Did we mention that RT, aka Russia Today, supplied this footage of an old man entranced by a hat in the wind? And that the Marine treated so condescendingly is black?
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Enumerati
70
“President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida has asked permission to hire 70 foreign workers this fall, attesting — in the middle of the White House’s ‘Made in America Week’ — that it cannot find qualified Americans to serve as cooks, waiters and housekeepers,” the Washington Post reports. “Those requests were made to the Department of Labor in recent days and posted online Thursday.”
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Enumerati
58%
Pew Research: “Nearly six-in-ten women (58%) say they are paying increased attention to politics since Trump’s election, compared with 46% of men. Overall, more Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents than Republicans and Republican leaners say they have become more attentive to politics. But there are similarly wide gender gaps in heightened interest to politics among members of both parties.” Also interesting: “Most people (59%) say it is ‘stressful and frustrating’ to talk about politics with people who have a different opinion of Trump than they do; just 35% find such conversations ‘interesting and informative.’”
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Enumerati
4.6
At his six-month mark in office, the Washington Post reports President Trump has made 836 false or misleading claims. That’s an average of 4.6 claims a day.
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Enumerati
74%
A new Fox News poll finds 74% of Americans want GOP lawmakers to reach out to Democrats and try to find a compromise on a new health care bill. That includes 86% of Democrats and 59% of Republicans.
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Enumerati
32 million
The CBO estimates that the GOP repeal-only health care bill would increase the number of people who are uninsured by 17 million in 2018, compared with the number under current law. That number would increase to 27 million in 2020, after the elimination of Medicaid expansion and the elimination of marketplace subsidies, and then to 32 million in 2026. In addition, average premiums in the nongroup market would increase by roughly 25% in 2018. The increase would reach about 50% in 2020, and premiums would about double by 2026.
Poetic Justice
Sean Spicer was someone Donald Trump could count on —
He’d stand at the podium and lie until the day was done.
But Trump pulled a doozy
When he tapped Anthony Scaramucci,
And now that old reliable Sean is gone.
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Verbatim
“Things are starting to feel incoherent.”
— Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), quoted by the New York Times.
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Verbatim
“I have no real desire to talk to him anymore. I think he made such an obviously reckless and indefensible decision.”
— Al Gore, in an interview with Business Insider, on discussions with President Trump since he pulled out of the Paris climate change accord.
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“I don’t even pay any attention to what is going on with the administration because I don’t care. They’re a distraction. The family is a distraction, the president is a distraction. At first, it was ‘Well yeah, this is the guy we elected. He’ll learn, he’ll learn.’ And you just don’t see that happening.”
— Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), quoted by Politico.
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“By any measure, the collapse of the Senate health-care bill represents an epic failure for the Republican Party and a major embarrassment for President Trump. The crusade that animated — and bound — conservatives for seven years proved to be a mirage, an objective without a solution. Power comes with consequences.”
— Dan Balz
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Verbatim
“Obama’s complaints about Republicans stopping his agenda are BS since he had full control for two years. He can never take responsibility.”
— Donald Trump, on Twitter, Sept. 26, 2012.
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