Senate Health Bill Revealed, Trump Didn't Tape Comey, Torture at Secret Yemen Prisons: P.M. Links

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  The Senate's draft replacement for the Affordable Care Act was unveiled this morning. Peter Suderman analyzes the legislation here. Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Kentucky), Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Lee (Utah), and Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) have already stated they do not support the legislation as written.

• After Bloomberg reported from sources that President Donald Trump does not actually have tapes of his private meetings with fired FBI Director James Comey, Trump tweeted that he didn't make any recordings himself.
• The Supreme Court ruled today that the United States cannot revoke citizenship for naturalized citizens who lie to U.S. officials on matters unrelated to gaining citizenship.
• There are secret prisons in Yemen where suspected militants are tortured and grilled. Literally grilled, as in burned, not just heavily interrogated. The United States knows about the prisons and has interrogated suspected militants there, but officials say they were unaware of any torture going on at the sites, run by United Arab Emirates.
• The man who brought a gun into a D.C. pizza parlor subject to a bizarre political pedophile conspiracy theory known as "Pizzagate" has been sentenced to four years in prison.
• Carrier, the air conditioner company who Trump dealt with to keep jobs here in America, is reportedly preparing to lay off 600 people and ship jobs to Mexico anyway.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Carrier, the air conditioner company who Trump dealt with to keep jobs here in America, is reportedly preparing to lay off 600 people and ship jobs to Mexico anyway.

I blame fake news.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"Literally grilled, as in burned,"

Shish taouk craving!

[Bob K]

I blame Daikin/Goodman. Make um raise their price. Get um Trump.

Thank god this scheme isn't working for him because when a new HVAC system costs you double, you may not buy it and then not only are manufacturers out of work but so are the fucking installers. What an asshole, who should know better having made his money in construction.

[Square = Circle]

who should know better having made his money in construction.

You would think, but the fact that he doesn't undergirds the idea that he's not nearly as successful as he pretends to be.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The man who brought a gun into a D.C. pizza parlor subject to a bizarre political pedophile conspiracy theory known as "Pizzagate" has been sentenced to four years in prison.

And yet those pizza pervs are free to toss all the pies they want. smdh

[Fist of Etiquette]

The United States knows about the prisons and has interrogated suspected militants there, but officials say they were unaware of any torture going on at the sites...

In fact, they made it their business to be unaware.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

President Donald Trump does not actually have tapes of his private meetings with fired FBI Director James Comey

Who uses tapes anymore? Trump prolly got that HD shizz.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Supreme Court ruled today that the United States cannot revoke citizenship for naturalized citizens who lie to U.S. officials on matters unrelated to gaining citizenship.

If we can't strip citizenship from those who weren't born with it, how are we going to slide down that slope to stripping at a bureaucrat's whim citizenship from anyone?

[Tejicano]

One of the "little wrinkles" to this issue that I haven't seen discussed - Many countries require their citizens to formally renounce citizenship when they take up citizenship in another country. In many cases, when they become US citizens they have to renounce citizenship from their former nationality. So in a number of cases when the US somewhere down the road strips a person of citizenship they end up being stateless. If the US deports them they can't just automatically go back where they came from.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Being stateless just sounds badass. Like Lone Wolf and Cub or some shit. No laws work against him, who can control him?

[Fist of Etiquette]

...Trump tweeted that he didn't make any recordings himself.

Well, other than live tweeting them.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Carrier, the air conditioner company who Trump dealt with to keep jobs here in America, is reportedly preparing to lay off 600 people and ship jobs to Mexico anyway.

Good luck getting over the wall mother fuckers.

[OldMexican Blankety Blank]

Ban airplanes!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Republican Sens. Rand Paul (Kentucky), Ted Cruz (Texas), Mike Lee (Utah), and Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) have already stated they do not support the legislation as written.

Look who wants Obamacare to stay the law of the land. Sad.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

The Senate's draft replacement for the Affordable Care Act was unveiled this morning.

Anything can be considered "art" these days.

[Square = Circle]

Yeah - and this one is just a rip off of the famous Duchamp sculpture. These guys have no originality.

[Rich]

By "this one" I presume you mean the SFed link.

[Square = Circle]

No - "this" is "The Senate's draft replacement for the Affordable Care Act." The SF'd link was this.

[Square = Circle]

Although now I notice it's only a reproduction of Duchamp's original ; )

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

*cough* Oh hey Fist, you come here often?

[Fist of Etiquette]

You brought this on yourself.

[Crusty Juggler - Alpha]

An Exhaustive Breakdown of Patrick Swayze's 'Road House'

Sam Elliott shows his pubes.

What more do you need?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

This stuff is like anti-Shark Week.

[Crusty Juggler - Alpha]

Entertaining? Fun?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

*kicks some pebbles with his foot*

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

a bizarre political pedophile conspiracy theory known as "Pizzagate"

So much for journalistic objectivity!

[Crusty Juggler - Alpha]

He is just trying to impress his cocktail party friends.

