Here is a video of a raven tearing the beating heart out of a pigeon on an NYC subway platform. Feel free to use it as a metaphor for something legislative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlog3s9QAeI
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 19:46 (six years ago) link
http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170627151838-0627-sarah-huckabee-sanders-large-tease.jpg
perfect cross between Trump and a Melanie Hutsell SNL character
― nomar, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
I feel great!
Trump's own advisers are struggling to convince him Russia still poses a threat, senior admin officials tell CNN.https://t.co/xsnRqbhLD4— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 28, 2017
"NSA Director Mike Rogers expressed frustration to lawmakers about his inability to convince the President to accept US intelligence." https://t.co/wjp2tZFgba— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:19 (six years ago) link
Negotiation!
Sen @RandPaul says he spoke at GOP lunch about how he wants to change bill.Q: How was it received?Rand: "Not very well, lead balloon"— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
But the huckster's gotta keep on
Trump promises "big surprise" on stalled health-care bill https://t.co/1wD27AjtKL— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 28, 2017
Surprise in this case being the satisfying fart he appears to be letting out.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
but if Russia annexes more countries or gains allies counter to the US, I can still build more Trump hotels in those countries because Russians like me, right?
― mh, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
But the donors!
NEW: Key Republicans want to remove tax cuts for top earners from their health care bill. https://t.co/hdUllXyfz2— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:38 (six years ago) link
but the tax cut IS the bill. do you see?
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
Weird scenes inside the goldmine
Ann Coulter: Hannity Would Endorse Communism If Trump Implemented It https://t.co/RIeyXe4N1k pic.twitter.com/g2TOScNre8— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
ugh coulter so vile
In the latest chapter of the ongoing feud, Coulter penned a column arguing that Trump’s stocking the White House halls with Goldman Sachs executives will alienate his base of support — an act of political suicide tantamount to “voluntarily getting an AIDS transfusion.”
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
With his bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act in deep trouble, Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, raised an alternate possibility on Tuesday evening: Either Republicans come together in the days ahead, or he may have to work with Democrats to shore up the deteriorating health law.
This reminds me of '80s cartoon episodes when the good guys needed COBRA, Skeletor, or Megatron's help to destroy some world-historic force.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
Key Republicans want to remove tax cuts for top earners from their health care bill.
This makes no sense. Without the tax cuts, they don't need to enact the unpopular benefit cuts. If they're ideologically committed to benefit cuts and pass those alone, they lose the ability to get the tax cuts through reconciliation. If there's no benefit cuts and no tax cuts, the bill is just ... nothing? Or does it just come down to "we removed the individual mandate and replaced it with you have to wait six months to get insurance if you're uninsured, we otherwise leave ACA mostly alone, and we're gonna call that repeal and replace?"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:26 (six years ago) link
Mitch conveniently eliding the fact that any health care bill getting mostly Democrat votes in the Senate would die in the House.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
Coulter penned a column arguing that Trump’s stocking the White House halls with Goldman Sachs executives will alienate his base of support — an act of political suicide tantamount to “voluntarily getting an AIDS transfusion.”
The way this is written, one could be uncertain as to which act is an act of political suicide - Coulter penning the column, or Trump stocking the halls?
Coulter is vile, sure (so's the Trumpster), but recent history suggests that Trump may have a better feel for his base of support than anyone in the commentariat does. Everybody who has said "THIS is the thing that will lose him support" has been wrong.
― space chipmunk (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
Well, except for the part where he's been steadily losing support.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
Sean is above it all
Ann, u fall in and out of love with Christie Romney Trump and how many others. Frankly you just bore me. https://t.co/ERf1TUUk8U— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
Haha I love that this now has legs
Donald Trump's personal lawyer is now himself facing investigation by two state AGs https://t.co/FFEpfeq4xI— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:31 (six years ago) link
they just have competing angles on ideological inconsistency xp
― mh, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:32 (six years ago) link
Trump's loss of support from his base would appear to be not so much about anything he's done, but is more about his not accomplishing anything at all.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
I wonder who hat man is.
From inside Trump's fundraiser, attendees wave to and toast the protesters yelling at them from the sidewalk pic.twitter.com/5jYyZtVbog— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
He could lose 100% of his support, but he's still president so ...
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:25 (six years ago) link
The dealmaker, bigly, etc.
Trump tells GOP senators of various stripes that he agrees with them. It means they are all happy and confused. https://t.co/QU7ACUt8PB— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
“I don’t think he would have convened folks unless he thought it was pretty important.”
