I need to work on being a good and humble winner...

Chalk up another win for Michale.. :D

President Trump was wrong..

I am NOT getting tired of winning.. :D

I'll defer to Senator McCain on this one:

After calling him the biggest hypocrite on the planet!?? :D

I have to imagine that such extreme 180s CAN'T be good for the bonal structure. :D heh

I applaud the Democrat Party's move towards identity politics and social justice wars..

Nothing guarantees further GOP dominance and a President Trump second term more than that.. :D

That's the fact that YA'ALL just don't get...

What Trump doesn't seem to get is that the American public has evolved in the meantime. This is a loser issue for Trump and he hasn't even realized it yet...

Existing military policy will not be revised on the basis of a Trump Twitter thread. Trump's Twitler BS is nonbinding nonsense where the military is concerned. He's going to have to follow protocol, and that'll be Trump and his 4-year term versus the many who've made protecting our country their careers. :)

Probably where I saw that headline, too...

And I have a link from Fox News that says the American people and the military LOVE the trans ban... :D

Dean Winchester has died!!!!!!!!????????

:D

And transgenders are NOT able to meet the standards..

As I have aptly PROVEN and NO ONE has refuted..

It's THAT simple...

Business Insider (pay walled) offered some interesting insights how the Byrd Rule makes it hard to scuttle AHC quickly thru the budget reconciliation gambit. Roughly speaking, the Senate parliamentarian is ruling that legislative "head shots" will require 60 votes. So where and how do the Republicans come up with 10 more votes - from skeptical Democrats? Republicans could change the senate rules, but it would basically end The Filibuster as we now know it, and that still requires sweetening the pot with "stuff." I doubt Republicans really want to go there.

Softer legislative sabotage might act as slow poison and eventually kill Obama Care, but if it's too soft the fire eaters like Rand Paul will likely jump ship to keep their base happy. The Democrats know this. Why should wavering Democrats bolt rank for crumbs that probably won't happen?

The other problem with the slow poisons is that they are likely to wallop the insurance markets, probably across the age demographics, not just in the middle of the age curve, as companies chose not to subsidize their employees. Insurance companies are making noise, and have lot of lobbyists to throw into the fight.

Maybe McConnell can pull a rabbit out of his hat, but he's kind of trapped in an adverse payoff moat. Center is a loss, moving to the right is a bigger climb, as is moving more to the left. At root, I think the whole Republican circus is driven by that old engine "look busy, the boss is watching." The Republican Base, not Trump is not the boss they are worried about. White House, Senate, House? Why did we bother?

Speaking of rabbits pulled from hats, it's been announced that the Voice of Bullwinkle's pal Rocky has died. ;(

The President’s tweet … regarding transgender Americans in the military is yet another example of why major policy announcements should not be made via Twitter. … There is no reason to force service members who are able to fight, train, and deploy to leave the military — regardless of their gender identity. We should all be guided by the principle that any American who wants to serve our country and is able to meet the standards should have the opportunity to do so — and should be treated as the patriots they are.

-CW

So, I'll catch ya'all in the AM...

I'll be up around 0300 EDT if anyone wants to LIVE debate it.. :D

Here's a link for you:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/07/27/daily-202-growing-gop-backlash-to-transgender-troop-ban-underscores-trump-s-political-miscalculation/5979535630fb0436795432a6/?utm_term=.9164a2fbeadf

Probably where I saw that headline, too...

-CW

So, let's look at the FACTS...

Over half of trans people (53%) ages 18 to 25 have reported experiencing current serious psychological distress. That compares to 10% in the nation overall...

40% of trans people have attempted suicide in their lives. That compares to less than 5% of the general population..

48% of trans people have seriously thought about killing themselves in the past year. 4% of the U.S. population has seriously thought the same...

A full 82% of trans people have thought about killing themselves at some point in their lives..

29% of trans have used illegal drugs or non prescribed drugs in the past month.. Normal US population for that is almost 3 times as less.. 10% . .

The presence of HIV or AIDS is also much MUCH higher amongst the trans group than the general population..

And THIS is the group that should be considered for military duty???

Yea.. If you want the military of Venezuela... :^/

The high rate of suicides and suicidal thoughts alone are sufficient to disqualify ANYONE from military service..

Opinions on this vary of course, but being transgender is not a biological issue, it's a psychological one. If a 98-pound woman was starving herself because she thought she was fat, would you tell her that's okay so she feels good about herself, or would you gently tell her she's emaciated, hurting her body, and needs to look to the path of recovery?

