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  1. Just now, Aqua Buddha said:

    So, the president was rushed to the hospital on Saturday, his schedule was completely cleared on Sunday and Monday and he's only taking meetings in the residence?  Did I miss anything?

    Yes.  But Hillary's emails.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Can you provide some details on this, in terms of the different sources of funding the highway system, both historically and currently.  Because my understanding is that the fuel tax surcharges not income taxes is the primary mechanism.

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

     

    See the article I quoted.  

    Short version: the fuel tax amount has stayed flat for a long-ass time.  But there has been inflation, and on top of that, there are additional costs coming due because of deferred maintenance.  So, the HTF does not have sufficient funding to cover our current highway expenses.  We're covering that funding need by transferring in billions from the general treasury (that is, generic tax dollars).

  3. 2 minutes ago, Chooky said:

    I have no idea what any of that means.  It sounds like SpongeBob characters.

    "He talks like we do!"

    When you understand that our country is run by folks whose brains are on par with mentally warped third graders raised by abusive racist parents, it all makes sense.

  4. 5 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

    You 

    You can still see the boob thing as well, sort of.  Okay, it's not the same.

    But I can also provide pics of gold teeth, baseball bat wielding, sledgehammer, urine color chart and other cute things if you're interested / it if helps.   We're also just trying to help each other cope so happy to comply. 

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    Any and all distractions help at this point.  Show me your delicious food porn, funny videos of people hurting themselves, all that shit.  Just....make the football season and our government stop.

  5. 3 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Nobody has argued that.

     

    What a couple people have pointed out is that the comment "A company whose business is putting thousands of trucks and huge numbers of miles on our crumbling roadways pays absolutely nothing to maintain the roads they are trashing?  Brilliant!" is totally nonsensical. 

    Saying they pay absolutely nothing is nonsensical.

    Saying they don't pay their way, when all they pay is fuel and other similar taxes, is spot-on.

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    The Highway Trust Fund receives roughly 85 to 90 percent of its revenue from excise taxes on motor fuel, commonly known as the “gas tax.” Since 1993, fuel tax rates have been fixed at 18.4 cents per gallon for gasoline, and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel. Taxes on tires and heavy vehicles (trucks) make up the rest of the fund’s income. Because the federal gas tax is not pegged to inflation and has not been raised since 1993, the purchasing power of the revenue has eroded over time — over 40 percent less today than in 1993. What’s more, rising construction costs and the growing needs of an aging highway system have placed a greater strain on the fund, resulting in recurring funding shortfalls in recent years.

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    Those funding shortfalls have generally been filled by transfers from the Treasury’s general fund; those transfers have shifted a total of $143.6 billion to the HTF since 2008, including $70 billion authorized in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act in 2015. 

    Regular old tax dollars pay a crapload of the costs of building and maintaining our highway infrastructure.  And Fedex is paying [checks notes] not one penny of those.

    Come on, the tax cuts as an economic stimulus are indefensible at this point.  "Trickle down" economics is indefensible at this point.  Every time we've tried such an approach, the effect on capex and wages has been.....jack shit.

  6. 1 minute ago, zork said:

    Obama said it, not me.

    That's the point, moron.

    NOBODY loyal to the Party Of Trump is moving to stop courting, hanging out with, and posing for pictures with fucking nazis, nobody minds that an open white nationalist is a chief adviser to the president, nobody has a problem with him pardoning soldiers who commit war crimes, but not soldiers who served honorably whose only crime is their parents bringing them here illegally, nobody has a problem with him nakedly profiting off of his presidency with constant taxpayer funded trips to his properties, happily taking in hotel dollars from foreign governments trying to curry favor -- shit, I've got work to do, and we could stay here all day.  Suffice it to say that you're not only fine with shitbaggery, you CELEBRATE it.  Guess what, if you're in the bowl dancing around with pieces of shit, you ARE a piece of shit.

  7. 4 minutes ago, zork said:

    Even Obama is telling y'all to chill, to get a clue.  

    Is he?  Who is "y'all?"  Are you talking about the far left wing of the party?  Yep, he is.

    Where's the voice of reason on the right, telling y'all to stop hanging out with fucking nazis?  Telling y'all to stop making white nationalists chief advisers to the president?  Telling y'all that Hillary ain't running this year?  

