Deal Reached on Obamacare Subsidies, Trump's Travel Ban Blocked for a Third Time, and ISIS is Kicked Out of Raqqa: P.M. Links

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  Senators reach tentative deal on ObamaCare insurer payments.

• Blackwater founder Erik Prince rules out Senate run in Michigan, but is eyeing Wyoming. Clearly, he has deep attachments to both states.

• The third version of Trump's travel ban has been blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii.

• No one does small time government corruption quite like Oregon.

• ISIS has reportedly been pushed out of its one-time capital in Raqqa, Syria.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

[Includes 60 second moment of silence.]

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

[Adds 60 seconds of dial tone to celebrate Christian's approach to PM links]

[Citizen X - #6]

More like a 60-second wet fart with aggressive eye contact maintained throughout.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Which eye?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Aggressive Brown-Eye Contact?

I would like to subscribe to your Newsletter!

[Fist of Etiquette]

The third version of Trump's travel ban has been blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii.

Time to give them their sovereignty!

[Citizen X - #6]

"Hawaii is rightfully a monarchy, and will be again."

[Fist of Etiquette]

Best episode of the series.

[Rhywun]

The order has too many exclamation points, probably.

[Rhywun]

Trump's order "contains internal incoherencies that markedly undermine its stated 'national security' rationale," wrote Watson, an Obama appointee. "Numerous countries fail to meet one or more of the global baseline criteria described in [the directive], yet are not included in the ban...

Oh yeah, I don't see how this could possibly backfire in the judge's face.

[Libertarian]

Careful, Hawaii. We'll send you truckloads of money and turn you into another Puerto Rico.

[Citizen X - #6]

How are the trucks supposed to get there, genius?

[Zeb]

ICBMs.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

DUKWs, obviously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW

[Trigger Warning]

Holy shit. That's great.

[CE]

And who has that much Hawaiian currency anyway?

[The Last American Hero]

Anybody with access to a beach and a bucket to put some shells in?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Please, it's cans of spam. No need to condescend to them.

[Juice]

Only on US-flagged ships.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Clearly, he has deep attachments to both states.

Meh. Flyover is flyover.

[Fist of Etiquette]

ISIS has reportedly been pushed out of its one-time capital in Raqqa, Syria.

Don't feel bad, ISIS. Filthadelphia was once our capital.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

At least if ISIS was running the city, we wouldn't have that stupid soda tax.

[Zeb]

No, but the alcohol and tobacco taxes are followed by beheading.

[Citizen X - #6]

No one does small time government corruption quite like Oregon.

He spent the money on gas masks and gold. I sort of like the guy.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Why not a gas mask made out of gold?

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

I bet Trump has one of those.

[Trigger Warning]

The BEST one of those.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Senators reach tentative deal on ObamaCare insurer payments.

Look at Trump the Dealmaker, spurring Congress into action.

[Mickey Rat]

They have nothing until they pass legislation.

[Mickey Rat]

Maybe Paul can anend it to kill the various ACA mandates?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Blackwater founder Erik Prince rules out Senate run in Michigan, but is eyeing Wyoming. Clearly, he has deep attachments to both states.

He only has to get 30 people to vote for him in Wyoming.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

In Wyoming, bison also get 3/5 of a vote.

[Eek Barba Durkle]

If Wyoming is anything like Iraq, he'll capture the hearts and minds of the voters by sending out his guys to murder some small children, and then letting some other (younger and poorer) Americans try to fix the problem with soccer balls and Jolly Ranchers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A former Multnomah County animal services manager is accused of using county funds to buy knives, gas masks, survival gear and gold, according to a dismissal letter sent by county officials in September.

Prepper supplies is actually what I want my tax dollars going toward.

[BestUsedCarSales]

If we can make even one person feel safe, then it was worth it.

[Rich]

Beautiful.

[BYODB]

Perfect.

[Bubba Jones]

Except I don't think he was planning to share.

[CE]

Someone has to look out for the continuity of government when TSHTF.

[Citizen X - #6]

When the bombs finish falling and the ashes cool, who do you want pulling American back onto her feet? Some shitty mayor, or a fatass police chief? Hell no! You want an animal control manager!

[The Last American Hero]

Wait, is this the sequel to The Postman?

[Citizen X - #6]

Blackwater founder Erik Prince rules out Senate run in Michigan, but is eyeing Wyoming. Clearly, he has deep attachments to both states.

Nah, he just realized he didn't stand a chance against a man who kisses strippers on the mouth.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

I mean, that's probably the safest place to put your lips on a stripper's body.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Someday you're going to dying, Christian. You'll be dying and the only thing that can save you will be alt-text. And we will not give it to you. And we will watch you die.

[Citizen X - #6]

At least he gave us five whole links this time, and one of them is more than a single sentence.

[Trigger Warning]

And he is also not Robby, which is a huge plus.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

"No one does small time government corruption quite like Oregon."

LOL Louisiana and Florida would like a word with you.

[Libertarian]

He said *small* time.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

OMG!
FIVE LINKS TODAY.
COUNT 'EM, FIVE LINKS!
NOT FOUR LIKE THE USUAL CHRISTIAN B TRIPE.
WHERE THE FUCK IS MY FAINTING COUCH????!!!!!111!!!111!!

