Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-gop-plans-health-care-vote-next-week-1497905453

Text later this week, CBO review done over the weekend, vote Thursday. But I don't get how the CBO review could be done so quickly. Again, don't want to jinx it, but it seems extremely optimistic. Oh, darkly humorous, the deadline for insurers to say whether or not they want to participate on the ACA exchanges, and what they want to charge, is this Wednesday, so the Republicans could completely change the system literally the day after the participants have to decide what part they want to play in it...

GOP claims it's been passing info the the CBO all along, tweaking the numbers as needed to get the result wanted. So they claim CBO will not be starting from scratch but will be working with numbers already provided.

Yeah, but still. The estimate I saw was a week, and I don't get how they can know the CBO won't take more than... three days to do it.

hope mike's not doug stampering

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/flynn-failed-report-foreign-trip-broker-us-russia/story?id=48140879

Chris Hayes led with AHCA secrecy.

I just heard Jared's voice. I'd let him buy me a martini.

that's it though huh

and a condo in Shanghai tbh

Chris Hayes led with AHCA secrecy.

The Flynn stuff seems like more of the same, or throwing petrol on a drowning man or whatever, but if he was fussing around with the Saudis and Russians before he was brought aboard Trump Inc., and Trump knew about that, then that's ... I don't know what that is at this point.

Spicer out (sort of).

Or is that old news?

news of his imminent demise has been spread around since Day 1, when the media is p much calling it every day it's not a major prediction when it finally happens.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-06-19/sean-spicer-to-lead-communications-office-searches-for-new-press-secretary

maybe he will be paraded around, Mad Max style, on the hood of Donnie's car

i assume this means sekulow's batshit tv weekend was his final trial before getting the job.

Just saw that ABC report and wondering how long the narrative will stand that Pence was unaware of the information that was being circulated by the media was unknown to him until a convenient time. He was either a useless campaign manager or he was aware fo things much earlier.

A friendly work environment!

.@RosieGray asked Steve Bannon why White House briefings are now off camera. He texted back: "Sean got fatter.” https://t.co/90ZuVqt9Lx

— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) June 20, 2017

talking about the pot calling the kettle a bloated sack of shit rotting from the inside with cheap gin where his bodily fluids should be and eyes so bloodshot even the irises are red

are you inviting over for dinner

Bannon is exactly the dude who would call his wife a pig for gaining five pounds while his face is still slathered with the alfredo sauce he was eating straight from the jar.

a week ago.

good morning!

The most interesting thing about that Atlantic piece is that they got Steve Bannon to respond to something on the record, however flip. When was the last time anyone saw him quoted directly? The fact that he texted back a reporter means a) reporters have his number and b) he's more than likely one of the common "senior administration sources."

That last part was always pretty clear, though.

Well, we could presume. By the way, by "senior administration source" I mean of course "fat pig corpse floating on the surface of disease-ridden flood waters waiting to recede."

re: the GA special election, Silver's bet-hedging analysis is back to being kind of useful by insisting that what may ultimately be most predictive (though not most influential, narrative-wise) is not who wins, but a comparison between margin of victory and what you'd expect from the district.

Bannon doesn't tweet?

I saw this ad last night and feel like he's going to get a ton of national money dumped into his campaign - blue collar dude, ex-military, union ironworker, running against Paul Ryan.

When I saw this ad I assumed they were showing some schlubby blue-collar constituent's sob story before they would cut to the actual shiny candidate pandering by posing in a pickup or at a construction site, until I realized the schlubby dude _is_ the candidate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6zAyPRbels

haha otm

lol yeah i felt the exact same thing

more schlubby blue collar dudes in DC please

he's not a very good candidate though, is he? We mentioned him in the Ossoff thread.

I must admit I larfed at "genetically engineered from Bruce Springsteen songs."

Springsteen never said anything about a mustache, I guess it's always been implied?

idk a sentient bruce springsteen song could probably win a seat

when even Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen it's time to look for another role model. Maybe Chainsmokers dude.

a sentient springsteen song would do a better job than most of these clowns amirite guys

Personally I'm holding out for a Beefheart song.

*wishes for sentient Bruce Springsteen song*

*elects Charles Starkweather*

I wonder if

Personally I'm holding out for a Beefheart song.

― rogan josh hashana (Ye Mad Puffin)

Careful, Huckabee likes Beefheart.

I feel like my interests can solely be represented by a Pachuco Cadaver

Having thrown the House under the bus...

President Trump criticized Senate health care bill, saying it needs "more heart", in CEO meeting yesterday - source https://t.co/KD4Nc9EkmJ

— CNBC (@CNBC) June 20, 2017

Subtext of that photo: "Look, can you two just let me go?"

he meant "more hearts" as in he needs more raw proletarian hearts to slather with ketchup for his nightly feeding

yeah he truly loves the beef of hearts

dems choosing bryce as their candidate against ryan seems to me believing that losing the working class is what cost them the election, whereas maybe they should consider moving left :)

*white working class

WI-1 is 91.1% white according to wikipedia.org, but yeah it's not especially working class

i'm gabneb btw