'Obamacare Repeal' Clears Procedural Hurdles, California Mulls Advertising Restrictions on Marijuana, and China and Russia Conduct Joint Military Operations: P.M. Links

• Glen Simpson, who's company Fusion GPS produced the infamous Trump dossier during the 2016 campiagn, will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

• The Senate's "Obamacare repeal" bill cleared some procedural hurdles today, with Vice President Mike Pence casting a tie-breaking vote to being debate on the law. Read Reason's rundown of events here.

• California takes aim at branded marijuana dispensary t-shirts and swag. A proposed bill would make them illegal.

• After a two-day manhunt, the suspect in a mass chainsaw attack in Switzerland that left five injured is in police custody.

• China and Russia hold joint military exercises in the Baltic Sea, provoking geopolitical tensions.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Second.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

What do you get when you fuse ENB and Fruit Sushi?

Looks like Christian.

/looks at watch.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

What do you get when you fuse ENB and Fruit Sushi?

Hot chick, amazing hair?

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Did you just insult ENB's hair? That's really below the belt, HV.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Bro we're all mangy dogs in comparison to Robby's coiffed mane.

[chemjeff]

Well that's certainly true.

[Dillinger]

>>>What do you get when you fuse ENB and Fruit Sushi?

I'd be late to links...

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

This comment is getting better with age.

[Eek Barba Durkle]

What do you get when you fuse ENB and Fruit Sushi?

My most confused euphemism session yet this week?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Glen Simpson, who's company Fusion GPS produced the infamous Trump dossier during the 2016 campaign...

He swears he was just taking the piss.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Senate's Obamacare repeal bill cleared some procedural hurdles today...

Raise the MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner, boys.

[Citizen X - #6]

Christian Britschgi|July 25, 2017 5:00 pm

Fuck, man.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I don't want to sound hysterical, but I'm so offended by this that I will attempt to bring down Treason magazine from the inside.

[Citizen X - #6]

I'm this close to starting a new website to complain about this one, for realsies.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Felinertarians.com?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Is that what the glib boys do all day?

[Citizen X - #6]

How the fuck should i know?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Lots of posting pictures of gigantic asses last I looked. Which is great.

[Citizen X - #6]

Damn, i miss Heroic Mulatto.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

I would say HM and SugarFree are the glibs I miss the most.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Them and Agile Cyborg for me. But I really don't like their new site. I tried, but eh.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Agile is not a glib, is he? That would be very un-Agile-like. He disappeared, and I surmised that giant pile of tape measures in his garage finally collapsed and buried him. Either that or he finally ran out of acid.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I just assume everyone I haven't seen in 6 months went there. But hopefully it turns out he just died.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Same. He had a touch of Crusty in him without the occasional landmine links. Also a comic fan. And let's be real, this place is white enough to be StormFront.

[BestUsedCarSales]

We're probably whiter than StormFront just because there's probably less fake accounts. Even our trolls are real here.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

It's much too perilous, Buc. By your fifth cocktail party, you won't be able to tell the difference between right and cuck any more.

[BestUsedCarSales]

My understanding is that everyone is a cuck ever since black people were allowed.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

"I've taught you well." - Robby

[Citizen X - #6]

Robby would've at least stuck a sassy alt-text on that picture, because Robby cared.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

So far, I have been unable to determine any attributes, personality traits, or emotions to Christian.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Ugh, I can't grammar today.

[Citizen X - #6]

His favorite color is taupe and his favorite food is raisins.

[BestUsedCarSales]

His character comes from his reasoning though. For instance, he loves raisins because "They make me feel like I'm eating ants and so I can spend my day imagining that I am ending thousands of lives. All falling before my mighty jaw."

So, he's got some weirdness.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Not unsalted crackers?

[BestUsedCarSales]

He has a hard time connecting crackers to a genocide so he's not too fond.

[Eek Barba Durkle]

He should talk to the modern left. They've convinced themselves that every genocide in history is the fault of crackers.

[JWatts]

"He has a hard time connecting crackers to a genocide so he's not too fond."

Soylent green. Was that too hard?

[Meh.]

I've interpreted his silence to mean he is brooding and mysterious. I like BestUsedCarSales' theory too though. It adds depth.

[Fist of Etiquette]

California takes an aim at branded marijuana dispensary t-shirts and swag. A proposed bill would make it illegal.

People might learn that weed exists!

[Fist of Etiquette]

No one in the Golden State will ever learn of the 1st Amendment's existence, that's for sure.

[Jerryskids]

Allen himself publicly supported Prop. 64 but says cannabis, like tobacco, is "not a necessary product," and therefore banning certain types of advertising for it passes legal muster.

Is that really the standard we're using? AFAIK, the tobacco and liquor ad bans are/were "voluntary" agreements and much as SCOTUS makes up "commercial speech" bullshit, this one might not fly.

