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« Reply #4501 on: March 24, 2017, 05:00:00 PM »
If this isn't proof that the Republican party is essentially broken, possibly beyond repair, I don't know what is. They control the House. They control the Senate. They control the White House. And yet they still cannot do the one thing that they've been promising to their base for SEVEN YEARS.
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« Reply #4502 on: March 24, 2017, 05:15:56 PM »
Trump called a WaPo reporter on his cellphone and blamed the Democrats for the failure of the AHCA.

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« Reply #4503 on: March 24, 2017, 05:18:08 PM »
A big fat mess.
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« Reply #4504 on: March 24, 2017, 05:19:59 PM »
Trump called a WaPo reporter on his cellphone and blamed the Democrats for the failure of the AHCA.

Just a couple of months into the new Congressional term and Dems already getting work done. :whew
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« Reply #4505 on: March 24, 2017, 05:20:48 PM »
If this isn't proof that the Republican party is essentially broken, possibly beyond repair, I don't know what is. They control the House. They control the Senate. They control the White House. And yet they still cannot do the one thing that they've been promising to their base for SEVEN YEARS.

Helps when your base(and a large part of the American electorate) blindly allows themselves to latch onto that false promise of "repealing and replacing the ACA with something better" because they were never interested in asking the simple question: How?

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« Reply #4506 on: March 24, 2017, 05:35:45 PM »
The reports are that Paul Ryan "pleaded" for Trump to not go through with the vote. Trump wanted the vote to go through, even though it definitely would have failed.

Wonder how he accomplished this. Trump and Ryan hate each other and Trump usually listens to Breitbart and Bannon before Ryan. Wonder if he is starting to distrust Bannon (even if Bannom also had a direct phone line to Ryan). His plan of blaming democrats seems to depend that his party still has goodwillon him.

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« Reply #4507 on: March 24, 2017, 05:37:10 PM »
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« Reply #4509 on: March 24, 2017, 06:48:09 PM »

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« Reply #4510 on: March 24, 2017, 06:50:35 PM »
pretty interesting read


‘Hello, Bob’: President Trump called my cellphone to say that the health-care bill was dead


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“Sure,” Trump said. “I never said I was going to repeal and replace in the first 61 days”

I wil say it is fuuny rather than interesting.


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« Reply #4512 on: March 24, 2017, 08:42:58 PM »
Ehhhh, if Trump wants to work with the Dems to get rid of the debt ceiling I would probably be ok with it.  Maybe I'm alone, though.

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« Reply #4513 on: March 24, 2017, 11:46:06 PM »
Ehhhh, if Trump wants to work with the Dems to get rid of the debt ceiling I would probably be ok with it.  Maybe I'm alone, though.


heeeeeeere comes benji!
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« Reply #4514 on: March 25, 2017, 02:35:02 AM »
TOO MUCH WINNING
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« Reply #4516 on: March 25, 2017, 08:41:18 AM »
 :delicious

Edit: delicious doesn't show up any more?
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« Reply #4517 on: March 25, 2017, 08:57:01 AM »
https://theintercept.com/2017/03/21/newly-obtained-documents-prove-key-claim-of-snowdens-accusers-is-a-fraud/

okay, so whoops, jeez, you can't expect reporters and security experts to get it right 100% of the time everytime, calm down already you trump-defending putin stooge


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« Reply #4519 on: March 25, 2017, 11:13:26 AM »
(Image removed from quote.)

WTF AM I READING

THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS

THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS


"Obama should have passed single payer"

"Let Obamacare fail so he free market can create a replacement"

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« Reply #4520 on: March 25, 2017, 12:07:43 PM »
does anyone know if subbing to wapo will also make the ads go away?

I just paused Adblock to check and no, definitely not.

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« Reply #4521 on: March 25, 2017, 02:11:40 PM »
stolen from gaf:


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« Reply #4522 on: March 25, 2017, 03:15:14 PM »
Then again, he did extend executive powers beyond what the founders imagined, setting up the gradual escalation of presidential powers that we see the results of today. :smug

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« Reply #4523 on: March 25, 2017, 03:43:27 PM »
Then again, he did extend executive powers beyond what the founders imagined, setting up the gradual escalation of presidential powers that we see the results of today. :smug

I'm seeing double here.

