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The abruptness and shift of "fake news" semantically shifting from a term of definition to a term of art will never cease to amaze me. I truly think it is one of the must underrated stories of 2016-2017.

In early 2016 "fake news" was a descriptor used by reputable news organizations while discussing the influx of patently absurd and false news articles coming from social media. NPR produced an incredibly interesting podcast segment about the issue that I think everyone should listen to. Articles like the Pope endorsing trump, pizzagate, ISIS endorsing Clinton are all completely false and appropriately labeled "fake news". trump claiming that all negative polls are fake is not an appropriate use of the term "fake news".

This sub should honor the spirit of the original intent of the term. "Fake news" should be defined as information that is not provable and/or demonstrably false. Information should not be considered fake simply because it offends or makes one uncomfortable.

I also think it is important, at least for now, to allow for all sources. I like to think that the readers here are able to suss out bias, and if not, that is what the comment section is for.

I randomly picked 33101 (Miami-Dade County) and I get at least 3 different insurers. Now if you live in the northern part of the state it is certainly possible there is only one on-exchange insurer in your county.

But I stand by the statement that the Florida market in aggregate (large / small / individual) is actually quite competitive compared to other states.

You have to remember the individual market is actually a pretty small part of the total insurance market, only about 8.8%.

Take a look for yourself HC.gov 2018 Plans

The part about it raising deficits might be confusing to some, but I will see if I can explain, based on some sources I read today. Here's one explanation or how about healthcare.gov

The cost sharing subsidies are being made to insurance companies to offset reductions in copays and deductibles for people on Silver plans who qualify by being at a certain percentage of the poverty level.

The part that says insurance companies must do this is in the ACA. The part that allocates funding is by executive order. The funding part will be eliminated but the benefit will remain. So insurance companies will raise premiums to make up the difference. If premiums go up and all other parts of the ACA remain the same, the government will be paying more in premium subsidies (which is separate from the cost sharing) and thus why some estimates having the federal deficit going up.

They are being charged with a hate crime. Does your preferred news source not keep you up to date on issues that don't outrage you?

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I'm actually reading Ron Paul's book End The Fed right now! I've been on a political book kick for a while now, taking a break from my sci-fi.

I'm a firm believer that you have to be well versed in all sides of an argument in order to truly master debate. So I'm going to be going through some leftist literature but I'm having a hard time finding things that are genuinely interesting. I've found some right-wing things I'm going to read/analyze (Milo's Dangerous and a Ben Shapiro book or two) I was going to find a copy of Das Kapital but that seems like a bit overboard? I'm hoping someone on this sub will be able to give me some good recommendations.

Edit: I just remembered I have a copy of Rules for Radical's at home that I have yet to read. So I guess my problem has been solved. Also maybe The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros.

Why are you pushing a false narrative?. Do you have a source of crimes against white people not being a hate crime? Sounds like more "I wish I was more persecuted" talk that seems to be popping up a lot lately.

I believe the effective tax rate for US corporations are more inline with 18% (https://www.npr.org/2017/08/07/541797699/fact-check-does-the-u-s-have-the-highest-corporate-tax-rate-in-the-world).

>Barring politically difficult spending cuts or tax increases, the Trump tax cuts would produce deficits of as much as $11.2 trillion over the next decade, which could swamp any salutary effects arising from lowering marginal effective tax rates on work, saving, and investment. We estimate that by 2036, with no change in spending or interest rates, the proposal would raise the national debt by nearly 80 percent of GDP. If interest rates rise in response to the burgeoning public debt, the increase in the debt could be much larger.

This seems like a pretty serious increase in our deficit and seems unsustainable.

>By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak

-Umberto Eco on traits of fascism

> https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/peter-strzok-james-comey/index.html

This was changed because Negligent has actual legal implications and so if Comey was to recommend no charges than he couldn't use language that would have implied criminal charges. It wasn't a huge conspiracy. The FBI had already made their decision on the case they just needed to make sure their language didn't contradict their decision.

The first source about the laptop had to do with McCabe, not Strzok, which is a whole different issue. I fail to see how Strzok somehow managed to single handedly throw the investigation for Clinton in the face of the IG report saying his political bias didn't affect his work.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/371753-wsj-agents-texts-reveal-mccabe-knew-of-clinton-emails-for-at-least-a

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/peter-strzok-james-comey/index.html

I am still looking for the quote from comey for the second paragraph, but it was in his testimony he literally stated that was his reasoning for it.

and for your last point it wasnt actually, he literally stated he wanted it to be public so that its not a shadow over her administration. Will add sources for these in a sec

To be fair, this has been in their back pocket as spin since December 2017, and even earlier than that when Trump Jr. outed himself

If he gave a damn about keeping things 'clean and beautiful for future generations', he might not have let his administration sell mining rights to the Boundary Waters to a foreign company.