[Number 7]

no one NEEDS Joe the stoned camel and we all know the 1A is based on speech that is needed.

[Citizen X - #6]

After a two-day manhunt, the suspect in a mass chainsaw attack in Switzerland that left five injured is in police custody.

Common-sense chainsaw regulation!

[Zeb]

2 people injured makes a "mass chainsaw attack"? What a letdown.

[Citizen X - #6]

Switzerland is not a very big country.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Each Swiss is only 2/5ths a person.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

At least the ones that were attacked are.

[Dillinger]

lovely. nothing is too soon.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

*incredulous stare*

[BestUsedCarSales]

Christian spent too much time reading the Gender Anarchy thread that he fell half an hour behind. For shame.

[Citizen X - #6]

I gave up on that shit an hour and a half ago, like a gentleman.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I should stop being surprised at what things are controversial.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

You are a gentle person, a cat person.

[Dillinger]

>>>advertising restrictions on marijuana

do your worst. long live horticulture.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

What is so special about the hortis?

[Dillinger]

no Hortis, no Luces del Norte...

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

I thought you said Horta culture. Those things rock!

[Dillinger]

yes...yes they do

[Fist of Etiquette]

After a two-day manhunt, the suspect in a mass chainsaw attack in Switzerland that left five injured is in police custody.

Hockey mask not recovered.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Swiss Chainsaw Massacre not quite the same impact.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

At least you know the chainsaw won't bind.

[CE]

And his alibi will be full of holes.

[Bob K]

Reason will be sued for inspiring wood removal attacks. Preets already filing.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

The only thing Preet is filing is his wife's toenails.

[loveconstitution1789]

Which sleep away camp was this chainsaw attack at?

[Fist of Etiquette]

China and Russia hold joint military exercises in the Baltic Sea, provoking geo-political tensions.

Yeah, geo-political sexual tension.

[Dillinger]

Dear Swiss Police: Follow the rusty chain noises.

[Zeb]

No self-respecting Swiss forest-dweller would let his chain get rusty.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

So lack of self-esteem is the central problem.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

You misspelled "Crusty."

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

He has been noticeably missing the past few days...

[Meh.]

I miss his links 🙁

[loveconstitution1789]

Stop adding fuel to that.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Too soon after Cornell's death man.

[Dillinger]

Dude I'm still sad about Layne...

[BestUsedCarSales]

Want to listen to Jar of Flies and cry?

[Dillinger]

are you hitting on me?

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

With the subtlety of a baboon in heat.

[BestUsedCarSales]

No. Rest assured I'm just trying to come, but there's no emotion towards you and none intended.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

You play Jar of Flies while you masturbate?

[BestUsedCarSales]

It is one of the many albums I play while masturbating, yes. Sometimes you want Jar of Flies, sometimes you want Sad Wings of Destiny. There are many moods.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Man, whenever Rob Halford finally dies I will probably have to take time off from work.

[AlmightyJB]

Rob Halford is eternal

[Dillinger]

wild sex in the working class...

[BestUsedCarSales]

I want everyone to know I finally have a desktop computer, so let us all play Overwatch together now.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

BestUsedCarSales also finally got a beeper.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Slow down, Rockefeller.

[Dillinger]

stocking up on 888-numbers...can sell.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I think I'm on there as Comet.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I will only play under one condition. We honor our Libertarian natures by refusing to ever cooperate in game.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

It's an Activision/Blizzard game. Nobody cooperates.

[BestUsedCarSales]

The difference is that we honor our roots by doing so contractually.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

The biggest hurdle for me to overcome in this game was learning to not run off and do whatever the hell I want to do.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Console player brah '__'

[BestUsedCarSales]

Want to side-by-side Let's Play Persona 5 and argue over which girl is best?

It's the teacher, by the way.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Never played Persona, which is sad cause I worked at a GameStop and shoulda tried it all.

[BestUsedCarSales]

My whole life is playing JRPGs. And Crypt of the Necrodancer now.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

If they still made JRPGs I'd play them more like in the good ole days.

[BestUsedCarSales]

New Ys is coming out. Shits hype as fuck. Go get 'em.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Trying to give me carpal tunnel with F5 mashing?!

*Shakes fist at Christian*

[Citizen X - #6]

These masturbation euphemisms are getting less abstract.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Reason is entering it's Punk rock period. Tearing away all euphemism and abstract speech.

[Dillinger]

definitely a Circle Jerks line in this...

[BestUsedCarSales]

HV says he don't want, then he slips it on in.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Does this mean Nick's Jacket is now back in style??

[BestUsedCarSales]

The Jacket is already outside of time, so it's a meaningless question. "Is The Jacket in style?" is as much nonsense as asking "Is the green blue?"

