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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:14:00am

Wow.

Fake POTUS only hires the best people!!!!! Fact!

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:14:48am

Spicer lies. Spicer obfuscates. Spicer misdirects.

It’s all Spicer ever does.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:17:10am
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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:17:58am

Yes, we’re going to have a 5% growth rate under the Great Flimflammer.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:18:50am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:19:54am
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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:19:59am

re: #4 jaunte

Yes, we’re going to have a 5% growth rate under the Great Flimflammer.

5% growth, because anything less would completely fuck their tax cut plan. They need to assume higher growth, otherwise everything else falls apart.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:21:05am

Howard Kurtz has become a class A dipshit.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:21:09am

re: #7 lawhawk

Once more working backward from their desired outcome.

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makeitstop  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:21:33am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Should Glenn Beck sideline Tomi Lahren for pro-choice stance or was she seeking attention?

Umm, who fucking cares??

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:22:06am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

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I don’t even like or respect Tomi but that’s pathetic bullshit. Maybe she learns a thing or two about the ideology she’s glued herself to but I doubt it.

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Interesting Times  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:22:17am

re: #7 lawhawk

5% growth, because anything less would completely fuck their tax cut plan. They need to assume higher growth, otherwise everything else falls apart.

That reminds me - how much power do they have to completely falsify the numbers? Could they outright force the BEA to put out “alternative” stats?

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Wile E. Coyote's mom  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:22:34am

Drive by O T: since Passover is coming thought someone might want these. brooklynbased.com

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:22:45am

re: #10 makeitstop

Umm, who fucking cares??

I find it hilarious personally since conservatives love to accuse liberals of being “intolerant” other points of view.

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:23:34am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:23:49am
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Citizen K  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:24:59am

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Howard Kurtz has become a class A dipshit.

Become?

There was a point where he wasn’t? I mean, he’s exemplified the ‘Both Sides Same Thing’ problem as much and as long as Fournier has, long as I remember.

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plansbandc  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:25:19am

re: #16 Dr. Matt

When Cheney is a voice of reason, then we are officially in an alternate universe.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:26:11am

re: #16 Dr. Matt

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Crap. But he’s technically right.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:26:42am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Howard Putz has his finger on the pulse of the crucial issues facing America.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:28:23am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:28:24am
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Wile E. Coyote's mom  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:30:16am

re: #16 Dr. Matt

I think we need to stop saying “may” and simply decide it was. Since they are still trying other tactics and also probably preparing to influence 2018 &2010 we need to be clear that they want to bring our democracy down

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:30:32am

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

“We just have to make sure nobody in HHS or anywhere else does their job.”

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:31:41am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

If we continue hoping for it to die maybe it will. Patriotism. MAGA.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:32:42am

re: #21 Charles Johnson

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It it does die, it will be your fault, you stupid dickhead.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:32:54am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:33:36am

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He’s a Republican. Of course he laments that. The Republican Party is a party of stupid assholes who vote for heartless assholes.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:33:46am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:34:17am

Did Spicer just ask to go back in time?

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:34:21am

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

So much winning. Tired of all the winning already.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:34:44am

“It’s the unusual incident, not the overall trend, that needs to be denounced.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:34:53am
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:35:55am

re: #32 jaunte

“It’s the unusual incident, not the overall trend, that needs to be denounced.”

Is he talking about the JCC threats?

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:36:15am

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

All Republicans hear when PP is brought up is abortion. And it does not matter that not even all of their clinics perform them.

And all Republicans care about by restricting abortion is controlling women.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:36:22am

re: #34 The Vicious Babushka

I believe so.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:36:30am

re: #34 The Vicious Babushka

Is he talking about the JCC threats?

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:37:50am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:37:57am

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Don’t you know the definition of a hate crime or terrorism involves a Muslim or African American killing whites? Anything else is a lone wolf with mental illness //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:38:10am
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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:39:10am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:39:22am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:40:05am
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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:40:49am
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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:40:56am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:40:58am
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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:42:00am

re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

And for the majority of the country that doesn’t want the ACA repealed, doesn’t want the wall built, doesn’t want more tax cuts for the wealthy?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:42:09am
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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:43:25am

ource: Adam Peck/ThinkProgress

aol.com

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:43:31am

re: #32 jaunte

“It’s the unusual incident, not the overall trend, that needs to be denounced.”

Um, whut, Sean?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:43:44am
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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:44:05am

re: #50 Sir John Barron

My paraphrase of his message.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:44:22am
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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:45:35am

re: #53 Dr. Matt

“Let’s not rush to judgment on it being baseless but Obama spied on DT.”

/

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:46:30am
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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:46:31am
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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:47:02am
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Mike Lamb  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:47:16am

re: #7 lawhawk

5% growth, because anything less would completely fuck their tax cut plan. They need to assume higher growth, otherwise everything else falls apart.

And a rate that we’ve rarely seen in US history, and, leaving aside post-WWII, one typically associated with recovering from an economic down turn. It’s most definitely not a sustainable number.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:47:48am

re: #56 Kragar

Otherwise, Obama is living out in the open in DC and commanding his 30k plus army that is sabotaging DT.

/

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:48:23am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:48:48am

re: #59 Sir John Barron

Otherwise, Obama is living out in the open in DC and commanding his 30k plus army that is sabotaging DT.

/

And hanging out in NYC having lunch with Bono and accepting the Profiles in Courage award….

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mmmirele  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:48:49am

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

Crap. Two of my coworkers have children serving in the US military in that region. I know one is entirely likely to be on his way. *scowl* His mother is probably frantic.

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:48:59am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:49:10am

re: #28 HappyWarrior

He’s a Republican. Of course he laments that. The Republican Party is a party of stupid assholes who vote for heartless assholes.

They are not all stupid. Just assholes.

My RW brother insists that the most important crisis facing our country is the national debt; he actually does not support the proposed increase in military spending but he also opposes any increase in domestic spending because we cannot afford it. Forgot to ask him whether he would support a return to higher taxes on the wealthy. But probably not.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:50:12am

re: #58 Mike Lamb

Ah, that post WWII period, when the top tax rate was 90% until the 1960s, before it dropped to 70%. Those were the days, as the debt was paid off.

The GOP keeps ignoring all that - all while pushing for more tax cuts while claiming we’re taxed more than ever.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:51:23am

re: #16 Dr. Matt

Ugh. I agree with Cheney —> Dick Cheney: Russian interference in US election may be ‘an act of war’

Not quite…but colluding with a foreign government interfering with an election is an act of treason.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:51:43am
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BeachDem  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:52:03am

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Howard Kurtz has become a class A dipshit.

Exactly when was he otherwise?

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:52:16am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:52:58am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:53:12am
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BlueGrl21  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:53:39am

I’ve reached the point where Spicer isn’t worth my time any more, even for the humor potential. I’m done listening to him. Trump will just contradict him in 10 mins anyway.

He swims with the fishes.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:53:50am

re: #68 BeachDem

Exactly when was he otherwise?

He had the appearance of professionalism at the Wash Post. Now he’s the disheveled guy on the bus mumbling, trying to hand you old bits of paper from his pocket.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:54:06am

bwahahahahaaaaa

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:54:20am

re: #56 Kragar

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Delusion isn’t healthy Rick.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:55:08am

re: #75 HappyWarrior

Delusion isn’t healthy Rick.

It’s all he’s got.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:55:15am

So Nunes met with a WH official who told him the party line to spout to support Trump’s assertions?

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austin_blue  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:56:27am

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

They are not all stupid. Just assholes.

My RW brother insists that the most important crisis facing our country is the national debt; he actually does not support the proposed increase in military spending but he also opposes any increase in domestic spending because we cannot afford it. Forgot to ask him whether he would support a return to higher taxes on the wealthy. But probably not.

“Why do you rob banks?”, Wille Sutton was asked.

“Because that’s where the money is,” he replied.

Thus:

“Why do you want to increase marginal tax rates on people earning over $1,000,000/year and treat Capital Gains as income after indexing for inflation?”, I rhetorically ask myself.

“Because that’s where the money is,” I reply.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:56:45am

re: #64 Hecuba’s daughter

They are not all stupid. Just assholes.

My RW brother insists that the most important crisis facing our country is the national debt; he actually does not support the proposed increase in military spending but he also opposes any increase in domestic spending because we cannot afford it. Forgot to ask him whether he would support a return to higher taxes on the wealthy. But probably not.

