http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/3/9/11182590/obamacare-donald-trump
Vox cites this article on The National Journal which argues the Democratic senate supermajority passing Obamacare inspired the rise of Trump.
However, more accurately, the Republican GOP's response, which was to frenzy their followers into a grassroots movement against Obamacare, could be seen as the backlash inspiring Trump followers.
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/620757?unlock=8FN44MUZAMAANTMD
>In this telling, Obamacare was hubris that led to disaster. "Obama, eager to be seen as a historically-consequential president, [wanted] to spend all of his political capital early on the Democratic dream of expanding public access to health care — political backlash be damned," Kraushaar writes. This is more interesting and thoughtful than the Franken-framing, and it speaks, I think, to something important in Trump's rise.
>That isn't to say Obamacare would ever have been a bill conservatives loved. Its basic structure is that it raises taxes on the rich and cuts benefits for the elderly in order to subsidize health insurance for the poor and the sick. But Republicans could have hated Obamacare in the way the Democrats hated the Bush tax cuts — it could've been legislation they opposed rather than legislation they feared.
>But that wasn't the strategy. As Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate Republicans, told the Atlantic, "We worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off of these proposals, because we thought — correctly, I think — that the only way the American people would know that a great debate was going on was if the measures were not bipartisan. When you hang the ‘bipartisan’ tag on something, the perception is that differences have been worked out, and there’s a broad agreement that that’s the way forward."
>Republicans persuaded their base that something terrible was happening to the country and promised that if they won the 2010 election they could undo the damage Obama had done. The strategy worked. Republicans won the 2010 election, and they won it in a big way. But then they couldn't undo what Obama had done. And their base was too scared to simply accept that.
>Now elite Republicans are panicking as they watch their base turn to different and terrifying kinds of politicians in response. But even as the strategy of calculated hysteria destroys them, they can't seem to stop arguing that the Obama era — as represented, in this case, by Obamacare — has been a scary aberration in American politics.
When are Republicucks going to realize that they are their own worst enemies? Seriously, they don't understand even their own people, let alone those who don't have bigoted tendencies or know how to use a computer.
Calling it right now. Republican party will become even more splintered over the next decade. They won't unite behind their radical evangelicals, their traditional Conservatives, nor any Reagan ideals. Trumpism will rise and this will last for a decade or two. Maybe not a Republican majority, but it now has a semi-permanent home.
(spoiler) I think Libertarianism will rise from flames as the new power in around 20 years as their voter base gets accustomed to using technology and they still want to represent small government ideals.
>>27627
Ehh, I think it was more the ineffectiveness of those 2010 'Tea Party wave' Congressmen to do anything worthwhile except stall and obstruct whatever they could.
Some freaking news bout' India
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVBnrBo5h58
>>27825
Hardly news that a small village made it..
>>27826
Then why did you post it?
>>27825
are they still shiting in the streets?
Chumlee, the breakout star of reality show “Pawn Stars,” is in even deeper legal trouble after a sexual assault raid by police.
The reality star, whose real name is Austin Russell, was arrested for drug and gun possession on Wednesday afternoon, after Las Vegas searched his home as part of a sexual assault investigation, according to jail records.
Authorities reportedly found marijuana, methamphetamines and a weapon at the 33-year-old's residence in Henderson, Nev., TMZ reported.
He was booked into Clark County Detention Center for the two charges.
The sexual assault case he is a suspect in remains under investigation.
Russell broke out on TV with the popular History Channel show, “Pawn Stars,” which follows the daily business at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas.
He had been working at the store doing behind-the-counter work for five years before the show premiered in 2009, and quickly became a fan favorite.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/chumlee-arrested-drugs-weapon-possession-article-1.2559126
only meth, weed, and a gun? tbh they won't let you live in vegas unless you already have those .
The pawn business is mostly a criminal front to fence stolen items
>>27709
This.
Kim Jong-un has stated that North Korea has succesfully miniaturised thermonuclear warheads.
http://news.sky.com/story/1656186/kim-jong-un-hails-n-koreas-miniature-nukes
>>27619
Implying they even function
>>27619
I find it very hard to believe a shitty 3rd world country with rolling powercuts and malls full of empty stores has the means to make anything more sophisticated than a wet paper bag.
That VHS copy of Space Jam in Kim's private museum must be one hell of a prize if they're paranoid enough to be stocking up on nukes like they claim they are
I'm a girl btw
I didn't know Marco Rubio was a midget...?!
www.drudgereport.com
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/08/rubio-camp-accuses-cruz-dirty-tricks-over-hawaii-dropout-email.html
>>27549
Why do you think he is called little marco?
