And yet kids can know if they’re straight. Fuck off.

A Senate aide actually said it out loud: “We aren’t stupid.”

You really think 12, at the onset of puberty, is too young to know if they are gay? Seriously? And parents who are active in the Mormon church (at least one parent anyway), “brainwashed” their child into a life that will get them ridiculed and exiled? Really? This is what you think? You know many 12 year olds or gay…

That’s not enough to write her off as a bad mom.

This is part of a deliberate strategy to break down our democracy. Conservatives no longer have the stamina or intellect to work within the confines of checks and balances. They are looking to consolidate power under rich, white oligarchs who serve only to benefit their selfish interests. This is not blundering, or…

One theory I’ve heard is that they’re intentionally making this thing awful so that it can fail and they can move on once and for all, because they have no clue what to do and it’s derailed their entire agenda.

This story has been percolating in the ex-Mormon community for a while now. The mom actually is out and has been out for some time. I get the impression she’s been keeping a toe in the water, though, to appease her still-believing family. It’s hard to keep families intact when leaving the Church, since you can’t…

maybe they want to stay and help their church move to a more open and loving place.

Just wait until liberal states are implementing single payer and no one in the south can afford meds.

I always point out that Democrats won more votes in the Senate, more votes for President, and lost by a similar margin as Trump did for the House popular vote, yet they have no control and Republicans think they have an absolute mandate.

Isn’t the delay until 2018 intentional? Once millions lose coverage they’ll get in trouble, so the more they can disconnect this bill from it’s consequences the more time they’ll have to blame Democrats for everything that’s wrong with it. Which I guess they’re hoping will help them retain some seats?

I was talking about the AHCA “Trumpcare.” It is uniformly unpoular.

Depends on phrasing though. ACA is fine, Obamacare is shit.

I am an effing burn nurse and watching the GOP do such horrible things to those who can least afford it makes me so mad I cannot see straight.

This thing has a 17% approval rating. Like, it’s more unpopular than Congress, itself.

So when normal people are in charge again, can this process be struck out from Senate rules?

Democrats held several hearings on the ACA and debated it on the floor for 25 days

It’s like, super popular though. Ask some idiot neck beard and even they’re like “I survived cancer because of the ACA.” I don’t understand their obsession with this other than hating Obama, who, as we are all acutely aware of, is not in office anymore.

Whenever I hear a Republican these days, all I can hear is Weston in C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra:

Sen. Murphy is on fire wth this speech! I recommend peeping at the entire excerpt. A bunch of the New England Senators are really acquiring themselves very well under our new world order. The Resistance is strong with them.