Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

In the naaaaame of love (between a man and a woman)
What more in the name of love? (between a married man and a woman)
In the name of love (between a man and a woman)
What more in the name of love? (and only a man and woman)

don't see how they spin this except for continuing to shit on the CBO.

tax cuts to the top 400 americans would pay for Medicaid for 750,000 people. 1875 lazy moochers for every *job creator*. let the prosperity and freedom flow!

15 million would lose coverage next year, hardly sounds like a good strategy for re-election

never fear, they'll be just fine. they cheated and totally got away with it in 2016; they can cut some more voter rolls in 2018 :)

4 million losing employer coverage is p significant - that's actually really terrible

how many will have shittier insurance?

I didn't check the "Shittier Insurance" section of the CBO

This guy:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-has-questioned-trump-campaign-adviser-carter-page-at-length-in-russia-probe/2017/06/26/1a271dcc-5aa5-11e7-a9f6-7c3296387341_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.7c1c09f09067

Over a series of five meetings in March, totaling about 10 hours of questioning, Page repeatedly denied wrongdoing when asked about allegations that he may have acted as a kind of go-between for Russia and the Trump campaign, according to a person familiar with Page’s account.

Page confirmed Monday that the interviews occurred, calling them “extensive discussions.” He declined to say if he’s spoken to investigators since the March interviews.

He said the FBI agents “acknowledged that I’m a loyal American veteran but indicated that their management was concerned that I did not believe the conclusions” of a Jan 6. U.S. intelligence report describing Russian government interference in the U.S. election. “Our frank and open conversations gave me confidence that there are still logical, honest individuals at the Bureau who respect civil rights and the Constitution,’’ he said.

what is this man wearing pic.twitter.com/WZ2hpRel1S

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 26, 2017

Separately

Ron Johnson says McConnell would be setting himself up for failure if he schedules a Senate vote on the motion to proceed on BCRA tomorrow

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 26, 2017

And of course everyone's fave

Cruz says he needs more in the bill to drive down premiums. Reporters ask if he'll vote to proceed tomorrow. He's quiet as elevator closes.

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 26, 2017

why couldn't it have closed on his head

Rand Paul won't vote to proceed tomorrow. Ron Johnson, Rand Paul and Dean Heller. That's three.

B(efore)C(hrist)RA is a cute acronym, mitch!

how would people lose employer coverage under this? that I don't get.

It's ending the employer mandate penalty, right? I don't know how they calculate the number of shitty employers who will immediately fuck over their employees.

i don't get why people care so much. 22,000,000 is only 7% of the population ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We have too many people as it is, right?

y'know that Dickens line about decreasing the surplus pop.

"right sizing the employment pool" is some evil poop

Collins an official no

22 millions, that would be about 60% of Canada suddenly without health care. It is mindblowing.

Yay!

.@JimInhofe on health bill: "I'm not sure what it does. I just know it's better than Obamacare." Asked HOW it's better, gets into elevator.

— Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) June 26, 2017

needs the shaft

this elevator, man

do we have any reason to think this elevator hasn't been hacked by the russians, btw

In @DanaBashCNN interview tonight @lisamurkowski cited at least four major concerns with Senate bill. Hard to see how she gets to yes.

— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 26, 2017

Hard to see how she gets to yes.

I expect she'll find a way. Only exception would be if she gets to jump overboard holding hands with six or seven other R senators.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDSa83nUwAApd2u.jpg:large

New: @RonJohnsonWI just told me if senate gop leadership insists on moving to h care this week he will vote against motion to proceed.

— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) June 27, 2017

also a good thread

Attention economy on Twitter encourages continuing the Bernie-Hillary primary fight. In reality, Bernie voters almost all voted for Clinton.

— Zeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) June 26, 2017

Weird to me that Obama's highest rating is Philippines and trump only at 11% in Russia.

Read it the other way around

On Russia, i mean (trumps at 54)

I mean 53. Sorry, I'm making things clear as mud here

trump is at 53% in russia. obama is 11% there.

i guess the philippines thing is due to trump and duterte being buds.

Ah yup the colors obv show the inversion in Russia and Israel. I know the Iran and Bibi factors, but what portion of Israeli opinion is Russian emigres, or even how much favor does Putin have in Israel?

If this bill gets delayed, it gives Collins, et al more time to get bought -- unless protests increase.

$200 billion is p of monopoly money for mcconnell. Unless Collins insists in spending it all on planned parenthood

Susan Collins tweeted that she will vote no. Dean Heller, Susan Collins, what about Lisa Murkowsky?

Most reporting says that McConnell's been writing off Rand's vote from the get-go.

Then it's dead... We'll know this afternoon. I mean, you'll know, I'm going to go on a four day bender in a moment. Hope you'll be able to handle this without me :)

yeah I suspect McConnell counted on losing Collins + Paul long ago.

Isn't there a story that McConnell is anticipating a loss on this bill as part of his playing 6D Chess. All very covert and subtle and stuff.

Also seeing a couple of sources saying that Supreme Court ruling on travel ban actually gives more security to travellers on a couple of points,. Is that just open pollyannaing or is it true?

What McConnell doesn't know is that I'm anticipating his loss and I've been acting accordingly for over a year now

7D chess

is the only reason McConnell wants a vote this week is because he doesn't want to leave it in limbo when members go on recess? or are there other deadlines, like for passing tax reform, that depend on getting this out of the way by a particular date?

what kinda glasses do you gotta wear for 7d chess

I bet that if the GOP were remotely patient and not total dicks, and especially if Trump had not been like that x10 for months even before the get-go, they could have accomplished nearly every last asshole thing they wanted to accomplish.

i watched the documentary 'mitt' one time. worth a watch, lots of behind the scenes footage to a degree that you wonder how or why it was made. anyway, through the whole movie, mitt's advisers were basically spouting lines they'd read from ross douthat and the huffington post and shit, like barely even approaching chess let alone multidimensional chess. i'm skeptical of all the 'trial balloon' covert positioning theories, i think mcconnell wants to pass the bill and is trying to pass it.