War is no place for people who are mentally, emotionally, or physically confused or in turmoil. You have your shit together, or you don't.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trumps-transgender-military-ban-is-psychologically-justified/article/2629868

Word....

Given the **facts** above, there is absolutely *NO WAY* that *ANYONE* could argue that transgenders are well adjusted and have their shit together..

I don't care HOW many credentials you have...

And so are patriotic Americans...

That's your opinion, unsupported by facts..

Read thru yesterday's commentary for the FACTS...

Or I can bring them forward.. yer call..

-CW

I get yelled at when I ask that.. :D

"I get yelled at when I just lay there.."
-Andrew McCarthy, WEEKEND AT BERNIES

:D

Yep.. Exactly..

Democrats CLAIM to be going forward, but it's the same old retreaded schtick..

Schtick that has lost them elections since 2010....

And that makes everything just a bit better.. :D

I recognize that extreme brown-nosing! Who here knew that our very own Michale was actually Vice President Michale Pence??? His bromance with the Orange Idiot finally makes sense!

Bravo! That was truly funny!

:-)

-CW

Whoops! Disregard previous comment. Thanks!

-CW

got a link?

-CW

Right. John McCain and all those other Repubilcans denouncing Trump's transgender ban are really secret Democrats. Or something.

Good headline I read today: "2003 called. It wants its culture wars back."

What Trump doesn't seem to get is that the American public has evolved in the meantime. This is a loser issue for Trump and he hasn't even realized it yet...

-CW

The one that's been running through my mind is "Welcome To The Machine," personally...

-CW

I'm sorry, but the phrase "too much pot" just does not compute.

Heh.

-CW

He writes:

But the attention that this man insists upon bringing upon himself transcends that inevitability, and ranges into the realm of narcissism and vaingloriousness. This is, in other words, a choice. It is a decision that Trump is making, day in, day out. Those who want to live their lives without constantly being dragooned into endless political hostility should band together and speak with one voice: “Mr. President. Please, please, please be quiet.”

Then again, I'm not the only one having that problem today...

Credit where credit is due..

THAT was funny :D

Because the preposterous things he tries
to have us believe are usually lies,
and lies, and lies, and lies, and lies, and lies -
Including the things he'll later deny!

We're off to read the Twitters -
The mystical twitters of Trump!

I have no problem with that.. :D

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/07/26/the_senate_parliamentarian_is_throwing_a_wrench_into_the_gop_s_ultimate.html

Cite???

Which is likely EXACTLY what President Trump had planned..

Showing the American people that Democrats haven't changed in ANY way, shape or form...

Once again.. President Trump sets the tune and the Democrats leap to dance to it... :D

Democrats say they're ready for a culture war as Trump bans transgender people from military service
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/27/politics/trump-transgender-military-ban-politics/index.html

It only took a couple days for Democrats to chuck the economic/middle-class Americans out the window and re-affirm that they will continue with their identity politics platform that has lost them every election in the last 8 years...

Chaos Erupts At City Hall Hearing For Proposed Gun Bill
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/07/25/baltimore-gun-bill-hearing/

Gun legislation that I can actually GET behind and support...

Why??

Because it punishes the CRIMINALS and the SCUMBAGS, no law-abiding citizens...

We've been binge-watching LAST MAN STANDING..

Can't WAIT to get to the election episodes.. :D

I wanted to jump ahead, by wife vetoed that.. :(

Actually, you're the ONLY one (outside of the Grand Poobah hisself and maybe one or two others) to agree with me on that... :D

"What am I!?? A DEMOCRAT!!???"
-Boyd, LAST MAN STANDING

:D

You have it backwards..

Your so-called facts don't become irrelevant because I disagree with them..

I disagree with your so-called facts BECAUSE they are irrelevant..

You claim that NO ONE lost their health insurance plans.. That is factually inaccurate... If I were like others, I would call you a lying troll for making such a claim..

But I am not, so I won't.. :D

But the fact is, millions of Americans DID lose their healthcare plans because of TrainWreckCare..

And unlike ya'all's crocodile tears over Americans who will lose health insurance under GOPcare, under TrainWreckCare, millions lost their health insurance NOT BY CHOICE.....

THAT is the difference that makes ALL the difference...

I praise President Trump for making the business environment such that not only did FoxConn make the promise, but now that the business environment is much MUCH better than under Odumbo, NOW FoxConn will follow thru..

Again, your point is????