The national debt isn’t a problem at all, much less our #1 crisis. But that is a message rightwing media has been spewing for eight years.

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Franklin  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:58:03am

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

So Nunes met with a WH official who told him the party line to spout to support Trump’s assertions?

For privacy’s sake, let’s call that official Donald T. No, that’s too obvious. Uh, let’s say D. Trump.

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 11:59:41am

re: #31 Sir John Barron

So much winning. Tired of all the winning already.

See, what we didn’t realize was that Trump was actually talking to Democrats and progressives when he said that. We all just assumed he was talking to Republicans and conservatives because that’s who was in front of him.

It’s like three dimensional chess, played against a pigeon…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:03:54pm
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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:07:36pm

re: #79 Big Beautiful Door

As a percentage of GDP, it isn’t a problem.

But if you’re going to treat the debt as a problem, the only way to reduce the debt isn’t by spending cuts. It’s by increasing taxes. There’s no way to reduce the debt that doesn’t involve tax hikes. Even if you claim that you’re going to cut spending and all the money “saved” goes to debt reduction, the reality is that dollars spent by the government have a multiplier effect on the economy, such as each SNAP dollar goes and creates more than a $1. In fact, each $1 billion in SNAP aid creates $1.79 billion in economic activity. Therefore, if you create a budget that is all cuts (which disproportionately affects the poor), you’ll end up screwing up the budget and likely cause a recession in the process.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:08:16pm

uh huh….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:10:01pm
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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:11:48pm

re: #83 lawhawk

As a percentage of GDP, it isn’t a problem.

But if you’re going to treat the debt as a problem, the only way to reduce the debt isn’t by spending cuts. It’s by increasing taxes. There’s no way to reduce the debt that doesn’t involve tax hikes. Even if you claim that you’re going to cut spending and all the money “saved” goes to debt reduction, the reality is that dollars spent by the government have a multiplier effect on the economy, such as each SNAP dollar goes and creates more than a $1. In fact, each $1 billion in SNAP aid creates $1.79 billion in economic activity. Therefore, if you create a budget that is all cuts (which disproportionately affects the poor), you’ll end up screwing up the budget and likely cause a recession in the process.

This is where the big lie in “run the government like you run a business” comes in. In business, if your operating costs increase, you raise prices. You don’t buy less stuff or lay off employees if the number of units being sold or projects being conducted remain the same or grow. In government, “raising prices” means raising taxes.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:11:49pm

re: #83 lawhawk

As a percentage of GDP, it isn’t a problem.

But if you’re going to treat the debt as a problem, the only way to reduce the debt isn’t by spending cuts. It’s by increasing taxes. There’s no way to reduce the debt that doesn’t involve tax hikes. Even if you claim that you’re going to cut spending and all the money “saved” goes to debt reduction, the reality is that dollars spent by the government have a multiplier effect on the economy, such as each SNAP dollar goes and creates more than a $1. In fact, each $1 billion in SNAP aid creates $1.79 billion in economic activity. Therefore, if you create a budget that is all cuts (which disproportionately affects the poor), you’ll end up screwing up the budget and likely cause a recession in the process.

Kansas.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:13:33pm

re: #87 Belafon

Kansas.

Exactly. The first thing that the GOP needs to understand is that everything they know is wrong.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:15:45pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I think the GOP desire to impose work requirements to qualify for Medicaid is a shit move, but if that is what it takes to get Republicans to expand Medicaid in the holdout states, I guess its better than not expanding Medicaid at all.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:16:14pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m actually surprised anybody in this admin would issue such a statement.

Something something low expectations.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:17:16pm

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

uh huh….

LOL

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:19:42pm

re: #88 Blind Frog Belly White

Exactly. The first thing that the GOP needs to understand is that everything they know is wrong.

They’ve been told you for years that you can just tax cut and spend cut your way to prosperity and it just isn’t true.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:20:45pm

From last night:

This explains a lot about how the Trump Administration works. Analogizing the Government to Business, citizens are not the CUSTOMERS. We’re the OWNERS, the shareholders. Presidents, Congress, etc - they’re MANAGEMENT, i.e. the people we hire to run the business, to increase our shareholder value. In a business, Management makes money for the Shareholders.

Customers? They’re the folks you make money FROM, selling them the least product for the most money (see Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump etc.)

Using a normal business model, thinking the citizens as customers is bad enough. But in the Trump model, customers are suckers, and the business sells shitty, shoddy products at inflated prices by stamping ‘TRUMP’ on it in big gilt letters, to fool the rubes.

But, yeah - that’s how they see us.

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Jay C  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:21:51pm

re: #92 HappyWarrior

They’ve been told you for years that you can just tax cut and spend cut your way to prosperity and it just isn’t true.

GHW Bush called this out in 1980 as “voodoo economics” and the passage of the years hasn’t either:
1) proved him wrong.
2) shifted Republican dogma one nanometer.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:22:16pm

re: #88 Blind Frog Belly White

Exactly. The first thing that the GOP needs to understand is that everything they know is wrong.

Even the Kansas legislature, which is GOP controlled, seems to recognize this. They voted to repeal Brownback’s tax cut fiasco, but were overruled with a Brownback veto.

The state is hobbling along thanks to Brownback’s policy choice, and the state’s faltering economy isn’t growing thanks to all the tax cuts. Rather, corporations figured out how to exploit the changes and now pay far less tax than ever without adding jobs.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:22:53pm

re: #92 HappyWarrior

They’ve been told you for years that you can just tax cut and spend cut your way to prosperity and it just isn’t true.

There’s that, and there’s ‘Government can’t create jobs!’, and ‘The Private Sector does everything better and cheaper!’, and ‘Regulation is a burden imposed by Government on business and the economy!’, and ‘The Market is self-policing!’

Oh, and ‘Growth comes from rich people!’

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:23:22pm

re: #94 Jay C

GHW Bush called this out in 1980 as “voodoo economics” and the passage of the years hasn’t either:
1) proved him wrong.
2) shifted Republican dogma one nanometer.

It’s too bad that he sold out to a degree by signing on with Reagan though to his credit, he did make the difficult decision to raise taxes as President. H.W is probably the best Republican president since Ike hoenstly.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:23:53pm

re: #96 Blind Frog Belly White

There’s that, and there’s ‘Government can’t create jobs!’, and ‘The Private Sector does everything better and cheaper!’, and ‘Regulation is a burden imposed by Government on business and the economy!’, and ‘The Market is self-policing!’

Oh, and ‘Growth comes from rich people!’

Yep. So much falsehoods caused by years of right wing dogma.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:24:15pm
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makeitstop  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:26:13pm

re: #93 Blind Frog Belly White

From last night:

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This explains a lot about how the Trump Administration works. Analogizing the Government to Business, citizens are not the CUSTOMERS. We’re the OWNERS, the shareholders. Presidents, Congress, etc - they’re MANAGEMENT, i.e. the people we hire to run the business, to increase our shareholder value. In a business, Management makes money for the Shareholders.

Customers? They’re the folks you make money FROM, selling them the least product for the most money (see Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump etc.)

Using a normal business model, thinking the citizens as customers is bad enough. But in the Trump model, customers are suckers, and the business sells shitty, shoddy products at inflated prices by stamping ‘TRUMP’ on it in big gilt letters, to fool the rubes.

But, yeah - that’s how they see us.

Exactly. Government by sales pitch.

They’ve got it all wrong and they don’t even notice.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:26:23pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

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But with his tiny hands, it looks normal!

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:26:33pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:27:06pm

re: #100 makeitstop

Exactly. Government by sales pitch.

They’ve got it all wrong and they don’t even notice.

And worse, their voters marks won’t get it either.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:27:34pm

re: #101 Blind Frog Belly White

But with his tiny hands, it looks normal!

You beat me by 10 seconds.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:27:52pm

re: #101 Blind Frog Belly White

re: #102 Dr. Matt

10 seconds, but TBF, you did post to Twitter….

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:28:16pm

re: #97 HappyWarrior

It’s too bad that he sold out to a degree by signing on with Reagan though to his credit, he did make the difficult decision to raise taxes as President. H.W is probably the best Republican president since Ike hoenstly.

