FIASCO

[normiss 800]

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[jakee 1,489]

normiss

ISIS WAS the biggest threat to the USA according to Trump, but he's now looking for war with NK and telling us THEY are the biggest threat to the US?

Have any reporters been asking Trump or Spicer why we still haven't heard Trump's plan to defeat ISIS? The one that he had in his head before the election? The one that meant he was "the only one who can defeat ISIS!"?

Have they just completely dodged that one or what?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[headoverheels 333]

jakee

Have any reporters been asking Trump or Spicer why we still haven't heard Trump's plan to defeat ISIS? The one that he had in his head before the election? The one that meant he was "the only one who can defeat ISIS!"?

Have they just completely dodged that one or what?

The plan is to have ISIS laugh themselves to death.

[ryoder 1,590]

normiss

clickified

Grrrr.
The url tags were in there, but reversed.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[billvon 2,991]

>Have any reporters been asking Trump or Spicer why we still haven't heard Trump's
>plan to defeat ISIS?

Spicer: "Well, look, see, Trump is going to . . . HEY! Look over there in the corner! Kim Jong Un!"

[normiss 800]

I was surprised.

I know accuracy and correctness is important to you.

[JerryBaumchen 1,363]

Hi Bill,

From my earlier post:

Quote

I'm starting to see more & more newspaper commentaries and editorials going after many of the congressional Republicans for their blatant support of this idiot in the Oval Office's policies.

And, now it would seem as though the legislative branch is starting to move away from him; small steps, but steps:

Congress Defies Trump, Gives Big Raise to NIH Medical Research

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/congress-defies-trump-gives-big-raise-nih-medical-research-n753376

It's not much, but a little light at the end of the tunnel.

Jerry Baumchen

[Phil1111 1,149]

billvon

>Have any reporters been asking Trump or Spicer why we still haven't heard Trump's
>plan to defeat ISIS?

Spicer: "Well, look, see, Trump is going to . . . HEY! Look over there in the corner! Kim Jong Un!"

The Islamic State said on Tuesday the United States was drowning and "being run by an idiot."...

Trump has made defeating Islamic State a priority of his presidency.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/islamic-state-u-s-drowning-calls-trump-idiot-article-1.3018982

[billvon 2,991]

From Monday, via Politico:
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President Donald Trump questioned why the Civil War— which erupted 150 years ago over slavery — needed to happen. He said he would be "honored" to meet with Kim Jong-Un, the violent North Korean dictator who is developing nuclear missiles and oppresses his people, under the "right circumstances."

The president floated, and backed away from, a tax on gasoline. Trump said he was "looking at" breaking up the big banks, sending the stock market sliding. He seemed to praise Philippines strongman President Rodrigo Duterte for his high approval ratings. He promised changes to the Republican health care bill, though he has seemed unsure what was in the legislation, even as his advisers whipped votes for it.

And Monday still had nine hours to go.

"It seems to be among the most bizarre recent 24 hours in American presidential history," said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian.
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Just wait until Wednesday.

[ryoder 1,590]

And on the same note:

Wall Street Execs Have Stopped taking POTUS Seriously:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/wall-street-execs-have-stopped-taking-the-president-seriously

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[billvon 2,991]

One of the big questions out there is - what, exactly, is Trump doing? He knows next to nothing about what the Republicans are doing with this healthcare plan. He gets his news on what the plan is when reporters ask him questions about it, and he seems to have no clue how to deal with such questions. To quote him - "it's an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated." And he's still not getting it. Just yesterday he stated that people with pre-existing conditions would be protected; they would not be in the present GOP bill.

So what does he do every day in the Oval Office?

Some emails from the NPS may shed some light on that:
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Trump "directly involved" in post-inauguration hunt for rogue tweeter

Graham Kates
May 2, 2017, 1:58 PM

WASHINGTON — Newly inaugurated President Donald Trump was "directly involved" in the search for the person who, using the official National Park Service account, retweeted side-by-side comparisons of the crowds at Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration ceremony and former President Barack Obama's 2009 ceremony, CBS News has confirmed.

The retweet was deleted soon after it was posted and the Twitter accounts of the National Park Service and other U.S. Interior Department agencies were briefly shut down. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told CBS News two days later in an email that the White House neither demanded the retweet be taken down, nor ordered the Interior Department accounts to be suspended.

But emails released by the National Park Service in response to a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the new president was "concerned" about the retweet.

"Obviously, this has become a very sensitive issue, especially since the President has gotten directly involved and contacted Acting Director Mike Reynolds concerned about one of the images that was retweeted," wrote Tim Cash, Chief of Digital Strategy at the National Park Service in a Jan. 21 email to Shaun Cavanaugh, the agency's Chief Information Security Officer.
The Freedom of Information Act request also includes a memo detailing the efforts National Park Service staff took to track down the rogue retweeter.

