Donald Trump

the last week has been one of the most smug weeks of my life

90% of my friends are losing their minds on Facebook

The press be like

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solwitch wrote:

"Nice try?" Trump said he wanted to End Obamacare. It's part of his speech campaign besides his wall. You can find him saying in almost every speech he had through out his campaign. I just need you people to understand that he's just a bullshitter like the rest of them. At least Hillary doesn't use the same damn interjection over and over again... "great."

He's channeling his inner Tony the Tiger.

A lot depends on what you consider Obamacare to be. IMO - it is the massive inflexible system packed with inefficiency. If you consider the core of the ACA to be the individual mandate - than I can't say whether it would be possible (under existing conditions) to remove that and have it remain viable.

There are some other options - which would be politically unpalatable, and might only work in the short term. The basic concept of insurance making an operating profit and then a financials market profit is the crux of the problem. This situation allowed costs to dramatically rise disproportionately to the patient's ability to pay. As long as the insurance companies were making money - they didn't care whether an X-ray costs $15.00 or whether it cost $175.00

If the "insurance" was being run as a non-profit, with a large enough pool and some minimal measures, the costs can be kept much more stable than the average ACA costs. This I know for an absolute bedrock fact. I've see it being done on a very large scale over decades.

The deal breaker for most businesses is the additional fees they pay on top of the actual health care premiums. Paying $15,000 to 24,000 for a worker's health care costs plus their wages and Labor and Industries, and all the other stuff is costly enough. Paying an additional $7,500 - 12,000 on top of that as a "cadillac plan" penalty to help finance Obamcare's underpaid side JUST DOESN'T WORK.

A rough and dirty estimate - a full time $15 an hour employee with a decent health plan is going to cost $37 an hour to employ.

THAT is why you see less people working in various companies.

The improvements in cost don't have to be enormous savings. Businesses learned how to adapt to medium high health care costs. The savings, initially, just need to offset price increases. Later on, with more preventative health care, the savings will bring the costs down a lot and give people better health at the same time.

The real focus down the road needs to be prevention, screening, and pro-active health management. For it to work, the costs for the patient to participate in this kind of health promotion should be almost nothing. Costs for participating in a non-proactive fashion will need to be higher.

For example (imaginary numbers) - A patient paying a $5.00 co-pay for regular screenings and visits, but paying a $75 fee if they haven't been getting regular check ups, and paying a bigger percentage for complications caused by not using the health system.

You'd need reasonable limits, options for people who don't understand etc. The point is to make it cheaper for people to go see a health care provider on a regular basis, than it is to only go when they start feeling sick.

The VAST majority of health care dollars being spent are on preventable issues.


There are excesses, of course, where money is wasted on care that isn't needed. There are process improvements in many hospitals to try and improve this, by limiting or prohibiting payment for things that are basically the mistake of the hospital. For example, if you were hospitalized after a surgery, and they put a urinary catheter in and you ended up with an infection - the hospital is responsible for your care and will not be paid. (It's what they call a NEVER event - basically, it should never happen if procedures are properly followed.

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LostForm wrote:

bush reaches high at around 90% approval for saying 'we gonna git em', leaves office at ~30% approval.
republican congress drives approval below 20% over the next 8 years.

>elect republican president and senate

Pretty sad state of affairs, hopefully we are able to once again bounce back from the great foresight of the fundies in Kansas and midwest. Pretty ridiculous track record going here. And trump is going to bring all the usual players back in, thanks Midwest for letting these people lie to you repeatedly.

Large swaths of Fundie New York State, and Fundie Oregon and Fundie Washington state - plus the Michigan Bible belters....

The left is still in shock. They have no idea what happened, because they were too busy shouting at people and never allowed people to honestly respond, let alone listen.

There are lots of people that have never voted Republican in their life that voted for Trump.
The reasons they did so are as varied as the people themselves. Until the left understands that not all people think exactly the same, they will continue to wonder WTF happened as their candidates get soundly trumped.

Comparing Hillary's and Trump's campaign schedules in August and September.



Notice how Hillary took many days off and stayed in rock solid blue NY for 16(!) days. If I were a Hillbot I'd be really mad at her. Poor decision making and bad work ethics. Sad!

that's it america. britain want's you back.
there will be no longer a mrs "nice" queen!

