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After I've thrown such a screaming meltdown of a tantrum that my parents have to literally drag me out of the store and apologize to everyone working there, I'd like to sit down with them and have a reasonable discussion about why they should buy me an Xbox.

I said at the first health care defeat in March that it is as bad a loss as I have seen early in a term. Reagan and his kind are dead meat.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 18, 2017

Meanwhile...

Scoop: @ianbremmer says Trump had second, private meeting with Putin during G20 summit. https://t.co/sG7P4IHARG

— Lucian Kim (@Lucian_Kim) July 18, 2017

a little rub'n'tug

Both the parties -- and my Democrat friends don't want to hear this -- have got to change, and quick. Because the breaks are similar.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) July 18, 2017

xxpost lol maybe that explains this exchange on Air Force One, he was confused about which meeting he was being asked about:

Q Are you mad that Putin lied about the meeting that you had with him, especially about —

THE PRESIDENT: What meeting?

http://www.blogto.com/city/2017/07/trumps-name-officially-removed-toronto-tower/

I don't know how long this takes. I'm downtown not too far from there tonight, so I might try to get a photo.

Hmm.

Fox News reporter leaves White House briefing early, blasts ban on TV cameras: https://t.co/s79YkiEdJ1 pic.twitter.com/LYaDTLcP3a

— The Hill (@thehill) July 18, 2017

lol @ FOX finding it impossible to write a crawl without blasting Dems.

politics is one thing; #content is quite another

aw: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/449574/republicans-russia-health-care

He sorrows so.

lol the "of which there is no evidence" cliche is starting to turn into a classic case of "who ya tryin' to convince? me or you?"

kind of hilarious logic - "since there's no smoking gun now*, all evidence-gathering and investigation should stop!"

*dubious given the events of the last week

Anyway, health care? Who cares!

Campaign aides Lewendowski & Bossie spotted in West Wing on day healthcare bill collapses, per WH officials. Trump turning to old hands?

— Tara Palmeri (@tarapalmeri) July 18, 2017

Also spotted in the West Wing, meeting with Bannon today, as WH pivots away from healthcare and onto other issues: Kris Kobach. https://t.co/Lgl8Fp59qI

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) July 18, 2017

Just in: Trump to rally in Youngstown, Ohio next Tuesday.

— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) July 18, 2017

man even the robots in D.C. are giving up

http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/07/robot-security-guard-commits-suicide-in-public-fountain.html

When you're down and troubled,
And you need some love and care,
And nothing, nothing is going right
Close your eyes and rally in Youngstown, Ohio

many people are saying they have great trucks in youngstown

Waiting for Mitch McConnell to say they're putting together a bill that will peal Obamacare immediately, and they'll come back later and work out the details of the re- part.

Also expect the lowest kids in my school will have a rough time next year when the classroom teachers and the support teachers both decide they're going to step back and let the other side own them.

People so stupid, they should just claim they passed it, made it the best it could be, call it Trump care, then demand the Dems get off their butts to make it better after all that hard work.

And then there's

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/18/trump-obamacare-markets-subsidies-cut-240684

PUTIN (in Russian): You are disgusting weak pig of man with face like melting candle

TRANSLATOR: You are very handsome

TRUMP: Yes. Yes.

— Kilgore Trout (@KT_So_It_Goes) July 18, 2017

CNN.com currently has Trump's name misspelled as Turmp on the homepage.

in a similar vein

White House announces Trump intends to nominate Jon Huntsman as ambassador to Russia — and spells his name wrong pic.twitter.com/Yw6Ibn7FeQ

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 18, 2017

Huntsman seems like he has too much sense to get within a thousand miles of that thankless nightmare.

he probably didn't know he was being nominated

because why not?

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/07/18/House-GOP-aims-to-shut-down-federal-election-agency/9741500381143/

The cornered rats begin with the biting.

Huntsman actually backed Trump pretty heartily iirc. it was... weird.

Trump trying to save the Obamacare repeal because he's the ultimate closer LOL jk jk he has no idea what he's doing. https://t.co/Em4MD0qqeL

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) July 18, 2017

Huntsman probably sensed the winds of change and likes to suck up to power and as always there are no good republicans

Evan whatshisname is the token anti Trump Mormon.

