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Should be a wild four years.

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Obamacare made private insurance worse.
Before the ACA, health insurance companies in the individual market could deny coverage, charge higher premiums, or impose waiting periods for individuals with pre-existing conditions.
Both of these things are true.

Health insurance used to have long wait times before coverage started, refuse to cover pre-existing conditions. Despite all this being the case pre-ACA, health insurance has somehow managed to get worse because Obamacare refused to open inter-state markets and practically killed any meaningful hope for a nation-wide market place. Giving insurance companies free reign to fuck over the consumer.

Additionally because more people have insurance (most of it shit) and billing changes due to the ACA, everyone now gets charged the "insurance rate" which is set sky-high to cover things like non-payment, under-payment, and the vig on having to float the cost until the company actually cuts them a check. You can negotiate this down but especially if you have routine issues this is really fucking annoying.


Obama has Presidential immunity. Trump set that SCOTUS precedent. His underlings though not so much.
Not exactly so.
Daily reminder that Obama exerted executive privilege to hide documents that would have shown that Eric Holder directed the ATF to allow obviously fraudulent (cartel related) gun purchases to go through the backround progress so that Eric Holder's DOJ could attempt to use these guns turning up in Mexican raids as a cudgel to allow Obama to enact gun control.
This was exposed before they could fully enact the plan by a USBP being shot by one of these guns.

It's a way of monetising police and an extra way to screw you over. It will come to a point where (and bookmark this fucking post) in a few years, companies will offer private security for their employees like they offer dental and medical expenses.
Also known as: Welcome to South Africa
 
Some interesting change in the BBB I found for tech workers from here:
Me and my bros in CS have been really hopeful that this will stop the bleeding that we've been experiencing, and hopefully give us a chance at survival in the face of being replaced by dishonest AI powered Jeets and Chinks.
 
>tfw their latest gay op was so embarrassingly bad, it stopped staunched the flow of Fatpacks hysterics
He hasn’t posted for over thirteen hours, I’m guessing his obamaphone’s data plan is dry until his next welfare re-up.
 
Let’s open that box, shall we? Do you have the numbers on soldiers injured or killed specifically as a result of enemy action, or is your little diatribe above the usual libshit fantasies about the military basically being adult daycare with guns, third world edition?
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Pretty sure most of those folks were shot or IED’d and not injured falling off a chair at the Burger King in the green zone.
Those casualty numbers aren't particularly grievous. Roughly 5k dead over two decades of occupation and fighting. I'm pretty sure we lost more people to suicide after they came back than we did in Afghanistan which frankly is the far more damning statistic than anything else.
 
Let’s open that box, shall we? Do you have the numbers on soldiers injured or killed specifically as a result of enemy action, or is your little diatribe above the usual libshit fantasies about the military basically being adult daycare with guns, third world edition?
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Pretty sure most of those folks were shot or IED’d and not injured falling off a chair at the Burger King in the green zone.
2,000 deaths over a 20 year period is absolutely fucking nothing for a nation of 340 million. Idk what this slap fight was about, but the numbers you provided do not paint the picture of a "casualty heavy conflict".
 
Those casualty numbers aren't particularly grievous. Roughly 5k dead over two decades of occupation and fighting. I'm pretty sure we lost more people to suicide after they came back than we did in Afghanistan which frankly is the far more damning statistic than anything else.
Veteran suicides post 9/11 is over 30,000.
 
So very likely the play is Trump sues for 10 billion, but really just wants a page-1 retraction
He should go for the 10 billion. You don't get to accuse the sitting president of being part of an international pedo ring, and simply walk away with a retraction everyone knows you don't believe in. A lot of "people" deserve to get fired over this, and forced to work in some inner city McDonalds for their frankly criminal actions.
 
