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Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19
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shemp
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Yeah what did that Lincoln guy ever do for them anyway, huh? And he was a goddamn RINO!
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Dread Pirate Roberts
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And Jesus Haploid Christ, I guess the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act just materialized out of ******* thin air.
God, what a ******* douchenozzle
Stacyhs
Penultimate Amazing
He's so stupid that he thinks the A-American community is going to swallow that load of BS. IMO, it will really piss them off more than anything.
Aridas
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Mmm. Honestly, I'm not sure that it's actually directed at them. More likely, it's directed at his base, like practically everything else, to give them the fig leaf of "we're totally not racist."
You might be slightly surprised to hear it, but... just about all the Fox loving Republicans that I know have bought into the "Republicans are not the racist ones, Democrats are!" BS narrative. My father even justified such by invoking the Civil War.
This is just more along the lines of the flimsy pretexts on that matter.Interestingly enough, my mother was talking to me a bit earlier about how she recently had the chance to listen to a person related to the Just Mercy story and was shocked. She honestly didn't even really begin to understand how bad things were before then, and, frankly, why would she? That's a bit of a tangent, though.
shemp
a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
I think I've figured it out! There are two Trumps, and two universes! The other universe is the Bizarro universe, but the Trumps got switched! Everything this Trump says makes sense in the Bizarro universe, and vice versa!
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Why would people need reminders?
For President Trump’s base, this is a feature, not a bug. For evidence, look how the rally crowds react when POTUS mentions physically attacking protestors and other folks who don’t share their vision. And even the ones who do dislike that type of speech are going to vote for him anyway, because THE DEMS ARE COMING FOR OUR GUNS!11!! Plus they are going to make us stop discriminating against the gays. And they all want completely open borders (or as President Trump sometimes say “open boarders.”
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Someone was trying to convince me that a large chunk of Republican legislation and the Republican message indirectly ensures there will always be an underpaid working class. Abortion must be outlawed; socialism is evil so we must stop funding safety-net programs; public health care is evil; job-killing regulations are preventing you from having the good job you deserve (that one serves double duty because repealed pollution controls increase profits for the owners and make many of the folks living downwind of the coal plant sick); bankruptcy legislation must prevent student loans from ever being written off.
TragicMonkey
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There's tremendous money to be made off the poor. If most of the population were well-off they could be choosy about what they do and for how much they'd do it for, which would be less money and power for the rich.
Stacyhs
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Mmm. Honestly, I'm not sure that it's actually directed at them. More likely, it's directed at his base, like practically everything else, to give them the fig leaf of "we're totally not racist."
You might be slightly surprised to hear it, but... just about all the Fox loving Republicans that I know have bought into the "Republicans are not the racist ones, Democrats are!" BS narrative. My father even justified such by invoking the Civil War.
Interestingly enough, my mother was talking to me a bit earlier about how she recently had the chance to listen to a person related to the Just Mercy story and was shocked. She honestly didn't even really begin to understand how bad things were before then, and, frankly, why would she? That's a bit of a tangent, though.
Does his base really need another fig leaf? I don't think so. It doesn't matter what he says, they'll vote for him. He's trying to go after the A-A vote.
I'm not surprised at all that so many Republicans believe it was the "racist Democrats" who supported slavery, etc. As a former history teacher, I am well aware of the switch in all but name between the Republicans and Dems of Lincoln's times and that of the 1950-60's. I've had many a discussion with Trumpers who refuse to acknowledge that switch. It didn't matter how many historians I quoted, they refused to acknowledge it. All they could present as evidence was youtube videos by non-historians and far right wingers. Reality is not a strong point for them.
I get Prager-U and MRCTV propaganda as evidence, you?
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Mumbles
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Again, this crap is for white people who are worried that he's a racist (which he is), not for black people, who he is currently trying to prevent from voting at all.
In the real world, Dolt 45 did nothing for HBCUs, refused to enforce antidiscrimination laws including consent decrees against racist police forces, and added several judges who refused to say whether or not they thought Brown v Board was decided correctly. And, of course, there's his open hatred of civil rights leaders, calling athletes who protest police brutality "sons of bitches", and telling black and brown Americans to "go back to [where] you came from". Really, this is classic racist claptrap, up there with "democrat plantation", "welfare queen", and "you took my place at work/school!"
IOW, he's exactly the same white supremacist he always has been.
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Stacyhs
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Yes. There was another one that was popular by some guy who admitted he had no credentials as a historian. I presented article after article by university professors of history and other historians. All I got was a bunch of unsupported claims in response.
SezMe
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Ford pardoned Nixon of all of his actions, known or unknown, legal or illegal.
SezMe
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The GOP.
SezMe
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Even you, as President, could have a good economy if you flooded the country with deficit dollars. The deficit, you know, the thing you and your fellow conservatives had an eight-year boner about starting in 2008.
SezMe
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You can say that again!
ETA: I see that Trebuchet is stealing my material. Shame on him.
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Sounds like a Medicare Advantage plan. IOW, an MA plan denying multiple rehab stints after multiple hospital stays is not unusual. Medicare has strict coverage requirements for rehab units. If she is not expected to recover any ability to care for herself after hospital-rehab-hospital another rehab unit isn’t going to be approved by an MA plan.
Now, if she had traditional Medicare, she likely would have been admitted to the rehab unit again for a short time; Medicare pays up to 100 days after each hospital admission. The doctor’s orders and certification would have been enough to get her in if the rehab doctor agreed.
The problem here is that Aetna has stricter requirements and can make its own rules about what will be approved. The whole point of a MA plan is that Medicare gives Aetna $X to care for each patient and that’s it. X varies depending on the particular risk factors each patient has. If she was relatively healthy, Aetna likely doesn’t have any more money in her “budget” to spend on more rehab. MA is all about controlling costs.
Medicare does not pay for long-term care at all other than home health visits. The fact that she is bed-ridden is not enough to justify keeping her in a rehab unit. We don’t really know her true medical situation so we can’t really say whether Aetna made the right decision.
If I were in this family’s shoes, I would have used the Special Enrollment Period after a rehab unit stay to get her out of the MA plan and back on to Traditional Medicare. Then I’d talk to the doc (assuming he/she agrees as does the rehab doc) to get her admitted back in the hospital which would trigger another 100 days of rehab being available. If she doesn’t recover by then, though, the family is still looking at figuring out long-term care.
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Aridas
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Actually, yes. Or, more specifically, for many of them, it's more of the emotional validation via outrage that they crave, not the specific fig leaf itself. The continual stream of such is one of the main attractions/drivers of right-wing media, after all, and why many of them cling so hard to nonsensical lies.
Aridas
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That's besides the fact that the ACA was a stopgap solution from the start. Deeply flawed, but a huge improvement over the state of things at the time. The GOP's constant sabotage of it has been pretty much criminal, either way, given the sheer amount of death and damage that their sabotage has caused, especially when they proved that they didn't really have the guts to get rid of it when they could have.
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