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

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"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7oOud4U8AAWzyW.jpg:small

can someone photoshop some vomit into that one

no need

I'm honestly amazed Ryan et al can't even face save right. I'm not saying that I WANT them to, but I would have figured they had some inkling.

Ryan is such an ideologue that he's probably completely shocked that people aren't falling over themselves in praise of this bill

that's not how you spell "idiot"

Absolutely perfect:

https://twitter.com/darth/status/845006333984161792

That's his toilet face too

It's every face. Pity Melania, she has seen it often.

the hands are killing me

^^^

like literally

my blood is on those hands

avenge me

Trump just appointed another rich friend to head up his infrastructure project:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/MaterCars.jpg

for everyone who was worried about the normalization of a trump white house: yeah, still not normal.

Can somebody with time photoshop him onto one of those little coin operated cars you'd see outside of supermarkets?

New Yorker already got that covered

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blitt.car-final.gif

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7oOud4U8AAWzyW.jpg:small
https://68.media.tumblr.com/26d1a751413648efca98df35fb67f6e0/tumblr_nqj8wxph2u1s2wio8o1_500.gif

you know that Trump video reminds me mostly of shit Kim Jong-un would do

Kim Jong-un is a less ridiculous figure tho tbf

Kim Jong-un is a less ridiculous figure tho tbf

Better hair.

http://cdnph.upi.com/ph/st/th/8231428500261/2015/i/14285004786175/v1.5/New-North-Korea-textbook-Kim-Jong-Un-learned-to-drive-at-age-3.jpg?lg=5

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/05/08/31DFE0CD00000578-3477829-image-m-10_1457166604362.jpg

Hello hello

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/845017484247945219

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/845017906958254081

House Freedom Caucus members are now streaming into @SpeakerRyan's office...Steve Bannon is also heading toward the Speaker's office, per @deirdrewalshcnn

Slumber party. They'll laugh, they'll cry, they'll pierce each others's ears...

Oh and new CBO report!

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/845020230791368705

New CBO report: less deficit reduction ($150b); uninsured # the same

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/115th-congress-2017-2018/costestimate/hr1628.pdf

Whomp whomp.

And...uh...

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/845006141167947778

Pro-AHCA Rep. Tom McClintock just compared the bill to the Titanic, with some weird “safety first” metaphor. Poor choice of words.

Also fun!

https://twitter.com/mfcannon/status/845020749991743490

Sources: House leadership threatens to pull bill to preserve #ObamaCare, and then blame House @freedomcaucus for ObamaCare still being law.

uh wasn't that Ryan's threat all along

what other leverage did he have

he could eat the Caucus

If that is Ryan's strategy, hoo boy, considering the Freedom Cock stance is that the new ACA doesn't repeal the old one enough.

Presumably said threat is now being spelled out. Not that I think, say, Amash is some great guy but I have a feeling he's laughing loudly in response as I type.

generally speaking it's best not to make a threat that easily leaks to FB so everybody knows your move in advance

err twitter

i'm tempted to celebrate but it's a little premature for that. they could still come to some sort of agreement on the amount of awfulness that they can all accept

Indeed so.

Freedom Cock don't seem like they'd take well to being threatened themselves, especially since, as a product of the Tea Party, they're the ones who got elected running against the same sort of party line people now supposedly threatening them toe.

More fun

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/845025064647045120

Oooooof.. Just spoke to "yes" vote Member who is on the edge of panic. "I'm all the way out there on this and..."

In his despair, Deace is actually getting funny. Thus this in response to Bannon arriving on the scene:

https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/845023566663946246

Because it's not already a mess enough, here comes Cousin Eddie to save the Griswold Family Christmas.

I'm cautiously optimistic that everyone involved are such colossally incompetent assholes that no deal will be struck. The Freedom Caucus basically can't be appeased because they will brook no compromise, ever, but Ryan is bound to them because he can't pass any bills w out them, since he won't go to the Dems for votes.

Such a dealmaker!

https://www.axios.com/the-new-reality-on-trump-and-the-freedom-caucus-2326976583.html

House leadership has been hoping that President Trump would turn the screws on the Freedom Caucus. They'd love nothing more than for Trump to threaten Freedom Caucus members like Mark Meadows with primary challenges. In fact, they were banking on Trump doing that. They thought he could break the Freedom Caucus.

The emerging reality: Trump is doing nothing of the sort. He was joking when he told Meadows in the GOP conference meeting earlier this week that he'd come after him. And in today's White House meeting Trump did not brow-beat the Freedom Caucus members or make a hard sell on a "final offer."

According to three sources in the room for the meeting, Trump didn't demand loyalty tests, and there was lots of laughing, jokes, and stories.

So what, is it supposed to be Bannon/Priebus as the bad cop to Trump's good cop?

Love the photo with this story. (Can't embed it, gotta click to see it.) "Sorry, guys, I've gotta get to the gym!"

https://www.axios.com/trumpcare-vote-not-happening-today-2326856286.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic

lol

He's overcompensating, because there is no way he needs a bag that big to hold his balls after they are handed to him.

i'd say the GOP couldn't sell a glass of water to a man dying of thirst, but that may be federal policy next week ($500/drink).