No worries.
In GOP DC, swamp drains you.
Sounds like TrumpDontCare won't pass. Ryan says there are not enough votes.
Yeah, Trump went to do the hard sell earlier in the week, and as a President who was elected for his dealmaking prowess, lost 10 votes.
And today he's in Mar-A-Lago playing golf again.
While his former campaign manager and Putin employee, Paul Manafort, is talking to Congress.
He only drained the swamp into positions of power.
Interestingly, the "man behind the throne" Bannon was apparently against this bill: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/bannon-health-care-bill.html
That he was against it make it good, or is this just Bizarro world and no rules make sense?
That he was against it make it good, or is this just Bizarro world and no rules make sense?
He probably opposed it because it wasn't evil enough.
In unrelated news thousands plead guilty to the killing of a law enforcement officer after tweeting out a link to a Bob Marley song.
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A stake of mistletoe directly through the heart will work.
Growing up in NYC? I'd venture a guess no.
Nor any water vehicles, and I say that as someone who's only driven water vehicles.
It's not displaying right, but essentially later on, Trump said, "Paul Ryan needs to step down as the speaker of the House. The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on the healthcare bill."
It worked in that it proved you don't actually want to discuss what i said, but prefer to just pretend one of the examples MUST include coercion?
Oh for... as i said for a million times, lets imagine taxes don't rely on coercion, and you can choose not to pay them (because, by some miracle, it's easy for the government to stop you from using any of the service those taxes pay for), and that the amount that you get to keep is actually determined by you (which is why it's the same as if you gave to charity) etc.
See, the thing is, you're just demonising "the government" as if it's some sort of thinking beast that consumes your resources, instead of being made up of other people, with all their weaknesses and biases... as are charities, which is why plenty of them have fallen prey to embezzling etc.
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Of course this is way off from what i said originally, which was that charities aren't an alternative to government programs, or paying taxes, and that's been proven time and time again. Because if they where we'd be living in your ideal society already.
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Look, if that was actually true, there would be no need for the insane amounts of propaganda all sides engage in.
The problem with the public is that "bread and circuses" still works too well. Maybe we should teach kids about it in 1st grade... but no one wants that...
Except that the government not doing something can also screw you over badly... like lets say not providing military protection, or law enforcement, or disaster relief (Katrina says Hi!), or keeping anti-trust laws on the books.
The problem is that "what's barely needed" is not an actual definition you can use to set up a barrier to the governments power, since no one can agree what the minimum is...
So your ideal government isn't any sort of actual working model, but a cute, feel good idea, like replacing "Obamacare with something much much better". Everyone wants that, but you're supposed to have a plan about it, or it's just words. And words are wind.
Oh for... you know what, never mind.
Yup, that's the point, it's all in your head.
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That's because the ACA was the republican plan (proposed by the Heritage Foundation even, i think) with a few tweaks...
So they basically can't replace it because it was the furthest right plan that would get more ppl coverage, so they either have to go with a more "socialist" plan, or have a lot of people that voted for them lose their insurance. Funny how Obama was playing regular chess and the reps check mates themselves.
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To be fair, this was likely Ryan's plan... no way Orange Cheeto actually bothered to have one of his people actually do something when he can just take what someone else offered.
My wife just watched that and said "Oh my god, he's a cat!"
GasBandit
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He didn't push them OFF the table, or dump the drinks over, though...
...while the cameras were rolling.
So apparently Kushner is now in charge of a makeover of the government bureaucracy!
No bitch, they're not your customers, they're your shareholders.... customers can't vote you off the board.
No bitch, they're not your customers, they're your shareholders.... customers can't vote you off the board.
Well, they didn't vote him in.
Maybe it was just about Ivanka, but i recall Small Hands making it pretty clear they'll be part of running things if he's elected.
Perhaps this fundamental understanding is at the core of many of the poor decisions they've been making? Maybe?
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Necronic
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Lots of trump supporters are now buying into the idea that this bill was intended to fail from the start as a way to go after Ryan. 5d chess and all that, so it wasn't actually a failure. Trump hardliners are honestly one of the most idiotic political groups I've ever seen. He wasn't lying when he said he could shoot someone in the street and they would still vote for him. No matter what he does wrong they figure out a way to spin it to make him look like a genius.
I've seen more political savvy in Eve online.
I've seen more political savvy in Eve online.
Now I'm curious how they would spin the $3 return on investment and utter destruction of the USFL.