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I saw so many Trump supporters liking and sharing articles from RT.com on Facebook before the election. Perhaps your FB friends are more discerning than mine.

 

You know what Daddy Fucko would say to that.

Anyway it doesn't matter if the salary of any member of the Dumpf family is $1.00 or $100,000,000,000 a year, because now that Daddy's fingers are in the cash box, they get to keep all the money anyway.

 

Pretend you were a politician of either party in the 1980's. The other party has passed an extensive program that you don't much like, and it has gotten past a Supreme Court challenge. You recognize that a non-trivial portion of the electorate is in the "cool to it" to "lukewarm about it" range, with yet more voters at both of the extremes, which means that there is a majority in the "can get along with it" range. You understand that the other party, while your political opponent, is the loyal opposition, not demons made flesh who must be opposed to the last breath. You see that there are many parts of the ACA that are poorly designed, so you get with your opposite number across the aisle and start to find ways to get rid of the really bad parts and make the entire bill more workable going forward, so that millions of Americans can have health coverage that they are otherwise unable to get or afford.

Compromise is how this government used to work, before the standard approach was to cockblock anything the other side proposed reflexively. Bills went to committee to get the differences hammered out, instead of congressmen refusing to move an inch and using a years long PR and propaganda campaign to justify simply blocking or killing what they didn't like.

Yeah, I'm old and dumb, and I just don't understand how things are done today, how much better and more efficient it is to get a filibuster vote out of the way before even bringing a bill to the floor. Funny, though, I don't remember where in the Constitution it says that you must have sixty votes to bring a bill to the floor, and if it gets there then fifty votes will pass the bill.

Get off my lawn.

 

I understand how the Patriot Act got passed in the wake of 9/11. What I'll never be able to square in my head is how it was renewed after its insane excesses and the routine civil rights violation of every American citizen was revealed.

 

I believe a law passed after JFK appointed RFK prevents it no matter what.

 

Senior Russian officials celebrated Trump's victory as a geo-political win for their side.

U.S. intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win

 

"Other key pieces of information gathered by U.S. spy agencies include the identification of “actors” involved in delivering stolen Democratic emails to the WikiLeaks website, and disparities in the levels of effort Russian intelligence entities devoted to penetrating and exploiting sensitive information stored on Democratic and Republican campaign networks."

 

Paul Ryan: GOP will defund Planned Parenthood - CNNPolitics.com

 

"Stolen Democratic emails."

Emails can be stolen? Not sure that's really the correct verb.

 

Republicans call Obamacare a 'failure.' These 7 charts show they couldn't be more wrong

 

Donald Trump just threatened Toyota — but it looks like he got the facts wrong

 

The Trump presidency already is a colossal embarrassment. Thank God it hasn't begun yet.