monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

Both pro-Trump and anti-Trump, it seems.

But I think too much is being made of the shift of positions; I don't think it means that people can't think for themselves. Take government-run healthcare — if a Democratic politician talks about the subject, people assume it will be along the lines of the ACA (the way it was supposed to work) and Democrats will be supportive, Republicans antagonistic. Now Trump has discussed government-run healthcare but there have been no details forthcoming.

Given his opposition to so many of the provisions of the ACA it's not surprising that Democrats wouldn't trust him to follow through with an appealing and effective system. In order to really determine political bias people would need to be shown fully thought-out healthcare plans, not just statements made on the campaign trail.

Interestingly, there was a time when conservatives were supporting a plan concocted by the Heritage Foundation similar to the ACA. Democrats would probably have opposed it, favoring something like "Medicare for all" — which would have been duly opposed by Republicans.

Giving the government 20% of the economy is not the best idea but it stops no one from saying it is. It is a giant step toward socialism and will eliminate a big incentive for a medical career if doctors salaries are diminished.

Correct me it I’m wrong but didn’t Nixon make an historic trip to China in 1972 which at the time was “Unprecedented”?

He was forced out of office two years later.

That came up in an interview with someone from the Brookings Institute this afternoon. She described the NK/#45 meeting as another win for China.

Did that sad clown actually play Jake LaMotta in some sort of a movie??

Aretha Franklin describes the demoKKKrat party:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xroRNBvvF9M

The costume/makeup people at Saturday Night Live ought to have some fun with those two sociopaths' hairdos.

Might have been more than a few weeks.

You're going to have to flesh that out a tad.

I wonder how he(Maher) can be so right about Islam and so wrong about so many things.

Robin Williams died close to 4 years ago.


it's an old Marc Maron bit. Maybe you were listening to a podcast?

// http://pablolf.tumblr.com/post/94742099801/theres-a-great-moment-with-de-niro-were

An interview with him I'd found on youtube

Yeah, but other than that. . . .