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http://www.latimes.com/nation/natio...-legislator-resigns-tweet-20170125-story.html

Nebraska lawmaker quits after tweet about Women's March protesters sparks outrage

An outspoken Nebraska state legislator who was fined for having cybersex using a state computer resigned Wednesday after causing further outrage by sending a tweet that implied participants at the Women's March were too unattractive to be victims of sexual assault.

Republican Sen. Bill Kintner announced at a news conference in the state Capitol that he would step down from the seat he has held since 2012. He made the announcement less than an hour before Nebraska lawmakers were scheduled to debate whether to expel him — the first time the Legislature would have taken such an action in recent history.

Kintner, of Papillion, retweeted a comment Sunday by conservative radio personality Larry Elder that mocked three women at the Women's March in Washington who were pictured with signs protesting President Trump's comments about touching women inappropriately. Above the photo, Elder wrote: “Ladies, I think you're safe.”

Kintner's office later released a statement saying: “By retweeting a message, I was not implying support for putting women in fear of their personal safety. I took down the retweet as soon as I became aware that it was being misconstrued.”

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The constitution bestows rights on the states buddy. States can regulate beyond the federal government

Not if its conflicting legislation between the two.

Which is why a full on gun ban in any state could never happen. So to get around that California makes laws like the ones they recently passed to make gun owners deal with more and more headaches. And they use fear and lies to get the public behind it.

:lol: Where isn't a conflict between the two. That's the point

If there is no regulation on the federal level, and some regulation on the state level, there is not conflict. Because there are no Federal Laws to conflict with

It is only when there is a explicit Federal law, can a state no do something is complete defiance of it

So you want the Federal government to pass a new law, to create a conflict, to make Cali's laws's unconstitutional.

You want big government to come trample on Cali's laws.

If you gonna invoke the Constitution name, please respect the document and do it properly. Don't just pick and chose the parts you like.

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And cut this BS out. Just because people have a difference of opinion with you, stop acting like the have just been fooled into having it.
 
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Speaking of private email servers since folks seemed to care so much...
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@thehill: Trump senior staff have active accounts on a private email system: report http://hill.cm/mSwFGkw


Curious to see how the MAGA crowd feels about this :nerd:

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-still-using-his-unsecured-android-phone.html
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:smh: :lol:

I can hear the excuses now. "Hillary had a private server." "He's still using his phone because he doesn't trust the intelligence agencies." "FBI didn't care when it was Hillary"

"He didn't get hacked"
 
Can the couple trump sympathizers on here explain to me why Andrew Wakefield met with trump and showed up at his inauguration ball?

For those who don't know, Wakefield is the quack who published a fraudulent paper in 1998 claiming that vaccines were linked with autism. He also had his medical license revoked due to ethics violations. Worse yet, he falsified the data because he planned to profit off the backlash against vaccines.

This piece of **** is the kind of guy trump likes to work with. Along with theranos board members, another debunked and dangerous scam. Why? Because trump himself is the biggest scam of them all. How anyone can defend him is beyond me, and anyone who tries is just as bad in my book.

**** you all.

da Hollywood left been pushing that anti vaccine propaganda for years :lol:

Robert De Niro had to be shamed into not going to his own documentary bout Anti Vaccination.

that **** Festers in da upper crevasses of liberal intelligencia.

so your moral outrage rings as selective & hollow.


People on both sides believe it, it's not a partisan issue :lol: apparently there's a correlation between trust in government and anti vaxxing ideology though.

They're all dumb to me. Bunch of people who were vaccinated telling other people not to get their kids vaccinated cuz they're dangerous. Doesnt help that Scientologists and celebs are pushing it.


Says who, you?


You live in a liberal state, if you don't like the guns laws you have the option to move to a state with different laws.

Stop relying on big government to regulate your life. :D
got em :lol:

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/donald-trump-surprises-gop-congress-policy-changes-234175

Trump keeps Hill GOP in the dark


PHILADELPHIA — Congressional Republicans came here to lay out a deliberate, step-by-step agenda to reform the healthcare system, cut taxes and slash Obama-era regulations.

But President Donald Trump has stolen the show.

The new chief executive surprised most Republicans with a series of executive orders on immigration on Wednesday — and undercut their argument that President Barack Obama was as an imperial president who governed with a pen and a phone while ignoring Congress.

But in a break even from Obama, who often gave congressional Democrats in-depth briefings on policy changes, members of Trump’s own party had little idea of what was coming on Wednesday. Ahead of the announcement, Republicans had received no specific briefing on his plans to build a border wall, beef up immigration enforcement and flood the border with new law enforcement officer.

“This is the new order,” said Rep. Pat Meehan (R-Pa.). Asked what he thought of Trump’s new immigration decrees, he replied: “I haven’t had a chance to go through it.”

Meehan’s not alone. In interviews Republicans said repeatedly they didn’t have enough information to respond to Trump’s executive actions because they hadn’t been briefed or even had a chance to read it. Still, they said they were comfortable with what Trump was doing, even if they didn’t have much idea of what, exactly, he was doing.

