Trump Transgender Ban Tweets, Senate Rejects Obamacare Replacements/Repeals, Philly Cat Rescues Couple From Collapsed Home: P.M. Links

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  President Trump's transgender military ban tweets may have been triggered by Republicans in the House, who asked him to help with a dispute over prohibiting the funding of gender reassignment surgery. The White House says it had no plan yet to implement a ban.

• Votes in the Senate on Obamacare repeals and/or replacements have all failed so far.
• Rep. Steve Scalise was discharged from the hospital today.
• The Trump-Sessions feud is complicating the Senate race in Alabama.
• A politician from Honduras pleaded guilty to a federal charge of money laundering.
• A cat in Philadelphia helped rescue a couple from a collapsed house.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The White House says it had no plan yet to implement a ban.

You know who else didn't allow the openly transgendered serve?

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

*throws flag, blows whistle

Incomplete sentence, 10 refresh penalty

[Charles Easterly]

Nice guitar.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Elliptical sentences allowed.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Look, I don't care if you got eye troubles, speak Murican!

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

Soave on Scalise: Maybe it was a Sanders supporter who committed the crime but Scalise is alive so conservative shouldn't whine! Just because a conservative hasn't gone loco left-wing style doesn't mean it can't - or won't - happen!

/raises Martini.

[Zeb]

Am I missing something here?

[Rufus The Monocled]

Just imagining how Soave would have handled it based on his 'conservatives whine too much on campus' musings back in the day while claiming they're just as bad the left.

Looks like I failed you.

[Citizen X - #6]

Robby's not here, man.

Also, while your discourse is pretty tame by Hit'n'Run standards, i'm pretty sure it broke at least six Canadian laws.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

1. Didn't use gender neutral pronouns.
2. Didn't apologize properly.
3. Didn't post a French version of the comment.
4. Didn't mention hockey.
5. Didn't winter proof his computer.
6. Didn't offer anyone poutine.

[Bubba Jones]

Sorry!

[Zeb]

I will forgive you.

This time.

[Tony]

The majority of terrorists in this country are right-wing conservatives.

[Mmmmmmm]

Sure they are.

[ChipToBeSquare]

I was expecting a link to the Council on Foreign Relations or something. Very disappointing

[Mmmmmmm]

I don't know why he bothered, but I guess he still lives in the internet world of 1993, where you can toss up a link, and the people reading aren't instantly aware that it's a propaganda piece.

[ChipToBeSquare]

Well, my joke was that the most successful terrorists we've had are the neoconservatives

But then again the left seems to look back on them fondly now that they're the principled Never Trumpers

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

But then again the left seems to look back on them fondly now that they're the principled Never Trumpers

These days, it's hard to tell the two of them apart considering their mutual war boner for Russia.

[Mark22]

I can't quite tell: are you too stupid to see what's wrong with the link, or do you assume others are too stupid to figure it out?

[Citizen X - #6]

The White House says it had no plan yet to implement a ban.

Uh, not according to Twitter, y'all.

[Juice]

The White House doesn't use Twitter. It only uses Tumblr.

[BestUsedCarSales]

You're thinking ofbthe vitiligo house.

[MikeP]

In what year of journalism school do they learn that a tweet is not an executive order? And why do so many journalists appear to drop out before that class?

[BestUsedCarSales]

The problem is that all the classes on prudence and reason are electives at 8am.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

The Law of Neo Journalism:

Better to be wrong at first, than right at second.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Rep. Steve Scalise was discharged from the hospital today.

Reminding us again that hate speech has consequences.

[BestUsedCarSales]

We've all grown from this event. I look at America before and America after and it's as night and day.

[Juice]

Philly Car Rescues Couple From Collapsed Home

Was it Herbie the Love Bug?

[Citizen X - #6]

Philly Car was my nickname when i briefly worked for Uber.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

How many rides did you give Fist?

Hehe.

[Citizen X - #6]

I was an IT guy, not a driver.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It was a Jaguar. Maybe a Cougar.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

I mean who hasn't been rescued by a cougar?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Votes in the Senate on Obamacare repeals and/or replacements have all failed so far.

No link necessary.

[Citizen X - #6]

I don't think i even WANTED a link.

[Robespierre Josef Stalin]

Does the man in the picture really look happy in his job? Poor Dear Leader.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Well, having to torture and humiliate Sessions every morning take a lot out of a guy.

[Citizen X - #6]

If only Sessions wasn't so obviously into that.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I know you worry, but he'll be okay. He's tough.

