Donald Trump’s Obamacare-Repealing Healthcare Bill Pulled From House Vote SAD! Well, not really. The Obamacare-repealing healthcare bill that Donald Trump PROMISED his stanbase during campaign season is no more. The orange FANTA President had to hug his “L” today when neither he, nor House Speaker Paul Ryan, could wrangle up enough Republican votes to get the bill passed. Washington Post political reporter Robert Costa just spoke to Donald and he said that the bill has been 86’ed: President Trump just called me. Still on phone. “We just pulled it,” he tells me. — Robert Costa (@costareports) March 24, 2017 Somehow, despite being front-and-center on this disastrous piece of legislation, Don-Don is letting his careless cohort Paul Ryan off the hook: “I don't blame Paul,” Trump tells me — Robert Costa (@costareports) March 24, 2017 It appears that Obamacare as presently constructed will continue to stand for quite some time. Late last night Trump issued an ultimatum that if his bill was not voted on and passed today, he’d step away from the issue as a whole and move on to new matters. Just one of many broken promises we’re likely to see during this administration. obamacare when trump pulled the healthcare bill pic.twitter.com/wFvOMsgGl4 — Xavier D'Leau (@XavierDLeau) March 24, 2017 Geppetto trotted his political Pinocchio, Sean Spicer, out this morning to explain their current conundrum. Via ABCNews : The president has “left everything on the field when it comes to this bill,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said today at an afternoon press briefing, adding that House Speaker Paul Ryan “has done everything he can” to collect votes but “at the end of the day, you can’t force people to vote.” Guess now your grandma doesn’t have to die due to lack of health insurance. Say thanks to God for President Obama when you hit your knees tonight. If you’re keeping score at home, this is the second big loss for the safety cone-colored POTUS. Image via WENN/AP
Donald Trump’s Obamacare-Repealing Healthcare Bill Pulled From House Vote SAD! Well, not really. The Obamacare-repealing healthcare bill that Donald Trump PROMISED his stanbase during campaign season is no more. The orange FANTA President had to hug his “L” today when neither he, nor House Speaker Paul Ryan, could wrangle up enough Republican votes to get the bill passed. Washington Post political reporter Robert Costa just spoke to Donald and he said that the bill has been 86’ed: President Trump just called me. Still on phone. “We just pulled it,” he tells me. — Robert Costa (@costareports) March 24, 2017 Somehow, despite being front-and-center on this disastrous piece of legislation, Don-Don is letting his careless cohort Paul Ryan off the hook: “I don't blame Paul,” Trump tells me — Robert Costa (@costareports) March 24, 2017 It appears that Obamacare as presently constructed will continue to stand for quite some time. Late last night Trump issued an ultimatum that if his bill was not voted on and passed today, he’d step away from the issue as a whole and move on to new matters. Just one of many broken promises we’re likely to see during this administration. obamacare when trump pulled the healthcare bill pic.twitter.com/wFvOMsgGl4 — Xavier D'Leau (@XavierDLeau) March 24, 2017 Geppetto trotted his political Pinocchio, Sean Spicer, out this morning to explain their current conundrum. Via ABCNews : The president has “left everything on the field when it comes to this bill,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said today at an afternoon press briefing, adding that House Speaker Paul Ryan “has done everything he can” to collect votes but “at the end of the day, you can’t force people to vote.” Guess now your grandma doesn’t have to die due to lack of health insurance. Say thanks to God for President Obama when you hit your knees tonight. If you’re keeping score at home, this is the second big loss for the safety cone-colored POTUS. Image via WENN/AP
Michelle Obama Vs. Becky & Barack President Obama was never under more pressure than that ONE time he was sniped by deadly Michelle Obama side-eyes at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service while flirting with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt aka foreign Becky with the iight hair. Oh yes, it was a big global thing and the reactions were HILARIOUS. Hit the flip for a flashback to the hilarious Barack, Michelle & Danish Becky saga.
