Trump Policies, part IX

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Yes, you'd think a guy who thinks he so smart would have already come up with something, he's only had 8 years now.

But the other thing making the rounds is that this entire thing is John McCain's fault because of his deciding vote in 2017.



On February 18, 2017, Trump said, "We are going to be submitting in a couple of weeks a great healthcare plan that's going to take the place of the disaster known as ObamaCare. It will be repealed and replaced. Just so you understand, our plan will be much better healthcare at a much lower cost. OK? Nothing to complain about."

Republicans have been using that "Obamacare" saw since the ACA was enacted. It's good theater. And they know that, once it is ever repealed, they will be left with the blame. So it's so much easier to just throw rocks at it because, up to now, there wasn't much of a chance of repeal.

It's going to be interesting to see what happens now that the subsidies have ceased, and people start canceling their health insurance because they have to choose between rent or mortgage/feeding their families, and making sure they have a firewall against a catastrophic medical bill.
 

Dilbert creator taps Trump to get cancer drug. Others wish they could, too​


Like many, many Americans, Scott Adams had health insurance problems.

But Adams — made famous first by his long-running Dilbert cartoon, and later for a racist rant on YouTube — counts some powerful people in his social media circle: President Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr. and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

So Adams posted his complaint on X, saying Kaiser of Northern California, his health insurer and care provider, had "dropped the ball" in scheduling a procedure needed to treat his metastatic prostate cancer. Adams wrote he was going to ask Trump to help save his life, and he added: "I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday."
 
WSJ editorial board says the Constitution doesn't allow Trump (or any President) to unilaterally assess or rescind tariffs, and hopes SCOTUS rules that way.


I hope so, too. And I further hope that SCOTUS calls garbage on Congress ceding to the Executive any authority or duty assigned to Congress by the Constitution. It should take a Constitutional amendment to allow that.

It'd be nice to get those noodle-spines to actually do their jobs instead of forever whining about how bad the other side is.
 
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Approval One Year from Midterm (With Results)
Bush, 01 87% - GOP retained House +8 and recaptured Senate)
Kennedy, 61 79% - Dems lost 3 seats but gained 4 Senate seats for 68-32 majority
Bush, 89 70% - GOP lost 8 House seats and 1 Senate seat (Wellstone over Boschwitz in MN)
Nixon, 69 67% - GOP gained 1 net Senate seat and lost 12 House seats
Eisenhower, ‘53 61% - GOP lost control of both houses (2 Senate and 19 House seats)
Carter, 77 55% - GOP gained 14 House seats and 3 Senate seats
Obama, 09 54% - Dems lost 62 House seats and control and 6 Senate seats
Reagan, ‘81 49% - GOP lost 26 House seats and Dems picked up 1 open Senate seat
Clinton, ‘93 48% - Dems lost 54 House and 8 Senate seats and control of both chambers
Biden, ‘21 48% - Dems lost 9 House seats (and control) but gained 1 Senate (Fetterman in PA)
Trump, ‘25 37% - (the elections await)
Trump, ‘17 36% - GOP lost 42 House seats and control but gained 2 Senate seats

Of course, there are things that happen closer to the election that can affect it more than now.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was less than one month before the midterms. The Reagan Recession (1981-83) was near the worst part as far as unemployment, which topped out in December 1982. Clinton alienated almost everyone almost everywhere for his first 18 months. And both the Biden and Trump 26 midterms are NARROW MARGINS in the House.
 
I mean, I do understand buyer's remorse. Such as when I voted for Bush 43, thinking he would govern like his dear old Dad(41), and learning the hard lesson that he was all about what he said he was going to do.

But, dang. I don't understand this. You had 4 years of this utter chaos and nonsense, yet you thought it was a good idea to bring the fecal circus back?

Leopards eating faces yet again.

"Reeling from aid cuts, the immigration agenda and a government shutdown with no end in sight, those who supported the Republican in the 2024 elections feel a mixture of guilt, anger and bewilderment."
 
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I mean, I do understand buyer's remorse. Such as when I voted for Bush 43, thinking he would govern like his dear old Dad(41), and learning the hard lesson that he was all about what he said he was going to do.

But, dang. I don't understand this. You had 4 years of this utter chaos and nonsense, yet you thought it was a good idea to bring the fecal circus back?

Leopards eating faces yet again.

"Reeling from aid cuts, the immigration agenda and a government shutdown with no end in sight, those who supported the Republican in the 2024 elections feel a mixture of guilt, anger and bewilderment."
I believe we can add farmers to that category. Beef Farmers see live cattle prices going down with Beef coming in from South America ( Argentina) particularly with prices increasing from the processors and distributors. Larger row crop farmers understand that their loss of sales to China is entirely due to the tariff war. It is tough all over with government workers laid off, Snap benefits cut off that impacts Walmart and smaller chains in red state rural areas. Belts are being tightened all over except perhaps for most wealthy who feel unaffected by all of this.
 
WSJ editorial board says the Constitution doesn't allow Trump (or any President) to unilaterally assess or rescind tariffs, and hopes SCOTUS rules that way.


I hope so, too. And I further hope that SCOTUS calls garbage on Congress ceding to the Executive any authority or duty assigned to Congress by the Constitution. It should take a Constitutional amendment to allow that.

It'd be nice to get those noodle-spines to actually do their jobs instead of forever whining about how bad the other side is.

I'm concerned that this will be a bellwether for 2028. If the Supreme Court decimates this part of the Constitution, I doubt they will uphold any challenge to the 22nd amendment.
 
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Oh, for the love of Christ...


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And we thought the bathroom was tacky...
 
Oh, for the love of Christ...


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And we thought the bathroom was tacky...
Maybe he could get one of his sons to drop a bag of blow in the White House. Hard to believe that the most secure building in the world couldn’t find out where that came from.
 
this should be well received


I was just coming here to post this.

He's two sentences from, "Let them eat cake."
 
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