US PoliERA 2018 |OT6| An Unmitigated Disaster
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Yep. The dem in this district is Mark DeSaulnier. He seems decent. I've actually never had to worry about him because this district votes dem in the 60-70% margins all of the time.
http://www.ontheissues.org/CA/Mark_DeSaulnier.htm
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...80389a4e569_story.html?utm_term=.f4942dfce112
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...80389a4e569_story.html?utm_term=.f4942dfce112
That's what she's doing??????????
Yep. I guess she hasn't said anything too stupid because we haven't really heard about her, and she's actually qualified, which is more than we can say for the vast majority of people in this administration.
Yeah, that messaging won't work in this case.
Well, the cult will believe anything, but they only make up 27%.
Even by Republican standards, Rauner is an incredible coward. He's been doing the whole "hide behind a potted plant whenever asked about Trump" thing because he desperately needs to win back anti-Trump suburban voters who backed him four years ago while also getting into the good graces of the base, but the fact that he stumbled through what should have been a very simple question about an Illinois Nazi is extra terrible.
Oh oops lol
And I thought 2012 was bad when you had to clarify which Republican who made offensive comments about rape victims you were talking about
Katya rigged it for her.
"No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you sir; but I bite my thumb, sir."
-- Jeff Flake
Fun Fact*: Little Bastard is what everyone who’s seen it, calls Giuliani’s penis.
*Not a real fact
This post has three different tweets in it in the replies to it
Bechard's lawyer about to be like Stephen Chow in Kung Fu Hustle:
Is he really going to let Avenatti question her under oath?
We live in a world where people tried to play Survivor and the results were Gabon and Nicaragua
Everyone saw the sanction lift talk coming. The only question was whether Putin would offer up Crimea in the "bargain".
But no, the world isn't that fair, we'll give up everything and get nothing and have a bunch of talking heads reassuring the public that it's all for the greater good to let American businesses make deals with mafia thugs who intimidate and murder their opposition.
But no, the world isn't that fair, we'll give up everything and get nothing and have a bunch of talking heads reassuring the public that it's all for the greater good to let American businesses make deals with mafia thugs who intimidate and murder their opposition.
Trump is compromised. Putin will get everything he wants.
I still identify as straight, but (and this is the first time I've said this to anyone but my wife) some reflection this past year has me unsure on that part. We'll see after more reflection lol
"Russia didn't start behaving and regret their actions after we imposed sanctions so can we just lift them and do business with them again?
We're just punishing ourselves not to... and what's the point of that, right?"
When does the Magnitsky Act get a turn in Michael Cohen's dime store paper shredder?
And isn't Ron Johnson supposed to be one of the moderate darlings?
“Out, vile Giuli! Where is thy lustre now?”Fun Fact*: Little Bastard is what everyone who’s seen it, calls Giuliani’s penis.
Eh, he's never had the same unearned reputation as Sue and Lisa M.
I assume he’ll ask for help. “Could you help us with the midterms?”
They aren't responding to the sanctions so we should... lift them instead of tougher sanctions? What world are these people living in?
"Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:
From this time forth I never will speak word."
-- Jeff Sessions, 2019
From this time forth I never will speak word."
-- Jeff Sessions, 2019
Rauner has no excuse for being unprepared either. There was a whole goddamned movie about Illinois Nazis.
Cuba isn't supporting international white supremecy and using nerve agents in allied nations, or arming militias that take down commercial airliners.
Blessing the Crimea theft is the final abdication of American soft power. We spent a lot of blood and treasure to amass a global security hegemony. These fascist fucks tossed aside what was left of our respectability in less than 2 years. Fuck each and every one of these sloppy schmucks with a dead iguana.
Lifting sanctions long after the threat of nuclear war with USSR and everyone involved in that scenario is dead, vs lifting sanctions 3 years after the annexation of Crimea and the murder of a whistleblower because the corrupt businessmen who threw money at our election would like to keep amassing their billions is kinda different, no?
Ron Johnson? The dude’s one of the most tea party ass motherfuckers out there. He’s a certifiable nutcase. The only times he’s been against something terrible is because it wasn’t quite terrible enough for him.
And who becomes "The World's Policeman" when America gives the okay to Russia's annexation of Crimea? I said a little while ago that that role would end up being taken over by Canada, France, Germany and China - the first 3 because they have the moral and political will, and the latter because it has the economic and political will. And what a sad state of affairs that would be - China as a "moral authority" in world politics. But at least they have the will to do it, and I suppose if you ignore what they do within their own borders, they aren't the worst.