>>27550
But apparently he is an actual, true, midget... Was he using a step ladder all this time?!
>mfw there are people on /news/ that willingly give Matt Drudge clickthrough shekels
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A West Virginia woman who stood between her dog and a cop who was about to shoot it was acquitted by a jury of obstruction charges on February, 29th, 2016.
West Virginia state trooper Seth Cook testified that he was not afraid of the dog, but was following training that required him to kill all dogs that approach him, even if it was chained and wagging its tail as Buddy was doing in this case.
And because Tiffanie Hupp tried to stop him from doing so, she was arrested.
Hupp, 23, and mother of two, told Photography is Not a Crime that the cops weren’t even called to her family’s property in Parkersburg for a dispute involving a dog on May 9, 2015.
Instead, they were there to mediate a tiff between her stepfather-in-law and his neighbor.
In fact, they were the ones that called police in the first place.
Cook had just talked to her neighbor’s and had stepped onto her family’s property when Buddy began barking and approaching the officer, reaching the end of its chain.
That’s when Hupp’s husband, Ryan Hupp, 25, began recording.
“If it wasn’t for him recording, there’d be nothing,” Hupp said.
“He knew about police brutaty before I did. But that’s why the camera is shaking, because of the adrenaline. When they read those words ‘not guilty’, we were relieved. It’s hard to describe the feeling unless it’s actually happening to you. Justice is good, though.”
As Buddy approached and began barking at Cook, he pulled out his gun on the dog. And that’s when Hupp stood between the two.
https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/03/07/west-virginia-woman-acquitted-for-stepping-between-dog-and-cop-who-wanted-to-kill-it/
>>27503
Jesus fucking christ what a sociopath that cop is
>>27503
>West Virginia state trooper Seth Cook testified that he was not afraid of the dog, but was following training that required him to kill all dogs that approach him
West Virginia in Iran right?
>>27503
I don't usually hate cops but I hope he gets his head caved in
Our Senpai has forsaken us and joined Google
http://www.inquisitr.com/2866967/google-hires-the-creator-of-4chan-to-help-with-google-chris-poole-aka-moot-the-man-behind-the-site-where-pedophiles-and-racist-lurk/
>>27501
C'mon mack, this is about our Nippon King we're talking about here!
> leave 4chan
> go to 9gag
> derp
> go to reddit
> puke
> back to 4chan
> happy lurking with my racist pedophiles buddies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3480898/Police-hunt-man-60s-repeatedly-shot-teenage-chicken-shop-worker-angry-cleaning-table.html
>>27472
My home town. Damn.
OOK OOK OOK
Of course it's a DailyMail article.
laughingpiersmorganhead.jpg
Donald Trump facing a rainbow monster with a moon on it's shoulder, a black silhouette peg-headed thing, and a ghost hand. Anybody else can tell what's going on in it?!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/seeing-trump-as-vulnerable-gop-elites-now-eye-a-contested-convention/2016/03/07/976d2c62-e487-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html
just means He's a gaggot
Fucking auto correct
Faggot faggot faggot
>>27456
> A person who is sexually attracted to objects such as cell phones, television or washing machines.
> Word derived from fusing 'Gadget' and 'Faggot', as in 'Ga' + 'Got' = Gaggot.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gaggot
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/08/binyamin-netanyahu-turns-down-meeting-barack-obama
>The latest friction between Netanyahu and Obama – who have had a tense relationship, not least over the issue of Iran – came ahead of a visit by vice-president Joe Biden to Israel, when the issue of US military aid to the country is expected to be on the agenda.
>Sources in Netanyahu’s office later briefed Israeli media that Netanyahu had not wanted to come to Washington in the midst of the presidential elections, adding that a continued disagreement over the size of a new US defence aid deal was also a factor.
>The US is offering an increase in military aid to Israel of around $5bn over a decade, while Israel is seek $10bn to $15bn more.
>>27438
Why do we keep giving these fucks money? They're a first world country, it's time to cut the umbilical cord.
>>27444
Do we get something out of it?
Maybe they keep the arabs busy on their home turf and less violence spreads to europe and beyond.
Here we go
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a2f97179be00470f8d51dea250197be4/netanyahus-office-refutes-us-surprise-cancelled-trip
>Israel on Tuesday refuted a White House claim that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "surprised" the Obama administration by cancelling a planned visit to Washington, saying that the White House knew Netanyahu was considering not coming.
