Discussion: Trump Once Again Blames Mystery Hospitalized Senator For Repeal Failure

Early onset Alzheimers, the patient is mildly confused.

Trump needs an evaluation by a neuropsychologist ASAP. He should also have someone placed in charge of managing his medications and finances.

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He is not hospitalized - his head could have been brought in -

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He served in the swamps of Studio 54, where he took two shots of chlamydia and three blasts of gonorrhea. He lives every day with the stinging injustice of herpes. He’s had untreated syphilis for forty-six years. But through it all he’s avoided the scourge of condoms. He’s a national hero.

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He has dementia. He believes what he is saying.

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Continues to lie. Continues to lie. I guess you can say ā€œhe’s a liar.ā€

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Why does it seem that way too few are considering dementia?

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A) Emperor Hirocheeto really is a dotard. Best new use of an old word in…ever. Thanks Jong-Un!

B) ā€œUrological Issueā€ - hmm I thought they had pills for that nowadays. Must be serious.

C) Thad Cochran really just isn’t that into you, Donnie Dotard. If he really wanted to make sure tens of millions of Americans would lose their healthcare, he could have. John McCain came back from BRAIN TUMOR SURGERY to cast a vote. I think Cochran just has a convenient out here. He can pretend to be repeal-friendly while avoiding any responsibility for actually killing Americans via lack of healthcare.

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Demented old man mumbling in the corner, decompensating from the stresses of the job and the Russia investigations.

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David Frum has started compiling a list of moments in which Trump seemed totally unaware of his surroundings or his purpose in the moment. You can go all the way back to one of the early debates where the candidates stood for the national anthem and he looks confused. Multiples times since Melania has had to slap him to make him put his hand over his heart.

Honestly though, I think it’s untreated syphilis. His quack doctor would never tell him if something came back on the STI screening, if he ever performed one.

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It’s not that people aren’t considering it. It’s that those who can do anything about it won’t.

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Detached…From…Reality. Totally.

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I thought I had finally scraped every vestige of that musical atrocity out of my mind, but that’s OK. The song’s total awfulness helps me better appreciate the finer things in life, like strep infections and anal warts.

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A little OT, but at least he’s in the family.
Jared Kushner does his patriotic duty at the voting booth because FREEDOM, MOFOS!!!

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Look at the home page. I bet it is Scalise. (Yes I know…)

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If I understand Trump’s logic correctly, 50 Republicans will vote for repeal/replace no matter what’s in it as long as everything goes perfectly. But he’s mixing up the timeline as they would need 60 votes to pass it without reconciliation. Of course, he thinks the senate should just dump the filibuster entirely so 50 votes is all they will ever need. (Possible, but they won’t do it to pass something that’s hugely unpopular.)

This is a case of a goal that’s not possible for them to achieve without a huge downside for them. The Dems were willing to pass O’care despite the political setback because they would get something affirmative from it: more people covered. They just botched the messaging. The Rs think they might be able to ace the messaging and save themselves, but that’s a false premise that Trump buys unquestioningly. In Trump’s mind, if Trump says it’s great, then everyone will agree it’s great. In fact, in his mind, everyone does agree it’s great.

But for rank-and-file establishment Rs, the opinion polls and the real life impact on their constituents matter. So the closer it would get to actually happening, the more likely they will find a reason to back down, rather than fall in line as Trump seems to believe would happen (and should happen because he’s the ā€œbossā€). So while McCain and Murkowski want regular order, the bill coming out of such a process would still be unacceptable to the Ds, and the negative reporting on it and terrible CBO score for the R’s political arguments will sink it just as surely.

The R’s failure is directly tied to committing to the ā€œreplaceā€ part. They never had anything because O’care IS their replacement plan, imperfect as it was. It was the only way to protect their friends in the insurance companies. But now they have nothing to replace it with than suffering and bankruptcy. No wonder it polls in the teens.

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That seemed like a reasonable possibility to me, too, but it doesn’t help the case that Trump is well.

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ā€œHoneyā€ by Bobby Goldsboro comes close—and he is a convicted child molester, too.

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"I Talk to the Trees " … Clint Eastwood

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