Then again, what's a million acres of beautiful wilderness compared to your family being in bed with the businessman planning to destroy it?

That clearly doesn't work; that's gotten us to where we are today. We pay far more than other countries for the same drugs and services. Look at this chart -

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/04/20/524774195/what-country-spends-the-most-and-least-on-health-care-per-person

We're way off to the right, alone. We spend the most out of any country, for the same stuff.

You have no baragaining power right now. None. Hospitals have 100% of it. They have something you need.

With a single-payer healthcare system, we would be able to even those odds a little.

> There aren't "more" families crossing.

Yes there were. This was from 2015, near the end of Obama's term.

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/21/politics/us-children-crossing-border-spike/index.html

> And they aren't being giving different treatment. It's not more complicated. You're trying to justify separating families.

From:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/illegal-immigration-enforcement-separating-kids-at-border/#slide-1

 The past practice had been to give a free pass to an adult who is part of a family unit. The new Trump policy is to prosecute all adults. The idea is to send a signal that we are serious about our laws and to create a deterrent against re-entry. 

Fabricated propaganda? Let's fact-check your "Trump issued travel bans from China" theory.

https://www.google.com/flights?lite=0#flt=PEK.LAX.2020-05-07*LAX.PEK.2020-05-21;c:USD;e:1;sd:1;t:f

This represents the sum total of Trump's coronavirus "response." You kinda sorta semi-can't go to China and then go to the US, except if you're a citizen or permanent resident then never mind you still can. The rest of the time he has spent undermining US preparedness for coronavirus.

A sandwich is not a slice of bread

edit: also, here's the definition

informant

noun

• a person who gives information to another. another term for informer.

• a person from whom a linguist or anthropologist obtains information about language, dialect, or culture.

Thesaurus on informer:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/informer

listed on that page.... spy

I'm pretty sure Vanguard America are white supremacists. And yes. I believe antifa is communist. I've been watching them for more than a year and I know black and gold is anarcho-capitalism, and black and red is anarcho communism. Maybe you don't know what the originators of your movement are thinking but they have been quite clear about destroying capitalism. Here's an answer to an open letter asking them what they are about. https://steemit.com/anarchism/@thatadvocate/response-to-a-letter-addressed-to-antifa-anarcho-communists

Reuters:

>A coalition of nonprofit groups on Monday sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to obtain logs of visitors to President Donald Trump's homes.

>The lawsuit accused the Secret Service, which maintains the logs, of violating the law by ignoring several requests for lists of visitors to the White House, Trump Tower in Manhattan, and the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

>Monday's complaint was filed in Manhattan federal court by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the National Security Archive, and archive researcher Kate Doyle.

>The plaintiffs had requested the logs under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Reuters:

>U.S. President Donald Trump is open to authorizing additional strikes on Syria if its government uses chemical weapons again or deploys barrel bombs in the country, the White House said on Monday.

>"The sight of people being gassed and blown away by barrel bombs ensures that if we see this kind of action again, we hold open the possibility of future action," White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters.

>"If you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb in to innocent people ... you will see a response from this president."

Reuters:

>White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Wednesday he had let down President Donald Trump with his "inexcusable and reprehensible" comments comparing the use of poison gas by Syria's president to the atrocities of Adolf Hitler.

>"I made a mistake. There's no other way to say it. I got into a topic that I shouldn't have and I screwed up," Spicer said during an event at a museum in Washington. "On both a personal level and a professional level that will definitely go down as not a very good day in my history," he added.

Reuters:

>Britain's Daily Mail agreed on Wednesday to pay Melania Trump an undisclosed sum and issue an apology after it published an article saying the U.S. First Lady had offered "services beyond simply modeling" in her former job.

>President Donald Trump's wife, 46, had sued the publisher of the Daily Mail in Britain and also filed a $150 million (120 million pound) lawsuit against it in New York, claiming the article had cost her millions of dollars in potential business.

>A person familiar with the situation said the settlement was worth less than $3 million, including legal costs and damages.

Reuters:

>President Donald Trump, who has proposed cuts to an array of government agencies, is asking department heads to offer up plans to operate more efficiently.

>Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, told reporters on Tuesday he would be instructing agencies to outline how they will comply with the president's budget, which slashed spending for foreign aid and many domestic programs.

>The federal hiring freeze imposed shortly after Trump entered office will be lifted on Wednesday, but agencies will be asked to remain mindful of Trump's goal to reduce the federal workforce, Mulvaney said during a briefing.

>Mulvaney acknowledged that the president's budget would have to be approved by the Republican-controlled Congress, where lawmakers from both parties have balked at some of the drastic reductions.

