Poor Mitch, I’m just so sorry you couldn’t steal my healthcare you goddamn weasel
By David Futrelle
I find a lot of interesting and funny stuff on Twitter every day so I thought I’d try rounding some of that up for you all on a regular, perhaps even daily basis. Today, it’s all (or mostly) about the FAILURE of the Republican’s attempts to destroy healthcare. A good day (so far, but it’s not even noon yet where I live)!
Sorry, international readers, but today’s tweet collection is pretty US-centric. But there is a tweet about New Zealand if you scroll down enough.
Sen. McConnell takes a deep breath and begins inflating his neck pouch in a show of anger at the failure of #SkinnyRepeal. pic.twitter.com/MTpV9x7iG1
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) July 28, 2017
LOL OWNED pic.twitter.com/qi2evWAdxH
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) July 28, 2017
— nick (@nick_pants) July 28, 2017
Take joy in the sadness of these bozos. pic.twitter.com/njbz8MNmIx
— TakeDownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) July 28, 2017
In the end, the president's closing message – that his attorney general is terrible – couldn't put the bill over the top
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) July 28, 2017
Amazing that this vote happened just one month before the secret provision in Obamacare declaring Islam mandatory kicks in.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) July 28, 2017
Can't be said enough. The people who actually killed this bill were the activists and ordinary Americans who mobilized against it. https://t.co/l0nA1jSeEm
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) July 28, 2017
People with disabilities got thrown out of their wheelchairs and arrested to fight for everyone to wake up with health care this morning.
— Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) July 28, 2017
Literally, we were one vote away from medical catastrophe. Do. Not. Rest.
— Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff) July 28, 2017
As expected, Fox and Friends is all over the historic and unexpected news from the Senate. pic.twitter.com/SjmvySLGuS
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) July 28, 2017
"Plz change the rulez because I'm incompetent. Also, I don't understand that this bill only needed 51 and still couldn't." pic.twitter.com/mkMthlXNUO
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 28, 2017
last night was both stressful and a relief but what fresh new hell awaits us today also happy friday pic.twitter.com/O2j440hEz5
— darth:™ (@darth) July 28, 2017
The three Repubs to break with McConnell and kill the bill were Collins, Murkowski and McCain.
If your Senator(s) voted no, please call and thank them! If they voted yes, call and give them hell! You can get the numbers of your Senators (and more info) at 5Calls.org Moveon.org, or on the Senate website or by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.
And in other news:
"Men are afraid women will laugh at them; women are afraid men will kill them." https://t.co/moOsk1tqI0
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) July 28, 2017
Just a tweet from our U.S. government suggesting that scientists are a group of people to be defeated. https://t.co/v25UpWAE2v
— David Steen, Ph.D. (@AlongsideWild) July 27, 2017
The New Zealand Parliament Facebook page is back after it was suspended by Facebook *for a full week* under the assumption it was fake pic.twitter.com/JvzNesQsFP
— brad esposito (@braddybb) July 27, 2017
Why you never wear GREEN on TV🤗 pic.twitter.com/IsC8TuE3Ei
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 28, 2017