Sally Yates

[THE KOD]

North Korea will continue to test missiles, a senior official has told the BBC in Pyongyang, despite international condemnation and growing military tensions with the US.
"We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis," Vice-Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol told the BBC's John Sudworth.
He said that an "all-out war" would result if the US took military action.
Earlier, US Vice-President Mike Pence warned North Korea not to test the US.
He said his country's "era of strategic patience" with North Korea was over.
Mr Pence arrived in Seoul on Sunday hours after North Korea carried out a failed missile launch.
Tensions have been escalating on the peninsula, with heated rhetoric from both North Korea and the US.
Mr Han told the BBC: "If the US is planning a military attack against us, we will react with a nuclear pre-emptive strike by our own style and method."

North Korea has accelerated its nuclear and missile tests in recent years, despite international condemnation and UN sanctions.
Its aim is to be able to put a nuclear warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach targets around the world, including the US.
US President Donald Trump has said that will not happen, and stepped up pressure on the isolated North.
He has sent a navy strike group towards the Korean Peninsula, and the US and South Korea are moving ahead with the early deployment of a controversial missile defence system.

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we have always known this would be the outcome if you press nut cases like iran and n korea.


They have quite a few submarines. I think they could probable hit us with a kamakazi submarine nuke.

 

[THE KOD]

White House press secretary Sean Spicer insisted on Wednesday that a U.S. aircraft carrier was heading toward North Korea last week, even though a U.S. Navy photo from the time showed it was actually traveling in the opposite direction.

Pacific Command put out a statement on April 8, saying that the Carl Vinson strike group would move toward the western Pacific from Singapore. The announcement came as many speculated that North Korea could be on the verge of a nuclear test, and numerous U.S. officials said deploying the ships was a muscular display of force.

National security adviser H.R. McMaster called the decision to send the ships toward North Korea ?prudent.?

?We are sending an armada,? President Donald Trump said on April 12. But on Saturday, the Navy posted photos showing the ships 3,500 miles from the peninsula. They are now headed directly toward the peninsula.

Spicer denied that the White House?s statements about the ship movements were misleading, because the ships were eventually going to the peninsula.

?The statement that was put out was that the Carl Vinson group was headed towards the Korean Peninsula. It is headed to the Korean Peninsula. That?s not what we ever said. It was heading there, it is heading there,? Spicer said.

Spicer was asked during an April 11 briefing about ships ?steaming out toward the Sea of Japan? and what signal that would send to allies in the region.

?A carrier group is several things,? he said at the time. ?The forward deployment is deterrence, presence. It?s prudent. But it does a lot of things. It ensures our ― we have the strategic capabilities, and it gives the president options in the region. But I think when you see a carrier group steaming into an area like that, the forward presence of that is clearly, through almost every instance, a huge deterrence. So I think it serves multiple capabilities.?

Spicer also denied that Trump misspoke when he talked about the ships.

?The president said that we have an armada going towards the peninsula. That?s a fact, it happened,? Spicer said.

But then Spicer corrected himself, noting that it had not in fact happened. ?It is happening, rather,? he said.

Although Spicer refused to admit the White House?s statements had been misleading, he directed questions about the locations of the ships to the Pentagon. CNN?s Jim Acosta reported that administration officials blamed a miscommunication for the mix-up over the ship location.
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keystone cops administration.

what a mess

 

[THE KOD]

? The Associated Press President Donald Trump listens as Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 20, 2017?

WASHINGTON ? Iran is failing to fulfill the "spirit" of its nuclear deal with world powers, President Donald Trump declared Thursday, setting an ominous tone for his forthcoming decision about whether to pull the U.S. out of the landmark agreement.

As he often had during the president campaign, Trump ripped into the deal struck by Iran, the U.S. and other world powers in 2015 and said "it shouldn't have been signed." Yet he pointedly stopped sort of telegraphing whether or not the U.S. would stay in.

"They are not living up to the spirit of the agreement, I can tell you that," Trump said of the Iranians, though he did not mention any specific violations. Earlier this week, the administration certified to Congress than Iran was complying ? at least technically ? with the terms of the deal, clearing the way for Iran to continue enjoying sanctions relief in the near term.

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what happened to the worst deal in the history of the world made by Obama and Iran

what happened to tear the deal up the first day.

what a blowhard.

If Trump pushs them, Israel is gone.