/Christian, do you even KNOW HOW to do Alt-Text??!!!???!111!!!111!11

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

Where is Crusty? I imagine there is some sort of protest going on somewhere, and he is there with his van, testing the suspension.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Where is Crusty?

Getting an early seat at the UF Dick Spencer Rally?

[Citizen X - #6]

"Whoa, can't Crusty read?"

"I don't think so. Why?"

[BestUsedCarSales]

I told him to Shove It on Friday. I hope this didn't lead to any unforeseen consequence.

[Chipper Morning, Mean Girl]

I can't figure out what that license plate is supposed to say.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Look at what it says on the license plate holder.

[BestUsedCarSales]

He posted something earlier, but otherwise haven't seen him this week.

[Jimbo]

"testing the suspension"? Wow, no pics...please NO PICS!

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Momma said Son I'm gonna die of hypertension if you don't stop testing that air ride suspension.

[BYODB]

No film or hard drive yet constructed can hold those images without bursting into instant flame.

[damikesc]

Senators reach tentative deal on ObamaCare insurer payments.

So Republicans cannot defund Obamacare, but they can surely save it, huh?

And they wonder why Trump is President. Who wants to vote for a collection of utter losers like the Republicans?

[Juice]

Both parties are tools of their corporate sponsors. They have to pretend to hate corporate welfare while dishing it out by the truckload. Sometimes it's really hard to make it look like you want to stop doing that. This is one of those times.

[Jimbo]

Trump should veto it.

[BestUsedCarSales]

WILDCARD BITCHES

[Rich]

ISIS has reportedly been pushed out of its one-time capital in Raqqa, Syria.

Only the booby traps remain.

[Citizen X - #6]

And several thousand rape babies and a pile of heads.

[Rich]

Those *are* the booby traps! 8-(

[Rich]

Bob Weinstein Accused of Sexual Harassment

Boy, this Weinstein business is nuts. It's really coming to a head.

[Jimbo]

A bunch of jerk-offs!

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Weinstein is really fucked.
There is no massaging the message that he made it so hard on his victims.

[Jerryskids]

Senators reach tentative deal on ObamaCare insurer payments.

The Senators are passing the hat? Or are they figuring, what the fuck, we got us pens and phones just like the Prez and if the House ain't gonna assert their Constitution authority to control the purse-strings we might as well get in on the action?

[lap83]

http://www.newsweek.com/clinto.....911-685474 (warning, autostart video)

Hillary Clinton has compared Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election and her subsequent loss to Donald Trump with the devastation of 9/11.
Sorry if this was covered already...

I have stopped trying to figure out if there is an end to this woman's insanity and now I'm just enjoying the show.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I wish we could see into a universe where she won. I wonder if Trump's defeat lap would have been better?

[Tony]

He already bitched about there being a conspiracy of millions of fraudulent voters before he unexpectedly won. And he kept bitching after.

[BestUsedCarSales]

So just imagine if he had actually lost? Though, my guess is the media would have given it less attention regardless of what it was.

[Tony]

It would be the new birtherism. But he'd be part of a very large chorus including mainstream media personalities parsing HRC's every word and gesture for a scandal. I'm kind of glad I don't have to deal with that crap. At least now we know what overblown horseshit it would have all been.

[Mark Milton]

Shut the fuck up Hazel. And you were wrong about adjusted status as well, check the link and suck it.

[The Last American Hero]

It would have been quieter, because he's not a Republican and most of the mainstream Team Red players and media would have just shrugged and said, "That's what we get for not running a real conservative." But since he won, we now get 7 more years of DemOp Media bemoaning what may have been.

[Mickey Rat]

She is a sort of anti-Cincinnatus.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Did we stop getting any news about that Stephen Paddock guy? Did they never find any info?

[BYODB]

Still wondering about that myself, but at this point I'm pretty sure 'wildcard lunatic' fits the bill. His net worth was certainly unexpected though.

[Tony]

Trump is pretending to kill Obamacare so he can say he did, and then he'll bring it back under a new name. And his followers are of course dumb enough to buy it.

[BYODB]

For once we're basically in agreement on something, that's happening more lately. Are you getting bored of non-stop trolling and letting the mask slip, or did you just forget which handle you're logged in with?

[Mark Milton]

You know the answer already.

[MarkLastname]

He must really hate how affordable healthcare has gotten.

[BYODB]

?The third version of Trump's travel ban has been blocked by a federal judge in Hawaii.

I think, at this point, it's pretty safe to say that Hawaii is never going to go along with this. For some reason.

[BestUsedCarSales]

It will be interesting. If they continue to refuse to obey the law will we see an escalation on the part of the federal government?

[Stormy Dragon]

For those who missed it earlier, "libertarian" senator Rand Paul is endorsing Roy Moore:

Rand Paul endorses Roy Moore in Alabama Senate race

[The Last American Hero]

And yet he's still the best thing the Senate has going for it at the moment. Sad, really.

[Mark Milton]

Hmmm, so, the fact that he is a Republican, and says he's a Republican, makes him a libertarian.

Have you seen anyone about your recent head injury?