The Trump Presidency

[Supafly]

You're a work of art.

 

[Luxman]

Trump sabotaging Post Office to win the election.
This is only one of the countless corrupt or illegal ways ahole Trump and the corrupt republicans are trying to undermine fair elections.

Post Office Sabotage While Fauci Begs for Reason 7/31/20

Fareed: Trump thinks the essence of his job is public relations

 

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Trump bypasses Congress to install retired Army Brigadier General Anthony Tata as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy

 

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[Johan]

Trump keeps promising an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system that never arrives

It was a bold claim when President Trump said that he was about to produce an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system, at last doing away with the Affordable Care Act, which he has long promised to abolish.

“We’re signing a health-care plan within two weeks, a full and complete health-care plan,” Trump pledged in a July 19 interview with “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace.
Now, with the two weeks expiring Sunday, there is no evidence that the administration has designed a replacement for the 2010 health-care law. Instead, there is a sense of familiarity.

Repeatedly and starting before he took office, Trump has vowed that he is on the cusp of delivering a full-fledged plan to reshape the health-care system along conservative lines and replace the central domestic achievement of Barack Obama’s presidency.
No total revamp has ever emerged.

Trump’s latest promise comes amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which has infected millions, caused more than 150,000 deaths and cost Americans their work and the health benefits that often come with jobs. His vow comes three months before the presidential election and at a time when Trump’s Republican allies in Congress may least want to revisit an issue that was a political loser for the party in the 2018 midterm elections.
Yet Trump has returned to the theme in recent days.
“We’re going to be doing a health-care plan. We’re going to be doing a very inclusive health-care plan. I’ll be signing it sometime very soon,” Trump said during an exchange with reporters at an event in Belleair, Fla., on Friday. When a reporter noted that he told Fox’s Wallace that he would sign it in two weeks, Trump added: “Might be Sunday. But it’s going to be very soon.”

Trump’s decision to revive a health-care promise that he has failed to deliver on — this time with less than 100 days before Election Day — carries political risks. Although it may appeal to voters who don’t like the ACA, it also highlights his party’s inability to come up with an alternative, despite spending almost a decade promising one.

It also raises questions about what exactly his plan would look like and whether it would cover fewer Americans than the current system as the pandemic ravages the country.
Nonetheless, some of Trump’s allies said floating health-care ideas is a smart move by the president.
Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who regularly meets and golfs with the president, said the health-care plan that Trump has referred to would come in the form of an executive order that Graham called “fairly comprehensive.” However broad, an executive order would fall short of a full legislative overhaul.
Graham said what Trump has in mind now would ensure that consumers do not risk losing their health plans if they get sick, but he did not give details.

“He’s pretty excited about it,” Graham said of the president. The ACA’s consumer protections for people with preexisting medical conditions is one its most popular facets with the public, and it is the one part of the law Trump consistently says he would preserve if he could get rid of the rest. How he could do that while containing costs after he and congressional Republicans remove the law’s requirement that everyone has to purchase health insurance remains the question.

Graham said it is politically astute for the White House to present an alternative to Democratic proposals close to the election, including the idea of Joe Biden, the party’s presumptive nominee, to build on the ACA so that more people could get coverage.
Still, senior Republican aides on Capitol Hill who are steeped in health care said they had little knowledge of any White House planning for a comprehensive replacement of the ACA.

The White House did not offer details or parse the president’s terminology, which has included saying that the forthcoming plan would be a bill. That implied legislation rather than an executive order.
“President Trump continues to act in delivering better and cheaper health care, protecting Americans with preexisting conditions, lowering prescription drug costs, and defending the right of Americans to keep their doctors and plans of their choice,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement to The Washington Post.

McEnany pointed out that Trump issued four executive orders in late July intended to lower prescription drug prices. “There will be more action to come in the coming weeks,” she said without identifying any.

On Capitol Hill, the president’s promises of health plans and legal efforts by the administration to scrap the ACA have created dilemmas for some Republicans. Of the GOP senators facing competitive races this fall, only Susan Collins (Maine) has said that she opposes the Justice Department’s decision to back an effort to gut the law in the courts. Other Republicans have struggled to answer directly, walking a tightrope between embracing a position that would go against popular provisions in the health-care law and risking the wrath of conservatives who want Obamacare repealed.

And the pandemic has also only sharpened the relevance of health care in the eyes of voters — increasing Republican anxiety about doing anything that could limit coverage ahead of the election. Republican Sens. John Cornyn (Tex.), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Steve Daines (Mont.) and Martha McSally (Ariz.) — all on the ballot this November — this past week drafted legislation that would provide assistance through COBRA for people who lose their employer-sponsored health care as jobs continue to vanish during the pandemic.

“I think there’s definitely things we need to do,” Cornyn said. “But I think our focus ought to be on giving people more choices.”
The ACA — politically polarizing throughout the decade it has existed — is favored by a slim majority of Americans. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey in July found that 51 percent support the law while 36 percent oppose it. A Fox News survey in June showed 56 percent support and 38 percent opposition.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...6ce250-d348-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

 

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...6ce250-d348-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

It's probably pretty inadvisable to overhaul a nation's health care system in the midst of a pandemic. In spite of the politically-obsessed liberals and lefties that see this national health emergency as an "opportunity" to bloat government (that'd be Clinton, Biden, Feinstein, et al).

