In the immortal words of Gordon Lightfoot, “Sometimes I think it’s a sin when I feel like I’m winning when I’m losing again…”
And to hell with the people you hurt.
“I want to have them get up and get the glamour and glory,”
Like it’s the fucking daytime Emmys
"It’s always a lot of fun when you win,” Trump said.
Bob Mueller thinks so, too.
It’s always a lot of fun when the little people die!
“It’s always a lot of fun when you destroy millions of lives” - Republican slogn
Own it, Trump! Send it down a golden escalator. Tell the whole world how much you enjoyed fucking the taxpayers of America and taking health care away from them and their children.
Throw a big ass party, please!
Though the tax overhaul would represent Trump’s first major legislative accomplishment after nearly a year in office, he painted it as a sign of acceleration rather than gridlock: “We haven’t even been a year
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I guess I didn’t have a clear translation of MAGA.Now I know.
Make America a Great Kleptocracy.
Glad I got all that vomiting out of my system on election night.
I mean I was even able to read that fulsome, deeply Un-American, borderline sacrilegious, paean from Pence without doing more than gagging a bit.
But, wow. Just . . . wow.
I was reading it and, unbidden, I recalled a scene from the BBC “I Claudius” series, where Claudius and two senators are summoned to the palace by Caligula in the middle of the night and seated in a darkened room. And they’re all composing themselves in expectation of imminent execution, when suddenly, the lights go up, dancers appear and a harp-playing eunuch (in the books, anyway) starts singing a song about lovers separated by “Rosy Finger Dawn” while they dance. And then, Caligula (John Hurt, being brilliant as usual) comes cavorting out in drag, portraying “Rosy-Fingered Dawn” separating the lovers and minces his way through the dance.
And when the bizarre, surreal scene reaches its surreal, bizarre end, Claudius and the other two senators leap to their feet applauding, cheering, shouting out enthusiastically their appreciation for this brilliant composition and performance, loudly attempting to outdo each other in their praise.
Yeah, somehow, that’s the thing that came to mind. That’s where we are with this madhouse. We are literally in the same kind of space as Rome under one of its periodic Mad Emperors. Like Caligula, Nero, Commodus, Caracalla, or Elagabalus, surrounded by terrorized sycophants walking the fine line between the influence that comes with offering grovelling, servile praise and agreement with delusion and the risk of unwittingly saying some random thing that sets off a homicidal rage. Hitler in the Fuhrerbunker, Stalin in his dacha in the fifties, Idi Amin in his palace. Except even second and third rate minds can be at court, because the cost of incurring the potentate’s displeasure is mere humiliation and dismissal rather than death.
Trump took credit for sabotaging the ACA and taking away health care from millions of Americans.
He said, and I quote, “We… I hate to say this, but we essentially repealed ObamaCare because we got rid of the individual mandate, which was terrible.”
When the number of un-insured starts going up and people start dying, Trump and the Republicans own it.
Unfortunately, the campaign ads write themselves.
I knew that was in there. It was a big deal. Did trump forget he had that added or think we didn’t notice?
No. It means he just now found out about it, thinks no one else knew about it because he didn’t and so is taking credit for everyone not knowing about it, holding it up as proof of his genius. Because of course he is.
“I want to have them get up and get the glamour and glory,”
Jesus Hitler Christ…can you imagine, just for one second, the absolute, inconsolable shitshow we would have been treated to if Obama had EVER said anything like that, gloating about glamour and glory?
Trump had it added. It was a big deal. And the GOP says it will 1) save a ton of money because many fewer people will get subsidies, and 2) not in any way affect the number of Americans who have insurance.
“…not affect the number of Americans who have insurance.”
not affect the number of Americans who have access to insurance.
FIFY
That’s quite a trick. I don’t suppose they explained how it was supposed to work?