By David Futrelle
I find a lot of interesting and funny stuff on Twitter every day so I thought I’d try rounding some of that up for you all on a regular, perhaps even daily basis. Today, it’s all (or mostly) about the FAILURE of the Republican’s attempts to destroy healthcare. A good day (so far, but it’s not even noon yet where I live)!
Sorry, international readers, but today’s tweet collection is pretty US-centric. But there is a tweet about New Zealand if you scroll down enough.
Sen. McConnell takes a deep breath and begins inflating his neck pouch in a show of anger at the failure of #SkinnyRepeal. pic.twitter.com/MTpV9x7iG1
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) July 28, 2017
LOL OWNED pic.twitter.com/qi2evWAdxH
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) July 28, 2017
— nick (@nick_pants) July 28, 2017
Take joy in the sadness of these bozos. pic.twitter.com/njbz8MNmIx
— TakedownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) July 28, 2017
In the end, the president's closing message – that his attorney general is terrible – couldn't put the bill over the top
— Alex Burns (@alexanderburns) July 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/890818981568937984
Can't be said enough. The people who actually killed this bill were the activists and ordinary Americans who mobilized against it. https://t.co/l0nA1jSeEm
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/feministabulous/status/890923749637328896
Literally, we were one vote away from medical catastrophe. Do. Not. Rest.
— Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff) July 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/890894713448017921
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/890933126599409666
https://twitter.com/darth/status/890952827543011328
The three Repubs to break with McConnell and kill the bill were Collins, Murkowski and McCain.
If your Senator(s) voted no, please call and thank them! If they voted yes, call and give them hell! You can get the numbers of your Senators (and more info) at 5Calls.org Moveon.org, or on the Senate website or by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
And in other news:
"Men are afraid women will laugh at them; women are afraid men will kill them." https://t.co/moOsk1tqI0
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) July 28, 2017
https://twitter.com/AlongsideWild/status/890637074927243264
https://twitter.com/braddybb/status/890633298581504000
Why you never wear GREEN on TV🤗 pic.twitter.com/IsC8TuE3Ei
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 28, 2017
@Steven Dutch
What do you suggest?
@ Sinkable John
If that means that McCain is drawing aggro away from Collins and Murkowski, then it’s a good day indeed.
@ Steven Dutch
Honestly, despite what it’s mostly been used for, I still think the filibuster is a good thing to have around. It’s a good thing to have so a minority party isn’t completely ignored, it cuts down on volatility in government (…usually), and despite also holding back civil rights legislation, it’s still been saving our asses so far this year.
Granted, if McConnell wants to get rid of it, by all means he can go ahead. Democrats should then be in no hurry to reinstate it.
dreemr,
Can Bannon be far behind?
@PeeVee what does Breitbart do then ?
Say true to Trump or start attacking him in revenge ?
OT – was luck enough to go to An Evening with Ann Leckie tonight in UK and she is just as brilliant as you’d hope she would be 🙂
Matchstick, I am almost beyond caring about the musical chairs WH or its Pravda Breitbart. They’re all reprehensible.
I can’t believe it’s only been 6 months.
ETA: damn, I can’t type wortha today.
I think the filibuster in and of itself is a fine idea, but I think it should take the form of REAL filibusters, where people actually get up and hold the floor for hours (or in tandem, days) on end. None of this “threatening a filibuster but never actually doing it counts as a filibuster so the measure it sunk” bullshit.
@ChimericMind
This. If they want to filibuster, they better be prepared to start reading off phone books on the senate floor, in my opinion.
PeeVee – I live in hope, but I don’t know if we’ll be that lucky. I have the suspicion that all of the shittiest shit is coming straight from that Bannon fuck. I puts me in mind of film clips of raw sewage spewing into a pristine river while the Orange Julius Caesar happily stands beneath it with his trap wide open.
@ ChimericMind
They got rid of that filibuster for a reason, though. This way the same effect is achieved without making the entire government branch grind to a screeching halt.
…okay, I realize the current political climate makes that argument less persuasive than normal, but really, these are unusual times. Usually, it’s in everyone’s interest to protest and block a planned expansion of a house without preventing everyone from buying groceries in the meantime.
Anyone know what book “Senator” Mike Enzi kept mentioning last night? That was an hour long majority party filibuster just before the final vote, in my opinion.
