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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 20:02:26 GMT
trump
”A PERFECT phone call. “Can you do us (not me. Us is referring to our Country) a favor.” Then go on to talk about “Country” and “U.S. Attorney General.” The Impeachment Hoax is just a continuation of the Witch Hunt which has been going on for 3 years. We will win! #MAGAKAG #2020”
Problem is, he could care less what happens to the country, especially if the country gets in the way of what he wants. What he thinks he deserves.
Now, you could almost believe he wasn’t looking for the investigation into Biden to benefit him personally if it wasn’t for the second thing he asked for. And that was an investigation into the DNC emails on some server in Ukraine.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 20:04:26 GMT
trump..
”So now Comey’s admitting he was wrong. Wow, but he’s only doing so because he got caught red handed. He was actually caught a long time ago. So what are the consequences for his unlawful conduct. Could it be years in jail? Where are the apologies to me and others, Jim?”
The only person who is owed an apology from Comey is Hillary Clinton.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 21:27:05 GMT
Rudy Giuliani
“Witness Yuri Lutsenko, inheritor of Shokin’s office:
Records proving Amb Yovanovitch perjured herself at least twice.
Doc’s showing she was denying visas to witnesses who could prove Biden & Dem corruption.
Clear doc proof of money laundering by Burisma & Biden’s.”
Problem with all this is
1. If Congress invites the idiot to testify before Congress the idiot, I’m fairly sure, will decline to testify.
2. And if he does agree to testify, how can you believe anything he says with or without documents that may fraudulent?
He has no credibility.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 22:17:40 GMT
The Hill..
”Question: "You yourself accused [Trump] of bribery. Why did you decide not to make bribery one of the articles of impeachment."
Speaker Pelosi: "This was a decision that was recommended by working together with our committee chairs, our attorneys and the rest."
Mark Meadows..
“Because it wasn’t true”
trump..
”Because Nancy’s teeth were falling out of her mouth, and she didn’t have time to think!”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 22:40:02 GMT
Bill Kristol
“Every Republican elected official who's endorsed Trump, every GOP donor who's supporting him, and every conservative writer who's making the case for reelecting him, is fine with four more years of this--or in fact with four more years in which the behavior will get even worse.”
trump..
”Because Nancy’s teeth were falling out of her mouth, and she didn’t have time to think!”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2019 23:43:23 GMT
trump..
”Congressional Do Nothing Democrats are being absolutely decimated in their districts on the subject of the Impeachment Hoax. People that voted for them are literally screaming in their faces. Crazy Nancy is finding defending Shifty Schiff harder than she thought! #2020Election”
I guess he missed the Fox Poll where over 50% think he should be impeached and removed from office.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 16, 2019 1:26:28 GMT
Rudy Giuliani “Witness Yuri Lutsenko, inheritor of Shokin’s office: Records proving Amb Yovanovitch perjured herself at least twice Doc’s showing she was denying visas to witnesses who could prove Biden & Dem corruption. Clear doc proof of money laundering by Burisma & Biden’s.” Problem with all this is 1. If Congress invites the idiot to testify before Congress the idiot, I’m fairly sure, will decline to testify. 2. And if he does agree to testify, how can you believe anything he says with or without documents that may fraudulent? He has no credibility. As he has said, "The truth isn't the truth!" So which truth is he planning on telling or will it be Kellyanne's "Alternative facts"
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 16, 2019 1:33:44 GMT
The Navy is investigating the midshipman hand signals at the Army Navy Game as is West Point investigating a cadet! (CNN)The US Naval Academy says it has launched an internal investigation after two midshipmen were captured on ESPN's pre-game show for the Army-Navy game Saturday making what some are interpreting as a white nationalist hand gesture and what others are interpreting as innocent. "U.S. Naval Academy officials have appointed a preliminary inquiry officer to conduct an internal investigation into the hand gestures made during the ESPN College GameDay broadcast prior to yesterday's Army-Navy game," Cmdr. Alana Garas, a spokeswoman for the academy, said in a statement Sunday afternoon. "Based on findings of the investigation, those involved will be held appropriately accountable." An Army Cadet was also seen separately making the same gesture. "West Point is looking into the matter. At this time we do not know the name of the cadets," spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt said in a statement late Saturday. The gesture in question is when someone forms the "OK" sign with their fingers and thumb -- a sign that can be associated with white nationalism. ** More at link: www.cnn.com/2019/12/15/politics/navy-internal-investigation-hand-gesture-video/index.html
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Post by MerryMom on Dec 16, 2019 2:36:03 GMT
I am also disgusted that tRump wore a campaign hat at an official event-the Army Navy game.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 5:09:15 GMT
Laurence Tribe...
