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blatham
 
  2  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 03:10 pm
@cicerone imposter,
Yes.
blatham
 
  2  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 03:13 pm
@farmerman,
Yes. Every morning offers up some new degradation of democracy and honesty. But they've been working on this for a long while. Here's a photograph from about 1885 of Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7nBFs9U8AERSyr.jpg
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cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 03:14 pm
@farmerman,
The tragedy in all this is that too many people trust Trump to be humane. They're going to be disappointed in more than their health care being taken away and/or at higher cost.
blatham
 
  3  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 03:19 pm
Quote:
Paul Krugman‏Verified account @paulkrugman 8h8 hours ago
Watching what's going down on health care makes clear it's not just Trump: the whole GOP has become utterly cynical and corrupt

Well, yes, it has.
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cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 03:20 pm
@cicerone imposter,
Trump, the master deal maker couldn't repeal Obamacare as promised. What now?

Trump broke 34 of 36 promises.
https://thinkprogress.org/on-his-first-day-in-office-trump-broke-34-promises-683c957286dc#.9z3e61ewj

TRUMP APPROVAL
Today: 39% -1

Polls are showing that the media is too tough on Trump.
I don't understand that, because the media also reported that Trump broke 34 of 36 promises. That doesn't matter?
The media also revealed that Trump is a liar, bigot, con and misogynist. How else would we learn about Trump?

jcboy
 
  4  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 04:09 pm
What is wrong with the present critical thinking skills in today's world. A lady in Indiana voted for Trump and is now upset because her undicumented husband is being deported. Coal miners and impoverished people in many red states are afraid they will lose Medicare. It goes on and on. What part of this did they not hear out of mouth of Cheeto Head. Well, except for the part where he lied. Republicans are pushing the removal for Essential health benefits as if to claim why should men pay for natal care. And the biggy, get rid of the pre-existing conditions. This will be insurance for those who have financial access.

Trumpcare proposes removing these essential benefits:
The proposal is to eliminate ten essential benefits that, according to the Affordable Care Act, must be offered as part of any insurance plan. Those benefits are:
Outpatient care without a hospital admission, known as ambulatory patient services
Emergency services
Hospitalization
Pregnancy, maternity, and newborn care
Mental health and substance use disorder services, including counseling and psychotherapy
Prescription drugs
Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices, which help people with injuries and disabilities to recover
Laboratory services
Preventive care, wellness services, and chronic disease management
Pediatric services, including oral and vision care for children. Sons a bitches!
izzythepush
 
  2  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 04:19 pm
@jcboy,
Trump appealed to stupid people, and he's banking that the stupid racist pro telling women what to do with their bodies and hating LGBT people will put up with all sorts of **** as long as he legalises/normalises bigotry.

Cue a load of hand wringing from McGentrix, 'But guys, I'm not really like that, I just suck up to bigots, I'm not one myself.'
jcboy
 
  4  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 04:26 pm
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:

Cue a load of hand wringing from McGentrix, 'But guys, I'm not really like that, I just suck up to bigots, I'm not one myself.'


I've had that one on ignore for a few years now Razz
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ossobucotemp
 
  2  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 04:30 pm
@jcboy,
Sons of bitches, with some bitches who go along with their men or women, although I figure the malefactors are likely not LGBTQI folks. I'm having trouble fathoming all this.

Also I'm beginning to wonder if we will have riots in the heat of summer, followed by extermination of the rioters. It's not an impossible scenario. I don't like riots, but I get the underlining causes.
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farmerman
 
  5  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 04:50 pm
@jcboy,
See, the entire concept of this BS "insurance" program, is that it removes the basic underpinning of all insurance. REQL INSURNCE IS A POOL of risk elements that are so undewritten that the financial risk portion is spread about so that the customers recieve service while the underwiters make a profit. The way the RyanCAre approach is written is to reduce as much risk for the carriers so the are guaranteed to enhance their revenue.
So, once again, health care is back in the hands of the insurance compqnies qho will be able to rise an plunder unchecked.

Obama care needed work and fixing to spread the Pool of risk elements better. The Conservative friendly plan of Ryancare , instead, will result only in huuge bonii to Healthcare CEOs nd COO's and CFO's and "**** everyone else who isnt a zillionaire". Because the fallback position of service to indigent folks will be tax-funded local urgent care and EMergency Room service , where most of the costs will be shared by the county or state in which th service is provided. The POOL concept is destroyed, as is most other programs that do not serve the rising plutocracy.
.

Thats why Im a proud snowflake, at least we are all of different lattices.




farmerman
 
  4  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 04:52 pm
@blatham,
Its not "Trump care" He probably has not even read the congressional abstract.
cicerone imposter
 
  2  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 04:58 pm
@farmerman,
I don't understand the mindset of republicans that wants to take away health insurance from 24 million people. Are they so heartless and crude?
farmerman
 
  3  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 05:05 pm
@cicerone imposter,
yeh but we knew that
cicerone imposter
 
  1  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 05:13 pm
@farmerman,
I still don't understand it. They must surely have family or friends who are middle class or poor and struggling.
jcboy
 
  4  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 05:49 pm
@farmerman,
This was was just 5 years ago. Had I only known that our problem would only get worse.

http://oi63.tinypic.com/33ejzia.jpg
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gungasnake
 
  -3  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 05:58 pm
Bork Hussein Obunga:
Quote:
If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon Martin...


What Trayvon Martin looked like:
http://legalinsurection.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Trayvon-Martin-17.jpg

cicerone imposter
 
  2  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 06:01 pm
@gungasnake,
That's for you.
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blatham
 
  2  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 06:06 pm
@farmerman,
Quote:
Its not "Trump care" He probably has not even read the congressional abstract.

A 100% certainty he hasn't read it. And you're right, it is properly Ryancare. Or maybe AynRyanCare. I just didn't want to confuse my fond rightwing readers here.
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blatham
 
  2  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 06:10 pm
Quote:
LONDON — The knife-wielding terrorist who killed an American tourist and three others outside the U.K. Parliament was British-born and previously investigated for "violent extremism," officials said Thursday.

Police also said Masood was not the subject of any current investigations and
there were no prior intelligence reports indicating his intent to carry out the terror attack.

Masood was known to police for a range of previous convictions, they said, including for assaults, possession of offensive weapons and public order offenses.

His first conviction was in 1983 for criminal damage and his most recent was in December 2003 for possession of a knife. He was never convicted of any terror-related offenses.
NBC
blatham
 
  5  
Thu 23 Mar, 2017 06:13 pm
Quote:
Israeli police arrested a 19-year-old man Thursday in connection with the wave of bomb threats and hoaxes against Jewish community centers in America, authorities in Israel said.

The unnamed man — a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen — is Jewish himself, officials said. While a motive remains unclear, his attorney told a Magistrate Court that the suspect was diagnosed with a brain tumor that effects his cognitive functions.

NBC
So it wasn't a white nationalist anti-Semite, which is good news. On the other hand, this is the sort of individual who the NRA thinks ought to be "free" to purchase weapons.
 

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