Breitbart has already been going after Drumpf, but even though Bannon’s ass is hanging out all alone, he comes with the full might and power of Bob and Rebekah Mercer behind him. Drumpf owes them at least as much as he owes Russia for his current position. IMO Bannon is (relatively) bulletproof, unless the Mooch and Prince & Princess Kushner can really get Drumpf’s attention on it.
I mean, never say never, but for the moment he seems fairly safe.
In his … room? Not his house? Not his apartment? His room?
I dunno, guise. Every day brings a fresh new round of shit.
Well, POM, does “smashing things” sound like the reaction of a mature adult who might have a good job and at least a decent apartment? (Very rhetorical question.)
Re the filibuster: every rule works well at times, badly at others. We aren’t anywhere close to a perfect system.
@Policy of Madness & @GrumpyOld SocialJusticeMangina
I notice that too, but I think it’s best to not assign something too derogatory to it (he is plenty shameworthy just as a horrible human). He may be young, or in school, like many posters here. And besides that, private housing is nearly out of reach for a lot of people, and quite a few live with their parents or roommates.
@PeeVee – I know, sheesh. I feel like I’ve aged so much the past week alone. Not to mention the past 6 months.
A “skinny repeal” would make the private non-employment health insurance market completely collapse and hurt lots of people who usually vote Republican, like many small business owners. It would be a very Tea Party-esque (or “Leninist”) way of trying to fix something by burning down the old system and making something totally new on top of its ashes.
He’s writing an article for the Daily Stormer about how people shouldn’t have health insurance. I don’t feel obligated to give a Nazi who thinks people should die the benefit of the doubt or the kindness of charity.
He sounds like a 15-year-old, not an adult who is living with parents or roommates out of financial necessity. I’ve done both, and my bedroom stopped being “my room” when I grew up and financially contributed to the household. At that point the term stops holding meaning, because the kitchen is also my room, and the living room is also my room. “My room” is what people call their bedroom when they don’t feel ownership of the rest of the house.
Nazis who wish people dead have forfeited the right to be treated kindly even if they are 15. I’m not sure you’re doing the young people and the people who live with roommates on this board any favors by cloaking a Nazi with the kindness that they have earned and the Nazi has not.
So, why are Andrew Anglin’s parents still supporting him? They say they’re conservative Republicans and oppose the Nazism on The Daily Stormer.
Breitbart initially supported Ted Cruz. They switched to Trump when they realized they could bring him in line with policies they support. Trump is an anti-immigration know-nothing and his own views on fiscal policy are all over the place. He seems easy to manipulate.
Certainly if I was going to smash up any place in anger (which I may have done at some point, including during one mental breakdown, although I’m too scared of hurting myself or breaking something to actually do much…) I’d say ‘room,’ because there are other people living in my house and they would not appreciate it…
I’m so glad this bill hasn’t passed. The Republicans are so entirely pathetic (apart from those who voted nay I guess) that even with their party in control of government, they still can’t get anything through.
We’re safe for the moment
The bolt hasn’t struck
But the storm of the past is still running amok.
@PoM
I’m a grown up, I contribute financially to my household, I call my house my house. But I also call my fuckin room my fuckin room cos it’s my fuckin room. I live with 4 other grown ups who also, to varying degrees, contribute financially to my household. No, I don’t feel any special ownership over my house, cos it’s not just mine. How you relate to such words ain’t the only way to do so. Thanks for your time…
Cry moar, Stormer-boy. Your tears are delicious.
(And yes, I do believe this one IS a boy. He may or may not be 12 years old chronologically, but he’s certainly that in his head.)
@Policy of Madness
Um, sure…but I brought it up to keep from shaming other people who live with their parents or roommates but aren’t Nazis.
Y’know, like some of people who comment here.
Incidentally, I own my own home but I still have “my room”.
I don’t feel, or have, any ownership in the house I live in. I don’t call my room my room, though. Mostly because of negative social pressure, feelings of inadequacy and shame, and trying to appear like a competent adult instead of, you know, whatever the heck one might call what I got goin on right now. But the house ain’t mine, though I contribute.
Not that I think our fascist dood there deserves the slightest bit of cover. Fire away!
Troubelle: indeed. The bill is only mostly dead; a couple puffs of the bellows and it comes right back to life.