Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Wtf they are removing the individual mandate and replacing it with... nothing? How does this not cause the whole thing to collapse?

You don't think their offices have caller ID? I'm not saying these people are ace detectives but I think don't think they're dumb enough to see hundreds of calls from 617 area codes and say "Man, a lot of my Nevada voters bought their cell phones in Boston!"

likely result seen in images

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_Crypt

Wtf they are removing the individual mandate and replacing it with... nothing? How does this not cause the whole thing to collapse?

Because they're also replacing Medicaid with... nothing

lol of course thx eephus

Wtf they are removing the individual mandate and replacing it with... nothing? How does this not cause the whole thing to collapse?

They're replacing it with tax cuts (on the wealthy). If the system collapses, and it hurts you, it's your fault for being vulnerable in the first place.

these fucking evil pricks hope they rot in whatever stupid hell they believe in

A lot of stuff could be said about the AHCA bill, but at least the CBO said that the system would be stable under it - as they say it would be without anything done to it. I don't get how a new CBO score doesn't explain that everything will fall apart if you move the mandate and do... nothing, then. And they say the CBO should give their score tomorrow or monday, so... They must have run this by them already, so they must know that.

I mean, we all know they are insane and evil, but this is insane and evil.

shitty CBO score only matters if it instantly generates millions of calls in swing Senator states

which could very well happen

they are tribal. if you are not part of their tribe, they not only don't give a shit what happens to you -- they're amused by your suffering

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Re the discussion of aide sleuthery above: I live in Boston and have a 917 number. Cell phones have changed the "area codes are infallible" thing in a big way.

I wonder if they made it flawed on purpose just so they can say they tried because really they realize its in their interests for there to be NO REPEAL

we elect these people to make complex laws that they can't even comprehend and I don't trust them

fixed that for you mh

meanwhile, deja vu ghraib

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ap-us-questions-detainees-yemen-prisons-torture-abuses/

I see someone's already nervous about next year.

Sen. Heller on Sebate GOP health care draft: "At first glance, I have serious concerns..." pic.twitter.com/l5TvIOfsMu

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) June 22, 2017

I mean...what's even their long game here? How do they plan on dealing with furious constituents whose loved ones are dropping dead (the ones who can put two and two together, anyway, and know who's responsible)?

i wouldn't feel secure about this thing not passing unless there were at least a half-dozen senators willing to put a No out there right now. otherwise (as has been pointed out in multiple places), McConnell is just going to make minor tweaks as a sop to the holdouts so they can act like they won some great victory for their constituents by "forcing" a slightly slower repeal of Medicaid expansion or undoing the block on federal funding for Planned Parenthood, etc.

But if they make tweaks, won't the CBO have to score those as well? And they only have until next friday to do this...

I mean...what's even their long game here? How do they plan on dealing with furious constituents whose loved ones are dropping dead (the ones who can put two and two together, anyway, and know who's responsible)?

prevent them from voting

as I said elsewhere, so-called moderate Republicans are polite because they have the patience to wait and name their price.

"fixed that for you mh"

touche

But if they make tweaks, won't the CBO have to score those as well? And they only have until next friday to do this...

this is a good question, idk the answer.

this is hard to watch:

pic.twitter.com/4LrlZKgYeO

— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) June 22, 2017

But if they make tweaks, won't the CBO have to score those as well?

I think as long as an initial version of the bill has been scored that's all that's required to make the bill eligible for a vote...?

well, this takes care of one very concerned and troubled moderate:

What's in the bill: The bill would establish a $2 billion fund for states for programs to "support substance use disorder treatment and recovery support services for individuals with mental or substance use disorders."

What it means: This is a one-time fund for 2018, but will likely be favored by senators from states hit hard by the opioid crisis. This was a key ask from Ohio Sen. Rob Portman.

never really considered Portman a swing vote on this tbh

everyone knows it only takes one year to cure an entire state of chemical dependency

we should get Portman on opioids, put him on treatment, and check back in a year.

just give him a hot shot and get it over with

Portman is no moderate anyway and never was.

He broke with GOP orthodoxy after his son came out, maybe we can get that same son addicted to fentanyl.

A handy history of GOP villainy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/22/republicans-obamacare-repeal-would-be-one-of-the-biggest-cuts-to-the-social-safety-net-in-history/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_wonkblog-1155am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.9687580cad6e

trump tweets that he has no tapes. tweet clearly written by a lawyer, and posted today to distract from healthcare.

but are there high quality .wav files

best listened to on PONO

Portman asked for 45 billion over 10 years, he is selling his vote for nothing.

These people are monsters.

that's like a rounding error

yeah I still dont get this logic - in order to deliver on a promise to our base we have to pass a "health care" bill that thoroughly fucks over our base

I guess the real 'base' is their donors. democracy is awesome.

This bill is an act of mass murder targeting poor and working class people. It's just a less baroque version of "the purge." There should be riots.

in unrelated news, this fuckin guy

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/trump-confirms-he-wants-a-solar-border-wall-were-working-it-out

A very 'drafted by a lawyer' two-tweet message here.

With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017

...whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017

All the inside baseball scheming shit the "moderate Republicans" are doing is a disgusting and stupid farce.

No such thing as a moderate Republican.

Hence the quotation marks

Appropriate for Trump's tweets up there too.

BTW, we should all remember this chain of events:

Trump fires Comey
Trump sasses on Twitter re 'tapes'
Comey goes, "Yeah, leak time."
*shenanigans*
Rosenstein appoints Mueller

Well done there.

Donald Trump is most likely clinically incapable of feeling empathy and even he, for a moment, acknowledged that this bill is fucked up.