StrangeSox

New Quinnipiac poll out: Bit confused as to how most people think Trump will be a worse President, don't like the way he's handling being President-elect by a wide margin but are still optimistic for the next 4 years and think he'll be good for the economy.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 10, 2017 -> 11:48 AM) Sessions gets his ass kissed from fellow republicans and some great jokes by funny man Lindsey Graham! Democrats are cowards and so we probably get AG Sessions confirmed with ease. A man who thinks the worst think about the KKK is they smoke pot and thinks the NAACP are communists. I think we are in trouble here folks. Most of Trump's worst policies and ideas overlaps heavily with the rest of the GOP's. We shouldn't be surprised. The most Democrats can do is make a big stink and get as much publicity as possible, but they don't have the votes to stop anything if the Republicans want to confirm all of these awful appointments. glad this is the man who will be in charge of enforcing our civil rights and voting laws.

But actually, you see, both sides are bad and a pox on both houses and don't vote, it only encourages the bastards! Breaking the system and spreading a deep cynicism towards civic values has paid off really well for the GOP.

"I will enforce any law the Congress passes" ...I don't think that's exactly what the AG is supposed to do. That and his "I'd just quit if Trump wanted to do something illegal" answer are both very troubling.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 10, 2017 -> 10:44 AM) They are literally laughing their way through the questions about his past. Republicans haven't asked a single serious question. His confirmation is a foregone conclusion. jeff sessions literally once said, about immigrants being allowed to join the army: "who's more likely to be a spy, a guy from alabama or a guy from kenya?" note: only one of these places has actually declared war on the United States

QUOTE (KagakuOtoko @ Jan 10, 2017 -> 10:42 AM) Listen, you can hand wave the DNC corruption, that's your prerogative. It's definitely not a myth as you claim. You had the media saying that BS had no chance and that it was already over. That's pretty much telling people to stay home and not vote which is bulls***. Granted, people need to be think for themselves and not be so influenced by the media. You had the delegate count with the super delegates included. That was another bulls*** ass method to manipulate people. You had emails that were leaked that showed the DNC were in cahoots with HRC. BS was an outsider to the DNC and their actions showed he wasn't going to get a fair shake. If the DNC let the democratic process take place without any shenanigans and HRC won, maybe just maybe she wins. That's all people wanted. The irony is the Republicans also had their own outsider and they allowed the primaries to play out and he won. Hillary won a bunch of red states in the primaries that were not going to vote for her in the general. BS won those states that Hillary lost in general. I can say with the putrid voter turnout this election a guy like BS would have got people out to vote for him and win the damn thing. Hillary sucked and that was proven. You want to know why, because DONALD f***ING TRUMP was her opponent and she still got beat. Lastly, the DNC is already split. The neoliberals and establishment democrats just got their teeth knocked down their throat and the progressive wing is trying to repair the party's image. The Clinton's are cancer and now they are gone we'll see just how much resolve they have now. 46% of the country didn't vote and ~24% elected Trump president. That's a lot of people that stayed home under the threat of president Trump. Hillary sucks. That is all. FWIW that's the same argument Hillfolk used against Obama in 2008. He still went on to win. And as for the media coverage, you could have said the same thing about Trump's chances being portrayed as "LOL" but people still showed up.

Dumb, petty and racist is going to be a great combination. And very anti-LGBT. Nice of Sessions to try to deflect a direct quote of himself from the Senate floor about opposing hate crime protections to LGBT people by saying "that doesn't sound like something I'd say!" f*** you, asshole, it's public record. You did say it. Recently. And his response to being pressed on everything is pretty much "yes this law exists." "What are your thoughts on the Russian hacking?" "Oh I haven't read s*** about that despite being the AG nominee and a sitting Senator. besides, it's perfectly fine and normal for foreign interference in our elections!" "Sen. Sessions, did it hurt your feelings when people [correctly] called you racist?" real tough questions here

We're going to have the dumbest possible government

If Trump wants to do something illegal, Sessions will boldly stand up for what is right by...resigning. His job is to uphold and enforce the Constitution. That answer should be instantly disqualifying by itself.

The federal week in review: 1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day. 2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee's salary to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people in Energy and State. 3. Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books those hearings with Trump's first press conference in months and an ACA budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or protest. 4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget Office from reporting or tracking ANY costs related to the repeal of the ACA. 5. Trump continues to throw the intelligence community under the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that the Russians deliberately interfered in our election. 6. Trump breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by asking Congress (in other words, us, the taxpayers) to pay for it. 7. Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US. 8. House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules enacted by any federal agency or department--for example, FDA or EPA bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not science. Don't like that endangered species designation, Congress kills it.

