Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

As long as Steinbeck's 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires' line applies, it won't be fewer at all.

why is Scarborough channeling Chandler Bing in that video

I got flack for saying that ~40% of US eligible voters are just too dumb and/or selfish to be trusted with voting power, but idk any other conclusion that fits.

I would be curious how this figure was reached.

Using a protractor.

grandparents do not count as a "bona fide connection" apparently, re: muslim ban?

i sort of get why people believe in concepts like the final judgment because i want so much for the assholes who decide these things to be forced to take a long hard look at themselves, to be shown shame, to be made to weep

JoScar's song is decent like i dunno a Fountains of Wayne album track on the second side or something

you might even say i want people to look inside, and be terrified by what they see

Meantime!

CBO on debt limit: "Treasury will most likely run out of
cash in early to mid-October." https://t.co/wqoIWh4JTX

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) June 29, 2017

increased U.S. natural gas production is ... helping reduce U.S. emissions

this is actually true, though coal magnates don't wanna hear it

"Morning Joe" uses New Pornographers and Elvis C as bumpers all the time, so I guess it's no surprise Joe wants to be Ric Ocasek.

Eephus otm

the boost in natural gas production is also strongly linked to fracking, which has its own list of possible ecological (and possibly tectonic risks), but that's another issue

Hot fanfic!

Cruz just came up to Angus, put his arm around him and told me he's a "master legislator." These guys are ready for a recess

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) June 29, 2017

BTW, this is more quietly making the rounds, and is of interest:

Whoa. My amdt to sunset 2001 AUMF was adopted in DOD Approps markup! GOP & Dems agree: a floor debate & vote on endless war is long overdue. pic.twitter.com/FS8LfYWo5J

— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) June 29, 2017

Worth noting, of course, that this was a GOP-led committee signing off on this. This does mean floor debate, though of course nothing could result. Still...

Useful note too re the 'Trump tweets are the perfect distraction!'

Been in dozens of scrums w/ GOP senators today—countless questions, nearly all on health care; I heard no more than ONE about Trump's tweet.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 29, 2017

Based on what Republican senators are saying coming out of this meeting, it's hard to envision a health care deal by tomorrow.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 29, 2017

That Lee amendment is pretty amazing.

if Trump banned use of the word "scrum" outside of describing rugby matches I might have to vote for his reelection.

Trump's a total scrumbag.

i can't remember where i read this, i think in a review of a book about the spanish civil war, where it is stated that the revolutionaries and their sympathizers finally realized, after franco's crushing victory, that "being right was not enough". it chilled me when i read it, and i still wonder what the answer is to the question: "well, what is?"

Mao had some thoughts on this IIRC

it's weird -- and farcical -- that there is no punishment for that mika tweet. if trump worked for any other organization he would be fired, forced to step down, or at the very least pressured to take a leave of absence. but this will be forgotten in two days

publishing sexist, abusive comments about a reporter

Information!

CBO just released a report on the "longer-term" effects of #BCRA. The 26% cut to Medicaid bumps up to a 35% cut by 2036.

— Aisling McDonough (@AislingMcDL) June 29, 2017

this is good imo, on Trump-as-aberration

http://fusion.kinja.com/this-is-normal-1796496747

Wacky!

Senate Rs coming to the idea that keeping some of Obamacare's taxes is necessary for health reform to work https://t.co/WvsWJ5b3NA

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) June 29, 2017

But faced with the political peril of cutting taxes for the rich in a bill projected to lead to 22 million fewer Americans having health insurance, many GOP senators are softening their stance. They want to keep some of the taxes, at least for a while, to increase the financial assistance for poor and middle-class Americans to buy insurance and possibly to ease the cuts to Medicaid currently in the bill.

Keeping the taxes in place would be a remarkable concession. A feature of Obamacare particularly anathema to conservative orthodoxy would remain in place. But it might be their best shot to save a faltering bill, particularly if it is accompanied by a concession to conservatives on rolling back Obamacare’s insurance reforms.

“Leaving it as it is where you’re repealing that tax and at the same time not providing lower-income citizens with enough money to purchase health plans, that’s not a sustainable proposition,” Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) told reporters Thursday, “and certainly not one worthy of becoming law.”

"an eye-opening journey of courage, fiscal reality, and self-discovery for many in the GOP" is a phrase I hope to encounter in at least one news story

Re: Flat Top Joe and the Purple Canoes or whatever his band is called, I do not like how he holds that guitar.

i'm sure he holds other things very well

Oh no, where will Louise Mensch post her hot takes

Heat Street is folding on August 4th as a standalone operation. Will be restructured under MarketWatch. Story coming shortly

— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) June 29, 2017

i guess i could muster some outrage if that tweet had been directed at almost anyone other than fucking idiot Morning Joe's somehow even stupider wife

I would be curious how this figure was reached.

uh pulled it outta my ass, wtf did you think?

I heaaaaard that

kayfabe covfefe :)

"It means more worries
For the rest of your days..."

oh lols of pain

I can muster outrage, that tweet is a fucking masterstroke of sexist garbage no matter who it's directed at. frankly, describing her in terms of whose wife she is is not a great approach either imho.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-operative-sought-clinton-emails-from-hackers-implied-a-connection-to-flynn-1498770851?mod=e2tw

fake news librul rag, the wall street journal, with some real shit re russia

dr c otm

Those investigators have examined reports from intelligence agencies that describe Russian hackers discussing how to obtain emails from Mrs. Clinton’s server and then transmit them to Mr. Flynn via an intermediary, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of the intelligence.

It isn’t clear who that intermediary might have been or whether Mr. Smith’s operation was the one allegedly under discussion by the Russian hackers. The reports were compiled during the same period when Mr. Smith’s group was operating, according to the officials.

xp

Mr. Smith is also conveniently not alive right now =\

Oh Gucciferpaws

rankly, describing her in terms of whose wife she is is not a great approach either imho.

^fair point. but they're both human garbage who were more than happy to give Trump a cushy platform right up til the very end.

Oh no, where will Louise Mensch post her hot takes

Heat Street is folding on August 4th as a standalone operation. Will be restructured under MarketWatch. Story coming shortly
— Steven Perlberg (@perlberg) June 29, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, June 29, 2017 4:32 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mensch was ousted a while ago!

An unusually smart move!

Separately...

Bolling on Where Trump Went Wrong on Health Care: 'He Believed Paul Ryan'https://t.co/Ru5TEaQzvy

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 29, 2017

o rly

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-operative-sought-clinton-emails-from-hackers-implied-a-connection-to-flynn-1498770851?mg=prod%2Faccounts-wsj

Linked a few posts above. Bit of an odd story.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya!..."

“Joe and Mika postponed their trip so they can be back on air Friday to sling some ‘bad blood’ back at Trump” https://t.co/w9Oz3YhIoh

— New York Post (@nypost) June 29, 2017

CA Assembly Speaker Rendon (D) just killed the Cali single-payer bill. He says it was a pipe dream without any details about funding but all of the proponents claim to have laid it all out pretty clearly with proposed taxes. It did seem a little undercooked for such a major undertaking but I'm disappointed that they just decided to kill it instead of working to hammer something out. I hope Nevada sees more success with their efforts but I'm not holding my breath.

That it's gotten as far as it has is monumental progress.

I thought the NV gov did the same thing to their bill, but maybe my news is all mixed up.

The analysis done on the California bill is great. But without funding it wasn't going anywhere.