Republicans

[L'Emmerdeur]

Medicaid is too costly! And we just cut revenue, so Maine, you are on your own:


Donna Wall cares for her three adult autistic children at her home in Lewiston, Maine. It's a full-time job. Sons Christopher and Brandon have frequent outbursts, and the stress of tending to them can be overwhelming.
When her twin sons turned 18 a year and a half ago, Maine's Medicaid program dropped her health insurance. Wall is considered a "childless adult" in Maine and other states that didn't expand Medicaid, and so she isn't eligible for coverage. She can no longer get her antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications. She can't see her psychologist or a doctor to check up on a troubling spot on her eye.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/09/news/ec ... index.html

#WINNING!

[pErvinalia]

Yebut the stockmarket is up.

[Tero]

Summary of Trump era
1. Shithole states
2. shithole diplomacy
3. shithole healthcare
4. what the hell: shithole America

[Tero]

How To Talk To A Family Member About Politics And Also The Fact That Their New Jewelry Business Is A Pyramid Scheme
https://www.theonion.com/how-to-talk-to ... 1820477976

[Tero]

Massachusetts
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/ ... ump-339182

[Tero]

Kiddy fiddler Moore’s supporters now after their Republican senator
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/ ... ama-339185

[Tero]

Republicans just want cheap labor, never dealing with immigrants in any new law:
The Goodlatte bill meets all those requirements but also would crack down on sanctuary cities, tweak policies governing child migrants and asylum seekers, and require companies to verify the legal status of their workers.

The latter provision, known as E-verify, would put centrist House Republicans in swing districts in a difficult position. Some hail from heavily Hispanic districts where E-verify would disrupt agriculture businesses.

Politoco

[Brian Peacock]

#MAGA by turning the nation into sweatshops to supply the growing Chinese middle class.

[pErvinalia]

[Tero]

We just need to feed the Chinese. We need the Mexicans to process the product into edible form.
List

Conagra Brands[edit]
Act II - microwave popcorn
Alexia - appetizers, artisan breads, and potato products
Andy Capp's fries - flavoured corn and potato snack made to look like French fries
Angela Mia - tomato products and authentic Italian specialties
Angie's - ready to snack popcorn
Award Cuisine - food service specialties that cross dayparts and temperature classes
Banquet - frozen chicken and ready-to-heat meals
Bertolli - Italian-style olive oil
Big Mama Sausage - snack-sized preserved sausages
Blue Bonnet - margarine and bread spreads
Chef Boyardee - ready-to-eat pasta meals
Chiffon margarine - tubbed soft-margarine brand purchased from Kraft and later discontinued
Chun King - Chinese-style foods and meal packages
ConAgra Mills - multi-use flours
Crunch 'n Munch - glazed popcorn/nut mixture
David Sunflower Seeds - sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds
Dennison's - chili
Eagle Mills with Ultragrain - all-purpose flour made with ultragrain
Egg Beaters - processed egg product
Fernando's - Mexican entrees and appetizers
Fiddle Faddle - glazed popcorn/nut mixture
Fleischmann's - bread spreads
Frontera Foods-Mexican products from chef Rick Bayless
Gebhardt - Tex-Mex style foods
Golden Cuisine - ready-made food for seniors
Gulden's - mustard
Healthy Choice - ready-to-eat and prepared foods
Hebrew National - kosher sausages, cold cuts and condiments
Hunt's - canned tomato products, ketchup and barbecue sauce
Hunt's Snack Pack - shelf-stable pudding
J. Hungerford Smith - dessert ingredients for restaurants
J.M. Swank - food ingredients
Jiffy Pop - popcorn
Kid Cuisine - prepared foods for children
La Choy - Chinese-style foods
Lamb Weston - potato products
Lamb Weston Inland Valley - consumer sales of frozen potato products
Lightlife - vegetarian meat product substitutes (sold in 2013)
Luck's Incorporated - canned baked beans
Mama Ginellis - canned ready-to-eat pasta meals
Manwich - canned sloppy Joe mix
Margherita - Italian-style processed meats
Marie Callender's - frozen meals
The MAX - pizzeria-quality products for food service operators
Move Over Butter - margarine
Orville Redenbacher's - popcorn
PAM - spray cooking oils
Parkay - bread spreads
Patio - Tex-Mex-style frozen meals
Pemmican - beef and turkey jerky
Penrose - pickled sausages
Peter Pan - peanut butter
Pogo - corn dogs
Poppycock - premium glazed popcorn/nut mixture
Puritan - ready-to-eat stews
Ranch Style - baked and refried beans
Reddi-wip - whipped cream
Ro-Tel - canned tomato sauce
Rosarita - Mexican - style foods
Screaming Yellow Zonkers - glazed popcorn (discontinued)
Slim Jim - meat snacks
Squeez 'N Go - prepared pudding
Swiss Miss - powdered cocoa for hot chocolate and pudding
Van Camp's - canned beans
VH - sauces and frozen foods (available in Canada only)
Vogel Popcorn - popcorn
Wesson - cooking oils
Wolf Brand Chili - chili

[Tero]

Republicans Have 4 Convicted Criminals Running For Congress In 2018
Three of them are bragging about it.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jo ... mg00000004

[Seabass]

California is the 6th largest economy in the world. It is an economic powerhouse. The education system, while far from perfect, is a damn sight better than what you'll find in most red states. It's one of the few states that actually tries to reduce pollution and gun violence—you know, 1st worldy stuff.

So naturally, the right-wing wackos want to take 90% of it and turn it into a goddamn red state. And of course the Russian trolls and bots are boosting this crap on social media.

Of course, pre-Trump, I'd have simply laughed at this nonsense and quickly forgotten it. But now, I don't know what to think. Nothing seems to fucking matter any more. I suppose I should take comfort in knowing that all previous attempts to split the state have failed, but it ain't easy bein' optimistic in these Trumpy times.

[Seabass]

Study: 42 percent of Republicans believe accurate — but negative — stories qualify as ‘fake news’

[pErvinalia]

100% of Republicans are fucking idiots. 42% of them are particularly stupid.

[Tyrannical]

The Trump Effect lol, the economy is doing really, really good.

Apple Inc.'s move to pump around $350 billion into the U.S. economy over the next five years marks not only the biggest domestic corporate investment program in history but may also provide further price support for record-high stocks as companies use the recently-passed tax overhaul to repatriate trillions in overseas cash.

Apple unveiled plans to pay a tax bill of around $38 billion on an undefined portion of its $252.2 billion overseas cash pile Wednesday while announcing plans to spend $30 billion on both existing company sites and a new campus that will be "powered entirely by green energy". The Cupertino, California-based company also said it would increase its headcount by around 20,000 and said its overall contribution to the U.S. economy will top $350 billion over the next five years.

Apple's decision to repatriate some of its $252 billion cash pile could spark a wave of similar moves to bring back an estimated $3 trillion in overseas dollars.