”BREAKING NEWS: Schumer’s proposal to McConnell. If he rejects these reasonable ground rules & insists on a non-trial, the House should consider treating that as a breach of the Senate’s oath & withholding the Articles until the Senate reconsiders”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 5:11:53 GMT
A real headline for a Washington Post story. “Trump goes after Pelosi’s teeth as the House gears up for impeachment vote”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 13:38:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 13:40:06 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 13:47:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 14:30:45 GMT
trump ” I look very much forward to debating whoever the lucky person is who stumbles across the finish line in the little watched Do Nothing Democrat Debates. My record is so good on the Economy and all else, including debating, that perhaps I would consider more than 3 debates..... “The problem is that the so-called Commission on Presidential Debates is stacked with Trump Haters & Never Trumpers. 3 years ago they were forced to publicly apologize for modulating my microphone in the first debate against Crooked Hillary. As President, the debates are up... “to me, and there are many options, including doing them directly & avoiding the nasty politics of this very biased Commission. I will make a decision at an appropriate time but in the meantime, the Commission on Presidential Debates is NOT authorized to speak for me (or R’s)!” My guess he will find an excuse not to debate period.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 14:38:22 GMT
Year end tax reminder:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 15:51:31 GMT
Collateral Damage. AP
“Iowa Democrats worry ‘Medicare for All’ hurts key industry”
“DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Kim Motl doesn’t work in the health insurance industry. But her friends and neighbors do. So when she saw Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Motl pressed the Democratic presidential candidate about her “Medicare for All” plan, which would replace private insurance with a government-run system.
“What about the little guys that work in the insurance business, that support our communities? The secretary that works for them, but maybe supports their family, what happens to them?” the 64-year-old housing advocate asked the senator.
“What happens to all of those people who lose their jobs?” Motl asked in a later interview.
Warren reassured her that jobs would not be lost because of her plan. But the exchange is a reminder that while railing against the insurance industry can score points with the progressive Democratic base, it can also alienate potential supporters in Iowa, where voters will usher in the presidential primary in less than two months.
Nearly 17,000 Iowans are either directly employed by health insurance companies or employed in related jobs, according to data collected by America’s Health Insurance Plans, an industry advocacy group. Des Moines, the seat of the state’s most Democratic county, is known as one of America’s insurance capitals partly because of the high number of health insurance companies and jobs in the metro area. Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield’s health insurance headquarters employs roughly 1,700 in the metro area, and that’s just one of the 16 health insurance companies domiciled in Iowa, according to the Iowa Insurance Division.
For many Iowans, the Medicare for All debate is personal, and the prospect of losing a job could influence whom they support in the Feb. 3 caucuses.
Tamyra Harrison, vice-chair of the East Polk Democrats, says she has heard worries at her local Democratic meetings about “the effect it would have on people that work in the insurance industry, and those that have small businesses in the area.”
“They’re concerned about the repercussions on people living here that maybe the Democrats aren’t thinking of” when they’re talking about eliminating private insurance, she said.
The Democrats’ health care plans vary widely in terms of the speed and scope with which they would affect health care industry jobs, but experts say every plan marks a substantial reconfiguring of one of the country’s biggest industry and thus all would affect thousands of jobs nationwide.
Economists say the jobs impact of any shift away from private health care would be felt nationwide by hundreds of thousands of Americans. It’s not just jobs at private insurance companies that could be affected; those working on processing insurance claims at hospitals and other administrative health care jobs could be reduced as well.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2018, nearly 386,000 Americans were employed by health and medical insurance carriers — but some analysts found the number of jobs lost from eliminating private insurance could be much higher. Economists at the University of Michigan found in an analysis of Sanders’ Medicare for All bill that the jobs of nearly 747,000 health insurance industry workers, and an additional 1.06 million health insurance administrative staffers, would no longer be needed if Medicare for All became law.
In Iowa, however, the issue could be particularly problematic.
Around Des Moines, “you can’t swing a dead cat without finding someone who works at an insurance provider or a company,” said Mary McAdams, chair of the Ankeny Area Democrats. She said she believes Democrats in her area aren’t as concerned about what would happen to their jobs if private insurance were eliminated because they don’t have much allegiance to their companies to begin with.
“They know full well these companies would drop them like a habit,” she said.
The economic repercussions of eliminating private insurance jobs could go beyond simply the loss of local jobs, as Paula Dierenfield, a Republican lawyer and the executive director of the Federation of Iowa Insurers, points out.
This is an industry that employs thousands of employees in high-quality jobs,” she said. “All of those employees pay income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and the companies that they work for also pay millions in premium taxes, as well as property taxes. So it would have a significant impact on the Iowa economy generally as well as here in the Des Moines metro area.”
The peripheral effects of eliminating insurance jobs worry Marcia Wannamaker, a real estate agent from West Des Moines who raised her concerns about the fate of private insurance during a recent question-and-answer session with Biden.
“It’s really going to cut our jobs,” Wannamaker said.
She later noted in an interview that if the private insurance industry shrinks, people working for such companies would lose their jobs.
