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

i really wish people would call it Trumpcare more. i want his name all over it.

i'd love for someone to ask trump an even moderately specific question about this legislation (not the process, which he understands to be deal-making, but the actual differences between this and the ACA) during a tv interview

Well as we all know Obamacare is a disaster. Premiums are rising, 30, 40, even 120% in some cases, it's unbelievable. They don't know how to negotiate. It's such a disaster, nobody's even seen anything like it. So what we've done here is, we've created great healthcare. You're going to be very happy with it.

exactly

I did hear him say that there would be "plans no one's even thought of yet" a few weeks ago, so more of that probably. xxp

http://i.imgur.com/wfyOmGB.png

should crosspost in this is where we commend whoever edits football pictures for the guardian

Other funnies:

https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/844977519153598466

Sean Spicer has demoted Paul Manafort from "campaign chairman" to "very limited role" to "staffer" and today to "gentleman"

https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/844974155460202496

Asked if there's a Plan B if the AHCA doesn't pass tonight, @PressSec Spicer says, "No, it's going to pass. That's it."

Oh gentle soul.

"oh yeah i remember Paul was they guy we sent out for coffee but he never came back"

soon he'll be a disgruntled intern

Also remember in all of this that Ryan is a maniac who fundamentally believes that the country will rally around a bill which cuts government assistance to the one, if only they get the chance.

which one? Obama?

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/07/d8/20/07d8205279f013955ecda6f9da693af3.jpg

Trump voter own-goals reach their acme: http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-restaurant-owner-deported-friday-116463/

Roberto decided not to self deport because Helen was pregnant at the time. An ICE spokesperson says when Roberto failed to deport himself, his voluntary order revered to a final order of removal, meaning ICE could detain him. They didn’t act on that order for more than a decade.

. . . During an interview earlier this month, Helen said she voted for President Donald Trump because she supports his immigration policies. She said criminals should be deported, but she didn’t think her husband would face that fate.

“[Trump] did say the good people would not be deported, the good people would be checked,” Helen said.

"So...marriage counseling?"

Anyway, guy's right:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/844977905335644160

It isn't easy to come up with a bill that's disliked so much both by policy experts AND by the general public. It's sort of amazing.

Re that Indiana story, worth going back to the original interview with her:

http://indianapublicmedia.org/news/family-speaks-indiana-restaurant-owner-detained-ice-115685/

Helen says she agrees with the President’s stance on the issue.

“We don’t want to have cartels here, you don’t want to have drugs in your high schools, you don’t want killers next to you,” Helen says. “You want to feel safe when you leave your house. I truly believe that. And, this is why I voted for Mr. Trump.”

But Helen doesn’t understand why her husband is among those being detained. She says he’s an upstanding business owner who’s in the process of applying for a green card – not a criminal.

Kiiiiinda hoping maybe the penny's dropped with her by now. But you have to wonder.

"Well I think that if you’re an older man, you can generally say you’re not going to need maternity care."

This sentence was just spoken out loud on television by the press secretary to a 70-year-old-man who has a 46-year-old wife and 11-year-old son.

Separately -- everyone's favorite vaping dude!

https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/844962104914403328

POLITICO: Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) under criminal investigation by Justice Department over alleged campaign finance violations

stupid is as stupid does

xp

everyone's favorite vaping dude!

c'mon that's Grover Norquist

we need a tweet from grover about how this is an example of the continuing war on vaping

I'm sure we'll get it.

Oh Sean.

https://twitter.com/jackholmes0/status/844981774522466308

Sean Spicer just compared Roger Stone to someone Trump sat next to on an airplane one time. Here's how Stone sees it in his book

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7n6W6wXwAAskWv.jpg:large

http://theslot.jezebel.com/we-redacted-everything-thats-not-a-verifiably-true-stat-1793571837

i just wish all these poor people bitching about losing their health insurance would understand how painful it is to write huge checks to the IRS year after year. where's the compassion?

It's worth noting that a lot of muttering-turned-shouting over the past couple of weeks from right-leaning types, up to/including reps and senators, has been "Why are RUSHING this bill?"

This is such classic stalling the inevitable. It's not like any of these people can sincerely believe the bill will ever get BETTER. The one thing you can say for pushing it down the calendar is it means they don't have to commit either way for a longer stretch of time, and they can spend the recess dispensing stock lines about "I think this needs a lot more study, we want to get it right" rather than having to defend their vote on it. The town hall counterargument ("Further study? What have you been DOING for the last seven years?") is a potent one, and will still bruise them, but it's not as bad as outright voting for something your constituents hate, or against the president your other constituents consider the God-Emperor of America. Given the Congressional campaign cycle, kicking the can down the road even a few months is tremendous breathing room vs. future attack ads, outraged constituents, fake outraged constituents, etc. etc.

the redacting thing is brilliant and should have been done all throughout the campaign.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--l_VJ2Gip--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/md6rmittvt497rph3my3.png

one more

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XjmkhtDW--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/zvuxwnuyrfyl3juvkeuv.png

spicer on stone, page, manafort et al

http://popcrush.com/files/2015/05/mariah-carey-i-dont-know-her.gif

"proof that at least some part of society seems willing to reject the hateful rhetoric that's permeating the government"

It all boils down to education, as always. The more educated people are, the more likely they are to make a good decision. So, easy to say I hate Obamacare! But once you find out it's a) the same as the ACA and b) its repeal would be personally damaging, it's harder to say I hate Obamacare! Same thing with immigration, taxes, all sorts of shit, save perhaps abortion, whose opposition is morality/religious based. And maybe guns, which are innately irrational.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/dissecting-trumps-most-rabid-online-following/

you don't have to read it but O.o at this graphic

https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/triangle-desktop-051.png?quality=100&strip=all&w=1200&ssl=1

Why, look who is now (or back) on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/844984313212919808

The swamp drains you.

he left out In Russia

I would honestly love it if it turned out Yakov Smirnoff was Drudge the whole goddamn time.

That would be almost Andy Kaufman level.

Also Ryan's postponed his second press conference of the day.

Here we go:

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/844991892857204736

Reuters: REPUBLICAN SENATORS BEING TOLD BY MCCONNELL THAT HOUSE NOT LIKELY TO VOTE ON HEALTHCARE BILL UNTIL MONDAY -SENIOR SENATE AIDE

yup https://twitter.com/BresPolitico/status/844992927671693313

What will change over the weekend?

huh, i thought they wanted to hold a vote today 🙄

Trump's replacement ACA plan just leaked:
http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1566013.1388805409!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/horse4n-2-web.jpg

now that Dontcare is done for the day... i missed until now that Mensch & Co believe Russia set up Anthony Weiner's last sexting lapse, lol.

catfished iirc

You GOTTA click the link and see the video.

https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/844995773838315520
As health care vote gets scrapped for tonight, here's Trump in a big rig on the White House driveway honking the horn & pretending to drive

You ever start laughing and screaming at the same time

omg !!

God, so many missed opportunities in moments like that. Just let him drive the big rig! Please! What's the worst that could happen, I ask you?!

That's a pretty small pool of dullards there.

On CNN Senior White House official now saying the vote will be tomorrow morning. lol