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

stupid is as stupid does

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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

I'm sitting here watching that going "man, look at all of those delighted white people" and then the camera zooms waaaaay out and includes Omarosa standing 100 ft in the back and I'm just thinking that if this was a scene in a fictional movie, people would bag on the script and director for being so heavy-handed with the subtext.

if i'm trump i take away everyone's health care but my kids and grandkids, because fuck you america -- i'm the boss!

I so hope this is true:

https://twitter.com/KatiePavlich/status/844999252694708224

Trump still doesn't know the vote was cancelled

add to the pile

I feel like that Trump-in-the-truck footage is gonna be part of the all-time politicians-self-owning clip reel, like Dukakis in the tank or George W Bush saying "Now watch this drive."

xxp hahaha

Oh fuck, and there's a photo that's even better (apologies for size):

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7oKoonXgAEfrQf.jpg

"There. Got it out."

from the Time interview

Trump: And then TIME magazine, which treats me horribly, but obviously I sell, I assume this is going to be a cover too, have I set the record? I guess, right? Covers, nobody’s had more covers.

Time: I think Richard Nixon still has you beat. But he was in office for longer, so give yourself time.

Trump: Ok good. I’m sure I’ll win.

Oh and

https://twitter.com/hunterschwarz/status/844999454692425728

The president is wearing a button that says "I ❤️ TRUCKS"

The hilarious thing is Ryan can't go to Dems for votes on this at all, he's back where Boehner was.

hoisted on his own petard, as it were

i like that the time cover manages to call him a liar without showing his face or his name

never heard of the Tuesday Group ('moderate' Repugs) before today.

Maybe Yam wd resign if he got the Burt Reynolds role in a Smokey & the Bandit reboot

Do you think Trump gets a Hess truck every Christmas? I bet that's exciting for him.

I'd assume that "I'm sure I'll win" remark was a kind of self-deprecating joke if it came from anybody else, anybody who wasn't pure self-regard

so what's goin on?

Vote in the House indefinitely "postponed"