I’m guessing Ford wasn’t terrible (and the last official pro-choice Republican president). He took office in probably the worst possible conditions (non-Andrew Johnson category), and was a serviceable president.

Side note: from what I remember reading a while back, there was actually a push for a constitutional convention during the Watergate area that would have sought to reform our system into a more parliamentarian system with a prime minister.

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:28:18pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:28:34pm

re: #104 Dr. Matt

re: #105 Blind Frog Belly White

And you beat me by 18 seconds this time!

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:29:31pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

What are the bills he’s signing? I wasn’t aware that Congress had actually passed anything…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:31:23pm

re: #97 HappyWarrior

It’s too bad that he sold out to a degree by signing on with Reagan though to his credit, he did make the difficult decision to raise taxes as President. H.W is probably the best Republican president since Ike hoenstly.

Yeah, but remember - after signing the biggest tax CUT in history, Reagan later signed the biggest tax HIKE in history.

That’s the REAL Reagan, of course. Zombie Reagan didn’t raise any taxes. He stared down Tip O’Neill with a steely glare and made the Social Security Trust Fund secure for 3 generations by sheer force of will!
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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:33:02pm

re: #110 Blind Frog Belly White

“Force of Will” is probably why we keep “firing at Will” so often.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:33:07pm

re: #93 Blind Frog Belly White

From last night:

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This explains a lot about how the Trump Administration works. Analogizing the Government to Business, citizens are not the CUSTOMERS. We’re the OWNERS, the shareholders. Presidents, Congress, etc - they’re MANAGEMENT, i.e. the people we hire to run the business, to increase our shareholder value. In a business, Management makes money for the Shareholders.

Customers? They’re the folks you make money FROM, selling them the least product for the most money (see Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump etc.)

Using a normal business model, thinking the citizens as customers is bad enough. But in the Trump model, customers are suckers, and the business sells shitty, shoddy products at inflated prices by stamping ‘TRUMP’ on it in big gilt letters, to fool the rubes.

But, yeah - that’s how they see us.

Kushner doesn’t realize it but he’s creating conditions for a perfect storm of anti-semitic backlash when Trump’s administration inevitably, finally implodes under the weight of its combined corruption and incompetence. Trump’s racist supporters will interpret Jared’s nepotistic, totally unearned role within the Administration and responsibility he’s been undeservedly given as the machinations of a “Court Jew” who will then be scapegoated as the central reason the promise of MAGA never materialized.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:33:12pm

re: #109 KGxvi

What are the bills he’s signing? I wasn’t aware that Congress had actually passed anything…

No doubt something allowing businesses to burn orphans for fuel, or press SNAP recipients into military service.
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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:34:11pm

re: #106 KGxvi

I’m guessing Ford wasn’t terrible (and the last official pro-choice Republican president). He took office in probably the worst possible conditions (non-Andrew Johnson category), and was a serviceable president.

Side note: from what I remember reading a while back, there was actually a push for a constitutional convention during the Watergate area that would have sought to reform our system into a more parliamentarian system with a prime minister.

Yeah Ford was pro choice and pro LGBT. Ford had a lot of good things going for him especially as a person. H.W gets my edge for Clean Air Act and Americans With Disabilities but Ford was good and it would have been better if they had gone in his/Bush’s wing rather than Reagan’s in 1980.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:34:56pm

re: #110 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, but remember - after signing the biggest tax CUT in history, Reagan later signed the biggest tax HIKE in history.

That’s the REAL Reagan, of course. Zombie Reagan didn’t raise any taxes. He stared down Tip O’Neill with a steely glare and made the Social Security Trust Fund secure for 3 generations by sheer force of will!
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Ha!

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:36:12pm

re: #113 Blind Frog Belly White

Dr. Orpheus: It craves… purity… it devours… purity… it seems to be… What the hell is this thing made out of?
Dr. Venture: Nothing.
Dr. Orpheus: Come on…
Dr. Venture: Alright fine, I might have used a few unorthodox parts.
Dr. Orpheus: Just tell me one!
Dr. Venture: An… (mumbles)
Dr. Orpheus: A what?
Dr. Venture: An… orphan.
Dr. Orpheus: Did you say… an orphan!?
Dr. Venture: Yeah… a little.. orphan boy..
Dr. Orpheus: It’s powered by a forsaken child!?
Dr. Venture: Might be… kind of… I mean, I didn’t use the whole thing!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:36:36pm

re: #111 Belafon

“Force of Will” is probably why we keep “firing at Will” so often.

No wonder Dr. Smith used to wail, “Ooohh, Wiiillll! We’ll all be kiiillled!!!”

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:37:19pm
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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:37:27pm

re: #107 Kragar

That this usurper is linked in any way with either Roosevelt is enough to make me despair for this great country.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:38:21pm

re: #118 Kragar

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Eeewww. Give me the Obama/Biden bromance any day.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:38:27pm

P.S. Clara Jeffrey posited last night that Jared’s “SWAT” Team might actually have internally originated as “SWOT,” which is business school analysis model jargon for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:39:11pm

re: #109 KGxvi

What are the bills he’s signing? I wasn’t aware that Congress had actually passed anything…

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:40:12pm

This should be retweeted every single day:

WATCH: Trump last year: If I’m POTUS I don’t think I’d see any of my golf courses again, I just want to stay in WH and “work in my ass off”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:41:22pm

He says this as though it should be surprising that a Randian would sponsor a bill that keeps government from stopping a business screwing its customers.

Again, why we don’t want to be seen as Government’s customers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:41:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:43:06pm
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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:43:35pm

re: #123 Dr. Matt

This should be retweeted every single day:

Yeah but now as POTUS I work so, so very hard that I deserve all my golf time because I earned it!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:43:43pm

re: #124 Blind Frog Belly White

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He says this as though it should be surprising that a Randian would sponsor a bill that keeps government from stopping a business screwing its customers.

Again, why we don’t want to be seen as Government’s customers.

Rand Paul again shows he’s nothing but a pathetic fraud just like his Dad.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:44:55pm
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:44:55pm

True story.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:44:58pm

re: #123 Dr. Matt

This should be retweeted every single day:

That was before I won the biggest election victory ever since that guy who won the president a long time ago. I won bigly.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:45:08pm

re: #128 HappyWarrior

Rand Paul again shows he’s nothing but a pathetic fraud just like his Dad.

Insert generic Republican and you’d get the same result.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:47:58pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Cray cray Fox is standing right there,

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:49:26pm

re: #133 Stanley Sea

Cray cray Fox is standing right there,

must be for the anti-education bill, whatever it is.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:49:35pm

re: #106 KGxvi

I’m guessing Ford wasn’t terrible (and the last official pro-choice Republican president). He took office in probably the worst possible conditions (non-Andrew Johnson category), and was a serviceable president.

Side note: from what I remember reading a while back, there was actually a push for a constitutional convention during the Watergate area that would have sought to reform our system into a more parliamentarian system with a prime minister.

We actually could have a more paliamentary-like system of government without amending the Constitution. Adding proportional representation to our system of electing Congressman, with other reforms, could end the monopoly on power held by the two major parties. If electors were also selected proportionally, and there were usually more than two major candidates for President, then the President would almost always be elected by Congress, much like Parliament selects the Prime Minister.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:50:50pm

re: #132 lawhawk

Insert generic Republican and you’d get the same result.

True, true. I just find Rand really repulsive in this regard since he loves to sell himself as a champion of privacy rights.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:51:03pm
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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:51:04pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, was just looking on the WH website to see what was pending. For what it’s worth, here’s the summary of the Dept of Interior regulation that was shut down today:

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is amending its regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land use plans pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA). The final rule affirms the important role of other Federal agencies, State and local governments, Indian tribes, and the public during the planning process and enhances opportunities for public involvement and transparency during the preparation of resource management plans. The final rule will enable the BLM to more readily address resource issues at a variety of scales, such as wildfire, wildlife habitat, appropriate development, or the demand for renewable and non-renewable energy sources, and to respond more effectively to change. The final rule emphasizes the role of using high quality information, including the best available scientific information, in the planning process; and the importance of evaluating the resource, environmental, ecological, social, and economic conditions at the onset of planning. Finally, the final rule makes revisions to clarify existing text and to improve the readability of the planning regulations.

