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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#176726: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:12:50 PM

At this point I'm wonder if I met with the Russians

😂

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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#176727: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:16:50 PM

[up][up] More then likely, Ryan realized his own bill could not pass even the House, so he threw it away and claimed that it was "no longer there".

This is freakin' ridiculous, no matter what actually happened to the bill.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#176728: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:22:23 PM

What if someone stole it?

Do not obey in advance.
danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#176729: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:23:09 PM

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

TropesForever God forbid women do anything from wait where is she Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
God forbid women do anything
#176730: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:25:49 PM

Well, at least now we're living in a good joke instead of a bad one.

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#176731: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:26:07 PM

[lol]

"Easy come, easy go..."

edited 2nd Mar '17 3:26:48 PM by BearyScary

Do not obey in advance.
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176732: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:26:31 PM

Can't they just like... write a new one? Like, surely somebody knew what it said.

danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#176733: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:28:10 PM

[up]Or, you know, print out a new copy. Surely they didn't just write one draft and be done at that. Then again...

TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#176734: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:29:03 PM

It would be hilarious if that was the only copy. I would die laughing.

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Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#176735: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:29:11 PM

Anyone ever seen VEEP? A bunch of government officials dashing around the Capitol building looking for a lost bill seems like something you'd see on that show.

Being serious though, I'm guessing it will leak in the next 24 hours or so. Someone probably stole it and the press are poring over it right now.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#176736: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:39:50 PM

It does feel like the Orange House is a Mirror Universe version of The West Wing, where everyone is evil and incompetent instead of idealistic and capable.

edited 2nd Mar '17 3:41:15 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#176737: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:44:02 PM

The Healthcare Repeal Bill must be one of Paul Ryan's horcruxes. I bet someone destroyed it.

All thats left is a copy of Atlas Shrugged, a weight set, and his widow's peak.

[lol]

nightwyrm_zero Since: Apr, 2010
#176738: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:51:42 PM

Nicolas Cage stole it!!

edited 2nd Mar '17 3:52:19 PM by nightwyrm_zero

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#176739: Mar 2nd 2017 at 3:56:06 PM

No, you fool. It was George Soros and Obama.

The healthcare bill was so good that they had to take action and stole it.

Hilariously accurate.

MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#176741: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:06:06 PM

. . . Are bills still being handwritten? Cause it wouldn't even be a problem if someone had a copy on Google Docs or Microsoft Word. . .

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#176742: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:08:47 PM

but her emails ;-;

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HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#176743: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:10:17 PM

Anyone ever seen VEEP? A bunch of government officials dashing around the Capitol building looking for a lost bill seems like something you'd see on that show.

Or it could be like this:

...only the bill says "Fuck this; I's out!" and runs for the hills.

Your momma's so dumb she thinks oral sex means talking dirty.
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#176744: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:15:16 PM

Hence the reason why the Republicans never pushed for any real prosecution over the Hillary's emails.

They know very well if they do, the same shit could fall over their heads because they are just as guilty of doing shit like that.

Also AOL email. What a fucking dinosaur.

edited 2nd Mar '17 5:17:12 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176745: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:18:59 PM

You'd think that same self-preservation instinct would've prevented them from making it into a major campaign issue, though.

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#176746: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:20:53 PM

From what I gathered Hill's stuff with the emails was a legit mistake on her part but Pence and co. ragging on her emails for so long just makes him look even worse.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#176747: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:23:02 PM

[up][up][up] Yeah, the part that surprised me the most was that he used AOL of all things. I didn't know anyone still used that.

edited 2nd Mar '17 5:23:17 PM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#176748: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:31:20 PM

It really is always projection isn't it?

Makes you wonder about Pizzagate...

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#176749: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:32:53 PM

[up][up][up][up]The Doublethink was so strong you could power the entire developed world with Orwell's body revolving in his grave.

But the email's debacle worked for the republicans because it was the only thing they could make stick on Hillary, along the Benghazi controversy, even though both were flawed they were highly recognizable for the public.

[up]It wouldn't surprise me, after all it is the SCOTUS who walked into the changing room of young models and said something on the lines I'll be dating her in a few years!.

edited 2nd Mar '17 5:34:52 PM by AngelusNox

Inter arma enim silent leges
MadSkillz Destroyer of Worlds Since: Mar, 2013 Relationship Status: I only want you gone
Destroyer of Worlds
#176750: Mar 2nd 2017 at 5:40:49 PM

No, no, it was the POTUS not the SCOTUS and Trump said he'd be dating her in a few years to a 10 year old girl. Walking in on 16-18 year old models changing was a separate incident.


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