The Donald Trump Score Card

An example of Trump being easily distracted and disrupted is the public relations event of Trump to sign one of his executive orders. During the event a journalist asked a question about Flynn. Trump got so annoyed and distracted that he stormed out of the room and forgot to sign the executive order. He never did sign the order in front of the media like he had originally intended. Pence gathered the papers and followed him out of the room.

 

An article that explaiins the two major types of subsidies of the ACA, the CSR payments and the tax credit for premiums.

Trump's act of cutting off CSR will likely cause increases in tax credits to offset the cut.



Trump's health subsidy shutdown could lead to free insurance
By ricardo alonso-zaldivar, associated press
WASHINGTON — Oct 19, 2017, 11:26 AM ET

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/trumps-health-subsidy-shutdown-lead-free-insurance-50580570

From the article:

"The Obama-era health care law actually has two major subsidies that benefit consumers with low-to-moderate incomes. The one targeted by Trump reimburses insurers for reducing copays and deductibles, and is under a legal cloud. The other subsidy is a tax credit that reduces the premiums people pay, and it is not in jeopardy.

If the subsidy for copays and deductibles gets eliminated, insurers would raise premiums to recoup the money, since by law they have to keep offering reduced copays and deductibles to consumers with modest incomes.

The subsidy for premiums is designed to increase with the rising price of insurance. So government spending to subsidize premiums would jump.

"This is where the counting gets sort of weird," said Matthew Buettgens, a senior research analyst with the Urban Institute.

The nonpartisan policy research group has estimated that richer premium subsidies could entice up to 600,000 more people to sign up for health law coverage. That depends on how insurers and state regulators adjust, which isn't totally clear yet.

The group also found that the federal government would end up spending more overall on health insurance through higher premium subsidies."

 

Spoof on Trump from the 1980's. Not Necessarily The News was a TV series known for taking real news clips and twisting them into something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw1HAvqaQmc

 

Trump claims that the ACA no longer exists.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/16/trump-says-there-is-no-such-thing-as-obamacare-anymore.html

 

'As I Have Always Said': Trump's Ever-Changing Positions on Health Care
The president insists on his consistency, even as he continually reverses his views.
Joshua Roberts / Reuters
David A. Graham Jul 28, 2017

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/as-i-have-always-said-trumps-ever-changing-position-on-health-care/535293/

 

What has been referred to as efforts to repeal of the ACA (Obamacare) by Trump and Republicans in the Senate has been only an attempt to invoke the budget reconciliation process which can only alter budgetary items of the ACA. It requires only 50 votes in the Senate. The pasage of the ACA required 60 Senate votes during the Obama administration. An outright explicit repeal of the ACA would require at least 60 votes. The Senate has failed repeatedly at producing just 50 votes to invoke the budget reconciliation process..

Trump's lack of policy experience, consistency, and political leadership contributes to the lack of ability of senators to find a remedy that is clear and which has sufficient support within the party.



Republicans learn the limits of reconciliation with failed ACA repeal
Molly E. Reynolds
Friday, July 28, 2017

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2017/07/28/limits-of-reconciliation-and-failed-aca-repeal/

From the article:

"While the choice by Republicans to pursue their collective goal of “repealing Obamacare” through the fast-track budget reconciliation process meant that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) only needed to find 50 votes, it also constrained his task in important ways. The rules of the budget process, including the Byrd Rule, place restrictions on the content of reconciliation bills and amendments to them.

While it can be difficult to know exactly how these rules shape a particular piece of legislation, one consequence of them is that leadership does not necessarily have as much room to maneuver in terms of deal-making as they might have on other bills. What’s more, by turning to a process that did not require the support of any Democrats to move forward, Republicans could not rely on the opposition of the other party as a useful foil while they sought to build a winning coalition. Instead, all attention was focused on the party’s internal conflicts and inability to reach agreement—a task made harder by the presence of a same-party president without the policy expertise or interest to help broker the necessary deals. Special legislative procedures that prevent filibusters, in sum, can help majority parties get legislative wins, but only if the party agrees internally on the policy particulars of what that win should look like."

 

Trump is gonna release the JFK files. So he said in a tweet. This will piss off the deep state. The CIA is already lobbying to block it.

They’re 54 years old for Christ sake. What do they have to hide?

Personally I think it’d be great to get closure on these 54 year old conspiracy theories

 

Closure is antithetical to conspiracy ethos.

 

You say that like they'll be entirely released and without any censorship by the gub'ment.

We're still getting their version of what happened. I doubt we'll ever truly know what happened there

 

In my mind, it is all of these DISTRACTIONS..........as you have said before.....DISTRACTION....to keep people focused on these things along with Antifa and other things, while these biggest fish in the sea have their minds on the bigger goals and prizes such as this.....We won't notice....little fishes in puddles arguing over crumbs, now will we?.....divide and conquer, as you have said before, also.

From move on

at least they have their eyes on the ball....along with major changes that are going to affect our environment on this planet vastly....


"
Dear MoveOn member,
BREAKING: Republicans in the Senate (and only Republicans) just approved a budget that envisions a grotesque future—trillions of dollars in tax giveaways to the ultra wealthy, funded by cutting trillions from Medicaid, Medicare, and other vital programs for the poor and middle class.1,2
This vote is the starting gun for what might be the most consequential legislative fight of the Trump era: the looting of the U.S. treasury to reward billionaire GOP donors and mega-corporations, at the expense of the rest of us.
If Republicans succeed, their backers will reward them with boatloads of campaign cash—fueling their efforts to hold power in 2018 and 2020. If they fail, they'll turn on each other—opening the door toward a potential Democratic landslide. And beyond the political stakes, the human impact is vast: the acceleration of plutocracy in America and the shredding of the basic protections that tens of millions of American families depend on."

 

:bigcry:

This makes me so sick...and what makes it even worse (to me) is that it seems that just a very few of us here give a damn or even care to see what is really happening.

I wonder what will happen when disabled people are denied hospitalization and their checks are whittled down to almost nothing. Perhaps they can go see their buddies in Washington and they will get help then... smh

 

Frank Zappa - The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

You say yer life's a bum deal
'N yer up against the wall...
Well, people, you ain't even got no
Deal at all
'Cause what they do
In Washington
They just takes care
of NUMBER ONE
An' NUMBER ONE ain't YOU
You ain't even NUMBER TWO

 

Czech Republic just elected Andrej Babis, their own version of Trump as prime minister.

 

Even if the newly released JFK documents don’t contain any bombshell information, we can conclusively eliminate some of the theories.


The full truth may never be revealed. The British government still won’t release the information on the Lucitania conspiracy

 

Too bad Gamergate happened. If it weren’t for social justice warrior journalists waging war on autistic videogamers, Gawker would still exist, and Trump wouldn’t be president.

 

Money is on the way with CashNetUSA!


President Trump gives $25,000 to father of fallen soldier, months after promising to on personal call
By Jordyn Phelps
Devin Dwyer
Oct 18, 2017, 10:50 PM ET

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-gifts-25000-father-fallen-soldier-months/story?id=50570324

 

The Trump bait, switch, and transfer blame tactic.

Trump organized a press conference where he was to finally admit he was wrong about Obama's birth certificate supposedly being a fake. Instead he used the event to plug his new hotel. The media fell for it.

Donald Trump’s birther speech is a commercial for his new hotel
Updated by Libby Nelson
Sep 16, 2016, 11:00am EDT

https://www.vox.com/2016/9/16/12940964/donald-trump-speech-trump-hotel