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03-17-2017 , 10:49 AM

#19076

Namath12

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/32...me-on-the-back

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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) says he hasn’t been getting much pushback from fellow House Republicans about his controversial tweet over the weekend saying that “we can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies."

King claimed in an interview with The Hill just off the House floor on Thursday afternoon that, if anything, colleagues have given him words of encouragement since lawmakers returned to the Capitol the previous day.

“My colleagues have generally been coming by and patting me on the back. And a surprising number have said that they pray for me. And, meaning they support me and they agree with me, a surprising number,” King said.

Racists of a feather

03-17-2017 , 10:54 AM

#19077

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by bobman0330

Why is it optimistic to think that a shakeup in NK is likely? It's a much worse version of Syria with nuclear weapons. A shakeup is not going to end well.

The status quo, with millions of people in death camps, should be a permanent situation.

03-17-2017 , 10:55 AM

#19078

Namath12

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In positive Steve King news, his 2018 challenger has raised $100k toward her bid to defeat him in just 4 days.

03-17-2017 , 11:03 AM

#19079

PocketChads

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NASHVILLE — Soon after Charla McComic’s son lost his job, his health-insurance premium dropped from $567 per month to just $88, a “blessing from God” that she believes was made possible by President Trump.

“We said: ‘Who else would we do this for, besides Trump?’ ” McComic said. “We agreed on the Lord. We would stand here for the Lord, but that’s about it.”

When Obamacare first started, Weinberger said, it would have cost him about $250 per month for a plan, which he couldn’t afford. He assumes the price is even higher now. So Weinberger goes without insurance, as do his two employees. When filing his taxes, Weinberger says, he claims to have insurance to avoid having to pay a penalty he considers unfair.

“It would be nice to have a doctor,” he said, “just to check in on every once in a while.”

Many of these activists have been fighting for years for the state to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, which it never did, and now they face a future that’s even bleaker.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ampht...ed1_story.html

Look at em, holding those signs saying PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT

It was mid February when my dad told me he felt that Trump was the first President of his lifetime who kept his campaign promises.

03-17-2017 , 11:06 AM

#19080

PocketChads

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I'm not sure how his premium dropped like that, though. I know in Alabama, you pay the full amount if you're unemployed. I thought that was the case in all the states that didn't expand Medicaid.

He's from Kentucky, not Tennessee, it seems. Did Kentucky expand Medicaid?

03-17-2017 , 11:08 AM

#19081

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This is why Gorsuch CANNOT be confirmed, and it has nothing to do with Merrick Garland:

https://twitter.com/thenation/status/842753398210514944

03-17-2017 , 11:10 AM

#19082

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Originally Posted by DTD

Also, if NK does have nukes then can someone please tell me that in no scenario would they waste them on the UK. Thanks!

Their missiles are notoriously ****ty so even if they do have a miniaturized nuke (which by all accounts they don't) they still wouldn't be able to hit the UK.

03-17-2017 , 11:12 AM

#19083

Namath12

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Originally Posted by PocketChads

Yeah Kentucky actually had a fairly successful system going before the teahadist current governor got there.

03-17-2017 , 11:13 AM

#19084

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

The status quo, with millions of people in death camps, should be a permanent situation.

Millions seems like an overestimate - source? Plural millions would be 10%+ of the population.

03-17-2017 , 11:15 AM

#19085

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Originally Posted by einbert

This is why Gorsuch CANNOT be confirmed, and it has nothing to do with Merrick Garland:

https://twitter.com/thenation/status/842753398210514944

lol it has everything to do with Merrick Garland. Gorsuch is a textbook generic GOP pick that would be confirmed easily under normal circumstances.

03-17-2017 , 11:18 AM

#19086

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Trump used quotation marks in referring to NK, so that means we don't take him seriously, right? Or was that literally? No, wait, that he was being clear? He was adding emphasis?

Seriously, **** this incompetent "president."

03-17-2017 , 11:20 AM

#19087

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by AllTheCheese

Millions seems like an overestimate - source? Plural millions would be 10%+ of the population.

Yeah, after googling it's probably more like 100s of thousands.

03-17-2017 , 11:25 AM

#19088

Max Cut

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Originally Posted by PocketChads

He saw something on tv

How do we not all get this by now

I'm imagining Spicer in the future reading entertainment-news reports to explain to SK why it was sacrificed.

03-17-2017 , 11:27 AM

#19089

otatop

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Originally Posted by uDevil

It probably just means a talking head on Fox said "China is playing the US" and Dummy Don quoted them.

03-17-2017 , 11:30 AM

#19090

DTD

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Originally Posted by otatop

Their missiles are notoriously ****ty so even if they do have a miniaturized nuke (which by all accounts they don't) they still wouldn't be able to hit the UK.

I feel like my life expectancy has just gone up by about 6 months.

03-17-2017 , 11:30 AM

#19091

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Who needs the head of the VA at a meeting about the VA when you have some Disney executive? I wonder if perhaps there was a more convenient place to hold the meeting than ****ing Florida, perhaps wherever the VA is headquartered...nah.

03-17-2017 , 11:32 AM

#19092

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Originally Posted by otatop

4D chess LDO

03-17-2017 , 11:36 AM

#19093

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Here's that Cambridge Analytics who were supposed wizards at data. It seems like everyone that get's put in Trump's orbit have something in common, they're good salesmen who even if they are seemingly far behind everyone else in actual competence.

