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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Seeing headlines screaming TRUMP VS. POPE makes me feel like our universe has truly united and become one with an SNL skit, once and for all. It's hard to know how it will effect Trump right now because South Carolina (and most of the deep south) is the least Catholic part of the US. The Midwest and New England...that's a different story. But overall, Trump supporters really seem to be hate to told what to do by the 'establishment' and what's more establishment than the Pope, when you think about it. So...who knows.
are you living in the real world?I'm at the caucus checkin, and so far it's a disorganized mess. We pre-registered and yet they didn't have a clear sign for it until we reached the front of the line and they said its in a different line. And they told us we have to stick to the line we're currently at since we're near the front anyway.
In a report titled “Healthcare: Our 2016 Outlook,” S&P Capital’s IQ Healthcare Equity Research’s Jeffrey Loo writes that Clinton should be the preferred choice for the industry because she will preserve the Affordable Care Act and be unable to pass meaningful drug reform legislation:
Wall Street Analyst Says Hillary Clinton Would Be the Best President for Healthcare Investors
edited 20th Feb '16 11:30:01 AM by SolipsistOwl
"Is this good for the drug companies?" is a terrible way to look at policy, in either direction. You should be looking at the outcomes for the public at large. If it's good for the public and good for the companies, it's a good policy. If it's bad for the public and bad for the companies, it's a bad policy. "The companies like/dislike it" doesn't tell you which of those two is the case.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.![]()
It suggests more to me that the healthcare industry expects the Democratic nominee to maintain the status quo.
Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government told Buzz Feed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government.
The infighting between American proxies is the latest setback for the Obama administration’s Syria policy and lays bare its contradictions as violence in the country gets worse.
The confusion is playing out on the battlefield — with the U.S. effectively engaged in a proxy war with itself. “It’s very strange, and I cannot understand it,” said Ahmed Othman, the commander of the U.S.-backed rebel battalion Furqa al-Sultan Murad, who said he had come under attack from U.S.-backed Kurdish militants in Aleppo this week.
Furqa al-Sultan Murad receives weapons from the U.S. and its allies as part of a covert program, overseen by the CIA, that aids rebel groups struggling to overthrow the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, according to rebel officials and analysts tracking the conflict.
The Kurdish militants, on the other hand, receive weapons and support from the Pentagon as part of U.S. efforts to fight ISIS. Known as the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, they are the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s strategy against the extremists in Syria and coordinate regularly with U.S. airstrikes.
America Is Now Fighting A Proxy War With Itself In Syria
edited 20th Feb '16 12:17:19 PM by SolipsistOwl
Excellent! I hope turnout ends up being high. Turnout nationally has been trending upward over the last several cycles, which is historically unusual and can only be a good thing for democracy, in my opinion.
edited 20th Feb '16 12:36:17 PM by darksidevoid
GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.And Trump is doubling down on his batshit crazy anti-terrorist/war crimes ideas, endorsing summary execution and using a (fictional) story about a US general executing Muslim rebels with bullets dipped in pig's blood to deter them to make his point.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/19/politics/donald-trump-south-carolina-john-pershing/index.html
Just... what the fuck America?
Even Republican Catholics think rather highly of the Pope, Trump might lose a bit of support among them if he had it.
edited 20th Feb '16 1:11:05 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.NEW RESULTS: Hillary 50.0% to Bernie 49.6%
Young Turks reporting that Bernie Sanders campaign workers are being blocked from entering casinos, but they're allowing Clinton campaign workers inside.
Supposedly they have video they're uploading too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ9kC3RHJPM
edited 20th Feb '16 1:12:43 PM by SolipsistOwl

In a possibly surprising move, SCOTUS backs up a lower court decision to redraw congressional boundaries
, a move that will delay primaries in North Carolina.
The state redrew the maps but asked the Supreme Court to grant a stay that would allow the old maps to remain in effect pending further appeal. Late Friday, the Supreme Court declined to do so. As customary, it did not release the vote tally for the decision.
One election law expert believes that before Justice Antonin Scalia's death the Court would have granted the stay. "Before the death of Justice Scalia, I had thought the Court would grant the stay, not because there would be a majority of justices who would necessarily agree on the merits, but because there were likely at least five who would see the problem of changing the rules so close to the election," said Rick Hasen, professor of law and political science at the University of California Irvine School of Law.
The ruling may cause irritation on the ground. "It's a real mess with risk of confusion," said Michael Li of the Brennan Center for Justice. "With the new maps, congressional primaries will be delayed until June 7, but the presidential primary and rest of the North Carolina primary elections will still be in March," he said.