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As an fyi baseline, Trump's numbers today are 41/54/-13. - David Mar 24, 16:44 3
- I just watched him say "I never said repeal and replace. You've heard my speeches. I never said repeal and replace in the first 64 days" - crash davis Mar 24, 16:46
- He went up again?! -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 16:45 1
  - The man drove a truck -- nm - budice Mar 24, 16:46
Kate Bolduan to Jeffrey Lord: "I'm not listening to you anymore" -- nm - mud Mar 24, 16:39 2
- He started off with "Of course they can blame the Democrats. They didn't help out." - Will Hunting Mar 24, 16:42
- lol i just heard that I was getting inside. He is such a f**king trump shill its pathetic. -- nm - Jovian Mar 24, 16:41
Now watching: the original Westworld -- nm - Beaker Mar 24, 16:34
Carolina ate their Wheaties today -- nm - budice Mar 24, 16:32
Whiskey? - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 24, 16:31 16
- sake -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 24, 16:37 4
  - Must be hot sake -- nm - Bacon Mar 24, 16:39
  - bomb -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 16:38
  - bomb. -- nm - budice Mar 24, 16:38 1
    - sh!# -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 16:39
- Whhhhiskey? -- nm - Indiana Jones Mar 24, 16:36
- x 3 -- nm - Beaker Mar 24, 16:36
- I treated myself to a bottle of Jameson's but can't open it until tomorrow...... - Meg Mar 24, 16:35 5
  - Good gesture he'd appreciate it right? -- nm - Epiphany Mar 24, 21:07
  - I'll have one tomorrow as well. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 24, 16:39
  - I'll join in. I will drink a shot tomorrow to his memory. -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 16:37
  - I approve. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 24, 16:37
  - neolithic rock art found in Egypt -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 24, 16:36
- Whisky -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 16:32 2
  - That too. -- nm - znufrii Mar 24, 16:34 1
    - drinking wine spo-dee-o-dee -- (link) - Peglegpete Mar 24, 16:35 [youtube]
Recent movie grades? OK. Assassins Creed: C-; Bleed for This: B; Barely Lethal: B; Loving: B+; In a World: A- -- nm - prayformojo Mar 24, 16:18 3
- Assassins Creed: D+, The Light Between Oceans: M for misery. It's a whole lot of pain. -- nm - Max Mar 24, 17:40
- Just because I buy something doesn't mean you *have* to watch it. :P -- nm - David Mar 24, 16:41
- The Arrival A -- nm - Bacon Mar 24, 16:22
btw, I have always thought that years down the road the ACA will be popular and Republicans will feel it was a mistake to name it Obamacare -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 16:12 2
- UN-SUBcare? our society has to name or label everything even when it doesn't need it -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 24, 16:18 1
  - We may need to label things but we call it Medicare not LBJcare, Social Security not FDR Security. That guy who said the government needs to keep - crash davis Mar 24, 16:31
Eric T: We're keeping dad's business and public interests totally separate -- (link*) - znufrii Mar 24, 15:40 1
- SNL has him pegged. -- nm - jnine Mar 24, 15:42
That Costa interview posted earlier has been updated with more bits of the convo and *oof* the kicker -- (link) - ty97 Mar 24, 15:36 1
- bizarre -- nm - prayformojo Mar 24, 15:48
Opinion: Trump tried to burn down Obamacare. He set his hair on fire instead. -- (link) - znufrii Mar 24, 15:32 1
- (except I'm pretty sure it would just melt, rather than catch fire) -- nm - znufrii Mar 24, 15:39
Former Penn State President Graham Spanier was found guilty Friday on charges of child endangerment -- nm - mara Mar 24, 15:30
Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Very Good Day Inside a Dark, Windowless Room -- (link) - Beaker Mar 24, 15:29
Gwenyth Paltrow knows good (heterosexual) anal and wants to teach you how to do it -- (link) - budice Mar 24, 15:28 1
