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so, as expected, BCRA was voted down 43-57.

sorry to bring attention to mccain yet again, but

1) did he not say during his heroic speech that he could not support the bill as currently written? iirc he even emphasized each word ("i. will. not. support. this. bill." etc)
2) he voted yay on BCRA

?
what an asshole?

They're still in session?!

That's a p big spread, glad it went down

Graham's good for something i guess

Republicans who voted to reject their party's repeal-and-replace plan were Collins, Murkowski, and Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Bob Corker of Tennessee, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Dean Heller of Nevada, Jerry Moran of Kansas, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Mike Lee of Utah.

HuffPo saying the votes for the "skinny repeal" are there

There's gonna be so many amendments to that

are we even really sure mccain isn't medicated as hell rn

ok, going back to the transcript, mccain said "I will not vote for this bill as it is today". but he voted for BCRA. does that mean he was referring to the "skinny" repeal?

are we even really sure mccain isn't medicated as hell rn

― j., Tuesday, July 25, 2017 10:17 PM (sixteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

definitely is

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The American obsession with decorum is observed only by the center and center-left, and it's shitty politics that harms the rest of us.

— slackbot (@pareene) July 26, 2017

New Yorkers should throw tomatoes at Andrew Cuomo. Henry Kissinger should be terrified to leave his compound. John McCain should be booed.

— slackbot (@pareene) July 26, 2017

the only good thing that ever happened at a Hamilton performance is when Mike Pence got booed

— slackbot (@pareene) July 26, 2017

Counterpoint: we should have the utmost respect for people who've done nothing to earn it and who probably just wish we'd fuck off and die.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So McCain didn't really vote for BCRA etc. https://t.co/fhHiqIW7yE

— Tom Gara (@tomgara) July 26, 2017

oh, so he voted YAY on a motion to waive parliamentary procedure so that BCRA could pass with 50 votes instead of 60 (60 being the case for BCRA since it hasn't been scored by CBO)?

i don't know how you could vote YAY on that without also planning to vote YAY on the actual bill, but ok

i meant Yea all of those times

I visualize someone mugging like Bill Maher does on the "new rules" punchlines for that "Hamilton" tweet.

the only good thing that ever happened at a Hamilton performance is when Mike Pence got booed

— slackbot (@pareene) July 26, 2017

also the singing and dancing

— Virgil Texas (@virgiltexas) July 26, 2017

yes the raps as well

— slackbot (@pareene) July 26, 2017

way to backpedal there p4r33n3

yeah, im disappointed

p sure he's "doing irony" there guys

weird that virgil texas is twitter-verified while pareene isn't

he goes by many names; he is legion

Senator @lisamurkowski of the Great State of Alaska really let the Republicans, and our country, down yesterday. Too bad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017

yo melania how i do i report cyberbullying

"Skinny repeal" has to be the nadir--the latest one, anyway--of political phrase-making. Please don't let it survive the next few weeks.

Skinny Repeal seems to be repeal without Medicaid cuts. So if that happens, it's a great deal better than what could be hoped for. Although it would make the system enter a death spiral, and I don't get what their long term plan is with that (I don't think they envision single payer in five years, which could very well be the result) But there's obviously lots of things I don't get.

weird that virgil texas is twitter-verified while pareene isn't

A friend of mine who is much less famous than either and doesn't work regularly for a major outlet is certified. It's really just a matter of applying.

weird that virgil texas is twitter-verified while pareene isn't

I suspect pareene correctly surmises that the blue check is as much a personal endorsement of Twitter, a toxic grease fire of a platform which is mainly used to heap abuse on strangers and legitimize hate speech, as it is Twitter's endorsement of the person. Also nobody should want anything Trump has.

Also congrats to him & Ally for having a kid (back in January) (see what happens? see what happens when you give up ILX?)

yo melania how do i get twitter certified

(xposts) Bring back Poison to write a song about it. If I weren't close to retirement, I'm positive there'd be a note in my mailbox 10 years from now telling me I had a new student starting that day named Skinny Repeal.

in a world where reality winner exists, anything is possible

wait pareene is an ilxor?

Ex

he was geir iirc

We are all Geir.

i was gonna say waterface but then i remembered he was geir also

Werewolf, howl

*sob*

Roughly half of voters who said they voted for Donald Trump last November, 49 percent, believe Trump won the popular vote, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. That's compared to 40 percent who say Democrat Hillary Clinton won.

REALITY IS MELTING

Wonderful.

I think The Amazing Randy followed in a puppy's footsteps and became an emoji - but which one?

Cool, maybe if Trump voters think their favored candidates have it in the bag they'll get complacent and just stay the fuck home next time. Just like the dems probably will.

can we talk for a minute about how rick perry's smart-boy glasses somehow prevented him from being trolled about shit-power by a couple of russian prank callers?

It was a winding, wonkish and occasionally obscure conversation about foreign coal exploration, natural-gas pipelines and pig manure as a power source.

But only one of the men on the line — Energy Secretary Rick Perry — held sway over his nation’s energy policy. On the other end of the conversation were Vladimir “Vovan” Kuznetsov and Alexei “Lexus” Stolyarov, who had just added Perry to their list of high-profile hoax victims.

“Secretary Perry is the latest target of two Russian pranksters,” DOE Spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said in an email to The Washington Post. “These individuals are known for pranking high level officials and celebrities, particularly those who are supportive of an agenda that is not in line with their governments. In this case, the energy security of Ukraine.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp_nSKTyOZE

place your bets!

After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017

'foreign substances to pollute our precious bodily fluids'?

....Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017

oh god wtf

What was the previous stance on transgender people in the military?

'our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming transphobia'

....victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017

Of course something pointlessly, spitefully hateful would follow those ellipses. Of course.