Russia will have Syria and Iran backs

 

[THE KOD]

On a recent episode of ?Charlie Rose,? The Atlantic?s David Frum drilled down on both of these points: ?The bureaucratic process in the White House depends on deputies? meetings, where the next level down prepares the issues for the principals. You can?t have deputies meetings if you don?t have deputies, and... a third of the way through the president?s first year, no deputies.?

Frum summed up Kushner like so: ?If Jared Kushner were truly a public-spirited individual... he would say to the president that ?You need an A-team here, and what I?d like to do is run a staffing process whereby instead of giving the China portfolio to me and the Middle East portfolio to me, and the reinventing government portfolio to me, we bring in people who actually knew about these issues before November of last year.??

?They were too disorganized, too arrogant, and too unprepared to run an Easter Egg roll,? said Frum, ?and now they want us to follow them into a military conflict in Northeast Asia.?

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I thought the bunny standing next to Trump went off well.

 

[THE KOD]

ASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump?s top economic advisers on Wednesday proposed trillions of dollars in tax cuts for millionaires under a plan billed as the biggest tax reform in over 30 years.

In a one-page statement of ?principles? for tax reform provided to reporters, the administration offered few specifics. They did insist on three major perks for the wealthy, however ― reducing the tax rate on stocks, bonds and real estate investments; eliminating inheritance taxes for millionaire heirs and heiresses; and bringing down the tax rate on the largest corporations to less than half of what it is now.

The inheritance tax ― disparaged by conservatives as a ?death tax? ― only applies to millionaires. Magnates must will at least $5.49 million to their heirs ($11 million for couples) to qualify for the tax. Heirs and heiresses pay an average rate of 16.6 percent on these inheritances, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, generating about $275 billion for the government over 10 years.

Trump would also repeal the 3.8 percent tax on stocks, bonds and real estate investments that Obamacare imposed on individuals making at least $200,000 a year. A full 90 percent of this tax break would accrue to households making at least $700,000 a year, which would receive an average tax cut of $25,000 a year, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Corporate tax cuts also disproportionately favor the wealthy, because corporate profits flow to the owners of corporate stocks, who tend to be rich. More than 92.8 percent of households making at least $250,000 a year own at least $10,000 in stock, according to research from New York University economist Edward N. Wolff, compared with just 19.1 percent of households that earn $25,000 to $49,999. Households in the top 1 percent receive an average of 36 percent of their income from capital gains (stocks, bonds and other financial investments), according to the Congressional Budget Office, while those in the lowest 20 percent receive an average of about 5 percent of their income this way.

Slashing the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 15 percent would cost the federal government $2.4 trillion, according to the Tax Policy Center.

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this is what we get with republicans

wouldnt it be great to read, Trumps tax agenda is going to be a windfall for the middle class. But nooooooooooo

same shit over and over

 

[THE KOD]

Perhaps ?ma?am.? It may be Pocahontas, remember that. And she is not big for the NRA, that I can tell you. But you came through for me, and I am going to come through for you.?

The crowd booed when he mentioned Warren.

Trump?s speech was largely a rehash of themes from his campaign rallies. As he always does, he spent a significant amount of time reminding everyone that he won the 2016 election and touting the size of his victory.

He also promised the gun lobby that it has ?a true friend and champion in the White House.?

?For too long, Washington has gone after law-abiding gun owners while making life easier for criminals, drug dealers, traffickers and gang members ― MS-13. You know about MS-13?? Trump asked, referring to one notable gang. ?It?s not pleasant for them anymore, folks, it?s not pleasant for them anymore. That?s a bad group. Not pleasant for MS-13. Get them the hell out of here. Get them out.?

The Trump administration has been focusing on MS-13 in recent weeks and claiming the Obama administration was weak on the gang. But as CNN has pointed out, experts say ?there is little statistical evidence that MS-13 is more prevalent in recent years or more dangerous to the U.S. than other gangs.? And it was President Barack Obama?s Treasury Department that in 2012 sanctioned the group as a transnational criminal organization.

Trump has long mocked Warren by calling her ?Pocahontas,? referring to her claim that she has some Native American ancestry.

?Pocahontas is not happy, she?s not happy. She?s the worst. You know, Pocahontas ? I?m doing such a disservice to Pocahontas, it?s so unfair to Pocahontas ? but this Elizabeth Warren, I call her ?goofy Elizabeth Warren,? she?s one of the worst senators in the entire United Sta
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thats kinda rude and repetitive talking . the victorys have been so sweet

 

[THE KOD]

MANILA, April 29 (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday urged the United States to show restraint after North Korea's latest missile test and to avoid playing into the hands of leader Kim Jong Un, who "wants to end the world".

