Bringing this over from previous thread since tomorrow is Kill The Bill Tuesday:
.@SenCapito #Trumpcare bill will STILL devastate Medicaid & hurt vulnerable in WV to give huge tax cuts to 1%. Be the 1 to #KillTheBill pic.twitter.com/qiHbTLhaZ2
The People's Filibuster to stop #Trumpcare kicks off in Upper Senate Park in DC in less than 3 hours! It'll run 2-6p https://t.co/cgNQyGrTuX pic.twitter.com/i12sW26A9X
The Fix Analysis
The prevailing view of Trump has only worsened: He’s ‘unpresidential’
By Aaron Blake July 17 at 10:40 AM
During the 2016 campaign, the biggest concern about President Trump almost always boiled down to one thing: his temperament. Even people who liked Trump had a problem with it. Polls regularly showed that more than 6 in 10 registered voters said he didn’t have the right personality and style to be an effective president. Just weeks before the election, 62 percent said he didn’t have this baseline quality, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. He won anyway.
Trump has now been president for six months, and he’s had ample opportunity during that time to prove people wrong. He’s taken foreign trips, responded to crises and delivered a well-received speech to Congress.
And yet, Americans may now see him as even less presidential than they did before. A new Post-ABC poll shows a whopping 70 percent of Americans describe Trump as acting “unpresidential.” Only 24 percent say he’s acted in a way that’s “fitting and proper for a president of the United States.”
Please stop doing this: “Nearly 3,400 Coloradans canceled their voter registrations in the wake of the Trump administration’s request for voter info, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Thursday, providing the first statewide glimpse at the extent of the withdrawals.”
As Trump targets H-1B visas, it's notable he's allowing more H-2B visas — which Trump businesses like Mar-a-Lago use to hire foreign workers https://t.co/2k8Qm4rBct
This is not a negotiation from Russia, it's a threat. And we have a president who applauds the threateners and refuses to protect the US. https://t.co/96RFidwOvZ
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 17, 2025
Russia rejects any US conditions for return of seized diplomatic compounds in the US that were closed down last year https://t.co/8fhSeuCU3Q pic.twitter.com/xSDTwSnaYU
Republican Bill "*EXEMPTS*" Themselves. The HealthCare They Want For YOU, Is "NOT" The HealthCare They're Saving For Themselves. #mSnB #cNn pic.twitter.com/sWnyxjkucj
— Dr. Tom Martin Ph.D. (@DrTomMartinPhD) July 17, 2025
Mission accomplished: “Donald Trump’s campaign against ISIS results in nearly as many civilian deaths as during Obama’s entire Administration”:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-syria-death-toll-campaign-military-operations-barack-obama-administration-a7844526.html
-As of July 13th more than 2,200 civilians had been killed by the US-led international coalition against ISIS.
-Factor in KOCH/McConnell Care and the invading GOP Alien party will have exterminated a decent quota of humans in 2017.
Koch Bromance with Russia Needs Investigating.
Koch Funding Behind Nunes-Gowdy Attempts to Scuttle Russia Investigation….
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/koch-bromance-with-russia-needs-investigating-koch-funding-behind-nunes-gowdy-attempts-to-scuttle-russia-investigation/
We have a party in power which does not have any ethical moorings. They’ll do anything to get their agenda passed including supporting a President who is a puppet of a foreign enemy.
The picture of this gerrymandered district is shocking, enraging, and kind of disgusting, Naked, utterly irredeemable corrupt intentions. https://t.co/h0dq2zd8Oz
Had an EPIC singing Sweet Thing w/@fatbellybella during @PoriJazz! She's so crazy and talented! LOVE her & the audience.💋💜🎤🔥 #MusicMonday pic.twitter.com/RYetuUiuwC
From war orphan in Sierra Leone to soloist in Dutch Nat'l Ballet, Michaela DePrince has overcome extraordinary odds. https://t.co/NCLdNNFrxm pic.twitter.com/2al8jxAHl1
— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) July 17, 2025
From war orphan in Sierra Leone to a soloist with the Dutch National Ballet, Michaela DePrince has beaten extraordinary odds to succeed in the cut-throat world of ballet.
