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[Smiles and Cries]

WTF did he just sign now? I missed it

 

[studyguy]

Last I checked it was an investigation into federal government's role in education.
Has there been something else since?

 

[Macho Madness]

Trump did say he was going to "look into" a lot of things and most of his executive orders are just that. Not worth the toilet paper they're printed on.

 

[johnsmith]

WTF did he just sign now? I missed it

"there’s a lot of words I won’t bother reading everything."

 

[RoKKeR]

Man, fuck Trump. Going after two national monuments in Utah.

The monuments covered by the review will range from the Grand Staircase in Utah created by President Bill Clinton in 1996 to the Bears Ears monuments created by President Barack Obama in December 2016 in the same state, covering millions of acres of land overlying minerals, oil and gas.

Obama's administration created the Bears Ears monument arguing that it would protect the cultural legacy of Native American tribes and preserve "scenic and historic landscapes." But Utah's governor and the state's congressional delegation opposed the designation, saying it went against the wishes of citizens eager for development.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

when's the tax "plan"

Reducing 35% corporate tax to 15% last I heard which would be....insanity.

All these Executive Orders just say he's going to "review shit" but then he never does anything anyway.

 

[Pandora012]

Man, fuck Trump. Going after two national monuments in Utah.

Ahh so that's part of why he signed it.

 

[Dan]

"there’s a lot of words I won’t bother reading everything."

Q Will you sign a CR to continue funding the government if it doesn’t include --

THE PRESIDENT: The wall is going to get built, by the way. Just in case anybody has any question: The wall is going to get built, and the wall is going to stop drugs, and it’s going to stop a lot of people from coming in that shouldn’t be here, and it’s going to have a huge effect on human trafficking, which is a tremendous problem in this world -- a problem that nobody talks about -- but it’s a problem that’s probably worse than any time in the history of this world. Human trafficking, what’s going on.

The wall is going to get built, and we’re setting record numbers in terms of stopping people from coming in, and stopping drugs from coming in. You see the numbers down 73, 74 percent. I will say, Secretary Kelly -- formerly General Kelly -- is doing an incredible job. And I was just with him a little while ago, and he said we definitely, desperately need the wall. And we’re going to have the wall built. I mean, I don't know why people are talking. I watch these shows, and the pundits in the morning -- they don’t know what they’re talking about. The wall gets built -- 100 percent. Thank you very much.

So much for Trump not watching shows that upset him, hah.

 

[Wilsongt]

Mulvaney wants to blow up ACA subsidies.

Sure.

Go ahead.

 

[Pandora012]

Mulvaney wants to blow up ACA subsidies.

Sure.

Go ahead.

Not surprising. They says that the ACA will blow up. They just didn't mention that they will be the cause of it.

 

[Smiles and Cries]

"there’s a lot of words I won’t bother reading everything."

eh, this is not so bad. I was expecting golf courses in Yellow Stone bad.

 

[Abinash117]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/26/paul-ryan-budget-obamacare-payments-237631

Says Ryan won't put the payments in the spending bill. I guess this will start up a fight?

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Mulvaney wants to blow up ACA subsidies.

Sure.

Go ahead.

I'm hard pressed, aside from Sessions, to think of a more evil bastard in power than Mulvaney. I'll never be able to wrap my head around his response to Meals on Wheels.

 

[studyguy]

Tuesday Group moderates still no on AHCA apparently.
Meeting now to discuss it.
https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/857264790854619136

Keep beating that dead horse I guess.

 

[Dominican Power]

John McCain needs to shut the fuck up.

 

[dramatis]

Tuesday Group moderates still no on AHCA apparently.
Meeting now to discuss it.
https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/857264790854619136

Keep beating that dead horse I guess.

I wonder if in the wake of the Freedom Caucus, the Republicans have forgotten that their moderates exist or something.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/26/paul-ryan-budget-obamacare-payments-237631

Says Ryan won't put the payments in the spending bill. I guess this will start up a fight?

Welp looks like a shutdown then.

 

[Blader]

Secretary Kelly -- formerly General Kelly

Do you think he had to throw that in because he thinks "secretary" sounds like an effeminate title and needed to remind everyone that Kelly is in fact a strong man?

Also, I think Kelly has said that the wall as envisioned by Trump isn't happening. :lol

 

[Pandora012]

I'm hard pressed, aside from Sessions, to think of a more evil bastard in power than Mulvaney. I'll never be able to wrap my head around his response to Meals on Wheels.

I mean at least we will have an amazing Military. Remember the admin can ask people to spend for defense, just not for food for people in need.

 

[Wilsongt]

I mean at least we will have an amazing Military. Remember the admin can ask people to spend for defense, just not for food for people in need.

I mean honestly. Why would we expect a single mother of two to pay out of pocket for meals for the elderly, when it's far more feasible for her to pay for a Strong Mitary Presence? I mean, how will those old people do anything for her in return?

 

[AndyD]

You'd better believe you can!

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_..._wants_you_or_at_least_your_spare_change.html

That's pretty cool. Never knew you could do that.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Do you think he had to throw that in because he thinks "secretary" sounds like an effeminate title and needed to remind everyone that Kelly is in fact a strong man?

Yes.