The notoriously blunt Duterte said the Southeast Asia region was extremely worried about tensions between the United States and North Korea, and said one misstep would be a "catastrophe" and Asia would be the first victim of a nuclear war.

The United States, Japan, South Korea and China, he said, were sparring with a man who was excited about the prospect of firing missiles.

Duterte is current chairman of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and was due to speak by telephone to U.S. President Donald Trump later on Saturday. He said he would urge Trump not to get into a confrontation with Kim.

"There seems to be two countries playing with their toys and those toys are not really to entertain," he told a news conference after the ASEAN summit in Manila, referring to Washington and Pyongyang.

"You know that they are playing with somebody who relishes letting go of missiles and everything. I would not want to go into his (Kim's) mind because I really do not know what's inside but he's putting mother earth, the planet to an edge."

North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile on Saturday shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned that failure to curb Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programmes could lead to "catastrophic consequences".

U.S. and South Korean officials said the test appeared to have failed, in what would be the North's fourth straight unsuccessful missile test since March.

Duterte said it was incumbent upon the United States as the a responsible country to not rise to Kim's provocations. He said he was sure Trump had cautioned his military not to allow the situation to spiral out of control.

"Who am I to say that you should stop? But I would say 'Mr. President, please see to it that there is no war because my region will suffer immensely'," Duterte said.

"I will just communicate to (Trump), 'just let him play... do not play into his hands'."

He added: "The guy (Kim) simply wants to end the world, that is why he is very happy. He is always smiling. But he really wants to finish everything and he wants to drag us all down."
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if this nut from the phillipines is saying this we should listen closely

 

[THE KOD]

Khizr Khan, Gold Star father

?Every action and word of Trump has [a] foul stench of political expediency and self-aggrandizing, total lack of moral compass and leadership.?

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)

?President Trump has spent his first 100 days lying to the American people about issues both great and small, refusing to disclose his tax returns or address fears about his campaign?s ties to Russia, struggling to advance a coherent foreign policy strategy and failing to guarantee affordable health coverage for all Americans ... #sad!?

Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter

?45 has proven to be one of the most dangerous human beings on the planet; we must resist his regime and build a movement in the millions.?

Cathy Heller, one of the women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct

?[The first 100 days] are as bad as I thought they?d be. I am a bit relieved that some of his efforts ? the travel ban, his health care bill ? have been stymied so far, but those fights are not over.?

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

?Evolving.?

Philip Ellender, president of government and public affairs at Koch Industries

?We?re encouraged by the administration?s work to rein in burdensome and unnecessary regulatory overreach that has stifled innovation and has added unnecessary costs to goods and services that Americans rely on every day.?

Michael Mann, climate scientist

?Back in October, I wrote that Donald Trump is a threat to the planet, and what we have seen in his first 100 days of office ? denying the threat of climate change, hiring climate deniers and fossil fuel industry lobbyists to fill key administrative roles, and issuing executive orders aimed at dismantling the progress of the past eight years ? reaffirms that.?

Aasif Mandvi, actor

?It?s been 100 days. I can?t believe it?s only been 100 days. I thought he was going to take a year to start showing signs of demagoguery.?



Fr. James Martin, editor-at-large of America magazine and consultant to the Vatican?s Secretariat for Communication

?I hope that the president might consider the needs of those he used to call ?losers? ― in this case, those who have lost out at the hands of the economy: the poor, the homeless, the unemployed, the sick and the uninsured.?

Sheryl Crow, singer-songwriter

?There?s been an arc of betrayal, chaos, manipulation and ignorance.?

Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center

?President Trump has proven in his first 100 days that the economic populism of his campaign was fake, but that the racism and xenophobia were very real. His support for the health care bill showed his indifference to the fate of those trying to make ends meet. At the same time, he?s pressed a far-right agenda targeting immigrants, Muslims, the LGBT community and others who are vulnerable.?

Tom Perriello, Democratic candidate for governor of Virginia

?It is hard to decide whether his supporters, whom I meet with often on the trail, are more disheartened by President Trump?s sheer incompetence, his ties to Russia, or his failure to focus on jobs, but this toxic trifecta means about the most positive review I hear is, ?Give him a bit more time.??

April Reign, activist who created #OscarsSoWhite

?Trump?s first 100 days have been harrowing and bear witness that we must challenge him and his administration at every turn by continuing to fight for justice and equity for all marginalized communities.?