“Then that trickles down to the housing. They’re going to have to move. I just think it’s going to be a disaster,” she said. “When you sell real estate, these people buy homes. It’s just part of how the Iowa — and especially in Des Moines, the economy works.”
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 16:05:02 GMT
Yet another example of trump #MAGA..
CBS News
“Total Trump food-stamp cuts could hit up to 5.3 million households”
”The Trump administration has proposed three changes this year to the federal food stamp program, one of which was adopted last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and would deny food stamps to nearly 700,000 Americans.
The two other proposed rules would make it harder for people across the country to qualify for food stamps and reduce aid eligibility for Americans in cold-weather states.
A total of about 2.2 million households could lose access to government food assistance, while another 3.1 million may see reduced benefits, a recent analysis found.
The Trump administration is moving to curb access to food stamps, with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue last week criticizing the 80-year-old federal program as becoming a "way of life" for too many Americans.
To that end, the government has introduced three proposals that would cut about 2.2 million U.S. households, or almost 4 million people, from the program, while also reducing benefits for another 3.1 million households, according to a recent analysis from the Urban Institute.
The plans — one of which was formally adopted by the USDA last week and would deny food stamps to nearly 700,000 Americans — would make it tougher for millions to qualify for food aid and cut billions from the program's budget.
The new rule adopted last week will cut adults without children from the program by raising work requirements. But many of those adults are among the poorest of all aid recipients, said Robert Campbell, managing director of policy at Feeding America, a nonprofit that includes a network of hundreds of food banks across the U.S.
The other two proposals, which are still under consideration, may have an even greater impact. The second plan would eliminate what is known as "categorical eligibility," which allows people to enroll in food stamps automatically if they qualify for other aid programs. About 3 million people could lose access to food aid under that proposal.
The third proposed rule would reduce the amount of home heating costs used to calculate a SNAP recipient's net income, effectively making their income seem higher. That would cut benefits to about 3.1 million households, mostly those who live in cold-weather states like New York, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Vermont, the Urban Institute said.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 16:09:43 GMT
MSNBC..
”Former FBI Director Comey takes responsibility for FBI "sloppiness" that has been revealed in US Justice Dept. inspector general's report into the origins of the Russia investigation.”
”Takes responsibility “ is something you will never see from the current occupant of the White House
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 16, 2019 16:40:44 GMT
The third proposed rule would reduce the amount of home heating costs used to calculate a SNAP recipient's net income, effectively making their income seem higher. That would cut benefits to about 3.1 million households, mostly those who live in cold-weather states like New York, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Vermont, the Urban Institute said. There are more than those states who would be affected! When will they realize food is not a choice. Food is a must, cannot live without it! Put this all together with Carson's attempts to cut housing assistance shows us all who their priorities are! For sure not the working poor and it is moving more every day toward the middleclass!
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Post by kmcginn on Dec 16, 2019 16:59:06 GMT
This administration pretends to be pro-life. They are only pro-birth. They don't care about people!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 16, 2019 17:23:13 GMT
What is the "United Republican Party" ?
The tweet immediately prompted the phrase “United Republican Party” to surge to Twitter’s top list of trending items. In less than an hour, more than 8,300 tweets went up using the phrase.
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Post by Merge on Dec 16, 2019 17:31:37 GMT
Twitter thread about the illusion of “choice” in private health insurance and how that talking point was created by insurance industry PR folks:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 20:31:28 GMT
Maddow Blog...
”In a 92-page decision, Sullivan ruled there was no basis for Flynn’s allegations that federal law enforcement officials entrapped the retired three-star Army general into accepting a plea deal" ...and that Robert Mueller held back 50 requests for evidence from Flynn’s attorneys.”
You would think a three star general/National Security Adviser would be too smart to let himself be entrapped by a couple of FBI agents wouldn’t you.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 21:01:56 GMT
Ironhorse Resists.
”A reminder that USDA guidelines governing pork will soon take full effect.
Toenails, hairs, sexual organs & bladders will be ok & plant employees w/no training will replace federal, public inspectors.
The biggest rules change in 50 yrs will soon apply to beef also.”
This is one way to push people to a plant base diet.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Dec 16, 2019 21:12:08 GMT
Ironhorse Resists. ”A reminder that USDA guidelines governing pork will soon take full effect. Toenails, hairs, sexual organs & bladders will be ok & plant employees w/no training will replace federal, public inspectors. The biggest rules change in 50 yrs will soon apply to beef also.” This is one way to push people to a plant base diet. Awful!!
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Post by lucyg on Dec 16, 2019 21:43:17 GMT
Those SOBs are trying to take us back 100 years in public health and social services.
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Post by Just T on Dec 16, 2019 21:56:32 GMT
Those SOBs are trying to take us back 100 years in public health and social services. Back to the good ol' days as my dad likes to harp about.
MAGA. Gag me.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 23:33:37 GMT
Great thread for those holiday MAGAs at your table:
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