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- R_Kercz0
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A draft House Republican repeal bill would dismantle the Obamacare subsidies and scrap its Medicaid expansion, according to a copy of the proposal obtained by POLITICO.
- BusterBoy7
On the one hand, I really hope Trump completely fucks everything up bigly yuge. And totally trashes America.
On the other hand, I know that would hurt many of my American friends and I feel badly about that.
But you guys really need to bottom out big time to once and for all put this right wing rubbish to bed.
But what would I know...I'm a daft Aussie cunt.
- your American friends? god - the game is bigger than that - think more on global scales including where you live. When empires fall and all thatfadein11
- ^ absolutely. the conservative factions in Australia are already taking note of the techniques being used in the US, to Australia's detriment. It's awful.BuddhaHat
- "daft Aussie cunt" AKA "Aussie"lowimpakt
- Yeah, Fuckface McWonkteeth aka Nige Farage is already claiming some kind of global, arsehole-led, 'revolution'face_melter
- But to be honest I have also shared the sentiment that utter fucking catastrophe would be the only possible outcome that could convince certainBuddhaHat
- groups within the US populace that the path they are heading down is a path to certain destruction. As Buster said, the tragedy is the people thatBuddhaHat
- would suffer as a consequence of hitting rock bottom. And it wouldn't be a few people; it would be in the tens of millions.BuddhaHat
- Same here guys. There's been a handful of friends and family on FB who have realized their mistake, but it's only because of something he's done thatkona
- affects them personally. They have a LGBT friend who's now getting hosed. Or a parent who depends on Medicaid who's going to get hosedkona
- Or they realized they're on ACA and it's going to go away. Until something Trump does affects those certain groups personally, theyll think he'skona
- doing a bang-up job and the Dems and media are getting in his way.kona
- Meh, don't worry yourself mate, I know Aussie is crazy about surveillance. Don't believe the loud press, things are going gangbusters here, except Chicago.robotron3k
- USA already bottomed out after their last republican president...inteliboy
- "things are going gangbusters here"
hahaha oh manyuekit
- Beeswax3
Trump should stop backing whatever the hell US has been backing there and get the hell out of Syria.
We had enough of this war on this part of the world. Thanks to Obama.
- whatthefunk3
- But he didn't write the book plus he was being sarcastic. Just kidding he's just a lying sack of thin skinned stupid shit. What a fucking tool.monospaced
- I don't think there's one thing he's ever said that wasn't a flat out lie at this point.monospaced
- ********6
http://www.latimes.com/politics/…
The White House banned the NY Times, the LA Times and CNN from the press briefing, while allowing in people who post wildly false information such as the Washington Times and Breitbart.
But what should we expect? Most Americans are too stupid to understand why things like this matter.
Meanwhile, Breitbart's MAIN HEADLINE on their site is that they have t-shirts and hats and coffee mugs for sale! They're selling well, too! Apparently to people who can afford $20 t-shirts and $17 coffee mugs, even though Obama gave all their jobs to China and Mexico.
- This is pathetic, hard to believe some of you still support this wannabe dictatoryuekit
- nb and yuekit is part of the shadow government.********
- I see this as a deflection to the reibus/fbi report.dorf
- ^ absolutely. For all Trump's whining about Fake News!!1! He and his gaggle of shitstains are among the worst offenders.face_melter
- whatthefunk3
Muhammad Ali Jr. detained by immigration at Florida airport
Muhammad Ali Jr., son of the late legendary boxer, was reportedly detained for several hours by immigration officials at a Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
According to a report by the Courier-Journal, Ali and his mother Khalilah Camacho-Ali were arriving at the airport from a Black History Month event in Jamaica on Feb. 7 when they were pulled aside by customs and asked if they were Muslim.
Ali's lawyer Chris Mancini told the Courier-Journal that while Camacho-Ali was let go, her son was questioned for almost two hours about his origin, where he was born and his religion.
Ali is a Muslim born in Philadelphia and holds a U.S. passport.- that was close!monospaced
- Waiting this to happen next time when I visit US. Then i'll have couple of things to say to my mother in law who voted for Trymp.Beeswax
- do it!pango
- fadein112
Minor news but lovely stuff - I have loved Depeche Mode since a little boy.
