For me & my family, heart disease is personal. As #AmericanHeartMonth begins, my staff & I stand in support of heart health. #GoRedWearRed pic.twitter.com/C4AJ9MRG5H
— Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) February 3, 2017
You stand for heart health but not affordable healthcare? https://t.co/R7k3xvH3c7
— Boney Hurdle (@eclecticbrotha) February 3, 2017
My daughter has congenital heart disease and will be uninsurable if you take away Obamacare. Personal for this family too, you poseur creep. https://t.co/pvKkunfC2i
— Susan Gardner (@SusanGDailyKos) February 3, 2017
Donald Trump is sucking up all the media attention, but the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver remains an ongoing threat to everything that is honest and decent in America.
"They are growing on me," House Speaker Paul Ryan says of Trump's tweets, on Fox News. "This is going to be an unconventional presidency."
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 2, 2017
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Apart from continuing the Resistance, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Sun AM, our kitchen:
Wife: Will we all die in a nuclear blast?
Me: Up to Ryan & McConnell
Wife: I’m going to mass https://t.co/6eFqnjVpYt— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) February 2, 2017
Corner Stone
Watched Gone Girl the other night.
Doesn’t she have to find those junkies that robbed her? She has to find them and kill them, right?
Corner Stone
Love that picture up top. Someone should take a sharpie and cross a big black X through the percentage of woman that might die due to heart health issues this year. Then send it back to him.
Princess
There was a large protest outside Ryan’s office in Janesville WI today — about a thousand people according to a friend who was there. It begins.
https://www.facebook.com/johnamcmahon/posts/10100801099117943?pnref=story.unseen-section
Corner Stone
Where is Black Bloc when one really needs them?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Anyone else just see that clip of trump talking to o’reilly? discussing Putin, OR says “He’s a killer” trump responds: “You think our county’s so innocent? We’ve got lots of killers”
Grow on that, Paulie
I’m waiting for the never-trumpers, the ones who have been talking about the 25th amendment for for a week, to weigh in. Should make the Sunday shows interesting
Feebog
The second Twitter response is perfect. Poseur Creep indeed.
Baud
Fixed.
neldob
This kind of presidency is very conventional in third world countries. It’s called either a kakistocracy or an autocracy. Very conventional. The most conventional. Terrifically conventional.
MattF
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Apparently a lot of T’s tweets are direct responses to O’Reilly statements. Good to know where our policies are coming from.
Timurid
For those who remain silent at the President’s latest outrages but cluck anxiously whenever overgrown children break windows, a visual aid.
Feel free to share..
James Powell
On the long list of lamentations that begin “Why don’t the Democrats ever . . . ” is the fact that they allowed this a-hole Ryan to establish himself as a serious policy wonk, whose numbers make sense, whose proposals are doable and not at all extreme. The Republicans expended the time and effort to turn centrist Democrat Nancy Pelosi into Demon Witch of Socialism.
Now, with Insanity, Inc., in the White House, Ryan, a RW radical, is easily able to portray himself a serious policy wonk, whose numbers make sense, whose proposals are doable and not at all extreme.
Lamentation concluded.
Kathleen
@Corner Stone: I loved the book but just hated the movie for some reason. Side note, in NYT interview about books Obama said he liked Gone Girl. Another side note, the author Gillian Flynn, is from Missouri. I read her book Sharp Objects, which focuses on a community in a rather remote section of Missouri. The picture she paints of the people there is very sinister, or as the NYT would say about Hillary, cloudy and shadowy.
hellslittlestangel
I see Paul Ryan also owns an African-American.
The Dangerman
This may be for other thread but I’ll ask here; how does calling someone a “so called judge” not end in a notice to appear in a contempt proceeding?
Mnemosyne
I know the idea of a general strike has been floating around, but I have another modest proposal to float out into the universe: either the day before or the day of the next recess of Congress, block every airport in the DC metro area with protesters so the Congresscritters can’t get home.
Since I live on the West Coast, I’m basically suggesting an action that will get other people arrested and possibly injured, but I think it would send an effective message to trap all of them in DC for hours if not days.