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« Reply #4524 on: March 25, 2017, 05:04:42 PM »
I feel like the way the current republican party is using Lincoln's image, is similar to how the nazi's co-opted the ancient Hindu symbol.

Is Lincoln a religious symbol or figure? That is news for me...

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« Reply #4525 on: March 25, 2017, 07:32:19 PM »
Rumors that Flynn has flipped.

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/845765617487663106

I have no idea what the extent of Russian collusion was but I guess we'll find out soon enough. Also an interesting article I just decided to look up:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38651616

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« Reply #4526 on: March 25, 2017, 07:55:50 PM »
Is that a photo of Mar a Lago?  I see the Florida state flag.

Are these people capable of not being tacky?

The south has always held this desperate fascination with British and French aristocracy.  They've emulated their customs and architecture to the point of parody.  It goes all the way back to colonial times.
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« Reply #4527 on: March 25, 2017, 08:24:41 PM »
I feel like the way the current republican party is using Lincoln's image, is similar to how the nazi's co-opted the ancient Hindu symbol.

Is Lincoln a religious symbol or figure? That is news for me...

It wasn't uncommon for the Emancipators to be perceived in a religious manner, even General Sherman was dubbed the American Aaron / Moses.

People don't remember ol' Honest Abe for his commitment to tariffs and patronage peddling (neither of which are exactly anathema to the current president), and so we find ourselves here.

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« Reply #4528 on: March 25, 2017, 10:10:11 PM »
Rumors that Flynn has flipped.

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/845765617487663106


Can we not do the rampant rumour speculation based on nothing thing here?

If the feebs flipped Flynn, they've done a shit job of it if twitter knows about it already.
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« Reply #4529 on: March 26, 2017, 12:05:26 AM »
I feel like the way the current republican party is using Lincoln's image, is similar to how the nazi's co-opted the ancient Hindu symbol.

Is Lincoln a religious symbol or figure? That is news for me...

Nah, that's Reagan

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« Reply #4530 on: March 26, 2017, 12:53:56 AM »
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Violence erupted at a Make America Great Again rally in Huntington Beach on Saturday after a protester opposed to President Trump allegedly doused a female organizer of the event with pepper spray, sparking a brawl that ended with several arrests.

A group of flag-waving Trump supporters tackled the man with the pepper spray, who was wearing a black mask, and started punching and kicking him, according to witnesses. Several other fights also broke out between demonstrators.

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Travis Guenther, whose wife was also pepper-sprayed, said he was among those who chased the masked man and struck him with a flag that said, "Trump, Make America Great Again."

"I hit him five times with the flag over his head," said Guenther, who yelled at the man as he was detained by law enforcement officials.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-trump-rally-20170325-story.html
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Elsa Aldeguer, a Latina who said she was head of the Latino Coalition of Los Angeles, had her 9-year-old son speak to the crowd.

The child railed against the mainstream media.

"The media only says bad things about Trump. They don't say the good things about Trump," the boy said to an eruption of cheers.

Others said they were proud of their peaceful event and pointed to the group's diversity as proof that they are not racists.

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« Reply #4531 on: March 26, 2017, 12:56:50 AM »
Orange County  :donot

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« Reply #4532 on: March 26, 2017, 01:00:11 AM »
Fun fact: The following streets are in Huntington Beach:

Speer Drive
Heil Avenue

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« Reply #4533 on: March 26, 2017, 01:00:56 AM »
9 year olds, a demographic you definitely want to look to on political opinions

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« Reply #4534 on: March 26, 2017, 01:10:41 AM »
In other protest news that makes me ponder how the fuck my race managed to conquer much of the world:

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Several dozen people assembled outside the White House Saturday to demand an investigation into the unfounded Internet rumor known as “Pizzagate.”

Wearing T-shirts and holding banners defending the conspiracy theory — which falsely linked Hillary Clinton to an alleged child-sex-trafficking ring operating out of a D.C. pizza parlor — protesters took turns climbing onto an elevated stage in Lafayette Square to demand politicians and mainstream news media take their claims seriously.

“I don’t have any doubt that Pizzagate is real,” said Kori Hayes, a corrections officer who drove with his wife and three kids to Washington from Middleburg, Fla., on Friday night for the event. “But nothing is being said about it.

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Neither of those developments dissuaded the 50 or so protesters from demonstrating outside the White House on Saturday.