IMO Michaela’s story is not just outrageously unusual. What makes the top of the top special in Ballet is that X factor of no major or prohibitive injuries — a rare physical body type as well as extraordinary world class talent. Yes my daughter had super-grace and very
rare ability. What she didn’t have was that that teeny tiny sliver of super-genetics that ultimately protects the career dancer from irreversible injury. Ms.DePrince like Ms.Copeland, is so stunningly rare.
A democracy largely run on the honor system has serious problems when the president has no honor. Institutions must be made stronger. https://t.co/eZ58kH2OZB
Take your choice. Since NO Cameras Allowed this is how @PressSec looks today. RT to get video into #WH PRESS BRIEFINGS in the PEOPLE'S HOUSE pic.twitter.com/xdFh5S3FsM
Ron Wyden: "There is absolutely no reason now for Republicans not to schedule public hearings on [health care] legislation." (@MSNBC) pic.twitter.com/d24dyQO4nT
It pains me that Smart, Strong Capable Dems like her are no longer with Us……Barbara Jordan, another Great Lady…..Fearless & with excellent oratory skills.
Both extraordinary women to be sure. These women ain’t no slouches though.
http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/women-of-the-dnc.amp
https://www.romper.com/p/which-female-senators-spoke-at-the-dnc-they-were-pretty-inspiring-15302/amp
Dear @WhiteHouse, check out this helpful list we put together for @POTUS & @IvankaTrump to use during Made in America week. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/S60oyNOXKP
The family of Leonard Thomas, an unarmed Black man killed by a SWAT sniper in Wash. State has been awarded more than $15,000,000 by a jury. pic.twitter.com/HoRDJb54So
Posted a link to the Seattle Times article a couple of nights ago (it was late on the west coast, probably in the wee hours EDT).
The tactics police departments are allowed to use are absolutely appalling, and only going to get worse with FUBAR’s aim for jackbooted state police everywhere (including ICE agents).
The killing of Leonard Thomas is horrific. https://t.co/0LkJXTGnxU pic.twitter.com/eB3893J0fC
Arrested at work, 10th person to die in ICE custody since October. Family notified 2 days after death. #Outrage #SheriffClarkeBestPractices https://t.co/t0XkzcSAr1
Back before ACA, when pre-existing conditions can make you uninsurable and lifetime limits allow insurance to terminate mid-treatment? Pass. https://t.co/8BQzPiuqmE
Sorry to sound angry but I don’t get how so many people voted for Republicans and now are outraged that Republicans are going to do exactly what they promised to do which is repeal the ACA. I wish people would take their right to vote more seriously and stop voting for people who hate your guts and only care about the rich and well-to-do. We could have at least flipped the Senate so that the Democrats could stop Trump from doing anything stupid.
From Meta’s Twitter timeline (some good ones today, as always):
The Russian ambassador visited your office today, I would start there. https://t.co/zB18sRPaJ8
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) July 17, 2025
This event doesn’t get enough coverage (along with the murders of journalists and investigators by President Putin).
At midnight tonight 3 yrs ago, Russia unexpectedly banned civilian overflights over Eastern Ukraine. 17 hours later, #MH17 was shot down.
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) July 16, 2025
From @sarahkendzior’s Twitter timeline:
Yet another "suicide" of a Russian businessman in London, linked to Litvinenko murderer Lugovoy, wasn't considered suspicious by police. pic.twitter.com/hFmo4R2gQB
It's been 3 years since 298 innocent civilians were murdered in the downing of #MH17. Those responsible need to be brought to justice. pic.twitter.com/bNbqNaIZhx
Good! We need to save health care FIRST. Russia scandal isn’t going anywhere.
People are really dialed into health care right now — 35% name it as most pressing issue vs 6% who say Russia https://t.co/VqCT00TQkd pic.twitter.com/wcCK05uCti
Zero reasons on earth this property should be ‘returned’ to Russia.. I fathomable it is even under consideration, nevermind ‘negotiations’.. shady, criminal actions, where is our country?
