Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Hahahah Jason Chaffetz suddenly feels bold all of a sudden as he preps the exit

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jason-chaffetz-slams-trump_us_59475dc5e4b01eab7a2eacc0

"almost as bad as obama" lol fuck that asshole, can't even get a dig at donald trump without being a piece of shit about it

he needs to fire the IRS chief, see

Gotta keep that sweet gig at Fox News (I assume).

https://www.upguard.com/breaches/the-rnc-files oooof

The RNC Files: Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak

In what is the largest known data exposure of its kind, UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team can now confirm that unsecured databases containing the sensitive personal details of over 198 million American voters was left exposed to the internet by a firm working on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in their efforts to elect Donald Trump. The data, which was stored in a publicly accessible cloud server owned by Republican data firm Deep Root Analytics, included 1.1 terabytes of entirely unsecured personal information compiled by DRA and at least two other Republican contractors, TargetPoint Consulting, Inc. and Data Trust. In total, the personal information of potentially near all of America’s 200 million registered voters was exposed, including names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details, as well as data described as “modeled” voter ethnicities and religions.

Worth a read, to say the least.

LOCK THEM UP

If 198 million is accurate, that's probably every registered voter.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/turnout.php

http://25.media.tumblr.com/7d74f51112d39f00a8a80f0e19422621/tumblr_mgq64xOv6b1rt8i4vo1_500.gif

that should be a maga cap rly, but it's the best i can do

tbf a lot of that data is already publicly available right?

if it wasn't before it sure is now

in the future, everyone will have all of the data, this is actually a natural step towards full communism and was predicted by marx

yet more evidence of this administration's commitment to being the most radically transparent in history (by mistake)

Meanwhile the health industry is resigned to the repeal of the ACA.

How in the world does anybody defend their vote on anything assembled in secret with no public debate?

they wrote behind closed doors w lobbyists for the original ACA bill 8 years ago so may as well do it again. is it past or is it future? between this and the "witch hunt" language and lawyer media circus ripped right from 1996 the past is repeating faster and faster. just like circling a drain.

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/yes-of-course-the-senate-health-care-bill-is-as-mean-as-the-house-bill/

Lol Adam, it's not at all the same.

hey wrote behind closed doors w lobbyists for the original ACA bill 8 years ago so may as well do it again

and the bill was debated and pieced together in over hundreds of hours of public forums. You'd turn on CSPAN randomly in the afternoon and there would be yet another hearing.

the idea of appending a substitute amendment to a bill which would be changed at the last minute

I think this tactic even has a name: gut and stuff.

Well, here we are.

Here's how one conservative House staffer described waiting for the Senate health care bill. How others are feeling: https://t.co/3nFH4ZakxP pic.twitter.com/r8mz35iuCL

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 19, 2017

And also you know that going to see the new Star Wars movies is going to result in the preventable deaths of thousands of people but you go anyway because Star Wars!

was the house version of this the prequels then, i guess?

jfc

wait...so was the actual obamacare the original trilogy, then? what a weird metaphor. this conservative house staffer needs to rethink things

my brain hurts

If McConnell uses reconciliation, then the bill can't increase the deficit, therefore he'll HAVE to keep the House tax cuts.

welp

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/19/democrats-stop-senate-business-obamacare-239715

yes

idk if it will accomplish much tbh

but when you don't have many avenues of power open to you, whadayagonnado

Expose the bill, get protestors riled up.

If McConnell uses reconciliation, then the bill can't increase the deficit, therefore he'll HAVE to keep the House tax cuts.

Don't understand this argument; removing the House tax cut decreases the deficit. The tax cut is the goal, it's the benefit cuts that reconciliation forces him to keep.

genuinely glad to see some spine here

the problem is it won't actually affect McConnell's timetable, it'll just piss the GOP off. Which is fine but it doesn't accomplish much.

keeps the base happy tho

If McConnell uses reconciliation, then the bill can't increase the deficit, therefore he'll HAVE to keep the House tax cuts.

Don't understand this argument; removing the House tax cut decreases the deficit. The tax cut is the goal, it's the benefit cuts that reconciliation forces him to keep.

― Guayaquil (eephus!),

That's what I was trying to say – the second sentence. Thanks.

Oh gotcha sorry

my fault for vagueness

Meantime...

New addition to special counsel Mueller's Russia probe team: an expert in witness 'flipping' https://t.co/YUHsdM3e9d

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 19, 2017

lmao

He speaks! Have you ever heard Jared Kushner's voice before? Here you go. pic.twitter.com/QKElf1bynn

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 19, 2017

sounds like a winner, son of a felon, whispers liberals are no fun. donnie two-scoops can golf good

Pres. Trump greets Panamanian Pres. Varela: "The Panama Canal is doing quite well. I think we did a good job building it, right?" pic.twitter.com/HiDMDy0qI3

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 19, 2017

"big" government bad? "efficient" government good?

Not a lot of people know this, but I built that canal, it was millions and millions of dollars and in fact it was one of the biggest, and maybe the biggest we ever did. It was so good that it was, it had to be a very bad treaty, just horrible, one of the worst deals ever by President Carter and also Hillary Clinton that we don't have it, we did such a good job and it's a beautiful thing, with all the boats - very few people talk about this but without the Panama Canal, there couldn't be, Atlantic and Pacific, the trade agreements - horrible. Under Obama it was just, there's no water flowing, nothing's happening. And it's a beautiful thing with millions of gallons, and I've said it over and over that we're going to dig the canal and not only that but we're going to dig the canal and Panama will pay for it! Panama will pay for it because you have to have trade. You have to, but it's not the trade deficit, you don't want the deficit and you have to have it be for America. People tell me all the time and it's true that I built a great company and a great canal and we're going to make Panama American again.

didn't know about this. there is something awfully suspicious about those states though...

https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19225833_10211020491562930_4684103737454832362_n.jpg?oh=cbb8c96fcd3b5d2633ef9516b4fdf076&oe=599E2B1C

they all begin with the letter M?

Dr. C, you are far too good at that. I'm concerned that you might be entering a headspace from which you can never escape.

the idea of appending a substitute amendment to a bill which would be changed at the last minute

I think this tactic even has a name: gut and stuff.

― A is for (Aimless), Monday, June 19, 2017 5:04 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was just trying to reconcile Chris Hayes saying that it was a new unheard of strategy with knowing that I had come across it being attempted and therefore explained somewhere recently. Did the Republicans notoriously try it on back in 2013 over something?

in MN at least our stupid state legislature hasn't gotten off their ass to re-do our state IDs to fit in with the new FSA/fed regulations