Trump's Card

[WOM]

Pure ignorant shitting in Scotland's proud historic mouth racism fae WOM ken. Typical 'Nucks.

Damn right! Or something...

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Trump threatens to impose steel tarriffs on German Steel, The EU threatens to kick mitch mcconnell in the balls.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

BTW it strikes me that bourbon exports to Europe are fucking tiny. $120 million dollars is virtually nothing. Does the domestic market consume virtually everything they can produce?

[ursus arctos]

Believe so, the overall market was USD 8.5 billion last year.

My sense is that a lot of what is consumed in the EU is not Kentucky Bourbon.

Jack Daniels', for stance, s Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey.

[ad hoc]

Surely the "system" includes access and ease of use. The US might have the best health care infrastructure in the world but it is far from the best system.

[ursus arctos]

Only idiots agree with Gephardt, but as Bruno implies, there are millions of them here, including a large majority of Congressional Republicans.

Meanwhile

[ursus arctos]

But that's not a "healthcare system" anymore than Saville Row is a "clothing system"

On the photo, we don't know, but we can all guess. Perhaps he was explaining why he had Ivanka sit in for him this morning, or why the climate communique had to be from 19 countries, or saying something typical about trade.

[Gerontophile]

He's just called Merkel, Hillary.

[ursus arctos]

Not in the rest of the world.

That kind of nomenclature only makes sense within the US context, which is bonkers.

[ursus arctos]

I dunno. He's been a high-priced lobbyist ever since he left the House.

[ad hoc]

So he doesn't understand what the word system means. I get it. But it sounds ridiculous to anyone who does.

[anton pulisov]

Well then I hope he dies.

Well he said single payer won't be passed "in his lifetime".

[Satchmo Distel]

The statement would still be false if he had omitted system. The US does not have the best healthcare because on measures such as infant mortality, it is ranked below many so-called Third World states.

[Gerontophile]

Chris Uhlmann, Political Editor of ABC TV news, in Australia

[anton pulisov]

Here are quotes from 2003:



http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Dic...ealth_Care.htm

Sure, politicians say one thing in public, but their words behind closed doors and the trail of money says something else.

The man is on tape at a private meeting with insurance execs boasting about how single payer will never be passed and he takes $300k a year consulting for the health insurance industry.

[anton pulisov]

Yeah, there is certainly a lot of entrenched interests to be overcome.

Meanwhile, at the G-20 meeting:

[Sits]

Where was 45 when Ivanka was keeping his seat warm? Tweeting? Having a crap?

[Toby Gymshorts]

Little from column A...

[WOM]

Meanwhile, on the home(land) front:

Trump's kid has suddenly remembered that his clandestine meeting with a Russian lawyer might not have been due to a surfeit of concern for the plight of Russian orphan children after all (gasp) and might have been about getting dirt on Hillary so they could fuck her in the upcoming election. Well, imagine that...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...ticle35627677/

[ursus arctos]

[Tubby Isaacs]

Summer of Hell? That's what, engineering work?

[ursus arctos]

Yes, there have been a series of recent derailments in Penn Station and they are doing emergency repairs that require the cancellation of some services and the re-routing of others,

[Tubby Isaacs]

Ah, right. Emergency work, that won't be nice.

I'm trying to work out how these various transport authorities work.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

What's the bar for Treason in the US? I mean just so we know where it is?

[ursus arctos]

It's highly problematic.

Political control over them is shared in such a way as to distribute patronage while at the same time insulating any individual public official against responsibility for their dysfunction.