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

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schumer is no on gorsuch https://twitter.com/Anthony/status/844916008452284416

Dems officially filibustering.

So assuming the nuclear option is invoked, what then? Does that mean the Dems in the senate can just take 4 years off? Since the GOP will longer need any of them for anything? Or does the nuclear option only apply to some votes/procedures and not all?

i doubt they have the balls tbh. they know it'll come back to haunt them

Nothing to do with the US, huh?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/23/was-a-magnitsky-lawyer-defenestrated-for-embarrassing-putin.html

xpost, pretty sure the nuclear option only refers to Supreme Court confirmation...wouldn't affect, say, the 60 votes needed to pass non-budgetary changes to the health care law.

xpost Yeah I was wondering about that extra detail. ShariVari?

Meantime:

https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/844922782609801216

New: Rep @JackieSpeier says Nunes made some sort of private apology...

heh

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7nEoaHXkAAUxOF.jpg:large

Apologizing for doing something shitty and possibly illegal but most of all blatant and illegal is the sort of thing the sweaty guy in the movie says when he shows up somewhere right before a bomb someone is forcing him to carry blows up. [opens shirt to reveal explosives] "I'm sorry ... "

this is both thoroughly unsurprising and depressing:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/844726595726327808

kinda makes you wish the news media had just said "there's no evidence of this and we're not covering it any further until there is." instead of, y'know, conducting endless interviews and roundtables with talking heads about something that was utter bullshit fantasy.

http://✧✧✧.c✧✧.com/2017/03/23/politics/trump-health-care-latest?lf-content=188866399:lb-post-8bd53b01ae0d7a3ce0c1270c1afb3✧✧✧@livef✧✧✧.c✧✧&hubRefSrc=permalink

get stuffed man

ugh stop reformatting. anyway Nunes "apologized"

sorry missed Ned's post

@dick_nixon
The minute the far right gets angry, he has to watch his ass.

i'm starting to feel bad for him. what if this whole russia thing is just one big misunderstanding, like obama's birth certificate?

nobody knew about Russia until Trump started talking about it

i think we will be ok without you posting those nixon twitters moving forward xxp

whip count at 28

well i learn sumthin new every day

not here, tho

clearly

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solitary gripes that effortlessly summarize the surliness of Morbs

xxpost

whip count at 28

― i am also Tombot (Neanderthal), Th

for it total?

Whip count is who is voting ... no?

Per Alfred's joke -- exactly who besides Ryan is coming out saying the bill is great, anyway?

the tommy wiseau / trump thing is kind of blowing my mind

what that they're so similar? or is there an actual "thing" out there on the web that I need to see?

I need to pull away from the news for the day. I'm getting myself into one of those pointless holes where it actually seems possible (and not just wishful-thinking hype) that the bill fails completely... or, equally, that at the 11th hour a few fence-sitters fold and it passes and suddenly it's "beating expectations, a huge win for Trump and Ryan as deal-makers..." even if it's a bill that's DOA in the Senate. Very easy to obsess over these twin possibilities and refresh the news sites over and over until the thing is actually voted on. Probably not a healthy use of my time.

oh, just the similarities. this part of what frogbs posted especially - But you can see very clearly the mainstream media, they don’t see that. They prefer bullshit like Jimmy Kimmel’s show, a redneck asshole, basically, I’m sorry to say that, okay? Because they put Crystal Bell (Kristen Bell) on the program, and she advertised The Room and she’s supposed to be a fan of The Room, this is ridiculous stuff! So for example Blu-ray. Nobody talk about Blu-ray. There’s only one Blu-ray you have in the entire world. Even Sony, now I’m working with them, so we’ll see how we’re doing.

in the mid-2000s i was at my personal peak of pessimism about the future, but never once did i consider that the president of the U.S. would be indistinguishable from tommy wiseau in certain ways

"This bill is collapsing," one House Republican who declined to speak on the record told CNN.

xpost About to leave the country for a couple of weeks to a radically different time zone, looking forward to being completely out of sync/the loop with the news cycle.

I need to pull away from the news for the day.

same here, except i have the sinking feeling i'm not going to pull away. i just found myself thinking "where can i go to get good constant coverage of this all day until the vote happens?"

xpost to myself But until then, I've got 24 hours of 24 hour news to absorb!

the dream vacation!

I have a three-hour meeting this afternoon that normally I would dread.

how familiar does this sound right now

So basically, long story short: I submitted “The Room” to the Academy Awards — you can check that, it’s a fact. We followed all the rules by doing a two-week run in Los Angeles and I’m proud to be in the Academy database. After two weeks’ screening, I pulled it from circulation. But then we got all these requests from the audience demanding to screen it again. That’s a fact. We got several phone calls from the theater that people were campaigning because they wanted to see “The Room.” I said to myself, “What the heck.” We got thousands of e-mails. So I said, “You know what, let’s just screen ‘The Room’ at the Wilshire screening room.’ But then we got into trouble. Which is good trouble, I guess (laughs). We violated the fire marshal code. Meaning that there were too many people showing up for the film. People were literally sitting on the floor. And they said we could not do this because we triggered the fire marshal code. So again, whatever you hear or read online is misleading. Because that’s exactly what happened. I called the theater back and said, “Can we screen it at midnight?” Because sometimes people are late. And we started screening at the Laemmle Sunset in Los Angeles. We had one screening and today — I don’t if you know, but now you know — we screen “The Room” once a month there and have 800 or 900 people come. So that’s the history of “The Room” and how we started the midnight screenings.

ahahahaha wow

frogbs, you should really meme-ify this (wiseau quotes over pictures of trump?) or pitch it somewhere as a "Who Said It...?" quizzicle feature or SOMETHING. feel like this comparison has the chance to go big, make you a lotta clicks.

Hey look, in the mean time, I guess, I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m president, and you’re not. You know. Say hello to everybody OK?

'Say hello to everybody OK?' is my new conversational trick to get out of any situation, replacing 'i have to go to the bathroom'

I'm President and you're not.

*plop*

there goes president gaslight again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WNeYFSdjS8

The '(laughs)' immediately deep-sixed the resemblance between Wiseau and Turnip.

Don't worry, guys, even if/when A-CHA-CHA fails, he'll at least have the 'JCC bomb threats perpetrated by Jewish Israeli teen' thing to preen over and rub in the libruhls' fat faces for a news cycle or two.

a lot of inconvenient truth in that "I'm President and you're not" line tbh

Current rumblings:

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/844932889313759232

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/844937736024985600

https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/844939056941293570

hate feeling nervous about this as per Doctor Casino's post

"Nanny nanny boo boo," said Trump. "I'm rubber, you're glue."