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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
OMG, that's insanely dangerous! More lariams! More thalidomides!
We really need to do something about porkbarreling. Seriously, you get smeared for voting against a particularly horrible part of a law that is otherwise beneficial, and suddenly your opposition gets to claim you voted against a just and necessary law.
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for youBoehner banned pork barreling/riders. Ryan's held it up as much as well.
Tbh, you kind of need Porkbarrel / Hand greasing in politics.
Keep this in mind: Carrier Deal is going to be touted as a major success by Trump voters (i.e. the ones who wanted jobs to not go overseas). They won't care about specifics or inability of replication. Don't care about GOP politics. It's a sign he's doing what he said he'd do. Reality doesn't matter.
Truthiness matters. And it's going to give him a legend that could very well keep him in office for 8 years.
edited 1st Dec '16 2:28:52 PM by PotatoesRock
Mad Dog Mattis is your new Secretary of Defense.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/01/politics/james-mattis-trump-secretary-of-defense/index.html
God save America...
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Actually getting Pence to be President would be a safer way of doing that. As VP, Pence sits in on Senate meetings and discussions and has some impact there but as President he has no say in the House and Senate.
So if Pence wants to pass FADA he has more legroom as VP than as President. And even if Pence wants to, overturning LGBT means overturning the Supreme Court precedent. He can't introduce a bill overnight.
And the situation where Pence becomes President has him doing a lot of legwork fixing Trump's mistakes and embezzling and restoring competent governance. That will keep him and the rest busy.
And of course Pence will not get re-elected.
Will that apply for any attempts to curb Net Neutrality too?
The 21st Century Cures act is damn dangerous. The wording allows for drugs to be approved entirely on "clinical experience" ie, anecdotal evidence, and skip randomized trials. It offers the carrot of increased research funding while setting some of the first groundwork for the Libertarian dream of dismantling the FDA's authority entirely. Also gives a whole new avenue for alternative medicine to wrap it's slimy tentacles around, since its "proof" relies entirely on anecdotes.
edit- And the research funding is paid for by more gutting of public health funds to boot.
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General Mattis may ruffle a few fundamentalist feathers
with his opinions on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He's quoted as saying “If I’m in Jerusalem and I put 500 Jewish settlers out here to the east and there’s 10,000 Arab settlers in here, if we draw the border to include them, either it ceases to be a Jewish state or you say the Arabs don’t get to vote — apartheid. . ." and is said to back John Kerry on the issue. Not something that will please the rest of Trump's lackeys.
edited 1st Dec '16 6:41:13 PM by carbon-mantis
Texas will require aborted fetuses to be buried or cremated
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"The Election proved him wrong since his electorate voted for race and against someone who is not for their interests "
The problem is they think Trump will care for them BECAUSE they voted for race, "He said good thing about us, therefore he will do and amazing job as president"
as other said, this is pretty much feel campaign, I saw the same here in my country(Venezuela) and almost 2 years later we are fuck beyond belief, granted I dont think it will be the same but Im seeing a lot of parallels right now
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Gut Feeling tends to work a lot better in fiction than in Real Life. Especially when voting.
So that disgusting law is actually a thing in Texas now. Fuck. Welp, so much for abortion clinics in Texas. The whole thing is a sneaky bullshit roundabout way to run them out of business. Funerals and cremations aren't exactly cheap.
edited 1st Dec '16 5:28:33 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedLooks like we got a blood knight in the cabinet.
Nope, not Iran.
Putin won't allow it, China won't allow it. Iran is the cool kid of geopolitics now.
And that Iran N-Deal can't be backed away from as GOP lawmakers are starting to realize belatedly how legislation works. Iran has all the money kept behind sanctions and they have enough capital and means to build a nuke were US to break the deal.
You might see an attempt to invade Cuba however. Eventually someone in Trump's team will get the idea why not rally us behind a popular war. After all, there's no USSR or Russia to threaten America with Nukes...that's how Cuba got protected.
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