Donald Trump and US politics

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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soneka101 wrote:

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SarahAustin wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7p7ALg1qRg Gotta love Trevor Noah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiLEGmxvRWs

I love how we've got our little kids table watching children's shows as the grown-ups attend to the news.

-Said a dude on PoE forum.

Besides, you are just mad because your side doesn't have comedians to entertain you.

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soneka101 wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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soneka101 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiLEGmxvRWs

I love how we've got our little kids table watching children's shows as the grown-ups attend to the news.

-Said a dude on PoE forum.

Besides, you are just mad because your side doesn't have comedians to entertain you.

We did. So, yeah, I am a little. Difficult to find a good target for it.

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soneka101 wrote:

Besides, you are just mad because your side doesn't have comedians to entertain you.

I'd take Sam Hyde over trevor shoah any day of the week

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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soneka101 wrote:

-Said a dude on PoE forum.

Besides, you are just mad because your side doesn't have comedians to entertain you.

We did. So, yeah, I am a little. Difficult to find a good target for it.

You are missing out on all the fun. Half of the fun, is calling them something they ain't.

So, Christopher Steele surfaces.

This gonna get real interesting.

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soneka101 wrote:

-Said a dude on PoE forum.

Besides, you are just mad because your side doesn't have comedians to entertain you.

I watch Tucker for entertainment. He slaying.

In other news, Trump tweeted that Ryancare is shit (it is) and that Paulcare would be better. Go Rand!

Rand Paul 2024 btw.

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鬼殺し wrote:

The only thing wrong with this is the helicopter.

The #4 post on Reddit.com/r/all right now and the #1 post in /r/politics is

Jason Chaffetz Spent $775 of His Campaign Donors’ Money at the Apple Store Last Year

Does anyone actually use /r/politics for news or to keep themselves informed? The place seems like it's losing it's mind.

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Xavderion wrote:

Regarding CIA:



TL;DR: the CIA can make their own hacks look like foreign hacks. The whole Russia narrative never really had a leg to stand on, but now with Wikileaks releasing Vault 7, it falls apart entirely. Libs who still yell "muh Russia" are literally Alex Jones tier.

So wait, it was the CIA who hacked Clinton's emails?

Wat.

No, really, I'm curious. What's the logic here? Our intelligence agencies hacked Clinton and released massive amounts of harmful, one-sided information on her, then pinned it on Russia in an attempt to link it to Trump, lying to Obama in the process, and pissing off literally everyone involved in the chain of command on both sides of the aisle? That somehow makes more sense to you than "Russian hackers with a clear motive (get Donald Trump elected) acted by their usual MO - find dirt on an opponent, and release said dirt at politically opportune time". I'm not entirely sure why.

Ironically, it shouldn't come as a big surprise that Russia is going to love these revelations. As Fred Kaplan put it:

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The WikiLeaks documents are likely to have three effects: They will blow legitimate U.S. cyberintelligence operations; they will instruct other spy agencies, criminals, and mischief-makers on how to do what the CIA does; and they will provide yet another propaganda victory for Russia.

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It is telling that, in the introduction to this release, WikiLeaks reveals that the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt is used as a headquarters of sorts for CIA hackers throughout Europe. This disclosure can serve no purpose other than to heighten anti-American sentiment in Europe, to aggravate U.S.–German relations, and to weaken Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chances in the upcoming German election—all goals that Russia has been pursuing in other cyberattacks, “fake news” gambits, and other propaganda operations.

He claims that there's no evidence that these tools were used on US citizens, or inappropriately in general.

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Manocean wrote:

The #4 post on Reddit.com/r/all right now and the #1 post in /r/politics is

Jason Chaffetz Spent $775 of His Campaign Donors’ Money at the Apple Store Last Year

Does anyone actually use /r/politics for news or to keep themselves informed? The place seems like it's losing it's mind.

Perhaps a bit of context:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/07/if-jason-chaffetz-wants-to-compare-healthcare-to-iphones-lets-do-it-the-right-way/

Jason Chaffetz made some rather disgusting remarks with regards to the individual mandate regarding iPhones:

"Well we're getting rid of the individual mandate. We're getting rid of those things that people said they don't want. And you know what? Americans have choices. And they've got to make a choice. And so, maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest it in their own health care. They've got to make those decisions for themselves."

It's worth keeping in mind that "hundreds of dollars" gets you exactly fuck-all under the Republican plan. That you can't pay for insurance with the cost of an iPhone a year, or even an iPhone ever three months. That for many people, regardless of how much money they had, insurance was an impossibility before the individual mandate. He has since walked those remarks back, but there's still little to no answers as to how this plan is actually going to work for low-income Americans, or the chronically ill who don't have a trust fund to work from.