Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

Oh dear soul

.@shsanders45 on WH infighting: "We should be focused on who has a job in the rest of the country not who has a job in this building"

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) July 27, 2017

President Trump: We are forever in your debt. Thank you. God bless you, God bless our truly amazing law enforcement, and God bless America.

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 27, 2017

Lol talk about sucking your own cock

"We should be focused on who has a job in the rest of the country not who has a job in this building"

she say this on camera? someone put that in a commercial.

xp Trying to solidify their loyalty for his "I have the army!" day, when he rolls tanks on recalcitrant Repubs and forces them to vote yes on Trumpcare

.@SpeakerRyan Statement on Senate Health Care Legislation pic.twitter.com/vItpkvur3V

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 27, 2017

she say this on camera? someone put that in a commercial.

She did indeed

.@SarahHuckabee: "We should be focused on who has a job in the rest of the country, not who has a job in the building behind me." #TheStory pic.twitter.com/yJfaxXjTPx

— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 27, 2017

I love how Ryan's all "Not our problem!"

Easy for him to say

A lone voice for Reince: @PhilipRucker and I just ran into Newt outside MSNBC, who says he advises him to stick it out, tune out the noise.

— Annie Karni (@anniekarni) July 27, 2017

Newt knows a lot about noise.

Ya think?

US intel officials tell me they’re worried the chaos at WH leaves US in weak position to deal with any potential major int crisis

— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) July 27, 2017

(This has obviously been El Tomboto's point for months now.)

Great so this is gonna pass and drag on even longer

Xp

whats ironical to me is all the white house leaks are a byproduct of trumps awful lord of the flies management style. if you have harmony at home you're gonna have fewer leaks..

White House disarray poses something of a catch-22. As much as I enjoy these idiots infighting, each firing invites the chance they'll be replaced by someone competent. Which is a scary thought, except that the person doing the firing would be incompetent, too, indicating the replacement would likely be just as incompetent as the person they're replacing. Most likely we'll end up wth a fun mix of chaos agents and useless blobs, with the chief executive already the pinnacle of that special combo.

Every contestant eliminated on this season of the Apprentice makes it more difficult to apply the 25th Amendment when needed, in case something really goes awry (Trump orders a nuclear first strike, Mattis refuses, etc).

this is going to end in a way nobody expects, something stupid like DJT slipping in the shower and hitting his head and going into a coma or mutant insects coming from the soil to enslave us

LOL the wiki entry for 25th amendment includes this corker:
Upon becoming the White House Chief of Staff in 1987, Howard Baker was advised by his predecessor's staff to be prepared for a possible invocation of the Twenty-fifth Amendment[35] due to Reagan's perceived laziness and ineptitude.[36][37]

Those guys must look back now and laugh.

Best possible outcome for the country is a collapse on a golf course, followed by years in a coma.

they'd probably refuse to transfer powers and still leave him the President

Frankly, I'm none too fond of the Cold War expansion of presidential powers. A president incapable of signing legislation or offering direction, but also incapable of offending our allies and starting unnecessary wars, would be better than our collective dive into chaos. The U.S. survived Oct 1919-Jan 1921 (after Woodrow Wilson's stroke) just fine without a chief executive. It could do so again.

Is this how it's going to end?

BREAKING: Two GOP senators say House assurance on health bill insufficient, dealing blow to McConnell effort to pass legislation.

— The Associated Press (@AP) July 28, 2017

it won't

This fucking zombie bill

These recent Scaramucci comments are really something

I like this Scaramucci guy's style. If we're going to go down in flames, we might as well have some on board entertainment.

Breitbart going to war over the Mooch pic.twitter.com/WEcjVM1E8Q

— Jon Passantino (@passantino) July 28, 2017

Funny how it works.

I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won't happen again.

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 28, 2017

What???

SOMEBODY forgot how to log in so I'm posting this insight from her instead:

The reason Ivanka and Kush got the Mooch to come in is because they're sick and tired of having to constantly give Daddy the affirmation he needs. They know that Mooch will give him that so they can take a break from checking in and making sure everything is okay - Mooch will fuck with all the other hangers-on, Mooch will #MAGA all over everything, and they can finally stop living with their dad all the time and go about their lives.

Aw.