Zero reasons on earth this property should be ‘returned’ to Russia.. unfathomable it is even under consideration, nevermind ‘negotiations’.. shady, criminal actions, where is our country?
Not so dirty secret. They used this as a tool to make PBO a 1 term POTUS, then used their color bar for 8 yrs, no Damn plan, but “No to the Black POTUS”. And their appeal to the dredges isn’t going to keep his (& his ilk) in office, unless they once again steal, hack votes. Governors have to step up, in each state, & all local levels, to protect voting.
Moran's daughters' pediatrician asks why the U.S. pays to address external threats through military, but not internal threat of disease. pic.twitter.com/CTEZnD5JK0
— Allison Kite (@Allie_Kite) July 6, 2025
One constituent who spoke out was Bob Cox, Moran’s daughters’ pediatrician, who joked that he knew the senator’s daughters before he met Moran.
“The federal government is charged with the protection of its citizens from external threat,” Cox said. “The U.S. military provides this service, and it’s funded appropriately. We as a culture have not accepted the responsibility to protect citizens from internal threat, disease and injury.”
Cox noted that taxes might increase to protect against internal threats of disease, but the benefits would outweigh the costs.
In response, Moran focused on the problems with Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), saying Congress needs to address the underlying causes of rising health care costs.
He told Cox he would support an ACA replacement on four conditions: If it’s affordable and protects people with pre-existing conditions, if it protects rural health care, if Kansas isn’t disadvantaged for not expanding Medicaid, and if the expense of the plan doesn’t inhibit job creation, according to Topeka Capital-Journal reporter Allison Kite.
Wise words of caution because these assassins have many tricks upon their sleeves. And their Dear Leader may be incompetent when it comes to governing, he is cunning for all sorts of mischief. We need to stay focus until we clear the House and the Senate of these pests.
Lindsey Graham: John McCain is like his old self again - https://t.co/4kGK7SPuhq https://t.co/NKt2SmFhSE
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 18, 2025
That’s not reassuring. He stopped being the Maverick long time ago during a very hard and unwinnable campaign to become a flip-floper who brought us Sarah Palin.
2. Eight years ago this week, Obama delivered an hourlong speech to the American Medical Association. They endorsed Dems’ plan the next day. pic.twitter.com/MPPThcaH4C
Compare for yourself: How Obama made the case for his health plan eight years ago this week vs how Trump made his case today. pic.twitter.com/fK05bXJMtI
Yay Dudette!
Bringing this over from previous thread since tomorrow is Kill The Bill Tuesday:
Hiya Judith! Excellent tweetage!
Reminder
Never acceptable.
This is below the crazyfication factor of 27%.
The Fix Analysis
The prevailing view of Trump has only worsened: He’s ‘unpresidential’
By Aaron Blake July 17 at 10:40 AM
During the 2016 campaign, the biggest concern about President Trump almost always boiled down to one thing: his temperament. Even people who liked Trump had a problem with it. Polls regularly showed that more than 6 in 10 registered voters said he didn’t have the right personality and style to be an effective president. Just weeks before the election, 62 percent said he didn’t have this baseline quality, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. He won anyway.
Trump has now been president for six months, and he’s had ample opportunity during that time to prove people wrong. He’s taken foreign trips, responded to crises and delivered a well-received speech to Congress.
And yet, Americans may now see him as even less presidential than they did before. A new Post-ABC poll shows a whopping 70 percent of Americans describe Trump as acting “unpresidential.” Only 24 percent say he’s acted in a way that’s “fitting and proper for a president of the United States.”
Wut
From MaddowBlog:
Please stop doing this: “Nearly 3,400 Coloradans canceled their voter registrations in the wake of the Trump administration’s request for voter info, the Secretary of State’s Office confirmed Thursday, providing the first statewide glimpse at the extent of the withdrawals.”
Don’t let’s forget KY!
EVERY TIME a GOP legislator has a medical issue, the Dems need to remind the public of this whenever and however they can.