Evan McMullin? He earns cred for being former CIA for some reason

ok looking at his wikipedia it he came out FOR Trump in April 2016 lol. maybe it had something to do with the Huntsman fam's long standing hatred of the Romney clan? he then retracted his support after Access Hollywood tape. which, lol again.

all it does is reaffirm my impression that Jon Huntsman is a fucking goofball.

re: this - https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/07/18/House-GOP-aims-to-shut-down-federal-election-agency/9741500381143

The EAC was created by a pretty dumb piece of band-aid legislation (HAVA 2002) and has basically no power whatsoever. The commissioners are all nice well-meaning people but the agency as a whole has been ineffectual and plagued with partisanship. This does not excuse the House GOP for being stupid and hateful as usual, or excuse their puppeteers in the NASS.org membership from using this opportunity to eliminate what they see as a nuisance (nb: the majority of state election officials cannot do their job, at all, whether it's their fault or not is not the point because it's usually because there's no money in elections - so they all basically hate the EAC because it doesn't bring any money, it just creates noise for them - anyway, that's my take)

So a silver lining of this is maybe if and when a party that actually wants to govern gets back in power, we can get something less useless than HAVA passed and make for an EAC that can administer block grants for actually good voting systems, not readily hacked insecure touchscreens, and establish mandatory, not voluntary, standards for elections, e.g. if you take this money you have to spend it on vegetables, not candy.

scroll through here and you can probably smell why the EAC is on the House hit list

http://www.nass.org/index.php/nass-initiatives/nass-cybersecurity-elections-critical-infrastructure/

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/18/trump_had_a_second_undisclosed_hour_long_meeting_with_putin_at_g_20.html

Trump planning his defection?

you spelled defecation wrong

clare.malone: I think the people whose seats were in danger are more OK after this bill dies, right?

natesilver: That’s my thinking, Clare. The bill was SOOOOOOOOOOOO unpopular that I think that unpopularity outweighs all other considerations. Cruz could be a weird exception, though. I don’t think he came out of this looking good. And I think he has both more primary problems and more general election problems than people acknowledge.

oh please oh please

hehe

Chris Christie caught a foul ball at Citi Field, then got heavily booed and dunked on by a dopey play-by-play guy pic.twitter.com/n2GpN0EEQd

— Chase Woodruff (@dcwoodruff) July 19, 2017

Ah, Thune.

"I thought we were there. I can't explain it," Thune says of the ACA repeal debacle https://t.co/YMJKwG47QC

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) July 19, 2017

Also in that story:

McConnell announced Tuesday night that the vote to begin the Obamacare debate — which will fail — will occur next week, at Trump’s request. Trump is set to met with Senate Republicans on Wednesday.

How much kabuki do you need?

He caught the ball. When does the rest of that description happen? Shitty click bait tweets

how about we delay voting on rescinding health for tens of millions of americans till two-scoops releases his income tax returns?

did you have it on mute? xp

October 15, 2017

President Trump defiantly declared he would "let America fail" today in response to Congress's failure to pass a last-ditch bill which would raise the debt ceiling. The United States' debt will exceed the ceiling at midnight tonight, leaving the US with no alternative but to default on its debts.

The last-ditch bill to raise the debt ceiling was widely unpopular, particularly its provisions outlawing Planned Parenthood, which the American Law Association, in an unusual step, denounced as "clearly unconstitutional", and the last-minute provision inserted by Ted Cruz (R-TX) which would have repealed all taxes on the nation's wealthiest 1%.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed the Democrats for the failure to pass a debt ceiling package. The minority Democrats proposed an alternative bill, which would have raised the debt ceiling with no strings attached, but Majority Leader McConnell refused to take their bill under consideration.

America's debt default is widely expected to lead to economic ruin for the beleaguered nation and economic chaos across the globe. An opinion poll taken today, just after President Trump's statements, saw his approval rating dip slightly to 35%.

Ok listened again louder now. Yeah I take it back. Also missed the comment at the end

good call, donnie

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/342485-trump-calls-on-senate-to-end-filibuster-after-healthcare-defeat

"No votes!" lol

First it's revealed there was an undisclosed second conversation with Putin. Then they come out and say, hey, no big deal. The audacity of this administration's complete lack of credibility ... it's like they're trolling critics by doing the exact wrong things in the exact wrong ways.