[Dillinger]

cat or car dude. not both.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Cat car would be the worst ever.

[Citizen X - #6]

Cat bus is okay, though.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Yes, I know you need one to go to the vet.

[Dillinger]

if I bothered to learn to post links I'd put a cat car up...they're funny

[Citizen X - #6]

Like this?

[Dillinger]

this is what i woulda.

[Charles Easterly]

if I bothered to learn to post links....

If you have the inclination, I can recommend this.

[Dillinger]

gracias, Charles.

[Citizen X - #6]

Or like this?

[Juice]

Rush job on the links? One is to the wrong story. One is no link at all. Etc.

[Citizen X - #6]

Eddie Kray was trying to make up for Chris Britches's massive timing fuckup yesterday, but we're never satisfied.

[BestUsedCarSales]

He realized that we all just comment on the tagline anyway. No one reads the articles. He's just casting away the veil that anyone cares.

[Citizen X - #6]

That or he's high as hell.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Brutalistic efficiency or high as a kite. Either is perfect libertarianism.

[Citizen X - #6]

Exactly.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Jeffrey Tucker triggered.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Anything that stands in the way of his bow-tie militarism triggers Tucker.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

*Brutally passes the Freedom Pipe, chastising anyone who inefficiently parks on the bowl*

[Dillinger]

or should be and.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Rush job?

[Dillinger]

saw Audioslave kill Working Man once. it was lovely.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A politician from Honduras pleaded guilty to a federal charge of money laundering.

Just like that Wasserman-Schultz staffer.

[Dillinger]

>>>A politician from Honduras pleaded guilty to a federal charge of money laundering

how they make it look all tie-dyed.

[Jerry on the sea]

A politician from Honduras pleaded guilty to a federal charge of money laundering

See, libertarian paradise. --Salon

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Michelle Obama opens up about racism she faced as first lady

Obama spoke about being called an ape and people talking about her body, saying she wouldn't pretend the attacks didn't hurt, The Denver Post reported.

Women's Foundation of Colorado President and CEO Lauren Casteel said Obama broke a glass ceiling by becoming the first black first lady, and asked which of the falling glass shards from that glass ceiling cut the deepest.

The first cut is the deepest, baby I know..

[Dillinger]

>>>broke a glass ceiling by becoming the first black first lady

way to get married!

[Meh.]

Yeah, that was kind of an anti-feminist claim for Ms. Casteel to make...

[Rufus The Monocled]

/Chewbacca scream.

Sorry couldn't resist.

[Citizen X - #6]

President/CEO and Executive In Charge of Taking Metaphors Too Far, apparently.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Has anyone ever talked to GWB about his feelings about being repeatedly called an ape?

[Meh.]

I think it's a little different just because there's always the sense that a woman's worth is tied to her appearance.

[DenverJ]

It's not?

[Eek Barba Durkle]

I obviously get the ape thing, but how are criticisms of her body 'racist'?

[BestUsedCarSales]

I definitely saw a lot of racist comments about her, but still my question is the same. Why are we supposed to give a shit about the first lady?

The obsession with them shows the sad transition of the president to a royalty analog.

[Eek Barba Durkle]

That's where we get our future Presidents. You elect the wives, to give the kids time to grow into ruling.

[Bubba Jones]

Trump gave us a first lady worth of obsession.

[Bubba Jones]

They called W a chimp.

[Mark22]

there are still people who won't see me for what I am because of my skin color.

We see you for what you are, Michelle: you're a racist and a bigot. And that has nothing to do with your private parts or your tan.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Trump's transgender military ban tweets may have been triggered by Republicans in the House, who asked him to help with a dispute over prohibiting the funding of gender reassignment surgery.

The president's Solomon-like problem solving.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Solomon's Twitter would be nothing but retweets of horse ebooks.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Solomon's Twitter would be nothing but retweets of horse ebooks.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I found my comment so funny I posted twice on purpose. God, I am so fucking funny. Tony then Me in that order.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

"I will cut this penis in half, so that you may both equally share."
"Fine with me."
"No!!!"
"You see, xe cares more about the penis' well-being than xeself. Xe gets the whole penis."
"He is so wise."

[BestUsedCarSales]

Did you assume Solomon's gender at the end there?

[Eek Barba Durkle]

It's 'Solomon the Wise', not 'Solomon the Can't Even'.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

I would totally watch Judge Solomon Can't Even.

[Fist of Etiquette]

A cat in Philadelphia helped rescue a couple from a collapsed house.

