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Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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Trump Tweets

"All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions, and if they don’t, they will after I speak to them. I am in total support. Also, Democrats will destroy your Medicare, and I will keep it healthy and well!"
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets

"All Republicans support people with pre-existing conditions, and if they don’t, they will after I speak to them. I am in total support. Also, Democrats will destroy your Medicare, and I will keep it healthy and well!"
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He may say that, but he's lying, stupid, ignorant of the actual plan (or all three). The actual GOP plans give the insurers a way out, unlike the ACA:

The Affordable Care Act had an outside limit of 3 to 1 based on age. That’s not in this bill. And Hoffman told us the flexibility doesn’t stop there.

"They could charge people in less healthy communities or occupations way more than others," Hoffman said. "Just guaranteeing that everyone can get a policy has no meaning if the premiums are unaffordable for people more likely to need medical care."

Rodney Whitlock, a health policy expert who worked for Republicans in Congress, told us those criticisms are valid.

"Insurers will use the rules available to them to take in more in premiums than they pay out in claims," Whitlock said. "If you see a loophole and think insurers will use it, that’s probably true."
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https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-...isting-conditions-does-any-gop-proposal-matc/
 
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Aridas said:
Majority Latino city in Kansas just moved its one, yes one, polling place outside the city limits

...I'm glad I don't live there, but this is, quite seriously, incredibly absurd. The kind of absurd that should probably end up with someone fired, at best.
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Republicans keep doing this. The people in those districts need to fight back.

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Oh, and since I seem to keep sounding these alarms...

Georgia Officials Force Black Seniors Off Bus En Route To Polls

Uh huh. Nothing to be concerned about there, either.
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They're playing hardball.
Jefferson County’s administrator said Tuesday that the county government considered the event at the senior center “political activity,” which isn’t allowed during county-sponsored events.

Black Voters Matter is a nonpartisan group encouraging African-Americans to vote in the election, but the county government considered the event political because Jefferson County Democratic Party Chairwoman Diane Evans helped organize it, County Administrator Adam Brett said in a statement.
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How did the officials even know about it? Someone called, didn't like the bus logo:
But someone apparently saw the bus, painted with the words “The South is Rising Tour,” and called county government offices, Brown said. That led to the phone call from the county clerk to the senior center. When they were asked, the senior citizens agreed to leave the bus.
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That kind of bigotry is going to backfire.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
They're playing hardball. How did the officials even know about it? Someone called, didn't like the bus logo:That kind of bigotry is going to backfire.
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I think so too. Anger can be very motivating.

I had a change of address, put my party affiliation as Republican - figuring that way I might escape my vote being invalidated on a technicality.

I also think there are more than a few Republicans who are sickened by such tactics. I know you don't cut them any slack, but I simply can't believe they are all total dicks. You can be conservative and still believe in playing fair. I think.
 
Minoosh said:
I think so too. Anger can be very motivating.

I had a change of address, put my party affiliation as Republican - figuring that way I might escape my vote being invalidated on a technicality.

I also think there are more than a few Republicans who are sickened by such tactics. I know you don't cut them any slack, but I simply can't believe they are all total dicks. You can be conservative and still believe in playing fair. I think.
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There are a lot of Republicans who are sickened by such tactics. That's not a clear indication that they'll stop voting for the people endorsing them, though, especially if the people in question lie about it. There also are a lot of Republicans who I know and think quite well of, very much including members of my family and friends who seem to have a pronounced blind spot when it comes to matters touched by partisanship... and Fox News, in particular. Most of them also seem to think that the *real* racists right now are the Democrats, and offer as proof... the position of the Democrats during the Civil War. Other things, too, but none of them any better. And yes, one can certainly be conservative and believe in playing fair. The problem there, though, is likely that there aren't many actual conservatives in the first place. I'm largely in agreement with Max Boot on that point and a number of others, though. Rather, some conservatives managed to form a sort of tribal cult that paid lip service to conservatism, but which didn't actually hold the ideals dear, fooled themselves into thinking that those were actually conservatives... and now their control of the cult has been stolen from them, giving multiple whammies to the actual things that they stood for and their actual numbers.
 
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Blast from the past:

The economic fallout of a Donald Trump presidency will probably be severe and widespread enough to plunge the world into recession. Trump is the mother of all adverse effects.

We are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight. I suppose we could get lucky somehow. But on economics, as on everything else, a terrible thing has just happened.

-- Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize-winning economist) Nov 9, 2016
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Bwahahaha!
 
Slings and Arrows said:
“Democrats have become the party of crime. They would rather devastate America’s communities than defend America’s borders. Democrats produce mobs, Republicans produce jobs.”

-- President Donald J. Trump (Oct 18, 2018)
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Interesting since crime rates dropped both during Clinton's term and Obama's term. Also far, far more Republicans have been convicted of corruption than Democrats.



But since when do facts matter?
 
Slings and Arrows said:
Blast from the past:




Bwahahaha!
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The economy will collapse. Trump has overseen the demolition of all the regulations intended to prevent Wall Street from collapsing the economy again. With those regulations gone and Wall Street still being run by amoral idiots it is only a matter of time.
 
Travis said:
The economy will collapse. Trump has overseen the demolition of all the regulations intended to prevent Wall Street from collapsing the economy again. With those regulations gone and Wall Street still being run by amoral idiots it is only a matter of time.
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as with Bush, Republicans just have to keep on handing out taxpayer money to keep the economy going until Dems take the White House.
Then they will let it all crash (again) and blame it on the Dems.


And plenty of voters will buy this hook, line and sinker.
 
I found it interesting that CBS Evening News chose to not even mention Trump’s glorifying of a physical attack on a reporter.

On the one hand, they avoided being distracted by a “shiny thing” Trump threw out there. Good on them.

On the other hand, is it not newsworthy when the President mocks and literally endorses attacks on reporters?

Kinda torn on this one.
 
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I found it interesting that CBS Evening News chose to not even mention Trump’s glorifying of a physical attack on a reporter.

On the one hand, they avoided being distracted by a “shiny thing” Trump threw out there. Good on them.

On the other hand, is it not newsworthy when the President mocks and literally endorses attacks on reporters?

Kinda torn on this one.
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That's the Trump conundrum. You should ignore him rather than fuel him, but you can't.
 
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