>"Today I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Google."
>"When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm - "
>"I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online communities, and to begin the next chapter of my career at such an incredible company."
Full article can be found here: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/7/11174254/4chan-founder-chris-poole-joins-google
>>27369
How did that go?
>We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Sound about right.
A few days old as far as first finding out about it but at least there's an article proving it now
I wonder what he'll enjoy most during his stay
>There's no detail yet on what part of Google Poole will be joining, but his mention of experience "building online communities" suggests he could be going to the Google+ team
Well that's sad.
>American warplanes on Saturday struck a training camp in Somalia belonging to the Islamist militant group the Shabab, the Pentagon said, killing about 150 fighters who United States officials said were preparing an attack against American troops and their regional allies in East Africa.
>The strikes at a training facility called Camp Raso, about 120 miles north of Mogadishu, came as the Shabab fighters were nearing the end of “training for a large-scale attack” on forces belonging to the African Union in Somalia, officials said.
>They were bombed during what United States officials said they believed was a graduation ceremony, and the warplanes dropped a number of precision-guided bombs and missiles on them. “They were standing outdoors in formation,” one official said.
>The United States has a number of Special Operations forces in Somalia, and Defense Department officials said they were also believed to have been targets of the planned attacks.
>The Shabab fighters killed in the strikes were “nearing the completion of the end of their training,” said Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. He said the strikes “will degrade Al Shabab’s ability” to attack its neighbors and the West.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/world/africa/us-airstrikes-somalia.html
>>27368
You mean Obama did something right for once? I won't expect to see this covered in right wing media at all.
inb4 there was an American citizen in the collateral damage
>>27370
conservatives will get pissed like they always do when obama kills a bunch of muslims and it wasn't their idea
>>27377
>Implying Obama does any more than say "key whatevs m8" to his generals and teams that actually do the work.
Woo Fuckin Hoo !!
"If you have a life-long, latent infection with a virus such as HERPES, we could use CRISPR gene therapy to get rid of it," says Dr. Dellaire.
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-technique-gene-therapy.html
"Imagine if an ingredient in your cream could delete the genome of the herpes virus, and you never get a blister on your lip again."
>>27366
That is pretty cool, now if they can make a cream for my butt acne
>>27383
Your fat ass would probably crush any of the positive materials the cream would have in it.
>Be 13 and have a good night with some popular cheerleader bitch
>She gives you herpes
>Both arms broken in an accident not long after
>Can't apply the medicine to my dick because no arms so mom does it
>Develop a MILF fetish and to this day I still get boners around her
Story of my life.
>Hulk Hogan's attempted take down of the website Gawker over a secretly recorded sex tape began on Monday as lawyers asked a Florida jury to weigh privacy rights against public interest in a celebrity.
>A lawyer for the former professional wrestler said the online gossip site's editors were motivated by power and brand promotion and intended to harm Hogan when they posted an excerpt of a video showing him engaged in an intimate sex act.
>"They have essentially replaced sticks and stones with clicks and phones," lawyer Shane Vogt said during his opening statement, noting that 2.5 million people had viewed a clip of the sex-tape over six months.
>Hogan, 62, is seeking $100 million in damages from Gawker for posting the nearly two-minute video of him having consensual sex with the wife of his then-best friend, radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge.
>Lawyers for the longtime champion of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and reality TV star say he had a right to expect privacy in a private bedroom and the video was filmed without his knowledge.
>Gawker argues that its 2012 post is protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and contends it was reporting on a celebrity who publicly discussed his sex life.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-hulkhogan-idUSKCN0W91CJ
The Hulkster is the hero we need.
at least 2 out of those 2.5 million views is me.
>>27355
I honestly couldn't care less if I tried, but have a bump for at least not linking to gawker.
http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/06/knife-found-in-the-house-where-oj-simpsons-wife-was-murdered-5736500/ I don't understand American law. If the knife is covered in DNA and they can 100% prove this is the knife and he did it, nothing can be done? Can't he be put to trial for hiding evidence on an ongoing investigation and obstruction of the case?
>>27294
double jeopardy
>>27344
This means he cannot be tried for the same thing twice as far as I recall.
Personally I think it's bullshit because it's either the evidence that was missing, or someone is planning to lock him away for good once parole comes up.
Double Jeopardy keeps someone from being tried for the same thing twice. But all you have to do is bring up a new charge. Like you said, obstruction of justice, or conspiracy can still be charged against him if wasn't charged for it before.
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