They stopped a regulation designed to get more parties involved in the process. What am I not shocked that Trump would be opposed to transparency.

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Mattand  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:51:11pm

re: #116 Kragar

Venture Bros. refs always FTW.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:52:46pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

People-killing, on the other hand, isn’t an issue.

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Mattand  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:52:46pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

Christ, always with the “job-killing” bullshit. It’s like a Republican Security blanket.

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:53:54pm

re: #138 KGxvi

Even better, the regulation summary from the DoD and NASA:

DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to implement Executive Order 13673, Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces, which is designed to increase efficiency and cost savings in Federal contracting by improving contractor compliance with labor laws. The Department of Labor is simultaneously issuing final Guidance to assist Federal agencies in

I thought they were all about increasing efficiency and cost savings? Wait… you mean to tell me that’s all for show?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:54:29pm

Yeahhh….I’m gonna have to ask you to give up your healthcare. If you could just die without going to the hospital, that’d be great.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:57:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:58:36pm
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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 12:58:44pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:01:55pm

re: #141 Mattand

Christ, always with the “job-killing” bullshit. It’s like a Republican Security blanket.

You’re not kidding. I have to read a lot of stuff from Chabot (head of the Small Business Committee) in the House and there’s so much whining about “job killing” regulations.

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b.d.  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:03:09pm

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And the number of people who predicted that Schumer would be the one leading the Congressional resistance?

Zero…

Myself included and I am pleasantly shocked.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:03:48pm

re: #148 b.d.

And the number of people who predicted that Schumer would be the one leading the Congressional resistance?

Zero…

Myself included and I am pleasantly shocked.

He’s been a pleasant surprise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:03:58pm

re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:04:41pm

re: #141 Mattand

Christ, always with the “job-killing” bullshit. It’s like a Republican Security blanket.

Regulation kills jobs. De-regulation kills workers. They’ve made their choice.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:06:47pm

re: #151 Decatur Deb

Regulation kills jobs. De-regulation kills workers. They’ve made their choice.

Regulation kills dangerous, low-paying jobs producing dangerous, shoddy products while producing dangerous, unhealthy side effects on the environment.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:08:35pm

re: #152 Blind Frog Belly White

Regulation kills dangerous, low-paying jobs producing dangerous, shoddy products while producing dangerous, unhealthy side effects on the environment.

Yup. But you can’t beat Walmart on 10-packs of tube socks.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:10:27pm

re: #153 Decatur Deb

Yup. But you can’t beat Walmart on 10-packs of tube socks.

Right. And look how much higher black employment was before that pesky 13th Amendment regulation passed!

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Stanley Sea  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:10:28pm

re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And on the other side is senile Don Young.

Cray day.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:10:35pm

I like to think that people would want to work in a safe work environment but I’m not a Republican.

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BeachDem  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:10:59pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I know, in the big scheme of things, it’s pretty unimportant, but it makes me want to puke whenever he holds up his signed crap for approval. What. A. Douchenozzle.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:12:27pm

re: #156 HappyWarrior

I like to think that people would want to work in a safe work environment but I’m not a Republican.

Ah, but you see, the Republicans would say, “Nobody is forced to work in an unsafe environment! They can choose different jobs!”

Then, with their next breath, they’ll complain there aren’t enough jobs.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:13:07pm

re: #157 BeachDem

I know, in the big scheme of things, it’s pretty unimportant, but it makes me want to puke whenever he holds up his signed crap for approval. What. A. Douchenozzle.

“Hey, everybody! Look at my psychopathic signature!!”

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:13:41pm

re: #154 Blind Frog Belly White

Right. And look how much higher black employment was before that pesky 13th Amendment regulation passed!

“The family that picks together stays together, until the jobbers from Louisiana come upriver in the Spring.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:14:55pm

re: #160 Decatur Deb

“The family that picks together stays sticks together, until the jobbers from Louisiana come upriver in the Spring.”

FTFY

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Jay C  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:15:35pm

re: #148 b.d.

And the number of people who predicted that Schumer would be the one leading the Congressional resistance?

Zero…

Myself included and I am pleasantly shocked.

Well, old Chuck wanted to be Senate Dem Leader after Harry Reid packed it in (still miss him); not really a shocker that he’d have to step up into the public eye* : but I agree, he’s doing a good job so far.

* More so, that is: that old wheeze about “the most dangerous place in Washington is between Chuck Schumer and a camera” goes WAY back

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:15:41pm
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:15:43pm

re: #141 Mattand

Christ, always with the “job-killing” bullshit. It’s like a Republican Security blanket.

I heard a clip of an interview with Pruitt on NPR where he made that charge explicitly: regs were written to kill jobs. It got by the interviewer because it was couched as ‘regs that hurt the economy’; but basically their charge is that Democrats hate jobs.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:19:04pm

Trump cannot fail. He can only BE failed.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:19:07pm

re: #158 Blind Frog Belly White

Ah, but you see, the Republicans would say, “Nobody is forced to work in an unsafe environment! They can choose different jobs!”

Then, with their next breath, they’ll complain there aren’t enough jobs.

Yep same clueless and out of touch bullshit that we’ve come to know and love. That one can just quit a job just like that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:20:14pm

re: #112 goddamnedfrank

Kushner doesn’t realize it but he’s creating conditions for a perfect storm of anti-semitic backlash when Trump’s administration inevitably, finally implodes under the weight of its combined corruption and incompetence. Trump’s racist supporters will interpret Jared’s nepotistic, totally unearned role within the Administration and responsibility he’s been undeservedly given as the machinations of a “Court Jew” who will then be scapegoated as the central reason the promise of MAGA never materialized.

Kushner scares the crap out of me because he fits every anti-Semitic stereotype of the sneaky, thieving, plotting, conniving JOO and he thinks he’s bullet proof.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:21:57pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:21:59pm

re: #166 HappyWarrior

Yep same clueless and out of touch bullshit that we’ve come to know and love. That one can just quit a job just like that.

If they want better pay and healthcare, they should get better jobs, of which there aren’t enough because workers keep demanding better pay and healthcare, and if they want better pay and healthcare, they should get better jobs, of which there aren’t enough because workers keep demanding better pay and healthcare, and if they want better pay and healthcare, they should get better jobs, of which there aren’t enough because workers keep demanding better pay and healthcare, and ……

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:22:55pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:23:31pm

But they did everything they could! They spent literally tens of hours trying!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:24:11pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He can’t stop in the middle of that seismograph signature, or he’ll lose his place.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:26:35pm
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BeachDem  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:28:13pm

Gibberish is the White House’s new normal: A close look at Trump’s peculiar derangement

Now we have a president who, when he speaks, spatters the air with unfinished chunks, many of which do not qualify as sentences, and which do not follow from previous chunks. He does not release words into a stream of consciousness but into a heap. He heaps words on top of words, to overwhelm meaning with vague gestures. He does not think, he lurches.
rawstory.com
Heh

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freetoken  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:28:43pm

re: #173 goddamnedfrank

From what we’ve seen so far, Ivanka is taking the “First Lady” role, as Trump’s current wife apparently isn’t interested in the job.

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Sir John Barron  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:28:47pm

re: #171 Blind Frog Belly White

But they did everything they could! They spent literally tens of hours trying!

Oh, they’ll be back with something worse soon enough.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:29:41pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You know, I think this and stuff like the tie change aren’t inconsequential, when stacked up.

I was thinking earlier today about how authoritarians…and particularly dictators…engage in theater, because their power roots in being seen as indispensable (either a necessary evil or a man of the people). And I think we’re seeing a slightly different kind of theater at play in events like this: it’s sound and fury, inflating nothing into Something Important. More than anything, it resembles reality television and its trick of editing and “reenacting” to create emphatic, heightened scenarios.

This is all performance and flair to obfuscate the substance.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:30:25pm

re: #174 BeachDem

Gibberish is the White House’s new normal: A close look at Trump’s peculiar derangement

Now we have a president who, when he speaks, spatters the air with unfinished chunks, many of which do not qualify as sentences, and which do not follow from previous chunks. He does not release words into a stream of consciousness but into a heap. He heaps words on top of words, to overwhelm meaning with vague gestures. He does not think, he lurches.
rawstory.com
Heh

That’s because people insist on listening to his words. Trump’s words are inconsequential—it’s all in the gestures. Trump is an unsurpassed mime.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:31:20pm

re: #175 freetoken

From what we’ve seen so far, Ivanka is taking the “First Lady” role, as Trump’s current wife apparently isn’t interested in the job.

