StrangeSox

The next Secretary of education doesn't realize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act exists. https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/82153890...src=twsrc%5Etfw Unprecedented levels of incompetence all the way down. Glad that all of that Amway money bought her this position.

Franken did a good job of exposing her incompetence. https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/8215...src=twsrc%5Etfw There's a 0% chance she's the nominee if she wasn't a huge Republican donor.

QUOTE (Tony @ Jan 17, 2017 -> 07:27 PM) Betsy DeVos, incredible. Her hearings have shown her to be incredibly unqualified, ignorant and unfit for the job, but I'm sure she'll be confirmed on a party line vote.

getting money out of politics, one six-figures-a-plate dinner at a time!

Lieberman is just so awful.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 17, 2017 -> 03:25 PM) Why not release him today? I expect Trump's administration to foil this somehow. Sentence is commuted and I don't think a future President can revoke the commutation.

On Trump's pick for Education Secretary: BETSY DEVOS WANTS TO USE AMERICA'S SCHOOLS TO BUILD "GOD'S KINGDOM"

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 17, 2017 -> 11:39 AM) But it's still a true statement that for the majority of people in the country they were fine with what they had pre-ACA. And it's also true that post-ACA many people lost what they liked in their plans. End of the day, it's not accurate to say every vote for Trump was a vote to repeal ACA and every vote for Clinton was in support of it. People vote for different reasons and for the majority the ACA is not one of them. The second paragraph is certainly true. Narrowing down an election outcome to a single issue is too simplistic. Rising healthcare premiums were/are still a big issue in many employer-provided plans, though, and part of the ACA attempts to address that.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Jan 17, 2017 -> 11:22 AM) Nah, the vast majority voted for other reason because the vast majority don't have health care insurance issues or a need for the ACA. You're under the mistaken belief that 1) the ACA didn't impact employer-provided plans , providing consumer protections that didn't exist before and 2) that they won't be impacted again through whatever replacement plan, if any, the GOP comes up with.

I think the difference is that, as others have pointed out, Rodgers is just a much better player which makes it easier to want to watch him perform at a top level, and also that Favre seemed like a total douchebag.

Some people are really following President p****-graber's lead (autoplay video at the link, why on earth does anyone still do that?) Politician Arrested for Pinching Woman’s Genitals ‘Said He No Longer Had to Be Politically Correct’

Aren't they also/didn't they already change how the CBO scores things so that their plans get better scores via "dynamic scoring" aka "we swear supply side economics will significantly boost both the economy and government revenues this time!"?

Trump national security spokeswoman Monica Crowley to forgo post amid plagiarism charges Crowley was found to have heavily plagiarized her PhD dissertation.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52371 This is just from an analysis of "H.R. 3762, the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, which would repeal portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) eliminating, in two steps, the law’s mandate penalties and subsidies but leaving the ACA’s insurance market reforms in place." and not the actual hellscape republican plan.

Although Trump promised healthcare for everyone at a lower cost, surprise, he was just rambling off whatever popped into his brain that moment. https://twitter.com/jrovner/status/82115077...src=twsrc%5Etfw

Trump will be taking the first two and a half days of his presidency off. https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/...src=twsrc%5Etfw

IIRC most information security people suggest coming up with a longish but comprehensible and memorable phrase rather than a bunch of random characters. Something like "MyD0gRuns!Fast" is pretty secure from brute force attacks and you're not going to forget it like you would "09xhBtla=#"

Didn't the ACA lower copays for annual checkups to $0?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 16, 2017 -> 11:19 AM) lol. Yeah, poor guys fleeing murderous dictators. I wonder why we ever tried to protect them as special versus other people who were just fleeing for better opportunities that the Dems are saying they won't send back. Will they be doing the same to Syrians? You know, so no one gets "special" treatment, and all get treated like every other immigrant? Syrians don't get a "wet foot, dry foot" policy either though? The US handles political refugees on a case-by-case basis for every country except Cuba until this change. Now Cuba is like everyone else.

The thing that's still the most confusing to me is getting rid of all of that...to what end? What does the US possibly have to gain by blowing up many of its existing alliances in order to capitulate to a second-tier economic country run by an autocrat who isn't actually offering anything in return?

I didn't realize that the policy only dated back to 1995. I thought it was a 60's Cold War holdover.

That's not really what privilege means, though. It doesn't mean you automatically "win", just that it's generally easier for you.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 14, 2017 -> 04:50 PM) I've always said the exact same thing, she lost because she is so disliked, especially with many women. Didn't she also stop campaigning in a couple of those swing states? That strategy backfired big time. She took Michigan and Wisconsin for granted until the last minute, but they put resources into Pennsylvania and still lost there. That's something that the "she ignored Midwest blue collar (white) workers" narrative skips over a bit. Same for Florida, too.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jan 14, 2017 -> 11:37 AM) Stop making your mission to bring trump down. Your mission should be to report, good or bad. Not taking anything you can and finding the worst angle to put on it. Just report, good and bad. Yes, surely this will prevent any threats and intimidation from Trump. We've all seen him respond in a cool and levelheaded manner at even the mildest criticisms.

I don't know about that. He won by 80k total votes across three states and got smashed in the popular vote. Absent Comey's letter, Clinton probably wins. Absent the 30 years of "scandal" around her, she probably wins. Anyone else who wasn't as disliked as Clinton going into it almost definitely wins.