Nothing… shit happens and this kid is now a pre-exisiting condition that will get underwritten out of any pool for the rest of his life.
Archives for May 2017
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: #Resisting
Tuesday is National Death to TrumpCare Day. Call 866-426-2631 and be a lifesaver.https://t.co/mweNyOCOrc
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) May 2, 2017
NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY TOMORROW TO DESTROY TRUMPCARE. Call 866-426-2631. Use https://t.co/3XvofXuTE9
Pls RT
Here's the remaining undecideds: pic.twitter.com/uW4UKsBCtm
— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) May 1, 2017
Nice (as in ‘precise, accurate’) post from Josh Marshall, “The Cuck Stops Here“:
…For all the talk about Trump shutting down the government to get Wall money, holding Obamacare subsidies hostage or generally bending history or at least Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to his will, Trump got close to nothing in the funding bill meant to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year. He ended up crying uncle or “no mas” on virtually all his demands…
The EPA was slated for massive cuts – roughly 31%. It will retain 99% of its funding.
Trump demanded funding for his border wall. He didn’t get any.
Trump wanted to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health. It’s getting $2 billion of additional funding.
Funding is included for the Obamacare subsidies Trump has threatened not to pay.
There’s no provision for “defunding Planned Parenthood.”
There’s no language to defund “sanctuary cities.”
There are obviously many other things included in the bill. And it’s not like Trump got nothing. But at least on most of the hot button issues he’s pushed as part of his agenda he folded like a cheap suit…
…Trump presented himself as the consummate alpha-male ball buster, someone who speaks and embodies the ethos of domination his most ardent supporters instinctively crave and believe in. In practice, he’s repeatedly adopted what might be termed the preemptive fail, not only talking tough but failing to achieve his aims but actually jumping ahead of the process and unilaterally backing down or saying a metaphorical ‘nevermind’ before the supposed confrontation even arrives…Trump is less a threat than a bullshit artist who caves easily and is best either ignored or treated with a stern, disciplined and unafraid response…
Apart from preparing to be part of that “stern, disciplined and unafraid response”, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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On The Road
Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their transient locales.
So, please, speak up and share some of your adventures, observations, and sights as you explore, no matter where you are. By concentrating travel updates here, it’s easier for all to keep up-to-date on the adventures of our fellow Commentariat. And it makes finding some travel tips or ideas from 6 months ago so much easier to find…
Have at ’em, and have a safe day of travels!
Should you have any pictures (tasteful, relevant, etc….) you can email them to [email protected] or just use this nifty link to start an email: Start an Email to send a Picture to Post on Balloon Juice
The skills of photographers on this site are top-notch – with even more examples tonight. Today’s selection are amazing and I feel like I can’t wait to share the pictures on deck for later this week, but I will.
How Do You Keep Up With the Insanity
As you all know, ABC was down for the weekend so I didn’t spend too much time paying attention to the news, but I tried to blog about something this afternoon, and saw Trump’s comments about Kim Jong Un after his comments about that lunatic Duterte and then ran into the Civil War shit and just said oh fuck it all.
It’s amazing.
At any rate, watching the Pens (what a third period comeback) and thought you all would appreciate this rainbow over my parent’s backyard:
Monday Evening Open Thread: Thrashing
.@NewYorker's cartoon of the day. pic.twitter.com/yckIdMl71c
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 29, 2017
Promise him a spot on Mount Rushmore, doctor up some historically high approval ratings, and I bet you could convince Trump to retire now.
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) April 28, 2017
Happy May Day, everybody. I marked the occasion by starting this year’s Great Yard Clean-Up, and no sooner than time, so now I’m tired, allergy-sniffly *and* discouraged…
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Apart from [facepalm]-ing, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
On the 101st day,still no:tax returns, assets in blind trust, acknowledgement that "millions of illegal voters" or "wiretapped" were lies…
— jtlevy (@jtlevy) April 30, 2017
Also no wall, no ACA repeal, no tax plan, no plan to defeat ISIS. And pretty much no deputies or assistants in any of the agencies. https://t.co/RhwQpCyFFT
— Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz) April 30, 2017
100 days in, I can say I definitely saw the rage & despair coming, but was not prepared for quite this magnitude of crushing embarrassment.
— laura olin (@lauraolin) April 29, 2017
THANKS, REPUBLICANS! Also Media Village Idiots of the Punditariat…
Has Mark Halperin given Trump's first hundred days a B+ yet?
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 28, 2017
How I Learned To Love Climate Modeling
I’m annoyed by the New York Times hire of Bret Stephens, more annoyed by the defense that Times editors are mounting on Twitter. I’m annoyed that this has to be said again, but here we are, as Times editors tell us that any criticism is merely trying to silence a conservative voice. My objections have nothing to do with Stephens’s political views, except that it is clear that those views drive his views of climate change.
I was once a climate skeptic, with a great deal more basis than Stephens’s sense that life is uncertain and therefore we should eat dessert first. My skepticism arose BECAUSE I knew something about the climate models.
The voice of experience versus buzzwords
There is always an XKCD for everything:
Here to Help https://t.co/Zk5zGAZdmd https://t.co/zWFbcThhdz pic.twitter.com/2O5oe5T0oG
— XKCD Comic (@xkcdComic) May 1, 2017
If there was an easy solution it would have been implemented a long time ago in most circumstances.
Now get off my lawn and enjoy your open thread.
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