 

[Johan]

It's probably pretty inadvisable to overhaul a nation's health care system in the midst of a pandemic. In spite of the politically-obsessed liberals and lefties that see this national health emergency as an "opportunity" to bloat government (that'd be Clinton, Biden, Feinstein, et al).

Fair point. The why did he promised to do so within two weeks ?

 

[FOUser#4510856320198a]

Fair point. The why did he promised to do so within two weeks ?

Trump vows health care overhaul by end of August

There you go. Ask and ye shall receive. Are you sure you deny the existence of God?

 

[gmase]

He promised to repeal and replace the ACA on the 2016 campaign trail well before any pandemic. Pick any source, but here's one I found: https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-obamacare-promises-236021. Trump on the campaign trail: "I am going to take care of everybody … Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” [In 2017,] Trump has promised that repeal will end with “a beautiful picture.”

Obviously neither repeal nor replace occurred. When the administration and its friends are actively trying to dismantle coverage for pre-existing conditions, the rhetoric sounds very hollow. The appropriate time to implement the 'beautiful' plan was when the Republicans controlled the House (by 47 votes) and the Senate (by 4 plus the VP).

We don't want some bureaucrat standing between us and healthcare, but we're happy having an insurance clerk there.

 

[gmase]

Trump vows health care overhaul by end of August

There you go. Ask and ye shall receive. Are you sure you deny the existence of God?

Really? Trump is overestimating how fast the House and Senate can move.

 

[georges]

Trump Signs Another Executive Order Restricting H1B Visa Opportunities
https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/03/...ush&utm_source=daily_caller&utm_campaign=push

Trump Obliterates ‘Crazy Nancy’ Pelosi – Accuses Her Of Blocking COVID Aid
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/tru...265680b20e543dc2a6473c7b9fa19141&source=TPICI

 

[mongo18]

So trump says that the US treasury should get a "very large percentage" of the sale of tiktok, after threatening a ban which pushed the price down, because the federal government "allowed it to happen." This is unprecedented and, like most of trump's brilliant ideas, totally illegal.

Just a question for all you trump taint lickers out there, how does this fit into your world view of "small," hands-off government, and free market capitalism? I'm on the edge of my seat to hear you justify this one. Or is it just another one of your pretend principles that you've all tossed to the side in your desperation to climb into the asshole of this loser?

 

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So trump says that the US treasury should get a "very large percentage" of the sale of tiktok,

Is that that privacy-raping social media app, created and owned by the Chinese? The covid Chinese, those ones? The app that Reddit CEO Steve Huffman called "spyware," stating "I look at that app as so fundamentally parasitic, that it's always listening, the fingerprinting technology they use is truly terrifying, and I could not bring myself to install an app like that on my phone."?

Yeah, fuck that app. Nice work, President Trump 😺

 

[mongo18]

It must take a massive amount of effort to consistently miss the point so much.

So you're just A-OK with big government demanding a share of corporate acquisitions, just for providing the service of allowing it to happen, in a free market capitalist economy? Even commie Obama never tried extortion at that level.

Or is this similar to your beliefs on tyrannical dictatorships? We're 100% against tyranny, unless we're the tyrants! And we're 100% against big, bloated government with it's hands in people's pockets, unless we're the big, bloated government!

 

[Johan]

Trump vows health care overhaul by end of August

There you go. Ask and ye shall receive. Are you sure you deny the existence of God?

It was supposed to be two weeks. Now that these two weeks are passed, he says "prior to end of the month" I guess he didn't said why Two weeks suddenly became 6. And you can be sure there will be no health-care plan by them. Maybe a fewx executive orders but certainly no real full comprehenive health-care plan.

 

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In all seriousness, how can one look at Jar'd Kushner without pondering how his mother refrained from drowning him as an infant?

 

[Johan]

 

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[Johan]

Is that that privacy-raping social media app, created and owned by the Chinese? The covid Chinese, those ones? The app that Reddit CEO Steve Huffman called "spyware," stating "I look at that app as so fundamentally parasitic, that it's always listening, the fingerprinting technology they use is truly terrifying, and I could not bring myself to install an app like that on my phone."?

Yeah, fuck that app. Nice work, President Trump 😺

If that app is so dangerous, why would Trump give up on banning it and settle for Microsoft buying it and having some of the price going ot the US treasury ?

 

[gmase]

Nice advice from Trump to the NRA: https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...ggests-nra-relocate-to-texas-after-ny-lawsuit

Trump: "I think the NRA should move to Texas and lead a very good and beautiful life. And I’ve told them that for a long time."

My advice would be to stop doing what is alleged: "the powerful pro-gun interest group violated state law governing nonprofit organizations, contributing to a loss of more $64 million over three years." The civil suit alleges that the NRA and four of its top officials (Wayne LaPierre, the former treasurer, chief of staff, and general counsel) diverted millions of dollars away from its charitable mission and instituted "a culture of self-dealing, mismanagement and negligent oversight ... As today's complaints lays out, we found that the NRA [...] fostered a culture of noncompliance and disregard for internal controls that led to the waste and loss of millions of assets and contributed to the NRA's current deteriorated financial state,"

I guess Texas is okay with charities acting like this? Are they going to plead the 2nd Amendment?