balladofwindfishes
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At some point, he's going to need to transition away from talking about how terrible everything is.
Because it stops being Obama's fault in like a month. At that point, everything bad is on his hands.
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At some point, he's going to need to transition away from talking about how terrible everything is.
Because it stops being Obama's fault in like a month. At that point, everything bad is on his hands.
So remember the bakery commissioned to copy Obama's cake?
They're gonna donate the profits to the Human Right's Campaign.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPiBprwF4JP/
They're gonna donate the profits to the Human Right's Campaign.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPiBprwF4JP/
Nah, remember how the 2008 collapse was due to Jimmy Carter and 9/11 was Bill Clinton's fault? Democrats will always be at fault for everything.
Bonen no Max'd
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No one actually believed those though.
Well the financial crisis was partly caused by the repeal of Glass-Steagall which happened under Bill Clinton. But reasons for great events such as those you mentioned are rarely clear-cut and are often far more nuanced than what any one party mentions. I think our duty as citizens is to not fall into partisan finger-pointing and to hold all accountable for their mistakes.
Joe Shlabotnik
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Blaming the previous President never works, even when it's true. It sorta worked with regard to the 2008 recession because the financial underpinnings of the entire world became visibly unmoored during Bush's term. Obama still ate shit for the slow recovery.
The people who believe Obama caused problems were never going to support him or believe anything he said, anyway. When you still have people saying wages are stagnant, our economy is in the shitter, etc, and that it is Obama's fault they are so divorced from reality that trying to get them out of the bubble of stupid is impossible.
AntraxSuicide
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Yeah, I've said this before, but most Americans think that with control over the White House and Congress, the GOP should be able to do literally everything they want in the next 2 months. People don't give a shit about committees and all that.
Bill 1: Repeal ACA with replacement
Bill 2: Build fence
Bill 3: Bomb ISIS
Bill 4: Repeal NAFTA
Bill 5: Drop bank on bribing factories to open in rural areas
Bill 6: Lower taxes
Most people think the GOP is able to do all of that within an afternoon.
Bill 1: Repeal ACA with replacement
Bill 2: Build fence
Bill 3: Bomb ISIS
Bill 4: Repeal NAFTA
Bill 5: Drop bank on bribing factories to open in rural areas
Bill 6: Lower taxes
Most people think the GOP is able to do all of that within an afternoon.
No need to shy away. Susan Sarandon can fuck off.
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Also of interest a "Nice" profile of Mike Pence, for those that are unaware of the real extent of his scumbaggery.
The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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That's definitely what the internet has sounded like for a minute now.
Also, because we can't just be assholes to women in the US.
We have to make sure we're assholes to women across the globe.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/...-to-groups-promoting-abortion-overseas-234038
Trump revives funding ban to groups promoting abortion overseas
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Why? Who is this?
ItWasMeantToBe19
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COUP COUP COUP
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources...ase-in-intel-community-after-trump-cia-visit/
If the CIA was as strong as it is in the movies, Trump would have been removed from office by now.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources...ase-in-intel-community-after-trump-cia-visit/
If the CIA was as strong as it is in the movies, Trump would have been removed from office by now.
Susan Sarandon, actress/activist. Told people to vote for Jill Stein.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
They have been pushing HSAs for years. It's a scam for rich people to avoid taxes. It screws over every lower- and middle-income person. Have kids? Good luck if two of them get sick at once.
I guess I'm happy they want to get this out of the way so the public will finally see what a disaster it is and will never support it again.
More than that, she actively spewed all those nonsense talking points.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Which is deserved. It takes a lot of nerve to spend the election cycle getting hopped on the Both Sides nonsense and then tell the women who took to the streets on Saturday how to conduct themselves
balladofwindfishes
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HSAs are such a scam. My parents have been dealing with them for a decade now, through several different companies.
First they took his great insurance away and said "oh, don't worry, we'll dump money into your HSA and cover any additional costs, you won't even notice the difference!"
And then the next year "Oh, we can't do that, but don't worry, we'll match you up to 10k!"
And then the next year "Oh, we can't do that anymore. Um... uhh... hey, HSAs are sweet! Choice! Freedom!"
And that's how my parents ended up paying for insurance they couldn't ever use.
First they took his great insurance away and said "oh, don't worry, we'll dump money into your HSA and cover any additional costs, you won't even notice the difference!"
And then the next year "Oh, we can't do that, but don't worry, we'll match you up to 10k!"
And then the next year "Oh, we can't do that anymore. Um... uhh... hey, HSAs are sweet! Choice! Freedom!"
