Trump's America, March 2017: Using His Inside VOICE

Watching deputy AG hearings, and man, all of these senators are sooooooo old. Hatch and Leahy sound like they're about to fall over.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/can-a-champion-of-black-lives-matter-become-mayor-of-st-louis/

@nytimes
President Trump’s wiretapping claims puncture veneer of presidential civility

@firetomfriedman
won't somebody think of the veneer of presidential civility!?!?

New York City’s public housing authority will see at least $35 million less in federal aid this year, in what appears to be the first significant funding cuts to the city under President Donald Trump.
Senior officials at the New York City Housing Authority said the cuts were the largest decrease in funding the agency has seen in five years. Citing conversations with federal housing officials, they said they were bracing for additional cuts that could be far greater, and total $150 million. Shola Olatoye, the agency’s chief executive officer, said a reduction of that size would be devastating.

“The direction we’re moving in is one where public housing is drastically different or doesn’t exist,” she said. “The progress we have made over the course of the last three years—it’s not that it’s at risk. It evaporates.”

The New York City Housing Authority, known as NYCHA, is home to more than 400,000 people, and makes up the biggest single block of affordable housing in the country. About $2 billion of its $3.2 billion operating budget comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD.

real wtf:

Several city officials who have worked with HUD said they believe the cuts may have been undertaken by career bureaucrats at the federal housing agency working to blunt the impact of more drastic cuts later this year.

“The career people are not people who want to harm public housing,” one of these officials said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-aid-reduced-for-new-york-city-housing-authority-1488844639

fucking hell

Trump '16 - let's get dickensian

ROFL

https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/839097965050544128

i've been tuning out schindler. what's the point of making these big claims before anything is revealed?

the scoop my man

ROFL

https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/839097965050544128

― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 8:31 AM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

something something widening gyre

I like how the word was Sunday that they were going to try and 'refocus' on the positive with the new EO and the health care plan announcement. And once more, botch. (Also loving how the fallback was 'but there are two more healthcare stages!' and the response rather rightly seems to be 'and those are?')

Also, Wikileaks, CIA, etc. Also, Comey isn't going to go rock out at SXSW any more due to 'scheduling conflicts,' and Alfred's favorite person, James Baker, will replace.

This administration has been pretty good at politicizing previously apolitical people. I think, ultimately, they're going to prove equally deft at full-on radicalizing people, as well. Sure, casually render thousands of people homeless. I'm sure that's going to work out very well for you.

Also, Comey isn't going to go rock out at SXSW any more due to 'scheduling conflicts,' and Alfred's favorite person, James Baker, will replace.l

wait what

*checks* Ah, sadly, a different James Baker. Otherwise you'd already be booking your tickets, I know.

https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/839132324381995009

"this next one's called "Atwater's Blues"!"

*rocks out*

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Just received the latest signifier of end times on top of everything else: they announced a new Fleet Foxes album.

a horseman of the apocalypse appears in the distance

Warbling bullshit 'folk' music

the real Baker was on CNN last week and was unsurprisingly coherent and on his toes for being 89.

and I don't understand the thinking behind releasing a Fleet Foxes album when times are so tough

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So this wikileaks thing is meant to distract the CIA from going after Trump, right?

Possibly, but also to sow more public distrust in the IC and attempt to give some credence to the argument that Obama had them spy on Trump

that's a few too many dots to connect imo

if anything its a subtle move. wtg.

surefire recipe for success gets another ingredient! http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/club-for-growth-opposes-gop-obamacare-replacement-235772

So this wikileaks thing is meant to distract the CIA from going after Trump, right?

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:28 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Possibly, but also to sow more public distrust in the IC and attempt to give some credence to the argument that Obama had them spy on Trump

― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Tuesday, March 7, 2017 12:44 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds about right, maybe voodoo's second thing "give credence to argument that obama had them spy on trump" is a stretch but yea this is definitely about sowing distrust in the CIA

at what point and why did wikileaks become a little arm of the kremlin

Is the hypothesis that Russia hacked the CIA?

So what's the date of these documents, anyway.

Obviously it won't provide any type of proof that Obama did anything, because he didn't, but it does have some documents that illustrate some of their more covert hacking techniques, including one that disguises the country of origin of CIA hacks, It'll provide plenty of material which the conspiracy nuts can try to use to connect dots that aren't there.

surefire recipe for success gets another ingredient! http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/club-for-growth-opposes-gop-obamacare-replacement-235772

Well the thing here is:

A statement by Club for Growth president David McIntosh said “the problems with this bill are not just what’s in it, but also what’s missing: namely, the critical free-market solution of selling health insurance across state lines.”

Now: this is something Trump made a part of his stump speeches, and he said as much in a tweet today, I gather. Combined with there supposedly being two more 'phases' in the plan, it's possible it's mean to surface, but why it didn't surface sooner and why this has been handled the way it has = stupidity abounds, again.

Separately, this struck me as a good read:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/you-wanted-just-a-little-bit-of-xenophobia-but-got-too-1793017915

insurance across state lines is moronic. 'oh I got this real cheap insurance from alabama I just need to fly 2,500 miles to see a doctor in network'

insurance across state lines is moronic

It's also directly at odds with the Federalist philosophizing behind the House GOP plan. Per WaPoo:

House Republicans on Monday released long-anticipated legislation to supplant the Affordable Care Act with a more conservative vision for the nation’s health care system, replacing federal insurance subsidies with a new form of individual tax credits and grants to help states shape their own policies.

Which means more of those "invisible imaginary lines" that Trump says inhibit better/cheaper health care.

omg

https://twitter.com/Jordanfabian/status/839182274650390530

The "across state lines" thing has been a sign they've been waving around as cure-all since 2006, right? I just remember the continually pointing to it as the thing tying their hands and preventing the market from showering down goodness upon all

30 pages of the GOP plan is just photocopies from a Doc McStuffins activity book

I've got to admit, for the first time since the election I think I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. Russia stuff, ACA stuff, travel stuff, all at once. It feels like it's been the same day over and over again for a year.

if only we could end it all by falling in love w Andie McDowell

http://p.fod4.com/p/media/8968ba369c/p2CrkEznQK6Y3r6A1fHD_Trump-Groundhog-Day-800x452.jpg

I was to believe that bigger is better?

ps its also easier to tear shit up than to build it whole cloth.

The hashtag of the day for the opposition is #WealthCare, which I like

"Who knew healthcare was so complicated, but we can solve it all with a bill that's smaller than the ACA!"

what did jason chaffetz use $738 of his campaign money to buy at the Apple Store? hmm https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/839173552708280320

goddamn chaffetz sonned in a phone bill beef

He wants to save all Americans from the high cost of health care, and he heard something about apples keeping the doctor away?

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