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xposts Uh, he swooped in and snagged a much-coveted speakership when no one was looking, oh wait

xp lol!

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Giving Trump hollow victory after hollow victory isn't working well for America, constitutional government, etc. He needs to be defeated. Yes, if Mueller is fired, this gets closer and closer to the new normal and it doesn't bring about the revolution, or any return to constitutional government. We just devolve into a shitpile dictatorship while Republicans snicker.

Colbert otm, the Mooch is totally Scrappy Doo to Trump's Scooby:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Scrappy-doo.png

Everyone else is pretty much a mix of everyone but Velma.

For what it's worth, the "hot take" the Intercept mocks from the Daily Beast is totally correct, and the bill as written is little different from existing law which has made it illegal for businesses to cooperate with Arab League boycott of Israel for 40 years. There are definitely reasons for the ACLU to take issue that that old law, but it has already survived a 1st amendment court challenge, for what it's worth. Yes, as the Intercept says

the text of the bill bans actions “which have the effect of furthering or supporting restrictive trade practices or boycotts fostered or imposed by any international governmental organization against Israel or requests to impose restrictive trade practices or boycotts by any international governmental organization against Israel.”

But it doesn't ban all actions with that effect, it bans six specific actions listed below that paragraph, which most definitely do not include "being an advocate for BDS." It's annoying to me that the Intercept would try to make it sound like it bans any action which might have the effect of "furthering" a boycott, though I think this is probably because they're not reading carefully, not because they're intentionally trying to mislead.

I mean, I don't think this is a good law, and I don't really think the old law was a good law, but don't make it say something it doesn't say.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/senate-democrats-drop-nomination-blockage-after-health-care-bill-240939

Now the idea is to pass a meaningless shell to get it to conference, at which point the so-called moderates will have no input at all

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 25, 2017

Mitch's next promise on this will be to put 1 representative of the so-called moderates on the conference cmte. So they can get outvoted.

— David Dayen (@ddayen) July 25, 2017

politico story above mentions confirming wray as fbi director if the healthcare bill dies this summer.. I dunno man. the same kinds of people were riding rosenstein's dick before he came on and aside from appointing mueller has been pretty much a bootlicker.

are we down to the nut-cutting yet

aside from appointing mueller has been pretty much a bootlicker

well, you know how people from baltimore are

also, that's a fairly large "aside"

Whoops!

Ivanka Trump retains criminal defense lawyer for Russia probe https://t.co/Ah30Se0EQB pic.twitter.com/O5WwUlPqHw

— The Hill (@thehill) July 25, 2017

Trump should marry her so she can't be compelled to testify against him.

Oh no, not Ivanka! Wither innocence.

I'm pretty much at the point where I can't give the mental energy to upholding the status quo or whatever anymore.. let trump destroy healthcare, let trump fire sessions and mueller. let trump be trump and watch the world burn. the sooner it happens the sooner we can start picking up this fucking mess.

and this is an awful thing to say and probably isnt necessarily true. =(

You've entered accelerationist mode, now you have to start reading Zizek.

Dean Heller is yes on mtp

Ralston's having fun with that one.

another mouthpiece forced out

President Donald Trump’s newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, said Tuesday that he is prepared to “fire everybody” in the White House communications shop in order to put an end to embarrassing internal leaks....

Scaramucci confirmed to POLITICO early Tuesday that he planned to start by dismissing assistant press secretary Michael Short at a morning meeting, but that move was apparently delayed. Short, who initially said Tuesday that he hadn’t yet been informed of any decision, resigned Tuesday afternoon.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/anthony-scaramucci-changes-white-house-communications-office-240928

Yeah, either posted here or elsewhere Mooch complained that the press was reporting on something he told the press.

Question: can Scaramucci fire the president?

MTP is gonna pass, thx to McCain. What monstrosity makes it through the amendment process, who knows

portman is for it as well

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170725/portman-will-vote-to-proceed-on-senate-health-care-vote

mccain's an asshole but so are the other 49+ senators who will vote for this thing

basically this floor vote = sausage-making in public, with McConnell hoping that the public shaming involved will keep the caucus together (except for Collins)

Again with Collins ... why is she even a Republican? Where does the Venn diagram intersect?

tax cuts

i think if you just change political parties or switch to independent, you lose a lot of the people who just vote for anyone with a R by the name, and don't pick up enough D voters who would be (rightfully) suspicious of someone who identified as a republican for so long

all this to cut taxes on the top. remember guys, the most pressing national issue is that the gap between rich and poor is too narrow. freedom is stifled, for reasons

welp, here we go, McConnell addressing the Senate = he has the votes for MTP now.

yeah this isnt even a healthcare bill its a tax cut/medicare defunding project

witness the spineless: https://www.c-span.org/networks/?channel=c-span-2

a big story of 2017 has been that the GOP is totally unafraid of Dems, voters, their own constituents, the law

& they're right, apparently

— Mark (@haircut_hippie) July 25, 2017

collins and murkowski the only R Nays

Nobody is afraid of anybody, except the voters, who are afraid of everything.

the party of jesus, ladies and gentleman. 3000+ american die on 9/11, let's invade iraq. 20,000,000+ lose their healthcare, medical bankruptcies spike, untold legions of the poor and the sick die, the rich, the camel, heaven, the eye of the needle? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Horrible.

so far, at least

so, Pence for the tie-breaker?

does murkowski have a soul? guess we will find out

five republicans haven't voted yet:

mccain
johnson
flake
inhofe
sullivan

those guys are all yes votes c'mon

what is happening during this lull in the voting? is mcconnell going to each of the five and reiterating his promises to give them shit or whatever?

@jbouie
I confess I am skeptical that Republicans will suffer electorally for this. It's not just voter suppression either.

@jbouie
It's the number of Americans who will accept immiseration as long as they can stick it to the people they hate.

this sounds about right

delicious liberal tears

also, the midterms are more than a year away, several political eras in the future. remember how voters all remembered the blatantly stolen supreme court seat and took vengeance on the republicans 10 months later?

Elsewhere

Ann Coulter emails WashPost w/ msg for Pres. Trump: "Be a man – if you don’t want Sessions, then fire him. You’re the PRESIDENT."

— Robert Costa (@costareports) July 25, 2017

America is a massive beast. It'll take a while for news of its demise to reach all corners.

is McCain in the chamber yet?

it's only johnson and mccain who remain.

NYT had johnson down as someone with "concerns" about the bill, but eh.

guess they're saving the honorary Vote to Kill position for mccain