*bites tongue*

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freetoken  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:32:30pm

re: #178 Decatur Deb

Trump’s words are inconsequential—it’s all in the gestures.

Wildly waving orange thing:

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:33:02pm

re: #171 Blind Frog Belly White

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But they did everything they could! They spent literally tens of hours trying!

Its almost like they realized that passing that piece of crap would be even worse for them politically than giving up on it.

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weave  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:33:03pm

re: #175 freetoken

From what we’ve seen so far, Ivanka is taking the “First Lady” role, as Trump’s current wife apparently isn’t interested in the job.

Was this written for them?

Maroon 5 - Cold ft. Future

Not that I can say I feel sorry for either of them. They both had to have known what they were getting into.

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BeachDem  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:33:43pm

re: #178 Decatur Deb

That’s because people insist on listening to his words. Trump’s words are inconsequential—it’s all in the gestures. Trump is an unsurpassed mime.

The article ends with:

Any journalist, any talking head, any pundit, any commentator, any politician who pretends that Donald Trump makes sense has volunteered to go to work in the tailor shop where his invisible clothes are weaved.

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Jay C  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:34:10pm

re: #167 The Vicious Babushka

Kushner scares the crap out of me because he fits every anti-Semitic stereotype of the sneaky, thieving, plotting, conniving JOO and he thinks he’s bullet proof.

I dunno: he scares the crap out of me because, AFAICT, he’s a mediocrity of little discernible talent shoved into a position of major importance in the government solely out of nepotism and no-choice “loyalty”. The “Jewish” thing is almost secondary (though you may be right).

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ObserverArt  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:34:34pm

re: #72 BlueGrl21

I’ve reached the point where Spicer isn’t worth my time any more, even for the humor potential. I’m done listening to him. Trump will just contradict him in 10 mins anyway.

He swims with the fishes.

What’s to listen to anyway? It’s all lies and deflection. This White House is totally incapable of dealing with truth. It has an aversion to facts and reality.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:37:49pm

re: #181 Big Beautiful Door

Its almost like they realized that passing that piece of crap would be even worse for them politically than giving up on it.

That’s certainly true of the 30 or so “moderates” who opposed it rather more quietly than the HFC, who are just cruel and bugfuck nuts.

I saw an interesting thing noting that since Trump was elected, the people getting the most attention in town halls have been people whose lives and health depend on the ACA, and who could say in no uncertain terms that the AHCA would have a dire impact on them.

ETA: As opposed to the usual “Muh premiumz went up!” folks.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:38:57pm

re: #167 The Vicious Babushka

Kushner scares the crap out of me because he fits every anti-Semitic stereotype of the sneaky, thieving, plotting, conniving JOO and he thinks he’s bullet proof.

Exactly. He has no idea or seeming care in the word about whose lives he’s really endangering with his self dealing fuckery.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:39:36pm

re: #187 gocart mozart

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Whoa. That cat looks ridiculously at home in the water.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:40:36pm

re: #190 Blind Frog Belly White

Whoa. That cat looks ridiculously at home in the water.

Despite most cats being afraid of water they are typically good swimmers.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:41:50pm

re: #190 Blind Frog Belly White

Whoa. That cat looks ridiculously at home in the water.

leopard attacks crocodile in river .. huge alligator

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Timothy Watson  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:43:28pm
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FormerDirtDart  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:44:08pm

re: #187 gocart mozart

Go home cat, you’re drunk…

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Timothy Watson  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:45:38pm

re: #194 FormerDirtDart

Leopard Dives Under Water

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:46:20pm
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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:48:46pm

re: #196 goddamnedfrank

Does that make Last Rites the ultimate cheat code?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:49:57pm

re: #197 KGxvi

Does that make Last Rites the ultimate cheat code?

get out of jail card

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ObserverArt  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:50:32pm

re: #136 HappyWarrior

True, true. I just find Rand really repulsive in this regard since he loves to sell himself as a champion of privacy rights.

You know what Rand is really a champion of?

Rand.

Dude just oozes arrogance.

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allegro  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:51:08pm

re: #181 Big Beautiful Door

Its almost like they realized that passing that piece of crap would be even worse for them politically than giving up on it.

“Eh, we tried. Those Democrats, know what I mean?”

That’s all it takes to amuse their base.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:54:16pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:56:52pm

re: #144 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mark Knoller ✔ @markknoller
“It’s a child’s desk,” said Pres Trump of the table provided for the bill signings. “It’s the smallest desk I’ve ever seen,” he complained.
3:50 PM - 27 Mar 2017
65 65 Retweets 91 91 likes

The smallest desk is perfect for a very small president.

(Fun with the word small…)

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Joe Bacon  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:57:34pm

re: #56 Kragar

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I’ve had it with these tax dodging Welfare Queen Pulpit Pimps!

Tax The Churches!!!!!

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 1:58:22pm

re: #196 goddamnedfrank

The alternative fact is even more nonsensical.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:01:11pm

Finally, a Cure for Government Dysfunction: Nepotism

Let Jared do it!

Solve the crisis in the Middle East, which has defeated generals and clerics, emperors and kings, democrats and autocrats?

Let Jared do it!

Refashion the federal government into a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Trump Organization so everybody can get a sweet slice of the pie before the whole clan winds up playing pinochle together in Danbury?

Let Jared do it!

However, I do spot an essential element of the Trump business plan deep in the story.

In some cases, the office could direct that government functions be privatized, or that existing contracts be awarded to new bidders.

I’m sure this process will be marked by the same commitment to meritocracy that landed Jared in the White House.

What is the deal here? Where are the actual Trump sons? I know Eric’s off somewhere having the bolts in his neck tightened, and Don, Jr. is out in the woods, sitting on a stump and thinking big thoughts about picking fights above his weight class:

Meanwhile, Ivanka’s honey-bunny is getting to run the world.

esquire.com

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:01:37pm

re: #196 goddamnedfrank

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Its like he gets his “Christian” theology from the half hour sitcom The Good Place, which works exactly like he described.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:07:26pm

You have one day to stop Congress from giving away your web browsing history
So the answer to Trump is to run around with my hair on fire for the next 4 years? So is it “my fault” if I don’t sit down at my desk with my quill pen every fucking week begging and pleading for the bad man to stop? Fuck that noise. I donated to both Clinton and Sanders, I voted.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:12:19pm

re: #181 Big Beautiful Door

Its almost like they realized that passing that piece of crap would be even worse for them politically than giving up on it.

While conceding that was probably the thinking, I’m not entirely convinced that’s true. There are a LOT of moderate Republican’s who are going to go home in 2018 without a measurable, tangible vote against the AHCA. If Trump’s approval rating remains at garbage levels, and it’s hard to see how it gets much better, these people will be tarred by association, struggling to differentiate themselves from his horribly corrupt & inept governance.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:13:44pm

There are very few moderate republicans.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:14:53pm
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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:15:19pm

Full stop, if you are against abortion, or think it’s murder, you are no moderate. The whole GOP believes this.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:16:02pm

re: #211 Amory Blaine

Full stop, if you are against abortion, or think it’s murder, you are no moderate. The whole GOP believes this.

Harry Reid was against abortion.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:18:00pm

re: #212 Belafon

Did he belong to a political party that considers it murder? And that observation doesn’t disprove that there are few moderates in the GOP. Have at it. If there are so many, list them or point me to the list of moderates.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:18:34pm

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

I can see the Trump sons making their travel plans as soon as that Panda shoot in a Chinese zoo comes through.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:21:22pm

You dumb fuck Trump voters just keep winning.

Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft

WASHINGTON ― Companies that commit wage theft and put their workers in harm’s way just received a favor from the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump signed a bill Monday repealing a regulation that had encouraged federal contractors to follow labor laws. Under the Obama-era rule, companies with an egregious record of violating wage and safety laws would lose their government contracts if they didn’t come into compliance.

The idea behind the rule was to make sure unscrupulous employers didn’t receive taxpayer dollars. But Republicans in Congress thought the rule was too punitive and unfair to businesses. They used an arcane tool known as the Congressional Review Act in an effort to kill the regulation, which was called the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule.