GOP Sen. David Perdue says he was "comforted" by Paul Ryan's statement and he will now vote "yes" on skinny bill, @mj_lee reports.

— Teddy Davis (@TeddyDavisCNN) July 28, 2017

That makes no sense. He is not dumb enough to think the New Yorker reporter is his best friend and confidant.

I hate when they jerk us around like this.

well it's easy, shift the narrative to "OMG the media is the enemy" and let the base connect the dots - they "took him out of context", they "painted him in an unfair light", "they faked the interview"

Yeah and then Lizza just shrugs and uploads the tape.

Anyway

Ron Johnson says he appreciates Ryan's statement on skinny but adds: "The Speaker only has so much power in what he can actually assure."

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 28, 2017

Sen. Wicker: if we pass bill tonight..

Reporter: what's in the bill?

W: (Long pause) You want me to start at section 1?

Reporters: "YES!"

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) July 28, 2017

lol

I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won't happen again.

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) July 28, 2017

Worth a read re Trump/influencing Congress

Thread: I want to talk about this, because it actually demonstrates the incompetence of the Trump administration. /1 https://t.co/ArzRbWPUCa

— (((tedfrank))) (@tedfrank) July 28, 2017

Just noticed Cornyn has somebody answering selected questions for him on the thread for his FB post about healthcare.

Re: Single-Payer

The Senate voted on a Medicare for all amendment today. No Senators voted in favor of it. Here's the roll call vote if you'd like to take a look: https://www.senate.gov/.../roll.../roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm...

Also, has this been brought up?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/spending-bill-vote-border-wall-money/index.html

Despite Trump's pledge to make Mexico pay for the wall, the bill earmarks taxpayer money to construct a carrier along the southwest border. To avoid having those Republicans who oppose the measure vote on it directly House Republican leaders tucked it into a procedural measure that set the debate plan for the so-called "minibus" funding bill for several federal agencies.

related:

The executive director of the National Butterfly Center is seeking answers after she found work crews on her property clearing trees and brush that she said is endangering protected wildlife in the area. The Army Corp of Engineers has admitted responsibility only setting surveyor stakes on the property.

Marianna Treviño-Wright said she discovered the crew Thursday morning while doing a routine check of the 70 acres of private property owned by the National Butterfly Center located south of the Rio Grande River levee.

The crew of five people, Treviño-Wright said, had chainsaws, two mechanized brush cutters and other pieces of machinery. She confronted the crew from the Alaska-based Tikigaq Construction LLC firm who told her they were on orders from U.S. Customs and Border Protection clearing land for the border wall.
http://www.progresstimes.net/news/local-news/9668-nbc-director-stops-army-corps-of-engineer-crews-from-clearing-its-property.html

I have to say, Huckleberry is really bringing the lolz on this

Privately some Republicans predicted Ryan would have to act to sooth the senators’ concerns. Asked what such a guarantee would look like from Ryan, Graham compared it to pornography.

“You know it when you see it,” Graham said. 

Also - that border wall funding in the House appropriations bill will never make it through the Senate, where it will require 60 votes.

Xxp

Also CBP is a nightmare org

So the bill's been released and they're going to vote on it in...four hours?

Right-wingers I have seen in the wild are bringing out three layers of response to the Scaramucci-New Yorker thing:

1. Didn't happen (what, you believe someone from the MEDIA?).

2. This is scripted, like wrestling, and Bannon's in on it. (Seriously posited by several people.)

3. Eh, let it play out, a brawling, indiscriminate wrecking ball is what is sorely needed in Washington.

the hell does even mean? Conference committees reconcile legislation; they don't write it.

Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), one of the ringleaders of the short-lived revolt, said around 9:30 p.m. ET that after speaking to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) by phone he was convinced the House would agree to go to conference with the Senate to hammer out a bill.

“He said he doesn’t believe the skinny bill is good policy or good politics,” a weary Graham relayed to a large gaggle of reporters. “He doesn’t want to be the party that repeals part of Obamacare and leaves most of it in place. Paul sees the skinny bill as a vehicle to find a better solution.”

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Uh this is not a skinny repeal bill. The changes to the waivers here are huge.

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) July 28, 2017

i fucking hate this ben saassee guy. your not funny or clever or the "adult". fuck you.

you're