The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump frequently uses those types of vague references to try to support his views, such as he's heard a lot of talk about something and "we've been hearing more and more the story...".

 

Yeah, the presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump has tightened after this week’s Republican National Convention,
according to a new Yahoo News-YouGov poll, with Biden’s lead shrinking to 6 points — his smallest margin in nearly two months.


The good news is the Biden campaign is aware of the recent poll numbers and will aggressively start campaigning this week.

Trump may be the worst President in history but even Bisen can't beat him hiding in his basement.
Time to start holding public rallies once again, and campaigning in swing states to reestablish momentum

 

Article from May 2019 about Trump's sabotage of the ACA. It's even more relevant now in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.



Vaccinations will take a hit if the Trump administration topples the Affordable Care Act
By John Aloysius Cogan Jr.
May 22, 2019

Vaccinations will take a hit if the Trump administration topples the Affordable Care Act - STAT

excerpt:

"This case, however, is not just about insurance coverage. The Affordable Care Act also promotes public health by, among other things, requiring health insurance plans to cover federally recommended vaccines with no out-of-pocket costs. In other words, the Affordable Care Act makes essential vaccines affordable by barring insurance companies from applying copays, coinsurance, or deductible requirements for vaccinations.

In a surprising twist, the Trump administration, acting through the Department of Justice, has thrown the full weight of the federal government behind the attorneys general. The entire Affordable Care Act, the administration argues, should be struck down.

If this bid is successful, it will strip 20 million Americans of their health insurance. Without coverage, they will have to pay full retail price for vaccines. Even for families that keep their coverage, insurance companies will no longer be required to pay for vaccinations with no out-of-pocket costs. Since many health insurance policies include a significant deductible, many insured families will bear the full costs of vaccines until they’ve met their deductible limit."

 

This is an example of the problems caused by Trump who sabotaged the ACA to avenge Obama and tried to replace it with executive action after he and the Republicans in Congress have produced no meaningful legislation to replace the ACA.

.He's counting on voters who lost coverage and got stuck with high medical bills to still support him because he sabotaged and is trying to convince the Supreme Court to completely throw out the ACA.

 

Stop insulting 3 year old kids....

 

For some Trump supporters, those staggering medical bills they have incurred may be worth it to them knowing that it resulted from Trump avenging Obama.

 

Trump knows how to scrape the bottom of the barrel for the RNC convention.



From the Washington Post:

"Perhaps the most headline-grabbing announcement so far is that Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who were briefly charged for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters this summer, will briefly speak in support of Trump, The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey reported.

Fox News has reported that a Kentucky teen whose interaction with a Native American on the Mall went viral last year (and who later sued and settled with The Post and CNN over coverage of it) will speak, in an apparent jab at media coverage of the political right."

 

The personal mandate in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was reduced to zero by the corporate tax cut bill that Congress passed in 2017 and that Trump signed in what could be considered the only major legislative passage by his administration to date.

The personal mandate was a main federal funding source for the ACA. It was essentially eliminated by the Congress and Trump, not by rescinding or rewriting the ACA, but instead by using a fiscal alteration to reduce it to zero even through it is still in the ACA and the ACA is still active.

Reducing the personal mandate to zero required only a simple majority in the Senate which Trump barely obtained in a Republican controlled Senate in 2017 for his tax cut with the help of essentially bribing Murkowski and Collins.

Repealing the ACA and replacing it would require 60 votes in the Senate which have been out of reach by the Republicans in Congress and Trump.

Reducing the personal mandate to zero and not replacing the ACA with any new legislation is expected to cripple the disadvantaged whom Trump targeted during the 2016 campaign whose funding for issues such as preexisting conditions was provided by the mandate.

Sen. Susan Collins in 2017 said she had reservations for voting for the tax cut because the decrease of the personal mandate to zero could cripple the constituents in her state. She was given a promise by Senate leaders that her concern would be addressed on the floor at a later date in return for her voting for the tax cut. She voted for the tax cut but nothing meaningful seemed to have happened with the promise she was given about her concern. Murkowski of Alaska received oil drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in return for her vote.

Trump hasn't made any progress in effecting passage of new healthcare legislation in spite of various rosy promises dating back to 2015. His latest election gimmick was an appeal to the Supreme Court to try to strike down the entire ACA and a promise to replace it in a second term with a plan that he has yet to specify.

 

He can't specify something he doesn't have.

 

Well, they'd have the break all the bat virus rules for that, which would be a huge 180

....and Biden would have to leave his basement

....and then there would be no excuse not to have live debates with Trump and Biden on the same stage

<VG eating popcorn emoji>

 

I thought it was the Chinar virus.

Fixed

 

Lolz, was that supposed to be a burn?

Tim Tams are delicious

 

If Trump does win in November, most of you lot in these political threads here will just disappear anyway

 

You seem to imply we aren't real? Just going to disappear?

 

4th November will be colder weather though

HF closet commies, will just disappear in the colder weather, like a miracle

 

So... Who, exactly, is a communist again?

 

Trump Embraces Fringe Theories on Protests and the Coronavirus

excerpt:

"Mr. Trump also retweeted a message calling for Mr. Cuomo to be locked up because of the high death toll from the coronavirus in New York nursing homes earlier in the pandemic. “#KillerCuomo should be in jail,” said the message by the actor James Woods, a strong supporter of the president’s.

And the president even “liked” a tweet that offered support for Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old Trump supporter who has been charged with homicide after two demonstrators were shot to death in Kenosha, Wis. “Kyle Rittenhouse is a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump,” the tweet said."

 

Trump Embraces Fringe Theories on Protests and the Coronavirus

excerpt:

"In a concentrated predawn burst, the president posted or reposted 89 messages between 5:49 a.m. and 8:04 a.m. on top of 18 the night before, many of them inflammatory comments or assertions about violent clashes in Portland, Ore., where a man wearing the hat of a far-right, pro-Trump group was shot and killed Saturday after a large group of Mr. Trump’s supporters traveled through the streets.

In the weekend blast of Twitter messages, Mr. Trump also embraced a call to imprison Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, threatened to send federal forces against demonstrators outside the White House, attacked CNN and NPR, embraced a supporter charged with murder, mocked his challenger, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and repeatedly assailed the mayor of Portland, even posting the mayor’s office telephone number so that supporters could call demanding his resignation."

 

It turns out that Rod Rosenstein did prevent Mueller from doing a complete investigation into the Russian collusion after all.

 

Nyet, komrade.