traderdave wrote:I'm hearing Trump was at Subway grabbing some lunch with Jared

n an interview with the Wall Street Journal that appeared on Wednesday, Trump made a warning. If Democrats won’t talk repeal, the president said, Republicans might decide to cut off some subsidies now flowing to health insurers offering coverage through Obamacare’s exchanges.

“I don’t want people to get hurt,” Trump said, sounding a bit like a mobster describing a protection racket. “What I think should happen — and will happen — is the Democrats will start calling me and negotiating.”

Those subsidies are a really big deal. Without them, insurers would have to jack up premiums ― by an average of 19 percent for typical policies, according to a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation study. That increase would be above and beyond any other increases in the works. Many insurers would probably exit the markets altogether.

pacino wrote:silly attack on Jon Ossoff

i guess they're scared

"Al Jazeera, a media outlet that has been described as a mouthpiece for terrorists, has been paying Jon Ossoff thousands of dollars. But Jon refuses to tell voters exactly how much money he’s received. Just like Jon refuses to tell voters the truth about his experience. What is he hiding?"

The most recent Al Jazeera project was a six-part series on Latin America. Topics covered included child trafficking and sexual exploitation across the Argentina-Bolivia border, allegations of slave labor in Brazil’s garment industry and deaths in police custody in Mexico.

Over the years, Al Jazeera paid Ossoff’s company for investigations that revealed government corruption in Africa, extra-judicial killings, corrupt doctors selling HIV/AIDS drugs on the black market, and related themes.

One film dealt with terrorists. It was produced for the BBC and followed a group of Yazidi women turned soldiers who seek revenge on ISIS fighters.

Youseff wrote:

jamiethekiller wrote:NK 'evacuating' 600k people from their capital

all I see is a bunch of MAGA shitheads referencing Zerohedge and other crap sites. where'd you see this?

swishnicholson wrote:I shouldn't find any DJT quotes risible any more, but US-Russian relations being "the worst they've ever been" makes me wonder if he ever actually existed prior to 1980.

thephan wrote:I wondered if it is a Fuel Air Explosive. I think the daisy cutter was. A FAE basically disburses a column of fuel impregnated with additives to make it more effective, but on the ground it consumes a good bit of the oxygen available.

Then news cycles have gotten around to wondering what the deal is using the MOAB.

** I took a look and there are 3 things with the FAE

1. Apparently the name is Thermobaric
2. A usage is identified as cave clearing
3. Assad apparently like to use these as part of his horror campaign

smitty wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:I shouldn't find any DJT quotes risible any more, but US-Russian relations being "the worst they've ever been" makes me wonder if he ever actually existed prior to 1980.

Russia was the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

smitty wrote: Kinda like a Daisy Cutter but more powerful and more accurate.

DeVos Undoes Obama Student Loan Protections
Trump’s education secretary wants to limit costs at a time when more than 1 million Americans are annually defaulting.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday rolled back an Obama administration attempt to reform how student loan servicers collect debt.

Obama issued a pair (PDF) of memorandums (PDF) last year requiring that the government’s Federal Student Aid office, which services $1.1 trillion in government-owned student loans, do more to help borrowers manage, or even discharge, their debt. But in a memorandum (PDF) to the department’s student aid office, DeVos formally withdrew the Obama memos.

The previous administration’s approach, DeVos said, was inconsistent and full of shortcomings. She didn’t detail how the moves fell short, and her spokesmen, Jim Bradshaw and Matthew Frendewey, didn’t respond to requests for comment.