And that's how my parents ended up paying for insurance they couldn't ever use.
gutter_trash
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Can't wait to be on the hook for bombing some hospitals.
The Technomancer
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I'm freaking out over the ambiguity of this stupid border tax stuff. Like practically all CPG companies we don't own factories we just use CMs in China. Is he going to slap us with another 30 fucking percent in import tariffs? That won't make us able to manufacture in the US dumbfuck it will just make us unable to go into retail and force us to keep doing direct sales
The cost of Trump Suits just got higher.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Dems want to take out their frustration again and are requesting another hearing of DeVos.
lol, they hate this woman so much and want her to be humiliated again.
Then again, it's probably a bad signal for Trump that DeVos speaking in public is one of the best ways to humiliate Trump. Maybe he should pick someone else?
lol, they hate this woman so much and want her to be humiliated again.
Then again, it's probably a bad signal for Trump that DeVos speaking in public is one of the best ways to humiliate Trump. Maybe he should pick someone else?
That's probably the goal. If they can't stop Tillerson they can at least humiliate DeVos until Trump is forced to pull her.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Trump ramming through these obvious scrub picks is soooo dumb. His cabinet is going to be humiliating him for years by failing over and over again and lowering his approval rating. Just pick someone conservative who actually knows what they're talking about and won't humiliate Trump on the national or international stage.
She bought admission to the show. Trump is all about screwing over the little people not those that can hurt him.
Of course he lied about having a plan. It was the most obvious lie he told.
Brawndo Addict
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HSAs are a great example of the quintessential Republican approach to solving problems. Just assume everyone has an excess of money and that everything would be better if we paid less taxes.
The whole fucking point of Obamacare was to figure out how to provide health insurance coverage to everyone who didn't have enough money to pay for insurance. If the poor had money for healthcare we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place.
HSAs should absolutely exist, but the idea was always for them to be a tertiary/supplemental support mechanism; the idea that they can or should serve as the core mechanism for healthcare delivery in this country is beyond laughable. The exact same goddamn thing happened with 401ks, they were supposed to supplement pensions, not replace them.
The whole fucking point of Obamacare was to figure out how to provide health insurance coverage to everyone who didn't have enough money to pay for insurance. If the poor had money for healthcare we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place.
HSAs should absolutely exist, but the idea was always for them to be a tertiary/supplemental support mechanism; the idea that they can or should serve as the core mechanism for healthcare delivery in this country is beyond laughable. The exact same goddamn thing happened with 401ks, they were supposed to supplement pensions, not replace them.
UberTag
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Those hospitals will be as legitimate as the huge crowds that showed up for Trump's inauguration.
In other words, an alternative fact will be presented that a hospital was a missile silo or an Al Qaeda training camp or some women trying to get abortions or something.
In other words, you can bomb indiscriminately. Go nuts. What's the worst that could happen?
ItWasMeantToBe19
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To be fair, this is what Russia has said about all of the dozens of hospitals they've bombed. They're all Al-Qaeda training grounds and are being liberated by the bombs.
Flynn's phone was fucking tapped by the federal government and on the phone he was committing major crimes, how fucking stupid is this guy? If you're going to commit a crime in a conversation, have the fucking conversation in person.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/23/politics/flynn-russia-calls-investigation/index.html
Michael Flynn feels like that guy in The Wire season 4 who was part of the dog-fighting ring "what do I mean? Cocaine motherfucker!"
whyamihere
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Trump starts at 45/45 JOB approval rating in Gallup.
This is different than this favorables, and also different from Obama where his favorables always usually outpaced his job approval.
This is different than this favorables, and also different from Obama where his favorables always usually outpaced his job approval.
metalslimer
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I see everyone's blind hate of TPP has them actually praising pulling out without thinking of the consequences
Fitting this comes out the day of a federal hiring freeze
I didn't like TPP but Obama wasn't an idiot for going for it - it was probably one of our best plans to deal with China's looming economic threat.
Got the Shakes
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Speaking of that. Still on Paul Ryan's website as a top 5 issue is the TPP and his support for us being a part of it.
http://paulryan.house.gov/top5issues/trans-pacific-partnership.htm
Spicer press briefing coming up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6gMfIsUB-s
ItWasMeantToBe19
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We really need some discussion about how fucking stupid Michael Flynn is.
Who commits treason in a phone call to an obviously tapped phone? How stupid is this guy?
Who commits treason in a phone call to an obviously tapped phone? How stupid is this guy?
nature boy
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