By approving the legislation sent to him by the Senate, Trump has ensured not only that the regulation will die, but also that no similar regulation can be put forth by the Labor Department again. Trump signed the legislation at a White House ceremony in front of the press.

huffingtonpost.com;

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:21:24pm

re: #213 Amory Blaine

Did he belong to a political party that considers it murder? And that observation doesn’t disprove that there are few moderates in the GOP. Have at it. If there are so many, list them or point me to the list of moderates.

Patriarchy comes in all flavors. And some religions got it bad.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:21:35pm

re: #212 Belafon

Harry Reid was against abortion.

Reid had an imperfect but mostly pro-choice voting record in spite of his personal views.

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caseyjr  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:25:48pm

re: #217 goddamnedfrank

Reid had an imperfect but mostly pro-choice voting record in spite of his personal views.

I have it on reasonably good authority that Harry Reid never performed nor had any abortions while in the senate.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:25:48pm

re: #212 Belafon

Harry Reid was against abortion.

Well, there’s ‘against abortion’ and then there’s favoring the use of government force to prohibit/prevent abortion, and then there’s believing this is The Most Important Issue.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:26:07pm

re: #212 Belafon

Harry Reid was against abortion.

Reid never let that personal belief interfere with the law.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:26:56pm

re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth

Reid never let that personal belief interfere with the law.

Same with Biden, IIRC.

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ObserverArt  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:27:42pm

re: #215 Skip Intro

You dumb fuck Trump voters just keep winning.

Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft

huffingtonpost.com;

Now why would a great businessman known for cheating suppliers and others for dollars repeal a bill from protecting workers from wage theft?

Making America Great Again for Scummy Business Men.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:27:58pm

BTW, here’s a list of the things the ISPs hope to be able to get back to doing, per the EFF. This one is particularly creepy to me:

Hijacking your searches

Which ISPs did it before? Charter, Cogent, DirecPC, Frontier, Wide Open West (to name a few)

Back in 2011, several ISPs were caught red-handed working with a company called Paxfire to hijack their customers’ search queries to Bing, Yahoo!, and Google. Here’s how it worked.

When you entered a search term in your browser’s search box or URL bar, your ISP directed that query to Paxfire instead of to an actual search engine. Paxfire then checked what you were searching for to see if it matched a list of companies that had paid them for more traffic. If your query matched one of these brands (e.g. you had typed in “apple”, “dell”, or “wsj”, to name a few) then Paxfire would send you directly to that company’s website instead of sending you to a search engine and showing you all the search results (which is what you’d normally expect). The company would then presumably give Paxfire some money, and Paxfire would presumably give your ISP some money.

In other words, ISPs were hijacking their customers’ search queries and redirecting them to a place customers hadn’t asked for, all while pocketing a little cash on the side. Oh, and the ISPs in question hadn’t bothered to tell their customers they’d be sending their search traffic to a third party that might record some of it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:28:06pm

Belligerent sobriety, however, is right up the owner’s alley.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:28:31pm

I suppose my language was ambiguous at best. Personally against is different than legislatively.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:30:15pm

re: #222 ObserverArt

Now why would a great businessman known for cheating suppliers and others for dollars repeal a bill from protecting workers from wage theft?

Making America Great Again for Scummy Business Men.

I think this is what Trump meant when he said people would beg him to stop because they just couldn’t take all that winning.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:31:09pm

re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White

Ivanka in 5 years.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:31:32pm

re: #215 Skip Intro

Hey if you don’t like your boss stealing from you, you can always just get another job. Right? :D

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ObserverArt  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:31:53pm

re: #217 goddamnedfrank

Reid had an imperfect but mostly pro-choice voting record in spite of his personal views.

An actual practitioner of pro-choice.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:32:08pm

You know that guy who wrote “The Bell Curve”? That guy that “race realists” (AKA “racists”) like to cite b/c “he’s scientific, totally not a racist!”

He was totally a racist. (But you already know that)

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Timothy Watson  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:33:32pm

re: #230 The Vicious Babushka

You know that guy who wrote “The Bell Curve”? That guy that “race realists” (AKA “racists”) like to cite b/c “he’s scientific, totally not a racist!”

He was totally a racist. (But you already know that)

[Embedded content]

And PBS has been giving him a platform to promote his views:
pbs.org

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:34:09pm

re: #224 Blind Frog Belly White

This is good. I like that all the rich people that pay to stay with Trump have to now watch all their Ps and Qs. Nothing says relaxing getaway like SS no-go zones.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:39:30pm

re: #215 Skip Intro

You dumb fuck Trump voters just keep winning.

Trump Repeals Regulation Protecting Workers From Wage Theft

huffingtonpost.com;

Sucks for all those Clinton voters who will get hurt by this.

I wonder if a company like Costco could sue (I guess the big question is who) over unfair practices.

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bratwurst  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:42:13pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:42:54pm

re: #233 Belafon

Sucks for all those Clinton voters who will get hurt by this.

I wonder if a company like Costco could sue (I guess the big question is who) over unfair practices.

This was part of what Ryan was talking about, ‘standing with the American workforce’. Yeah, standing with a cattleprod, waving a pink slip menacingly….

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:43:44pm

re: #199 ObserverArt

You know what Rand is really a champion of?

Rand.

Dude just oozes arrogance.

That’s a given with an anarchist, I mean libertarian. I’ve never, ever, met a humble one.

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CongoJack  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:45:56pm

re: #234 bratwurst

[Embedded content]

That’s a great thing (the voter registrations - not Punchface McGee). Having come from Kansas (now in Colorado) and having been back in Kansas the last few months for funerals all I can say is these mid-western states should thank their god(s) that these people decide to put down roots in these areas. Otherwise their populations of small towns and counties would go to nothing. All the young people who could get out of the mid-west did and they need the manpower and the people to keep their areas afloat.

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Mattand  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:46:15pm

re: #236 Romantic Heretic

That’s a given with an anarchist, I mean libertarian. I’ve never, ever, met a humble one.

Said it before, will say it again:

If you ever want to experience what life would be like under a libertarian government, go play BioShock for a few hours.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:46:44pm

re: #234 bratwurst

Vögel of a Feder flock zusammen.

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CongoJack  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:47:35pm

re: #238 Mattand

Or go to Somalia.

Better yet go play Bioshock in Somalia. A good double frying.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:47:52pm

re: #236 Romantic Heretic

I wouldn’t even credit him with libertarian.

He’s a Confederate like his dad. “Rights” are real and serious when they reinforce the hegemony of his people, nonexistent otherwise.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:50:32pm

re: #215 Skip Intro

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:53:00pm
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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:53:59pm

re: #242 goddamnedfrank

Derp. ALL CHOICES IN THE TROLLEY PROBLEM ARE EQUALLY BAD. Derp.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:55:17pm

re: #243 gocart mozart

Does anyone else think of MASH when they see Tuttle?

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:56:38pm
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TedStriker  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:57:45pm

re: #245 Belafon

Does anyone else think of MASH when they see Tuttle?

Captain Tuttle

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:58:45pm

re: #246 goddamnedfrank

I’m so ethnically white I’m one of those pale blue people, but…damn, white people be crazy.

SMDH

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2017 • 2:59:39pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:01:45pm

I was driving home from work this afternoon and I saw something that made me look again.

There was “A Handmaid’s Tale” woman standing at the bus stop.

It was weird because I did not read or hear about any demonstrations going on, and not at a strip mall in my neighborhood.

I drove past again and saw that it was an old lady, with a walker, who just happened to be wearing a bright red raincoat and a white bucket hat.

I didn’t take a picture because (1) I was driving and (2) privacy, it was just a random woman at a bus stop, not a “Handmaid”

But dayum.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:04:30pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:04:40pm

re: #242 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

“Good, because Trump’s gonna make it so intolerable in America that the people will rise up and throw him out of office, beginning the glorious revolution we’ve been waiting for!!!”

Don’t laugh, that’s what I’ve been told on more than one occasion.