- Like, personally? -- nm - Qale Mar 24, 17:50
Congressional Republicans now free to focus on The Search for Richard Simmons -- nm - prayformojo Mar 24, 15:21
Trump, Bannon and Marc Short wanted to force a public vote to create a GOP enemies list of 'no' voters. Ryan said no. -- (link) - budice Mar 24, 15:12 4
- as I said yesterday, its better to be a Democrat than a Republican who opposes Trump - crash davis Mar 24, 15:23
- Smart, but that's the cowardice that has kept congress from voting for years. -- nm - Max Mar 24, 15:17
- That was very smart of Ryan for the Republican Congress overall -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 15:14
- dead man walking -- nm - Beaker Mar 24, 15:14
Owen is doing Trump/Ryan dialog again. -- (link) - mara Mar 24, 15:06 1
- looks like a special event only -- (link) - ty97 Mar 24, 15:11
The animal shelter where I adopted Mojo and Minnie is a finalist for the Animal Planet Pet Nation shelter remodel..... -- (link) - Meg Mar 24, 14:58 7
- Done -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 24, 16:18
- Yeah! -- nm - prayformojo Mar 24, 16:00
- Done. Bery - can you put the link in the banner with a gentle reminder for this meatbags to vote daily? -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 24, 15:54
- what Krusty and David said -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 15:08 1
  - oh, it did let me vote more than once! -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 15:10
- Done! -- nm - Krusty Mar 24, 15:07
- Done! -- nm - David Mar 24, 15:02
Reminder to all birds: don't crowd the plate. -- (link*) - Max Mar 24, 14:55
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- ~it's Friday Friday gotta get down on Friday~ -- nm - Beaker Mar 24, 15:15
- yep -- (link) - crash davis Mar 24, 15:07 [Backboard]
- It went limp in the end -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:56
- Eh. -- nm - mara Mar 24, 14:55
- Just a bit. ;-) How's everything going in court? Are you sweating the witnesses and getting them to give up the goods? - Krusty Mar 24, 14:55 4
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    - Best of luck! I can't imagine the stress and exhaustion of what is apparently going to be a very long trial. - Krusty Mar 24, 15:55
    - *slaps you* You're Jackie Onions! You don't weep like a lil girl with a skinned knee. YOU MAKE THE OTHER GUY CRY. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 24, 15:49
    - Good luck -- nm - Epiphany Mar 24, 15:45
I'll be so pissed if real life forces me to give up my cheesey spy novels and movies. "Five months, eight prominent Russians dead" -- (link) - crash davis Mar 24, 14:50 5
- I means, there's a lot of Russians. Russians die every day. -- nm - Mop Mar 24, 15:11 4
  - shot to death? falling from a fourth story window the day before a court appearance? no official cause of death released? open investigations? -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 15:21 3
    - Sure! Russians are crazy! I've seen the YouTube videos! -- nm - Mop Mar 24, 15:40
    - I bet you watch The Americans -- nm - mud Mar 24, 15:25 1
      - I mean there is a lot of Americans, I watch Americans every day - crash davis Mar 24, 15:26
White House officials, advisers say Trump is not that upset. He was far angrier about travel ban, Sessions recusal, inauguration crowd size. -- (link) - ty97 Mar 24, 14:31 22
- He was more angry at SNL, or Nordstroms -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 24, 15:55
- Because he doesn't understand the consequences. - Mop Mar 24, 15:14
- And on and on. -- nm - Mop Mar 24, 15:12
- Chaser -- (link) - budice Mar 24, 14:38 9
  - :( appears to be fake -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:47
  - wut -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:40
  - I'm unfamiliar with the song. Is it about defeat? -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 14:39 6
    - The opening line - ty97 Mar 24, 14:41 5
      - yeeowch -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 14:41 4
        