Richard Spencer calls Depeche Mode 'the official band of the alt-right', band immediately denounces him
- The Racist Truth Behind The Ice Cream Truck Tune Song
http://dailym.ai/2mo…******** - and ice cream tune is related to depeche mode because?pango
- Daily. Mail. An article from Viz would have more journalistic integrity.face_melter
- Trust omg's source to be a piece of shitsee_thru
- Not only is omgs article completely irrelevant, it has writing errors that most school children wouldn't even make. It's just stupid for stupid people.monospaced
- omg - posts in house music thread yet doesn't know it's origins in music of black gay people then pukes in his own mouth.fadein11
- that's because he's a trollmonospaced
- Vince Clarke made sure he had his "I'm not fucking happy" face on back then just in case....see_thru
- The Racist Truth Behind The Ice Cream Truck Tune Song
- ********-3
Wayne LaPierre: "According to the FBI, Mexican drug cartels are working with 100,000 street gang members in Chicago alone." #CPAC2017
Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon warns the United States not to "take Mexico for granted" http://cnn.it/2lwhjL5
@Kona and the rest of Chicago, very grateful.
- Hums to self and will eat Captain Crunch all day.********
- He's already raiding everywhere, why not just go for martial law and round everyone up, those private prison's gotta be filled!formed
- Then after that he can take out our news agencies, then might as well take out Hollywood, too.formed
- Same man said Mexico would never pay for that fucking wall.monospaced
- Free room and board. That'll show them. Many rather be in prison than get sent back to Mexico. Like putting bankers in 1 building together would be punishment.********
- Butt hold on. Let's worry about the elite hollywood complain about how they need their illegals for our benefit.********
- Let's also complain about how we want to start PAYING for cable access to get CNN. Someone said FREE press?********
- when has an illegal immigrant drug cartel gang member affected your life? when has a Syrian refugee attacked people you love?inteliboy
- how many muslims have raped the women in your life? how many Mexicans have taken your jobs? or Chinese crippled your business?inteliboy
- it is bullshit fear and you're falling for it. You have more chance of chocking on a piece of broccoli.inteliboy
- You're crossing cultural streams way too early inteliboy. You might as well say child molestation is not an issue for you because you're not a kid anymore.********
- When the dough rises on pizzagate, you're gonna find over 5500 humans trafficked for sex. Fuck the broccoli, these folks are chocking on something else.********
- http://www.nbcchicag…
that's the population of a small city. crazyGnash - Going back to Chicago, they got more Mexican gang members there than police. Yet they're worried about that one transgendered kid that needs a bathroom.********
- wait, you believe in pizzagate?inteliboy
- 99.9% of pizzagate is most definitely real. Which is the human trafficking part.********
- No it's not. Also your stats about Chicago Mexican gangs are complete bullshit. Plus you don't seem to comprehend what free press is. Sad.monospaced
- If you can't trust the FBI, who can you trust? There are two types of free press. The one supported by television networks, and the one you don't get from cable********
- https://en.wikipedia…Gnash
- omg still doesn't comprehend in any capacity what freedom of press means and it's hilarious and sadmonospaced
- that sounds like the dark comedy you can expect from limited seating for the press.********
- and you clearly don't know what freedom of the press means, sonyiu change the subjectmonospaced
- jesus christ omg is even more unhinged than usual... was the pharmacy closed when you went to get your meds omg? you drooling fucking imbecile.BuddhaHat
- Let's see trump battle this issue with more guns. He's such a clown.monospaced
- all QBNrs hate himmoldero
- they sure do, moldy, they sure do.BuddhaHat
- 99.9% of pizzagate is real lollllllllzzzzzzfadein11
- focus on reality more omg - you've been brainwashed by clickbait/fake news/labelled dumbass cartoons.
think for yourself more.fadein11
- Hums to self and will eat Captain Crunch all day.
- whatthefunk1
George Clooney savages Trump and Bannon for being part of the 'Hollywood elite'
"Trump has 22 acting credits and earns $120,000 a year from the Screen Actor's Guild's (SAG) pension fund. He is a Hollywood elite and Steve Bannon is a failed film writer and director," Clooney told interviewer Laurent Weil.
"That’s the truth, that’s what he’s done. He [Bannon] wrote a Shakespearean rap musical about the LA riots that he couldn’t get made. He made a lot of money off of Seinfeld. He’s elitist Hollywood, I mean, that’s the reality."
- oh come on, trumpy is not a hw elite in any way, shape or form.Gnash
- but damn, that SAG pension sounds fucking sweet. Do all those fuckers make that kids 'pension' coin?Gnash
- *kind, not 'kid'Gnash
- idk - http://www.imdb.com/…whatthefunk
- he's a hack, not an 'elite'
I really can't get over that pension. wtf?Gnash - He is butt hurt because the elite won't accept him perhaps, despite his riches and stupid show.monospaced
- whatthefunk2
Trump falsely claims lines 'go back 6 blocks' for CPAC speech
President Trump falsely claimed during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that lines to get in stretched back “six blocks.”
