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I’m still looking for the Church of We’re All Pieces of Shit But Who Gives a Fuck Anyway; Hey, Cheesesteaks Buy One Get One, but alas.

The official doctrine at my church growing up was that evolution was legit, but my parents scolded me for believing that “people come from monkeys crap!”

End of the day, for better or for worse, the majority of religious voters in country seem to be of the mind that “saving the babies” trumps (hah) literally every other commandment and interpretation thereof.

Not all. Just the majority.

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I am sure the anti-abortion angle probably in the end always decides who my two brothers will vote for. One is catholic and one is evangelical. We don’t talk religion or social issues.

4504

To be halfway fair, those 300 would have lost their jobs under Clinton too… and probably earlier.

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True but their hopes of getting retraining, healthcare outside their employment, funds for school are probably poorer with Trump.

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Fair to whom? I don’t remember anyone but Trump parading himself around as Job Savior for Carrier in order to get more votes. He outright lied to them - why would anyone be concerned about fairness??

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Listen, gods know that Trump hasn’t accomplished too much of anything since he ascended to the throne. Most of his accomplishments seem to involve sitting in big trucks and making “vroom vroom” noises.

But he did - with Pence’s help and at the bargain-basement price of $15M of taxpayer money - keep those 300 poor bastards employed for six months longer than they would have been otherwise. Hopefully none of them took out a mortgage.

Now, @Nesrie has the much better point: now that they are unemployed, they’d likely have better long-term prospects under a Clinton administration. Better health care too.

4508

I doubt it really affected Carrier’s decision. They just pocketed the money and smiled while Don took credit for “saving jobs.”

Free money at the end of the day, might as well take it while it’s being offered.

4509

So it is as one of Clinton’s biggest supporters that I say to her now: your work here is done. It is time for Hillary Clinton to disappear from our magazine covers and our television screens, and gracefully retire from public life. Ideally, taking all other women with her.

Please note the web address.

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“Back to the pile, boys!”

4511

I mean, hasn’t she? I guess if the only thing you watch or read is Fox, she’s taking up quite a bit of the schedule. But out in the real world, I haven’t heard a thing from her besides the occasional recorded message.

But really though – taking all women with her? Fuck off, New Yorker Writer.

4512

That New Yorker article is intended to be satire.

4513

I love the New Yorker but I find the Shouts & Murmurs stuff to be generally unreadable.

Written satire is really, really fucking hard. (Amirite, Old Man Murray thread??) Alexandra Petri seems to be the only one these days who’s much good at it.

4514

Again. Check the web address.

“/humor/”

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Budget chief: ‘MAGAnomics’ the way to get US economy back on track [TheHill]

“We introduced the term this week, which is called ‘MAGAnomics,’ which is sort of this unifying theme of everything we’re trying to do to get the healthy, traditional American economy back on track,” the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget said Thursday on “Fox & Friends.”

“It’s our version of Reaganomics," he added. "You go back and look at what Reagan did in the '80s and the challenges they faced, and … we looked at the challenges we face.”

“MAGAnomics,” which is a play on the Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” or “MAGA,” consists of issues including tax and healthcare reform and energy dominance meant to revamp the U.S. economy, according to Mulvaney.

“Those things all tie together in this concept,” he said on Fox News.

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“It’s our version of Reaganomics," he added.

This is going to be great when we look back on MAGAnomics.

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MOSCOW/LONDON (Reuters) - Moscow and Washington are in talks to create a joint cyber security working group, Russia’s RIA news agency reported on Thursday, citing Andrey Krutskikh, a special presidential envoy on cyber security.

“The talks are underway … different proposals are being exchanged, nobody denies the necessity of holding the talks and of having such contacts,” Krutskikh said, according to RIA.

Svetlana Lukash, a Russian official who was at the Hamburg summit, said earlier this month that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump had agreed to discuss cyber security questions, either via the United Nations or as part of a working group.

However, intelligence and security officials in the U.S. and Europe told Reuters on Thursday they were not participating in the talks, which they said were confined to mid-level political officials.

One of the officials, who, like the others, spoke on condition of anonymity, said cooperation on cybersecurity was a “pipe dream” while Russia continues to deny that it hacked last year’s U.S. presidential election, as three U.S. intelligence agencies concluded publicly in January.

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In other news, fox in talks with henhouse to lay out cage security plan

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4521

They should have put that in big, bold letters above the article then because the text misses “humorous” by a few miles.