TenuredVulture wrote:I mean, Donna Brazille didn't exactly do a great job when she ran a campaign.

Also, it seems to me the goal of current economic policy is to get inflation revving up. Thus, it's going to suck even worse than people imagine, because workers have little bargaining leverage, so COLAs won't even keep up for most Americans, and it's a way to accelerate wealth transfer from workers to capitalists. The one mitigating factor is it will take a small bite out of consumer/household debt.

slugsrbad wrote:I'm away for the weekend and too lazy to format on my phone but President Doesn't Tweet Storm is going off the rails this morning.

CalvinBall wrote:doesnt seem like corker is behind the bill as it currently is written?

JUburton wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:doesnt seem like corker is behind the bill as it currently is written?

yeah that's what i meant. he's a definite yes.

Jenna Abrams was a popular figure in right-wing social media circles. Boasting nearly 70,000 followers, Abrams was featured in numerous news articles during the 2016 election, spotlighted by outlets as varied as USA Today, the Washington Post, the BBC and Yahoo! Sports.

CalvinBall wrote:

JUburton wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:doesnt seem like corker is behind the bill as it currently is written?

yeah that's what i meant. he's a definite yes.

oh. so once they change some of the edges you think he will just vote yes.

got it.

seems to read that way, sure.

pacino wrote:the deduction where teachers could write off expenses for stuff they bought for their classrooms is going away in this bill

BREAKING: Bergdahl to get dishonorable discharge, lose rank, forfeit pay in addition to getting no prison time.

thephan wrote:1.4M jobs in Trumps tenure

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Just took off for ceremony @ Pearl Harbor. Will then be heading to Japan, SKorea, China, Vietnam & the Philippines. Will never let you down!

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe police charged a United States citizen with subversion for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe on Twitter as a "sick man," lawyers said Friday. The offense carries up to 20 years in prison.

This is the first arrest made since Mugabe last month appointed a minister for cybersecurity, the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said, in a move criticized by activists as aimed at clamping down on social media users. Zimbabwe was shaken last year by the biggest anti-government protests in a decade.

Police picked up the 25-year-old Martha O'Donovan on Friday morning in the capital, Harare, U.S. Embassy spokesman David McGuire told The Associated Press.

Police accuse O'Donovan of tweeting "We are being led by a selfish and sick man," from the Twitter handle @matigary, said her lawyer, Obey Shava with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. The tweet had a photo illustration of the 93-year-old Mugabe with a catheter, the charge sheet says.

O'Donovan has been charged with undermining the authority of or insulting the president, Shava said. She later said O'Donovan now faces additional charges of subverting a constitutionally elected government.

"I deny the allegations leveled against me as baseless and malicious," O'Donovan said in a signed statement shown to the AP.
O'Donovan had been working with local social media outlet Magamba TV, whose target audience is youth, Shava said. The outlet describes itself as producing "satirical comedy sensations." O'Donovan, a graduate of New York University, has called herself a manager for Magamba TV and a "media activist." Earlier this year, she presented a talk at a re:publica digital culture conference on "How Zimbabweans Rebel Online."

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights says it has represented nearly 200 people charged for allegedly insulting Mugabe, the world's oldest head of state, in recent years. Frustration is growing in the once-prosperous southern African nation as the economy collapses.

"Concerned to hear of Martha O'Donovan's arrest and ongoing detention. #Mugabe must stop arresting journalists #FreeMartha," the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists tweeted Friday.