Hayes called InfoWars “the only place you can get the news nowadays where it’s not opinion,” but said he wasn’t bothered by Jones’s about-face on Pizzagate.

“This paper in my hand is at least enough for an investigation,” the 25-year-old said, holding a flier labeled “Pizzagate/Pedogate” that listed “pedophile code words and symbols” supposedly found at Comet Ping Pong.

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Their three children, ages 9, 5 and 2, each wore shirts saying “I Am Not Pizza #pizzagate.”

“We’ve been watching since the [John] Podesta emails came out on Wikileaks,” Danielle said. “And we just followed it down the rabbit hole.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2017/03/25/protesters-outside-white-house-demand-pizzagate-investigation/


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« Reply #4535 on: March 26, 2017, 01:10:43 AM »
Rumors that Flynn has flipped.

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/845765617487663106


Can we not do the rampant rumour speculation based on nothing thing here?

If the feebs flipped Flynn, they've done a shit job of it if twitter knows about it already.

That's an option that I choose not to use.

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« Reply #4536 on: March 26, 2017, 01:15:34 AM »
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“This paper in my hand is at least enough for an investigation,” the 25-year-old said, holding a flier labeled “Pizzagate/Pedogate” that listed “pedophile code words and symbols” supposedly found at Comet Ping Pong.

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« Reply #4537 on: March 26, 2017, 05:45:37 AM »
People don't remember ol' Honest Abe for his commitment to tariffs and patronage peddling (neither of which are exactly anathema to the current president), and so we find ourselves here.

Dammit, I was going to do the "tariffs were the real cause of the Civil War" gag to tie in Trump.

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« Reply #4538 on: March 26, 2017, 07:49:40 AM »
Out of context,

wearing an I am not a pizza shirt is pretty hilarious
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« Reply #4539 on: March 26, 2017, 10:18:14 AM »
Out of context,

wearing an I am not a pizza shirt is pretty hilarious

I'd expect some seriously bad acne if they were teenagers.

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« Reply #4540 on: March 26, 2017, 12:27:45 PM »
Rumors that Flynn has flipped.

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/845765617487663106


Can we not do the rampant rumour speculation based on nothing thing here?

If the feebs flipped Flynn, they've done a shit job of it if twitter knows about it already.
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« Reply #4543 on: March 26, 2017, 02:52:01 PM »
:lol

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« Reply #4544 on: March 26, 2017, 02:54:39 PM »
I'm glad the flag carrier of a country who was a proxy torturer for the U.S. is showing our Fox News watching grandpa of a president who's boss.

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« Reply #4545 on: March 26, 2017, 02:58:03 PM »
Carrier is ascribing entirely too much agency to her governing style.

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« Reply #4546 on: March 26, 2017, 05:29:28 PM »

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« Reply #4547 on: March 26, 2017, 06:08:41 PM »
Carrier is ascribing entirely too much agency to her governing style.

I think Kara is talking about the news above the Merkel´s one.

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« Reply #4548 on: March 26, 2017, 06:12:41 PM »
Oh. Well, we aided some torture too, so...


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« Reply #4551 on: March 26, 2017, 11:44:35 PM »
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« Reply #4552 on: March 27, 2017, 04:57:30 AM »
i made a twitter shitpost i am proud of

https://twitter.com/crossslide/status/846075864961990657
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« Reply #4553 on: March 27, 2017, 05:02:10 AM »
dont ask me what in the sweet holy fuck this is because i couldn't tell you



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« Reply #4554 on: March 27, 2017, 06:24:01 AM »
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/845646761704243200

Apparently the host went on a tirade about Paul Ryan having to step down, maybe or maybe not as a messenger for da Prez ?  :lol

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/845974102619906048

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« Reply #4555 on: March 27, 2017, 11:14:15 AM »
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Donald Trump is a cat.
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« Reply #4557 on: March 27, 2017, 01:20:35 PM »
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President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will lead a new White House office aimed at reforming the federal government through private-sector solutions.

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« Reply #4558 on: March 27, 2017, 01:32:15 PM »
Remember when Jared Kushner used AMERICAN INNOVATION to lead the "having your pops put in the slammer by Chris Christie" and "throwing a baby in Ivanka Trump" industries? Truly a pioneer.
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