Rep. Luis Guti?rrez (D-Ill.)

?About as bad as could be expected from a team of misogynist, climate-change denying, anti-immigration, billionaire civil rights opponents, but we better be ready for even worse to come.?

Ben Cohen, activist and co-founder of Ben & Jerry?s

?It?s clear now that ?Drain the Swamp? really meant ?Suck up all the morally bankrupt billionaires, Wall Street executives, and special-interest pond scum, and then pump them into the White House with a fire hose.??

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wow 100 days in the book

all Trump has to show for it is a scj

he has signed alot of signatures on executive no action.

that has to count for something

:mj07::mj07:

 

[THE KOD]

WASHINGTON ― If the government shuts down in September, the White House is already saying it will be the Democrats? fault ― because they had the audacity to hurt President Donald Trump?s feelings.

On Sunday, congressional negotiators came up with a plan to avert a shutdown this week and keep the government up and running through September. With the Republican caucus so divided, its members had to work with Democrats to figure out a bill that could pass. As a result, there is no funding for Trump?s border wall and no reductions in funding to ?sanctuary cities.? There is, however, more domestic spending, protections for Planned Parenthood funding and money for Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Democrats have made clear that they are very happy with the spending deal and that they, not Trump, are the winners. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called it a ?defeat? for Trump, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) gloated, ?I think we had a strategy and it worked.?

This outcome has made Trump, who prides himself on being the best negotiator ever, incredibly angry. On Tuesday, he took to Twitter and threatened a ?good? shutdown in September:
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dickwad
:mj07:

 

[THE KOD]

Republicans are trying very hard to disguise what the American Health Care Act would actually do.

They keep insisting their bill, which would repeal the Affordable Care Act, would ?lower premiums and improve access to quality, affordable care,? as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) put it last month.

Any time analysts point out the ways in which those promises are misleading or false ― or cite the Congressional Budget Office prediction that the AHCA would leave about 24 million people without health insurance ― Republicans insist that a combination of new tax credits, state innovation, and so-called high-risk pools will take care of people better than the current system does.

This is not true. And perhaps the clearest evidence is in those CBO numbers.

For all of the policy gobbledygook flying around these days, health care policy is a pretty straightforward question of resources. People who are sick or injured need expensive medical care, the kind that requires insurance. Most poor people can?t afford that insurance on their own and many middle-class people can?t either.

The Affordable Care Act, the 2010 health care law known as Obamacare, addressed this problem by putting new federal money into the health care system ― primarily by offering tax credits to help people pay for private coverage and giving states money to expand their Medicaid programs.

The AHCA would reverse that, putting less money into private insurance assistance and taking a huge chunk out of Medicaid funding.

All told, it works out to about $1 trillion less in federal spending on health care.

?Even in our expensive health care system, cutting a trillion dollars in federal support is a big deal,? Larry Levitt, senior vice president at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, told HuffPost. ?Without that funding, millions of people couldn?t afford health insurance, and many would go without needed health care and face medical debt.?

Take that money away, and the people who now depend on it will mostly be stuck. Some will be poor, some will be middle class, and some will be people with serious medical conditions. All will face a difficult choice: They won?t be able to pay for the medical care they need, and so they will face financial hardship ― or go without care altogether.

It?s roughly $200 billion less for private insurance

Broadly speaking, the American Health Care Act makes two main sets of changes to insurance coverage. The first would affect people who buy private insurance on their own, rather than through employers. The GOP bill would take away the tax credits available under the Affordable Care Act, and replace them with tax credits that use a different formula.
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I remember when hedge and ronnie got so excited to have the house , senate, and exec branchs.

fuck sticks :lol::lol:

 

[THE KOD]

ENTERTAINMENT
Jimmy Kimmel's Humanity Underscores Heartlessness Of GOP's Approach To The Poor



The same day, a GOP congressman said only people who live "good lives" deserve good health insurance.


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anyone ever notice the neo cons are some heartless fucks.

 

[THE KOD]

years ago I tried to get my wife insurance coverage.


they said her high cholestrol was pre-existing


quoted me 5 thousand a month

insurance lobbys are drooling trying to line pockets to get this passed.

 

[THE KOD]

Instead of learning from that failure, they?re now doing it again. Republicans have faked their way through the process of rewriting health care policy, making promises that are directly contradicted by their bill and pushing the illusion that they?re fulfilling their pledge to eradicate Obamacare while preserving all its goodies. Promises and pledges are not actually being kept.

