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>>149332
Hope he pulls through

He gets shot in the ass, goes from stable to critical condition, and requires multiple surgeries. For being shot in the ass.

>>149352
Got shot in the hip, if it hit is upper thigh / femoral artery it could be bad. Femoral likes to pull up into the muscle if cut and could require surgery to clamp

Nationally, the election of Donald Trump has sparked a huge uptick in brand-new candidates for Democratic elections—by late April, the number of Democrats registered to run in 2018 political races had jumped 58% from the last mid-term elections in 2014. A representative from the DNC said these two races were an aberration. “Up-and-down the ballot, Democrats are coming out in droves to run against Trump and a GOP establishment that is trying to repeal health care and rob public schools so they can give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires,” said a DNC spokesman at the committee’s national headquarters in Washington, DC. “There’s no denying the amount of energy on our side of the political divide.”

Still, threats of violence are part of a larger pattern, political experts worry. Last week, Eric Trump, the president’s son, referred to his father’s critics as “not even people” and singled out Democrats, who he said were trying obstruct a “great man.” Montana Republican Greg Gianforte was reelected last month after physically assaulting a reporter. (Gianforte has since pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and will not serve any time in jail.)

“I can’t remember a time when we had candidates of party X pulling out because of threats from party Y,” said Christine Fair, a professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies who has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration. The most recent developments show that there are “some Republicans who are not going to let go of power,” she said, and are “willing to use violence to hang on to it.”

>>149478
You see, this is what winning looks like. This is how you know that what we are doing over on /pol/ is having an effect. Almighty KEK be praised, we're spreading and we're winning.

i'd really like to see proof of any of that

it seems crass to ask for proof about receiving death threats but pay attention for 30 seconds to the recent election and people smearing ketchup over themselves and screaming >muh nazis beat me up!!!!!

anyway, i really doubt any of this happened.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday night that the federal probe into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia during the 2016 campaign, being overseen by Robert Mueller, has now expanded into whether the president attempted to thwart that investigation.

The allegations of obstruction of justice apparently center on Trump’s efforts to encourage former FBI director James Comey to drop an investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Comey testified under oath to Congress last week that Trump told him in a private meeting, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” Trump has since said Comey said things that “weren’t true” while under oath and that he was “100% willing” to testify before Congress.

Flynn, who resigned as national security adviser in February after serving in that position for less than a month, had come under scrutiny for undisclosed conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak and then misleading vice-president Mike Pence about the nature of his contacts with the high-ranking Russian official.

Comey was fired in May by Trump and the president cited “this Russia thing” as a reason for the FBI director’s sacking in an interview with NBC News. The White House had initially claimed Comey’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was the reason for his firing before Trump contradicted his staff’s statements on the topic.

In addition to his alleged attempts to influence Comey, Trump reportedly intervened with Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, in an attempt to ask him to persuade Comey to back off the FBI investigation of Flynn, a close Trump ally. In addition, Trump allegedly asked both Coats and Adm Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, to issue statements denying evidence that his campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 campaign. Both men reportedly declined to do so.

Both the Post and the New York Times are reporting that Mueller is seeking to interview Coats, Rogers and Richard Ledgett, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, in an attempt to gain more information about potential efforts by Trump to obstruct justice.

The reported expansion of the investigation comes only days after speculation mounted that the president might fire Mueller, stoked by a television appearance by Trump confidante Chris Ruddy where he said “terminating” the special counsel was under consideration. Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who would be responsible for making such a decision, told senators on Tuesday that there was “no secret plan” to sack Mueller. However, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters late Tuesday, “While the president has the right to [fire Mueller], he has no intention to do so.”

The White House referred a request for comment on Wednesday to Marc Kasowitz, Trump’s personal attorney. Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Kasowitz, told the Guardian: “The FBI leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable and illegal.” In response to a follow up question about whether anything in the Washington Post story was inaccurate, Corallo simply reiterated his previous statement.

The FBI’s press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

>The California Nurses Assn., which sponsored the bill, released a fiscal analysis this week that proposed raising the state sales and business receipts taxes by 2.3% to raise $106 billion of the annual cost, with the rest proposed to come from state and federal funding already going to Medicare and Medicaid services.