[Tony]

Even I'm impressed by how the Clintons keep getting away with such ostentatiously horrific crimes.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Whoa.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Guess I'm going to play some Town of Salem on Steam since I dipped out of work.

It's a game that lets me lynch rl woke teenagers and trolls all in one go. Can't get enough of it actually.

[colorblindkid]

"There are secret prisons in Yemen where suspected militants are tortured and grilled. Literally grilled, as in burned, not just heavily interrogated. The United States knows about the prisons and has interrogated suspected militants there, but officials say they were unaware of any torture going on at the sites, run by United Arab Emirates."

Sounds a lot worse than waterboarding...Somehow this will be blamed on Trump instead of Obama, though.

[Square = Circle]

Suddenly our government is doing all kinds of terrible things!

[Jerry on the sea]

Damn Trump and his wedding drone strikes.

[Crusty Juggler - Alpha]

The Senate's draft replacement for the Affordable Care Act was unveiled this morning. Peter Suderman analyzes the legislation here.

ITS GOING TO DEFEND PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND THE LEFT HATES IT SO I AM ALL FOR IT!

[Crusty Juggler - Alpha]

There are secret prisons in Yemen where suspected militants are tortured and grilled.

If you don't want to be tortured in a prison, don't break the law - it's as simple as that.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Do they marinate them first, or just use a dry rub?

[Libertarian]

Euphemism?

[Domestic Dissident]

Block Insane Yomomma attacks the republican health care bill from Resistance Headquarters in his underground command post bunker in Kalorama.

This is unprecedented in my lifetime by the way. My whole life, every president before this one had the decency to recognize when his time in office was at and end, leave Washington and go back home, keep a relatively low profile, and allow his successor to do the job with a minimum of interference. This is the first time ever one of them has acted like a no class mofo and stayed behind in Washington to lead a "resistance" from a multi-million dollar bunker.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

You must be shaking.

[Rich]

Sheep gives birth to 'half-human half-beast' creature that was 'sent by the devil'

Not "fake news"!

[Libertarian]

"That sheep is a dirty liar!"

[Rich]

"Bah!"

[Tony]

Fuck enough sheep and "life finds a way."

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Sheepsquatch Jr.?

[gaoxiaen]

That article is just satyr.

[Tejicano]

You just had to goat there.

[BestUsedCarSales]

We've known about this for years, his name is STEVE SMITH.

[Libertarian]

Our involvement in the Yemen fiasco should be an international scandal. This is the war where Obama signed some piece of paper that "officialized" 16 year olds as soldiers. It makes me embarrassed to be an American

[Domestic Dissident]

Actual tweet from Senator Elizabeth Warren:

I've read the Republican "health care" bill. This is blood money. They're paying for tax cuts with American lives.

Wow. Way to tone town the rhetoric there, Senator. Are you trying to incite more of your insane followers to carry out their their homicidal impulses, maybe make another attempt at mass murder?

[Rich]

I trust Trump will tweet her back something to the effect of:

Apparently you did not read the Democrat "health care" bill. Sad.

[Tony]

She's correct to the letter, unlike the insane shrieks of rage coming from one of Trump's lynch mobs.

[Domestic Dissident]

I think you should load up an AR-15 and storm into Congress screaming with it to see what happens. Maybe you can put a stop to this!

[Bubba Jones]

democrats don't actually care if other people die.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Just because the health care bill sucks doesn't mean Warren's hysterics are in any way warranted or accurate.

[mad.casual]

I've read the Republican "health care" bill. This is blood money. They're paying for tax cuts with American lives.

It's bizarre that how these people can completely fail to grasp the fungibility of money but virtually any other medium, blood, oil, lives... can be passed around and spent interchangeably.

No blood for healthcare! No blood for healthcare!

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Lizzie One-Drop is on the warpath again!

[mad.casual]

Literally grilled, as in burned, not just heavily interrogated. The United States knows about the prisons and has interrogated suspected militants there, but officials say they were unaware of any torture going on at the sites, run by United Arab Emirates.

The pigs rolled in ranch dressing and force fed to prisoners on the other hand... were awesome!

[Stormy Dragon]

Trump really is a monster:

President Trump angers golf fans by driving golf cart on green at one of his clubs

[BestUsedCarSales]

Things are adding up. Trump is a fat fuck.

[OldMexican Blankety Blank]

Carrier, the air conditioner company who Trump dealt with to keep jobs here in America, is reportedly preparing to lay off 600 people and ship jobs to Mexico anyway.

So much for "Making America Grating Again!"

[BestUsedCarSales]

What happened to Robby? I feel like I haven't seen him in weeks.

[Calidissident]

He's on a hiatus to write a book.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Ah. I miss him. I miss him so much.

[Bra Ket]

"'In imposing the sentence, the judge said she was handing down a penalty she said was needed to uphold the rule of law against vigilante justice. "

So it isn't so much about the crime or victims as maintaining the monopoly on dispensing justice.