pissing him off.
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May 24, 2017 15:18
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Chilichimp posted:She probably was about to serve him divorce papers and signed a contract to stay on if he won the presidency and she figured that was easy money and signed immediately. I figure he was going to serve the divorce papers on her because I assume most prenups give the woman less if she's the one filing for divorce, but yeah it seems pretty clear that's what happened.
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May 24, 2017 15:21
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mcmagic posted:Unless there is an NDA in the prenup. There's definitely an NDA in the prenup, there are in all his previous ones and he basically makes everyone who comes into contact with him sign an NDA.
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May 24, 2017 15:25
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So this is interesting:quote:But now, Alexander is trying to sell his colleagues on a two-step process that includes using the fiscal 2017 reconciliation instructions to pass short-term market stabilization measures, effectively delaying any major repeal efforts. He recognizes, however, that obtaining support for such an approach could be an uphill battle. http://www.rollcall.com/news/policy/republican-senator-seeks-to-save-obamacare-before-dismantling-it#undefined.uxfs The GOP gets a limited number of reconciliation bills, I think only two. Currently, the plan is 2017 = gutting Obamacare, 2018 = tax cuts/tax reform. If they actually wind up using the 2017 bill on anything but those two, then you're out a reconciliation bill and have only one bill left: do you repeal Obamacare, or do you cut taxes? I believe that the 2017 bill expires at the end of the 2017 fiscal year, sometime in September, so they have to pull the trigger before then. I am skeptical, as always, of Republicans doing anything good like stabilizing the insurance markets (from Republican sabotage) but its really interesting they're already laying the groundwork to use the 2017 bill on something else because of how much that fucks up their legislative plans.
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May 24, 2017 15:29
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business hammocks posted:I want to believe. Are they archived anywhere? https://twitter.com/GhostMILF/status/867247580715110400
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May 24, 2017 15:41
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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! why do these stupid people keep doing stupid things ???
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May 24, 2017 15:52
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lol the gop may not even be competent enough to pass tax cuts 1) they can't start the tax cut bill until the AHCA is passed or its officially dead and they use the 2017 bill on something else 2) they have to pass a budget first and may not be able to do that because they can't agree on a budget http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/23/taxes-and-the-budget-two-obstacles-block-gop-path-to-tax-cuts.html
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May 24, 2017 15:56
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Chilichimp posted:To be fair, it was a confidential exchange between two world leaders that was leaked to the press. Duterte wasn't gonna tell anyone. Duerte has been buddying up to the Chinese and distancing himself from the US. He is not a trustworthy ally.
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May 24, 2017 16:00
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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. I think the CBO said it's not going to consider scam plans to be real insurance coverage already.
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May 24, 2017 16:12
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Rigel posted:Regarding Trump not liking the 4 candidates and starting over on his FBI director search, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Trump asked each of them to swear an oath of loyalty and start yelling that the Russia probe is fake news, and all 4 of them went "uhhh..... no, this job was supposed to be politically independent so I won't do that." I have a suspicion that the Senate GOP is quietly making clear they're not going to confirm someone who isn't independent enough, probably so that a Democratic president couldn't immediately fire them. Senate Republicans have a lot more to lose from politicizing the FBI than they have to gain.
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May 24, 2017 16:33
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stillvisions posted:For the current administration the lack of a FBI head for a while is considered a feature, not a bug. There is a head of the FBI, it's the acting director, and he will stay head of the FBI until someone is confirmed.
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May 24, 2017 16:41
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Chilichimp posted:I don't think he was ever a toadie. He definitely saw himself being painted into a corner that would drag him down with the administration and cut himself right the gently caress out of it, though. He wasn't a toadie but he did collaborate in Comey's firing and the coverup.
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May 24, 2017 16:50
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Dexo posted:He didn't really collaborate in the coverup, unless I missed some piece of news. He wrote the memo knowing that it would be used as justification for the firing and that it was not actually the basis for the firing.
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May 24, 2017 16:55
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Rigel posted:This may be correct, but the 21% who are STILL with him now are either not paying any attention at all, or they will be bitter enders. I don't think that it's his floor yet. It has seemed like forever, but it's only been four months. It's easy to see how some of his smarter loyal idiots may still be holding out hope that he just hasn't had enough time yet.
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May 24, 2017 17:50
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Your Taint posted:Which is what Flynn did by stopping that attack against ISIS. Yeah, my only issue with if what he did is legally treason under the US Constitution is that he took the bribe from Turkey, not ISIS. His goal was assisting Turkey, not ISIS, but to assist Turkey he did assist ISIS. Which one controls? Hieronymous Alloy posted:Wasn't 22% Nixon's floor? I think that was support in general. The 21% is his "strong support."
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May 24, 2017 17:56
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lol the georgia race has gotten so expensive local tv stations are reorganizing their lineup so they can show more political ads:quote:Already, it’s the most expensive congressional race in history. Nearly $35 million in TV and radio advertising has been reserved there, according to tracking by the firm Medium Buying. The windfall shocked Atlanta-area television stations to the point where one added a newscast and pre-empted reruns of The Andy Griffith Show to make way for the deluge of political ads.
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May 24, 2017 18:07
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Alter Ego posted:Does Quist have any shot at all? Are the votes even there? As people have said, he has a shot but he is the underdog. He has never led in any of the polls, but they have been close enough that turnout can win it for him because it's very difficult to model special election turnout. If it's close but he still loses, that's still a good sign for 2018 because (a) he's a flawed candidate in some important respects and (b) it's a very conservative state.
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