Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

At least I know China tried! Katy Lied

a lot's gonna happen between now and 2021 Aimless, incl single-payer in California.

happy for you

in a nutshell!

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/09/paul-ryan-fundraised-with-health-insurance-lobbying-firm-just-before-his-powerpoint/

our bribed government

not frustrated enough to vote against it though riiiiiiite?

Mike Lee, a member of the Senate health care working group, says in a video he doesn't know what's in the bill and is frustrated w/ process pic.twitter.com/xjpSj48M9C

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 20, 2017

"concerned"
"troubled"
"frustrated"

"voting yes"

it's like they're begging their constituents to pressure them and give them an out but it isn't happening

yep

In which case...I'm almost amused.

Josh Marshall otm:

This is sort of a subchapter of what I discussed in my last post about ‘policy literalism’. It is not only that the ‘GOP moderates always cave.’ It is that we are asked to (and
almost always do) indulge this fainting couch routine or a furious bout of chin stroking that comes as a prelude to the cave.

If Capito doesn’t get that this was part of the plan all along she’s literally a fool since this has been a publicly discussed goal from the git-go. This is almost to a certainty a safety-net version of what wingnuts now commonly call “virtue-signaling”, in this case a staged demonstration or interlude put on for effect to soften the blow of signing onto the policy outcomes that are frankly unconscionable. In other words, virtue-signaling but virtue-signaling in bad faith.

This isn’t negotiating or putting a foot down. It’s play acting. It is so consistent, routine and predictable that it needs to be reported as such. Much like hiding behind the lack of a legislative text, on the off chance Sen Capito is serious, she should do something to make that clear. Otherwise, it’s just a yarn, just more nonsense to hide the ball and pave the way for the preordained outcome.

At least I know China tried! Katy Lied

― rogan josh hashana (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, June 20, 2017 1:41 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

china tried, i was halfway crucified

are you with me, Dr. Bornstein
are you really just a shadow of the man that I once knew?
Are you crazy, are you high?
Or just an ordinary guy?

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjewishbusinessnews.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F12%2Fharold-bornstein-Doctor-Trump.jpg&f=1

i kind of love this rogue's gallery of new york city fossils we've gotten to know over the past two years.

I read "just a yarn" above as "Otherwise, it’s just a yam."

Hmm

I'm hearing at least 7 no's coming out of the lunch: Capito, Collins, Cruz, Lee, Murkowski, Paul, Sasse. Heller, Cassidy, Portman undecided. https://t.co/xrFtqXk1Yk

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) June 20, 2017

Like i said, i dont trust anyone who goes by Topher

Oh fuck, that's my middle name as well :(

But if that's true mcconnell has made a huge fuckup

Lol fred xp

Meantime, the hilarity continues

Nat'l Law Journal: Jeff Sessions has lawyered up. He's retained the well-known GOP lawyer Chuck Cooper. https://t.co/ijIu269XVH

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 20, 2017

Has he been called in to have a classified briefing after his reluctance to speak last week. The 2 people he was apparently copying have both now done closed sessions.
I think its time Sessions was closed of course. pretty disgusting that he's still remaining in the role of head lawman in the country when he seems to have little respect for the law.

it's a very stupid situation

all of it

xxpost He has a lot of respect for pre-1954 law

Gotta keep in line...

noticed Trump lawyer @JaySekulow's son and radio co-host @JordanSekulow deleted this old tweet https://t.co/HeziV4BFuB pic.twitter.com/40HJfylXVY

— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) June 20, 2017

If Pence separates himself from Trump, resigns or anything is the Republican party going to support any attempt by him to run for President? I thought all of his being VP had to do with Trump and he was otherwise a pretty unpopular Senator.
Or is him having been VP enough to make him candidatorial or whatever the word is.

that's his SON?

what is it w/ young-ish conservatives and their weird fat heads? (Jones, Erickson, et al)

New poll has Trump to 36% approval. I'm really not sure what will push him much further down short of following through on his threat and starting to shoot supporters one at a time.

Senator "troubled" by reports of Trump massacre

it's been lower (just). there's nothing to stop it dropping further. you'd have to be very confident to look at https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/ and say it couldn't go any lower.

there's been a big drop in the number of people that "strongly approve" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/06/07/strong-approval-of-trump-is-fading-across-a-number-of-demographics/), which means there are more persuadable people when events turn against him.

But what would do that beside sheer exhaustion at this point? Like I said, they know he's pushing for a shitty health bill and a shitty tax cut which will both have countless negative repercussions. Are his supporters just hanging around to see if those things will be as bad as everyone says?

his support has been falling (and the fraction of people with hardened -ve opinions has been rising) since he was elected. what's special about 36% that you think it will stop here?

that is a good point that in most of the polls the 'approval' is combined 'strongly approve' and 'somewhat approve' and lately the latter has gained while the former has declined

not enough to compensate (hence his falling overall approval)

https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/silver-approve-1_gif_static.gif?strip=info&w=575&ssl=1

what's special about 36% that you think it will stop here?

Nothing it will likely go down, and perhaps back up even. I just the fact that it is even at 36% now makes it seem hopeless. This guy is a total piece of shit fraud, and even he gets 36%.

xpost yeah I mean that of the 36%, the support is more "somewhat approve" vs overwhelming support. becoming more tenuous

wonder how much of the 36% is still 'sure he's a total piece of shit fraud but at least he's not a chick' deplorable?

I feel like the red hatters are at most like 10% of the country. I think his approval can go a lot lower. I'd bet on it falling below 30% at some point.

I feel like the red hatters are at most like 10% of the country.

the good news is that the present moment is arguably the first time we'll ever be able to find out. the trump presidency is a natural experiment to determine exactly how many people are fucking assholes and always will be no matter what happens around them. i'm guessing the number is around 25%.

i've seen sub-30% approval + congressional majority mentioned as prereqs for impeachment, which seems arbitrary and inconsistent with senate behaviour for the past few months, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel like the red hatters are at most like 10% of the country.

the good news is that the present moment is arguably the first time we'll ever be able to find out. the trump presidency is a natural experiment to determine exactly how many people are fucking assholes and always will be no matter what happens around them. i'm guessing the number is around 25%.

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, June 20, 2017 10:04 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like its closer to 20-25% too but its possible it fluctuates significantly if your base is 'all americans' or 'registered voters'.

a helluva lot of people in this country are only getting their "information" from sources that reiterate over and over again that their president is the subject of an unprecedented partisan witch hunt.

unpresidented i think you mean

The GOP's passionate hatred for democracy & indifference to whether we live or die is impressive https://t.co/8IFfhFqcY5 pic.twitter.com/OrJof6aKV8

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) June 20, 2017

i'm guessing the number is around 25%.

Nixon resigned with 24% approval. I think Trump won't voluntarily go before 20%.

i remember when everyone's hot take was that trump actually didn't want to be president and would exit at the first possible moment (either during the campaign or after)

now, shockingly, it seems that he DOES want to be in a position where he is the center of the world's attention every single day

All true, but he still didn't want to be president.

Not that it matters.

yeah, when you're given witchhunt, make witchhuntade.