Courtesy of New York Magazine:Pres. Trump on repeal of individual mandate in tax bill: "When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is being repealed...Obamacare has been repealed in this bill." https://t.co/8qXJjj5j9V pic.twitter.com/ThnXHuECJS— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) December 20, 2017
Almost none of this is true. Indeed, it reveals the opposite. Trump recognizes that he has no chance to repeal Obamacare, so he is instead pretending to have killed the law that his base loathes (but which the country as a whole likes quite a bit).
Most of Obamacare remains in place. That includes such things as reforms that have helped hold down medical inflation, the expansion of Medicaid to cover the poor, subsidies for individuals to buy insurance, and regulations to prevent insurers from cherry-picking the healthy and excluding the sick. “When the individual mandate is being repealed, that means Obamacare is being repealed. Because they get their money from the individual mandate,” Trump “explains.”
It is possible he thinks this is true. It isn’t. The law is primarily financed by other taxes. It is correct that repealing the individual mandate will impair the effectiveness of the marketplaces that sell insurance to people who can’t get coverage through their employer. That will make premiums more expensive, and possibly drive insurers out of some markets. States that want to have a highly functioning marketplace will be able to impose a state-level mandate, though, an outcome that could make insurance cheaper in blue states than red ones.
My favorite part of this is how smugly self satisfied Trump looks as he spews his bullshit.
However believe it or not this is not the most awkward statement made by Republicans after they passed the GOP tax bill.
Beating him out by a mile was Orrin Hatch's oral gratification of Donald Trump right out in public.
Damn, that is hard to read.Here's the transcript of Sen. Orrin Hatch's effusive speech about Trump: pic.twitter.com/fVda0dLoGL— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 20, 2017
But still that has NOTHING on Mike Pence who essentially prayed at the altar of Donald Trump.
"You shall have no other gods before Me."Good Lord, you need to watch this. After Ben Carson's Prayer, Mike Pence actually delivered a prayer of thanks to Trump. Must watch. pic.twitter.com/sAq9OQnQT9— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 20, 2017
"You shall not worship false idols."
I can't remember where I read it, but it seemed important.
Perhaps Mike Pence needs to go back to church and get a little Biblical tune up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
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The mo's believe one should let no man come before God and no worshiping of alters,ext. Those that claim to be God fearing and rietchous don't get the option to pick and choose which laws/rules they followi while still claiming to be a follower of Christ. We are all sinners/human. Pence is as crooked as a dogs leg. Hes not a man of God. Hes a farce and as transparent as the day is long.
DeleteBREAKING! RESIST!
ReplyDeletehttps://thinkprogress.org/anti-trump-inauguration-protesters-acquitted-on-all-counts-in-major-first-amendment-trial-bcbac5367937/
"None of the six men and women facing felony charges tied to an anti-Trump Inauguration Day protest committed a crime, jurors decided Thursday.
The six defendants had faced seven charges each. The jury returned 42 separate NOT-guilty verdicts.
The charges — conspiracy to riot, engaging in a riot, and five counts of criminal property destruction — came despite the government’s acknowledgement that it has not evidence any of these half-dozen people engaged in violent personal action that day. It was in effect a legal argument they were as guilty as those who had actually smashed a window, because they chose to show up in BLACK and stay with the group as it moved through the city."
Sick! Cannot believe how they have to lie to their 'leader in chief' to keep him happy. Those (Republicans) surrounding and 'adoring' him need to take a long look at themselves!
ReplyDeleteGod, please protect the United States of America!
EFFIN UGLY AMERICANS
ReplyDeleteVOTE WITH TRUMP OR LOSE USA FINANCIAL AID
NEWS
DEC 21 2017, 7:58 AM ET
Jerusalem vote: Trump threatens to cut aid to countries ahead of UN vote
President Donald Trump's threat to cut off U.S. funding to countries that oppose his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital has raised the stakes in Thursday's U.N. vote and sparked criticism at his tactics, which one Muslim group called bullying or blackmail.
Read more at
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/jerusalem-vote-trump-threatens-cut-countries-ahead-un-poll-n831751
Ugh...I had to turn it off I couldn't endure it any longer...This false worship of "our dear leader" will soon be ended. The tsunami of November 2018 has begun...decency will be restored...and the rethuglicans will be forced to scurry back under the rocks from whence they came
ReplyDeleteAnd the noose around their necks is tied to the anchor known as DJT.
ReplyDeleteI say the more effusive the better - it will look good in Dem Ads next Fall.
"Mike Pence actually delivered a prayer of thanks to Trump"
ReplyDeleteThis makes me sick. What happened to our politicians? I don't ever remember seeing politicians groveling with gratitude to a president like this years presidential administration.