2,000 deaths over a 20 year period is absolutely fucking nothing for a nation of 340 million. Idk what this slap fight was about, but the numbers you provided do not paint the picture of a "casualty heavy conflict".
I’m not saying it was, although if you factor out rapid medical response and modern battlefield medicine it would likely have been far higher.
The point I was making was that VA assistance and military pensions should not depend on whether or not the conflict was ‘casualty heavy’. Which is why I thought it was a weird fucking point to bring up.
Those casualty numbers aren't particularly grievous. Roughly 5k dead over two decades of occupation and fighting
Please refer to the above, and note also that the VA doesn’t look after the dead, it looks after the poor fuckers who come home missing limbs or with 60% skin grafts or breathing through a hole in their neck and not just guys who ‘dropped a 25lb plate on their foot in the gym’.
 
Republicans: Let's cut NPR
Media: omg big bird, elmo, it's for the kids
Republicans: sowwy 😢😢😢

Trump: I'm gonna cut NPR
Media: omg big bird, elmo, it's for the kids
Trump: lol i don't care kysf

See how easy it is?
I mean the only thing that sucks is that my parents love the PBS cooking shows. but eh, we got youtube
 
Syria never had a unified identity and the Assad regime was a minority rule government that treated the majority population as second class citizens, just like Iraq but in reverse. Even without the massive jump in food prices resulting from the Global economic meltdown in 2008 that precipitated the Arab Spring, Syria wasn't particularly stable. There were repeated uprisings by both the Sunnis and the Kurds, and the only reason Assad even protected the minorities was because he needed to bolster support against the Sunni majority.
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, my opinion, man.
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So if they went ahead with their story despite the denial, they may be liable. (counter point: who the fuck trusts a politician?) The defense there would hinge on how much fact checking and attempts to properly establish the legitimate origins of the card. If they had reasonable grounds to assume the card was legit, they're in the clear.
The authenticity of the letter is irrelevant. The story is that this letter, real or not, is part of the DOJ's trove of evidence. That's newsworthy in itself and is literally all the WSJ has to say for the case to be quickly dismissed. I expect the Trump team know that but just filing the lawsuit was the point.
 
I remember seeing screen caps of that stuff on /x/ when I was 14. You don’t hate them enough. You may think you do, but you don’t.
i remember the comet pizza website got posted on something awful and people were struggling to come up with explanations for why a pizza shop and ping pong store had a secret apache server where they had password protected downloads of dozens of encrypted and obfuscated ~200mb zip files
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must uhh... must just be uh.... all of the promotional materials! yeah! it's an archive of their promotional materials!
 
Like Trump? Hate Trump? What matters is that it is now proven that bullying on the Internet works. The most powerful man in the free world was A-Logged to such a degree where he has resorted to the, "I don't really care about this you guys, but okay fine".

By God if you want to see change in this world you have to A-Log to make that change happen.

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And people were giving Karen's shit. It really is the only way to get shit done.
 
The authenticity of the letter is irrelevant.
Does the article say the letter was ‘allegedly’ penned by Trump, or that it ‘was’ penned by Trump? Because the authenticity of the item and how it was described by the WSJ is absolutely relevant when a defamation lawsuit is in the offing.

Imagine being an affluent American citizen who pays an unrealistically large amount of taxes and instead of the Police protecting you from foreign invaders you have to pay them while they're off duty to do so.
As an edgy teen and aspiring writer, I one wrote a short story about a day in the life of a licensed vigilante in a dystopian future. In retrospect it was early cyberpunk before I think the term had even entered the lexicon, and my biggest surprise is that it is taking longer than expected to come true. Good to finally see some steps in the right direction.
 
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An unattractive straight black women holds a deep form of contempt for white gay men? A book has been found in a library.
Sounds like a fuckin' Family Guy cutaway if you ask me.
It's a way of monetising police and an extra way to screw you over. It will come to a point where (and bookmark this fucking post) in a few years, companies will offer private security for their employees like they offer dental and medical expenses
That would actually be a big step above South Africa. I don't know a single company that offers private security as a perk for coming on. My suspicion, based on what happened here, is that military veterans will become massively in demand for their know-how in the private security industry. If that happens, what you may see for the first time is actual competition with the military for well trained guys. I guarantee you that private security will pay MUCH better than the military though. So it stands to be seen if they will respond to this by demanding regulations on private security or beefing up the GI Bill
 
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