Trump, July 2017: Tweet more

just leaking oil

nothing sadder than being denied the opportunity to kill millions of your own citizens

Cornyn's been such a dull clod on Twitter these past few months on this, either smarmy or fake-outraged. Good to see him realize it was all for nothing.

McConnell sounded like a jilted prom queen last night. It was amazing. So glad I was awake and had my tape recorder going. Fuck it was so good

How much of this sadness is tied to failing to achieve their aims and how much of it is tied to contemplating the ramifications of their failure on their positions in the Senate?

10%/90%

both lmao

I don't buy the 'blame trump' thing for health care failing. the constant chaos out of the trump admin was one of the only reasons republicans could get this close to throwing a wrench into our health care system with a furtive late night vote on a shitty bill.

the underlying problem is that the gop has no good ideas for health care. which is why they should stop talking about it. it was a good subject for them when obama was in office, it's not a good subject when you have to own it.

The GOP's good idea is to kill the old and sick and poor

the only "good" (if v flawed) idea conservatives ever had for healthcare was *ahem* the ACA

like it's this or something much much more "socialistic". you fucking idiots. take. the. win.

B-but it's called Obamacare (even though it actually isn't). That cannot stand!

lol obama is a genius

socialist is still a stigmatised word in the U.S. then I take it?

Also yeah does seem surprising that given 7 years to come up with a solution the only thing that they can come up with is kill the imperfectly-working working system.

I don't think I 'get' the Republicans at all. Democrats seem to be a little more cognitive though they seem to be making some odd choices recently.

Bernie has done a fair job of destigmatizing 'socialist' but yeah, it still flies in the face of our ruggedly-individualistic bootstrap-centric self-mythologizing.

...the ones over 40, anyway.

all the loonies one sees on Facebook rant about it re the ACA

(SEEMS PRETTY CAPITALISTIC TO ME)

yeah it's so dumb that they would savage a Heritage Foundation-penned market based solution as "ZOMG SOCIALISM". like where in the actual fuck do you go from there?

Trump speech in Long Island sounds particularly reprehensible

yeah he pulled MS-13 out of his butt the minute health care failed i guess ?

I don't buy the 'blame trump' thing for health care failing. the constant chaos out of the trump admin was one of the only reasons republicans could get this close to throwing a wrench into our health care system with a furtive late night vote on a shitty bill.

otm. I'd say the blame is on the 49 GOP Senators who voted for a terrible bill they all hoped would never become law

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/opinion/sally-yates-protect-the-justice-department-from-president-trump.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

front page of fox news is wild right now

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, July 28, 2017 1:04 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Iran. North Korea. North Korea. Iran.

The Senator is annoyed with this lack of decorum.

@realDonaldTrump I'm always happy to go to WhiteHouse to discuss w u Tell Scaramucci not to use that filthy language around me he toldmedia

— ChuckGrassley (@ChuckGrassley) July 28, 2017

ha when i checked the top story was was "republicans fight back!!!!" with pictures of clinton, comey and lynch

What dimension of the chessboard is it where you ignore people who are in power and/or an actual threat to you in favor of people who are mostly just chillin at home with a pitcher of margs?

Re: MS13, definitely culture-war chaff being thrown up as T. feels frustrated and thwarted (ditto the military transgender tweets). IMO it's not even about health care (which he doesn't understand the first thing about).

At present, I'm cautiously optimistic about the Russia investigations. Qualifying statements:
- No, I don't think it will lead to impeachment.
- No, we won't get a do-over of the election.
- No, I'm not even sure there will be anything like charges or indictments or people in jail.

However, it clearly gets under his skin that it's a thing at all, and that it doesn't just go away when he waves his Wand of President Power. Of the sucky options humanity has right now, one of the better ones is that he gets increasingly unhinged and keeps lashing out in random directions.

That said - as ever, I know that there are real people suffering at the business end of T.'s rages, and my heart aches for them. Further, the Russians can read news sites too, and so Russia and N. Korea are picking now (when everyone's presumably distracted by legislative kabuki) to act more aggressively.

But if current events accelerate Trump's cray-cray in ways that make his kind of politics increasingly unpopular and untenable, this may lead to better long-term options. Or so I continue to cautiously hope.

xpost It's like doing donuts in the front yard of that guy who irritated you at work but who quit like two years ago.

worst-case scenario is Trump nukes South Korea, which I can see happening.

Best-case scenario is Trump decides to bro down w Kim Jong Un (they have so much in common!), averting int'l crisis. I've said this before. Unfortunately I fear he's not smart enough for this tack.

worst-case scenario is Trump nukes South Korea, which I can see happening.

i can unfortunately see this happening

I'm no foreign policy expert, but I would think nuking South Korea would give North Korea pause. Also, probably solve the North Korea problem!

A bipartisan group of roughly 40 House members has been meeting quietly over the past month to explore ways to stabilize Obamacare — efforts that are expected to take on greater urgency after the shocking collapse of the Senate’s Obamacare bill early Friday morning.

“This is our window to be relevant on a very real issue that impacts our constituents,” said one Republican lawmaker in the group who requested anonymity. The negotiations among the so-called Problem Solvers caucus will resume this morning, the lawmaker said.

Seriously? Problem Solvers?

The "Doing The Job We're Supposed To Be Doing Anyway" caucus

Problem Solvers sounds like some PBS morning show sleuths who unravel the mysteries of math for 5 year olds.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I7D3bFC3wS8/maxresdefault.jpg

https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/wcfcourier.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/15/31547874-71cf-11e1-ad20-001871e3ce6c/4f6741a131578.image.jpg

Problem Solvers sounds like some PBS morning show sleuths who unravel the mysteries of math for 5 year olds.

lol, I had deleted "maybe they were mad that 3-2-1 Contact had already taken The Bloodhound Gang"

Freedom Caucus will never sign off on some compromise/bi-partisan bill

Whomp whomp

EXCLUSIVE | "She is tired of his naked ambition, which is so enormous that it left her at her wits’ end" https://t.co/69swuqMfBH

— New York Post (@nypost) July 28, 2017

ok lol

guess who's sucking their own cock now

I would support characters from PBS kids' shows replacing most of the government at this point tbh. MathNet could take over DOJ for example, the Electric Company could run Energy, Big Bird for Education... and now that being President consists largely of tweets, I think Ghostwriter could take over from Trump pretty seamlessly.

Odd Squad could remove that weird infestation from the white house

Daniel Tiger, Director of HHS
Word Girl, Sec of Ed

ten bucks says this is the mooch having finally learned how to go off the record https://t.co/6Nerax2TCj pic.twitter.com/Wf8SibjilG

— Caitlin Kelly (@caitlin__kelly) July 28, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFk1nptfQQ8

it's red meat for uniformed goons

The president encouraged law enforcement officers to be rougher with criminal suspects — and feel free to slam suspects’ head into their vehicles.

“When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, please don’t be too nice,” Trump remarked at Suffolk County Community College.

“Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody — don’t hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?”

The crowd of officers erupted in cheers.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/cops-erupt-in-cheers-as-trump-urges-officers-to-use-more-violence-with-suspects-by-slamming-their-heads/

Good timing, Mrs. Mooch. Hooker scandal in 3, 2 ...

motherfuck the police