President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

MisterCreosote · Jan 4, 2017

da man said: ↑

This is from the previous (now locked) politics thread:

The Democrats brought a lot of that on themselves with the way they rammed Obamacare through. They decided they didn't need the Republicans and did not try to work with them.

At our Washington event a few years ago, our lunch speaker was a longtime Republican congressman who was the ranking minority member of one of the committees involved with the health care bill. He said it was a longstanding custom that when major legislation was being readied for introduction, representatives from both parties would get together for what they called "brown bag" lunches -- off-the-record meetings where they debated the issues involved and worked together to try to find common ground to create a bill that could draw bipartisan support.

So when the health care issue was coming up, this congressman said he arranged with his committee's chairman to schedule a brown bag lunch. The day before it was to happen, the chairman called to postpone it because something came up. They re-scheduled for two weeks later. The chairman postponed that meeting, then postponed a third time.

The fourth meeting was scheduled for 11:30 a.m. -- two months after the original brown bag was supposed to have happened. At 10:30, according to this congressman, the chairman calls to say he'll have to postpone again. By now, the Republican congressman is pretty irritated, and asks why.

"Because," the chairman told him, "we have a press conference at 11 to introduce the bill."

The congressman said he couldn't believe it. He said, "What the hell? The whole point of the brown bag is to create a bipartisan bill." He said the chairman replied, "You can still co-sponsor the bill."

The congressman was livid. He told the chairman, "You have just turned me -- and probably every Republican in the House -- from an open undecided to not only a 'no,' but a 'hell no.' "

He told us, "From that day forward, the entire Republican contingent basically said if you're going to ran it down our throat and the American people's throat, we're not going to accept it."

Which is why Obamacare passed with, I believe, no Republican votes, and the GOP has fought it at every turn.
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Single-source story!

Songbird · Jan 4, 2017

Songbird · Jan 4, 2017

HanSenSE · Jan 4, 2017

Ace said: ↑

Looks kind of like a younger Ivanka.
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Teeing one up for Starman, I see ...

Vombatus · Jan 4, 2017

Ace said: ↑

Looks kind of like a younger Ivanka.
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Dammit. I've been reading posts and trying to guess the poster.

So far, I was batting a thousand at IDing Starman posts, until I misclassified this one. Damn you Ace.

Although, I guess the absence of "Fucko" should have tipped me off...

Batman · Jan 4, 2017

MisterCreosote said: ↑

Paging Baron:

Every pro wrestler respects a good shtick. That’s why this one voted for Trump.

To sum up, we get 28 grafs about "economic anxiety" and "tax breaks" and "financial hardship" and "optics" before we get to the buried lede:

During a visit to DeNucci’s home, Douglas laughed as his salty mentor ranted about “freeloaders” and described President Obama with a racial slur. (“I hope that [expletive] dies in office,” DeNucci added.)

Also, do some fucking research:

Douglas has seen the heights and depths of the wrestling business over 30 years. He’s packed stadiums as a headliner in what was then the World Wrestling Federation and grappled in back yards for wadded-up ones and fives.

Nope. Wrong.
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You trying to say he has not dined with kings and queens, but has in fact eaten pork and beans?

Baron Scicluna · Jan 4, 2017

MisterCreosote said: ↑

Paging Baron:

Every pro wrestler respects a good shtick. That’s why this one voted for Trump.

To sum up, we get 28 grafs about "economic anxiety" and "tax breaks" and "financial hardship" and "optics" before we get to the buried lede:

During a visit to DeNucci’s home, Douglas laughed as his salty mentor ranted about “freeloaders” and described President Obama with a racial slur. (“I hope that [expletive] dies in office,” DeNucci added.)

Also, do some fucking research:

Douglas has seen the heights and depths of the wrestling business over 30 years. He’s packed stadiums as a headliner in what was then the World Wrestling Federation and grappled in back yards for wadded-up ones and fives.

Nope. Wrong.
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That was an interesting read. Looks like the writer got worked by Douglas about being a headliner at stadiums claim. We need YankeeFan to rip on the Washington Post some more about inaccurate reporting.

Also, if he had done other research, he would have known that Douglas had been (unless he was working the author of an ECW history book) teaching full-time (imagine being a kid in his class) and wrestling on weekends with ECW. He was one of those "freeloading" teachers until he decided to take a WWF offer and quit his teaching job.

Why he never got back into teaching after his WWF/WCW run in the 90s and continued with that is beyond me.

Inky_Wretch · Jan 4, 2017

Good gosh. Does he really think the Duma sets policy in Russia?

GOP lawmaker plans Russia trip to ‘work with the Duma’

Riptide · Jan 4, 2017

GO, BERNIE!!!

http://gizmodo.com/bernie-just-prin...ource=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Ace · Jan 4, 2017

Vombatus said: ↑

Dammit. I've been reading posts and trying to guess the poster.

So far, I was batting a thousand at IDing Starman posts, until I misclassified this one. Damn you Ace.

Although, I guess the absence of "Fucko" should have tipped me off...
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Give yourself half credit. It was a @Starman dog whistle post.

TigerVols · Jan 4, 2017

Riptide said: ↑

GO, BERNIE!!!

http://gizmodo.com/bernie-just-prin...ource=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
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Good to see Bernie will continue his perfect streak of getting absolutely nothing accomplished.

doctorquant · Jan 4, 2017

TigerVols said: ↑

Good to see Bernie will continue his perfect streak of getting absolutely nothing accomplished.
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It's a gift ...

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