Reuters:

>Tensions between the United States and Russia will not "spiral out of control" following last week's U.S. cruise missile strikes on a Syrian air base, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday, describing it as a one-off response to Syria's use of banned chemical weapons.

>President Donald Trump, in his biggest foreign policy decision since taking office in January, ordered the strikes after concluding that Syria waged a nerve gas attack in rebel-held territory that killed 87 people, many of them children.

>Russia, which has advisers on the ground aiding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warned the U.S. strike could have serious consequences. Syria denies involvement.

>"It will not spiral out of control," Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon.

>"I'm confident the Russians will act in their own best interest and there is nothing in their best interest to say they want this situation to go out of control."

Reuters:

>U.S. President Donald Trump has not asked to meet Pope Francis during his visit to Italy next month for the Group of Seven summit, sources said on Tuesday, in what would be a highly unusual omission.

>Trump, who Francis suggested was "not Christian" if he wanted a wall on the Mexican border, is due in Sicily on May 26-27 for a meeting of the heads of the world's richest nations.

>The two men have diametrically opposing positions on immigration, refugees, climate change and unbridled capitalism. Trump called the pope's criticism of his plan to build the Mexico wall "disgraceful".

>U.S. presidents have in the past made a beeline for the Vatican while they were in Italy or Europe in order to meet with the head of the world's largest Christian church. Only one of them, John Kennedy, was a Roman Catholic.

Internal State Department instructions to implement President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on citizens of six Muslim-majority nations help demonstrate that the ban violates the constitution, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in court filings late on Thursday

U.S. President Donald Trump told South Korea on Saturday he had explained to China's President Xi Jinping America's position on the deployment of an anti-missile defense system to South Korea, according to a statement from South Korea's acting leader

Chinese state media on Saturday has cheered the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping as one that showed the world that confrontation between the two powers was not inevitable

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it is suspending enforcement of the costliest requirements of its "conflict minerals" rule, after a court remanded it back to the regulator because part of it violates the U.S. Constitution

The United States fired cruise missiles on Friday at a Syrian airbase from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack had been launched this week, the first direct U.S. assault on the government of Bashar al-Assad in six years of civil war

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said he backed bringing back the Glass-Steagall Act, a Depression-era law that would revamp Wall Street banks by splitting their consumer-lending businesses from their investment arms

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will travel to South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Australia and Hawaii this month, using his first official trip to the Asia-Pacific region to discuss economic policies and underscore U.S. commitment to its allies, the White House said

its possible that the jesuit order of skulls and bones runs iran:

The CIA, Khomeini, & Secrets of the Islamic Revolution with Margot White https://www.bitchute.com/video/Q5wFINwI2OVm/

Antony Sutton - The Jesuit Order of Skull and Bones [Brotherhood of Death] https://www.bitchute.com/video/oxN5HvVrTuGj/

I didn't know these investigations took that long, thanks. Still, the raiding of a lawyer's office is very controversial. Of course we can't know everything that's going on, but if it is regarding Stormy Daniels, as media suggests, or the access Hollywood tape, it is not relevant to the scope of the investigation. While it would be political suicide to fire these people, it appears they are just harassing people, grasping for straws at the moment.

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/06/opinions/rosenstein-should-curb-mueller-whittaker-opinion/index.html

Here is a CNN opinion piece from a former attorney. This is why we have warrants, which specify what is being investigated.

Michael E. Horowitz is the inspector general. People are assuming he's legit but lets not forget trumps doctor and his performance. People can perform their jobs normally till someone comes along and makes an offer or triggers something.

The case seems weak based on what i read here

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/andrew-mccabe-ig-report-congress/index.html

Comey and McCabes accounts conflict, but comey supposedly said he didn't really remember. Also, if we are talking about firing people for what they remember, why on earth are any of trumps people still in office? sessions himself can't remember anything and "I don't recall" is the slogan for most of them.

>In addition, the inspector general determined that McCabe was not authorized to disclose the existence of the investigation because it was not within the department's "public interest" exception for disclosing ongoing investigations. The inspector general said that the disclosure to the Journal was made "in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of department leadership."

this is entirely based on the judgement of the person involved. You can come around later and make a different judgement, but you can't say he was not authorized to make the judgement.

The case sounds very weak.

To be clearer, he had a 93% approval rating at a CPAC rally. What a shock that 1100 ultra-rightwing extremists are wildly supportive of their grand wizard.

