"I'm not trying to suck my own cock"

There are overlap in all categories: is Lindsay graham macho or intellectual?

He loves war.

But I see the macho stuff as basically the alt right. And the sky is falling / kill me all stuff is always hand in hand with conspiracy theory / fascism / reality disconnect.

Lol @ Trump trying to figuring out how congress works. Get smart y'all.

On the one hand yeah, but on the other, I've only watched him interview/debate Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal (that I recall)and he talked about smashing both of their faces in.

berating and belittling congress critters is a super lol strategy. They can decide to make his life a living hell if they decide enough is enough and he stays at sub 40% approval.

one of those tweets straight up calls them all fools, in front of the whole wide world

Graham, McCain and other reflexive hawks are macho wing imo. McCain cares a lot more about starting wars than tax cuts. May need to move the neocons as a whole there.

WTF is he talking about?



https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...34415347060736

his brain broke

I don't want to derail the thread with gender theory so this is my last post about the subject.

U.K. right is more associated with the upper class and posh schools.
In fact Labour thrived in the days in which the blue collar worker was the main political subject.
Thatcher genius was challenging the models of masculinity. The introduction of the idea of having a car as something masculine was something that the old Labour Party never recovered from.

To Microbet: I completely agree with the link you posted , however I think those kind of political positions are possible in countries in which we see more poverty and more women oppression.
In the developed first world I think feminism has reaches a point where it's becoming really difficult to articulate the needs of educated middle class women with the needs of the working class.

Also upper middle class women want equal status , they want positions in power. Poorer women tend to seek security and so on, they don't care if female movie stars make less than their male counterparts.

USA history has a strong rural background, you had your house in the middle of nowhere and you had to protect your family with a gun. That's the context in which masculinity in the American south thrived.

Finally to go full feminist here I think the problem USA has is that it's lack of Marxist culture in the important universities led to radical feminism which basically means "**** men" which may be a decent framework for understanding the world but it's a complete political disaster even for women themselves because it leaves them without allies.
A great example of the failure of this feminism is well Donald Trump winning the election with rust belt votes.
But a more precise example is Sheryl Sandberg , progressive billionaire related to some hi tech **** I don't really understand. A group of working class women asked her for help in forming a union and she turned them down.
The final result is this thread in which you lot discuss how Trump is taking healthcare away from the poor and abortion rights for women.

Uh dude, you do realize that the Trump administration is effectively over at this point, right?

1) Subsidies that the insurance companies get for selling on the Obamacare exchanges.

2) Congressional staff get subsidies when they buy their insurance on the exchange.

Wrong and wrong.

I do remember einbert. I guess I must have missed something. Did he self-exile, get banned, or what?

You're kidding, right? He straight up cuckolded Cruz on national TV and what did Cruz do? Why, he made calls on his behalf a month later, of course. There is no amount of shame and humiliation a Republican won't endure if they get to keep their seat. The ONLY way Republicans turn on Trump is if their seats are in jeopardy. Either Trump's base needs to dwindle, voting laws need to be changed, or citizens united needs to be overturned. Oh, and if Dems actually start caring enough to turn out and ****ing vote!

I think he just posts less lately.

His last post was about doing a sit-in in DC on healthcare, so maybe he's a political prisoner.

trump had him arrested because he's a threat

An explanation of why that is wrong would be nice.

1) The insurers get cost sharing reduction payments. Pretty sure that is what Trump is threatening to stop paying to insurers.

2) Members of Congress and their staff have to buy their insurance on the exchange. However, they also get subsidies when they buy their insurance. This was not initially part of Obamacare (the subsidy) but was later administratively added.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blo...s-for-congress

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cutti...ect-obamacare/

You are assuming trump has a deep understanding of healthcare policy. He knows literally nothing. Your average CNN viewer is far more knowlegable than him. He is the single stupidest low information politician in the world.

He is just shouting about punishing people even when they are the wrong people.

It is a temper tantrum. Nothing more.

It's not the first time he's threatened to kill the cost sharing subsidies iirc.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/19/trum...uld-spike.html

I don't doubt he knows nothing himself, but he very commonly just parrots what the last person he spoke with told him about. I'm guessing someone that has his ear told him that this is how he could put pressure on Congress to get something done.

It's very likely he won't pass anything or follow up on this, but if this is something where someone like Kushner or Mooch (assuming he stays the flavor of the month) is strongly advocating for it, Trump might do it. And the problem here is that both things are within his power to do with an executive order.

Mooch has actually been donating to both obama and clinton campaigns.

Guys help me understand how filibuster is a problem when you have 49 votes