That cat secretly caused the collapse in the first place.

[Dillinger]

fer sure.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Showing off his trophies?

[Charles Easterly]

I suppose that it was aware that it had eight more lives remaining. Saving two more might have made sense at the time.

[colorblindkid]

So a reporter at The Daily Caller has been following this Democrat IT staffer situation for many months now with some very solid straightforward investigative journalism, and it stinks of high hell. DWS threatened capital police when they tried to look for evidence on her laptop (and it's on video!), and apparently there were physically smashed hard drives (a familiar strategy).

You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to think that this thing is part of a larger scandal. If only we had more journalists interested in anything non-Trump to investigate these things, but then again, we still don't know why the FBI still hasn't looked at the DNC's hacked hardware.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07.....e-country/

This isn't a Seth Rich thing or far-fetched conspiracy. These are very real suspicious activities that warrant just as much attention as Trump-Russia ties.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

The scandal probably doesn't go any deeper than a family of opportunistic Pakis taking advantage of the DNC's superficial tolerance to secure lucrative buck-skimming operations within the organization. I wouldn't even be surprised if Awan's incompetence at IT was the reason the DNC emails got hacked and DWS is too embarrassed to admit that she kept him on out of fears of being called racist.

Either way, DWS is poodle-haired, snaggle-toothed waste of life and the fact that cancer didn't manage to finish her off is another reason that disease sucks.

[DenverJ]

Now, now; don't be shy. Tell us what you really think.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Female physics teacher, 28, joined Mile High club when she had sex with pupil on flight home from school trip

Giving evidence to the National College for Teaching and Leadership disciplinary panel, Pupil A said Miss Wilson was intoxicated and he had consumed approximately five miniature bottles of wine on the flight.

He said he and Miss Wilson entered the toilet, kissed, engaged in a sex act and had intercourse without using protection.

[Dillinger]

female physics teacher?

[Citizen X - #6]

I had a female physics teacher in high school. She looked exactly like an older version of Kathy Bates in Misery. Come to think of it, she had a similar personality, too.

[Dillinger]

I had a female biology teacher i *wish* dragged me into an airplane restroom

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

All my high school science teachers were women.

I can't remember if the terrible one was for biology or chemistry. Nasty, openly racist Filipino. The other one was pretty cute, and was open to letting us goof off.

[mad.casual]

Come to think of it, she had a similar personality, too.

Now I want to own a Newton's Cradle made of sledgehammers.

[Bubba Jones]

Hmmm. My female physics teacher looked like the younger version. Perhaps we went to the same high school.

[Citizen X - #6]

Just generic stock photos of a passenger jet and wine being poured? You're slipping, Daily Mail.

Alternate comment: Now THAT'S a physics lesson.

[Zeb]

I guess they only publish pictures when it's Americans. Probably some law against it in the UK.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Teaching him a lesson in fluid Dynamics.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

Dynamic Fluid was my superhero persona.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I remember. Mine was the Fluid Dynamo and you sued.

[This Machine Chips Fascists]

And I would've won too! If not for those darn kids...

[Bubba Jones]

This part rocks:

Pupil C, said he would reveal the affair unless Wilson had sex with him too.

[NAL]

Nice!

[DenverJ]

Yeah, but once you're a mile high, you're in international waters, so US laws don't count. That why I live in Denver.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

On Game of Thrones, Dany's War Council Proved You Don't Need a Penis to Run Westeros

As Dany is gearing up for her takeover of Westeros, she's marshalling her armies, and nearly all of them are run by women. Houses Martell, Tyrell, Greyjoy, and Targaryen were all represented by badass bitches, accompanied by three eunuchs, a handmaiden, and, to use the epithet once thrown at Tyrion Lannister, a "half-man."

In other words: a conspicuous (near-)absence of cock. A 9:1 person-to-penis ratio, in fact.

Game of Thrones has never been a show to shy away from dick, from Theon's to Hodor's, but "Stormborn"?named for Daenerys' occasional title, taken from the torrent that raged during her birth?was defined by penile absenteeism.

We're winning, ladies!

[Fist of Etiquette]

NO SPOILERS

[Citizen X - #6]

Sometimes, the worst thing about Social Justice Warfare is that it tries to make everything boring.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I feel like I could make a machine to write these articles. Just count the male to female ratio and generate a story one way or the other.