Remember the big circle jerk to Trump when each member of Trump's administration gave speeches kissing Trump's ass while he sat there with his arms crossed?
The way he crosses his arms is a defensive mechanism! The guy is just plain weird and should not be in the role he has. Our country is in huge trouble! Impeachment is the only answer.
ReplyDeleteGross! Pathetic! All republicans are disgusting. Even niki haley is shameful. At the UN she insults, threatens, and acts like trump told her to act. And she says it is what the American people want. What? that is another lie. 80% of Americans do not want her or her nasty lying traitors represent the USA. NO ILLEGITIMATE FRAUD LIAR BOAR riggers represent the American people.
ReplyDeleteShe is just as bad as Trump. Both are detested throughout the country and world!
DeleteFirst, I thank my God President Donald J. Trump through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in President Trump is being reported all over the world.
ReplyDeleteOld Whorin Atch has been into the cooking Demon Dementia Rum some more. His brain is friggin' fried. What a fucking moron.
ReplyDeleteHail, Caesar Donald Trump, those who are about to die salute thee.
ReplyDeleteWhere's the slave hovering at his elbow "You are just a man"???
DeleteGod help our country.
for being such "family values" guys, the republicans sure seem to be fellatio specialists (at least in the spoken word sense!)
ReplyDelete“Effusive” speech... more like F.U.-sive”
ReplyDeleteThe first video of Trump lying through his teeth what repealing the mandate means shocked me when I heard him yesterday. His lies seem to get bigger day by day. I guess I should start saying I felt disgusted because I am not shocked when a pathological liar is lying again.
ReplyDeleteTrump does not blink as he, self professed and praised greatest one, lies whenever his mouth moves.
The latest HealthCare.gov enrollment season closed with a surge of sign-ups, defying President Donald Trump’s insistence that the law is dead.
ReplyDeleteEnrollment in 2018 health plans is on track to potentially match the 12 million who signed up last year, according to new Trump administration figures. The robust enrollment pace, despite the Trump administration’s attacks on the health care law, will make Republican efforts to dismantle Obamacare even more challenging after failed repeal efforts this year.
A total of 8.8 million individuals signed up for coverage through Dec. 15 in the 39 states relying on HealthCare.gov, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced on Twitter this afternoon. And more than 2.5 million have so far enrolled through state-run insurance marketplaces, many of which are still allowing people to sign up over the new few weeks.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/21/healthcare-signups-surpass-expectations-312406
Trumplethinskin *must* have kompromat on all of them by now...and has told them that he's prepared to use it like the two-bit mob boss that he is. I love that toddleresque (self-comforting) arm fold. Looks real mature and presidential. /s
ReplyDeleteI will be personally delighted to give pence a tune-up! No pun intended!
ReplyDeleteHe is a slimy excuse for human.
They are all going down, sooner then later, and I am counting the most horrible ways for that to occur to each and every one of them.You to Nikki hell, Haley.
We have a snap shot at who bows to don john. We know that they are willing to lie cheat and steal for don. Yes we know without a doubt that the republican party are of liars that enable treason while standing on the steps of Our Sacred Buildings and commit obstruction of justice.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this, Gryphen. I have family that relies on ACA. Without it they would be without health insurance and I was very concerned after this tax bill repealed the individual mandate. Bless Obama for getting ACA through Congress during his first two years.
ReplyDeleteIt was really pathtic to watch all those traitors kiss each others butts,so proud of how they are screwing the 99%.
ReplyDeleteI want to know why trump wants to wait until next year to sign the bill,what tax advantage is there for him?
I would have thought he would sign it ASAP before something happens to him,or is it because of the holidays he isn't getting enough attention?
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/in-victory-for-trump-judge-tosses-suit-on-foreign-payments/
ReplyDeleteFUCK!
Trump mades the grinch that stole Christmas look like a nice guy.
ReplyDeleteHe is a real sicko,the president celebrating taking away health care,that should be grounds for impeachment alone.
I hope he dies a slow,painful death from prostate cancer or melanoma from using free viagra.
So Pence prayed to Trump. I knew they were worshipping his orange highnass and not the God they profess to worship. I knew it would come to that. It's a cult. People only act like the Trump supporters if it's a cult. Hope he has them all drinking his poisoned koolaid soon to get this shit over with.
ReplyDeleteThe gop don't know what they even approved. Knuckleheads! Shee heads.
ReplyDeleteAnd then nikki, surreal words.
Ok, we can stop un. So what. Then us will surely fall.
IMPEACH!!
Us. Money, well it is USA citizen money!!! Not executive branch.
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That is US citizen money going to UN.
IMPEACH!!!