    Shouldn't you be charging into a pizza parlor somewhere?

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  8. 10 minutes ago, zork said:

    I get to talk.  You decide whether to listen and how you will respond or not.  

    nope.  but that is just the same type of bogeyman y'all accuse Republicans of up thread.

     

    this is good analysis.  Trump on Trump is probably a bit more successful in driving his potential base than Trump on someone else.  Shades of gray though.  Hopefully Biden can beat him.

    Clinton suiciding someone is a meme at this point, not even worth talking about whether it is true at all.

    Angry Brisket talking his paranoia pointing to the right vs white Cat enjoying his veggies while laughing at Brisket.

    Sure, have fun with that.  While y'all vote in zombie-like lockstep for Trump and Trumpism, all in the name of "But Hillary," for time immemorial.

    Y'all are a fucking caricature, and you don't even have a clue that you are.

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  9. Just now, Jack Straw said:

    while wholly embracing and endorsing unprecedented corruption, incompetence, criminality, and outright treason by their own. 

    Step 1) create a fictional narrative that the Clintons are the greatest criminal organization ever known.  They have stolen money from everyone on earth, commit treason while they sleep, and run a pedophile ring out of a pizza place....and on and on.

    Step 2) convince yourself that all of that narrative is true.

    Step 3) decide "well, if THEY do it, then MY GUY can do it."

    Step 4) religiously and unwaveringly support a man who openly commits and/or BRAGS about...bribery, sexual assault, abuse of power, cozying up to our enemies to "trigger the libs," nakedly profiting from his office, etc.

     

    It's fucking insane.

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  10. 7 minutes ago, trauma babe said:

    She helped me with an arterial line insertion a week or two ago, so she made it back safely. So far. I think she's heading back in another month or two? An incredibly dedicated and caring woman.

    The folks who travel to treat outbreaks like this are amazing.  We have a friend in Oslo who sent a crew of 4 to the Congo several months ago.  It's genuinely inspirational.

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  11. 1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    The thing that scares this rational human being is that you literally cannot stop thinking of Hillary.

    She's not running  She isn't going to run.  Get her name out of your mouth and off your brain. 

    They'll be running and arguing against the idea of Hillary 50 years after she's dead.  They're a bankrupt movement with no decency, no ideas...nothing except fearmongering of the Clinton bogeyman.

     

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  12. Chickfilas mac n cheese is the bomb. Tough to beat
     
    chickfilas waffle fries are better than popeyes fries...and they have chickfila sauce to dip it in.
     
    point CFA.

    Whathafuck?

    Red beans and rice.
    Dirty rice.
    Mashed taters with Cajun gravy.

    Game over.
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  13. And the best news about this big tent? Your problems and the things you face belong on the agenda too.
     
    That’s the magic the Democratic Party needs to harness.
     
    Rural, poor, agricultural, unskilled labor, opioid epidemic, middle class squeeze, all of the “white people” problems have a spot on the agenda too.
     
    Let’s put it all out there and look across the table and see brothers and sisters not enemies and thieves taking your American dream from you.
     

    This. We’re all in this together. And success for some of us should connect to success for all of us.
  14. 1 minute ago, JimmyJames said:

    The worst part about it for Trump is this:

    She speaks the truth.

    And he knows it.

    And because of his disease, his mind won’t allow him to accept it.

    And will lash out accordingly, in order to protect itself.

    Not much different than a drug addict. The drug addicted mind will do whatever it takes to fool the body to keep taking the drugs it wants, and in fact needs. 

    That’s our president. 

    And here's the thing -- a creature like that is one of stimulus-response.  If you want him to do a certain thing, you just provide the correct stimulus, and it will elicit the intended response.  Just like pushing the gas or the brakes, you can get him to do what you want with just the right input.

    She just pushed the gas pedal.  He can't help but rev his engine of idiocy.

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  15. 25 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    The reasoning is pretty simple: killing dirty brown people, by definition, cannot be a crime.

    The president of the United States is saying, with no shame or reservation, that it is the official policy of the United States that murder of dirty ay-rabs is A-OK, and not only is it not a crime, we should thank anyone who does so.

    I know, in a list of atrocious things done by this admin, it's hard to make room for all the super-shitty ones, but this one belongs in that top tier.  But it probably won't even get a mention on the news.

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