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Yeh but you always leave with a smile when youve been fucked by the trailer babes.

I thought the "MY FRIENDS" line was quite telling.

Everyone knew that health care policy could be complicated. Everyone. It was complicated when Democrats spent months shaping the Affordable Care Act. It was complicated when Republicans spent seven years working behind closed doors on their alternative to the ACA. It was complicated for generations as policymakers in both parties launched various efforts to extend health security to Americans for the better part of a century.

To be surprised by its complexity is to be alarmingly ignorant of the debate that’s been ongoing for decades. It appears the only person in America who assumed health-care policy is simple is the one Americans elected president.

But that’s not all Trump said this morning. The Republican, apparently aware that polls show the ACA’s support reaching an all-time high, added, “People hate [Obamacare] but now they see that the end is coming and they say, ‘Oh maybe we love it.’ There’s nothing to love.”

I listened to this comment a few times, and I’m still not entirely sure it means. Americans love the policy they hate? There’s nothing to love about your family having health insurance?

This is a war on a century’s worth of work to keep our air and water clean; our food, drugs and workplaces safe; the rights of employees protected; and the marketplace fair and unrigged. … Trump and Bannon are happy to expand the reach of the state when it comes to policing, immigration enforcement … and the browbeating of individual companies that offend the president in one way or another. The parts of government they want to dismantle are those that stand on the side of citizens against powerful interests.

On the morning of November 9, 2016, America’s elite—its talking and deciding classes—woke up to a country they did not know. To most privileged and well-educated Americans, especially those living in its bicoastal bastions, the election of Donald Trump had been a thing almost impossible even to imagine. What sort of country would go and elect someone like Trump as president? Certainly not one they were familiar with, or understood anything about.
Whatever else it may or may not have accomplished, the 2016 election was a sort of shock therapy for Americans living within what Charles Murray famously termed “the bubble” (the protective barrier of prosperity and self-selected associations that increasingly shield our best and brightest from contact with the rest of their society). The very fact of Trump’s election served as a truth broadcast about a reality that could no longer be denied: Things out there in America are a whole lot different from what you thought. ......

On April 12, 1982, Yuri Andropov, the chairman of the K.G.B., ordered foreign-intelligence operatives to carry out “active measures”—aktivniye meropriyatiya—against the reëlection campaign of President Ronald Reagan. Unlike classic espionage, which involves the collection of foreign secrets, active measures aim at influencing events—at undermining a rival power with forgeries, front groups, and countless other techniques honed during the Cold War. The Soviet leadership considered Reagan an implacable militarist. According to extensive notes made by Vasili Mitrokhin, a high-ranking K.G.B. officer and archivist who later defected to Great Britain, Soviet intelligence tried to infiltrate the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic National Committees, popularize the slogan “Reagan Means War!,” and discredit the President as a corrupt servant of the military-industrial complex. The effort had no evident effect. Reagan won forty-nine of fifty states.

(Russian state television derided Obama as “weak,” “uncivilized,” and a “eunuch.”)

Did you hear Ryan and McConnell divert the issues facing Trump?
Ryan: Must prevent Obamacare from collapsing.
What happened to their repeal? Their primary goal during the campaign.

Yes, I agree that Trump is not a one issue president. He doesn't know our Constitution, and his first EO was to ban all Muslims from entering the US.

It's a good thing a federal judge in Washington overturned his bigoted EO.

He also showed his bigotry by calling Mexicans "criminals and rapists."

He also has a history of bigotry by not renting to blacks.

. He also has a history of being a misogynist; bragging that he can grab any woman by the crotch, because he's so famous.

Check out Politifact on "Trump lies." He lies over 70% of the time.

Shame on you!

His first five weeks have been afreaking disasttrr.

Trump just said Obamacare has failed. Where's his repeal and replace. Is that just another Trump lie?