Kathleen
@James Powell: I propose we refer to him as Representative Get Sick Shut Up And Die but that would take up too many characters on Twitter.
Yarrow
@MattF: A lot of his tweets seem to be responses to what he’s watching on TV. The Chicago one was just after a Fox segment on violence in Chicago.
Yarrow
@Kathleen: You could shorten it to Rep GetSickAndDie. Fewer characters.
Quinerly
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I just saw it. Same stuff he was saying during the campaign. I still don’t understand how a majority of the military supported him. He’s basically comparing them to Putin.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Corner Stone:
Wonder if that one black guy in the back gets lonely in the office.
Farthestnorth
Still on a sort of contact high from not one but two rallies in Denver today. First one outside Gardner’s office (he of course is in Florida with his real constituents, big money donors)was kinda disappointing and showed how important organization is I guess. I was late because public transportation took longer than usual, thought the crowd was a little small. Turns out that after half an hour the organizers had told everyone to leave and go to some congresscritters office. So by the time I got there there were just a few dozen people chanting Save our schools;no to DeVos” etc. Which was still fun but allowed the paper to dismiss us as 100 teachers. sigh.
The Support Our Muslim Neighbors one was more satisfying. Thousands of people of all description. Bought some thin mints from an enterprising young Girl Scout with a sign “Resistance is hard. Have a Cookie” People from a local mosque and refugee assistance organization were giving away free water and cookies which was great
Patricia Kayden
@Kathleen: Never read the novel but love the movie. Every time it comes on, I’m watching it as if I’m seeing it for the first time. Even Tyler Perry was great.
Patricia Kayden
@Farthestnorth: Applause!! Good to see so many BJ’ers out there resisting Trump. Having so many of your fellow citizens protesting your Presidency within a few weeks of your inauguration should be alarming. This is unprecedented.
rikyrah
Never a more apt nickname:
Zombie Eyed Granny Killer ????
cain
One thing we all need to do is repeatedly attack Congressional healthcare. It is a simple message, one anybody can understand and keep repeating it at every talkshow. After all, Paul should be on the same healthcare we are. Let’s see how personal heart issues are to him when he’s on the same shit healthcare we are.
rikyrah
@Corner Stone:
Never read the book. The movie made me purse the lips.
Yarrow
Does Ryan have his arms around the two young women on either side of him? Gross. The other men seem to know better than to do that. What’s up with Republican men groping young women?
Corner Stone
@rikyrah: I have not read the book. The movie makes no sense. None. She shows up at home covered in blood and I have the media take a thousand pictures of her alive and say, “Told you I did not kill her. Honey, I am so very glad you are alive. I am sure you will need a long time with people who love you, so you can heal and get better. That’s not me. I just filed for divorce. Peace be unto you.”
SiubhanDuinne
@hellslittlestangel:
One out of 33. Hardly representative of the racial distribution in Wisconsin, let alone in the U.S. (which I mention was not because the ZEGS is supposed to be Speaker for the entire Congress, not just for Republicans and not just for his state.
Corner Stone
@Yarrow: I think his left hand is on that young lady’s ass. Ala Jared y Ivanka.
James Powell
@Kathleen:
There’s nothing we can do now. His brand is permanently fixed. An opportunity lost.
debbie
@Kathleen:
Gone Girl was the first book I read where I didn’t like any of the characters, which felt odd.
Has anyone mentioned that CNN turned down the administration’s offer of Kellyanne for their Sunday morning show? More of this, please.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: Here’s Blok if that helps:
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/0/0f/Blok_(Pre-Zero_Hour)_002.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110805150145
Corner Stone
I mean, she has to kill those junkies though, right? She can’t ever actually sleep again waiting for them to come and blackmail her for the in between segment she never told the cops.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
It’d be simpler to just lock the doors while they’re all in the building.
concerned in Canada
Big mistake. Big mistake.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/02/04/florida-heroin-bust-reveals-something-bizarre-drugs-covered-in-donald-trumps-face
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: You’ll need this:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/giap/1961-pwpa.pdf
HinTN
@Kathleen: Simplify to Get Sick And Die (GSAD). Works for me.
