Skinny Repeal and Steve Bannon’s D*ck: A politics open thread

@PeeVee the (Perpetually Ignored, Invisible but Noice) Sarcastic
And speaking of toxic miasma the Senate is currently in the middle of a 2 hour debate on the Skinny Bill. Now only 16 million Americans would lose coverage, increased premiums and Planned Parenthood would be defunded, isn’t that just grand / dripping caustic sarcasm

@SamBarge
Like others have said the racist base that has decided that they’re okay with losing their lives and loved ones due to lack of health care, as long as the non white people suffer they’re a okay with this.

SamBarge: it’s clear to me that roughly 35% of the US population are white supremacists.

@ Alan

My face is red. He was born in Japan. He spent much of his childhood in Hawaii, and does write principally in English, but was not born in the States.

@Numerobis
At least.

@PeeVee the (Perpetually Ignored, Invisible but Noice) Sarcastic
How Christian of them

It’ll be fun to see Scara get bullied hard like so many other Cabinet members.

Oh this is just rich

Key senators seeks assurances House won’t pass healthcare ‘skinny bill’

http://www.dailynews.com/government-and-politics/20170727/key-senators-seeks-assurances-house-wont-pass-healthcare-skinny-bill

From left, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speak to reporters at the Capitol as the Republican-controlled Senate unable to fulfill their political promise to repeal and replace “Obamacare” because of opposition and wavering within the GOP ranks,, on Capitol Hill in Washington,

Yes because these people have clearly shown their love and loyalty to the country, by consistently voting in favor of the GOP’s wishes.

If it’s ok to digress a little; I got a job! It’s not precisely what I was looking for to start with, I’m helping to build lasers instead of writing software, but all my coworkers are nice and it’s interesting.

@Helix_luco
The real question is, what do you need all those lasers for?

(Grats on the job, BTW!)

That letter tho. This is, presumably, a 3rd grader? I mean, could be. But, if this is indeed a forgery… We are ruled by incompetents

@Sam

Who are these people that still support him?

White males mostly (50.2% approval in the same poll, higher if you extract out the queers, heathens, and queer heathens)

@Helix

I’m helping to build lasers

http://orig14.deviantart.net/80d4/f/2013/139/1/5/anigif_by_eduardofernandes21-d65vvaj.gif

@Alan Robertshaw,

I don’t know if you’ve ever encounter Usagi Yojimbo before, but if you haven’t, I highly recommend you pick it up. It’s set in Feudal Japan, and makes great use of Japanese legends, mythology, and culture to create its story. And in the monthly comics at least, Saki footnotes any mythology and/or cultural point he thinks English language readers might not get on the first reading.

http://www.fantagraphics.com/images/thumbnails/400/606/product/5/usagi.png

A meeting with the Turtles:

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/115/651/0a0.jpg

Also bat ninja clans, mole ninja clans, and zombies.

Also many of the names are puns, or other forms of wordplay. Usagi is the Japanese word for rabbit, for example, plus there’s an homage to Lone Wolf and Cub in the series that use the Japanese words for Old Goat and Kid. Lots of stuff like that in there.

Fun series; I recommend it highly.

(All I need to do now is find a comic book store near me that sells it again. My old one went out of business when one of the owners died and the other lost the heart to run it anymore. 🙁 )

ETA: @ Micheal Brew and Ray of rays;

Now that I’ve looked those words up – HAH! 😀

Cornyn retweets The Hill: Graham says he’ll vote for “skinny” ObamaCare repeal bill hours after threatening not to.
Cornyn tweets the Courthouse Rock “I’m Just a Bill” cartoon song to remind us how Congress works.

You can bet I’ll be voting against Cornyn and Cruz as soon as possible. Bastards. If you don’t want something to become law, you vote against it.

Text “resist” to 50409, and you too can fax your Congressional people (well, I use the term “people” somewhat loosely)

Scaramucci tweets about a public document being leaked, notifies the FBI and Justice Department, then deletes it when he realizes what “public document” means. Time to first request for FBI help while in office: approximately negative 20 days. (He’s not officially employed as Comm. Dir. yet) Who were the “crybabies” again?

Scaramucci calls a reporter and talks to them without requesting “off the record”, and is then annoyed at being quoted saying something ridiculously childish.

Scaramucci is henceforth the WH Mis-director of Communications.

Oh fuck

Dianne Feinstein just hugged John McCain

Dianne Feinstein just hugged John McCain

Dianne Feinstein just hugged John McCain

My dearest rep that I hold in high regard, don’t you dare be giving me hope just to crush it in my face.

Yeah, I am probably going to need high-blood pressure medication again after this little thing if the bill dies that is. Funny I thought my blood pressure problems that would affect my kidneys was mostly gone.

Skinny repeal fails.
3 Republicans voting against it:
McCain
Collins
Murkowski

No senator changes vote!
Amendment Fails
HR 1628 back to the calendar
McConnell is disappointed, blah blah blah.