"We traced the IP address used for the two questionable posts to an ISP in the San Bruno, Calif., area and checked all possible NPS social media points of contacts in that area," a staffer wrote in the briefing.

The agency initially "suspected that this incident was an accidental cross-posting from a personal Twitter account (this has happened on multiple occasions in the past with other NPS social media accounts)," but later became concerned that an account was compromised, according to the memo.

After the retweet and ensuing news coverage of its deletion, the size of the crowd at the inauguration became one of the dominant news stories of Mr. Trump's first days in office. In Spicer's first press briefing after the inauguration, he chastised journalists for their coverage before leaving the briefing room without taking any questions. That same day, the president complained about the crowd size coverage while standing in front of the CIA's Memorial Wall, a monument to CIA officers killed in the line of duty.

While the NPS no longer releases official crowd size estimates, aerial photos show fewer people at Mr. Trump's inauguration than former President Obama's first inauguration in January of 2009, which drew an audience of 1.8 million in the nation's capital.

Metro ridership showed 193,000 rides taken by 11 a.m. on the day of Trump's inauguration, compared to 513,000 in 2009 for Obama's first inauguration, and 317,000 for his second swearing-in.

[kallend 2,027]

Here's an interesting viewpoint:

nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/republican-sick-people-dont-deserve-affordable-care.html?mid=mic

Seems I must be "deserving".

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[headoverheels 333]

I'd rather pay for someone else's care for a pre-existing illness than to have one myself that someone else pays for.

[normiss 800]

House Republicans Twitter:
QUIZ: How much do you REALLY know about the #ACHA? Test your knowledge here. #PassTheBill

Such ignorance and stupidity. Sigh.

Make no mistake, if this crap goes anywhere, every working person will get screwed worse. BOHICA $$$$

[billvon 2,991]

The latest: Congress is fast-tracking Obamacare repeal. They haven't vetted it, and the CBO hasn't analyzed it, and they (Congress) get to keep all the good provisions of Obamacare. But don't worry; they will fix all that later, just like they fixed Obamacare six years ago.

From The Hill:
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As Republicans rush to vote on their latest ObamaCare repeal-and-replace plan, it appears to still include an item exempting members of Congress and their staffs from losing the healthcare bill's popular provisions.

House GOP leaders worked Wednesday night to fast-track consideration of an amended American Health Care Act without posting the bill text and without a Congressional Budget Office analysis detailing the effects of the latest changes to the legislation.

After Vox reported that the bill appeared to still include the exemption for lawmakers, Rep. Tom MacArthur's (R-N.J.) office said separate legislation would close that loophole.
==================================

"Well, sure, we want to repeal Obamacare. But why should WE lose all that coverage?"

[CygnusX-1 43]

I'm sure they will get right on closing that loophole in like 4-8 years.

[normiss 800]

If that vote just cost me $8,000 more next year, I'll drop ALL medical insurance. I'm not paying this shit.

[billvon 2,991]

The one stat that sums up what this vote is all about:

Average increase in cost for someone who has arthritis as a pre-existing condition: $26,580 (S Rattner)

Average tax cut for someone who makes more than $200K a year: $5600 (Tax Policy Center)

[airdvr 210]

Elections have consequences.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[normiss 800]

More so when the person that lost the popular vote get elected.

[headoverheels 333]

normiss

If that vote just cost me $8,000 more next year, I'll drop ALL medical insurance. I'm not paying this shit.

That works until it doesn't. My wife's medical costs last year came to about $160k, and mine were close to $50k. Mine should be back to normal this year (i.e., maybe half of what insurance costs or less), but hers will exceed $200k.

[normiss 800]

Other than trashing my stellar credit, and lower quality "care", what's the downside?

[rehmwa 2]

Dems - "So, here's the ACA, the biggest pile of shit in decades"

voters - "No one can do anything worse than that"

Reps - "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED"

mmmmmm - government

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[headoverheels 333]

Nothing, if you have plenty of money and don't mind negotiating every bill. One of the annoying things about medical bills is that they usually bill much higher to the insurers than they will be paid per agreement, even though they know the allowed amount up front. They can also bill uninsured individuals at higher amounts than the negotiated insurer rates. I had a quick surgery with one night stay in hospital last year -- the hospital billed my insurer about $130k, of which they were paid $37k. What would I have been on the hook for, as an uninsured individual? No idea, but I expect more than $37k.

I have a friend (skydiver, ~60 years old) who elects to go uninsured. He said that doctors will give him a 15% discount, as an uninsured person paying cash. What I don't know is how much higher his "discounted" price is, if any, than the insurer's rate.

[headoverheels 333]

rehmwa

Dems - "So, here's the ACA, the biggest pile of shit in decades"

voters - "No one can do anything worse than that"

Reps - "CHALLENGE ACCEPTED"