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03-16-2017 , 12:03 PM

#18826

bobman0330

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

It's shockingly Hitler-esque, the next step is handing out fun badges that identify what health risks you have.

Probably worth recalling that Hitler is most notorious for the mass murder of Jews, ethnic minorities, and others and also for starting World War II and less so for his changes to health insurance premium rules.

03-16-2017 , 12:07 PM

#18827

Namath12

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Just when I was complaining how NPR is having fund raisers every other month now, they're eliminating CPB. I guess I have annoying car commercials to look forward to now rather than annoying people begging me for money.

03-16-2017 , 12:11 PM

#18828

+rep_lol

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

this is potentially a more clever and discrete manner of governmental complicity in the targeted extermination of large swaths of the population

03-16-2017 , 12:20 PM

#18829

microbet

Solar Powered

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He also killed or sterilized a lot of people considered genetically unfit. We did too, and so did the English, but at least some people think it was a bad thing.

Of course this is freedom because people are free to not have jobs or healthcare.

03-16-2017 , 12:22 PM

#18830

Namath12

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Can't we just go back to the night of that wonderful speech before Congress? Such a happy time for this nation. I miss those days.

03-16-2017 , 12:32 PM

#18831

otatop

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bobman0330

Hitler didn't just jump right into "Throw them in the ovens!" as soon as he took power, he slowly built toward that over years of smaller **** like deligitimizing the media and stripping minorities of rights.

It took about 6 years between passing the Nuremberg Laws and starting the mass extermination, let's maybe not wait that long to call Trump and his gang out on their steps toward whatever their end goal is.

03-16-2017 , 12:42 PM

#18832

th14

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https://twitter.com/williamlegate/st...09771457462272

03-16-2017 , 12:44 PM

#18833

+rep_lol

banned

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idiots

03-16-2017 , 12:49 PM

#18834

tomdemaine

Just tries harder

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"A lot of things are inconsistent"

Thanks donnie.

03-16-2017 , 12:51 PM

#18835

FlyWf

It's the other way

Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 58,097

Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

http://taskandpurpose.com/trump-advi...rators-report/

The incredible pull quote is this one:
http://forward.com/news/national/366...orka-as-sworn/

Quote:

Gorka — who Vitézi Rend leaders say took a lifelong oath of loyalty to their group — did not respond to multiple emails sent to his work and personal accounts, asking whether he is a member of the Vitézi Rend and, if so, whether he disclosed this on his immigration application and on his application to be naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 2012. The White House also did not respond to a request for comment.

"Are you literally a Nazi" getting a "no comment" is, uh, well. Not great.

03-16-2017 , 12:53 PM

#18836

DVaut1

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Eagerly awaiting Trump declaring that oaths to things are not meant to be taken literally.

03-16-2017 , 01:09 PM

#18837

sylar

Ivan Drago's homeslice

Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 20,307

Quote:

Originally Posted by wheatrich

So CNN had a fun town hall with HHS Secretary Tom Price.

Cliffs of what he said you ask?

up to states to regulate whether immunizations are required.
then told someone directly who is only alive because of medicaid that medicaid is broken.
Hard defended everything in the bill everyone hates.

At least you can't say that dude doesn't have balls like tillerson.

this is how it is now though. states decide for themselves. what price is saying is that this system is unlikely to change, and maybe he wants it that way. it's scary, but it's not a step backward at this point.

03-16-2017 , 01:12 PM

#18838

Namath12

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

There was also a metric ****load of "Oh he doesn't really mean all that stuff, he's just giving the people what they want to hear so he can get elected."

03-16-2017 , 01:16 PM

#18839

TheHip41

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Quote:

Originally Posted by th14

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/st...09771457462272

good, seriously

03-16-2017 , 01:28 PM

#18840

cuserounder

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Quote:

Originally Posted by th14

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/st...09771457462272

Fox: We'd like to interview President Trump.

Trump's People: OK, sure.

Fox: Where?

Trump's People: How about in a room full of red, white and blue Ford Mustangs. Maybe with an enormous American flag in the background? And an engine block mounted on a pole. Yeah, that should do it.

Fox: Does Donny want to sit by the engine or in front of the cars?

Trump's People: Well he might be too tempted to start playing with the engine block. Better keep that out of arm's length.

03-16-2017 , 01:32 PM

#18841

Namath12

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lol'ed at the EXCLUSIVE banner at the bottom of the screen, as if he ever talks to anyone other than Fox News anymore

03-16-2017 , 01:35 PM

#18842

ScreaminAsian

For President

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...474_story.html

newly released documents show that Flynn was also paid $11,250 that year by the U.S. subsidiary of a Russian cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab, and another $11,250 by the Russian charter cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Airlines. The cyberfirm said the payment came for a speech Flynn delivered in Washington.

03-16-2017 , 01:42 PM

#18843

Huehuecoyotl

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Good/bad news. Trump wants to increase the military budget hugely and decrease everything else. Sequestration from 6 years ago might not let him do that.

Quote:

Six years ago, in the first act of a budgetary drama, a group of aggrieved legislators hung a daft gun over the mantle. Now, in its third act, it is set to fire.

The gun is the arcane fiscal tool called sequestration, and it now poses a mortal threat to President Trump’s budgetary agenda, announced in greater—if hardly great—detail today. One might think that Trump’s proposal would be easily pass through the Republican Congress, as it expands the security budget and winnows much of the rest of the government. Many Republicans are defense hawks seeking more money to fight ISIS and modernize the armed forces. Many others are budget hawks bent on cutting Washington down to size.

Yet the proposal is dead on arrival. To appropriate funding as the White House wants, Trump would need to repeal or subvert sequestration. To do that, he would need to overcome the threat of a Senate filibuster. To do that, he would need to woo some number of Democrats. To do that, he would need to overhaul his budget figures. And in doing that, Trump would almost certainly lose too many Republican votes to pass his budget.

Sequestration shoots. Sequestration kills.

“Show me the budget deal that would increase defense spending, lift the budget caps, keep all Republicans, and bring in eight [Senate] Democrats,” said Todd Harrison, a military spending expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a foreign-policy think tank. “It doesn’t exist.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ration/519798/

03-16-2017 , 01:47 PM

#18844

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by adios

This is not an ad hominem attack, I think you would benefit by gaining a better understanding of finance.

You dropped "dog whistles" on this forum yesterday when you clearly have no idea what it means.

03-16-2017 , 01:52 PM

#18845

well named

poorly undertitled

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Huehuecoyotl

Good/bad news. Trump wants to increase the military budget hugely and decrease everything else. Sequestration from 6 years ago might not let him do that.

Seems like unequivocally good news to me?

03-16-2017 , 01:55 PM

#18846

patron

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Congressman Ted Lieu on MSNBC this am, re: Trump saying he used quotes around the word "wiretapp":

"Let me say that we have a quote "ridiculous" unquote President."

Also, "He could have asked his intel people instead of just making stuff up," and "We know that Trump is lying about this."

Dude's Twitter is constant hot fire against Trump. Good to have him in Congress.

https://twitter.com/tedlieu

03-16-2017 , 01:56 PM

#18847

TheHip41

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Trump gonna lose his mind lol

03-16-2017 , 02:02 PM

#18848

yeSpiff

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...67881516679168

03-16-2017 , 02:02 PM

#18849

wheatrich

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This is in reference to the court rejecting something andrew wanted to do similar to the muslim ban. He did it anyway. Huckabee thinks that was a good thing.

That was the trail of tears. Trail. Of. Tears.