My point is they LOST the insurance they there were promised they could keep..

The fact that they got other insurance is irrelevant..

The LOST their insurance that they were promised they could keep..

Put another way..

Let's say I told you that you have to move, but that you can keep your Rottweiller.....

When you move, you find out you CAN'T keep your Rottweiler, but you DO get to have a goldfish..

Are you going to be happy???

You have a pet, so how can you complain!??

The problem is you don't have the pet you were promised you could keep..

And HOW is that any different from Trump??? Who has spent more time on the golf course than Obama EVER did???

Cite???

The difference???

Stock Market sent to unheard of heights... JOBS JOBS JOBS...

And Americans are PROUD to be American again..

NONE of which happened under Odumbo...

"Factually irrelevant.."

Funny how those "Facts" become ether irrelevant or "alternative" when they are ones you either "personally" disagree with, become "inconvenient" for you, or upset your "preconceived" worldview.

"Millions of Americans were PROMISED that they could keep the plans THEY LIKED.. Keep the doctors THEY LIKED...

They were lied to.."

Again, your point is???? We ALL AGREE that they were lied to. That wasn't the POINT. The point was that many more people got better, cheaper health insurance, in many cases for the very first time. Far more people GAINED health insurance than lost it!

"Exactly.. Obama didn't do a damn thing.. Leading from behind or leading from the golf course.."

And HOW is that any different from Trump??? Who has spent more time on the golf course than Obama EVER did???

"And, if they break this promise, you will have an argument..

As of now, you have none..."

And as of NOW, you have NONE EITHER. Since you cannot praise Trump for jobs that do NOT YET EXIST and MAY NEVER EXIST.

Factually irrelevant..

Millions of Americans were PROMISED that they could keep the plans THEY LIKED.. Keep the doctors THEY LIKED...

They were lied to..

AGAIN, FACTUALLY WRONG. Obama HAD NOTHING to do with it.

Exactly.. Obama didn't do a damn thing.. Leading from behind or leading from the golf course..

Foxconn has a PROVEN track record of NOT KEEPING its promises.

And, if they break this promise, you will have an argument..

As of now, you have none...

"Ask the millions of Americans who were thrown off their plans and their doctors after REPEATEDLY being promised they could keep them..."

FACTUALLY WRONG. Since those plans were replaced by, in many cases, cheaper plans that met the ACA requirements where the earlier plans did not. NO ONE LOST their health care PERMANENTLY.

"You proved that Odumbo let FoxConn off the hook in 2013 and 2014.."

AGAIN, FACTUALLY WRONG. Obama HAD NOTHING to do with it.

Then-Gov. Tom Corbett (R) personally helped craft the deal and hailed the plan in a statement, saying “Pennsylvania is once again leading the way through integrating technology into manufacturing.”

Again, a plant that NEVER got built.

Whether Trump is pro business or not has nothing to do with it. Corbett was a pro business Republican governor as well.

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning
Very, very frightening me
(Galileo) Galileo
(Galileo) Galileo
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o
-QUEEN, Bohemian Rhapsody

:D

That's your opinion and I respect that..

But the facts from the things *I* care about say otherwise...

And Trump will never be elected to a second term, so what's your point???

My point is my claim is factually accurate..

YOUR claim is supposition brought on by Party loyalty..

NOPE, NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Trump is the Legal President, but that's all.

Unless you are renouncing your US citizenship, President Trump is YOUR president.. Just as Odumbo was MY president...

DAMN right I support it, and proud of it!!! AND NO, it did NOT DO THAT.

Ask the millions of Americans who were thrown off their plans and their doctors after REPEATEDLY being promised they could keep them...

Says the guy who was just crowing about Trump getting that company to bring jobs to the USA, right after I proved him WRONG. TOO funny!!!

How can you prove me wrong on an event that hasn't happened you..

You proved that Odumbo let FoxConn off the hook in 2013 and 2014..

But now we have a PRO-BUSINESS President and history is NOT going to repeat itself..

"Says the guy who supported TrainWreckCare. A dismal abortion that did EXACTLY that..."

DAMN right I support it, and proud of it!!! AND NO, it did NOT DO THAT. How can you say that when over 20 million people have health insurance who did not have it before, and it has saved lives???

"And how is Trump responsible for what FoxConn did in 2013 and 2014???

That was your guy, Odumbo... :D"

Says the guy who was just crowing about Trump getting that company to bring jobs to the USA, right after I proved him WRONG. TOO funny!!!

