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Can republicucks get anything right?

>>158348

Passing this would not have been getting anything right other than serving their billionaire donors.

We finally have insurance that works like every other modern country. If we have to go the private insurance market rout, there are some basic immutable economics that have to be recognized. Comprehensive health insurance isn't affordable for everyone unless everyone buys some. We don't have to speculate about that, we had already tried it.

Republicans have been handed the golden opportunity to improve upon it. Stuff like fixing how insurers lock out certain regions from coverage to maintain competition in private insurance markets. That was supposed to get done when dems controlled the exec branch but didn't because repubs controlled the legislature and wanted to score some cheap political points.

>>158349
Honestly...if 20,000 poor Americans died per day because they didn't have health insurance, I'd feel really really good about that.

I see no reason to give universal healthcare. It should be bought as a service just like any other, using insurance, no matter how expensive it is.

>>153520
They could have worded this better. Its just a doctor who shot people. Not a DoctorWho. Everyone go home nothing special here.

Nigger. Greentext the fucking article or don't post. Faggot.

>>153543
the link is right there anon

>The state of this fucking Administration

I dont really know American law, but isn't trump entitled to not have every single sandwitch he ever bought checked?

Dont You have laws that apply to this?

>>160106
yeah for any person, not even just the president, by law there is supposed to be substantial "probable cause" to warrant an investigation
his political establishment opposition does not have strong enough probable cause to justify the relatively zealous attempts at prosecution, warranting a countersuit from Trump for the obvious conflict of interest from the prosecutors

>Mr Trump's campaign team is also under investigation by the FBI, Congress, and Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller for alleged ties to Russian officials prior to Mr Trump taking office.

>The possible closure points to “a real lack of interest in what other countries are going through,” Ms Eoyang said.

>The State Department should be “the natural point of contact” for diplomats wanting to discuss cybersecurity issues, Ms Eoyang explained, adding that “no country will want to talk” the National Security Agency (NSA).

>The may not want to deal with the Trump administration-proposed US Cyber Command either, to be carved from the NSA.

>The nature of these US government offices is not inherently about diplomacy like the State Department’s office.

>The Government Accountability Office is still reviewing the proposed split and Representative Adam Smith, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, told Politico that “we must avoid leaving either organisation with diminished capabilities or creating institutional gaps that could endanger national security”.

>Jason Healey, a senior cyber researcher at Columbia University told Politico that “if the US were to surrender that leadership [on cyber security]...[it] would mean the future internet will have more Russian and Chinese characteristics.”

>Michael Sulmeyer, director of the Harvard Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project and former director of Cyber Policy Plans and Operations at the Defence Department, told The Independent that the closing this office “would be a step backwards for U.S. leadership in the world on this issue.”

>Another former US cybersecurity official told The Independent that because cyber security is an increasingly important national security issue in light of Russia, “the Untied States creates risk for itself when it short-changes the diplomatic element”.

>Ms Eoyang points out as well that what Russia did by “breaking into a campaign’s headquarters” as they did in hacking the Democratic National Committee is “criminal” and Mr Tillerson may shut down the office under his purview responsible for dealing with that problem.

>Part of the problem is that Mr Painter was, according to Mr Sulmeyer, “‘the” voice of American diplomacy on such a wide-range of technology and cyber security issues”.

>Mr Painter had investigated and prosecuted cyber crime cases in Los Angeles as a US Attorney, in the Department of Justice, FBI, and National Security Council.

>He is not a political appointee, but a career civil servant, which the former US cyber security official felt limits the Mr Painter’s power in the position.

>However, Mr Sulmeyer said Mr Painter’s breadth and depth of experience made it easy for him to work across the US government and understand the concerns of other countries from a more holistic view.

>“The risks are that it will take the State Department a long time to select a permanent successor if they ever do, and that the learning curve on these issues is steep,” said Mr Sulmeyer.

>Whoever is appointed - because “someone has to represent the US in international fora...better be a quick study and good at working towards constructive outcomes. A pit-bull mentality is not ideal for this kind of job. But that person must be on-guard for efforts to undermine US interests”.

>It would not be surprising if the position does go unfilled given the many positions within the State Department that Mr Tillerson has yet to fill.

>At the highest level, the Trump administration only has six Senate-confirmed Ambassadors around the world: the United Nations, Israel, Senegal/Guinea-Bissau, Congo-Brazzaville, China, and New Zealand/Samoa.