ETA @Yarrow: got there first
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: That’s…not really helpful.
Yarrow
@Corner Stone: So gross.
zhena gogolia
@Adam L Silverman:
I got all excited and thought you were talking about great Russian poet Aleksandr Blok.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
There are probably secret tunnels that were installed during the Cold War that will let them sneak away. Block every airport within 50 miles so they can’t get home.
Heck, if Congress is still on their lazy-ass 3 or 4 days a week schedule, just pick a random day when we know the majority is heading home.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Adam L Silverman
@zhena gogolia: Nope just the Legionnaire from the planet Dryad.
zhena gogolia
@Adam L Silverman:
My Blok is cuter.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
Actually, I think there’s some sort of trolley/subway underneath. Poor dears can’t be expected to walk all the way to where they have to do their dirty work.
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
See? Gotta block the airports to prevent them from getting home. And if you can really flood the zone, you make it hard for mass arrests to happen just from the sheer number of people involved.
It’s probably a federal crime to block the TSA, but we can start a defense fund.
The Dangerman
@efgoldman: But he’s a party in the proceedings, yes? Well, kinda.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
I don’t remember the layout there, but if there’s a gateway or only one access road, it’d be a snap.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
grandpa john
@Baud: add incompetent,irrational, and indefensible to the statement
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: They’re now directly injecting Russian propaganda. The bullshit request for information about “Poland making border incursions into Belarus” is a complete lift from Russian propaganda. The statement to O’Reilly about America/Americans “not being so innocent” is a direct inject of a common Putin talking point about the US.
This is not going to end well. Putin will continue to have his Little Green Men probe into Ukraine. He will continue to look for an excuse to do something in regard to Poland. He will continue to have his Serbian proxies agitate in regard to Kosovo. Why? He wants to draw NATO into a dispute and invoke Article 5. And he then expects that the US will not respond to that. This will break NATO. He tried this unsuccessfully with Turkey until he realized he could just co-opt Erdogan.
Yarrow
@Adam L Silverman:
Nope. It sure isn’t.
Mike in NC
Will need to check out SNL tonight to catch the latest in Trumpian idiocy.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Adam L Silverman: it’s terrifying.
lol chikinburd
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Indeed. As in “You know who else used a supposed border incursion by Poland as flimsy pretext?”.
jl
I can reassure Dana Houle and his wife that if we all die in a nuclear blast during the Drumpf regime, it will be stupid BS over nothing, almost certainly caused by a few nutcases who captured the executive branch of the US govt. At least we will know that.
I suppose during Cold War, there would be an agonizing doubt over whether it was really worth it. The stakes were high in some ways.
Skepticat
I’m certain that heart disease is indeed personal to him. He has a totally black, shriveled, rotten heart (if he has one at all, that is).
Millard Filmore
@debbie:
There are 2. One for senators, the other for reps. They go from the senate wing of the capitol to the senate offices, and from the rep wing of the capitol to their offices (essentially they go underground across the street). The two do not meet, they are separate.
It is more like a wide walkway with a path for the “subway”, which is more like a big golf cart.
Millard Filmore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Where are the right wing purity ponies? The ones that get upset when USA history classes view the expansion west through the Indians’ eyes. Or try to put a personal face on slavery. Or resist changing the name of the Washington Redskins NFL team.
maryQ
Am I the only one who apple rather die quickly in the nuclear blast than live after it, without a job and without health insurance?
Adam L Silverman
@maryQ: Depends, do you like irradiated, mutant humans? How about cockroaches that have hyper evolved because of the fallout? And don’t forget the sentient, twinkies that survived the nuclear holocaust and also hyper evolved and are now contesting with the cockroaches for global hegemony across the nuclear wasteland?
Vhh
@rikyrah: Starver, but that is a technicality.
Mnemosyne
@maryQ:
Move to a large urban area — I live in Los Angeles, so I’m sure to be vaporized immediately and won’t have to worry about that whole pesky living envying the dead part.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@MattF:
And from Bannon’s hindquarters… too… also…
Regime Touchon
@neldob: You forgot the “Believe me!”