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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So Puerto Rico isn't a territory of the US now
? CW: It's Trump's Twitter.
BuzzFeed News: How Sebastian Gorka failed upwards from Hungary to the White House
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Washington’s standards may be lower than Budapest’s. Gorka has been widely criticised for his lack of qualifications and connections with fringe political groups since joining the Trump administration. In the past few months, his ties with far-right Hungarian groups his and past as an editor at Breitbart News have raised questions about both his ideological views and his judgment. But, back in Hungary in the 2000s, he wasn't seen as an extremist, but instead a self-promoter, who exaggerated claims about his past, including his work for the British intelligence services.
“Sebastian Gorka is not a Nazi or a security threat because he is some sort of secret British agent,” said a member of the Hungarian counter intelligence service, who has reviewed the files a security background check on Gorka from 2002. “Gorka is, how do you say in English — a peddler of snake oil.”
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Yes-under Brownback Kansas was supposed to be a model for how the GOP would run the country without resistance. I consider the sorry, failing state of Kansas to be a terminal indictment of all current GOP fiscal policies, and the strongest possible argument against anyone running on their ticket being put in charge of anything more important than a lemonade stand.
Universal Healthcare advances in California.
The Senate Health Committee voted Wednesday to send the measure to the Appropriations Committee. The vote came after hundreds of nurses clad in red held a rally in Sacramento, marched to the state Capitol and packed into a committee room.
The proposal is promoted by the state’s powerful nursing union and two Democratic senators who say California should create a national model for providing health care for everyone.
Critics say the measure would disrupt the health care used by millions of Californians, would require high taxes and would likely create longer waits to see a doctor.
edited 26th Apr '17 9:07:26 PM by MadSkillz

edited 26th Apr '17 8:20:24 PM by FireCrawler2002