February 12, 2017

Ok...is there any point where the US should take out NK nukes?

A. Only when they can obliterate CALIFORNIA
B. Only AFTER they obliterate California
C. Now, before they can obliterate California
D. Never


Just wondering what people think.

February 6, 2017

Repigs dont have the moral character to vote against DeVos.

They know she a dumb shit but have to fall in line.

And that stupid empty smile of hers makes me want to slap that shit-eating grin off her face.

Just had to vent.

February 5, 2017

Missing Obama posters are popping up all over

http://rare.us/rare-news/missing-obama-posters-are-popping-up-all-over-and-heres-the-reason-why/

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So, what is this all about?

According to MissingObama.org, they’ve started posting these “missing” posters not because Obama is physically missing, but rather, because they “miss” Obama.

“The role he played as president for eight years is also ‘missing.’ Trump is severely unqualified to act as the President and Commander in Chief of the United States of America,” the description reads. “This poster also represents the importance of freedom of expression. It encourages us to be vocal and engage in political conversation. The election is over, but democracy isn’t. Speaking up can mean anything, from something as simple as liking a post to something more interactive like organizing a protest. Expression is vital on every level.”

February 4, 2017

Back to reality: Obamas settle into DC life

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/where-to-spot-the-obamas-in-dc/



Vacation's over. After a two-week escape to Palm Springs and the British Virgin Islands, Barack and Michelle Obama are back in Washington, where they will begin to settle into the post-White House life.

While most former presidents depart Washington when they take their final flight aboard Air Force One, the Obamas are opting to stay in the District as daughter Sasha, 15, finishes up at Sidwell Friends School.

They're renting an 8,200-square-foot brick Tudor home in DC's posh Kalorama neighborhood, where neighbors include a former congressman, the French ambassador and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Built in 1928, the home has nine bedrooms, a generous living room and dining room, a finished downstairs family room/media room, and an au-pair suite. Movers were spotted unloading boxes of the first family's belongings into the new home just before Inauguration Day.

The former President is expected to write a book and begin work on the Obama Foundation, working from office space inside the headquarters of the World Wildlife Fund. But he and the former first lady will suddenly have a lot more free time on their hands.

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February 4, 2017

Poll: More than half of US voters would rather have Obama as president

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/02/04/poll-more-than-half-of-us-voters-would-rather-have-obama-as-pre/21707015/


After just weeks into the new administration, a new survey has found that about half of voters in the U.S. wished Barack Obama was still in office.

This result was announced by a group called Public Policy Polling, or PPP, which asked registered voters at the end of January, "Who would you rather was President: Barack Obama or Donald Trump?"

Of the 725 participants, 52 percent responded with Obama, 43 percent preferred Trump, and 5 percent weren't sure.

The group's press release also revealed that 40 percent support Trump's impeachment.

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Damn I miss him

February 3, 2017

There are so many F**king outrages I can't keep up.

Like 2 outrages a day


Devos
Mental disease patients can get guns
Pissing off Australia and Mexico
Ban on 7 muslim states
Repealing Dodd Frank
Sucking up to Putin
Lying about the Wall
KAC and her Bowling Green Massacre


Feel free to add to the list.

February 2, 2017

And so it continues....House begins tearing up Obama-era rules

The House passed two bills on Wednesday that will erase regulations targeting the coal industry and the oil and mining sector, launching Republicans' offensive against a series of late-term rules put in place by former President Barack Obama.

If it passes the Senate and is signed by President Donald Trump, as is expected, the vote will mark the first time in 15 years that lawmakers successfully used the Congressional Review Act to unwind executive branch actions — and Republicans lawmakers who were enraged over Obama’s expansive regulatory agenda say they are prepared to deploy the tool to kill a dozen or more rules on energy, labor and guns.

The first two such resolutions cleared the House on Wednesday, largely along party line votes, and target the Interior Department’s stream rule, which aimed to protect waterways from pollution from mountaintop coal mining but was fiercely opposed by the industry and GOP. The second kills a Securities and Exchange Commission rule requiring oil, gas and mining companies to reveal payments made to foreign governments.

"These measures will deliver relief from regulations that threaten to wipe off thousands of jobs in the energy industry," House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/obama-rules-regulations-234523


FUPR

February 1, 2017

People on Twitter Are Begging Obama to Come Back From Vacation

On Monday, former President Barack Obama said he "fundamentally disagrees" with Trump's new immigration executive order and backed demonstrators who protested at airports around the country throughout the weekend, CNN reported.

Obama's spokesperson, Kevin Lewis, said, "With regard to comparisons to President Obama’s foreign policy decisions, as we’ve heard before, the President fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion.” He also added that Obama was "heartened" by the highly vocal reactions across the country to the Muslim ban.

Obama's response came after Trump defended his recent executive order, saying that it was "similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months," according to USA Today. However, there was a fundamental difference between Obama's actions and Trump's ban: Obama was responding a tangible threat. Additionally, the Obama administration pointed out that they never stopped accepting visas from Iraq, simply that the visa process was slowed down, according to the Washington Post.

Obama's response came as a surprise to many people on social media, some of who've been tweeting outcries to bring Obama back into office since Trump took office just over a week ago


http://www.teenvogue.com/story/people-on-twitter-are-begging-obama-to-come-back-from-vacation

January 31, 2017

Obamas America Rises Again

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/obamas-america-rises-again.html


Long-term pessimism about the liberal project has come roaring back in style since the election. Barack Obama’s pet line, “the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” has been hauled out for a great deal of public mockery on all sides. The liberal coastal elite has wallowed in self-flagellation about their failure to understand the great country, a sentiment Donald Trump’s henchmen have exploited to cast the news media as an alien appendage from the real America and its deep, mystical bond with the new president. (“They don’t understand this country,” claims Steve Bannon, “They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”)

But the events of the last two weeks, both of which have seen massive nationwide protests against the new presidency, suggest a different conclusion. It is Trump who does not understand this country. And it is Obama’s vision of the country that will ultimately win out.

The election has provided ample reasons for alarm. But it is important to have some clarity about what we ought to fear. The federal government is in the hands of an extremist claque. It will probably carry out enormous amounts of terrible policy, and the tail risks of permanent disasters arising from misgovernance — new Katrinas, new Iraq Wars, or worse — are terrifyingly high.

On the other hand, there is no reason to believe Trump is actually good at politics. He has the largest popular-vote deficit of any president ever elected and comes into office with historically low approval ratings. The only things he has done well are to gauge correctly the fecklessness of his Republican rivals, who he understood would fall in line behind him even after he smeared and bullied them mercilessly, and to beat up on Hillary Clinton while James Comey, Vladimir Putin, and the national media pinned her arms behind her.

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January 31, 2017

Senate panel votes in favor of Betsy DeVos, Trumps education secretary pick

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/senate-panel-to-vote-on-betsy-devos-trumps-education-secretary-nominee/2017/01/30/21fe2d2a-e727-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?utm_term=.97193bc9e5ff


Senate panel on Tuesday narrowly voted in favor of President Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, sending her nomination to the full Senate for final approval.

All 12 Republicans on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted in favor of sending her nomination to the Senate floor, while all 11 Democrats voted against.

But two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), made clear that they have not yet decided how they will vote on the floor, suggesting that DeVos’s confirmation is not yet assured. Democrats are seeking to block DeVos’s confirmation, but they must convince a handful of Republicans to break with the new president.

DeVos is a Michigan billionaire and private school voucher advocate who has become one of Trump’s most controversial Cabinet picks.

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yeah...i'll hold my breath for Collins