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Cut off one's nose to spite one's face.

It also comes off as highly racist from what I notice - seems as though most GOP supporters believe it's non-whites taking all the free stuff.
Kentucky and Mississippi takes the most welfare so let them go ahead with this nonsense.
Doesn't matter tho, they'll find a way to blame it on Obama.
 

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I like that part especially.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?42770...eveal-clinton-email-probe-election&start=5950

Sasse: "The American journalist who is seeking this information differs from Assange and Wikileaks how?"

Comey: "In my view, a huge portion of Wikileaks' activities has nothing to do with legitimate news gathering, informing the public, commenting on important controversies but it's simply about releasing classified information to damage the United States of America. And people start to get cynical about journalists, but American journalists do not do that, they almost always call us before publishing classified information to say, is there anything that will jeopardize government people, or innocent civilians anywhere in the world and work with us to try to accomplish their important First Amendment goals by safeguarding the interests. This activity, i'm talking about Wikileaks, involves no such considerations whatsoever. It is intelligence porn, push it out in order to damage."

Am I right to conclude that FBI decides what US journalists can or cannot publish and they're all willingly report to the intelligence agency in order to get approval before going ahead with whatever findings they may uncover? And here I thought Russian media had freedom problems.
 

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Am I right to conclude that FBI decides what US journalists can or cannot publish and they're all willingly report to the intelligence agency in order to get approval before going ahead with whatever findings they may uncover? And here I thought Russian media had freedom problems.
If that's what you took from it, fair enough. In my view it's more a case of the intelligence services providing advice to the journalists on how damaging reporting it could be and then leaving it up to the journalist. If the journalist decides to go the press anyway, they then work with the journalist to ensure as little damage as possible is done. Probably help to redact specifics that are not needed but could cause collateral all the same.
 

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I like that part especially.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?42770...eveal-clinton-email-probe-election&start=5950

Sasse: "The American journalist who is seeking this information differs from Assange and Wikileaks how?"

Comey: "In my view, a huge portion of Wikileaks' activities has nothing to do with legitimate news gathering, informing the public, commenting on important controversies but it's simply about releasing classified information to damage the United States of America. And people start to get cynical about journalists, but American journalists do not do that, they almost always call us before publishing classified information to say, is there anything that will jeopardize government people, or innocent civilians anywhere in the world and work with us to try to accomplish their important First Amendment goals by safeguarding the interests. This activity, i'm talking about Wikileaks, involves no such considerations whatsoever. It is intelligence porn, push it out in order to damage."

Am I right to conclude that FBI decides what US journalists can or cannot publish and they're all willingly report to the intelligence agency in order to get approval before going ahead with whatever findings they may uncover? And here I thought Russian media had freedom problems.
No.
 

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If that's what you took from it, fair enough. In my view it's more a case of the intelligence services providing advice to the journalists on how damaging reporting it could be and then leaving it up to the journalist. If the journalist decides to go the press anyway, they then work with the journalist to ensure as little damage as possible is done. Probably help to redact specifics that are not needed but could cause collateral all the same.
What if the journalist refuses to "work" with the FBI? Is that even an option? Or he/she might as well just apply for political asylum, move to the Ecuadorian embassy and start working from there 24/7?
 

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Incredible that Trump met with Abu Mazen. Guess he didn't even know who he was. And he talks about the peace process that he is an Israel die-hard supporter.
 

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Here we go again.


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His tweets are increasingly viewed as a device for diversion than anything remotely substantive. This week's diversion, another potential Obamacare repeal fail and Trump/Russia investigations on the hill.
 

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His Twitter account has lost its sway.

Its become kind of an irrelevance and the number of people interacting with his tweets has gone down a huge amount.

That's partly due to Twitter clamping down on the bots and the Russian propaganda efforts turning their attention to other things like supporting Le Pen.
 

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Ann Coulter jumping off the ship....

She's such a reprehensible wench.

At a CYA press conference on Tuesday, Trump's ridiculously chipper budget director, Mick Mulvaney, described the bill's prohibition on building a wall as a MAJOR win. (At least Mulvaney said it in English, unlike his all-Spanish 2014 townhall.)
 

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Paul Ryan is committing career suicide by putting his face on the healthcare bill. The beauty of Trump's hands off approach is that he will leave Ryan high and dry when the shit hits the fan.

  • They got the Freedom Caucus on board by adding provisions that would gut Affordable Care Act consumer protections, thus making the bill even more of an unpopular deregulation machine.
  • Then they assuaged nervous vulnerable members by changing that into a provision that would allow state governments to waive the consumer protections, thus allowing moderates to tell themselves that patients were still taken care of.
  • When that wasn’t good enough, they offered Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) an $8 billion boost in funding for high-risk pools to take care of people with preexisting conditions. Nobody thinks that’s remotely enough money to actually solve the problem, but it allows Upton to say he got changes made to the bill to address the problem.
If you need to put three bandages to flesh wounds at the voting stage of a bill without congressional budget office review, you are basically free-wheeling at this point and hoping for the best.

https://www.vox.com/2017/5/3/15531702/ahca-republicans-lying
 

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So Chaffetz has had a miraculous recovery and is back in DC today for the vote. He said last week he would be away for 3-4 weeks after his foot surgery.

 
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Feckin hell.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/under-new-healthcare-bill-rape-is-a-pre-existing-condition.html

The new MacArthur-Meadows Amendment will allow states to discriminate based on medical history, reportedly without addressing the subsequent high cost of health care for millions of Americans.

In addition to rape, postpartum depression, Cesarean sections, and surviving domestic violence are all considered preexisting conditions. Companies can also deny coverage for gynecological services and mammograms.
 

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They're bringing in crates of beer to celebrate.

This is why it fecks me off no end when people say both parties are the same.
 
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