Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask yourself whether or not your gender identity aligns with the gender you were assigned at birth, and then we'll figure out what you're allowed to do for your country'

i mean, i could easily photoshop the shit out of it.

(xpost to the image)

http://i.imgur.com/tzyvEgA.jpg

the vote on the "repeal only" amendment is coming up around 3:30 pm EST, if the c-span 2 live stream summary description is to be believed

That will fail

Interesting bit in that Politico article that Mattis had signed on to continue the Obama-era policy

Hmm...and DOJ is saying this, are they?

NEW: DOJ says former Manafort associate, Dmytro Firtash, is an "upper-echelon" associate of Russian Organized Crime https://t.co/mpPd21CpW9 pic.twitter.com/3lHfOPXeAj

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) July 26, 2017

Apparently Sarah Sanders's press conference today was...something.

Trump is now reminding children in the Rose Garden about his "amazing" victory on Nov 8

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) July 26, 2017

rand paul just said that the federal government "can't deliver your mail"

I don't even know how to parse that.

Wouldn't it be something if Sessions had definitive dirt on the prez and just decided to bury him now (and then after he was done burying Trump he, y'know, dropped dead of a stroke or something)? I legit fail to understand why anyone would ever get in bed with the duplicitous fucker without having something to hold over him.

if the skinny repeal passes and then gets altered in conference with the House, the final product would still have to be voted on again by the full Senate, right?

xpost he said it as part of his powerful argument about how the federal government can't do anything at all (including deliver your mail for the past 225 years), so they shouldn't be trusted with running the healthcare system

Then people die!

Xpost

not sure if it was mentioned but re McCain objecting to Yam ban on transgender military

.@SenJohnMcCain controls the must pass defense bill and could add an amendment to shut down Trump on transgender in 2 seconds. He won't.

— Edward Grass (@egrassva) July 26, 2017

if the skinny repeal passes and then gets altered in conference with the House, the final product would still have to be voted on again by the full Senate, right?

both House and Senate have to vote on whatever the conference settles on

McConnell's goal right now is to pass something - anything - that will get a bill into conference and keep the dream of murdering as many poor people as possible alive

This is the stupidest thing ever...

*immediately followed by something even stupider*

which thing?

there are multiple contenders atm

"this thing of ours" (america)

if you compiled a list of stupidest political things ever, at least 18 of the top 20 would have to be from the last year or so.

And probably like twelve of those from the past couple of weeks.

it's the j-curve / hockey stick of stupidity

McConnell is just trying to tire everyone out, isn't he? But this whole thing of somehow getting deeply unpopular politics through without anyone having to vote for deeply unpopular politics. The House sends a bad bill to the Senate, and the Senate will fix it. Then Senate sends nothing back, and Committee will fix it. Then Committee...

Sorry, it's not stupid, it must be really really scary.

kinda reminds me of the sequester.. 'lets agree to something so odious that will never actually take place...' and then all of a sudden, woops its law!

that used to be a contender for a top 20 stupid political moment, now it barely cracks the top 200

Yeah, but it's a sequester amongst one party.

Like, it's mutually assured destruction with people who should be on the same side. As if France and Italy began a really complicated system of nuclear escalation with lots of moving parts and complicated systems. Just in case. Instead of... not.

the skinny repeal ideas are also so stupid by themselves - removing the mandates just depletes the pools of insured and removes a funding source. It doesn't remove Obamacare, it just makes it work even more poorly. Which the GOP will be blamed for (one hopes).

And then the Dems can get back into office and pass single payer.

and then the GOP can spend 15 years trying to get that repealed, rinse and repeat

...

.@SHSanders45 reads letter 9-year-old Dylan wrote to @POTUS: "You're my favorite president. I like you so much." https://t.co/zKzuYrWJdj pic.twitter.com/2GeHMJygSx

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 26, 2017

Only a matter of time before Trump starts making her read spam email he's received about how amazing his Johnson is.

trump will be tweeting about lowering the voting age to 9 shortly

Which the GOP will be blamed for (one hopes).

lol come on, the GOP doesn't get blamed for shit

Next E.O.: Lower voting age to 8.

Damn, XP

uh

Keeping with his campaign promise to donate his presidential salary to various organizations, President Donald Trump will donate this quarter’s $100,000 salary to the Department of Education, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday.

President Trump's full budget proposal for fiscal year 2018...calls for a $9.2 billion, or 13.5 percent, spending cut to education. The cuts would be spread across K-12 and aid to higher education, according to documents released by the White House.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-donates-quarterly-salary-department-education
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/05/22/529534031/president-trumps-budget-proposal-calls-for-deep-cuts-to-education

I WILL DO BEST TO TRUTHFULLY ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS

trump will be tweeting about lowering the voting age to 9 shortly

I think he'd get creamed in the 10-to-17 demo

a year from now 9-yo Dylan will be moaning "Christ, what was i thinking"

Repeal-only bill dues. Seven Republicans vote no.

xpost to self

actually, that does make sense if you look at it from the perspective of people who vote for him. if they hate the dept of education, he gets to say that his budget is going to ruthlessly cut ed. if they actually care about education and know enough to look into his budget, he can interrupt them and say "fake news. and i donated my salary last quarter to the department of education. no one supports the department of education than i am. no one."

Er, dies.

McCain and Alexander (!) among no votes.

If I had kids and they were receiving a public education, I would immediately pull them out before the new mandated texts about the greatness of Trump arrived.

XPS Same thing happened last time w/donation to Parks Dept.(?)

Heller, Capito joined them.

Hey Rand! I just went out to the mailbox. There was a New Yorker, two bills, a Chinese-takeout flyer, and a fundraising pitch from UNHCR.

How do you think those things got there? ELVES?

Fuck you, Rand.

Trump hand-delivered your mail