On second thought, that might make her a dizz-bomb.
You apparently think the voters read.
Hereās the thing - the premiums will go up on everyone, not just the people who purchase thru the exchanges.
And most companies who do provide healthcare to their workforce also have a cost sharing provision with their employees, i.e. the employee pays a portion of the health insurance premium and/or pays for spouse and dependent coverage. So even those who think they wonāt be touched by MoronCare, the same people who have seen the increases in premiums go down, down, down over the past several years, will suddenly see the spike in what comes out of their paychecks.
Tramp can blame the Dems, Obama, the āliberalā insurance industry (what that fuck is that lie about?) but it all falls to him because even congress canāt be blamed for him single-handedly destroying the marketplace.
Where have ya been?
James Fallows said in 2008 that certain things McCain had said and done while campaigning werenāt in keeping with his dignity as a combat veteran. Then he said something approximately like āI will say nothing about the dignity or lack thereof of a vice-presidential candidate who repeatedly winks, Hooters-waitress-style, at the public.ā
I donāt really want to revive the whole Electoral College debate or the debate of the 3+million more votes that HRC received, but if the electorate was in possession of its full mental faculties and not guided by hate, butthurt, misogyny, etc., Dump would not have received one (1) vote for President - instead he received ~63million votes. Then there is the issue of the ~1/2 of the electorate that couldnāt even bother to vote. 130 million American voters couldnāt see a difference between HRC and DJT and couldnāt see what was at stake and couldnāt be bothered to exercise their franchise. Thatās fucking obscene!
We have a serious problem and, while it is probably true that the election was not fair and square and that the Russians meddled in our election and etc., it is my humble opinion that blaming external factors is not going to solve the problem. I am not a political/social genius and I donāt know what the solution is, but I think the problem is clear. We have seen the enemy and it is us.
There is also the factor of people not being ready yet to admit that they made a mistake in picking Tramp last November. To not approve of Tramp right now implies that they were dupes and the herd isnāt ready to do that. Many never will but there are also many who know heās an idiot even as he proves over and over again that, unlike what they believed, heās not their idiot after all.
@geofu54 too
The man is crazier than grannyās old pet coon. He will be blamed for sabotaging Obamacare. There is no way he can get around that. The only questions are will his base squeal or will he even notice if they do. The Republicans are under enormous pressure because of this. Think of the donations they arenāt going to get from the insurance industry.
I would never say trumpp does anything well as far as governance but he does understand media manipulation and heās the master. Deflection, lies, inflammatory accusations, how can reporters, pundits and the rest chase them down so they go with the easiest ones and leave the buried truth for someone else to uncover.
I think you forget that this man is in office, I know he makes no sense, you know he makes no sense, we both know he made no sense before he was in office, yet here he is.
āIn what regard, Charlie?ā was the first āpromisingā sign for me (made me feel convinced people would realize fairly quickly what a fuckinā moron that woman was). Then again, Iām sure that deer in headlights reaction is not how the fuckinā moron would have shown. It would have been more like āThe Bush Doctrine is a disaster, itās a mess, itās really, really bad and Iāll beautifully fix itā or something like that.
Working - I work in the healthcare sector on the payer side and letās just say that even the biggest plans are scrambling right now. Bigly.
Plus, I took a break from all news because it was really getting to meā¦
Heās right, Obamacare is dead We now have Trumpcare. And how delusional is it to think that Americans will blame the Democrats.
Special elections, polling, and sites like The Cook Report disagree with you.
As an overly tactful Libran I agree with both you and tena. Yes, we have a large swathe of the public thatās lacking the knowledge and critical thinking skill necessary to effectively choose competent leaders. Thatās a huge problem, and weāre living with the consequences now. But without speaking for tena I agree with her in that it was a plurality, basically, that made Trump the candidate and then the President. Heās not favored by a majority, never was, and heās historically unpopular now. If our government was as representative as it ought to be, as we have a right to expect, he would not be President today.
How can normal human beings of some accomplishment sit through a performance this deranged and not respond by making a citizenās arrest on the grounds that the POTUS is criminally insane and constitutes a clear and present danger to the very survival of the republic?
In a true democracy Hillary Clinton would be president. He was elected by the Electoral College. Doesnāt mean he won the election. Weāre undergoing a daily battle to remind ourselves and whoever we can hope to persuade of the same. He doesnāt represent this country, just a small percentage of disgruntled people who are now going to be hurt by the guy they put their trust in. Slowly but surely his supporters will slip away, but as others have pointed out, they donāt want to acknowledge they were conned by don.
Get thee to Washington.
You keep thinking that, little buddy.
November 2018 canāt come quick enough.
The threatening tone of his statement is that of a dictator. He was āelectedā without a majority or a popular mandate. The effort to repeal the ACA failed multiple times even with a GOP control of both houses ā because the majority of the american people did not want it repealed. So he decides he is going to take matters into his own hands and override the majority. Rule by one man ā him ā is all he understands and every opportunity to excert the power of the presidency and control of the executive branch, he will. Heāll do it with ACA, he will do it with NAFTA, he has done it with DACA and the Paris Climate Accord, he will do it with the Iran treaty, he will do it with nuclear bombs on the Korean peninsula. The man is out of control now and no one in his party is moving to stop this power grab. This is what he threatened when he said the calm before the storm ā and that we should āwait and see.ā