It was a statement at odds with the quiet scene outside the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, where CPAC is taking place.
There were no lines getting into the Gaylord within the hour before Trump began speaking Friday morning.
- obviously, it depends on how you define, blocks:
http://www.franchise…Gnash - Considering you had to pre purchase tickets to attend, if there were lines, they were of people too stupid to realize this.monospaced
- Ha, they were in the lines to get the Russian Trump flags - smh...whatthefunk
- omg - were you there? what did you see?fadein11
- There were videos showing the 6 block line up that only omg saw before they were taken down...see_thru
- There were?monospaced
- a US block is 660 feet x 6 blocks @ 3 feet per person is 1320 people. For an event that holds 10,000 wouldn't be unfathomable.********
- @fadein
if I did go, I would have probably seen how hot conservative women were compared to liberal ones.********
- obviously, it depends on how you define, blocks:
- whatthefunk6
Bernie responds to Trump's tweet this morning...
- lovely stufffadein11
- lol. daaaaamn. bernie is savage.sofakingback
- Feel the bern! Feel the bern!yuekit
- Oh, he's good. He's very good.Continuity
- monospaced3
Trump just tweeted that he lowered the national debt $12b since he joined office and that it rose $200b in the same time for Obama. Also whining that the press isn't reporting these lies.
This is the definition of fake news.
- he constantly says 'i'm not a bad person', which is true... he's the fucking worst person; a truly stupid and malevolent piece of shitBuddhaHat
- He's not even a bad guy. Just dangerously delusional.monospaced
- IRNlun6-6
One big problem with current media is the ownership consolidation experienced over the past few decades. The US president pulling press credentials for a few major media outlets provides a good opportunity for smaller more independent organizations to step in.
The best thing that could happen for a free press is to expand the market beyond GE, News-Corp, Disney, Viacom, Time Warner, and CBS.
- Any comment on the fact that the outlets blocked from access are the same agencies investigating Trump-Russia connections?BuddhaHat
- "In 1983, 90% of US media was controlled by 50 companies; today, 90% is controlled by just 5 companies."IRNlun6
- Why is that relevant? Does that stop them from investigating Trump-Russia allegations?IRNlun6
- oh man this post could easily be confused as a direct endorsement of alt right media like breitbart and infowarsmonospaced
- So, no comment then? Any comment on Trump's position of the press being 'the enemy of the American people?'BuddhaHat
- And do you seriously think Trump's motivation in kicking out the news orgs that challenged him was to diversify media ownership?yuekit
- if you can't see the relevance to that connection, IRNI, then you're either too stupid to be having this conversation, or your party affiliation blinds youBuddhaHat
- Why Fox news is not banned then?zaq
- you probably support the elimination of Net Neutrality protections as well, yes? because that will really help fight consolidation?BuddhaHat
- i'd like to hear your rationale on thatBuddhaHat
- It's actually pretty amazing the far-fetched explanations you will hear from Trump supporters in trying to rationalize Trump's bullshit.yuekit
- I said it was a good opportunity. The companies that where pulled was likely because of 24/7 shit-stirring.IRNlun6
- "shit stirring" = reporters doing their jobyuekit
- He just doesn't like that those news agencies replay him rambling like a moron, while pointing all his lies with other unedited clips.monospaced
- No, it's endless bullshit like dozens of stories claiming Trump is a secret op for the Russian government with zero evidence.IRNlun6
- Sounds like some of you all who point to Brietbart, Prison Planet or Fox are just upset that your preferred news outlets where singled out.IRNlun6
- But there is an investigation going on into ties to Russia. You're saying the media shouldn't report on that? Why did Trump fire his national security advisor?yuekit
- Alternative media isn't always better. It's delusional to think that Breitbart is a better news source than the New York Times. They don't even really do anyyuekit
- They're free to act as bias and opinionated as they want. Don't be surprised that they won't get the access they think they deserve for being so biased.IRNlun6
- real reporting, it's just repeating the news from other sources with a tabloid right wing slant. That's who Trump put in his White House, and he's supposed toyuekit
- be a good critic of the media?yuekit
- It's completely fucking laughable. Trump and his people are about a thousand times worse than the people they are criticizing as "fake news."yuekit
- 50, 100, 1000+ more media outlets has far greater chance of less bias than 5. That is my larger point.IRNlun6
