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President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader quotes The Guardian: White House officials conceded on Friday that the president's hard-fought-for Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal would not pass Congress, as lawmakers there prepared for the anti-global trade policies of President-elect Donald Trump. Earlier this week, congressional leaders in both parties said they would not bring the trade deal forward during a lame-duck session of Congress, before the formal transition of power on January 20.
One Canadian law professor had argued the case against the TPP included its unbalanced intellectual property rules and risks to privacy, while the EFF believed it locked in the worst parts of U.S. copyright law and also exported them to other countries.

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  1. Re:MPAA, RIAA and Big Pharma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    who will undo damage to your brain ?

    Yeah, well when President Trump changes Obamacare in ways you don't like with executive orders that bypass Congress, you can thank Obama for setting that precedent.

    Or maybe you think Obama, with his "phone and a pen" didn't do any damage?

    Or when the Republican Senate rams uber-conservative Supreme Court justices down your throat, you won't think Dirty Harry Reid did any damage with his "nuclear option"?

    Or when Attorney General Rudy Guiliani blows the lid off the way the Obama DoJ - all the way up to Bill Clinton meeting with then Attorney General Lynch - tried to cover up the fact that the FBI actually concluded Crooked Liar Hillary! not only committed multiple felonies with her illegal email server, but her incompetence allowed Russia, China, France, Israel, Cuba, and a host of other foreign intelligence agencies to literally read the US Secretary of State's emails? You'll think then that Obama did no damage?

    Fuck off, you partisan hack.

  2. Re: Low life NIGGER ASSHOLE Obama loses THANK YOU! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Very progressive of you.

    I, on the other hand, would you like to have a dialog with him, where we discover our mutual points of agreement, and build a positive and meaningful relationship that can help change his mind for the betterment of all.

    But then again I'm not a liberal cucked faggot rapist like you, so we might agree to disagree on some of the finer points of rational discourse.