POLITICS: what have you done for us lately?

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[Lurker13]

Consider Governor Rick Scott of Florida. First he wanted legislation requiring all prison inmates in Florida to be drug tested ... wait for it ... by a company he owned controlling interest in. When the FL legislature refused, he had his shares of stock transferred to his wife, and basically said "Look, I don't own it anymore! Can we pass the legislation now?" The legislature refused, but then he got them to pass a law requiring all welfare recipients to be drug tested. His company doesn't take Medicaid, so he tried to have Florida's Medicaid system privatized. The law was eventually declared unconstitutional, but you get the point. The corruption is rampant and needs to stop.

I used to live there, and I have no idea how this guy keeps getting elected. He's hated by pretty much everyone I've every met in both parties, he looks like skeletor trying to wear fake skin, and he completely defrauded Medicaid and should be in prison. Hopefully a fixed prison though since we're on the topic, not that he really deserves it.

The last time I was in FL visiting my mom, we were watching The Florida Channel and Scott came on. My mom practically swooned over him.

Unfortunately far too many people cut off their nose to spite their face. They vote R because their hate towards the democrats/“Clinton Machine” is so severe and misguided that they’d rather elect candidates who are corrupt, immoral, and in many cases evil. That’s the problem we have here in Texas - Beto O’Rourke is a moderate Democrat who is pro-business but also very socially liberal, aka he probably better aligns with most of the state, but because he’s a Dem they’re gonna vote for Ted Cruz even though everyone hates him. It completely boggles my mind.

What you say about tribalism is certainly true, but in FL you also have a massive population of retirees who vote Republican because Republicans always promise to keep taxes low. Gyawd, guns, and low, low taxes make the rednecks and retirees happy.

[Lurker13]

Tribalism is fucking wild man.

Good news: Trump Org CFO has been granted immunity, is probably going to flip

That's ducking hilarious!

Apparently Pecker kept a safe at his company to keep all the catch-and-kill stories about Trump and other celebrities. Gee, I wonder why?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ULY64_KG8Y

[Chankgeez]

Kinda insane:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opin ... e=Homepage

[Lurker13]

Kinda insane:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opin ... e=Homepage

If by 'kinda' you mean 'completely', then I 'kinda' agree.

And this is ducking hilarious! Alex Jones acting like a dumbass redneck trying to pick a fight with Marco Rubio during an impromptu press conference in the halls of Congress. (And yes, duck Little Marco too, to the full extent of ducking possible to his little ducking Republican ass.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/marco-rubio-alex-jones-apos-170848519.html

[Chankgeez]

Well, I said "kinda" because everyone suspected that was going on to some extent.

(Alex Jones is just plain rude!)

[Bassist_Diver]

I don't think Keep Austin Weird means what Alex Jones thinks it means.

As for the NYT OpEd, that does not surprise me. One of the guys from my fraternity worked as an aide for a republican senator and said the number of Republican employees who have quit up to and during Trump's tenure far exceeds the number who quit during the Obama years. He would know - he's one of them and now works at a think tank full of former GOP employees who quit in Trump's wake.

[Chankgeez]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/sta ... 4433070080

(Also, does anything mean what Alex Jones thinks it means?)

[Mudfuzz]

In other news.. The signs are showing, the panic is about to set in, the loan swapping is about to crumble.
Have a nice day.

[Paul_C]

Alex Jones on the BBC from a few years ago -

The end is brilliant (from 9:00)

[Sonaboy]

Kinda insane:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opin ... e=Homepage

Only insane in that there are people inside the White House who consider themselves unsung heroes but will just destabilize an already flailing administration with much bigger problems on the way.
And that they think the tax plan passed by this administration is good for the country.
Fucking twats, the lot of them.

[Chankgeez]

Yeah, I laughed at the "effective deregulation" bit.

[aedes]

In other news.. The signs are showing, the panic is about to set in, the loan swapping is about to crumble.
Have a nice day.

Wait what? WHAT?

[Mudfuzz]

In other news.. The signs are showing, the panic is about to set in, the loan swapping is about to crumble.
Have a nice day.

Wait what? WHAT?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolom ... 5521201b82

I work in the housing industry.. I've been watching this happen in slow motion for the last year...

[friendship]

In other news.. The signs are showing, the panic is about to set in, the loan swapping is about to crumble.
Have a nice day.

Wait what? WHAT?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolom ... 5521201b82

I work in the housing industry.. I've been watching this happen in slow motion for the last year...

Yup. If only we could predict the terrible disaster that unregulated speculation wrecks on economies by simply looking at every single time it happens throughout history. Oh wait, we can do that, we just choose not to because we're myopic apes.