No; He's thought Strozk's texts indicated an FBI secret society and when context showed there wasn't he was like 'well there still might be"
Again https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-sanctions-russias-intelligence-agency-present-putin/ He can't lift sanctions without Congress. Please, we have been over this so many times for the love of god stop saying he can just lift sanctions.
Don't get me wrong he can and will do really stupid shit, but seriously http://www.philly.com/philly/column...-john-bolton-announced-analysis-20180628.html Even Putin doesnt have his expectations that high, for the simple reason that, again HE CANT LIFT SANCTIONS BY HIMSELF
“Putin’s realistic expectation is to get nice, flowery statements about importance of relationship for world peace and agreement to renew dialogue across the board,” says foreign policy columnist and analyst Vladimir Frolov. “Trump has already accomplished a lot in Russia’s interest, and made it clear he regards Crimea as long ago and Obama’s fault. That is what Putin wants to hear.”
Putin understands that Congress and the Europeans will probably balk at lifting sanctions because Putin is unwilling to stop meddling in eastern Ukraine"
I feel like such a broken record
Don't get me wrong he can and will do really stupid shit, but seriously http://www.philly.com/philly/column...-john-bolton-announced-analysis-20180628.html Even Putin doesnt have his expectations that high, for the simple reason that, again HE CANT LIFT SANCTIONS BY HIMSELF
“Putin’s realistic expectation is to get nice, flowery statements about importance of relationship for world peace and agreement to renew dialogue across the board,” says foreign policy columnist and analyst Vladimir Frolov. “Trump has already accomplished a lot in Russia’s interest, and made it clear he regards Crimea as long ago and Obama’s fault. That is what Putin wants to hear.”
Putin understands that Congress and the Europeans will probably balk at lifting sanctions because Putin is unwilling to stop meddling in eastern Ukraine"
I feel like such a broken record
Twitter thread on what this all means from Andy Slavitt.
https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1015430015897481216
https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1015433453830049792BREAKING: Trump aims severe blow at ACA, says payments for insuring sicker individuals (called risk adjustment) will not be paid for prior years. This is aggressive and needless sabotage of the ACA. Impact likely chaos. I have more details. Follow here if interested. 1/
The aim of this, reported in the Journalbut not expected until next week, is to cut back about 10% of the payments insurers are owed— those for covering the sicker. Doing this now likely aims to get insurers to abandon the ACA at just the end. @StephArmour1 @annawmathews 2/
This has a lot of similarities to Trump and DOJ taking a court case to stop protections against pre-ex conditions. In this case, there is a court case in New Mexico with a simple remedy for the Administration. Details3/ https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20180706.361204/full/ …
Even Trump’s HHS stated in the case in question that what is happening would be “disruptive for insurers, policyholders and state insurance markets.” That apparently is exactly what those in (what I assume we will learn to be) the White House wanted. 4/
True story, here in the southern state of South Carolina, there is a commercial that actively advertises an AR-15 for the low, low cost of $500.
We should also remember that Congress sneaked new Russian sanctions into the omnibus passed in March in addition to the ones passed in August of last year. Those sanctions, like the ones from the Magnitsky Act, can't be repealed without Congress.
My concern, however, is the sanctions Obama imposed in 2014 under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Since those sanctions were technically imposed by a president, albeit by a Congress that gave him the authority through legislation, couldn't Trump lift them? Again, he can't touch the Magnitsky sanctions, last year's sanctions, or the omnibus sanctions, but I'm not so sure about the 2014 sanctions.
But I've probably misunderstood something.
My concern, however, is the sanctions Obama imposed in 2014 under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Since those sanctions were technically imposed by a president, albeit by a Congress that gave him the authority through legislation, couldn't Trump lift them? Again, he can't touch the Magnitsky sanctions, last year's sanctions, or the omnibus sanctions, but I'm not so sure about the 2014 sanctions.
But I've probably misunderstood something.
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Dela should have won.
As much as I love Trixie, Shangela was rob. That was some Big Brother Bitter Jury Nonsense.
I think this story provides new information, in that it's not just Trump and his lackeys asking for easing of sanctions, but more traditional members of the GOP.
Normalization is rationale enough to not enforce the sanctions, and on a long enough timeline, to have them voted against.
Normalization is rationale enough to not enforce the sanctions, and on a long enough timeline, to have them voted against.
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