he is cutting funding to Coast Guard (WHICH PROTECTS OUR HOMELAND!!!!!) to better facilitate the distribution and enjoyment of cocaine by his rich friends.

Whatever gets him through a news cycle.

—Donald Trump, The Art Of The Deal


Another example of what I wrote about, just in case anyone thought I was cherry-picking: on multiple occasions (after batshit crazy statements; the "small loan" of a million dollars immediately comes to mind) it's been correctly said that this infrahuman lost his grip on reality. What did he say after Nancy Pelosi and others called for Jeff Sessions to resign?

"Democrats are losing their grip on reality!"

Joe Sixpack & Hockey Mom can't deal with this. They're like dogs being told to stand up and sit at the same time: they don't know what to do. (Sorry to put it that way, but... eh, not really — if anything, with that comparison I'm insulting dogs). So, they revert to their default mode of unquestioning stupidity, and we're living the results: they voted against their own interests, they think the fucking AYATOLLAH OF FAKE NEWS (remember this mook was doing it way back in the day, when he posed as his own PR guy) is more trustworthy than Christiane Amanpour, and more or less half the country seems to be A-OK with the immigration ban. It is GLAMOROUS. Pass the angel dust.

the real spooky shit is the new epa guy just said humans dont cause global warming

tesla's reptilian overlords are real after all ha ha ha

Indeed. If you haven't already, meet Carter Page:

Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page at center of Russia storm

Yes. ACA shit is going to hurt (read: CRIPPLE) millions and millions of people.

I've been under the impression from talking to folks in he rural Midwest that ACA is just reviled by everyone in this part of the country, regardless of party. I'm still a newb to small town life, so I thought it was believable (if terrifying) that EVERYONE in reddish states just can't stand the way their "freedoms" are challenged, the way they're being "ripped off" by ACA.

But... recent town halls with my congressional rep have shown me that the way these folks talk when they're bitching about the gub'ment and the way they actually feel are very different.

HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of people have been flooding the rep's few-and-far-between public appearances, and REALLY taking him to task for backing a president and a policy shift that would disembowel the ACA.

I mean... people are PISSED.

Doctors, mental health workers, patients, hospital administrators have all been showing up at these meetings to voice their opposition to "repeal and replace." Why? Because the entire infrastructure of medical care and administration and billing has spent the last two years rearranging itself to fit with the ACA model. It was a process that resulted in BILLIONS of dollars being spent by the US health care industry, and if this system is "repealed and replaced" ... ESPECIALLY if it's done in the "same day," as Capitol Hill Repos are suggesting, would mean all that time and money was just fucking wasted. Insurance companies have hired and trained people as ACA Specialists... hospitals have refitted their entire model... now they're going to have to do it again? To take a massive, dinosauric step backwards?

ALSO... if you live in a state that expanded Medicaid, then there are tons of people (unemployed, underemployed, laid off and job searching, or otherwise limited by income) who now have free access to most health care (no psychiatrists, for some Fucking reason, and no physical therapists, but PCPs and specialists and counselors and social workers and psychologists, yup!) where they previously had nothing. Plenty of these people voted for Trump, voted to "repeal and replace" (hahahahaha, with what though? The fuckaround they introduced like two days ago? BAAAHAHAHA), but now that things are actually moving in that direction, people are freaking the fuck out.

NOW.. why the FUCK did they vote for Trump, or their Republican reps when they all made it entirely clear that this was their goal? FUCKED IF I KNOW. But now they're upset.

Anything that turns Trump supporters against Trump policies might be a blessing.

I think a lot of people have misunderstood ACA from the very beginning. Some were probably shocked to find that their ACA marketplace plan IS "Obamacare." That's their own dumbass fault, but still... this might get reallly, really bad for a while, but if enough people wake up and speak out against this dictatorial nonsense, then maybe we'll eventually find ourselves on a road to FIXING "Obamacare," and maybe even turning it into what it was supposed to be in the first place (universal single payer health insurance), before Bart Stupak raised his little "moral" objections to the ambiguous phrasing of the original bill regarding abortion, and went on a campaign to turn Dems and Republicans alike against the original language (he and his asshole friends succeeded, of course, and he's probably the worst Democrat in history, and I want him to cry into his fluffy fucking pillow tonight.)

BLAH BLAH BLAH

ANYWAY... people from both sides of the aisle are having that "Oh shit" moment I wanted them to have in the fucking booths on Nov. 8. Better late than never. Of course a veritable fuckton of these folks are still sounding off about the ACA violating their "civil liberties," and are still bitching and whining about the cost of opting out of insurance (it's negligible. Couple bucks a month, tops), but those people have had their brains fried by InfoWars and Fox & Friends, so they're probably a lost cause.

In trying to find humour in some of this because I just don't know what the fuck else to do. The "balloon" is so full of hot air at this point that the very earth risks being carried away by a strong wind.

Have you sent Trump a pink slip yet?

https://www.facebook.com/Pink-Slip-f...5055936276070/

Did you attend the ACLU Resistance Training meeting on Saturday?

A video is still up, though it's more fun to watch with an enthusiastic group.

I'm putting on my cooks hat and apron for a pancake breakfast fundraiser for my local Dems and a bunch of associated liberal NGO's this Saturday------and, in the meantime, check this out

https://www.yahoo.com/music/italian-...210046544.html


Italian?

that festival has long jumped the shark and its cultural authenticity. \

as evidence for this assertion, for some reason Joe Biden was there the other day
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-new...cancer-n732546

EDIT. From a quick look at google, it seems there are a wide variety of people banned from entering the US. It is not limited to the US.
http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2011...ling-to-blame/

you have long jumped the twin sharks of sanity and relevance, and yet here you are with your ridiculous non-sequiturs

The CBO report is such a pointless distraction.

Why aren't we talking more about Snoop's new video?

obamacare will be trumpet's vietnam

since he dodged the original

and of course they'll lie about it and say it was somebody else's fault while they screw their own goober base

ah ha ha hahaha ha ha ah

delicious

STOP LISTENING TO ME THROUGH MY MICROWAVE OVEN

Nice distraction.

Snoop is telling eberyone to asasinate trump and your making joks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4i3bAtEuJE

Anyway.

Not sure what you mean by Vietnam. Shouldn't we all be a little wary of playing the prediction game?

But it's too much fun!

Passes house. Senate re-writes it, sends it back. Repeat. Several times. Trump's legislative agenda gets subsumed in the quagmire and he can't get anything else done.

Oh. Now I see what you mean.

This anti-CBO shit is so stupid.

Sooner or later, they'll need a CBO report which has numbers in their favor to sell some bit of legislation.

Well, we'll call them hypocrites. They won't care. Life moves on.

so-called CBO and so-called judges

so-called government

make so-called polio great again!

Finally, a lil' bit o' Trump's tax returns (at least a bit more than that single page we got during the campaign):

https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl...5a3c67a1cdef28

Yay Maddow. Hey, somebody in the media's gotta do their fucking job...

Yeah, Maddow's been hitting it hard the entire time. Her team is conducting the finest investigative journalism on television.

Of course, to the righties, she's just a lesbian with a chip on her shoulder.

But she's kicking ass and taking names, and I'm loving her for it. I actually worry a bit about retaliaion, because retaliation is kind of Trump's thing.

Meanwhile, wire tapping bullshif has been dialed back a bit. Love Kellyanne's "microwaves turning into cameras" bit. Jesus H. Christ man.

Yeah, 12 years ago he made a lot of money and paid a bunch in taxes. I'm sure they're cleaning a room in prison for him right now.

and now, the CBO story is off the radar