        here -- (link) - budice Mar 24, 14:42 3
        
        here -- (link) - mud Mar 24, 14:44 [youtube]
        
        "I really don't think-" "Just play it, Alexa!" -- nm - Max Mar 24, 14:43 1
        
        Papa Roach vocalist Jacoby Shaddix described the song as a "cry for help". -- nm - budice Mar 24, 14:45
- He's going to stop the Medicaid funding to the States to make Obamacare fail and he has Bannon calling for Ryan to be replaced, so he doesn't have to. -- nm - jnine Mar 24, 14:35 2
  - Can he do that? -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:39 1
    - And even if he can, wouldn't states revolt? -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:39
- Because he never really gave a shit about the issue. It was just a good campaign speech item. -- nm - pmb Mar 24, 14:33 2
  - right. - Mel Profit Mar 24, 14:45
  - This. -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 Mar 24, 14:35
- You can hear the same from the audio in his responses, he sounded totally fine with it. -- nm - Max Mar 24, 14:32 2
  - He might totally believe the Obamacare will collapse due to his not enforcing the mandate. Or he just may not care. Not sure which. -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:33 1
    - He found out Putin doesn't give a crap one way or another about it. -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 14:34
Idea for DC entrepreneurs -- (link) - ty97 Mar 24, 14:28 1
- i like that -- nm - prayformojo Mar 24, 14:29
What will this do to the #resistance? Will they pack up and go home, or will this embolden them to do more? -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 14:16 8
- I think the Democrats should start introducing all kinds of bills they know will be voted down, like single payer, everyone gets Congress' same - jnine Mar 24, 14:37 5
  - They won't even get voted down as they'll never allow it to reach the floor for a vote. -- nm - Krusty Mar 24, 14:54
  - Ryan doesn't have to bring any of them to the floor for a vote. -- nm - mara Mar 24, 14:52 2
    - The Hastert "Rule" is ridiculous. -- nm - Krusty Mar 24, 14:57 1
      - The child molester rule? A child molester has a congressional rule named for him. Wonderful. Republicans -- nm - Bacon Mar 24, 16:21
  - It may time for a bold statement, for sure -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 14:40
- "not one step back." -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 24, 14:22 1
  - I think blood is in the water -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 14:36
Today is a good day -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:12 8
- I'm happy but still worried that they'll do even more to undermine the ACA or bring this back up again in the near future. - Krusty Mar 24, 14:49 2
  - Yeah, I've read they already are undermining it. Can't find details now. -- nm - mara Mar 24, 15:04 1
    - They did it during the Obama administration primarily with eliminating the tax on medical devices and eliminating the "runway" payments to insurance companies that lost money. -- (edited) - pmb Mar 24, 15:16
- I would have liked to see it pass in the House, get voted down by the Senate and have them all explain during the midterms why they tried to take away - jnine Mar 24, 14:39
- yep: Adam Sandler will do four more movies for Netflix -- (link) - crash davis Mar 24, 14:30 1
  - don't ruin this for me! -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:31
- yeah, but it woulda been so much better to see it crash on the House floor! -- nm - mud Mar 24, 14:17
- Truth triumphed over fake news. -- nm - budice Mar 24, 14:15
The main political problem with messing with health care is the fear from uncertainty, once the dust settles people adjust accept, even if it meant - zeitgeist Mar 24, 14:11
GOP and repeal in a nuthshell -- (link) - ty97 Mar 24, 14:11 3
- On March 24th, 2017 at 2:11 pm Pacific time, ty97 posted about Fantasy Football - crash davis Mar 24, 14:14 2
  - incidental capture! -- nm - Max Mar 24, 14:16
  - I've played in a fantasy football league before! - ty97 Mar 24, 14:15
"I almost had you." "It don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile; winning's winning." -- nm - Max Mar 24, 14:08
Meanwhile -- (link) - ty97 Mar 24, 14:06 3
- Let me tell you, Ivanka would be terrific, that I can tell you -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 24, 14:12
- yes cause the white house can appoint his replacement, right? -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 24, 14:09 1
  - I bet Trump isn't sure. -- nm - Mop Mar 24, 14:10
heh -- (link) - ty97 Mar 24, 14:05
Jabari Parker tore his ACL in his left knee, and after surgery will likely miss the next 12 months of basketball. -- nm - Beaker Mar 24, 14:05 1
- That's a shame. - Krusty Mar 24, 14:38
Crying unicorn candle (hi znu!) -- (link) - Andie Mar 24, 14:05 1
- cool -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 24, 14:09
"I'm ready to move on to-" "Speaking of: independent investigation on Russia?" "-TAXES." -- nm - Max Mar 24, 14:05
"I still have some sashimi between my toes, Mr. Furguson." - Mel Profit Mar 24, 14:02
Immediately as the pulled the bill, Trump phones Bob Costa of WaPo, this is their conversation -- (link) - ty97 Mar 24, 14:02 8
- that must have been remarkable getting that call -- nm - prayformojo Mar 24, 14:16 1
  - "Thank you for calling." "You're - wait, who is this." "You called me." "I know, but (Steve, whose number is this?)" -- nm* - Max Mar 24, 14:27
- Considering they made absolutely zero effort to try to get a vote from a democrat (and affirmatively scheduled things and worked to avoid involving - pmb Mar 24, 14:06 3
  - The fact that they don't NEED any Dems votes (and the media isn't screaming this fact) is pissing me off -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 14:07 2
    - yep. 2010: "The House voted 219 to 212 to approve the measure, with every Republican voting no. " -- (link) - Max Mar 24, 14:26 1
      - Also, the republicans loved to claim they weren't involved in the process, but Obama did everything he could to involve them. I remember the - pmb Mar 24, 14:33
- Whenever I see his name, I think Bob Costas instead -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 14:05 1
  - Iran-Costa Affair -- nm - Max Mar 24, 14:06
I'm recalling Gephardt's mantra "miserable failure" which was annoying at the time but seems spot on right now. -- nm - Max Mar 24, 13:57 2
- GOP Congress and Prez and still can get Bills passed. -- nm - budice Mar 24, 13:59 1
  - The Bills have no passing attack. - crash davis Mar 24, 14:02
Trump says there were things in the bill he didn't like and today's outcome was the best possible outcome. He then vomited from all the bad spinning -- nm - ty97 Mar 24, 13:55 1
- And the funny part is his followers will buy it. He was just going along to appease people he needed to appease so he could get to the really good - pmb Mar 24, 14:08
President Queeg right now in the Oval Office lying his face off, blaming everyone except the Freedom Caucus -- nm - mud Mar 24, 13:53 2
- They should have taken a page out of his "no, *you* owe me a million dollars" strategy and asked for special prosecutor Loretta Lynch. -- nm - Reagen Mar 24, 13:54 1
  - every time I see her name, my first thought is: Coalminers daughter -- nm - Peglegpete Mar 24, 13:57
So much good stuff out there. Example #465 -- (link) - Volnelk Mar 24, 13:52 2
- That's great. -- nm - pmb Mar 24, 14:02
- *low chuckle* you're right, good stuff -- nm - crash davis Mar 24, 13:53

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