"The simple fact that President Trump has been GREAT for this country...."

No, the fact is Trump is a "DISASTER" for this country.

"NOT-45 WILL NEVER BE POTUS..."

And Trump will never be elected to a second term, so what's your point???

"It's time ya'all accept that and accept the FACT that President Trump is your President..."

NOPE, NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Trump is the Legal President, but that's all.

Also, sorry for the earlier typo, "plant" not "planet."

California has too much pot, and growers won't be able to export the surplus
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-producing-pot-surplus-1501101923-htmlstory.html

How ya feelin', CW??? :D

Says the guy who supported TrainWreckCare. A dismal abortion that did EXACTLY that...

:D

So much for Trump "DOING" it again!!!

And how is Trump responsible for what FoxConn did in 2013 and 2014???

That was your guy, Odumbo... :D

"President Trump does it again!!! :D

Apple supplier Foxconn invests $10B in Wisconsin"

1.) Foxconn, best known for making the Apple iPhone, has made similar announcements before in the U.S. In 2013, company said it would spend $30 million to build a plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The planet NEVER got built.

2.)The next year, Foxconn announced a $1 billion investment in Indonesia. The year after that, $5 billion in India.

So much for Trump "DOING" it again!!!

"Our shining vision for healthcare service.

You mean, like the VA???"

APPLES AND ORANGES. Two COMPLETELY different animals.

The VA is actually a government run health service. Where doctors are direct employees of the government.

Medicare is a government provided health insurance. Where you take it to any PRIVATE doctor you choose, just like Blue Cross.

I don't know of ANY SENIORS who want to give up their MEDICARE insurance coverage, DO YOU????

Medicare FOR ALL, is what SINGLE PAYER IS, is what Obamacare SHOULD have included from the very start as a public option, and is what every other advanced Industrial Democracy has, and would go a long ways towards fixing the current Obamacare shortcomings.

But of course, Republicans won't consider it for several reasons:

1.) They have been trying to KILL Medicare itself since it first started.

2.) They would much rather put profit ahead of people's health, especially those they consider to be "undeserving." A survival of the fittest law of the jungle way of looking at your fellow humanity.

3.) They have an "R" after their names.

Ya'all can't see that because you are still stuffing your faces with crow and sour grapes...

NOT-45 WILL NEVER BE POTUS...

It's time ya'all accept that and accept the FACT that President Trump is your President...

No more sad then when ya'all felt the same way about Obama... :D

Why Is Everyone So Certain "Skinny Repeal" Will Go To Conference?

Because TrainWreckCare went thru very VERY similar sausage-making..

And it survived to ruin Americans' lives..

And that makes everything just a bit better.. :D .

That is one of the saddest things I have ever read! Trump really is the wind beneath your wings, isn't he? Not sure if this is a cry for help, but 1-800-273-8255 is the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline just in case.

A well reasoned article.. From CNN, no less...

"Yer stock is rising, Number Two"
-Austin Powers

:D

The GOP should never hold their heads up if they can't repeal this abortion that is TrainWreckCare...

And that makes everything just a bit better.. :D

But I don't have to tell ya'all about that feeling.. I am sure ya'all felt it during the Odumbo years.. :D

Apple supplier Foxconn invests $10B in Wisconsin
http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2017/07/26/apple-supplier-foxconn-invests-10b-in-wisconsin.html#&_intcmp=hplnws16,latestnews

Making America Great Again

Every day I wake up at between 0300 and 0400.. I get up to start my day. Going thru all the challenges I will face this day is daunting and somewhat depressing..

Then I remember that President Trump is *STILL* President. I get a little smile on my face and I say to myself, I say "Self?? It's not going to be THAT bad of a day!!"

And that makes everything just a bit better.. :D

Our shining vision for healthcare service.

You mean, like the VA???

:D

After I posted this, I did note that WashPost has begun discussing it as a possibility. According to them, there's a lot of pushback from House GOPers, but I bet the whole "we'll be done with it for now" aspect hasn't been fully appreciated yet. We'll see what happens. I won't believe the possibility of a conference is even 50/50 until the House adjourns for their August recess (Senate will still be in session for two weeks after that).

Anyway, check out WashPost. I can dig up the links, but right now they've got a couple leading skinny repeal stories on how the House is seeing things...

-CW

Airlines.

Our shining vision for healthcare service.

:)

Honestly, you can't make this stuff up.

This guy has to be playing a long troll on 45 - this is too absurd to be real. This has to be the World's biggest ever punk.