This Patriots Tight End Is Worthy Of Our Admiration Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett says he’ll skip out on a visit to the White House if the team is extended an invitation in honor of their Super Bowl win. “It is what it is People know how I feel about it,” Bennett told the Dallas Morning News , when asked if he’d attend a White House celebration. “Just follow me on Twitter.” Earlier in the week, Bennett told another Dallas MN reporter he wouldn’t attend a White House event: “Because I don’t support the guy in the house,” he said. It’s been well documented that both Patriots owner Bob Kraft and quarterback Tom Brady are friends and supporters of Donald Trump but Bennett says he isn’t concerned about Kraft’s disapproval. “I’m not really worried about that,” Bennett said. “I’m not worried about it at all.” Bennett says he doesn’t bring political talk to the locker room. “You just don’t bring that to work,” he said. “We all have our beliefs. We accept people for who they are.” We can see why that is. Brady does have to throw him the ball after all. It's an emotional week & #Patriots fans will appreciate this message from @MartysaurusRex . @rachelbonnetta reporting for @GarbageTime #SB51 pic.twitter.com/D4yqxEbbQy — Garbage Time (@GarbageTime) February 2, 2017 It’s worth noting that Tom Brady declined President Obama’s invite to the White House when he honored the Patriots last win. He said he had a “family commitment” and went on vacay with Giselle and their kids. But anyways, back to Super Bowl Marty… One of our favorite moments from Bennett came when he brought his 3-year-old daughter Jet to the press conference with him. She completely took over! . @MartysaurusRex 's adorable daughter stole the show with this funny moment in the postgame press conference. pic.twitter.com/Od0KMzLqme — AtTheBuzzer (@TheBuzzerOnFOX) February 6, 2017 #WendyPeedOnTheRug — Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) February 6, 2017 Super Bowl Marty!! — Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) February 6, 2017 TE Martellus Bennett ( @MartysaurusRex ) would like to share a message with you. pic.twitter.com/yOJiTMEfKw — Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) February 6, 2017 More great moments with Marty and his family when you continue…
NBA Coach Popovich Says What Blacks Have Experienced Is ‘Our National Sin’ As disappointed as we are in the terrible choice of words our nation’s President used Wednesday to commemorate Black History Month we are incredibly proud to see that there are white people eloquent and intelligent enough to address the reality of race in America. Listen: I asked Gregg Popovich what #blackhistorymonth means to him, and once again, he spoke #Spurs #NBA https://t.co/gH9urn2hYU — Jabari Young (@JabariJYoung) February 3, 2017 San Antonio Express reporter Jabari Young spoke with the Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich about what Black History Month means to him and boy do we agree with what he had to say! Via ESPN: “Well, it’s a remembrance, and a bit of a celebration in some ways. It sounds odd because we’re not there yet, but it’s always important to remember what has passed and what is being experienced now by the black population. It’s a celebration of some of the good things that have happened, and a reminder that there’s a lot more work to do. But more than anything, I think if people take the time to think about it, I think it is our national sin. OUR NATIONAL SIN. A country whose material wealth was born out of slave labor — people stolen from their native lands, taken to a strange place, separated from their families, treated less than human. We can’t agree more. Can you. Pop continues by challenging people who feel it’s divisive to even discuss race: It always intrigues me when people come out with, ‘I’m tired of talking about that or do we have to talk about race again?’ And the answer is you’re damned right we do. Because it’s always there, and it’s systemic in the sense that when you talk about opportunity it’s not about ‘Well, if you lace up your shoes and you work hard, then you can have the American dream.’ That’s a bunch of hogwash. Hogwash is a good way to put it. Especially when you have people like Ben Carson and Bill Cosby who seem to believe that everyone can achieve anything despite the challenges put in front of them. Pop knows better. Pop knows all about white privilege and isn’t afraid to talk about it: If you were born white, you automatically have a monstrous advantage educationally, economically, culturally in this society and all the systemic roadblocks that exist, whether it’s in a judicial sense, a neighborhood sense with laws, zoning, education, we have huge problems in that regard that are very complicated, but take leadership, time, and real concern to try to solve. It’s a tough one because people don’t really want to face it. One of the best parts of Pop’s commentary is when he calls out Trump for all his lies and disparaging comments about President Obama and how much his rhetoric is responsible for perpetuating racism in this country: And it’s in our national discourse. We have a president of the United States who spent four or five years disparaging and trying to illegitimatize our president. And we know that was a big fake. But still, [he] felt for some reason it had to be done. I can still remember a paraphrase close to a quote “investigators were sent to Hawaii and you cannot believe what they found.” Well, that was a lie. So if it’s being discussed and perpetrated at that level, you’ve got a national problem. I think that’s enough.” Seriously… He touched nearly every aspect of the conversation about race in this nation that we ALL need to be having on a regular basis. What was your favorite thing about what Popovich said?
