Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

That's like 15 years in dog years, imagine how it feels to be a dog.

not defending DH's actions, but the applicable term is ephebophile

what's the dog-years equivalent there

seriously bummed this tax cut keeps failing. a major problem in the US is the gap between rich and poor is just way too narrow

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFBW-OnVoAAiWO3.jpg

Life imitating art. https://newrepublic.com/article/143875/living-coen-brothers-darkest-comedy

The past six months of the GOP being in complete control of the federal government is like some mid-level loud mouth who's spent years railing about how his place of work is run and how he could do it so much better than those clowns at the top and then he's suddenly promoted to president and gets to demonstrate that his only skills are floundering and impotently blaming others for his own incompetence.

the children's story about the emperor's new clothes comes to mind too

not a lot of people know this, but those are the most important skills in life

xp

btw lol @ Trump complaining about the 60 vote threshold when he only needed 50 to pass his stupid AHCA

Burn After Reading is a fun movie though

yeah those 8 dem senators holding the Trump agenda hostage-- Let's hear their names!

Hillary!

and

Now should be just about the time we saw that "contextual authoritarianism" we've been hearing so much about. pic.twitter.com/OcHbDz4OlE

— corey robin (@CoreyRobin) July 18, 2017

does trump even understand that he doesn't need democrats at all for this, all he needs is for his crew of bumbling incompetents to agree on something for once?

hard to blame the President for the AHCA failure yesterday...I mean, he sat in a fire truck, he even tried wearing a cowboy hat...what more could he do?

the chapters about the importance of playing dress-up in the art of the deal were my favourites

he even tried wearing a cowboy hat

Pix please. I feel we all need a little Lonesome Cowboy Don today.

saddle up

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconservativetreehouse.files.wordpress.com%2F2017%2F07%2Fmade-in-america-11-trump-hat.jpg%3Fw%3D640%26h%3D453&f=1

So this means McConnell can't use reconciliation again this year, right?

that window closes in September so theoretically he could but that would require pushing the bill to the right to appease Paul, Lee and Moran and still keep the other "moderates" on board. Which, you never know, might happen - it worked in the House. Seems unlikely though, esp given the other legislative priorities like the debt ceiling.

Okay Bannon is a piece of shit BUT this Paul Ryan burn is extremely good https://t.co/HvwtkDqtV6 pic.twitter.com/0b5WHRt9Eb

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) July 18, 2017

stopped clock etc

this is enjoyable https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6o1egf/im_chris_cillizza_editor_at_large_for_cnn/

stopped clock etc
stopped heart due to severe cirrhosis, more like

we should be so lucky

i can confirm that caek's link is enjoyable

chris cillizza's reddit ama is going extremely well pic.twitter.com/dMHkESDz1G

— Isaiah Breen (@isikbreen) July 18, 2017

there's actually 2 AMA's, the second one is going even worse

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6o1ea5/im_chris_cillizza_editor_at_large_for_cnn/

You have been criticized for focusing too much on horse race coverage. With that in mind, do you enjoy the feet?

Best drive by to Reddit ever.

The illustrations accompanying this weekend's NYT Magazine cover story about the WH were quite amusing inasmuch as they depicted everyone as recognizably human except for Bannon, who looked like a vomit-drenched carpet wadded up and stuffed into a suit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6o1ea5/im_chris_cillizza_editor_at_large_for_cnn/dkdt7hg/

someone never saw Wolf Blitzer's celebrity jeopardy appearance, or he's admitting they're all really bad

how fucking clueless do you have to be to think that a chris cilizza ama would be anything other than a world-class clusterfuck

as clueless as cilizzas

Cilizza Clusterfuck Claims Complete Collapse Of Clue-Collection

Meantime

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/eighth-person-in-trump-tower-meeting-is-identified/2017/07/18/e971234a-6bce-11e7-9c15-177740635e83_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4054ab6a3309

An American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing to eight the number of known participants at the session that has emerged a key focus of the investigation of the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian.

Ike Kaveladze’s presence was confirmed by Scott Balber, an attorney for Emin and Aras Agalarov, the Russian developers who hosted the Trump-owned Miss Universe pageant in 2013. Balber said Kaveladze works for the Agalarovs’ company and attended as their representative.

Balber said Tuesday that he received a phone call from a representative of Special Counsel Robert Mueller over the weekend requesting the identity of the Agalarov representative , which he said he provided. The request is the first public indication that Mueller’s team is investigating the meeting.

That...feels like a big deal? Like a really big deal?

This Ike Kaveladze?

http://www.youtube.com/user/ikeusa1965

Capito is a no on repeal-without-replace.

they like Ike

Seems like it's much easier to 'duuuuuhhhh' your way through accusations of collusion when you have Russian businesspeople with whom you've had dealings at the table.

HARDER, I mean.

repeal-without-replace will get even less votes than the previous option - McConnell's basically just daring all the hardcore rightists to back it, his maneuvering over the last week looks deliberately designed to hang the Cruz/Lee/Paul wing out to dry as scapegoats for failure. And Mitch probably is, in all fairness, correct that their intransigence and ideological purity shenanigans really are the problem in terms of getting actual legislation passed.

No the problem is the party has no ideas that are not terrible and the electorate is figuring this out

do you actually think they give a fuck about the electorate

I do, actually! Why do you think they run a massive propaganda machine if not to influence the electorate?

I almost think Trump has a better sense of the politics of this thing than McConnell. It sounds like McConnell's trying to put up something that only needs 50 votes (because it won't repeal all of the ACA regulations is my understanding) but if you know your doomed to fail, why not go the full repeal and then blame the Dems when you don't get 60? Hell, if they knew they needed 60 I'm sure all of the GOP would vote for repeal because it would be entirely symbolic, just like the repeals they passed with no consequence during Obama's presidency. I mean it's an utterly pointless, cynical, and misleading endeavor but at least it would put them back in their comfort zone of blaming the other party for their failures. I think based on his tweet this morning that Trump at least understands that much.

Trump doesn't understand a goddamned thing

otm