[Citizen X - #6]

The AI that would bootstrap itself to full consciousness out of that machine would be such an obnoxious scold.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Maybe Musk is on to something. Maybe we should stop all technology that isn't what he's doing.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Hmmm, moral dilemma. If you could choose between Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream AI, or a SJW AI, which would you choose?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Well, at least with the former you can write out all it's hate, meaning it is finite.

[cgr2727]

Is Alicia Vikander in Ex Machina a choice? Would.

[Tony]

Is that what GRRM is doing?

Didn't see you whining when it was almost all men in charge.

[Zeb]

I think he's talking about the article, not the show, being boring.

[Citizen X - #6]

I was talking about the linked article, not about the show (which is way beyond Martin at this point) or the books (which Martin is on record as stating are an attempt to show the horrific effects of war and politics on individuals). You're really good at missing the point, though. Keep it up, champ!

[Tony]

Maybe, but I'm watching you. Clearly Martin is making some sort of point about women vs. men in power. (We must assume this is where the books are headed.)

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

Too bad we will never find out.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Maybe, but I'm watching you.

[Tony]

I shall live and die at my post. I am the sword in the darkness.

[DenverJ]

Yes, we know. "Democracy dies in derpness"

[Citizen X - #6]

Yeah, that is now the worst line i've ever read on Hit'n'Run.

[Citizen X - #6]

If you read the books, OR interviews with Martin, his point is about people with power vs. people without power. Women with power can fuck up just as badly or be just as corrupt and evil as men. That's why Danaerys's book plotline is still stuck in GWB-In-Iraq-Analogue hell in Meereen, and are you really going to argue that Cersei is in any way a good person to have on the Iron Throne?

[Tony]

I have read the books, and I'd never suggest that his point would end up being "women are always better leaders." No idea where he's going with it, which is why they're fun books.

[Mickey Rat]

Actually, we have very little ideas on how Martin's version of this would turn out. The plot points that led to these people being leaders have not played out in the books and need some significant changes for thst to hsppen.

[Tony]

I'm betting that we end up with a "war of five queens" scenario, because it's rather conspicuous in the show. Who leads the major houses as we enter the endgame would probably be a detail Martin shared with the show people.

And for that matter in the existing material there's hardly a lack of examples of the whims of the penis getting characters into big trouble.

[Tony]

The entire war was decided against the Starks because Robb got horny once, for example.

[Mickey Rat]

Who knew the Frey's could produce a pretty girl?

[ChipToBeSquare]

Pretty plausible given that Jon just left Sansa in charge, but they should just eliminate Dorne from the show and go down to four

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Clearly Martin is making some sort of point about women vs. men in power.

If the point is, "They wouldn't rule all that differently from the men," I'd say that's pretty obvious to anyone who's observed human nature.

[Red Rocks Baiting n Inciting]

Hell, if it's one thing we've seen from Danerys, without her dragons or her immunity to fire she's actually pretty shitty at leading people. Her authority derives entirely from supernatural forces, not from any competence she's displayed so far.

And Cersei--well, she's great at coming out on top in pointless palace intrigues, but her tunnel-visioned idiocy is what's led the Lannisters to the state they're in now, essentially besieged on all sides. Tywin had her pegged when he told her "The reason I don't trust you is not because you're a woman, it's because you're not as smart as you think you are."

[Tony]

I think Dany's and Jon's arcs are meant to show them gaining experience and insight in their travails in order to eventually become good leaders. This doesn't come through in the show as much, as they both seem to be mediocre at best. And Cersei is amply shown to be incompetent. She has power to hang onto, and they have power to win. Sansa might be a disaster for all anyone knows (she got her training from Cersei).

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

The entire plan was devised by the one person there with a penis.

And the plan kinda sucks, since the odds need to be revised against Dany a smidge.

[Mickey Rat]

And then we see two of the women utterly fail at carrying out their part of the plan.

It is eyerolling to watch the showrunners dislocate their shoulders patting themselves on the back over such an inconsequential thing.

[Dillinger]

>>>A 9:1 person-to-penis ratio

Can't-miss odds.

[Mickey Rat]

Tyrion would protest that he is not a "half-man" where it counts

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

And that his penis makes up for the eunuchs in the room.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

100% takedown defense. The tripod is the most stable configuration.

[Zeb]

We'll see. They still got ass-wupped by the biggest dick in the whole story.

[ChipToBeSquare]

Great job Sand Snakes! You can fight as well as anyone

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Right, the episode ends with a bunch of women getting kidnapped by a cartoon. The only man survives with his freedom!

[Mickey Rat]

Theon really is not the man ge used to be.