That's an interesting conspiracy. However my understanding was that there were no breadcrumb trails pointing to Russia. I've read some reports from security experts who've done independent studies on the government report, and all of them say it's impossible to pin this on Russia. Most of the ip addresses were to other countries, and the code used was old Ukrainian software that anyone can buy, not Russian. Here's one from the security firm who protects wordpress. https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/12/russia-malware-ip-hack/

 

I'm pretty sure Putin, and most foreign leaders want the US to fail, or at least weaken. I think every country wants to be number one. The general consensus was that if you wanted a better economy and a stronger military, vote Trump. Those are opposite of what Putin would have wanted. If I was Putin, I think I would have wanted Clinton in office. She is still in the middle of multiple investigations, and with evidence of corruption through WikiLeaks. Her associates have done multiple deals with Russia, and she pushed through an approval to sell 20% of our uranium production to Russia. Both her and Obama have been trying to strengthen Russian relations. I think Putin would have loved Clinton.

Mainstream conservative opinions, including ones shared with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and ones that Barack Obama held both times he ran for President.

I might not get to everyone because of the Reddit timer. I'm not going to sit here all day. Anyone who wants to actually discuss this can on Gab where there's no timer and no partisan political censorship. https://gab.com/benmclean

I've heard it mostly from people calling horse races. "They're rounding the turn and heading into the home stretch." Which makes it just as inapt a metaphor for our current trajectory as "turning the corner," of course.

We haven't been following any course and we have not changed the direction we're heading, in numbers of both diagnoses and deaths. It's more like our racehorse was too spooked to leave the starting gate at first, then once he finally did he just ran straight off the track and out of the arena.

(I appreciated your joke, though. Sorry to nerd about it like that.)

FYI, "made in the USA" does not mean "all materials sourced from the USA." Also, while you sourced one safety harness which indicates at the bottom of the site that it is "Made in the USA," it is also many times more expensive than the common ones found on Amazon.

Also, I believe you dodged my point. Do you agree or disagree that tariffs are compatible with the formerly-conservative idea of free market capitalism?

>There are products that it is in your national interest to make domestically.

And yet, the United States did not impose tariffs on rare earth substances imported from China, which are used in all variety of electronics and military hardware.

If it's not in the national interest to minimize the cost of raw materials used in one's national security, then what is? Or do you believe the government is deliberately importing inferior materials from China?

>The anonymous author of “A WARNING” did not take an advance and intends to donate some of the royalties to nonprofit organizations that focus on government accountability and supporting truth-tellers in repressive countries, including the White House Correspondents’ Association, Latimer said.
>
>“The author could have received a seven-figure advance for writing this book,” Latimer said. “But ‘A WARNING’ was not written for financial reasons. The author sees this as an act of conscience and of duty, which is why the author refused any advance and is donating a substantial portion of any royalties to charities that protect those seeking the truth around the world.”

Available for pre-order on Amazon.

What a time to be alive.

Obama put 9 whistleblowers in jail, and spied on tons of people besides Trump. I'm not sure he would have been as cooperative as you imagine.

But the point is that Obama didn't have hardly any MSM attacking him, in spite of all the laws he broke: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2011/06/president-barack-obamas-complete-list.html

People have written entire books on Obama's abuses of power. https://www.amazon.com/Faithless-Execution-Building-Political-Impeachment/dp/1594037760/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

The media decide what the population should be outraged about. I'd be interested to know what you think Obama's top few most impeachable scandals are from that pretty complete list. Mine is probably the $100B to Iran, and the Iran deal. However, I also think Obamacare could be as well since it was such a disaster, and involved lies in passing it.

Here, we've got impeachment on made-up Trump crimes in Ukraine.

>You want this to be false so bad that you're projecting you're own illogical conclusion on to other people.

Yeah. I don't think we should air sexual assault allegations on national TV based purely on word of mouth. Fuck me, right?

And pay no attention to the perfect timing of the book which hits bookstores and Amazon today, titled: "The Education of Kavanaugh: An Investigation". Get it while it's hot!

Full quote:

>You actually get into the details of the Steele dossier, the specific allegations, we have not seen the evidence to support them, and, in fact, there's good grounds to think that some of the more sensational allegations will never be proven and are likely false

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Michael Isikoff twitter response:

> But here is what is true, Mr. President. https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Roulette-Inside-America-Election/dp/1538728753/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1520636584&sr=8-2&keywords=isikoff+russian+roulette … @DavidCornDC @SkullduggeryPod

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Are you a comedian? Israeli's almost run this country for all intent and purposes. A Mossad operative is more likely to be saying that orwelltheprophet will be dealt with. By the way, some Israeli operatives hacked my wedding photography website after I reviewed a couple books about the Mossad on Amazon. Merely a coincidence. https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534730222&sr=1-1&keywords=the+israeli+lobby&dpID=51ujbbqeS2L&preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_&dpSrc=srch