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Green is part blue. Or don't you see color?

[BestUsedCarSales]

I only see in absolute wavelengths. In which case green and blue are unrelated beyond being somewhat close wavelengths.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Is it future or is it past?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Is it live or is it Memorex?

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Fuck this and fuck that. Fuck it all and fuck the fucking brat.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I'm excited to see who our Bad Brains end up being. I have high hopes.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

California takes an aim at branded marijuana dispensary t-shirts and swag. A proposed bill would make it illegal.

Cali here's a bag of dicks, go eat them.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

shipabagofdicks.com, IIRC.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Rand Paul is fighting the cucks!

[Dillinger]

>>>the suspect in a mass chainsaw attack in Switzerland

bet on Cilic @Wimbledon

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

China and Russia hold joint military exercises in the Baltic Sea, provoking geo-political tensions.

(Thanks team blue, you'll have your war yet.)

"THE SINS OF RUSSIA CAN BE NEITHER FORGOTTEN NOR REMEMBERED!"
-HV's battle cry

[BestUsedCarSales]

I'm still hoping we get another Red Dawn remake. I will never be sated.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Red Dawn 3 would be a box office smash right now. I'd make that in a heartbeat, and I'd go full Trump/Putin Illuminati for villains just for the lulz and assured praise it would receive from Hollywood -- cocktail parties don't sound too bad.

[Rich]

Allen ... says cannabis, like tobacco, is "not a necessary product," and therefore banning certain types of advertising for it passes legal muster.

I hereby challenge Allen to name *one* "necessary product".

Besides tampons, of course.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

+1 joke you'll never say to your wife

[Dillinger]

least necessary of all: State Senator Ben Allen

[Meh.]

Maybe baby formula? If your baby can't breastfeed.

[ChipToBeSquare]

I know this sounds too good to be true, but I want to believe it so badly

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Please please PLEASE let it be true. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

LOL

[Meh.]

If it is true, maybe he is senile? It just seems odd to take your neighbor's paper and not expect them to notice. Especially when you're famous and people are waiting around for you to slip up.

[Scarecrow Repair & Chippering]

Hey you hoo Mr Associate Editor Christian Britschgi.

You edited that title to put quotes around Obamacare Repeal. I know because I bookmarked comments both before and after, and the after one shows the quotes while the before bookmark is bereft.

Whyncha get US an edit button too?

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

In Soviet tReason button edits YOU!

[Zeb]

Are you an associate editor?

[BestUsedCarSales]

How deep does this go?

[Sigivald]

California takes aim at branded marijuana dispensary t-shirts and swag. A proposed bill would make them illegal.

What even is the First Amendment?

(And "to protect the children"?

Someone send them videos of Maude Flanders.)

[JFree]

I wonder how the brain injury study will affect professional and college football. 110 out of 111 NFL players brains were diagnosed with CTE - and 48 out of 53 college players brains.

If this gets known, I can't imagine why any rational athlete would participate in those sports since post-career dementia looks almost certain now.

[JFree]

Even high school football could be affected - 3 of 14 brains had CTE. And that's after just a couple years of playing contact.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

How are 100% of Boxers or MMA fighters not affected by CTE?

[JFree]

I assume they are too. When they die, we'll find out.

[Sevo]

See Muhammad Ali, for example.

[lap83]

I'm not a fan of the sport, but for those who are I wonder if knowing that about the players would affect the entertainment value

[Brandybuck]

California takes aim at branded marijuana dispensary t-shirts and swag. A proposed bill would make them illegal.

But what will hipsters in San Francisco wear?

[Robespierre Josef Stalin]

Dear Hitler Youth, you are supposed to bring a clown to a birthday-- not a clownish buffoon. A clown. Yours,

Second Class Scout, Josef.

[Sevo]

Were they all lies like Obama used to do?
Just checking, loser.

[ChipToBeSquare]

It takes a special kind of troll to be calling people Hitler Youth while signing off as Josef Stalin. Kudos

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

California takes aim at branded marijuana dispensary t-shirts and swag. A proposed bill would make them illegal.

All right, which Republican is pushing this law?

[Griffin3]

I see Google News is full of links to the Imran Awan arrest, he who is suspected of blackmailing Dem lawmakers with the contents of their own hard drives. Nice to see the major news media is finally paying attention.

Oh, wait. heavy.com, the daily caller, and the Observer. A real who's who of the media world, indeed.

[loveconstitution1789]

The Bizarre Criminal Investigation of Schultz's IT Aide
-National Review

Its bizarre to investigate people on government payrolls who don't do any work?

[yotiweguw]

my Aunty Violet just got a new blue MINI Cooper Clubvan Wagon only from working part-time off a pc at home... see here now ????

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