Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

William F. Buckley had no problem with rich people smoking pot in their yachts in international waters

So glad we've moved away from generalizing endlessly about the disgruntled white working class! We're now instead exploring what lessons we can learn by nailing down the politics of:

1. White rural queers who read a lot about labor history
2. Christian fans of archery and obscure Austrian economists
3. Liberal-arts students in New England
4. Bitcoin-loving Texans
5. Pot-smoking yachtsmen

This line of thinking will surely lead us toward electoral victory

FDA TVs now required to show FOX News all the time.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_EitMVW0AU7ODZ.jpg

I am looking at Ye Mad Puffin's list and singing "These are the whites I know, I know" KITH-style to myself

based on people I know, all young people are trans queer anarchist software developers who vape weed

also, furries

These are the people in your neighborhood, the people that you meet each day

archery-based offshoot of evangelical christianity

oh man, I have a friend from college who was married to a man who wholesale bought into this and she was enthusiastic until something broke and divorced him before having a zillion kids. I think they made it to three kids before she cracked.

oh wait, you meant _actual archery_ wtf

I assumed it was a quiv3rfull movement ref

i am also sitting on the campus of a liberal arts college in new england (maybe the same one????) and idk -- if remade in the image of this particular institution (Fartmouth) the world would look....exactly like the community in which it resides

Different school/state but... 85% blue then?

Btw, my reference to New England LAC students was meant as a joke about the risks of generalizing on the basis of people in your immediate surroundings.

archery-based offshoot of evangelical christianity

lol I spent my childhood deep in the archery scene (my dad was national champ + olympic coach) and I met a fair number of doomsday cultists

ahhhhhhh my b, sund4r

Bow control is the new gun control

"You can pry this bow from my cold dead hands (and even worse, have you seen my calluses?)"

Jesus strikes me as a crossbow man.

Or one of these
http://www.pyramydair.com/s/m/Benjamin_Pioneer_Airbow/3894

Big win in the House - very exciting! But when everything comes together with the inclusion of Phase 2, we will have truly great healthcare!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2017

He's calling getting it through the Senate 'Phase 2'? Is Phase 4 when the hyperintelligent ants invade?

so does he get control of the death panels now or what?

Yes, and he will staff them with Omarosa, Gary Busey, and Trace Adkins.

I thought prescription inherently relied on a pre written script from the doctor validating your right to the drugs you needed. Otherwise it would just be commercial sale.
& further to that it indicates a further network of understanding where the sales point was prohibited from selling those medicines and devices without validation from a figure of authority like a medical proffessional. Also that that network ensured to some extent the quality of treatment and medicines allowed to be distributed.

i would be very surprised if you could go to the store and just buy eg antibiotics anywhere in europe. it would be profoundly Bad with very few exceptions

It is sometimes fun to imagine a country where all the young people are like the student body at the New England liberal arts college from which I am typing.

I demand more explicit universe-building in this vein

It is sometimes fun to imagine a country where all the young people are like the student body at the New England liberal arts college from which I am typing.

isn't this the usual thinking of the student body at a New England liberal arts college

Delighted to see my congressman head the NYT's list of most endangered Republicans.

FDA TVs now required to show FOX News all the time.

no wonder the government sucks all they do is watch tv all fucking day long.

I'm gonna have to take a break from this shit, kinda losing it

who wants a martini?!

hey maybe the Mavericks do

Cindy McCain, the wife of Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, is expected to be offered a prominent role in the Trump administration's State Department, two individuals familiar with the discussions said Thursday.

https://apnews.com/amp/10f31799021749a7bda8caf6cd0eeb50

Trump's binder full of women is just pictures of wives of GOP senators

did obama talk up universal healthcare this much the day and day after the ACA passed the House in 2009, the way comrade combover keeps extolling australia's system?

iirc obama recently said he'd have gone after universal health care if he'd known the repubs were going to be strictly obstructionist anyway (which...did they indicate otherwise at any point?)

the flaw of obama's presidency is him clinging to the notion that his opponents were acting rational

eh, I think he was hoping to snag the votes of a couple of moderates--that way the legislation could be said to have "bipartisan support" and would be harder to overturn.

Just a quick note to say oh my god oh my fucking god with the endless stream of watery horseshit from these terrible inhuman fuckers OH MY GOD these fucking fuckers agggggggggh

They're so much worse than nearly everyone I've ever personally met

the flaw of obama's presidency is him clinging to the notion that his opponents were acting rational

― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, May 5, 2017 3:54 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh, I think he was hoping to snag the votes of a couple of moderates--that way the legislation could be said to have "bipartisan support" and would be harder to overturn.

― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, May 5, 2017

these are the same answer

Carter Page, winning again:

An interesting development this afternoon: Senate Intelligence Cmte leaders calling out Carter Page: pic.twitter.com/H4rrf7keUo

— Tim Mak (@timkmak) May 5, 2017

carter page cant be a spy - he's like the worlds second dumbest man. (we know who currently holds that title)

You're saying the world's dumbest man wouldn't employed the second dumbest as a spy? "Hey, he's smarter than me!"

I guess it literally happened -

Mr. Page’s relationship with Mr. Trump appears to have been fleeting. According to former Trump campaign officials, the two men have never met, though Mr. Page has said he attended some meetings where Mr. Trump was present.

But last spring, when Republican foreign policy experts were distancing themselves from Mr. Trump, Mr. Page served a purpose for the flailing Trump campaign. Dismissing the notion that his campaign was bereft of foreign policy expertise, the candidate read aloud a list of five people who had offered to advise him on world affairs — including “Carter Page, Ph.D.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/us/politics/carter-page-russia-trump.html?_r=0

OOOH A PHD LOOK AT THE BIG BRAIN ON CARTER

these are the same answer

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 5, 2017 4:06 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk when the ACA process started in the Senate there were like 41 GOP senators, at least 3 of whom were known as moderates, plus the party had been pummeled two election cycles in a row. It only seems dumb in retrospect that Obama thought he could get a republican few votes. One of the GOP moderates switched parties in the middle ffs.

i would be very surprised if you could go to the store and just buy eg antibiotics anywhere in europe.

fwiw it's like that in huge swaths of the rest of the world. i bought some from basically the equivalent of a popsicle stand in india, they had long strips of tablets in foil/blister packaging, you'd say about how much you wanted and they'd scissor off the requested dosage. i recognize the enormous potential downsides of this system, of course.

eh idk McConnell had made it p clear from the get-go that there was gonna be zero cooperation, "we going to make him a one-term president" etc.

xp

aw that's too bad. feel horrible really

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/mark-green-army-nominee-opposition

I don't think he was trying to win over McConnell

The bet was that McConnell had about as much control of his members as Boehner (or Ryan) had of his

fwiw it's like that in huge swaths of the rest of the world. i bought some from basically the equivalent of a popsicle stand in india, they had long strips of tablets in foil/blister packaging, you'd say about how much you wanted and they'd scissor off the requested dosage. i recognize the enormous potential downsides of this system, of course.

I doubt that this is actually legal, strictly speaking, but, yeah, a lot of not-strictly-legal things go on.

i would be very surprised if you could go to the store and just buy eg antibiotics anywhere in europe.

fwiw it's like that in huge swaths of the rest of the world. i bought some from basically the equivalent of a popsicle stand in india, they had long strips of tablets in foil/blister packaging, you'd say about how much you wanted and they'd scissor off the requested dosage. i recognize the enormous potential downsides of this system, of course.

― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, May 5, 2017 3:43 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was like this in thailand and china too... i think you could even buy opioid stuff