NecroJoe
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And "Rogue NASA" somehow makes me think of HYDRA.
Well this is new: just saw an ad paid for by a pro-Trump 501(c)(4) blaming Dems for not kowtowing to Trump's nomination of Tom Price for HHS. I'm used to the campaign ads during election season, but they typically don't run political ads again for at least two years after.
This is actually because in 2009, the Democrats (who then controlled both houses of Congress) demanded and got the usual collegial agreement from the Republicans to let the new Democrat President Obama have most if not all of his chosen Cabinet members on his first working day in office. The agreement, as it had been for decades, was that if the positions were to be reversed, the Democrats would give the Republicans the same courtesy. Now, in 2017, the shoe is on the other foot and the Democrats are refusing to honor their part of the agreement.
Short version - Democrats demanded Republicans kowtow back in 2009 and promised that should the position ever be reversed they would kowtow. Turns out they lied.
Fair rundown of the content, but I was talking about the ad itself :lol: Just the oddity of seeing an ad on tv that very much followed the usual presidential campaign ad formula only a week after an inauguration was jarring; we usually get a couple of years' break after having them roughly shoved down our throats for three months.
Different perspectives and all that. I'll take Trump over Obama any day and that's saying a lot because I'm not a huge Trump fan.I would also hope it be self-evidently implied that for the agreement to stand, the party shouldn't elect a fucking moron.
Apparently Berkeley students are protesting Milo Yiannopoulos... by rioting and setting the campus on fire. Tear gas deployed. Snowflakes are precious.