I just put 2 + 2 together and realized that Betsy DeVos is the sister of Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater.

He's a great businessman...

 rhahl wrote: 
10% a year is about the typical amount it's risen every year of our adult lives. Cost to insure a family has risen 1000% since 1980. 

 kcar wrote: 
I hope Trump knows what he is doing because Obama certainly didn't. Medical costs seem to be rising about 10% per year.

 rhahl wrote: 
The best! The pride of Mother Russia! And Vladimir made sure that Trumpers got a very good rate for the golden showers extras...

Health Law Repeal Could Cost 18 Million Their Insurance, Study Finds 

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If nothing followed the gutting of President Obama’s signature domestic achievement, the budget office said, 32 million people could lose their health insurance by 2026, and premiums in the individual insurance market could double. Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, showed the unease of some in her party when she said that repealing the health care law and delaying a replacement could send insurance markets into “a death spiral.”

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Mr. Trump’s statement last week that a replacement plan should go hand in hand with repeal efforts had already ignited a sense of urgency among Republicans on Capitol Hill. Over the weekend Mr. Trump said he was close to completing a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act with the goal of “insurance for everybody,” but congressional aides said Tuesday that they had not seen an actual proposal.
 

Putin Says Doesn’t Believe Trump Met Prostitutes in Russia

Trump is “a grown man, and secondly he’s someone who has been involved with beauty contests for many years and has met the most beautiful women in the world,” Putin said. “I find it hard to believe that he rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world.”

Polls show Trump with historically low approval ratings

The Unbelievable Baby-Man

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
So very presidential.

Every time I speak of the haters and losers I do so with great love and affection. They cannot help the fact that they were born fucked up!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 29, 2014

Donald Trump quotes said by Zapp Brannigan

Just when you thought the Trump ethics disaster couldn’t get worse, it did

Unlike Trump, Americans want strong environmental regulator - Reuters/Ipsos

 miamizsun wrote:
There is always an element of tribalism in politics but we haven't seen it this naked and unashamed before—where there is nothing but tribalism to a campaign.

The campaign, however, is over. Time to criticize the presidency for what it turns out to be, not what it was promised to be.

 steeler wrote: 
does this not apply to every president?

i'm not sure why people think the rhetoric is different or special this election cycle

negative politics have been with us for a long, long time

just search for any president's contradictions and/or historical presidential campaign insults, etc.

prepare for a laundry list and quotes that make this recent campaign look like a boy scout meeting

also the current president vowed repeatedly to de-escalate and stop the war

he didn't and in fact did the opposite and there were lethal consequences

where was the anti-war movement?

regards

 Steely_D wrote: 
Can facts sway their allegiance or beliefs? If not, it's religion a bad belief system.

 ojibwe wrote: 
Trump's attack on Lewis is just a knee-jerk response to Lewis's comment from a day earlier that he didn't regard Trump as a legitimate President. 

I think that most of the time, Trump isn't deliberately dropping nasty comments to distract people from earlier controversy surrounding Trump. He might on occasion do such a thing deliberately. But most of the time, the ricocheting from one Trump outrageous moment to the next that we're experiencing is due to the press, lunging from the first outrage to the second in hopes of covering the news and, yes, boosting ratings or sales.  

Whether it's deliberate distraction by Trump or the media losing self-restraint, responsible Americans are going to have to hold Trump accountable, to call him a liar when he lies and demand responsible behavior when he makes empty promises.  

"I still don't get what he's doing with health care. Based on statements over the past few days, it sounds like they have a team that is just doing some proof-reading now. He wants repeal+replace to occur simultaneously, but that is just not possible." 

I can almost guarantee with 100% confidence that Trump's recent promises of having a new health care plan, fleshed-out and ready to go, is a huge f#cking lie. 

Trump had a large policy team working on policy plans up until the GOP convention in August. He chose not to pay most of the members of the team. Most of their work was ignored. Almost all of them quit before the convention, and their work was largely not taken up by others. 


 Inside the collapse of Trump’s D.C. policy shop

The Trump campaign built a large policy shop in Washington that has now largely melted away because of neglect, mismanagement and promises of pay that were never honored. Many of the team’s former members say the campaign leadership never took the Washington office seriously and let it wither away after squeezing it dry.

 Trump will probably choose one of the skeletal GOP health care reform plans like Paul Ryans' and try to pass it off as his own. 

Even if you believe the idea that Trump is an effective CEO who just likes to do things by the seat of his pants, I think you have to consider as a real possibility that Trump is mentally ill and dangerously so. Rational, balanced and effective people with even a slight grasp of the enormity of being POTUS would not behave like Trump is behaving now. 

 Steely_D wrote: 
Hey, if there's a chance to e-bloviate he's on it.

 Steely_D wrote: 
Not arguing against truth, just trying to define it.  

Yeah, it is what it is.  But it also depends on what the meaning of is is.

 

 ojibwe wrote: 
he's still in vile campaign mode, I think that's where he'll stay