John McCain says no: Today in Tweets

Is it me — or are the deniers of climate change a lot less vocal these days? Snort.

My heart goes out to all those affected by these disasters, human and nonhuman alike. May you recover quickly and completely. ♥♥♥♥♥

John McCain announces that he’s now a “no” vote on the Graham-Cassidy anti-healthcare bill

I’m not trusting his word until the vote is cast.

Totally understand. Hope you feel better soon.

I don’t get the love that John McCain gets, it’s like his maverick routine actually has people fooled

I’m guessing that McCain carefully calculated just how much his ego would get stroked for voting “no” and determined that it wouldn’t be enough unless he feinted at voting “yes” first.

I don’t get the love that John McCain gets, it’s like his maverick routine actually has people fooled

I think people really, really want to believe that there are Republicans with morals. If they admit that there aren’t, it’s admitting that the system is broken. Well, not so much broken as working as intended. To keep entrenched power in power and not to have a functioning democracy. It’s a tough thing to admit. Especially if you have enough privilege to have kept yourself somewhat insulated from the shittiness of the system. Belief that McCain is a maverick, Jon Huntsman is a reasonable moderate, Ron Paul or Trump is anti-establishment etc. is like, their last desperate hope.

It is annoying though. Not excusing this willful delusion at all as it causes real harm to people.

Oops. I think R** P**l still goes into the moderation filter. Reposting.

I don’t get the love that John McCain gets, it’s like his maverick routine actually has people fooled

I think people really, really want to believe that there are Republicans with morals. If they admit that there aren’t, it’s admitting that the system is broken. Well, not so much broken as working as intended. To keep entrenched power in power and not to have a functioning democracy. It’s a tough thing to admit. Especially if you have enough privilege to have kept yourself somewhat insulated from the shittiness of the system. Belief that McCain is a maverick, Jon Huntsman is a reasonable moderate, R**n P**l or Trump is anti-establishment etc. is like, their last desperate hope.

It is annoying though. Not excusing this willful delusion at all as it causes real harm to people.

Ok, technically none of those were kitties.

Cheated! I demand a refund!

Or saying in front of reporters that she looked like a “trollop.”

Or calling her a c–t.

But let’s be real here: McCain is taking the fall (for some definitions of “fall”) for an undefined-but-nonzero number of other R Senators who think these repeal bills stink but don’t want to actually vote against them for political reasons. McCain gets to look principled and noble, while the two R women who also torpedoed the last effort are ignored and talked over, and the bills get defeated with most Rs coming out with the yes votes they need to have to save their own jobs.

It’s kabuki. What you see is not what you get.

I hope you’ll be better soon, David.

As for McCain:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1h55usS721r0qwrdo4_500.jpg

Best wishes David.

Also lol Breitbart denied entry into Trump rally.

The schadenfreude is absolutely, devilishly, sweet. Breitbart’s in a meltdown, multiple nazi leaders of the Charlottesville incident facing jail time/getting sued and Gab was taken off the Itunes Appstore. It’s gratifying to see this all come down.

On an unrelated note I finished my first session with an LGBT therapist a few hours ago. It felt nice to be able to divulge my trans issues face to face.

I’m glad to hear that Oogly!

The only thing I have to say is that McCain’s a fucking ghoul, I am disgusted with him, and I hate that my mom loves him.

Today I ate out on my own, and detected and averted a meltdown by getting the hell out of the place and all the “Do you want anything else, sir?” people. Ughh. Rocky Horror tonight, and I forgot my fake boobs. Everyone is going to “forget” who I am.