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Deep thoughts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/mcconnell-is-trying-to-revise-the-senate-health-care-bill-by-friday/2017/06/28/63550800-5c18-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html?utm_term=.80de71ca1af2
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), one of more than half a dozen GOP senators who have raised concerns the impact of proposed Medicaid cuts in their states, said Wednesday that it remained impossible to predict if a refashioned bill could change enough members’ minds.“That is an existential question, and it’s very hard for me to answer existential questions,” Cassidy said.
“That is an existential question, and it’s very hard for me to answer existential questions,” Cassidy said.
Life, what is it?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
He's reminding us he couldn't finish No Exit in college.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:34 (six years ago) link
How considerate of him!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
I love Susan Collins' expression.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
Deeply unsurprising.
senior Trump campaign aide recounted to me / @lachlan how Trump would clearly confuse Medicaid/Medicare in private: https://t.co/HbiMMSIjMA pic.twitter.com/DCZwnvn0AD— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) June 28, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
yeah but Reagan!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
i will happily punch Coulter (or Hannity) in the face if i ever have a sidewalk sighting
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 June 2017 00:49 (six years ago) link
The best of teams!
Politico: Tillerson "exploded" at Priebus, Kushner for questioning his judgment, staff delays, and damaging leaks.https://t.co/5X6wQ57Kmo— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 29, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 June 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
hope he used the phrase "little pissant"
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 29 June 2017 06:40 (six years ago) link
btw true story, the correct answer to "if you could fight anyone, who would you fight" is not Shatner; it's Hannity
http://thedoteaters.com/tde/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3movies_wg_snap_beringer-e1368019630620-200x200.jpg
"I'd piss on the sparkplug if I thought it'd do any good!"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 June 2017 07:02 (six years ago) link
@nikkihaley"Just 5 months into our time here, we've cut over half a billion $$$ from the UN peacekeeping budget & we’re only getting started.”
"Just 5 months into our time here, we've cut over half a billion $$$ from the UN peacekeeping budget & we’re only getting started.”
...congrats?
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 29 June 2017 07:28 (six years ago) link
http://images.memes.com/character/meme/think-about-it-guy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 June 2017 07:40 (six years ago) link
she's doing a great job of doing a terrible job. among the people explicitly hired to do a bad job, though, she has tough competition. scott pruitt is a fucking beast, man. he not only hates the agency he leads with a burning passion, but he has the knowledge to know exactly how to burn it down. but like i said it is very tough out there, lots of elite competitors in the game here, must see administrative breakdown on a daily basis, it is truly the golden age of self hatred
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 June 2017 07:44 (six years ago) link
rick perry coming in strong, though, look out!
Perry caught flack last week for denying that carbon dioxide is a primary factor in climate change, something that reporters pressed him on again today. But over several questions, Perry’s response was far from clear. “The climate is changing, man is having an impact on it,” Perry said, expressing frustration that “we can’t have an intellectual conversation about just what are the actual impacts.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/rick-perry-talks-nuclear-energy-research-investment-paris-agreement/
wait, what was that image i used to rely on all the time...something about ripping your own eyeballs out? no wait, it was a google image search for "head in hands"
http://i.imgur.com/aO9wH5m.png
this isn't right though, i can't find the one
http://i.imgur.com/ewIZthk.png
even my old 'head in hands' in agony friends are gone, we are left to search through the imitators in this time of great need
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 June 2017 07:58 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PJ4qvow.jpg
hello USA, trump has appointed me, dr lonely, to be your only option for therapy. please step into my office and i will share all of your secrets with as many of your former acquaintances as i possibly can afterward
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 29 June 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link
Karl <333
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 29 June 2017 09:24 (six years ago) link
I can totally see this.
Republicans worry that if the GOP health bill passes and Americans hate it, Trump could turn on it:https://t.co/DJ0lC5dX0Y pic.twitter.com/eihQHPm3K7— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 29, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:05 (six years ago) link
How minor an adjustment would they have to make to make this bill more welcome to the politicians involved while still being devastating to the public at large?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:10 (six years ago) link
jesus fucking christ, these Joe & Mika tweets. there is no low to which this colossal fuckstick won't stoop.
― evol j, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
The fuck ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
When you consistently piss all over propriety for the entirety of your adult life and the world's reaction is basically a net positive (no serious or lasting consequence but plenty of reward), I don't know what possible impetus you could have for doing otherwise.
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:21 (six years ago) link
for those who don't know:
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link
Ponder that last verb.
...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
Refreshingly honest!
NEW: Administration goes public and says centrist Senators will take cheap "bribes."https://t.co/n16Sr9yW7E pic.twitter.com/wrfyTbHngf— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) June 29, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
I never wanted to be Team Mika in any way shape or form but here we are:
pic.twitter.com/8YhzcCUwM1
― evol j, Thursday, 29 June 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link