Well on the brighter side of life, this has been the best 46 days EVER for Mental Health Awareness!
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
So I spent a lot of yesterday and today reading the GOP Healthcare plan. Trumpcare/Ryancare whatever the fuck they wanna call it. It's not healthcare at all. If you voted GOP, you cannot call yourself the party of family values anymore. You can't say you value American lives anymore. You can't say you are the party of the little people, or small Government anymore.
You are literally ONLy for Rich people. That's it. I'm not trying to be partisan, because Obamacare needed work, and we should as a nation be on Singlepayer. What the GOP just started will lead to the deaths of thousands of Americans.
This won't pass due to the fact you still have republican's wanting full repeal, and democrats will not be okay with this set up. I'm honestly seeing a lot of the issue that plagued Rome in the 160s echoing here. Yeah we should be on singlepayer, the issue is how do you get people that don't understand healthcare and just want to have the chance to see a doctor to get how single payer works?
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
The Republican Party never was about American values, never was about the little people, never was about small government. That was all a steaming load of bullshit to reel in all the clueless, low IQ lemmings who had been fooled into thinking only Trump could save them from the wolf at the door that was Hillary Clinton. Now that those voters, more than a few had signed up with the ACA are coming around to realizing just how their elected officials are going to screw them six ways to Sunday, I hope they're every bit as worried as the rest of us.
Avatar: Here's to the late, great Steve Dillon. Best. Punisher. Artist. EVER!
*shuffles a good news in here for a change*
http://www.valleynewslive.com/conten...415412473.htmlA wonderful little boy only sees one difference between him and his best friend – their hair.Jax is 5-years-old and his mom, Lydia Stith Rosebush, told him he needed to get a haircut over the weekend.
Jax said he wanted his hair cut really short so he could look like his best friend Reddy, and that way their teacher wouldn’t be able to tell the two boys apart.
Jax couldn’t wait for the school day to start because he thought it would be hilarious to confuse his teacher with the same haircut.
I’m sure you all can see the striking resemblance.
Lydia wrote on her Facebook wall, “The only difference Jax sees in the two of them is their hair.”
Her post has been shared all over social media over 50,000 times.
We are so proud of the big person in this little boy.
The fish rots from its bloated head:
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pers...032#.98kzja789Donald Trump has claimed repeatedly that he has had no contact with Russian officials as a presidential candidate.
He was lying.
Trump personally met with the Russian ambassador on April 27, 2016, prior to a major foreign policy speech. The Wall Street Journal, in a report that was little-noticed at the time but was recently picked up by AMERICABlog News, reported the meeting last year.
A few minutes before he made those remarks, Mr. Trump met at a VIP reception with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak. Mr. Trump warmly greeted Mr. Kislyak and three other foreign ambassadors who came to the reception.
Kislyak, according to multiple contemporaneous news reports, was seated in the front row. It was an invitation-only event.
A photo from AFP captures Kislyak taking his seat.
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Trump used the speech to call for warmer relations with Russia.
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I can add to this
Politico: Trump campaign approved Carter Page's trip to Moscow
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...ndowski-235784Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski approved foreign policy adviser Carter Page’s now-infamous trip to Moscow last summer on the condition that he would not be an official representative of the campaign, according to a former campaign adviser.
A few weeks before he traveled to Moscow to give a July 7 speech, Page asked J.D. Gordon, his supervisor on the campaign’s National Security Advisory Committee, for permission to make the trip, and Gordon strongly advised against it, Gordon, a retired Naval officer, told POLITICO.
Page then emailed Lewandowski and spokeswoman Hope Hicks asking for formal approval, and was told by Lewandowski that he could make the trip, but not as an official representative of the campaign, the former campaign adviser said. The adviser spoke on the condition of anonymity because he has not been authorized to discuss internal campaign matters.
The trip is now a focus of congressional and FBI investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.
Lewandowski told POLITICO he did not recall the email exchange with Page, but did not deny that it occurred.
At this point it seems a good 75% of the people surrounding Trump had contact with Russians in one or another capacity.