#TeamObama Is Going THROUGH IT President Obama (yes, he’s still our President) went on a well-deserved vacation after leaving the White House and all Hell broke loose under Cheeto-in-Chief Trump’s already disastrous Presidency that set America ablaze in only 8 days. Hit the flip for a look into the undying Obama mania across the internet.
How Obama Helped This Florida Felon From Being Condemned To Die In Jail Proud to make this one of my final actions as President. America is a nation of second chances, and 1,715 people deserved that shot. https://t.co/4hPxG7hqHL — President Obama (@POTUS44) January 19, 2017 President Obama’s last day in office was an important one for some 300 or so people, who all now have an opportunity to live outside prison walls. One of those people was Trenton Copeland, who penned a letter to REVOLT in October, detailing how he was sentenced six years ago to die in prison for a non-violent offense: I am Trenton Copeland. I am 33 years old and serving a life sentence in federal prison for a nonviolent drug offense. With no parole in the federal system, I have been fundamentally condemned to die in prison. Though it’s a memory I do not enjoy revisiting, I will never forget the day I was sentenced. I was 27 years old and to hear the judge tell me I was being committed to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons for the rest of my life was unreal. The life sentence I received for a nonviolent drug offense screamed that I was beyond redemption and unfit to breathe air as a free man ever again. Words cannot even begin to touch the feelings I had. I was only 27. Locked up for the rest of my life? I couldn’t really process it. And I still can’t, to be honest. The letter detailed how Copeland had turned his sentence into an opportunity to better himself, he accepted full responsibility for his fate, admitting his actions put him behind bars (charged with conspiring to deal cocaine, Copeland received a life sentence because he had two prior convictions for marijuana and cocaine possession). Since being sentenced he had worked to get his GED and had dreams of becoming a youth counselor, helping prevent others from suffering his same fate. He closed by saying without receiving clemency from Obama or major changes to the criminal justice system he would die behind bars. It’s no secret that Congress has been unresponsive to all of Obama’s pleas to reduce mandatory minimums for nonviolent offenders. In eight years, the former President has had to take matters into his own hands and grant commutations at his own discretion. The Washington Post has picked up where Revolt left off — detailing the turmoil Copeland and his family have experienced in the months since his open letter. A week after Copeland’s essay published, Obama commuted the sentences of nearly 100 prisoners. Copeland’s name was not on the list. Good news came to dozens more federal inmates across the United States that month, bringing Obama’s total number of commutations above 1,000 — more than the previous 11 presidents combined. Copeland didn’t make Obama’s list in October, WaPo reports. But he still had some remaining hope. On Tuesday, in one particularly dramatic, last-minute clemency action, Obama pardoned 64 people and commuted the sentences of 209 others, including Chelsea Manning, the Army private convicted of stealing secret diplomatic and military documents and giving them to WikiLeaks. The president also granted a commutation Tuesday to Oscar López Rivera, a Puerto Rican independence activist who was a member of the Armed Forces of National Liberation, a terrorist organization that killed and wounded people in the 1970s and 1980s with bomb attacks. In addition, Obama pardoned more than five dozen people, including baseball great Willie McCovey and retired Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright. Copeland was not on Tuesday’s White House list. The WaPo account of Copeland’s wait is painfully suspenseful, as the last days of Obama’s White House are coming to a close, he begins to fear for the worst. But then… On the last full day of Obama’s presidency, Annie Fray sat at her desk in a Pensacola marketing office. At five minutes to noon, her phone rang. It was Copeland’s lawyer. The president had released his last list. “I shouted so loud my head started hurting,” Fray said. Then she finished her shift and called her son, who will now be free before he turns 40, with half his life to go. Crazy right? To be able to put a face to these disastrous drug sentencing laws makes such a huge difference. Sadly, we are doubtful that the incoming administration give’s AF about all the other Trent Copelands still behind bars. Photo Courtesy Brittany Byrd
