US Politics March 2019: “I can’t say I’m happy. I can’t say I’m thrilled”

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Judge rules against Republicans in Wisconsin, negates laws passed at the last minute to limit Dem gov's powers.

https://www.npr.org/2019/03/21/705536383/wisconsin-governors-powers-restored-after-restricted-by-lame-duck

Incl. specifically:

Evers seized on the decision almost immediately, calling on the Wisconsin Department of Justice, led by Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul, to withdraw the state from a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the Affordable Care Act.

"As the governor has requested, please take whatever steps are necessary to remove Wisconsin from Texas v. United States," wrote Evers' chief legal counsel, Ryan Nilsestuen, in an email to the Department of Justice shortly after the ruling was released.

awesome

more good news here:

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyj5a/2020-democrats-are-dropping-like-flies-from-pro-israel-aipac-conference

Genuine question here, what did Haley mean by "you wont like the answer". What "bad answer" was she aiming for?

There is no point asking genuine questions about anything that GOP operatives say in 2019. They are not aiming at anything other than riling people who are uninterested in facts. Their words are emotional prompts to a tribe, not representing any actual thoughts, statements, or beliefs.

everyone was supposed to think that finland has terrible healthcare. of course they do, because everyone's healthcare is terrible compared to ours. the american healthcare system is the best system in the entire world, or at least it was until the socialist obamacare takeover!

that's seriously what conservatives think

xp

People who insist upon 'medical treatment' instead of bravely allowing their gangrenous limbs to fester and drop off are lib cuck betas. #MAGAMAGAMAGA

I never fail to boggle at this graph
https://www.ineteconomics.org/uploads/articles/ftotHealthExp_pC_USD_long-1.png

that only goes up to 2014. US life expectancy has gone down since then.

Yes but who wants to live 10 years longer if it's under Sharia Law in a socialist hellhole without any guns?

so I guess Israel and not Puerto Rico will be the 51st state

good morning!

Insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lZiNeP-6uQ&feature=youtu.be

link not showing up, what is it, carne?

sorry messed it up on mobile then had to get off the train and walk to the office

this crazy ass shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lZiNeP-6uQ

Is this what the Israel as 51st state comment was about

what the FUCK is that shit

I believe that's the seventh seal being opened.

these people are a fucking delusional lost cause , they live is a fucking make believe land . we're fucked

I need an atheist translator for so many things with this administration.

check, please

Yam recognized Golan Heights as Israeli territory

Ah thank you

re carne's link: fuck a duck

Seeing a bunch of Mueller report chatter today. Is it imminent or something?

been imminent for months, today's as good as any for the great unboxing video

Heard pee tape is dropping today as well.

TICK TICK TICK

might as well get it out of the way and we can all come to terms with it having no impact whatsoever on trump

No way, man, he's going down for sure now. FOR SURE, NO DOUBT.

well i for one want him to wither away his remaining years in a state of permanent embarrassment, maybe this will help

He will live to a very ripe old age and die peacefully in his sleep, nestled in a big comfy bed with a deeply-satisfied grin stretched across his scrotal visage.

I see no evidence that he is capable of embarrassment

He's certainly capable of embarrassment (see: any suggestion that he's less wealthy than he pretends to be), just not wrt the negative impact his existence has on the rest of the world.

CocaineReligion is a hell of a drug.

He will live to a very ripe old age

He is both old and very ripe right now

An overripe age, then. He has extensive experience with burdening everyone around him but he has yet to reach the joyful plateau of becoming a corpulent invalid who clings bitterly to life until even his caretaker children are elderly and thoroughly broken down.

Don't worry about this violatation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Surely they'll stop at their Sudetenland.

https://www.darkmoon.me/uploads/blogger-image-1842373925.jpg

I’m sorry Kayleigh, but the Jews can fight antisemitism just fine without your shiksa-splaining.

These white nationalist loving are inciting hate against us while claiming to fight antisemitism by supporting Netanyahu.

It’s absolutely disgusting. https://t.co/FQfAJ8oobG

— Max Berger🔥 (@maxberger) March 22, 2019

Watching “Stuart” and “Kayleigh” discuss antisemitism is such a clear example of how the right uses Jews as a wedge.

They actively do not give a shit about our wellbeing or opinions. They use us as a tool to divide the left and enrich themselves.

We will outlive them.

— Max Berger🔥 (@maxberger) March 22, 2019

fascinating.... NYT:

President Trump undercut his own Treasury Department on Friday by announcing that he was rolling back North Korea sanctions that it imposed just a day ago.

The move, announced on Twitter, was a remarkable display of dissension within the Trump administration and represented a striking case of a White House intervening to reverse a major national security decision made only hours earlier by the president’s own officials.

“It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea,” Mr. Trump said on Twitter. “I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!”

Mr. Trump appeared to confuse the day that the sanctions were announced, saying the move occurred on Friday rather than on Thursday.

cue "Yakety Sax"

only explanation here is Putin gave the pee tape to Xi who then passed it along to Kim. not 100% sure whether MBS has a copy.

Mr. Trump appeared to confuse the day that the sanctions were announced, saying the move occurred on Friday rather than on Thursday.

Chances that he first learned about the sanctions this morning while watching tv? 80...90%?

Pretty sure Fox News is the only way he learns about anything that he doesn't directly experience and participate in. And there will probably come a time when he'll simply sit there puzzled and unsure how to proceed until he sees Hannity very slowly demonstrate the process by which one consumes a taco bowl.

the halls of Congress—and especially the House—have been crawling with elected officials who don't just cater to people whose only sources of information are Fox News and talk radio. They are those people.
"One of the side-effects of this kind of Fox News lunacy is that other actual members of Congress believe it, and see it uncritically," says Ocasio-Cortez. "So I was on the floor [of the House] once and this guy came up to me, and he was like, 'Is it true that you got $10 million from Netflix?' And I was like, 'No?' And it was like, in the well—we're voting on, like, gun reform. And I'm like, what else do you not know? This is concerning."

not just him

Would love to see all elected officials have to take a televised citizenship test as a prerequisite to hold office.

***Barr has the Mueller Report***

ugh not ready for this

it's on

ugh, i feel sick. I need to go exercise and then drink a bottle of wine.