StrangeSox

Salman Abedi: How Manchester attacker turned from cannabis-smoking dropout to Isis suicide bomber

It also happened ~12 hours before the polls opened but also after several hundred thousand mail-in ballots had already been cast. It's the edge case of "what if something dramatic happens at the last minute??" some people use to argue against early voting/mail voting.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 25, 2017 -> 08:52 AM) I am really angered over this Gianforte assault. The assault is crazy, the audio when I listened last night was worse than I imagined. But the response, where they lied and basically justified that he was a liberal journalist is just too much the playbook right now. ANd right away Ingraham goes on to justify it. And right away the MRC head justifies it. The National Review team and many republican ops came out against it. But the unchallenged platform *from republican politicians* that people like Bozell and Ingraham get after crap like this is ridiculous. "We all erupt into violence when asked questions we don't like" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

trump shoves another NATO leader out of the way so he could be in front https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/867758571882258432

caulfield for the love of god learn to use the "quote" feature your posts are unreadable

QUOTE (bmags @ May 25, 2017 -> 09:02 AM) The reason it freaks me out that they passed it without a score, is that they got a bunch of their 'moderates" to go along after the right of their party modified it to allow pre existing conditions and EHBs to be stripped. All in the name of getting something done. If that happened so easily in the house, it can happen in the senate. Because all it says is they don't care about the outcome, they care about action, and they care about getting 1 trillion for tax cuts for the rich. They made the bill substantially worse, and that somehow got the "moderates" on board. Tax cuts uber alles

https://twitter.com/NickBaumann/status/8677...0842753/photo/1

That wasn't targeted at anyone in particular

I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot from Constitutional Conservatives about this! The Trump Organization Says It's 'Not Practical' to Comply With the Emoluments Clause

QUOTE (bmags @ May 25, 2017 -> 08:52 AM) I am really angered over this Gianforte assault. The assault is crazy, the audio when I listened last night was worse than I imagined. But the response, where they lied and basically justified that he was a liberal journalist is just too much the playbook right now. ANd right away Ingraham goes on to justify it. And right away the MRC head justifies it. The National Review team and many republican ops came out against it. But the unchallenged platform *from republican politicians* that people like Bozell and Ingraham get after crap like this is ridiculous. I hate twitter threads, but Rick Wilson had a good one along these lines. https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/867716102062825472

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 25, 2017 -> 08:35 AM) Isn't it so nice, that the Bernie wing creates a win/win scenario for itself? Lose and it's the DCCCs fault and the party should move left. Win and it has nothing to do with the DCCCs contributions and proves the party should move left. The reality is that it's not a one size fits all situation. In some red states, Bernie-ism plays. In some, like Georgia, it absolutely does not. lmao let me give you an NBC hot take

Fox news team said he threw punches, too. https://t.co/u4Rq2yjC5o Gonna be a nice civil suit, I imagine. And even if he gianforte wins, he may get thrown out of the house and require another special anyway

Republicans are introducing this bill

How a dubious Russian document influenced the FBI’s handling of the Clinton probe

Top Russian Officials Discussed How to Influence Trump Aides Last Summer The Pentagon is also not very happy that Trump shared the location of nuclear submarines with Duterte.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 24, 2017 -> 04:29 PM) There's so much outrage today about this new health care plan. Look, it hasn't passed yet. If it's not reviewed closely and rejected by the House then that is as bad as Trump proposing it. Just reject it if it's so bad. Why would it pass into law? It's already passed the House. The House Republicans and Trump had a big celebration in the Rose Garden three weeks ago. Please try learning at least the basic facts about something before commenting on it.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 24, 2017 -> 03:43 PM) Bill is great if you can guarantee you will be healthy and can guarantee you can live in a state that won't waive benefits. Healthy people get slightly lower premiums over time because sick people are priced out of the market/die.

QUOTE (bmags @ May 24, 2017 -> 03:48 PM) Holy crap I didn't think about that. My wife had BCBS through Tennessee because her company was in Nashville. This confirms that thought: Seems like there's a lot resting on that "probably" in the last sentence, though. Would depend heavily on the employer and what their typical worker looks like. I have to imagine that for most people with employer-based health care coverages, we'd be seeing the return of lifetime caps.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ May 24, 2017 -> 04:06 PM) I developed epilepsy at 19 and have subsequently racked up thousands in ER bills that boil down to them giving me water. The GOP wants you to be bankrupted or dead so that some millionaire can afford a new Ferrari or two.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 24, 2017 -> 04:02 PM) Kicking 14 million people off of health insurance in an election year so you can give the wealthy a tax cut seems like a bad idea to me. Gentlemen, to evil!

Kicking 14 million people off of health insurance in an election year so you can give the wealthy a tax cut seems like a bad idea to me.