>“Coalitions require maintenance, and senior leadership is a part of that. But if [Mr] Tillerson decides to fill the role...they will find a very capable staff of career officials advising them,” said one former US official.

HOW THE FUCK CAN TRUMP DO THIS
We worked for 10 years on Syria. We invested countless billions and almost a million lives. And he just hands it all over to Putin.

>>158922
I wonder if it is the president himself that pushed this or someone actually competent, like Mattis?

In any case, it's really bad timing, especially when reports are coming out about that "undisclosed" 2nd meeting he had with Putin and the unraveling of junior's lies. You really have to wonder if they're just dumb or truly compromised.

>>158947
>"undisclosed" 2nd meeting
I love this. The left has truly lost it's mind. They are outraged that two world leaders had a meeting at a meeting for world leaders.

He is even lucky, could get more years in jail if Moro was clever. They did not confirmed that Lula id the owner of a farmhouse.
We are close to the 2018 elections, so get him arrested now would be a mistake without any proofs of his act. Anyway, this condenation takes the focus from president Michel Temer, that is also being judged. This country is a big circus.

What did you learn in school today,
Dear little boy of mine?
I learned our Government must be strong;
It's always right and never wrong;
Our leaders are the finest men
And we elect them again and again.

Humala and Toledo from Peru might also be involved.

So Mueller tried to blackmail Manafort to get him to turn against Trump?
How is allowed to do that?

>>159901
If the police catch a drug dealer, they use a carrot and stick to get them to rat out their supplier. If Manafort is innocent, then they have nothing to blackmail him with. If he's guilty let them twist his arm. You can't investigate a conspiracy without flipping witnesses, and if Manafort cooperates, it'll help to pad his fall.

>But it's a witch hunt, the FBI are out to hang them all regardless of evidence!
I mean, you can shield anything with conspiracy theories. If you choose to believe a lying, self-serving New York ex-Democrat rather than the consistently conservative members of the FBI, go ahead.

>>159911
Oh please. Mueller is the deep state personified. He might as well write "THE ELECTION MEANS SHIT, WE DECIDE WHO IS PRESIDENT" on his forehead.

>>159879
How many people have the dems killed off at this point? I really can't keep track

>>159879
Jeez the Democrats are busy this week

STOP HILLARY
PLEASE NO MORE ARKANCIDE

Lmao

I honestly wonder if he has Alzheimer's or something. It really is hard to understand how someone can act this dumb otherwise.

>>159068
He's not dumb. He is doubling down constantly on purpose, because he WANTS a constitutional crisis that will determine whether he is subject to the rule of law or not.

He has no interest in playing the long game since once he is out of office he would no longer be in a position to capitalize on a victory against the rule of law and the creations of a Republican one party state.

>>159410
>"teens"
>"Get out the water, you going down!"

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm........................

>>159412
Dont make assumptions

>>159412
NIGGERS

>One of Trump's real-estate advisers in the early 2000s, the Russia-born businessman Felix Sater, was accused nearly two decades ago of being a co-conspirator in a $40 million fraud and money-laundering scheme involving four Mafia families. Trump worked with the real-estate firm at which Sater was an executive, Bayrock Group, on at least four projects that ultimately failed, including the Trump SoHo in Manhattan.

>A lawsuit brought against Sater and others in 2015, which is ongoing, alleges that "for most of its existence it [Bayrock] was substantially and covertly mob-owned and operated," engaging "in a pattern of continuous, related crimes, including mail, wire, and bank fraud; tax evasion; money laundering; conspiracy; bribery; extortion; and embezzlement."

>The lawsuit was first filed in 2008 by Bayrock's former finance director, Jody Kriss, who accused Arif and Sater of cheating him out of millions of dollars via fraud, money laundering, and racketeering, among other misconduct. In December, a New York judge ruled that the lawsuit could move forward as a racketeering case.

>According to that complaint, Sater and Arif began negotiating with the Trump Organization in 2003 to market certain projects under the Trump brand, but didn't tell Trump about Sater's criminal past.

>In a 2007 deposition, Trump said his organization never would have agreed to partner with Bayrock Group on the development of Trump SoHo had he known about Sater's past. Trump also testified that he would not be able to identify Sater if they were standing in the same room.

>Bayrock's office was once two floors below Trump's in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. A person familiar with the matter — who requested anonymity for fear of retribution by Sater or his associates — told Business Insider that Sater and Trump had standing meetings each week.

