Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

I mean, if they're bringing McCain back, McConnell *has* to have Dean Heller's vote on the motion to proceed in his back pocket, right?

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 25, 2017

You know what this healthcare bullshit reminds me of? The scene in Texas Chainsaw Massacre where they hold the girl down while lifting the grandfather's arm up so he can hit her in the head with a hammer because he's too fucking weak to do it himself.

Is something coming to a vote tomorrow?

yes, an old man with brain cancer

*John McCain sucks at flying planes in a war where he was fighting on the wrong side*

Idiots: this man is a hero https://t.co/TJz8UFibK8

— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) July 25, 2017

eh, that's not a good critique of mccain

Colonel McCovfefeign

better critique: fuck john mccain

John McCain is one of the bravest fighters I've ever known. Basic access to health care doesn't know what it's up against. Give it hell John

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 25, 2017

that's a good critique of john mccain

I mean it would be FUNNY if he came back and voted no and then instantly died

lol

Trump still seems to think that Amazon doesn't pay sales tax...

xxp it would be better if he died before he could vote.

President apparently confirming existence of US covert program to aid anti-Assad rebels in Syria right here on Twitter https://t.co/NQy1BqLAkB

— Julie Davis (@juliehdavis) July 25, 2017

I dont know how this is a secret? Everyone knows this shit..?

I guess this is the answer.. Sorry yall Im working til midnight tonight so I will be aggressively updating this thread with responses to my own posts.

This is a classified program. This acknowledgement is a good lever for FOIA'ing material about it from the CIA. They can't "Glomar" it now. https://t.co/S1Is1ClMJ6

— Jon Gambrell جون (@jongambrellAP) July 25, 2017

russia lago

Priorities.

Does any Cabinet secretary have the decency & nerve to invite Jeff Sessions to lunch tomorrow in a restaurant & let the media know about it?

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 25, 2017

I'd prefer everyone in DC start pitying Jeff Sessions and treating him humanely after he loses all chance at influencing public policy from now until he dies.

I would like a cabinet member to take lil Jeffy to lunch because he got all of his assets seized by the local PD because of the forfeiture law he loves so much

a-a-and it's gotta be a NICE restaurant. with PLATES

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/21/trump-assigns-white-house-team-to-target-iran-nuclear-deal-sidelining-state-department/

Trump, however, was clearly upset that Tillerson told him he had no choice but to certify Iran was in compliance, according to the source, and asked White House staffers to take over. Withholding certification “wasn’t a real option available to me,” Trump reportedly told the staffers. “Make sure that’s not the case 90 days from now.”

Trump may still choose to certify Iran’s compliance at the next deadline, a source said, but he does not want to be in the position of where he was this week, when he was told that he had to certify because no other option was made available.

“He may not decertify, though I think he will,” the source said. “But he wants to make sure he never, ever, ever hears again that he can’t do it.”

please god, sweaty armpitted computer programmer, please let this crew of cronies leave the stage before we start a world war

I guess if Barron wanted attention he should've become a boy scout.

Guys....

He's tweeting again.

boy is he ever

i guess it's all but certain now that sessions is soon going to get exiled to the phantom zone

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2017

How on earth can Sessions not resign now. I mean, talk about losing the confidence of your boss

I mean... fuck Sessions but now I kinda want to see this play out.

Trump's presidency needs to end, either through impeachment or the 25th. I don't know if it's in the long term interests of Democrats to oust him but his bizarre judgment is frightening. Publicly attacking his own AG makes no sense strategically, it's just a way for Trump to blow off steam with no thought to consequences.

He's crazy.

I would say that doing this on the eve of the health care vote lends credibility to the 'diversion tactic' thesis, but if he just wanted to do something to take focus from health care, why choose this? Who on earth is going to want to take over from Sessions now? And what does he think will happen at the Chris Wray confirmation hearing?

What a guy! (There's a great Barron-related tweet too.) Unprecedented in my lifetime, I think. It's basically George Steinbrenner as president.

