By David Futrelle
Yesterday, Donald Trump declared war, via Twitter, on trans people in the armed services, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders devoted several minutes of the daily White House Press briefing to a possibly fake letter from a possibly imaginary 9-year-old praising our illegitimate president.
Today, the newly installed replacement White House communications director called the White House chief of staff “a fucking paranoid schizophrenic” and suggested that White House chief strategist Steve Bannon regularly attempts autofellatio, hopefully only metaphorically. Meanwhile, Senatorial eminence gris Lindsey Graham explained that he would only vote for so-called “Skinny Repeal” of Obamacare if he could be assured it would never ever become law.
And there’s more. So basically, we’re long overdue for a politics open thread. Have at it. No MRAs, trolls, Trump fans.
Here are a few Tweets to get you caught up with all some of the latest nonsense:
hiring someone with absolutely no experience to run your press shop is smart and good https://t.co/FVxptiPseD pic.twitter.com/AQYeyYiZ8p
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) July 27, 2017
What Is Going On Here pic.twitter.com/ftYA82H8e3
— america's lounge singer (@KrangTNelson) July 27, 2017
Pres. Trump's approval rating dips to 35 percent, new poll finds https://t.co/in3dlOTpLn pic.twitter.com/Ww88Hdw6EX
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 27, 2017
https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/890511874546061312
Eleven personal trips this year by Trump to Mar-A-Lago: $29 million
Medical services for transgender people in the military: $8.4 million
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) July 27, 2017
Pentagon spends 10 times more on erectile disfunction meds than transgender services: https://t.co/U0fzaNeDu3 pic.twitter.com/jho6Uugcox
— The Hill (@thehill) July 26, 2017
.@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
https://twitter.com/laura_hudson/status/890323383614808064
https://twitter.com/jimpjorps/status/890307595738771460
He cut more than $9 billion from the Dept of Ed budget. https://t.co/VZnTd0ujG3
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 26, 2017
administration has underestimated how much shit I can be mad about at the same time.
— OME (@Mike_Eagle) July 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/ItsMeowIRL/status/890523014663688192
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@JS
This flipping timeline I swear.
EDIT; Oh my wondrous Aquarius and Pisces, McConnell is crying. Oh this is beautiful, his suffering is utterly divine.
@ Ooglyboggles
I think given the context, I can forgive Feinstein.
Not that I share her sentiment (if I’m guessing right what it is), since McCain waited far too goddamn late and still voted “yes” on a debateably-worse version of the bill, but still, I’m relieved for the moment.
Their latest effort failed?
Thank whatever deity that you subscribe to that is finally dead. While I may have my problems with McCain and I am still far from calling him a hero he came through when it counted. Now hopefully we can move on to single payer for real this time. It is definitely time for Democrats to use the momentum of this to start taking this country back.
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
McConnell is sad.
I and my friends will not die due to lack of healthcare in the immediate future.
Now we need to get working on voting these shitheads out.
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HEY EX BESTIE NAZI
I just want to say, given our differing views I would like to sincerely say from the bottom of my heart these words; Ha. Ha. Ha.
Oh boo hoo McConnell how sad that you keep saying about how Obamacare is hurting people while you’re crying about not being able to kill those 16 million Americans. Here, let me comfort you with my orchestra of octopi trained with the world’s smallest violins.
This is the face of the man who pissed away tons of bribe money and made his party go onto a failed bill that is universally unpopular. I can hear the sharpening of knives already from other powerhungry GOP members.
The Trump Tweets oh the Trump Tweets how did I forget about that? They’ll be a ball to read through tomorrow. Pity to the sod who has to give the rotten tangerine the “bad news.”
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For those willing to stomache the bloviations of a LOOSAH just to see him tearing up.
I’m sorry if I’m kind of spam posting, I’ve been feeling a bit down since I got near burned on a scam job a few days ago. This was exactly what I needed to tell my depression to sit in a corner.
Funny thing is during all this one constant thought I have had is that this was going to pass. I have never been so happy to be wrong. Granted a lot of things I think in my head are wrong but I am not really the superstitious type. I will definitely be able to sleep a lot better tonight.
OMFG everyone, I’ve just found a YouTube video that you’ve got to see! Don’t ask, just watch! It’s driving the alt-right apeshit!