He is hiring nothing but Clinton cronies and he is expanding the Russia nonsense to a personal witch hunt.
Trump needs to fire this Mueller schmuck.

>Sater has said in a deposition that he met with Trump "on a constant basis," Bloomberg has reported, and Kriss told the publication that Trump valued Sater's loyalty — and his Russia connections.

>"It's ridiculous that I wouldn't be investing in Russia," Trump said in a 2007 deposition. "Russia is one of the hottest places in the world for investment."

>Sater was evidently still in touch with Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, as recently as late January. The two met at a New York hotel on January 27 to discuss a peace plan for Russia and Ukraine that was drafted by a Ukrainian politician, Andrey Artemenko, The Times reported. Cohen was said to have delivered the plan directly to Michael Flynn before he resigned as national security adviser on February 13, though Cohen has disputed that in subsequent interviews.

>Sater showed Ivanka Trump and her brother, Donald Jr., around Moscow in 2006 when their father was scouting real estate in Russia. They stayed for several days at the Hotel National Moscow opposite the Kremlin, according to The New York Times.

Miss Universe in Moscow

>Mueller is apparently interested in learning more about Trump's relationship with Aras Agalarov, a billionaire Azerbaijani-Russian developer who paid Trump $20 million to bring his Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013.

>Agalarov came under renewed scrutiny earlier this month when The New York Times reported that his son, Emin, brokered a meeting between Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer last June at Trump Tower. An email chain released later by Trump Jr. showed that Emin's publicist, Rob Goldstone, had arranged the meeting on his behalf.

>While in Moscow, Trump had dinner with the CEO of Russia's largest bank, Herman Gref — a Putin ally whom Trump met, along with at least 10 other Russian businessmen and oligarchs, while he was in Moscow for the pageant.

Simpson, appeared grayer and heavier than most remembered him when he was last seen, four years ago.

He will appear Thursday by videoconference from the Lovelock Correctional Center, to be quizzed by four state parole commissioners in Carson City, a two-hour drive away.

Two other members of the board will monitor the hearing, said David Smith, a parole hearing examiner.

The commissioners will have a parole hearing report that has not been made public, plus guidelines and worksheets that would appear to favor Simpson. It plans to make its written risk assessment public after a decision.

They will consider his age, whether his conviction was for a violent crime (it was), his prior criminal history (he had none) and his plans after release, Smith said.

Nevada has about 13,500 prison inmates, and the governor-appointed Board of Parole Commissioners has averaged about 8,300 annual hearings for the past four years.
The rate of inmates who are granted parole in discretionary hearings held as they approach their minimum sentence, like Simpson’s, averages about 82 percent.

The same four board members also have experience with Simpson, having granted him parole in July 2013 on some charges — kidnapping, robbery and burglary — stemming from the 2007 armed confrontation. The board’s decision left Simpson with four years to serve before reaching his minimum time behind bars.

Board members Connie Bisbee, Tony Corda, Adam Endel and Susan Jackson noted at the time that Simpson had a “positive institutional record,” with no disciplinary actions behind bars.

Simpson’s lawyer, friends and prison officials say that hasn’t changed.

“He’s really been a positive force in there. He’s done a lot of good for a lot of people,” said Tom Scotto, a friend from Florida whose wedding Simpson was in Las Vegas to attend the weekend of the robbery.

Scotto said he visits or talks with Simpson every few months.

>>158162
Damn, he got real fat

Simpson leads a Baptist prayer group, mentors inmates, works in the gym, coaches sports teams and serves as commissioner of the prison yard softball league, Scotto said.

Scotto will be among the 15 people with Simpson in a small conference room at the prison, along with Simpson’s lawyer, Malcolm LaVergne, daughter Arnelle Simpson and sister Shirley Baker.

A parole case worker, two prison guards and a small pool of media also were expected, along with Andy Caldwell, a retired Las Vegas police detective who investigated the Simpson case, and Bruce Fromong, one of the memorabilia dealers who was robbed.

“I don’t want to offer an opinion,” said Caldwell, now a Christian minister in Lyons, Oregon. “I’m just curious to see how everything unfolds.”

Fromong said he will attend as a victim of the crime but will be “trying to be good for O.J.” He said he suffered four heart attacks and severe financial losses as a result of the robbery but later forgave Simpson.

The other collectibles broker, Alfred Beardsley, died in 2015.

In a nod to Simpson’s celebrity, officials will let the proceedings be streamed live, and the board plans a same-day ruling. A decision usually takes several days.

