Trump threatens Alaska over health care vote

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-vote-lisa-mur...

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The only threat to the US comes from Americans. No other country could directly threaten it in a way that it couldn't recover from....

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Holy shit, this thread. Who knew trans in the military was such a hot button topic around here?

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Fuck you and fuck consistency. Russia isn't a threat to the US in a conventional sense. That's why they're doing the asymmetrical warfare thing....

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Adamant....

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I never cared about Russia, and I still think that it's mostly about the media spinning its wheels. My problem with Trump is that he obstructed an ongoing...

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Yup. I also know that you just said Trump was similar to TR. More so than other presidents. And that was a pretty big claim so I wanted to hear your ...

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I see. Anything else?...

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This seems like an effective move to appease his base while alienating a small, economically insignificant portion of society. Probably a good political...

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Like what?...

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Trump is more like Louis Napoleon with all the vanity and narcissism, but I guess it doesn't really fit with the metaphor. Obama was more like Louis Philippe,...

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I know what I'm about, Stannis....

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I wonder if we'll end up with a health Care system with government subsidized parasitic corporations or with slightly less government subsidized parasitic...

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I'm not. I just figured he'd resonate better with the rah rah Americana types than somebody on the other side of that impending revolution like Marx....

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Alexis de Tocqueville
January 29, 1848...

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http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...a-and-trump-jr

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I find Fahrenheit 451 to be objectionable and potentially dangerous. We should all get together to burn it.