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:05:35pm
Does anyone else think of MASH when they see Tuttle?

re: #245 Belafon

Robert DeNiro in Brazil

Brazil (3/10) Movie CLIP - Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer (1985) HD

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:06:41pm

re: #252 Targetpractice

1. Things get worse.
2. —-
3. Everybody will come around to my way of thinking!
4. Revolution!

Marx was the original underpants gnome. And we’re now dealing with his Sawney-Beane-like offspring who aren’t even making accurate observations about industrialized Europe.

edited because “inbred” and a Sawney Beane reference are redundant. Also, my British level is now over 9000.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:07:30pm

re: #79 Big Beautiful Door

The national debt isn’t a problem at all, much less our #1 crisis. But that is a message rightwing media has been spewing for eight years.

Some of us old lizards recall interest rates that were substantially higher than today — banks were paying 12% on CD’s in the early 80’s. The only reason that the national debt isn’t a problem is that interest rates have remained so low over the past decade and longer. If we are faced with a similar economic crisis as in the 1970’s, something that may indeed happen under this feckless, traitorous regime, the debt may again become a fiscal problem for us.

In any case, raising taxes on those who can best afford seems like a rational solution in all cases.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:12:27pm

re: #248 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus

Bonus thought:

Rachael Dolezal is why Get Out is both horror and satire.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:13:00pm

Those that best can afford them are those who have benefited the most from Americas system that they have gamed so well.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:13:26pm

re: #253 gocart mozart

Robert DeNiro in Brazil

[Embedded content]

Thanks. The Captain Tuttle episode just reminds me of many attempts to cover up a lie.

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unproven innocence  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:13:34pm

re: #223 Belafon

BTW, here’s a list of the things the ISPs hope to be able to get back to doing, per the EFF. This one is particularly creepy to me:

This may be helpful: Freenom World is a fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
From their intro page:
Speed up your internet experience
— Freenom does not store IP addresses
— Protect your privacy
— No advertising

Get the results you expect. Freenom - as one of the largest DNS providers - is committed to preserve the integrity of the DNS protocol. Freenom World’s DNS resolvers will never forward any request for a non-existing domain to an advertising page.

Some DNS providers, such as OpenDNS, offer a “balance” between strict adherence to standards, vs some protections from typo-squatting, malware and phishing sites, etc, for some degree of end-user protection. Some others are deep in the pockets of advertisers, or worse. One’s choices for DNS services are a tradeoff, but majorly affect how the web works for you. Or against you.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:22:02pm

My wife is hosting a visit this weekend for one of her RWNJ friends and her man from Rockford Illinois. She hasn’t been over since I admonished her for a racist diatribe coming out of her mouth at my dining room table 2 years ago. Cursory review of her facebook entries show a willingness to let any meme about Chicago crime rates come front and center. I mean to ask her why she’s so concerned about Chicago’s crime rate considering her own Rockford has a higher crime rate. I am also curious why she would visit New Orleans for Fat Tuesday when it is clear that New Orleans has more crime than Chicago. Actually I’m not curious, she’s a racist nutter that considers my wife “one of the good ones”.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:25:03pm

re: #260 Amory Blaine

It’s that fucking C S Lewis thing where they’re excited that there’s someplace they can conceive of as The Worst.

They’re heroes…when contrasted with total depravity they project on everybody else.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:25:04pm
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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:26:48pm

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

Still proposing that 45 is trying to Giovanni Sforza Mr. Kushner.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:29:10pm

Caption Contest! Everybody wins!

My entry: “Gee, Suzy, looks like I don’t have to get you home by 10 after all.”

(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:29:16pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:31:51pm

re: #212 Belafon

Harry Reid was against abortion.

I don’t think Harry Reid was in favor of making abortion illegal. That’s the only thing that matters.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:33:26pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

“See that Sue? That’s a freedom cloud”

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:34:49pm
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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:35:17pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

I yelled “Don’t look Edith!” But it was too late - she’d already been a-salt-ed.

(all due apologies to Ray Stevens)

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:36:16pm

re: #152 Blind Frog Belly White

Regulation kills dangerous, low-paying jobs producing dangerous, shoddy products while producing dangerous, unhealthy side effects on the environment.

“Here, have a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. The peanut butter was made in a plant that’s now free of those job-killing regulations, and the place is just teeming.”

“So is the sandwich.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:37:28pm
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Cheechako  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:37:32pm

Remember those photos of trump sitting in the big rig? Someone let him take it for a test drive. Here is the result:

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Dr. Matt  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:38:36pm

Look at all this winning!!!!

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unproven innocence  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:38:39pm

re: #270 jaunte

“Here, have a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. The peanut butter was made in a plant that’s now free of those job-killing regulations, and the place is just teeming.”

“So is the sandwich.”

Do the workers get bathroom breaks? Are you sure that’s peanut butter? /

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:39:24pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

[Embedded content]

(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)

“Honey, did you turn off the stove before we left?”

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:39:36pm

re: #274 unproven innocence

“The marketplace, not faceless Washington bureaucrats, will decide what’s peanut butter.”

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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:42:15pm

re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter

Some of us old lizards recall interest rates that were substantially higher than today — banks were paying 12% on CD’s in the early 80’s. The only reason that the national debt isn’t a problem is that interest rates have remained so low over the past decade and longer. If we are faced with a similar economic crisis as in the 1970’s, something that may indeed happen under this feckless, traitorous regime, the debt may again become a fiscal problem for us.

In any case, raising taxes on those who can best afford seems like a rational solution in all cases.

I remember when we were PAYING rates like that on farming loans. That can push you out of business in a hurry.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:42:49pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

“If we’d brought the kids and dog like I wanted, Jane, we’d at least have had a few days of survival rations. You happy now?”

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Cheechako  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:45:17pm

re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter

Some of us old lizards recall interest rates that were substantially higher than today — banks were paying 12% on CD’s in the early 80’s. The only reason that the national debt isn’t a problem is that interest rates have remained so low over the past decade and longer. If we are faced with a similar economic crisis as in the 1970’s, something that may indeed happen under this feckless, traitorous regime, the debt may again become a fiscal problem for us.

In any case, raising taxes on those who can best afford seems like a rational solution in all cases.

When I transferred in 1979, the 30 year mortgage rate was 13.1%!!! The rate stayed that high for several years before we could refinance.

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Timothy Watson  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:47:22pm

Okay, I know Mass Effect Andromeda isn’t perfect, but that final mission is more rewarding than anything in Mass Effect 3 (except maybe Citadel DLC).

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:47:39pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

[Embedded content]

(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)

“It’s OK honey, that’s just the neighborhood where the colored people live.”

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:47:51pm

re: #272 Cheechako

Remember those photos of trump sitting in the big rig? Someone let him take it for a test drive. Here is the result:

[Embedded content]

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:47:55pm

I just feel like they are trying to overwhelm us with corruption so that we become desensitized and just say, fuck it.

‘K.T. McFarland may have illegally used campaign funds to advance career’

motherjones.com

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Cheechako  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:48:26pm

re: #282 Shiplord Kirel

Excellent!!!!

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:51:26pm
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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:52:45pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

“I’m pretty sure the spider is dead. We use our second strike capability when its radioactive mutant offspring turn up…unless they fight crime. Then everything’s copacetic.”

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:53:23pm

Ok, I need some help locating a song. It’s a blues song, I want to say it’s by Joe Cocker, but my research leads me to believe it’s not by Joe Cocker. I first remember hearing it some time in the late 90s or early aughts (not that this means much of anything since it’s a blues song). The one line I remember is something along the lines of “she wears a red fascinator” (though I might not even have the color right).

Help, please.

(I’m also willing to accept that this is simply a Mandela Effect moment for me… and if that’s the case, I’m willing to consider ways of getting to that alternate version of reality, since this one has gone a bit wonky)

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:55:28pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

“And that, m’lady, is how a REAL MAN bakes a pizza.”

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:59:30pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Become? When was he anything else? I remember his nauseating CNN days and Washington Post stint. Pretended to be neutral while smugly pushing Conservative talking points. So glad that he’s on Fox News so I never see him anymore.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 3:59:51pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

“I’m sorry, honey, but it appears God finally found the toys we hid in the bedside pleasure drawer. Apparently the lead lining did nothing.

That’s a hundred dollars in contractor’s fees we’ll never get back.”

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Cheechako  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:00:02pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

[Embedded content]

(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)

Damm it!!! I told them: Do not give the “football” to trump!!

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dell*nix  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:02:15pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

Was that not said of Rasputin?