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In the case of the Cruz campaign, the donor obsession in question was Cambridge Analytica. And it wasn’t long before Roe and his team suspected that Nix had promised them a more impressive product than he could deliver. On March 4, 2015, Cruz, Roe, Wilson and others gathered in the Hyatt in Washington D.C. for an all-day meeting with Nix and a group of CA senior executives. Wilson took notes on his computer. According to multiple members of the Cruz team, Wilson was dismayed to learn that CA’s models weren’t fully ready for his focus groups the following week. As far as the team could tell, the only data CA possessed that the campaign didn’t already have appeared to be culled from Facebook. In addition, they recalled, CA hadn’t set itself up with Data Trust, the Republican National Committee’s repository of voter information. At one point, they recall, Nix explained that the National Rifle Association’s database of members would be a valuable way to target donors. Wilson typed an emoji with rolling eyes next to the statement because it was so obvious. He told people that he came away thinking, “Red flag, red flag, red flag.

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Meanwhile, the red flags kept coming. Wilson found the data scientists that CA sent to Houston to be highly efficient at the day-to-day work of his research operation. But according to Cruz staffers, when he began to test CA’s specialized models, he found that they were notably off, with, for example, some male voters miscategorized as women. In phone surveys, staffers said, CA’s predictions fell short of the 85 percent accuracy the campaign expected. (“Different models have differing levels of accuracy,” Nix said in his response. “I suspect these numbers have been taken out of context to make us look bad. In many previous articles the Cruz campaign have highly rated the quality of our data scientists.”) By September, CA’s first six-month contract was up. A CA employee in the campaign’s Houston office accidentally left the invoice in the photocopier, and Wilson happened to fish it out. The invoice totaled an eye-popping $3,119,052 for work that Wilson estimated to be worth $600,000 at most. “I can’t ****ing believe it,” Wilson told Roe, who concurred.

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When the Cruz team decided not to pay the full $3 million, bedlam ensued. A phone call was scheduled with Rebekah, Bannon and CA’s attorney. “I understand she’s a nice lady,” Wilson says politely of Rebekah. According to multiple people on the call, she accused Wilson of undermining CA. Bannon, meanwhile, unleashed a torrent of profanities at the Cruz team. Someone on the call gave me a censored version of his outburst: “The only reason this campaign is where it is right now is because of our people and I. My recommendation to the Mercers is just to pull them out of there and we’ll have them on another campaign by Monday.” Bannon’s language was so foul it was difficult to listen to, says one person on the call who had never met him before. Another of the political pros, who knew Bannon well, wasn’t shocked. “That’s Steve doing business,” he says.
The Cruz team was taken aback by Rebekah’s reaction. Some even wondered if she’d been given all the facts. One person who was close to the campaign says, “She is somewhere between the daughter of a brilliant hedge fund manager and mathematician and somebody who runs a bakery in New York. She clearly has a skill set, but the skill set we’re discussing here regarding the understanding of the value of data and analytics doesn’t fall into that area. She is operating under the information she’s been given.”

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/mercers/

03-17-2017 , 11:37 AM

#19094

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A year ago North Korea made an official announcement to the people of the country to prepare themselves for famine.

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We may have to go on an arduous march, during which we will have to chew the roots of plants once again

One could make an argument that the entire country is a death camp.

03-17-2017 , 11:39 AM

#19095

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Originally Posted by PocketChads

When Obamacare first started, Weinberger said, it would have cost him about $250 per month for a plan, which he couldn’t afford. He assumes the price is even higher now. So Weinberger goes without insurance, as do his two employees. When filing his taxes, Weinberger says, he claims to have insurance to avoid having to pay a penalty he considers unfair.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ampht...ed1_story.html

Rofl trump voters think they're allowed to commit tax fraud and brag about it in the newspaper IF they consider the tax system unfair

03-17-2017 , 11:40 AM

#19096

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Originally Posted by microbet

A year ago North Korea made an official announcement to the people of the country to prepare themselves for famine.

One could make an argument that the entire country is a death camp.

It's is all a death camp. It's the worst place on earth to live by a fair margin.

03-17-2017 , 11:42 AM

#19097

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This piece on Rebekah Mercer, Bannon, the Cruz campaign, et al is an entertaining enough read.

The crazy leading the crazy leading the crazy.

03-17-2017 , 11:53 AM

#19098

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Dan with huffpo link.

ObamaCmonMan.jpg

03-17-2017 , 11:57 AM

#19099

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Trump sending the Heritage Foundation and C-FAM to represent the USA#1 at UN Council on Womens Rights

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C-FAM’s aim is “discrediting socially radical policies” at the UN, as outlined in their mission statement. They have referred to gay marriage and adoption as “truly harmful” to society and “public health".

The Heritage Foundation does not advocate violence nor are they called a 'hate group'. They are often referred to as right-wing and have published researched reports citing the UN’s “misguided women’s agenda” and how UN conventions on women “undermine family, religion, and sovereignty".

03-17-2017 , 11:58 AM

#19100

JacktheDumb

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

If old people eat the food and don't die from it, then the program works.

Who the **** needs research for that?

It is a matter of perspective. If your goal is to keep old people alive, sure it works. But old poor people are just way cheaper for the government if they are dead. So if $$ is your metric it is failing badly.

The logic behind all the cuts and policy seems to be to just lower the number of unemployed and poor people by letting them die.

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