Imagine the cost of Rep. Scalise’s treatment to Joe Average Voter.
Or that jerk Chaffetz’s foot surgery.
Yep!
Mission accomplished: “Donald Trump’s campaign against ISIS results in nearly as many civilian deaths as during Obama’s entire Administration”:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-syria-death-toll-campaign-military-operations-barack-obama-administration-a7844526.html
-As of July 13th more than 2,200 civilians had been killed by the US-led international coalition against ISIS.
-Factor in KOCH/McConnell Care and the invading GOP Alien party will have exterminated a decent quota of humans in 2017.
Koch Bromance with Russia Needs Investigating.
Koch Funding Behind Nunes-Gowdy Attempts to Scuttle Russia Investigation….
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/koch-bromance-with-russia-needs-investigating-koch-funding-behind-nunes-gowdy-attempts-to-scuttle-russia-investigation/
This truly needs to be uncovered and investigated. There is so much going on that it’s hard to keep up.
Openly dIsmantling and weakening the U.S. Government:
Exactly what are the KOCH/nra agreements with Russia?
So where are all the leftwingers who were screaming about drones during the Obama administration? Why aren’t we hearing from them now?
We have a party in power which does not have any ethical moorings. They’ll do anything to get their agenda passed including supporting a President who is a puppet of a foreign enemy.
Look at this! Just look at it!
And didn’t older people vote for Trump at a higher rate than they voted for Clinton. This is amazing. He has no respect for his base.
San Fran!
From war orphan in Sierra Leone to a soloist with the Dutch National Ballet, Michaela DePrince has beaten extraordinary odds to succeed in the cut-throat world of ballet.
Beautiful!
IMO Michaela’s story is not just outrageously unusual. What makes the top of the top special in Ballet is that X factor of no major or prohibitive injuries — a rare physical body type as well as extraordinary world class talent. Yes my daughter had super-grace and very
rare ability. What she didn’t have was that that teeny tiny sliver of super-genetics that ultimately protects the career dancer from irreversible injury. Ms.DePrince like Ms.Copeland, is so stunningly rare.
She’s magnificent!
Tugs at the heart. A delightful young woman.
GA, TODbots on a Gorgeous Sunny, a tad cooler Manic Monday in MN.
Congrats, Dudette…..Au ⭐ is indeed your Gem 😉
NW, Thanks!
❤ ❤ ❤ TODville Country.
I ❤️ Merriam-Webster!
❤️👏🏼❤️
Good Thread…..
I don’t have Netflix.
FYI for those who have.
Saw the trailer. Looks good. I’d wondered what happened to Jessica after she left the Daily Show.
PARRRRR FOR THE USUAL DUMP TRUMP COURSE….
Haha! I’ve gotta scroll up before posting!
The children are outside playing.
🙄
Oh, my! Everyday brings something lower than the day before. Where are we? Twilight Zone?
INORITE?!?!?!?
It pains me that Smart, Strong Capable Dems like her are no longer with Us……Barbara Jordan, another Great Lady…..Fearless & with excellent oratory skills.
Both extraordinary women to be sure. These women ain’t no slouches though.
http://mashable.com/2016/07/28/women-of-the-dnc.amp
https://www.romper.com/p/which-female-senators-spoke-at-the-dnc-they-were-pretty-inspiring-15302/amp
You’re Correct.
I do miss No Hold Bar Voices……Ted Kennedy, Chisholm, etc.
GA/GE ydavis.
Posted a link to the Seattle Times article a couple of nights ago (it was late on the west coast, probably in the wee hours EDT).
The tactics police departments are allowed to use are absolutely appalling, and only going to get worse with FUBAR’s aim for jackbooted state police everywhere (including ICE agents).
Speaking of ICE, reposting this…
Now imagine putting that 15 mil toward hiring, & training a competent, accountable police force.
Dropping lovely nuggets as I run! ….
New York attorney general says will sue over Obamacare repeal
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-lawsuit-idUSKBN1A21TV
All the DEM run states need to sue over the ACA repeal especially since the House and Senate get to keep their Obamacare.
