StrangeSox

Senate Finance Committee will be adding in repealing the individual mandate as well, further complicating their efforts. This will lead to more money for tax cuts but 13M fewer people with health insurance and death spirals in markets across the country.

Men are gross and, apparently, should be kept from ever holding any position of power.

Lawmakers say sexual harassers serving in Congress

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Nov 14, 2017 -> 12:20 PM) Allowing for a moment your posit that fewer people going to grad school is a good thing... what these changes will do is specifically remove people who are not rich - not a random slice of the population. Making grad school more of a domain for those from wealthy families. I don't see how that's a good approach, even if you want to achieve what you suggest. It's just a weird argument because this tax change specifically harms people who aren't racking up debt because they're in a funded program. CBO says the House plan requires an immediate $25B yearly cut to Medicaid https://twitter.com/TopherSpiro/status/930496420406231040

d'oh, this is probably funding for Russian elections that were happening last September Secret Finding: 60 Russian Payments "To Finance Election Campaign Of 2016” The FBI is scrutinizing more than 60 money transfers sent by the Russian foreign ministry to its embassies across the globe, most of them bearing a note that said the money was to be used “to finance election campaign of 2016.”

"A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not." - Ronald Reagan, admitting the Iran-Contra Affair, March 1987 These guys will all be revered as heroes in a few years. Just look at how corrupt and incompetent Reagan's administration was and what his legacy today is.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Nov 13, 2017 -> 07:15 PM) Sessions is considering appointing a second special prosecutor to look into 'GOP concerns' Get ready for twenty more Benghazi hearings This seems to violate his recusal, but there are zero ethics within the administration so we'll see if that matters. *Might* not be as bad as it looks though https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/9...3515937792?s=17

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 13, 2017 -> 04:31 PM) If he used the password sent isn't that a crime? edit: asking b/c yr legal background, unrelated to your quote mostly Orin Kerr seems to think so https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/930244361203408896

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-41966911 The BBC has uncovered details of a deal that let hundreds of IS fighters - including foreign militants - and their families escape from Raqqa in Syria, under the gaze of the US and British-led coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control the city. A convoy included some of IS’s most notorious members and – despite reassurances – dozens of foreign fighters. Some of those have spread out across Syria, even making it as far as Turkey

Roy Moore had been banned from a mall in gadsden, Al for harassing tend according to local residents, including lawyers and police. https://t.co/2PiK8XzRT8

Sessions is considering appointing a second special prosecutor to look into 'GOP concerns' Get ready for twenty more Benghazi hearings

It's been known that WikiLeaks was collaborating with the Trump campaign including trying to figure out a way to make them look objective despite not being objective and inciting Trump to undermine US democracy if he lost? "I've sent a message to" and "I've been talking with for over a year" are two different things.

Trump was tweeting about the podesta emails only minutes after WikiLeaks asked Jr to have him do it

Looks like Virginia house is gonna be 50/50 with Democrats holding the tie breaker Republicans had held a 66-34 majority Whoops I guess there is no tie breaker, so it's just an even split

The people who leaked Clinton's emails were 100% strategizing with the Trump campaign. Trump's own CIA director believes them to be compromised Russian assets.

The day Trump Jr. received the first message from Wikileaks, he emailed other senior officials with the campaign, including Bannon, Conway, Parscale, & Kushner, telling them WikiLeaks had made contact. October 14th, 2016: Pence strongly denies campaign was in contact with WikiLeaks https://t.co/dUmjzgUolf

They also asked Donnie Jr to tweet a link to the DNC hacked emails, which of course he did. Lmao

Hahaha they're such compromised shills.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 13, 2017 -> 03:34 PM) Literally right now the Republican Party can do something about it. They can vote for a vastly better human being. Or they can refuse to seat him and give up a vote available to them in the Senate when he wins. We will see. None of their statements about how they wouldn't work with Trump held for a second. They can refuse to seat him or expel him and replace him with someone else chosen by the Republican governor in Alabama, don't even have to give up the seat if he wins. It'll cause major issues within the party though.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Nov 13, 2017 -> 03:38 PM) You can imagine Obama having an Access Hollywood-ish comment coming out and it not sinking him? “Cling to their guns and religion” almost lost him the presidency. We have to talk about degrees of severity here. Moore and Trump are equal to Clinton? I don’t think so...because you’re talking about consensual adult relations (where the accuser got her revenge) versus a situation that underage high school girls (one a Trump voter today) never stood a chance. Even in 2017 Alabama, the only chance they have is a modernized version of To Kill A Mockingbird with Atticus Finch as their attorney. The very idea of defending behavior that borders on pedophilia is scary...and it won’t be accepted by the American people, women in particular. Clinton has tarnished his reputation in many ways with Dems, no moreso that the comments during the 2008 Democratic primary in South Carolina. He helped cost the Dems elections in 2000 (Gore ran a terrible campaign as well) and 2016, and that isn’t forgotten. Yet, at the end of the day, at least we can admire his intellect and political acumen. Those on the GOP side can likewise admire GHW Bush, Trump, Moore, Hastert, Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig...the difference is that Dems don’t often use religious faith to justify their behavior and hypocrisy. There are undoubtedly equally bad actors on both sides, but that whole Family Values tagline is getting more and more unseemly by the day. (PS, Jimmy Carter is arguably the only president going back to at least FDR without a string of marital affairs/indiscretions...and did more after leaving office than any modern-day leader. In a further irony, his religious beliefs were used against him due to his painfully honest “lust in my heart” comments.) I don't think there have ever been any allegations about extra marital affairs with Obama. He seems like a stand up guy in that regard.

QUOTE (TaylorStSox @ Nov 13, 2017 -> 03:36 PM) Politicizing pedophilia is pretty cheap. There's an obvious correlation/causation break in logic, but don't let that stop any of you from pushing your agenda. Otoh don't vote for pedophiles seems like a simple and good rule, and that's on top of a million other reasons Moore should never, ever be a senator

Looks like the iPhone face recognition has a big flaw https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/201..._medium=twitter

Clinton is alleged to have raped and assaulted women and definitely abused his power like many of these Hollywood guys. That is not as bad as child molestation but that's a low hurdle. Clinton shouldn't enjoy the reputation that he has.

He was impeached by Republicans and is still held in high regard by many Democrats and people in general fwiw