>However Gerald Friedman, a University of Massachusetts economist, has argued that “California’s analysts erred by understating health care cost savings and failing to subtract current health care spending from their projected payroll tax increase.” Friedman’s ultimate conclusion was that “single-payer would save the public and businesses money via cutting bureaucratic costs and negotiating for drugs.

>Nonetheless the bill is a step forward for those looking to ensure a larger blanket of health coverage, but it moves in the exact opposite direction of President Donald Trump’s agenda even though he bizarrely praised Australia for their health care recently — which is subsidized by the government.

>It’s unclear what will happen with Lara’s proposal, but it will now travel to the state Assembly for further development, according to the Times. Republicans in the state have opposed the bill and have argued it isn’t affordable.

>“We don’t have the money to pay for it,” Sen. Tom Berryhill said, according to the Times. He also argues that health care belongs in the private sector and out of the hands of the government. “I absolutely don’t trust the government to run our health system,” Berryhill said. “What has the government ever done right?”'

>>148421
>What has the government ever done right?
>Berryhill said, while working as the government

>>148422
Telltale sign of a Republican; any government that doesn't bow to them is 'Big Government'. Yet he probably trusts Trump with his shiny new AHCA, eh?

>>149568
Stuffing?

>Pedocrats trying to wash themselves of the blood on their hands after months and months of glorifying violence against Trump and the Republican party

Do fuck off to /r/politics now you underage loser

Can we just figure out a way to get old people to forget about the internet? I can't fucking take it anymore.

>>149362
Probobly because CNN put is as their headline:

Sanders to faithful: Take down Trump, take over Democratic Party

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/10/politics/bernie-sanders-peoples-summit/index.html

At any rate I don't think this is appropriate, just let the event pass away before you just jump on washing away the guilt of the Democrats. They, and the media, have been spewing anti Trump/conservative vitriol into the public for the last 5 months and are partially at fault, no doubt.

>>146028
>renegotiate a better deal

He already gutted the clean power plan with no alternative planned. What exactly is he going to renegotiate in an agreement that was non-binding for our government? The physics of vertical heat transfer into ocean waters causing rising sea levels? Does he have a different temperature reduction target in mind for the world?

>>146034
Pulling out of this is much worse than simply leaving a non-treaty.
We helped to craft this deal. Our government's inability to maintain a consistent position on our foreign agreements means our credibility as a country in negotiating any such agreement in the future is gone. Perhaps for generations.
Obama is partly at fault for assuming a republican administration could be reasoned with in the future if the agreement was non-binding.

Did you see macron's video? He basically said that France is welcoming to american green industry to move to. Trump just tossed away a multibillion dollar american industry for dead end coal that can't even compete with framing.
Other countries are already lining up to take this multibillion industry from

>>149371
Decent article, shame it will get nixed due to the image.

Why do you do this OP?

>>149371
>"Seize this opportunity because if you don’t, we’re going to come, and you’re not going to like it."
Damn, son. I want congress to fuck shit up like this every once in a while.

>>149375
>politicians = lots of hot air
You must be young.

>>149109
More butthurt liberals needing gun control

luckily, he was a terrible shot.

>>149109
Russian hackers hacked his gun, forced the gun to shoot. Their cyber signature is all over the gun, experts say

3M Co said other permitting requirements under the Clean Air Act contained "overlapping rules, redundant requirements, conflicts between rules and undue complexity."

The National Association of Manufacturers said the EPA's review requirements for new sources of emissions such as factories can add $100,000 in costs for modeling air quality to a new facility and delay factory expansions by 18 months.

It added that EPA should find ways to ease burdens for smaller projects and smaller firms.

Also drawing complaints from construction groups and iron foundries is an incoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule reducing by 80 percent the amount of crystalline silica dust that can be inhaled.

The dust, common on construction sites, can cause lung cancer, according to OSHA, but industry groups say reducing it to those levels will be prohibitively expensive.

"To meet these much lower levels, new engineering controls and other measures will become necessary within the roofing industry," said the National Roofing Contractors Association.

Trump has already taken steps to roll back some not fully completed Obama-era environmental regulations such as restrictions on coal-fired power plants and a clean water rule greatly restricting runoff into small streams.

But the Commerce list may target some rules already on the books.

