There’s just too much shit to keep up with. Somehow, displaying his utter ignorance and extreme disrespect for the leader of the free world is, like, back page stuff. Gah.

The Germans said this didn’t happen today. The denial is a little weak (no bill with a certain number of billions doesn’t mean no bill) but it was denied.

The Republican think tanks have plenty of ideas. It’s just that said ideas are basically political suicide, because the things that the Republican wonks care most about (lower taxes, smaller federal government, deficit reduction) are things that real world voters don’t actually give a shit about.

Well, given the crowd he runs with, saying he’s THE WORST is hyperbole. You’ve got Gohmert & Co. out there.

Right? To me that was the biggest thing. They literally should have had a bill ready to go and know which 5-10 guys might be on the ideological edge and figured it out, not reforming a bill at the last minute. Being a GOP think tank must be the easiest job in the world.

Hell, even when he WAS doing the negotiating himself it’s not like he was good at it. This gormless chucklefuck went bankrupt trying to sell gambling, steak, and football to America. He’s been coasting his entire life on the money he was gifted by his father and then lying about his net worth.

It was just talk in the papers, but there were at least some GOP House people openly saying that they should work with the Democrats and shitcan the Freedom Caucus people.

Precisely! Paul Ryan is a “wonk” in the sense that most undergraduate students are “wonks.” (I include the 18-22 year old version of myself in this group). They have ideologies on how the world should work but never get into actually playing out how those ideologies may be functionally enacted and the consequences of…

As of last Friday, zero members of Congress are worried about his threats. And that makes it all worthwhile.

Basically: Lower level Trump employees do hard work, Trump comes in at the last second to “seal the deal” and everyone signs a contract and has fun.

In addition, his idea of “negotiating” involves hiring contractors and then stiffing them on the bill. He’s got leverage, you see—the contractor’s done part/all of the work, but Donny’s still got the money. That’s negotiationing!

Turns out if *45 can’t sue someone, or declare bankruptcy, or call in his own PR pretending to be someone else, he has no actual negotiating skills at all. And those previous tactics aren’t skills.

Not to take anything away from the spectacular suckfest that Trump and Ryan put on, but what the fuck have Republican think tank thinker ls been doing for the past decade? The ACA took months to pound together after starting with a bill that had been written over years by industry/think tanks/pols. The ACHA was…

sober policy knower Paul Ryan

What a pretty kitty with such excellent taste in blankets.

If stupid dogs would just do what they were told...

hahahahahahahaha

My sister is at home a lot right now, and she’s confirmed that, yes, a few minutes before I usually get home from work, my cat climbs out of wherever he’s been napping and goes to wait by the door for me. It fills me with joy every day.

would it kill him to mention it every now and then?

aw. my cats love me so much, it’s always so obvious. they always sit next to me (or on top of me), wherever i go in the house. they follow me everywhere too and wait for me outside the bathroom. i don’t know if they know when i’m coming home, but every day as i pull up to the house after work, they’re in the window…