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Amory Blaine  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:02:50pm

re: #287 KGxvi

It will come to you. In a faraway place and not until it is irrelevant. That’s how it works with me anyways.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:03:11pm

My friend in Mackay, Queensland says it’s getting a little windy about now.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:05:59pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

“I was a fool to ask for my steak well done!”

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:06:58pm
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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:07:26pm

The sheer dumbassery of this proposal has been debated, but Trump’s now attached a dollar figure to the first phase of this project. Extrapolated to the entire length of the border, we’re talking $32 billion.

It’s nuts, especially when Trump himself said the best way to get around or over the wall is to go to Home Depot or Lowes and grab a ladder or rope.

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:09:14pm
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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:09:44pm

re: #293 Amory Blaine

It will come to you. In a faraway place and not until it is irrelevant. That’s how it works with me anyways.

I wish that were the case but I’ve been trying to find it for about a week and a half.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:09:51pm

re: #53 Dr. Matt

Just 40? How many Dems are in Congress? All of them should be signing this letter and going on tv to publicize it.

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:11:40pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

“All things considered…the sodomy was worth it.”

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:12:00pm

re: #297 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

The sheer dumbassery of this proposal has been debated, but Trump’s now attached a dollar figure to the first phase of this project. Extrapolated to the entire length of the border, we’re talking $32 billion.

It’s nuts, especially when Trump himself said the best way to get around or over the wall is to go to Home Depot or Lowes and grab a ladder or rope.

I’m going to posit a guess that the 62 miles in question are probably close to established roads and supplies. The cost is going to go way up when the location is in the middle of the desert.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:13:55pm

re: #284 Cheechako

Ummmm….no.
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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:13:55pm

re: #297 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

The sheer dumbassery of this proposal has been debated, but Trump’s now attached a dollar figure to the first phase of this project. Extrapolated to the entire length of the border, we’re talking $32 billion.

It’s nuts, especially when Trump himself said the best way to get around or over the wall is to go to Home Depot or Lowes and grab a ladder or rope.

So? Mexico is paying for it, after all./

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:14:21pm
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Puss Power  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:17:02pm

I just received an email from my ISP saying they respect my privacy and urging me to contact the EFF and my congresscritter about all this.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:20:01pm

re: #302 KGxvi

Or, it’s replacing existing “fence” with wall.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:20:08pm
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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:20:20pm

re: #297 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

The sheer dumbassery of this proposal has been debated, but Trump’s now attached a dollar figure to the first phase of this project. Extrapolated to the entire length of the border, we’re talking $32 billion.

It’s nuts, especially when Trump himself said the best way to get around or over the wall is to go to Home Depot or Lowes and grab a ladder or rope.

Yeah but Mexico is going going to pay us back. Trump promised.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:21:53pm
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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:23:18pm

These are just some of the people who want you dead.

Conservative activists rally around lawmakers who defied Trump on health care
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:23:50pm

re: #279 Cheechako

When I transferred in 1979, the 30 year mortgage rate was 13.1%!!! The rate stayed that high for several years before we could refinance.

It is worth noting, however, that if interest rates were that high, inflation would be very high as well, and the current debt would be shrinking in real terms

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:25:29pm

re: #311 Skip Intro

These are just some of the people who want you dead.

[Embedded content]

Oh, I’m not sure it’s fair to say they want you dead. It’s just that they don’t care whether you are, or at least not enough to do anything about it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:26:38pm
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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:28:42pm

re: #313 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, I’m not sure it’s fair to say they want you dead. It’s just that they don’t care whether you are, or at least not enough to do anything about it.

I’m afraid I’m past trying to be fair any more.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:29:59pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:30:16pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

So, he went to the White House to tell Trump “the call was coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!” ??

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:31:00pm

re: #316 Skip Intro

[Embedded content]

He looks like a character to be played by an aging Patrick Warburton.

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:31:41pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:32:26pm

re: #311 Skip Intro

These are just some of the people who want you dead.

[Embedded content]

Only a few who wish that — you also need to add Paul Ryan and anyone else who supported the legislation. After all, they all wanted to give tax cuts to wealthy, while preventing you from affording health care coverage and eliminating any benefits requirements, so the policies you purchase could essentially be worthless.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:33:29pm

re: #315 Skip Intro

I’m afraid I’m past trying to be fair any more.

I’m reminded of a line from a show with Paul Dooley as a boss:

“It’s not that I’m an unfeeling man. It’s that I’m an uncaring man. I’d feel bad, but I don’t care.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:33:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:34:14pm

Brownback haz a sad:

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:34:27pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

Tacky all the way down. That’s our Trump!

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:34:55pm

Nunes is in congress because his pace is far too slow for a successful stripper.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:35:28pm

re: #312 Blind Frog Belly White

It is worth noting, however, that if interest rates were that high, inflation would be very high as well, and the current debt would be shrinking in real terms

The existing debt may be shrinking but any new debt would be exploding and would have to be repaid at a much higher rate.

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Skip Intro  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:35:41pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:35:50pm

re: #325 Decatur Deb

Nunes is in congress because his pace is far too slow for a successful stripper.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:36:14pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:37:31pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:38:52pm

re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:41:52pm
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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:52:11pm
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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:56:00pm

re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth

He actually wrote that one… and it’s still idiotic. He pushed an insane tax plan that cratered the state economy for years. He vetoed the state legislature’s effort to repeal the tax plan. He’s that insane.

All the while, his state has seen the budget crater, the economy lag, and roads and schools aren’t properly funded.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:57:26pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:59:25pm

re: #335 Backwoods_Sleuth

No, he will have to be dragged kicking and screaming off that committee.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 4:59:37pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:03:54pm

Breaking! ULA executives and lobbyists placed on suicide watch! Pet Congress-crooks flee for the hills!

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:05:51pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:05:57pm

re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Wha-a-a….?

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:06:35pm

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

[Embedded content]

(Artist Ed Valigursky via Vault of the Atomic Space Age)

“Damn it Jared, I told you leaving dad alone on Saturdays was a bad idea!”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:07:40pm

re: #339 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

Title for the movie about the brief, but exciting Trump Presidency: Emoluments Men

And no, I’m not the first to say it.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:08:04pm
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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:09:33pm

re: #341 A Cranky One

Trump…. He gets it* at Jared™

By it, we mean all policy. Because he has none of his own, just empty platitudes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:10:38pm

re: #340 Blind Frog Belly White

Wha-a-a….?

they really aren’t trying to hide a damned thing anymore.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:12:19pm
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Kragar  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:13:54pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:15:55pm

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

they really aren’t trying to hide a damned thing anymore.

I’m sure we’ve discussed the article in the Toronto Star, where they interviewed Trump voters in Ohio about Trump, how they feel these days, and how they reacted to the ‘Obama wiretapped me!’ tweets and subsequent debunking.

Some JUST KNEW Trump was telling the truth, because he’s so honest and all those Government types lie.

Some weren’t sure Trump was being honest, but they didn’t care as long as he did …something.

Some said they knew he was lying, but that it was GOOD that he lied because the whole place needs to be shaken up!

I’m not sure which group leaves me more depressed.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:17:37pm

re: #348 Kragar

I’d say Greenwald’s tweet didn’t age well, but that would presume it wasn’t just bullshit from the get-go.

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lawhawk  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:17:44pm

re: #348 Kragar

Who’s the bigger idiot, the person who thinks Trump’s non-interventionist, or Greenwald.

Trick question. They’re both huge idiots, but Greenwald gets the edge because he knows better, but doesn’t care.

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gocart mozart  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:18:10pm
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petesh  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:25:14pm

Exactly which shark was it that Greenwald jumped? And when, precisely? Video, please.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:41:04pm

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

they really aren’t trying to hide a damned thing anymore.

Because they know they can get away with it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2017 • 5:42:08pm

re: #349 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m sure we’ve discussed the article in the Toronto Star, where they interviewed Trump voters in Ohio about Trump, how they feel these days, and how they reacted to the ‘Obama wiretapped me!’ tweets and subsequent debunking.

Some JUST KNEW Trump was telling the truth, because he’s so honest and all those Government types lie.

Some weren’t sure Trump was being honest, but they didn’t care as long as he did …something.

Some said they knew he was lying, but that it was GOOD that he lied because the whole place needs to be shaken up!

I’m not sure which group leaves me more depressed.

All of them Katie.


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