Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

what kinda glasses do you gotta wear for 7d chess

this is the base layer:

http://i.imgur.com/RBaXGwe.jpg

if it doesn't pass now (or doesn't even come up for a vote, more likely), it can still pass in July or August. remember the experience in the house

http://i3.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/020/925/4dchesss.JPG

if mcconnell and co are playing any sort of medium to longterm game, they might be seeing where their heaviest opposition lies - moderates or asshole far right so they can recalibrate the bill toward those interests, change a few things around, carry the 9, push this medicaid cut to that year, carry the 3, get a new CBO score that's marginally better, and give it another push when the opposition has already played their hand. that's what i'd do if i was even more of a total asshole, and if i teleported into mcconnell's boots

Best photo of McConnell in a while

http://static.politico.com/dims4/default/08a2c5c/2147483647/resize/1160x%3E/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.politico.com%2Fe3%2F66%2Fca53b3c94a968661e6770af54380%2F170623-mitch-mcconnell-2-ap-1160.jpg

Tied in with this:

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/27/republican-health-care-bill-mitch-mcconnell-trump-239998

Mitch McConnell is delivering an urgent warning to staffers, Republican senators and even the president himself: If Obamacare repeal fails this week, the GOP will lose all leverage and be forced to work with Chuck Schumer.

Dogs and cats living together or something.

Great. The Plankton with a Hairpiece has the keys to Latin American foreign policy.

Outsourcing!

Whomp whomp

"Also important to Mr. Bannon was finding a “Lanny Davis” type" https://t.co/U8OPgAe2bg via @WSJ

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) June 27, 2017

More from story:

As investigations intensify into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign, at least 10 White House officials and former aides have retained lawyers in conjunction with the probes, or are moving to do so.

Inside the White House, President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Trump senior adviser Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, all have hired private attorneys, as have former campaign advisers Michael Caputo, Boris Epshteyn and Roger Stone, among others.

Kasowitz's advice *clearly* taken here.

if mcconnell and co are playing any sort of medium to longterm game, they might be seeing where their heaviest opposition lies - moderates or asshole far right so they can recalibrate the bill toward those interests, change a few things around, carry the 9, push this medicaid cut to that year, carry the 3, get a new CBO score that's marginally better, and give it another push when the opposition has already played their hand. that's what i'd do if i was even more of a total asshole, and if i teleported into mcconnell's boots

this seems probable, again looking at the House's experience. there was significant pushback against the first iteration of their bill and it failed, but when they trotted out the revised version the opposition was relatively muted and lo and behold it passed.

I called my senators for the first time today about this, hopefully I'm not the only one.

I've called the Plankton's office every day.

If this bill gets delayed, it gives Collins, et al more time to get bought -- unless protests increase.

it really sucks when people insist on placing the burden on the people who are going to be hurt by GOPcare to go out and protest

i feel the same way about going out and getting involved in a public protest as radicals feel about voting - it seems practically worthless to me

every time i try to call my senator the line is busy. who has time for that?

i'm curious to see if relentless civil disobedience becomes a broad tactic ever again.

The protests didn't stop passage of a House bill, but it got people into town halls and scared the shit out of GOP legislators enough for them to worry about 2018. They work.

Wow, CNN had to retract big story on "Russia," with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017

guys cnn is fake fyi

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDRHMGLXsAINQKV.jpg

I thought Mike Huckabee taught us that CNN actually stood for Cardiac Care Network

President Donald Trump continued to float the possibility on Monday that Congress and the White House would simply let Obamacare’s individual markets collapse if the GOP’s repeal effort goes down later this week. But McConnell called up Trump recently, according to people with knowledge of the call, to deliver a reality check.

Voters expect Republicans to deliver on their long-held promise to repeal the law, McConnell said, according to those people. And failing to repeal the law would mean the GOP would lose its opportunity to do a partisan rewrite of the law that could scale back Medicaid spending, cut Obamacare’s taxes and repeal a host of industry mandates.

Thing is, though, that that is exactly what Trump promised he wouldn't do. This should not work at all, but Trump is such an imbecile it probably does...

i think people should stop calling this 'trumpcare', it implies that there is actually care involved, or even a plan that doesn't kill

#wealthcare

Trumpcarcass

wealthcare is pretty good

dontcare

Pres pool watched Pres Trump on hold for at least 90 seconds waiting for the new Irish Prime Minister to pick up. pic.twitter.com/dG2uK9UlGz

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 27, 2017

he was actually calling Domino's to place an order

*consults blank piece of paper*

he looks like he's doing face exercises

xpost - Meaning the State Department personnel list?

HO

Funny how it works

Orrin Hatch says details of possible changes to the Senate healthcare bill are "beyond my pay grade." He's third in line for the presidency.

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 27, 2017

these motherfuckers

#1 hasn't got the details down either it seems

tbh it's beyond Trump's pay grade too. He doesn't know what's in it, just that he wants a win and someone (probably Ivanka) told him the current bill is 'mean.' xp

It would conceivably be in Tom Price's pay grade, if he weren't such a reprehensible piece of shit.

almost 100% certain Trump could not define the terms "deductible" and "premium" correctly.

truly respectable institutions are shaping the healthcare debate. pic.twitter.com/dGRUMkgQQa

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 27, 2017

editors can't find anyone who wants to defend this shitty, unpopular law so Avik Roy & his dodgy, P.O. Box think tank becomes the go-to.

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) June 27, 2017

hahaha a ups store

lol I just read Avik Roy's piece defending the healthcare bill over lunch.

congrats on keeping it down then

I think I heard Avik Roy as the "pro" side on some NPR show yesterday and man, what a blind to reality fanatic. There was a woman who called in from Texas who has three kids, two on her healthcare plan (along with her and her husband) and a third on Medicaid. The child on medicaid was born with a genetic health problem and could not get insured, so they'd been paying out of pocket while she was on a waiting list for 13 years (!). Finally, with the ACA she at last got her child fully covered and absolutely loved Medicaid - its accessibly, its coverage, everything, which had all been truly life-changing. Meanwhile, as she pointed out, her premiums had been rising and coverage had been increasingly limited with her conventional health insurance, as different companies came and went. Roy, iirc, pretended to be sympathetic, but assured her that once the ACA was repealed and replaced rates would drop down and she'd had have better coverage than ever. The woman wasn't, if you pardon the phrase, buying it, and pushed back that her experience with Medicaid as opposed vs. for-profit just emphasized to her the need for single payer.

Big: Senate Republicans won't vote on the health care bill this week at all, a Senate GOP source tells @TheIJR

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 27, 2017

NEWS!!! Trump is inviting all GOP senators to the White House today for a meeting at 4 p.m.

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) June 27, 2017

NEWS!!!

Nudes?

you're all fired!!!

several years ago Avik Roy came off as one of the smarter conservatives; turns out he was a con. Chris Hayes ripped him to shreds live the other day.

NEWS!!! Trump is inviting all GOP senators to the White House today for a meeting at 4 p.m.

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) June 27, 2017

you guys want to go in together on a boat?

McConnell delaying health care vote until after July 4th recess. GOP senators invited to White House this afternoon to circle the wagons.

— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) June 27, 2017

If you're smart, you choose to run your con by posing as a conservative, because even if you're exposed as a fraud and a con-man, you'll still get all the business you can handle, because the people paying you will take it as a credential, not a disqualification.