good, f*** having a white supremacist as the Attorney General good time to remind everyone that as AG in Alabama, Sessions prosecuted black people for registering other black people to vote sure is having to spend a lot of time denouncing the KKK in the year 2017.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 10, 2017 -> 12:50 AM) Uh what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_th...primaries,_2016 Hillary won by over 3mil votes and almost 1k delegates. The only people that keep up the myth "Bernie got screwed" are Republican's who are still trying to split the Democratic party. The entire idea of Hillary had to be more progressive is ridiculous. Hillary didnt lose because she wasnt "progressive", she lost for the exact opposite reason. Clinton got "crushed" in deep red areas, whereas Obama only "lost." Granted Hillary did mess up pretty majorly, and had she maybe been a bit more "prepare for the worst, hope for the best" she may have gone harder for Wisconsin/Michigan, etc. But again, being more progressive shouldnt have done anything. Any true Sanders believer would never have stayed home, never would have voted for Trump. So the only angle was to be less "hated" by hardcore Republicans. And perhaps you havent noticed, but those people arent exactly into progressive policies. So no, the DNC didnt "guarantee" his victory. Trump's victory is nothing more than flipping a penny 10x and having it come up heads every time. It is rare, but it happens. It was a perfect storm of things, that I could probably write 500 pages on. What is Hillary supposed to be doing? She lost, she has no office, her career in politics is likely over. The hate she receives is bordering on insanity. Obama/Michelle went hard for Hillary and even THEY couldnt get their own voters out. I voted for Sanders in the primary, and this largely reflects my thoughts. The DNC certainly didn't do him any favors, but he's not a Democrat and was running openly as anti establishment, so nobody should be surprised when it turns out the establishment isn't particularly fond of that sort of candidate. Clinton won the primary by a wide margin, well beyond whatever minimal effect the DNC had.

Corey Booker and John Lewis will be testifying against noted racist Jefferson Beauregard Sessions in his AG confirmation hearing.

Sure is good that America decided a mentally ill narcissist with zero experience or ability to comprehend his job but a bigly desire to insult people on twitter was the right person for President.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jan 9, 2017 -> 04:02 PM) Strange, they don't tax me on the water from my well. Nor my neighbors. Generally it's an issue west of the Mississippi where water resources are a lot more scarce. I'm on well in Illinois, too, and there's no regulations, registrations, or restrictions on a regular basis but maybe there would be if I tried to get the permits to drop 40 new wells on my property?

which then requires paying property tax :V edit: especially in western states, water and mineral rights don't necessarily come with land rights basically short of living homeless and cashless, you're not going to be able to avoid paying taxes if you don't want to. That said, ultimately I get the distinction ss2k5 sees there even I don't personally think it's a big deal.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2017 -> 03:33 PM) There is a line here that was crossed. You don't HAVE to drive a car, if you don't want to wear a seatbelt. You don't HAVE to work if you don't want to pay taxes. Don't want health insurance? Too bad. It is really scary to cross that line. Income tax, sure. But it's essentially impossible to avoid sales tax if you want to buy food, or avoid various municipal/state taxes if you like electricity and water.

I have my doubts about Schumer as minority leader, but if he's going to keep up Reid's troll game that's at least something.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 9, 2017 -> 02:00 PM) I haven't had a home sound system for years so this maybe a dumb question, but do these sound bars hook up to TV? No more amplifiers? Yeah, they typically have a few HDMI inputs and an output. I use mine (I think it's a Sony?) as the switcher for my TV, so my cable box, Roku and laptop all route into the sound bar and then the sound bar connects to the TV's input. The subwoofer is wireless, too, though it obviously needs a power source.

Trump's/GOP's tax plans will also almost definitely include removing the estate tax, something that only effects estates of $5.34M or more.

For example, our soon-President admitted that he hasn't paid taxes in 20 years.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 5, 2017 -> 11:12 AM) Independence Day 2. Worst movie I've seen in a decade probably.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 8, 2017 -> 04:13 PM) Well unfortunately, as expertly demonstrated by the example you gave, he's guilty of asking Americans to be good human beings, and it's very sad that we have failed at that. Obamacare is a weird example anyway because surveys find that people don't like "Obamacare" but they generally like all of the individual parts of Obamacare if they're described to them, except for the individual mandate.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Jan 7, 2017 -> 08:28 AM) Oh I get it and Russia is laughing just like it's been laughing for years at us now. I was referring to the fact that the emails still existed whether Russia or my mom leaked them. Aren't you glad they were leaked? I feel like even the weird radical leftists (who would tend to support Bernie's super-progressivist ideas) would be happy. These are the people who typically supported Asange & Snowden before they helped Trump, & typically hate the idea of big corporate greed funding campaigns. I can address my personal thoughts on US/Russia in a different post but I think the point here is that blaming the messenger to avoid the message is weird. Let's take the example further- what if the emails proved Hillary say... had some people killed. Would you still only be mad at Russia for proving it true, and still vote for her? Or would you be thankful the corruption was unearthed? If people actually cared about corruption they wouldn't have elected Trump.

Former CIA head Woolsey resigns from transition team citing growing tension over Trump's vision. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpo...m=.a17cb9cb060d