"We are at the outset of what we think will be a very intense deregulatory agenda from the Trump team," said Amit Narang, regulatory policy advocate at Public Citizen, a consumer watchdog group. "We are concerned that they are looking to gut regulations that benefit workers and benefit consumers."

Another OSHA rule that drew industry complaints is one that further reduces worker exposure to beryllium, another potential carcinogen, that became effective on May 20 after a decade-long rulemaking effort.

Manufacturing groups including auto parts makers have also targeted labor rules that make it easier for unions to organize workers, expand the number of employees eligible for overtime and govern the reporting of workplace injuries.

The range of industry complaints is vast. Mining giant Freeport-McMoRan argued that planned EPA financial responsibility requirements for hard rock mining operations costing billions of dollars were based on inadequate study and "will have disastrous consequences for the mining industry."

Guitar maker Taylor Guitars said that permits needed from the Fish and Wildlife Service for mother-of-pearl used to decorate instruments was unnecessarily raising its costs.

"This declaration requirement does not seem to serve any conservation or other purpose. The shell is not a species that is protected under law," the company said.

yup, world's fucked, we know, but muh corporations """need""" the """extra""" money

>Aid groups, which have been focusing both fundraising and programming around women and girls for years, welcomed the shift of tone in Ottawa.
>“There needs to be a focus on girls, not because of a philosophical idea but because of what an evidence-based approach shows us,” said Caroline Riseboro, president and CEO of Plan International Canada.
>“The research shows beyond a doubt that investment in a girl’s education is the most effective investment we can make in international assistance.”
>Unlike the previous government’s focus on maternal and child health that refused to fund abortions, access to contraceptives and abortion is a key plank in the new foreign aid policy that seeks to delay early marriage and childbirth and prolong girl’s education in order to improve family incomes.
>But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has kept one controversial feature of development aid policy started by his predecessor: private sector partnerships to leverage additional funding for international aid programs.
>The policy release was the latest salvo in a week of announcements laying out a re-imagined role for Canada in the world. But while those in the aid community applauded the bold women-centred vision, they also asked why there was no new funding announced for aid, when military spending received a $14 billion annual hike.

>“What’s the message we’re sending to the world? Are we saying that we’re going to invest in our military, but the development side, the soft side of peace and security isn’t important? That we don’t feel we need to do our fair share on that front as well?” said Julia Sanchez, President of Canadian Council for International Co-operation, an association of aid groups.
>At just under $5 billion, Canada’s international assistance budget has been flat for the last few years, even as the economy grew. At an estimated 0.26 per cent of gross domestic product, Canada’s development spending is near an all-time low and ranks 18th in the world, according to the Organization of Economic Co-Operation and Development.
>The new aid policy is very high level, and aid groups say it lacked detailed discussion of how particular development projects would be funded. But the feminist vision is a good way to get Canadians involved in thinking about foreign aid.
>“The challenge with international development is always helping Canadians see the connection with their lives,” said Sanchez.
>“The focus on women’s empowerment overseas, at a time when that conversation is very much alive in Canada — closing the pay gap, the missing and murdered Indigenous women inquiry — can get people who are excited about the feminist agenda in Canada to also get excited about doing this overseas,” Sanchez said.

>The logic for adopting a feminist stance for international development is well founded.
>Because girls are disproportionately poor, less well educated and more vulnerable to illness and disease, helping them will help the world’s most vulnerable people. But studies have also shown that once women take up leadership roles — in peace building, business and politics — outcomes are better, meaning empowering women ends up benefitting men as well.
>“When women are at the centre of economic initiatives, whether it’s in a boardroom or in the community, they make a difference. Businesses are more profitable, loans get paid back. Earnings and the family’s well being improve,” said Sanchez.
>“Peace is also an exciting area. There’s a lot of evidence that women involved in peace making efforts, they’re more successful, they arrive faster. There’s a huge amount of opportunity for Canada and the world by focusing in on women.”
>Recognizing that foreign aid does more than alleviate poverty, Ottawa is using the new policy to highlight the ways that development assistance can help accomplish the goals set out in multiple international initiatives, from the UN’s sustainable development goals to the Paris Agreement on climate change.
>Pledging Canada’s commitment to these principles is significant, especially after the U.S. has started to question them.
>“The global agenda around gender equality is really at risk of getting off track right now,” said Plan Canada’s Riseboro. “Canada has stepped forward and said ‘now is our time to play a leadership role globally.’”

>Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian American activist and co-founder of the Women's March addressed the crowd.

>"We as Muslim Americans are here to stay.

>This country was founded and built on the backs of Muslims and black people," Sarsour said. "Islam is not a foreign entity to this United States. People from multiple religions also joined in meal and prayer to show their solidarity.

>The event came days after Trump issued a statement wishing Muslims a joyful Ramadan and highlighting the terrorist attack in Manchester, England. He called out the "perverted ideology" of the ISIS-linked attackers deemed responsible for the bombing.

>Trump has also been criticized for using an Islamophobic rethoric during his presidential campaign but in a speech during his Saudi Arabia trip, he tried to make clear the US is not at war with Islam.

>Last week, it became public that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declined to host an event commemorating Ramadan.

>Since 1999, five of Tillerson's predecessors hosted either an iftar dinner to break the fast during Ramadan, or an Eid al-Fitr reception at the end of the month-long holiday.

>This country was founded and built on the backs of Muslims and black people

I don't even know where to begin with this one

>>146143
I wish I lived there.
I'd be making so much money off of this.
I know muslims are pretty jewish about their money, but with so many people, there's bound to be some business to be made on this.

>"They're [the Saudis] purposely creating a humanitarian crisis inside Yemen to bring the Houthis and Saleh to the negotiating table, and in the process the Saudis are making terrorist groups like al Qaeda and ISIS stronger," Murphy said in a press statement.

>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other supporters of the sale say the Saudis need the weapons to help fight ISIS and to act as a counterweight to growing Iranian influence in the region.

>"As we know, some have raised the issue of Saudi conduct of that war [in Yemen], but blocking this arms sale will diminish Saudi capability to target with precision." McConnell said. "Part of the training provided to Saudi Arabia will be on subjects such as avoiding civilian casualties."

>Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., said blocking the sale would be a victory for Iran. "If you don't think containing Iran and keeping them from toppling Yemen, Iraq, Syria [and] Lebanon is not in our national interest, you're making a huge mistake," he said.

>The current resolution has gained greater support than previous attempts at blocking arms sales. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced his support for the resolution this last weekend.

>"The human rights and humanitarian concerns have been well documented and are important: of equal concern to me is that the Saudi government continues to aid and abet terrorism via its relationship with Wahhabism and the funding of schools that spread extremist propaganda throughout the world," Schumer said in a statement.

>The conflict in Yemen between the internationally recognized government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels has killed thousands of civilians, and the Saudi-led coalition's blockade of Yemen has left 70 percent of the country in need of humanitarian aid. Saudi air strikes backed by the U.S have been accused by the United Nations of causing widespread civilian casualties.

>"The close vote in the Senate shows opposition to arms sales to Saudi Arabia is growing because Americans are increasingly opposed to supporting a war in Yemen which is targeting innocents. Momentum is with no camp," Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Intelligence Center and senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy, told UPI.

>The $110 billion Saudi arms deal, which the Trump administration has called the largest ever, has faced opposition from Senate Democrats and some Republicans. Specific details of many of the individual sales remain unclear.

>>149293
>As we know, some have raised the issue of Saudi conduct of that war [in Yemen], but blocking this arms sale will diminish Saudi capability to target with precision


you cant make this up..

>>144895
McCain is an old hack, and as much as I love Star Trek and Mr. Sulu, Takei doesn't know his shit about politics aside from what suits his lefty leanings. All understandable in both cases but both are blinded by their own egos.

>>144895
Yeahhhh, I'm gonna say ISIS is worse than Russia

McCain is one of the few Republicans left who hasn't gone completely fucking insane.

We can bomb ISIS. We can't bomb Russia.

>>148842
Rich elite steal 100,000$ and gets a slap on the wrist

>>148848
Well, if she pleaded guilty and it was a legit borrowed card it's conceivable what followed might have been done in honest but dumb error and that she has the resources to immediately make the plaintiff whole. For some rich folks, 100K doesn't mean that much, hard as it may be to believe. And there is no mandatory minimum sentence for first time grand larceny offenders in NY to my knowledge.

>>148842
Proof that there are rules for the elite and well connected, and something different for the rest of us.