 

[Kid Kamikaze10]

Jane Sanders talking that noise about Political Correctness

@thenation provides actual facts vs fake news, political correctness & hypocrisy. Choose news sources /groups wisely

Fucking yikes. She's practically living up to every black dem's fear of Sanders.

 

[kirblar]

Jane Sanders talking that noise about Political Correctness



Fucking yikes. She's practically living up to every black dem's fear of Sanders.

From her twitter bio:

I block trolls & people who simply spew hate - against anybody.

 

[benicillin]

Jane Sanders talking that noise about Political Correctness



Fucking yikes. She's practically living up to every black dem's fear of Sanders.

I think there are more important things to talk about than the social media accounts of the wife of failed Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders. She's always been a bit off for me.

 

[excelsiorlef]

I think there are more important things to talk about than the social media accounts of the wife of failed Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders.

I'd agree if the only thing he was is a failed Democratic Primary Candidate

 

[Zolo]

So I'm guessing not funding Obamacare’s cost-sharing subsidies is a non-starter for dems voting on the new budget?

 

[studyguy]

HFC is now on board with MacAurther amended AHCA.
Tuesday still out.


Also regarding tax reform:

 

[FyreWulff]

3 brackets?

so quite literally a lower, middle, and upper class

edit: those companies are never repatriating their money short of being nationalized.

 

[numble]

3 brackets?

so quite literally a lower, middle, and upper class

edit: those companies are never repatriating their money short of being nationalized.

If it is a territorial system, why would they not repatriate their money?

 

[Widdle Puppy]

Has the US congress passed any substantial legislation this year? Seems like they're doing nothing and Trump is passing EOs.

 

[Zolo]

Has the US congress passed any substantial legislation this year? Seems like they're doing nothing and Trump is passing EOs.

It helps to keep the blame off of them, and for Trump trying to prop himself up.

 

[BoogieWoogie]

I would be interested to see what parts of Trump's original monstrous budget got through if any.

 

[JP_]

http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/201...voting-polarization-urban-rural-third-parties

Nice article on gerrymandering, polarization, and an effort to implement proportional voting for congress that's already compatible with the constitution.

 

[Lmo911]

So the plan to just redraw the brackets differently so they can say "look how big the middle class is!" while dumping a bunch of rich people into a lower tax bracket?

 

[Dominican Power]

Here comes Omarosa to lie her ass off.

 

[Widdle Puppy]

It helps to keep the blame off of them, and for Trump trying to prop himself up.

The institution must be completely broken at this point when they control all the branches they need for change but are relying on EOs.

 

[FyreWulff]

So the plan to just redraw the brackets differently so they can say "look how big the middle class is!" while dumping a bunch of rich people into a lower tax bracket?

p much. make the middle one bigger and then the top one super low taxation.

also the death tax only impacts the top half of the 1%. no regular joe schmoe pays death tax.

 

[Holmes]

HFC is now on board with MacAurther amended AHCA.
Tuesday still out.


Also regarding tax reform:

Jesus christ

 

[Carpe Libertatem]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/26/paul-ryan-budget-obamacare-payments-237631

Says Ryan won't put the payments in the spending bill. I guess this will start up a fight?

Pelosi and Schumer said that any bill would have to have the payments

Hoyer was waffling a bit tho

 

[Blader]

I think there are more important things to talk about than the social media accounts of the wife of failed Democratic primary candidate Bernie Sanders. She's always been a bit off for me.

She's the chief adviser for the Democrats' most popular national surrogate. He's not nobody and she's not nobody.

 

[Slacker]

Also regarding tax reform:

Trump looking more and more Reaganesque every day. Let's see if he can triple the national debt too!

 

[Plinko]

1. The AHCA garbage is a ruse to make the right-wing nuts in the House look good for their nutty constituents. Senate will crush anything that comes its way and the House reps will just pass the blame.

2. That tax plan is exactly the one he proposed earlier this year, and remains a huge disaster. It will actually raise taxes on the poor and lower-middle class.

 

[BlastProcessing]

3 brackets?

so quite literally a lower, middle, and upper class

edit: those companies are never repatriating their money short of being nationalized.

We can have each group wear color coded armbands!

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Moderate Republicans will be fucking destroyed in 2018 if they vote on this, so yeah, go ahead guys.

 

[Blader]

Matt Yglesias' headline on Vox re: Obama speaking fee is absolutely crazy. Which is doubly strange, because I do not normally find him to be a crazy inflammatory writer.

 

[Ogodei]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/26/paul-ryan-budget-obamacare-payments-237631

Says Ryan won't put the payments in the spending bill. I guess this will start up a fight?

"That's something separate that the administration does."

Is an interesting statement, considering the House sued Obama over them claiming they were unconstitutionally appropriated. Lawyers best be watching.

 

[balladofwindfishes]

Can they even use reconciliation on this? Aren't they totally out of time? There isn't even time to have the CBO review it, let alone debate it, pass the house, debate in the senate, pass it again, finish it up in the house, and have Trump sign it.

 

[tuxfool]

So apparently they're drafting an EO to withdraw from NAFTA?

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/26/white-house-nafta-withdraw-trump-237632

 

[Zolo]

So apparently they're drafting an EO to withdraw from NAFTA?

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/26/white-house-nafta-withdraw-trump-237632

That sounds very, very bad.