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

the intel ouroboros

maybe intel hyuman centipede is more apt

I would almost rather Trump think he has the votes, Ryan moves forward with the vote, and then it fails than them knowing they don't have them and scrapping it

oh definitely

wonder if we're on track for another leadership challenge this year

freedom caucus wants the speakership, can they get it?

They should approach it the same way they've been approaching healthcare for the last seven years, by resubmitting the same bill again and again, unchanged, 50 times, until there is a new president.

xxpost -- I don't think you'll have to wait too long.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/844938961697067008

is this guy famous?

in a world where people exalt shit, yes

http://imgur.com/X3d6UuZ

so glad the Trump admin is there to show us what a real poll looks like

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Don_Lafontaine.jpg

In a world where people exalt shit.....

is this guy famous?

in a world where people exalt shit, yes

Morbz otm

Meantime...

https://twitter.com/QuinnipiacPoll/status/844942318159482880

US Voters Oppose GOP #HealthPlan 3-1, National Poll Finds; Big Opposition To Cuts To #Medicaid #PlannedParenthood

Fake nays!

why does bannon hate ryan? just too prominent?

Hey, don't worry everyone, the White House just unveiled the secret weapon!

https://twitter.com/GlennThrush/status/844947742384406529

John Bolton just walked into the West Wing -- I asked him what he was doing, he smiled and said 'health care!!!!'

I assume his pitch is that he wants to bomb every hospital.

He hates everybody prettier than him

Xxxpost

The wrong sort of fanatic.

I'd love to see them go whole hog and claim Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay are helping with the final push.

maybe bannon decided to have The Talk with ryan about radical islam and the inevitability of WWIII and he thought ryan wasn't taking it seriously enough

National Organization for Women tweeting that the AHCA now has an added clause that allows states to revoke Medicaid if a women hasn't gotten a job 8 weeks after giving birth

Can't wait to see THAT try and get through the Senate.

Can't decide which line of snark to take:

1. "John Bolton, I moustache you why you are here."

2. Really hoping this is a mistake and it's actually MICHAEL Bolton.

3. None, because I also feel a strong pull towards Team Tombot re.: Nothing about this shit can be fun or funny because real people are going to die needlessly.

For all my snark, number 3 remains deeply relevant. I also concluded some time ago, however, that if I didn't settle on black comedy as my default for the current time, I would essentially be a stressed, nervous wreck for the foreseeable future. It's a defensive fallback but a necessary one.

Any laughter is really just laughter in Hell

Surely what they need is words of wisdom from John Boehner.

@AliceOllstein
I asked Sen. Roberts if he supports scrapping Essential Health Benefits. "I wouldn't want to lose my mammograms," he snarked. #AHCA

Surely what they need is words of wisdom from John Boehner.

If Boehner and Obama were somewhere on the beach right now sharing beers, I wouldn't be surprised.

I'd be surprised if Boehner was willing to share

boehner drunk, maudlin and weeping alone somewhere i hope

ohn Bolton just walked into the West Wing -- I asked him what he was doing, he smiled and said 'health care!!!!'

no fucking way

I am pretty certain Boehner is off somewhere still singing "Zip-a-dee Doo Dah"

C'mon Alfred, you could totally see this White House nominating him for Surgeon General.

can I just

"Mr. Bolton, what are you doing here today?"
"Health care!!!!"
"... You're 'doing' health care? What does that mean?"
"HEALTH CARE!!!!"
"Mr. Bolton, put your pants back on!"
"HEALTH! CARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Apparently the mustache wasn't waxed enough:

https://twitter.com/bkamisar/status/844958759550156800

Freedom Caucus members streaming out of WH now. All say no deal made, no "firm" changes agreed to.

'Moist' and 'soft' changes, however.

And a one-two:

https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/844957873482448896

Some news! Rep. Rowe says they're looking at stripping essential health benefits from individual market only. That's about 6% of total

https://twitter.com/_Drew_McCoy_/status/844958783780597760

This idea will have a shelf life of about 45 minutes once the US Chamber gets wind of it.

why does bannon hate ryan? just too prominent?

― mookieproof, Thursday, March 23, 2017 11:44 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Why does that old man hate that cloud?

man I hope Ryan goes down in flames on this

You and Steve Bannon!

Thing is, having said that: I can't imagine this is exactly the way Bannon would want Ryan out, if only because of all the self-owning Trump's doing otherwise, even with his half-hearted 'yeah gotta pass something' attitude. It doesn't make the White House look stronger, it makes them all look ridiculous.

Didn't rumors float out that Bannon was against the health care plan after seeing some backlash?

Starting to wonder if Ryan knew this would go down all along, which is why they seem to have spent about two hours writing the bill

that doesn't make any sense, this whole accelerated schedule thing was his idea

i know to some hypothetical cheering the demise of key GOP members might edge too close to "politics as sport" but for me personally at least it's "proof that at least some part of society seems willing to reject the hateful rhetoric that's permeating the government", even if it's for the wrong reasons or if it's coming from far too few people.

they spent about two hours writing the bill because they dont care what it does, they aren't invested in how it works, only that it allows them to erase the most visible accomplishment of the obama admin

it's also a tax cut to Ryan's key demo

also it has to happen today because of ~symbolism~