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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby Soren » Thu Oct 12, 2017 14:56:24

Bucky wrote:
Soren wrote:I feel like I should know more about this than I do (which is nothing).



I assume you've been in your house long enough that your 2016 interest put you on the 'itemize' side of things? And you probably use tax software?

If both those are true (even if the second is not): just for fun, open up the tax software (or pull out your paper returns and re-do some calculations) and zero out your mortgage interest paid in 2016 and see what it does to your balance due/refund. Just don't do it on a full stomach.


This is the first full calendar year in our house, but yea we did itemize last year. We're "losing" a huge chunk of what contributed to our refund(me taking out student loans and being in school). It's something our tax guy will go over with us for sure.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby agrudez » Thu Oct 12, 2017 15:11:14

jerseyhoya wrote:None of that is new, though it wouldn't surprise me if it was getting worse. He has zero self awareness/shame and the people close to him now are either doing it out of duty for country cause they're armed forces or blood relatives.

I don't think this story has a happy ending.


You already got your happy ending with Gorsuch, didn't you? Everything else, as they say, is gravy now. Good thing gravy is traditionally brown so that the right wing won't notice what they are REALLY eating.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby Soren » Thu Oct 12, 2017 15:12:32

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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby jerseyhoya » Thu Oct 12, 2017 15:15:02

agrudez wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:None of that is new, though it wouldn't surprise me if it was getting worse. He has zero self awareness/shame and the people close to him now are either doing it out of duty for country cause they're armed forces or blood relatives.

I don't think this story has a happy ending.

You already got your happy ending with Gorsuch, didn't you? Everything else, as they say, is gravy now. Good thing gravy is traditionally brown so that the right wing won't notice what they are REALLY eating.

No, I don't think so. Gorsuch was like Pulisic's goal on Tuesday. A fleeting moment of happiness in an otherwise barren sea of devastation.

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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby jerseyhoya » Thu Oct 12, 2017 15:16:19

JFLNYC wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:He is a talented fiction writer


But it's based on a true story.

From 20 years ago, but I think it can be surmised he has not gotten better with age - Robert Reich, Quote Doctor

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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby JFLNYC » Thu Oct 12, 2017 15:32:23

jerseyhoya wrote:
JFLNYC wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:He is a talented fiction writer


But it's based on a true story.

From 20 years ago, but I think it can be surmised he has not gotten better with age - Robert Reich, Quote Doctor


There's a lot of that going around.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby thephan » Thu Oct 12, 2017 15:36:59

Meanwhile back at the ranch...

resident Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at taking action on ObamaCare on his own after Congress failed to repeal the law.

Trump said Thursday the order is "starting that process" to repeal ObamaCare. It will be the "first steps to providing millions of Americans with ObamaCare relief," Trump said.

Administration officials said the order is just the beginning of the administration’s actions related to the health-care law.

Experts warned that the order could undermine the stability of ObamaCare markets by opening up skimpier, cheaper plans that would divert healthy people away from ObamaCare plans.

Democrats warn that the order is part of Trump’s larger plan to “sabotage” the health-care law and accomplish on his own what Congress could not.


Torpedoes have hit below the waterline, the Affordable Care Act is going down. Those vaguely healthy to massively unhealthy people in Trump counties are going to be priced out, if they can even find a healthcare vendor, then they will die destitute. THANKS DONALD
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby Doll Is Mine » Thu Oct 12, 2017 15:49:03

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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby thephan » Thu Oct 12, 2017 15:53:57

Doll Is Mine wrote:Image


The move is a victory for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has long pushed for expanding association health plans, saying they give people choices for lower-cost coverage. He joined Trump at the White House on Thursday, calling the move the “biggest free market reform of health care in a generation.”
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby thephan » Thu Oct 12, 2017 17:28:12

In Trump's announcing that the Pennsylvania woman, her Canadian husband, and her three children born in captivity, have been released with the aid of Pakistan, he went on to say that Pakistan is starting to respect the United States again, and a lot of countries are starting to respect the United States again.

Maybe he thinks if he says it it's true. It is ridiculously embarrassing how far our International standing has fallen. Somewhere between the residence generally ridiculous attitude, and tillerson's non-existent State Department, we may be headed for one of the lowest points of international respect in our national history. That is some shameful s***.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby thephan » Thu Oct 12, 2017 20:58:22

Zink retired as a commander, always wanted to be an admiral. It’s not too arcane on posts to see this, just pompous.

Jump from SEAL to admiral is rare. I think there were 4. Thor Olsen ****, transitioned USSOCOM to McRaven a few years back.

The real rarity was Bill Shepard the astronaut SEAL, and a real arrogant ass.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby swishnicholson » Thu Oct 12, 2017 21:23:06

I have to say, an image search for astronaut seal is far more disappointing than I would have hoped.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby thephan » Thu Oct 12, 2017 22:53:21

NRA now opposes all bump stock legislation.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby The Savior » Thu Oct 12, 2017 23:27:14

thephan wrote:NRA now opposes all bump stock legislation.


They got their headline a week ago
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby slugsrbad » Fri Oct 13, 2017 00:31:47

Trump is ending CSR payments which are intended to keep premiums down. He is doing everything he can to sabotage the ACA by Executive Order. Where are the sanctimonious Congress people who lamented any EO President Obama passed?
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby swishnicholson » Fri Oct 13, 2017 00:57:56

Uncle Milty wrote:If only it wasn't called Obamacare


Yeah, that was definitely a miscalculation on his part.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby drsmooth » Fri Oct 13, 2017 01:54:09

Paulie Walnuts Ryan's all for drumpf's execrable health coverage executive order. Ryan's already on my list of People Who Must Go, so now he must Go Further
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby thephan » Fri Oct 13, 2017 06:26:10

slugsrbad wrote:Trump is ending CSR payments which are intended to keep premiums down. He is doing everything he can to sabotage the ACA by Executive Order. Where are the sanctimonious Congress people who lamented any EO President Obama passed?


No idea the difference between governing and ruling, also perhaps the biggest hypocrite ever. Like no other. How will it be spun? Insurance markets are about to spin wildly out of control. Market effect? Layoffs? What will the press tell Appalachia and the Plaines about their cost of coverage under the ACA. How will “Obama’s fault” be applied? How soon does this “provide real relief to the American people”?

Welcome to TrumpCare! Maybe Trump don’t care is more apt.
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Re: Tillerson says more on Trump in the politics thread

Unread postby The Savior » Fri Oct 13, 2017 06:28:46

Trump dead yet?
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