Trump threatens to nuke N. Korea, GOP threatens to nuke healthcare. Also hurricanes: Today in Tweets

Got power back 2 days ago. Now storm is heading to my sister in PR and my family in the DF got an earthquake. Nature can you pls stop?

Also aren’t you all glad Obama isn’t embarrassing us in global diplomacy anymore? /s

Hopefully you’re feeling better David! !

Watching Trump speak at the UN is something.. else. And interesting to note how (not) funny many alt-righters were anti-Hillary based from their fears that she’d lead us into WW3 with Russia. Fast forward to only 2017 and Trump wants war with NK– No, not even a war. He wants total annihilation of an entire country. Millions dead as punishment for being born there. Then back in the US, millions will be dead as punishment for being sick, lacking healthcare.

What the fuck guys.

So between NK (25 million under threat) and the US (30 million about to lose health care), it looks like if the worst happens, NK still comes out ahead. WAY TO BE, YOU IGNORANT SHITBAG.

Repeating myself from the other thread: If you are fighting for the defeat of Graham-Cassidy, I’m one of the people you’re trying to save. You care more about me than my own senators do. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

anti-Hillary based from their fears that she’d lead us into WW3 with Russia.

Not only that, but JOHN MICHAEL GREER’S GODLIKE PERSPECTIVE was that He, Trump (tip o’the Hatlo hat to Brother Charles Pierce), was less likely to get us into a war than Hillary. If I’d been so demonstrably horribly wrong about Him, Trump, I too would delete my blogs (The Archdruid Report and The Well of Galabes) from Blogspot and reinvent myself as an “ecosopher” on Dreamwidth.

This site has become a guilty pleasure for these past few weeks. I’ve been reading the archive. David’s step by step take down of Reddit logic had me in stitches multiple times. WHAT! Plus there’s something about horror which makes the laughs funnier, or something.

But after the laughs, I feel awful later, as the implications hit me. Lordy this world. Plus villains like the Incels are heart-breakers. It’s dangerous to feel sorry for them, but hard not to.

I’m not surprised David has headaches when he sorts thru such mental toxicity. I once had a dysfunctional work place where I had a lot of headaches. I felt so much better elsewhere. I’m kind of worried for Dave honestly.

I know he’s fighting the good fight. This is the kind of history people will forget, and Dave is recording it in a memorable way, probably the best way. This “guy” type humor tone captures the depth of truth best.

I’m going to stay away from this site & the news for awhile. But I salute those at the battle front. Just saying I’m glad you’re here.

What was the resitibot text number again? I keep losing it. 🙁

Shouldn’t surprise anyone that there’s a last ditch push on taking healthcare away from people who can least afford it happening at a time when people are distracted by power and other utility outages along with hurricane damage and more worrisome weather possible…

So I’m not surprised but I am irked. Calls will be made even though I don’t live in any of the crucial states I do live in a Republican one now (moved out of the blue California in August).

For those who’ve forgotten, the bloke who wrote the bill, Bill Cassidy, made a solemn promise (hah!) that he would only support healthcare legislation that passes the “Jimmy Kimmel test”.

As it is, Kimmel says that it does pass the test – but only if your father is Jimmy Kimmel.

If Kim Jong Un is Rocket Man, obviously Stephen Miller is Honky Cat.

I can’t believe we’re having to call our senators again and beg them not to kill us. Russia and NK don’t have to fire a single shot. The US is going to do itself in.

Just need to scream from the rooftops, because this fucking healthcare bill of course became incredibly personal (not that is wasn’t before but…)

In the beginning of July my mother was diagnosed with cancer. They had been following a spot on her lungs for a few years, and she just happened to have gotten new insurance through her new job, and decided to do some preventative care.

With her deciding to do this preventative screen (which can be expensive), they discovered the spot had changed, and that it had become Stage 1 or 2 cancer.

She had surgery to remove the lung the cancer was in a few weeks later, and had to take a leave of absence from work (I think short-term disability or FMLA for 4-6 weeks). The surgery went well, but they discovered there was a chance the cancer had gotten into her blood stream, so suggested 4 rounds of chemo to be safe (it also gives her a 75% of remission).

Four weeks after her surgery, her new job called to ask if she would be coming back to work soon. She said she hoped so, but was still waiting for that okay from her doctor. And btw, she would need a few rounds of chemo . Four days later, her job called her back to let her know she was being “let go” and she would not pass her probation. They had called four days earlier to ask when she was coming back and had never had any major issues with her, and decided to fire her – thus kicking her off their insurance, effective at the end month.

One round of chemo costs, at minimum $30,000. My parents are lucky, and are able to scrap together enough money to pay the $900 a month COBRA payment to stay on the insurance until after her treatment is done.

But, please. GOP – tell me how lack of access to medical treatments don’t lead to death here in the USA. Please. My family is fucking lucky, but if they were even slightly less lucky – my mom just wouldn’t get the chemo and take a risk – or spend the rest of her life paying off the hundreds of thousands of dollars it had taken to save her life.

Tell me that what you propose is “compassionate” to my mother, who will have this “preexisting condition” the rest of her life. And will be able to be charged more. Please, I am waiting for a better reason than “capitalism” that my mother should lay down her life or die in debt for this heath issue.

The entire UN Trump speech was rage-inducing, especially the bit where he said “we do not seek to impose your way of life on anyone”. Yeah, as if imperialism, perpetual warfare and interventionism hasn’t been the official foreign policy of the US for the past two centuries; and as if christians haven’t been trying to impose their religion upon everyone, within the US territory, for the past 5 decades.

And interesting to note how (not) funny many alt-righters were anti-Hillary based from their fears that she’d lead us into WW3 with Russia.

This is what gets me about Trump supporters: how effing gullible do you have to be to believe a guy that looks and acts like that? When Trump was amping up threats and gesticulating wildly about “Jina” and “Bad hombres”, which part of that said “isolationist pacifist” to these clods? And they had the gall to throw shade at a well-respected, experienced (if not admittedly hawkish) diplomat like Hillary Clinton?

Trump’s the kind of tool that thinks if he parades his tanks around and uses apocalyptic enough language, the opposition will just shrink away in fear and respect. Like Colonel Saito in Bridge On The River Kwai, browbeating and bribery is all he knows. Apparently reality hasn’t slugged him in the face hard enough; frankly, I have no idea what would.

This is the part where a functioning media apparatus would be nice.