Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[verreauxi]

"Former President Barack Obama made a last-minute change to the way wiretapped intelligence is shared Jan. 12, which may have contributed to the proliferation of leaks plaguing the Trump administration.

Obama changed the way National Security Agency intelligence is shared 8 days before leaving office, which allows globally intercepted communications to be disseminated across the entire intelligence community."

How convinient

No. This was not a last minute change. It was in the works for over a year and the NYT reported it on it last February, 11 months ago. And it only expanded the type of FISA information that agencies (who were already approved to access information) could access (expanding it from raw but scrubbed data to unscrubbed information sent by phone, email that cross through American borders). The idea that it might have contributed to the leaks plaguing the Trump administration is pure speculation on your part. One could just as easily speculate that it was a disgruntled Trump team member who was sick of working with a narcissistic bully who leaked the information.

 

[LinekersLegs]

Taking a wild stab in the dark here but pretty sure this hypothetical 60 year old is going to want the larger tax credit under the ACA...
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/fir...y-under-n732376?cid=par-twitter-feed_20170312
An analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation also found that the bill would broadly offer less help to Americans living in rural areas, as well as older people and those on lower incomes. They estimated, for example, that for a 60-year-old getting a $4,000 tax credit while making $30,000 a year, under the American Health Care Act is almost $8,000 less than they would get under Obamacare.

Price claimed that analysis is "looking at it in a silo."

"If you look at it in the way that the market will allow, then, for individuals to have choices, who knows what that 60-year-old wants?" he asked.

 

[Huyton Layne]

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...-health-care-bill-claims-he-has-not-been-paid

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The middle-school student who wrote the Republican health-care bill that was unveiled earlier in the week complained on Friday that he still has not been paid for his work.

Kevin Tenco, a seventh grader from House Speaker Paul Ryan’s congressional district, in Wisconsin, said that Ryan hired him two weeks ago to write the American Health Care Act with the promise that it “wouldn’t be too much work” and that he would be paid handsomely for his effort.

“He said I would get paid, like, five hundred dollars, and I could buy a Nintendo Switch,” Tenco said.

Taking Ryan at his word, the thirteen-year-old, from Twin Lakes, Wisconsin, “pulled several all-nighters” to complete the health-care bill in time for its Monday unveiling.

“I basically went to the Wikipedia page for Obamacare, cut and pasted a bunch of stuff and then threw in some tax cuts and whatnot,” he said. “It doesn’t sound like a lot of work, but I was super tired by the end of it.”

According to Tenco, Ryan’s failure to pay him in a timely fashion for writing the American Health Care Act has left him “feeling really bad about our government.”

“I was all set to write an immigration reform bill for Congressman Ryan, but now there’s no way,” he said.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

An analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation also found that the bill would broadly offer less help to Americans living in rural areas, as well as older people and those on lower incomes. They estimated, for example, that for a 60-year-old getting a $4,000 tax credit while making $30,000 a year, under the American Health Care Act is almost $8,000 less than they would get under Obamacare.

You know what? Good. They deserve to get screwed for voting so stupidly.

 

[LinekersLegs]

So is this Mike Flynn thing a big deal? Also was it just another stupid thing his team has done or were there illegalities?

To have one of your senior campaign foreign advisors being the paid employee of a foreign government (even if a nominally friendly one in Turkey), I'd class as a big deal even if it was fully legal - which I don't think it was as Flynn didn't file the paperwork.

To not even know that he was being paid to influence decisions is, if anything, an even bigger deal as it raises huge questions on their vetting process.

And I'd have said exactly the same if it had been one of Clinton's advisors.

 

[summerisle]

Louise Mensch, oh dear.

 

[Huyton Layne]

A-may-zing. She's the gift that just keeps on giving.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...mocked-spy-microwaves-claims-interview-obama/

 

[LinekersLegs]

A-may-zing. She's the gift that just keeps on giving.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...mocked-spy-microwaves-claims-interview-obama/

 

[SerenityNigh]

Paul Ryan called out by a Kennedy no less!!

Good on the lad, we need more of that.

 

[SerenityNigh]

So is this Mike Flynn thing a big deal? Also was it just another stupid thing his team has done or were there illegalities?

I don't have my ear close to the ground, but I'm guessing he's a fall guy until all the dust settles and the team will move on with whatever it wants. But it all seems to be a bit sticky. Is the Sessions mess settling down, or is that still in the news cycle?

 

[SerenityNigh]

Louise Mensch, oh dear.

Louise, not a mensch

 

[SerenityNigh]

Apparently she's already walking this back, but still...

 

[LinekersLegs]

Weird coincidence I am sure...

 

[Rook]

You know what? Good. They deserve to get screwed for voting so stupidly.

I want to become a MD so I can write perscriptions for bootstraps.

 

[edge]

he has been quite for a few days , wonder what he is cooking up next.