Octopus Overlords

Carpet_pissr wrote:I can't bring myself to type "Ha!" in response to that as I would normally. The 'sad' to 'true' ratio is too high.

Carpet_pissr wrote:Thoughts and prayers it is, then.

The House on Tuesday approved a bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, advancing a key GOP priority for the third time in the past four years — this time, with a supportive Republican in the White House.

The bill, known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, is not expected to emerge from the Senate, where most Democrats and a handful of moderate Republicans can block its consideration. But antiabortion activists are calling President Trump’s endorsement of the bill a significant advance for their movement.

The White House said in a statement released Monday that the administration “strongly supports” the legislation “and applauds the House of Representatives for continuing its efforts to secure critical pro-life protections.”

Representative Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, a strong and frequent critic of abortion, asked a woman with whom he was having an affair to undergo an abortion, according to a report published on Tuesday by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Mr. Murphy, 65, who is married with an adult daughter, confirmed last month that he “became involved in an affair with a personal friend,” according to a statement previously provided to The Post-Gazette.

The woman involved in the extramarital affair, Shannon Edwards, told the newspaper last month that her relationship with Mr. Murphy had ended. She said she had gotten to know Mr. Murphy when she volunteered to work on a mental health bill, which was signed into law late last year.

In a text message sent to Mr. Murphy on Jan. 25, Ms. Edwards assailed the congressman for hypocrisy. The exchange was included among several documents obtained by The Post-Gazette.

“And you have zero issue posting your anti-abortion stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options,” Ms. Edwards wrote, according to The Post-Gazette. The newspaper said that the text was sent amid what proved to be an “unfounded pregnancy scare.”

According to the newspaper’s report, a text message sent in response from Mr. Murphy’s phone said: “I get what you say about my March for life messages. I’ve never written them. Staff does them. I read them and winced. I told staff don’t write any more. I will.”

Smoove_B wrote:Maybe when he rolls back coverage for people under the age of 26 on their parent's plan it will strike a nerve...because I'm really out of ideas.

"I'm only signing it cause it costs nothing," he added.

Smoove_B wrote:Here's the quote of the day from Trump:

"I'm only signing it cause it costs nothing," he added.

$iljanus wrote:Yea! Finally Americans can finally buy substandard health care at bargain prices!

Skinypupy wrote:

$iljanus wrote:Yea! Finally Americans can finally buy substandard health care at bargain prices!

"I demand the freedom to die in mountains of debt if I want to! I'm an American, dammit!!"

Vice President Mike Pence had to chase down President Trump to remind him to sign the executive order on healthcare he announced Thursday afternoon.

Following Trump's remarks about the action, he turned to his left and walked over to lawmakers. He greeted them and shook hands as he moved to exit the room.

Pence sprung into action and swiftly walked over to Trump, and turned him back toward the wooden desk, where the order was waiting to be signed.

malchior wrote:I like how that entire room is basically old white baby boomers. "Here's to fucking over our kids and grandkids again! And especially them minorities! We got ours!"

malchior wrote:I like how that entire room is basically old white baby boomers. "Here's to fucking over our kids and grandkids again! And especially them minorities! We got ours!"

Blackhawk wrote:When will someone up there realize that 'threats, foreign and domestic' applies to Trump? He's lining himself up to be the largest cause of American deaths since WWII.

malchior wrote:I love how the stories this morning are about how Republican members of Congress are expressing 'concerns' about the effects of cutting the subsidies on their constituents. First off - your actual repeal plans were just as bad. Hypocrites. Second expressing concern is pretty much like hope and prayer for mass shootings.

Octavious wrote: Sadly his base will cheer as poor people lose their coverage and rates spike even more. Eh screw it we're fucked.

GreenGoo wrote:I believe the goal is to make aca collapse under its own weight because Obama.

Destroying the ACA is the primary goal. Secondary is to force democrats to the table to vote for something Drumpf can put his name on, because without the ACA, millions of constituents are going to be fucked.

tgb wrote:

Octavious wrote: Sadly his base will cheer as poor people lose their coverage and rates spike even more. Eh screw it we're fucked.

Lots of his base rely on those subsidies that Fuckhead is eliminating, This will not end well for him or the Republiklans.

El Guapo wrote:

GreenGoo wrote:I believe the goal is to make aca collapse under its own weight because Obama.

Destroying the ACA is the primary goal. Secondary is to force democrats to the table to vote for something Drumpf can put his name on, because without the ACA, millions of constituents are going to be fucked.

I think it's reasonably clear at this point that Trump's policy goals are limited to destroying anything that Obama touched, and enriching himself. There are lots of policy areas where Trump has real self-interests in preserving what's there, perhaps just patching it up and putting his name on it, but instead he's single-mindedly targeting everything that Obama did, even if it doesn't make any sense for him to do so.

The best thing you can do is deal from strength, and leverage is the biggest strength you can have. Leverage is having something the other guy wants. Or better yet, needs. Or best of all, simply can't do without