This mad scramble, by the way, is coming from a political party that accused Democrats of rushing the Affordable Care Act to passage. In fact, President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress spent 14 months writing that bill in 2009 and 2010. They held dozens of hearings and committee markups. They waited for multiple Congressional Budget Office scores. They consulted with every part of the health care system and won support from hospitals and doctors.

According to Republicans, that constituted ramming Obamacare down America?s throat, whereas their own harried effort in a fraction of the time with nowhere near the public transparency is fine and normal.

Anyone wondering why Republicans are in such a big rush must remember two things. First, Trump suffered a humiliating loss with the first canceled vote and doesn?t like looking foolish, so he?ll do whatever he can to get a health care win. Second, Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) early this year set in motion a procedural course that makes repealing Obamacare a prerequisite for an even bigger GOP priority: permanent tax cuts for rich people and corporations.

Underlying all this is a problem that?s been clear since the beginning of the Affordable Care Act debate eight years ago, if not before: There is no conservative Republican consensus about what the health care system should look like and whom it should serve. Or at least, there isn?t an overarching principle that Republicans can articulate aloud without a backlash.

If your true position is that the rich shouldn?t be taxed to pay for other people?s health care needs and that the federal government shouldn?t have a role in providing health care to citizens, you?re admitting that you?re OK with the tradeoff of sick people going untreated and families going bankrupt when medical emergencies occur.
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trying their best to screw america first

 

[Skulnik]

 

[THE KOD]

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how did america get so stupid.

 

[THE KOD]

can someone explain to me how Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russian investigations and ends up writing a letter of termination to Comey who was asking for more money to investigate trump and his aides.



this country has gone to shit in a handbag

 

[THE KOD]

O?Reilly left Fox News in April after dozens of advertisers said they would no longer advertise on ?The O?Reilly Factor? as a result of a growing number of allegations that O?Reilly mistreated and sexually harassed female employees at the company.

On Beck?s show, O?Reilly described the events that led to his dismissal as a ?hit job? performed by liberal activists. ?It really has to do with destroying voices that the far-left doesn?t like,? he said. He then added that he hopes to lay out at a future date exactly who caused his exclusion and how the did it.

?There?s going to be an exposition soon, but I can?t tell you when, about who exactly this crew is that terrorizes sponsors, threatens people behind the scenes, that pays people to say things,? O?Reilly said. ?We?re going to name them, and it will be a big story. The left-wing media will downplay the story, but it?s coming. Unfortunately, I was target No. 1. It?s sad for me, for my family and it?s grossly dishonest.?

He added, ?From now on when I?m attacked, I?ll take legal action.?

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Hey OReilly keep you dick in your pants you dumb ass.

now you got to work for Glenn Beck that loser nutwad.


if FOX hadnt have to pay 20 million to woman you fucked with then you would still be there.

cant believe this kind of shit reported is even real

 

[THE KOD]

SEOUL, May 14 (Reuters) - North Korea fired on Sunday an unidentified projectile from a region near its west coast, South Korea's military said.

The nature of the projectile is not immediately clear, a South Korean military official said by telephone.

Yonhap news agency reported the projectile launched appeared to be a ballistic missile.

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now Kim fires a ballistic missile right in the face of Trump and the Armada.


what the fuck.

America looks like weak ass fucksticks.

we are going to let Kim fire missile until he has one that can reach California.,


you are on warning N Korea .... Maybe he should tweet another warning in all caps !

 

[THE KOD]

Trump was a ?coward? for firing Comey the way he did. ?If you?re gonna fire somebody with this experience: pick up the damn phone,? he said. Comey learned he was fired from a TV newscast while he was in Los Angeles.

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Trump is clearly a pussychops

 

[THE KOD]

President Donald Trump opened his first commencement speech at the evangelical Liberty University on Saturday by talking about the size of the crowd that had come to see him speak.

It was the only the second time a sitting U.S. president had spoken at the school?s commencement, said Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. before Trump gave his address. Falwell noted more than 50,000 people attended the speech, a record size.

When Trump took the microphone, he congratulated the class of 2017, then immediately addressed the crowd size.

?I?m thrilled to be back at Liberty University. I?ve been here, this is now my third time, and we love setting records, right? We always set records,? Trump said. ?We have to set records, we have no choice,?

He again referred to the size of the crowd later in his speech, saying ?this is a beautiful stadium, and it?s packed. I?m so happy about that.?
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seriously

this guy is nuts