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Mohdoo
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Shaming the poor into deciding to be the CEO of a large tech company. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
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KwarK
United States42804 Posts
On May 26 2017 00:28 brian wrote: i mean i have no doubt he's insinuated it before but nowhere in that speech did i hear him suggest any member owes the united states money. just because there's no 2% rules doesn't make it an unreasonable goal? and again, he didn't suggest member nations match the US by any metric? like i said, i'm working from this one video alone. so if this happened else wise i understand. but i'm definitely not seeing any of this here. He printed up a cringeworthy invoice for Germany to pay the US back for all the defence spending the US has done on Germany's behalf and gave it to Merkel. Merkel presumably told him it was great and that she would put it on the fridge so that everyone could see how well he was doing. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-nato-invoice-made-up-300-million-angela-merkel-white-house-meeting-germany-a7651521.html He's been talking about this stuff for a while. About how much the US spends compared to NATO members and how NATO members aren't meeting the 2% rule and how NATO members need to pay the US back and how maybe the US will renege on NATO obligations should a NATO member be attacked. It's all fucking retarded. He also at one point said that NATO was obsolete in a world where the threat comes from terrorism and that the US doesn't get anything out of it. This is odd given NATO has been invoked exactly one time, by the US, following 9/11. | ||
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Mohdoo
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On May 26 2017 00:44 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/867767683281960961 Can anyone right-leaning on this board explain to me why the CBO report is even slightly encouraging? | ||
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Plansix
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Mohdoo
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On May 26 2017 00:48 Plansix wrote: Ryan’s statements give me comfort. That he and the Republican House get exactly what they deserve around November of next year. My only hope is that they don’t pass any version of this nightmare bill. Don't leave work early, dress well, stay assertive and keep your job. That's honestly the perspective I've been taking with regards to all this. Whatever you do, do not lose your job. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On May 26 2017 00:52 Mohdoo wrote: Don't leave work early, dress well, stay assertive and keep your job. That's honestly the perspective I've been taking with regards to all this. Whatever you do, do not lose your job. Be in your mid 20-30s forever, never get married, never buy a house, never get sick, let other family members handle emergencies, work 10 hour days forever. | ||
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On_Slaught
United States12190 Posts
On May 26 2017 00:47 Mohdoo wrote: Can anyone right-leaning on this board explain to me why the CBO report is even slightly encouraging? They don't care about coverage. They only care about premium costs going down and increasing government savings, which this does kinda (If ur young and healthy mostly). Coverage is whatever to them. Don't forget that if you forgoe that iPhone you can afford health insurance! | ||
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opisska
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Plansix
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opisska
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Ernaine
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The stupidity of Trump and the number of self-inflicted wounds and self-implications and accidental admissions of guilt by Trump is shocking, but also a big relief. If Trump was competent, he would have been so so much dangerous. He literally is a fascist-wannabe. Remove the legal and moral constraints he is under because of the US institutions, and the results would be shocking. He would literally jail or torture journalists. It is just amazing to see him so oblivious to almost anything. Why does he keep provoking the Intel community to leak on Twitter? Why does he stand next to Netanyahu and he tells the media that it was Israel, but he hasn't told the Russians. Netanyahu must have just wanted to KO Trump then and there for his stupidity. Not only did allies stop sharing Intel with the US. US Intel stopped sharing Intel with the White House. It is shocking. There must not be a single person even inside the White House that trusts Trump with anything. Let alone classified or sensitive information. If the story about Duterte and the location of the nuclear submarines is true, the admirals must be so pissed. It means they can no longer tell Trump about the location of the US nuclear submarines. And even if it is false, the US admirals cannot be sure about that. As for NATO defense spending. It is all about EU countries buying US military equipment and fueling the military industrial complex. If EU countries spend 2% buying their own military tech, or even China or Russia stuff, there is no point for the US anymore. Let alone the costs EU countries have for the mess the US creates in the middle east. They have a point when they claim we have to pay a tax to them to cover the cost of all the refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. | ||
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
On May 26 2017 00:52 Mohdoo wrote: Don't leave work early, dress well, stay assertive and keep your job. That's honestly the perspective I've been taking with regards to all this. Whatever you do, do not lose your job. You can lose your job or change your job. Just make sure that you don't have any gaps in coverage by getting COBRA coverage between jobs. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
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brian
United States9620 Posts
On May 26 2017 01:03 xDaunt wrote: You can lose your job or change your job. Just make sure that you don't have any gaps in coverage by getting COBRA coverage between jobs. yea i'm gonna half agree here that worrying about holding your job for your healthcare seems like you're having an exaggeratedly strange perspective here. for those without any day to day health concerns, i'd have much bigger problems to worry about if i lost my job than where i'm getting my health insurance from. for those with day to day health concerns i'd obviously prefer we had a ln affordable universal health care option. but for our reality in the mean time viewing your health insurance in this lens is disingenuous. | ||
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Sadist
United States7242 Posts
On May 26 2017 01:03 xDaunt wrote: You can lose your job or change your job. Just make sure that you don't have any gaps in coverage by getting COBRA coverage between jobs. Ya its not like COBRA is expensive or anything | ||
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Mohdoo
United States15690 Posts
On May 26 2017 01:03 xDaunt wrote: You can lose your job or change your job. Just make sure that you don't have any gaps in coverage by getting COBRA coverage between jobs. Losing your job should not mean incurring an incidental charge in order to remain healthy and safe. That is fundamentally wrong. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23254 Posts
But you have plenty of extra money to cover an explosion in healthcare costs, being unemployed and all. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On May 26 2017 01:03 xDaunt wrote: You can lose your job or change your job. Just make sure that you don't have any gaps in coverage by getting COBRA coverage between jobs. Having done that song and dance more than once in the past, the COBRA should be handed out with a bunch to the throat. Because only with the immediate fear of choking to death does the price of that system seem acceptable. | ||
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