Senate Adjourned until Monday 4PM. Please thank your senators if they voted “no” on this nasty bit of legislation, and criticize those who voted “yes”.
To everyone here who has contacted Senators, etc., thank you!
@Micharion
It’s counted for a year now. A year of bootlicking Trump after the big doofus spent the previous year ragging on him and insulting him for being captured and tortured in the line of duty. The Maverick got outta his sick bed and dragged himself to DC in order to make this vote even possible. If he’d literally done nothing, we wouldn’t be in this mess
You wanna toss out Republican praise, might I suggest you send some the way of Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski. Still Republicans, thus still trash people. But they’ve been consistently the least trashy of them. Also, there will, in the coming days and weeks, be unbelievable amounts of pressure piled on them by their colleagues to get back in line. And, cos they’re women, I guarantee it will be more vicious than what McCain gets for the same ‘indiscretion’. Collins and Murkowski need and deserve your support infinitely more than he does
BTW, just a reminder that Mazie Hirono also dragged herself to DC from her sick bed fighting cancer to vote against this rollercoaster. She the real MVP
/rant
@abars
Awesome…
@abars01 Who says the Germans don’t have a sense of humor.
@abars
Wünderbar
@Axe
Yeah let’s not forget this slimebag was the reason we’re in this mess. It only took spite, hatred of all sides and possibly the tumor trying to get its host to develop a sense of morals to get him to say no. Without Hirono, Collins and Murkowski McCain’s one act of doing the right thing would have been nothing more than a empty effort liek his speeches. Congratulations to them, and especially Hirono for risking her health to help save the health of million of Americans, if that isn’t an example of selfless heroism in the face of death and danger I don’t know what is.
Let’s not forget that alot of them only did so out of spite from the GOP constantly bullying and threatening them, and that McCain is still a monster, a war criminal and a coward that left other POW’s to rot. But congrats to him for not wanting to kill 16 million americans.
In retrospect, it kinda looks like McCain was just straight-up trolling Trump and McConnell. He intentionally let the first vote go through and the subsequent ones go right down to the wire, all so that it would hurt more when he stuck the knife in.
On the one hand, his assholery hurt some people I dislike; on the other hand, it also caused enormous stress and worry to a lot of people whom I like very much. I can’t applaud it.
Just found out that the bill fail. Thank fuck.
Good news… for now.
The horrible thing is that they will try again.
And again.
And again.
And again. Until everyone involved will have lost their godamn mind.
They may even finally succeed.
A french show called “the Shadoks” show the adventure of a group of stupid creature who most notably abide by the law “the more it fail, the more it is likely to succeed”, and they go from disasters to disasters because of their half-assed but oddly determinated constant efforts. It’s a lot funnier when they can’t bring millions of people down with them.
abars01:
You could’ve put a NSFW warning there…
As for the bill, gosh, McConnel’s speech was so immature, especially compared to when Schumer got up to the podium.
@abars01
OMG, that video is glorious!
@Ohlmann
Yeah, that’s what I’m worried about, too. It’s just relentless.
@EJ
No. McCain is old school. He actually believes in the integrity of the chamber and such horseshit. He voted yea the first time, cos, to him, wise and honorable men debating the issues in accordance with parliamentary procedure is more important than more abstract concerns like people’s literal fucking lives. If he was actually the type for trollish vengeance he woulda done it before the election. Fuck him
@Oogly
And all without a ticker tape parade, fawning praise, and waltzes from the other side. Arrive, save lives, leave, repeat. Almost like it’s her fuckin job or summat. The hero we need, not sure Murica deserves her tho. That’s for 2018 to decide, I suppose…
Awwww. Mitch McChinless has a sad? Poor widdle baby.
I love that McConnel was speaking as if the Dems were running the Senate. Mr McConnel your party controls both chambers and the White House, you have no one to blame but yourself. Also, I am sorry you are so offended by the Dems doing for six months what you and your conference have done for the last SIX YEARS . May you be forced to spend eternity stepping on legos.
@Kestrel
Red hot, razor-edged legos.
I would bathe in the schadenfreude of Yertle the Turtle’s squirming under the failure of this monstrosity to pass, but I can’t look at his damn face without wanting to hit things. The same way my middle finger automatically jabs in the direction of any picture of Lord Dampnut.