LOL!
Sorry to sound angry but I don’t get how so many people voted for Republicans and now are outraged that Republicans are going to do exactly what they promised to do which is repeal the ACA. I wish people would take their right to vote more seriously and stop voting for people who hate your guts and only care about the rich and well-to-do. We could have at least flipped the Senate so that the Democrats could stop Trump from doing anything stupid.
Huge sigh of frustration.
Agreed!
Not ok….but the people are learning what the GOP has in mind and the pitchforks will come out.
GA Tally.
From Meta’s Twitter timeline (some good ones today, as always):
This event doesn’t get enough coverage (along with the murders of journalists and investigators by President Putin).
From @sarahkendzior’s Twitter timeline:
This is what @timodc replied to:
Awesome per usual. 😀
About covers it.
TOMORROW.EVERYWHERE. FIND AN EVENT NEAR YOU AND PROTEST!
http://act.indivisibleguide.com/event/tuesday-killthebill-events/search/
Good! We need to save health care FIRST. Russia scandal isn’t going anywhere.
How convenient.
By “achievements” he means utter failures.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/07/17/outline-trumps-achievements-first-six-months-office
Aaaah this made me cry. This dog, wow.
Looks like Cassidy needs some brains, a moral compass and some pressure from the people.
GE, TODbots.
It looks like there might be a #Resistance 😉 Via …..Stormy Weather.
Because they share name, why not pick up Don Jr. for a ride?
Zero reasons on earth this property should be ‘returned’ to Russia.. I fathomable it is even under consideration, nevermind ‘negotiations’.. shady, criminal actions, where is our country?
Zero reasons on earth this property should be ‘returned’ to Russia.. unfathomable it is even under consideration, nevermind ‘negotiations’.. shady, criminal actions, where is our country?
Mike Lee & a Cassidy….I Think said Not Harsh Enough.
GOP Senate Deal=Dead for Now.
Jerry Moran…. 😳
Not so dirty secret. They used this as a tool to make PBO a 1 term POTUS, then used their color bar for 8 yrs, no Damn plan, but “No to the Black POTUS”. And their appeal to the dredges isn’t going to keep his (& his ilk) in office, unless they once again steal, hack votes. Governors have to step up, in each state, & all local levels, to protect voting.
One constituent who spoke out was Bob Cox, Moran’s daughters’ pediatrician, who joked that he knew the senator’s daughters before he met Moran.
“The federal government is charged with the protection of its citizens from external threat,” Cox said. “The U.S. military provides this service, and it’s funded appropriately. We as a culture have not accepted the responsibility to protect citizens from internal threat, disease and injury.”
Cox noted that taxes might increase to protect against internal threats of disease, but the benefits would outweigh the costs.
In response, Moran focused on the problems with Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act (ACA), saying Congress needs to address the underlying causes of rising health care costs.
He told Cox he would support an ACA replacement on four conditions: If it’s affordable and protects people with pre-existing conditions, if it protects rural health care, if Kansas isn’t disadvantaged for not expanding Medicaid, and if the expense of the plan doesn’t inhibit job creation, according to Topeka Capital-Journal reporter Allison Kite.
I heard Trumpcare is presumed dead.
I want a funeral, a burial because there are many GOP senators that can accompany Trumpcare to its grave.
Good Evening TODVille.
Would like a Cremation to guarantee that There won’t be a resurrection.
Indeed. Because that mean cat seems to have many lives.
Wise words of caution because these assassins have many tricks upon their sleeves. And their Dear Leader may be incompetent when it comes to governing, he is cunning for all sorts of mischief. We need to stay focus until we clear the House and the Senate of these pests.
That’s not reassuring. He stopped being the Maverick long time ago during a very hard and unwinnable campaign to become a flip-floper who brought us Sarah Palin.
Drip, Tick, drip, drip, Tick
45…Making America Safe [i.e., Making America More Vulnerable to Putin]
New post.
https://theobamadiary.com/2017/07/17/chat-away-930/