A head fake that is 100% fake, 0% head

Paul Ryan wouldn’t know a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord, singing “Subtle Plans are Here Again!” But that doesn’t stop him from trying. This one is a two-parter.

Part 1 – Trump emits an intemperate Tweet about the HFC.

Part 2 –

It comes at the same time Ryan, who has had multiple conversations with Trump since the failure of the health care bill on how to move their joint agenda forward, has attempted to instill fear in his members through a more gentle, but no less subtle threat: if members stand in Trump’s way, he’ll ditch them — and conservative principles entirely — and go looking for Democratic help.

This brilliant stratergery is a slight modification of the Desperate dud bargaining technique. It involves a human male telling the girl or woman who is telling him no, fuck off and possibly waving silver and garlic that if she doesn’t go out with him, he’ll go out with some other girl or woman. The modification here is that everyone knows, rather than strongly suspects, that the alleged rival would rather burn down the world than have anything to do with him.

The idea that Trump could turn away from his own party at this stage is, to a degree, theater designed to spook the far-right of the party into line. It was a message echoed by Trump administration officials the weekend after the health care failure and repeated Thursday by Ryan, multiple people involved say.

This would be the same weekend that tRump whined about Democrats didn’t vote on the shitty Republican bill that was universally hated and designed to trash a signature Democratic achievement. And then he went to play golf.

So really it is more like Woman 1 has just heard Desperate Dud call her putative rival an ugly bitch before he bopped over to her. AND she knows the putative rival would rather torch the planet than have anything to do with him.

As an aside, I’m not sure how Republicans are managing to do it, but they’ve gotten worse about realizing that other people can hear them. The loss of one of the few things at which they excelled – message discipline – should be laid at Napoleorange’s hooves.

But, sources say, it’s a threat that could eventually ring true if the Freedom Caucus doesn’t change its tune.

These sources are lying or deluded.

After all, the President is not particularly tied into conservative orthodoxy.

Oh, fuck you, CNN. This It’s all an act shit from the press is part of what landed the orange cow pat in the White House.

So while the most recent comments fit into a loosely designed deliberate campaign of sorts now, there’s no question it could become very real if Trump decides it’s the only way to strike any kind of deal.

Really, just fuck off.

This is the sort of garbage that is written by stooges who are convinced that Zombie Eyed Cub Killer and the Red Faced Ranter are super geniuses, even as they’re stepping on rakes or pecking at their reflections like irate pigeons. The issue isn’t that there are no Democrats who would be willing to work with the human anal polyp. The issue is math. He’s an asshole who is as toxic as whatever the hell that is he smears all over himself so that he can sneak up on pumpkins. Representative or Senator X made a deal with Trump is an instant attack ad for any up and coming politician. By 2018 it could be something candidates from both parties use, but I don’t see a lot of Democrats who will be rushing to contract his cooties.

In the House the hypothetical deal would have to appeal to – at the same time – enough Democrats (193 seats) and enough Republicans (237) to get something approaching a majority. Barring some sort of disaster, I’m stumped for an issue on which both sides would be willing to compromise and would not rouse a sizable number of constituents. Plus, any compromising would have to happen before TweedleTrump decided to Shake Things Up by insisting on a bunch of changes to whatever draft bill they had or changing his mind about the whole thing or attacking someone or getting bored and wandering off to play his 200th round of golf.

But other than that, this thing is a dead cert.