Laurie Levenson, a Loyola Law School professor and longtime Simpson case analyst, predicted a “tsunami” of public attention if Simpson wins release.

“If this is the ordinary case, he will be paroled,” Levenson said. “But O.J. is never the ordinary case.”

Al Lasso, a Las Vegas defense attorney who has followed the case but does not represent Simpson, said any other defendant in a similar case probably would have gotten probation, not prison.

Asteroids

There are only a dozen known asteroids and dwarf planets with enough mass to boil the oceans (2x1018 kg), these include (Vesta 2x1020 kg) and Pluto (1022 kg), however none of these objects will intersect the Earth's orbit and pose a threat to tardigrades.

Supernova

In order to boil the oceans an exploding star would need to be 0.14 light-years away. The closest star to the Sun is four light years away and the probability of a massive star exploding close enough to Earth to kill all forms of life on it, within the Sun's lifetime, is negligible.

Gamma-Ray bursts

Gamma-ray bursts are brighter and rarer than supernovae. Much like supernovas, gamma-ray bursts are too far away from earth to be considered a viable threat. To be able to boil the world's oceans the burst would need to be no more than 40 light-years away, and the likelihood of a burst occurring so close is again, minor.

Dr Rafael Alves Batista, Co-author and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Oxford University, said: "Without our technology protecting us, humans are a very sensitive species. Subtle changes in our environment impact us dramatically. There are many more resilient species' on earth. Life on this planet can continue long after humans are gone.

"Tardigrades are as close to indestructible as it gets on Earth, but it is possible that there are other resilient species examples elsewhere in the universe. In this context there is a real case for looking for life on Mars and in other areas of the solar system in general. If Tardigrades are earth's most resilient species, who knows what else is out there."

Dr David Sloan, Co-author and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Oxford University, said: "A lot of previous work has focused on 'doomsday' scenarios on Earth - astrophysical events like supernovae that could wipe out the human race.

Our study instead considered the hardiest species - the tardigrade.

As we are now entering a stage of astronomy where we have seen exoplanets and are hoping to soon perform spectroscopy, looking for signatures of life, we should try to see just how fragile this hardiest life is.

To our surprise we found that although nearby supernovae or large asteroid impacts would be catastrophic for people, tardigrades could be unaffected.

Therefore it seems that life, once it gets going, is hard to wipe out entirely. Huge numbers of species, or even entire genera may become extinct, but life as a whole will go on."
In highlighting the resilience of life in general, the research broadens the scope of life beyond Earth, within and outside of this solar system.

Professor Abraham Loeb, co-author and chair of the Astronomy department at Harvard University, said: "It is difficult to eliminate all forms of life from a habitable planet. The history of Mars indicates that it once had an atmosphere that could have supported life, albeit under extreme conditions.

Organisms with similar tolerances to radiation and temperature as tardigrades could survive long-term below the surface in these conditions. The subsurface oceans that are believed to exist on Europa and Enceladus, would have conditions similar to the deep oceans of Earth where tardigrades are found, volcanic vents providing heat in an environment devoid of light. The discovery of extremophiles in such locations would be a significant step forward in bracketing the range of conditions for life to exist on planets around other stars."

>>157565
Considering they feed on other organisms they won't live long after.

Sorry guys but I've been giving this some thought and if the USA ruin their internet it might give Britain some purpose post-Brexit.

So as much as I'd love to show solidarity I don't think it's in my best interest.

>>156440
I'm sure you understand.

After all so many of you supported Brexit purely because it would weaken the EU.

Have a nice day.

>>156435
>Nobody should be paying to view a website. Net neutrality is the idea that the internet is open to all users, and is free to browse at your will. However, many big cable companies are conspiring to control your online experience. This can lead to website blocking, censorship, and extra fees. Sign the petition and keep the internet free from greedy hands
>https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

There is not a single sentence in your statement which is correct. Please go watch some TV and have a cookie whole the adults who actually know what's happening fight for liberty.

DEMOCRATS! THIS IS TOO MUCH
YOU FUCKING JEWS WILL PAY FOR THIS

Oh shit it's true. They really fucked up this time.

>Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr linked to investigation group behind salacious Steele Dossier
http://www.independent.co.uk/News/world/americas/us-politics/trump-jr-russian-lawyer-steele-dossier-natalia-veselnitskaya-gps-fusion-a7834541.html

It just keeps getting worse. She even has direct connections to fusion GPS the DNC opposition research firm.