Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

probably too much to hope this was on the front page, huh?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/comments/2017/06/21/opinion/health-care-bill-senate.html

That would mean, among other things, abandoning the notion of transforming the Democratic party

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.)

to be fair the self-pity emanating from those quarters can be overwhelming at times

NYT is FAKE PEWS Raymond

"those quarters" = dems or leftists, rushomancy?

ha ha, i will let the thread fight it out!

fwiw the leftists I know are all mostly just hyped as hell

ok, you've had nearly half an hour, no fight has ensued. i meant "dems".

Core principle of the Republican Party: Life begins at conception and ends at birth. https://t.co/xdYpwqaBNE

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 22, 2017

well, looks like ICE is now going after white people

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/06/20/john-cunningham-not-safe-one-safe/OrlwvXMRMd3T13qUKWgxGN/story.html?event=event25

White people need more oppression imo.

Homo homini lupus

This is how I feel too often these days.

http://www.splicetoday.com/writing/numbness-is-a-feeling-too

ugh Raymond

A snapshot that just poured onto the keyboard, and it's bound up in personal life shit. Hopefully a temporary state of mind.

Anyone hearing anything about the GOP healthcare morning meeting going on right now? I was away from the net for an hour :)

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2236/2203715732_29f983424b_b.jpg

Interesting: http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/338948-supreme-court-limits-governments-power-to-revoke-citizenship

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a naturalized immigrant can’t be stripped of their citizenship for making false statements during the naturalization process that are irrelevant to an immigration official's decision to grant or deny citizenship.

A unanimous court said the government must establish that an immigrant’s illegal act during the naturalization process played some role in acquiring citizenship. When the underlying illegal act is a false statement, the justices said a jury must decide whether the false statements altered the naturalization process and influenced the immigration official's decision.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/senate-health-care-bill/index.html

Thanks Latham!! And here's the link to the whole bill: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/republican-health-care-bill-text/index.html

ah what a shitbag

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-asked-us-refute-campaign-collusion-russia-intelligence-chiefs-628228

im certain that shit prompted this morning's twittarrhea

Hmm.

Big scoop from @TIME: Election Hackers Altered Voter Rolls, Stole Private Data, Officials Say https://t.co/trDWPWQgZH pic.twitter.com/UcNxf1wPlC

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 22, 2017

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trumps-tease-comey-tapes-fits-familiar-pattern-48201399

Trump is expected to answer the tapes question this week.

yeah holding my breath for that and it will just pass and he won't ever answer for the bullshit lies. I feel yea Raymond

Per solid source: at least 3 GOP sens (perhaps more) plan to announce public opposition to McConnell health bill later today. Developing

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) June 22, 2017

I'm sorry if I'm giving anyone false hope, but...

Already seeing an explosion of reaction on the hard right/movement conservativeverse (as muttered earlier) trashing the hell out of the bill.

Here is the difference between the Senate and House GOP repeal bills, helpfully summarized in two sentences:https://t.co/5eWQjmXEuM pic.twitter.com/cPuClgWg9W

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 22, 2017

i'm just steaming after reading the NYT summary of the bill so i'll take that for now even though it's chuck todd xxp

This also pretty indisputably cuts Medicaid (changing funding from 'medical inflation' to less generous 'inflation' standards) which means that Trump is breaking a really core promise. He is not rolling back Obamacare expansion, he is cutting it for everyone.

Trump on the Senate health care bill-- says it's "going to be negotiated."

"A little negotiation, but it's going to be very good."

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 22, 2017

HATCH tells me there are "a lot of differing points of view" on health care bill, which is a "real problem" in pushing it through

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 22, 2017

"It's much better than Obamacare," Sen. Purdue. on new health bill.

"Why?" we ask.

"I have to go read it."

— Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) June 22, 2017

once the *job creators* are more comfortable, the resulting increase in freedom will make everyone else happier and healthier, too

we elect these people to make complex laws that most people can't comprehend and I don't trust them - we need AI that can read these freaking bills and find the essence

Rs agree that the kludged "health care" bills leave much of Obamacare in place. But passing them will get "Rs repeal Obamacare" headlines.

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 22, 2017

Needs to be negotiated. Right now the bill is mean, but they could probably get it up to ghastly.

Already seeing an explosion of reaction on the hard right/movement conservativeverse (as muttered earlier) trashing the hell out of the bill.

this is great news

was idly wondering last night before I went to sleep - if Congress is so susceptible to constituent pressure, what's to prevent large blocks of people from, say, um (and I am not recommending this just to be clear), pretending to be consituents? Like, it wouldn't be hard for someone to look up a zip code in Texas and provide that to a staffer in Ted Cruz's office when calling to tell him to vote against a bill. As far as I can tell Congressional staffers don't exactly perform background checks when taking comments...

Wtf they are removing the individual mandate and replacing it with... nothing? How does this not cause the whole thing to collapse?

You don't think their offices have caller ID? I'm not saying these people are ace detectives but I think don't think they're dumb enough to see hundreds of calls from 617 area codes and say "Man, a lot of my Nevada voters bought their cell phones in Boston!"

likely result seen in images

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capuchin_Crypt

Wtf they are removing the individual mandate and replacing it with... nothing? How does this not cause the whole thing to collapse?

Because they're also replacing Medicaid with... nothing

lol of course thx eephus

Wtf they are removing the individual mandate and replacing it with... nothing? How does this not cause the whole thing to collapse?

They're replacing it with tax cuts (on the wealthy). If the system collapses, and it hurts you, it's your fault for being vulnerable in the first place.

these fucking evil pricks hope they rot in whatever stupid hell they believe in

A lot of stuff could be said about the AHCA bill, but at least the CBO said that the system would be stable under it - as they say it would be without anything done to it. I don't get how a new CBO score doesn't explain that everything will fall apart if you move the mandate and do... nothing, then. And they say the CBO should give their score tomorrow or monday, so... They must have run this by them already, so they must know that.

I mean, we all know they are insane and evil, but this is insane and evil.

shitty CBO score only matters if it instantly generates millions of calls in swing Senator states

which could very well happen

they are tribal. if you are not part of their tribe, they not only don't give a shit what happens to you -- they're amused by your suffering

xpost

Re the discussion of aide sleuthery above: I live in Boston and have a 917 number. Cell phones have changed the "area codes are infallible" thing in a big way.

I wonder if they made it flawed on purpose just so they can say they tried because really they realize its in their interests for there to be NO REPEAL