[ChipToBeSquare]

Honestly Euron is one of the best outright villains they've had. That guy is just fun onscreen

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

I don't like some of the writing around his character, but the performance is fun. I'm not sure how else you portray an insane pirate.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Officers kill man with no active warrants at wrong house (warning: autoplay video)

Documents show that Southaven officers went to the wrong house to serve a warrant on Monday, which resulted in the shooting death of a man who did not have any active warrants out for his arrest.

A warrant out of Tate County shows Samuel Pearman was wanted for domestic assault. But, when Southaven officers arrived on Surrey Lane to arrest Pearman, they did not show up to the correct house.

[...]

While officials sort out what happened, the man they were looking for took to social media.

Pearson even posted on Facebook Live on Tuesday afternoon claiming he didn't do anything wrong.

"They made me out to be something I'm not," he said. "I haven't hurt her. She's the one who slapped me."

Ismael Lopez and his wife, Claudia Linares, were asleep inside their house across the street from Pearson when officers arrived.

Linares said her husband went to the door to see what was happening outside. That's when she heard gunshots and by the time she reached her husband, he was already dead.

"Bullet holes suggest they shot through the door," Wells said.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I don't know about everyone else, but these police shooting deaths are played out. So boring.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Do they not have access to Waze?

[Zeb]

Did he have any passive warrants?

[dschwar]

Either the police or the media are more confused than they realize: Is the wanted man's name Pearman or Pearson?

[Memory Hole]

Fucking christ.

[Crusty Juggler :)]

Caitlyn Jenner Slams Donald Trump Over Transgender Military Ban; Hollywood Reacts To POTUS Tweets ? Update

Buckle up, Trumparoo!

[BestUsedCarSales]

Glad to see Jenner isn't persona non grata again.

[Chipper Morning, Now #1]

And what did Lena have to say?

[AlmightyJB]

Pass me another turkey leg

[XM]

The link is broke, though.

[AlmightyJB]

Just like Caitlyn's

[DenverJ]

Ba dum

[XM]

I can't imagine the SC will allow this transgender ban to stand. Unlike the travel ban, Trump may have lost this battle even before it begin.

I suspect more "consultation" with generals will follow and the EO will be revised (either in the foreseeable future or after a court in Hawaii strikes it down) to be more of a "no women showering with men" sort of deal.

[Bubba Jones]

I think the real ban is going to be on gender assignment surgery.

If you are incapable of functioning in your own body, you get a medical discharge and you can get in line at the VA for your surgery.

[AlmightyJB]

I agree, that's what this is all about. Free reassignment surgery and all that entails on the taxpayer's dime and the military's time.

[chipper me timbers]

There's a huge difference between

[DenverJ]

Hitler and Stalin?
Dos Equis and Corona?
Michael Moore and "Michael! More!"?

[DenverJ]

Group of friends coming home from the casino at 430am, named "bones" and "reds". Philly sounds like an interesting town.

[Robespierre Josef Stalin]

Does anyone believe there is the slightest possibility that Noor was not rushed through the Police Academy so that the nice people of Minneapolis could feel good about themselves for having a real Somali on the police force?

Minnesota's importation of these stone-age people is a completely self-inflicted wound. It's as if the state decided to inject itself with Hepatitis C. Hey, you know what? We're too white and pure. Everyone tie a vein off and give yourself a shot of hep C. We could learn from that!

With Somalis, you get all the social pathologies of Muslims and the American underclass rolled into one package. There's the terrorism and pederasty ? but also the criminality and joblessness!

At least with taxpayer-draining Mexican illegals, you can say, yes, but they provide the rich with such cheap labor! Someone, somewhere in America, gets a benefit. There is absolutely no benefit to the more than 100,000 Somalis brought in by Minnesota, except to feed the Scandinavian ethnomasochism, expressed as arrogant self-regard.

[Sevo]

What a wonderful pile of lefty steaming bullshit you've posted, scumbag.

[Robespierre Josef Stalin]

I cannot tell a lie. I lifted it-- verbatim-- from Ann Coulter.

[DenverJ]

Well, they also kick people out of their cabs in the middle of nowhere because they have alcohol.

[Sevo]

Crusty Juggler :)|7.26.17 @ 4:47PM|#
"On Game of Thrones, Dany's War Council Proved You Don't Need a Penis to Run Westeros"

Suggestion:
Separate thread for those who have some desire to post about vid series and vid games so the rest of us can better ignore worthless comments.

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