He's crazy. suffering from dementia

He's crazy. suffering from dementia a narcissistic moron

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Can you subpoena an 11-year old?

a new challenge for beleaguered ag jeff sessions

Trump's presidency needs to end, either through impeachment or the 25th. I don't know if it's in the long term interests of Democrats to oust him but his bizarre judgment is frightening. Publicly attacking his own AG makes no sense strategically, it's just a way for Trump to blow off steam with no thought to consequences.

He's crazy.

― Treeship, Tuesday, July 25, 2017

It's not happening.

Next Trump is going to leave a copy of this on Sessions's desk:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/MarvinKMooneyWillYouPleaseGoNowBookCover.jpg

Sessions (and others) react to Trump like people do to kids having a meltdown at the ice cream shop. For all we know Sessions, Tillerson et al. finds this hilarious. "Sessions, you're a useless piece of shit!" "Ha ha, Trump being Trump!" I mean, good Christian father Pence has been linked to this profane dickhead's hip for months, and if ever there was proof of no god it's Trump.

Man, do I hate Peter Baker's analysis.

When Mr. Obama took office, some liberal supporters urged him to investigate Mr. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and members of their administration over allegations of torture or war crimes. He rejected that out of hand and even dismissed less incendiary suggestions to establish a commission to examine the Bush administration’s response to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“He concluded that there was no way such a commission could exist without people concluding that the Obama administration was investigating the Bush administration,” said Gregory B. Craig, Mr. Obama’s White House counsel at the time. “There was no way,” he said, “to avoid people thinking that Obama was going after Bush. He thought that was bad for the country and declined to do it.”

Because failing to prosecute an administration for supporting torture is analogous to Hillary Clinton's legal use of a private server.

Well, we don't know what's on her server! Maybe she's been hiding torture!

Man, that tweet about Barron is good. 'Jared Kushner did an amazing thing! Next up, an 11-year old kid will do exactly the same just as good.'

whoa

this has been bothering me for so long and I finally figured it out pic.twitter.com/onZip2g80C

— Brendan O'Connor (@_grendan) July 25, 2017

Strange news from another star!

Former House speaker John A. Boehner, who has mostly avoided public commentary since leaving Congress two years ago, told a business gathering last week that Republicans are “not going to repeal and replace Obamacare” because “the American people have gotten accustomed to it.”

“Here we are, seven months into this year, and yet they’ve not passed this bill. Now, they’re never — they’re not going to repeal and replace Obamacare,” Boehner told a private crowd in Las Vegas, according to video footage obtained by The Washington Post. “It’s been around too long. And the American people have gotten accustomed to it. Governors have gotten accustomed to this Medicaid expansion, and so trying to pull it back is really not going to work.”

Boehner said the Republicans’ best hope in the coming months is to peel away aspects of the law, such as some tax provisions and regulations, and to end health insurance mandates.

“When it’s all said and done, you’re not going to have an employer mandate anymore, you’re not going to have the individual mandate,” Boehner said. “The Medicaid expansion will be there. The governors will have more control over their Medicaid populations and how to get them care, and a lot of Obamacare taxes will probably go.”

So they won't be able to repeal and replace it, they'll just mutilate it until it no longer functions. Got it.

That's the worst case scenario because they will be able to convincingly blame the poor outcomes on "Obamacare" rather than their "reforms."

If they pass the Soylent Green Act then at least there is a chance that ferocious public outcry will pave the way to single payer.

A chance.

Outcry will dim once we all realize how delicious soylent green is.

FUck this! to wake up and read the ravings of a madman that just happens to be the president of the US is so fucking depressing.

Jesus Christ. You don't need Obamacare to fail to win support for single payer. That's a dumbass idea from the Jill Stein wing of the hospital. Please to never imply that it has any basis in reality.

The electorate supports single payer. The electorate likes Medicare for all. As far as I can tell, the barrier is that the donor and pundit classes think it's impossible, and so that has become conventional wisdom.