- It shouldn't come as a surprise that the presidents are more preferential to outlets that put them and their policies in a better light.IRNlun6
- You have to admit the companies singled out have a massive bias against Trump. Not admitting that would be like saying Fox didn't have a bias against Obama.IRNlun6
- What comes as a surprise is our Pres is such a sad joke that he's controlling the media himself. Do you not see the hypocrisy?? Fake, but only if you disagreeformed
- Completely fine to make up blatant lies and tell the public as though it were fact. No problem there?? Is that biased reporting too?formed
- The problem is if Trump comes out and lies everyday (which he does), the media is going to call him out on it.yuekit
- If a politician lies or commits unethical acts on a greater than average basis, you would hopefully expect and want the press to come down on them more harshly.yuekit
- But for some reason people like you interpret that as "bias" -- when it's simply the press doing their job.yuekit
- omg wisely avoiding intelligent debate that may make him look even more stooooopid.fadein11
- what a gigantic, putrid stream of shit IRNI just produced in an attempt to rationalise such reprehensible behaviour from the White House. Most of it illogical.BuddhaHat
- he must be dizzy from twisting his words and his logic in so many directions...BuddhaHat
- IRNlun6 - you do know what a democracy is and what it is built on yeah?fadein11
- Your argument that having more news sources there is directly contradicting your defense of eliminating the main ones.monospaced
- preciselyfadein11
- So Trump and his merry band of cunts spend years tearing strips off Obama and only after 4 weeks he takes the huff when it's turned on him? Fuck him.face_melter
- One of the worst examples of whinging hand-waving there is. Trump is a massive, orange, arsehole and deserves every single piece of shit thrown at him.face_melter
- I see this as an opportunity for other companies to step in. If it ever went to court, these banned news orgs would likely regain access.IRNlun6
- I could care less about these news outlets, including Fox. They're owned by transnational corps that have power to influence policy and people everywhere.IRNlun6
- I'd prefer a breakup of these big companies. More options, less centralized.IRNlun6
- As people have pointed out many times, Trump banning press orgs that do a tough job reporting on him has nothing to do with that though.yuekit
- Obama didn't exclude Fox News just because they hated him. He faced them head on and never whined like a bitch or avoided them.monospaced
- Not saying this is the reason for the recent ban but... https://pbs.twimg.co…IRNlun6
- fruitsalad-6
Scitilop... pronounced "shit a lop" = the word Politics spelt backwards.
Tells you all you need to know about the subject.
- how many usernames do you have?fadein11
- how much time did you waste on that garbage, shitsalad?BuddhaHat
- 'wanker' is fruitsalad spelled backwards.face_melter
- whatthefunk3
- lol. who's he saying that toGnash
- childish if realmonospaced
- Pussyzaq
- I can't imagine the meltdown he'd have if they invited alec baldwin instead.dorf
- Barack or Hillaryzaq
- How long can they keep this absurdity up?formed
- is this real? wtf..inteliboy
- never trust a man with no sense of humour.inteliboy
- It's real.********
- coward and thin red skinned lil bitchutopian
- Reminds me of that time Trump pretended his foot hurt so he didn't have to attend the Vietnam war.whatthefunk
- "Please wish everyone well"...????********
- @dorf epic ideasofakingback
- wut a pussymoldero
- the very definition of a thin skinned bitch man pussing out because he won't face people who are smarter and wittier than he can handlemonospaced
- what he doesn't realize is that he's gonna get roasted regardless, all day every day, and this just fuels the stupid behind his strategymonospaced
- formed2
http://www.reuters.com/article/u…
It's real
- BusterBoy0
As Bill Maher mentioned, we know only one side of the campaign was hacked...by the Russians. And we know for a fact that people in the Trump campaign had talks with the Russians during the campaign.
Let's rewind to 2012 and the Russians only hacked Romney's campaign. And there was a lot of contact between Obama's campaign and the Russians.
How would that have played out?
- I'm assuming you're going on hypothetical, here.Continuity
- As opposed to making un-cited claims Obama's campaign was in contact with the Russians.Continuity
- The college count was 332 to 206. They would've needed to have Russians in Cossack gear out in the street waving Russian flags with the name ROMNEY on them.BuddhaHat
- for him to do much worse than his 'corporations are people, my friend' and hidden rich people party footage made him perform by himselfBuddhaHat
- Obviously a hypothetical.BusterBoy
- In reference to the evil, giant clusterfuck Citizens United: https://www.youtube.…BuddhaHat
