US Politics Mega-thread - Page 9261

On November 17 2017 13:04 Plansix wrote:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/931357870024687616

Bold Strategy Cotton. Fucking bold.

On November 17 2017 13:04 Plansix wrote:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/931357870024687616

Bold Strategy Cotton. Fucking bold.

On November 17 2017 12:00 xDaunt wrote:


Haha. But yeah, I really don't understand the aversion that some people have to insurance. Only idiots forego insurance. If you're truly destitute and unable to purchase it, fine (and you have nothing to insure anyway). But everyone else should have it to one degree or another. I guess that, in our free society, we just have to afford people the right to make catastrophically stupid decisions for themselves and allow them to fail.

On November 17 2017 19:47 Simberto wrote:
I still think that americans should just take a look at how healthcare works in other countries. That would solve a lot of problems.

The thinks that people seem to be scared of about socialized medicine are simply not a problem.

There is no "weight the advantages and disadvantages". The US system is just bad. It gives you worse care for more money, with a less fair allocation of that care. Just step over your shadow, admit that your system sucks donkey balls, don't start the "US exceptionalism" chain of stupidity, and just lift the complete workings of a health system from the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, or whoever else you prefer. All of them are better than the US system.

And despite all of the "Non-public" workings of the US system, and all the private money being poured into the system, the US still spends more public money on their healthcare than most first-world nations. That is the amazing thing. The US system is just bad. Get over it and steal a good one.

All of the things that you think are a problem with other countries healthcare systems really aren't. Healthcare doesn't have to be annoying, complex to use, incredibly expensive, incredibly unequal, and have a chance of ruining your life by bankrupting you if you didn't read the fine print of your contract.

If i am sick in Germany, i go to the doctor and get treated. I don't have to check if that specific doctor cooperates with my specific insurance. I don't have to look at my bank account to see whether i can afford it. I hand them my insurance card and that is it. I don't have to constantly deal with my insurance at all. Because the system works.

frontman Gene Simmons—until this week, a favorite guest on Fox News and Fox Business Network programs, which couldn’t get enough of his supposedly outrageous rock-star antics mixed with conservative politics—has been banned for life from the right-leaning cable channels.

Fox finally had enough of Simmons after he crudely insulted female Fox staffers, taunted them and exposed his chest, and otherwise behaved like the “demon” character he plays onstage. Management was not amused, and Simmons’s photograph was promptly posted Wednesday at the security entrance of the company’s Manhattan headquarters along with a “do-not-admit” advisory.

Simmons’s publicist didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The trouble started Wednesday morning after the Israeli-born Simmons—birth name: Chaim Witz, who dresses like a preening teenager at age 68—appeared on Fox & Friends and Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business Network show, Mornings with Maria, to promote his new book On Power.

Things seemed to be going well enough when Simmons jumped up from the Fox & Friends couch to help meteorologist Janice Dean do her weather report—a delighted Dean later posted video on her Twitter feed—and then sat on a panel with Bartiromo, who asked his views on the Harvey Weinstein sexual-misconduct scandal.

“The lunatics have taken over the insane asylum when respected business entities such as yourself ask guys that like to stick their tongues out,” Simmons answered, “what I think of Harvey Weinstein.”

“Okay, I’m a powerful and attractive man, and what I’m about to say is deadly serious,” he continued. “Men are jackasses. From the time we’re young we have testosterone. I’m not validating it or defending it.”

Maybe not, but within minutes he was demonstrating it. According to a knowledgeable Fox News source, Simmons showed up on the 14th floor to do a book-plugging interview with FoxNews.com’s entertainment section, but instead barged in on a staff meeting uninvited.

“Hey chicks, sue me!” he shouted, and then pulled open his red velvet shirt to reveal his chest and belly, according to the source. Then he starting telling Michael Jackson pedophilia jokes, and then bopped two employees on the head with his book, making derisive comments about their comparative intelligence according to the sound their heads made when struck.

“It was pretty severe,” the source said.

After Simmons’s misconduct was reported to a supervisor, and then to human-resources executive Kevin Lord, the Kiss frontman was permanently banned from the building and will no longer be permitted on any Fox News or Fox Business Network programming.

His interview with FoxNews.com, meanwhile, was taped but will not be published.

Simmons did not immediately respond to a request for comment

On November 17 2017 23:32 Danglars wrote:
https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/931188683226611713

The long-term political impact is minimal for resignation. Wisconsin governor is a Democrat and simply appoints another Dem to finish his term.

On November 17 2017 18:53 GreenHorizons wrote:
Wonder what was in the water in 2007? All I want to know is who drove up 2010's total. That must have been something pretty damn bad.

https://twitter.com/PoliticsReid/status/931278604897542145

On November 17 2017 23:48 Stratos_speAr wrote:


Hey.

HEY.

It's Minnesota.

Dick.

We're not Wisconsin.

Senior White House adviser and son-in-law to the president, Jared Kushner, failed to hand over to Senate investigators emails concerning contacts with WikiLeaks and a "Russian backdoor overture," according to a letter sent by two senior lawmakers.

The letter, released Thursday by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and its ranking Democrat, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, says Kushner failed to turn over "September 2016 email communications to Mr. Kushner concerning WikiLeaks" and other emails pertaining to a "Russian backdoor overture and dinner invite."

The lawmakers said they were seeking the documents that were "known to exist" from other witnesses in the investigation.

"We appreciate your voluntary cooperation with the committee's investigation, but the production appears to have been incomplete," the letter, sent to Kushner's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said. "It appears your search may have overlooked several documents."

Those overlooked documents also included unspecified phone records, according to The New York Times.

In a statement on Thursday, Lowell said he and his client had provided the committee "with all relevant documents that had to do with Mr. Kushner's calls, contacts or meetings with Russians during the campaign and transition, which was the request."

"We also informed the committee we will be open to responding to any additional requests and that we will continue to work with White House Counsel for any responsive documents from after the inauguration," Lowell said.

The WikiLeaks emails from September 2016 would coincide with Twitter messages exchanged between the radical transparency organization and Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son. U.S. officials believe that WikiLeaks acted as a conduit for emails from the Democratic National Committee and senior Democratic officials that were hacked by Russia.

The Trump administration has repeatedly denied collusion with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 elections. And less than a month before the election, then-candidate Mike Pence, during an interview on Fox News, specifically denied any contacts between WikiLeaks and the campaign.

The revelation of undisclosed emails comes on the same day that The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reports that special counsel Robert Mueller issued a subpoena last month "requesting Russia-related documents from more than a dozen top officials."