“As far as I was concerned, we had no briefing,” said Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), a member of Republican leadership. “It’s been part of their plan for many months. A lot of what they are saying today is not earthbreaking … there was some heads up with you guys in the media.”

House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appeared to have a better grasp on Trump’s plans than other GOP leaders and rank-and-file members. A spokeswoman for Ryan said they are in "constant communication" and a spokesman for McConnell said that he and Trump are in “regular communication.”

But Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 3 Senate Republican, said he had little inkling of Trump’s enforcement directives until they were actually issued on Wednesday and news reports confirmed the details.

“With respect from some of the particulars, yeah, we’re not seeing some of that stuff until it comes out,” Thune said in an interview. “This is a president who came into office with a very clear idea about what he wanted to do. And they obviously wanted to hit the ground running and get a lot of things enacted right away.”

And that put Republicans at a disadvantage with reporters on Wednesday as they tried to coalesce around a legislative agenda amid a flurry of activity from the White House. First Trump issued vague new directives on Friday targeting Obamacare, ordered a hiring freeze on Monday, moved to approve new energy pipelines Tuesday and on Wednesday turned to immigration.

So even as they defended Trump for erasing, in their view, Obama’s intransigence on energy pipelines, Obamacare reforms and immigration policy, almost all of them admitted they didn’t know exactly what Trump was doing.

“Like most White Houses with supporting majorities in the legislative branch, they’ve done appropriate outreach,” said Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.). But he added: “I haven’t personally read them yet.”

Indeed, Republicans are often left to try to divine out Trump's plans on their own. During a Tuesday Senate GOP lunch senators buzzed about vague guidance they’d received about the immigration orders. And on the Wednesday trip up to Philadelphia for their annual joint retreat Republican lawmakers tried to figure out if Trump was preparing a new policy on torture and enhanced interrogation techniques.

Indeed, even from more than 100 miles away, Trump was still dictating the GOP’s political narrative. And congressional Republicans seemed to be settling in for four years of reacting to Trump, rather than knowing what he's up to ahead of time.

“We expect a lot of actions,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.). “Obviously I have no idea what it’s going to look like. For me, he’s elected president, he’s got his first days planned and what he’s going to do … there’s no reason that he needs to communicate all the details of executive actions to us.”
 
Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.
 
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Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.
He's not going to back off though
He's dedicated to "draining the swamp" aka eliminating most of federal bureaucracy
 
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Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.

:lol: :lol:

But Ninja said it was all good.

-Rico, didn't you say you wanted to get a high paying Federal job one day, just like your famb :nerd:
 
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Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.

:lol: :lol:

But Ninja said it was all good.

-Rico, didn't you say you wanted to get a high paying Federal job one, just like your famb :nerd:


"Hold on this one effects me....... yeah Trump needs to chill man."
 
Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Do you mean that I'm not gonna wait until next January to see the tide of popularity among his supporters turn?
 
Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.

:lol: :lol:

But Ninja said it was all good.

-Rico, didn't you say you wanted to get a high paying Federal job one, just like your famb :nerd:

Just waiting for the secretary of labor to subsidize the adoption of driverless trucks. I heard he is a fan of automation.
 
Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.

:lol: :lol:

But Ninja said it was all good.

-Rico, didn't you say you wanted to get a high paying Federal job one, just like your famb :nerd:


"Hold on this one effects me....... yeah Trump needs to chill man."
Basically :lol: ...guess he didn't know trump and his supporters are all for smaller govt/less fed govt jobs ...all those fed workers that voted for him should be ok tho since factory jobs n all that are coming back if they want a new position
 
Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.

:lol: :lol:

But Ninja said it was all good.

-Rico, didn't you say you wanted to get a high paying Federal job one, just like your famb :nerd:


"Hold on this one effects me....... yeah Trump needs to chill man."

got eeeem
 
 
 
 
Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.
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But Ninja said it was all good.

-Rico, didn't you say you wanted to get a high paying Federal job one, just like your famb
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"Hold on this one effects me....... yeah Trump needs to chill man."
Basically
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...guess he didn't know trump and his supporters are all for smaller govt/less fed govt jobs ...all those fed workers that voted for him should be ok tho since factory jobs n all that are coming back if they want a new position
Da coal gon be popping like hot crisco b
 
 
 
 
Trump needs to back off with this hiring freeze of federal employees. He's going to make a lot of enemies in his backyard if he keeps this up. Local Republicans in NoVa are already breaking with him on this one.

:lol: :lol:


But Ninja said it was all good.


-Rico, didn't you say you wanted to get a high paying Federal job one, just like your famb :nerd:



"Hold on this one effects me....... yeah Trump needs to chill man."
Basically :lol: ...guess he didn't know trump and his supporters are all for smaller govt/less fed govt jobs ...all those fed workers that voted for him should be ok tho since factory jobs n all that are coming back if they want a new position

Da coal gon be popping like hot crisco b

Da Hemi down payment gonna be dirt cheap b, like 4 months rent (1 month rent if convert into "unfiltered capitalism" dollars) .
 
I'm really just interested in knowing what felonies they committed with cameras and notepads..
 
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