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vio wrote:

that's it america. britain want's you back.
there will be no longer a mrs "nice" queen!

His letter failed to mention the 72% of his countrymen that want the firearms back.

Therefore, I rate the letter as Mostly Dead.



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George Soros enters a president shop.

George: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint with the Federal Rigged Elections Committee Kommisar.

(The FREEC Kommisar does not respond.)

George: 'Ello, Miss?

Kommisar: What do you mean "miss" did you just assume my gender?

George: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I wish to make a complaint!

Kommisar: We're closin' for a pizza party.

George: Never mind that, my non-binary. I wish to complain about this president what I
purchased not a decade and a half ago from this very DNC.

Kommisar: Oh yes, the, uh, the Pneumonia Blue...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?

George: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my zir. 'SHE's dead, that's what's wrong with it!

Kommisar: No, no, 'she's uh,...She's resting.

George: Look, matey, I know a dead president when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.

Kommisar: No no she's not dead, she's, she's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Pneumonia Blue , idn'it, ay? Beautiful Logo!

George: The Logo don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

Kommisar: Nononono, no, no! 'SHE's resting!

George: All right then, if she's restin', wake her up!

Kommisar: shouting at the president
'Ello, Madam president! I've got a lovely fresh pizza for you if you show...(Kommisar jabs the president with a syringe
Kommisar: There, she moved!

George: No, she didn't, that was you jabbing her!

Kommisar: I never!!

George: Yes, you did!

Kommisar: I never, never did anything...

George: (yelling and hitting the president repeatedly) 'ELLO MADAM President!!!!!
Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your November Eighth alarm call!
(Takes president out of the cage and thumps its head on the counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to the floor.)
George: Now that's what I call a dead president.

Kommisar: No, no.....No, 'she's stunned!

George: STUNNED?!?

Kommisar: Yeah! The election results stunned her, just as she was wakin' up! Pneumonia Blues stun easily, major.

George: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough of this. That president is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not a decade and a 'alf ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' dehydrated and overheated following a prolonged cough.

Kommisar: Well, he's...she's, ah...probably pining for the votes.

George: PININ' for the VOTES!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?, look, why did she fall flat on her back the moment the cameras turned off?

Rain begins falling down inside the president shop and the two men look up
Giant cartoon rain drops begin splashing across the screen, wails and shrieking can be heard. The camera continues to scroll skywards and we see that the rain drops are coming from clouds labeled "Not My Precipitation" "Never Truth" "Correct the Sunshine" "I'm with Shame."

Water begins to fill the screen. The camera pans out, and we see a world map where the continents are somewhat smaller and misshapen.

A teacher's hand points to the watery areas, "And that children is how Political Climate Change caused it to rain for 1,460 days and nights. "

A child's hand shoots up in the back.

The teacher nods, "Ask your question - be quick, we're on Carbon savings time"

"Why didn't everyone drown?" the child asks.

"Because Soros built a google of arks using uberwood," the teacher answered.

A croaking sound is heard

The teacher's eyes grow wide

The children look down and see a tiny frog

The teacher shrieks

A child picks up the tiny green animal "It's just a frog"

"Just a FROG?," the teacher replies. That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered tadpole you ever set eyes on! He's got big nasty pointy memes that will rip your mind up," the teacher begins stepping backwards.

A fly lands on the teachers face. The teacher looks down at the fly.

The frog looks at the fly and then it leaps.

The screen fades to green.

Mmmm, I'd love to see you Trumpets- who decried Hillary as a warmongerer- twist and contort yourselves to defend John fucking Bolton as secretary of state.

Oh, I think ya'll might be too young to remember him. (Hears the sound of youngins furiously googling)

What a lovely swamp he's building! Ten feet deeper!

I doubt he'd be Sec of State. It would be glorious though to see Bolton twisting the figurative ears of the U.N. again. The supposed Human Rights Council makes Hillary look like honest Abe.

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DalaiLama wrote:

Bu...Bu...Bu... HILLARY

Hillary lost, in case you didn't notice. You no longer get to use her as an excuse.

I love it, you're effectively speechless. You voted for Trump on the pretense that he would not be a warmonger (like HILLARY!!!1!) and he's at this very moment filling his swamp to the brim with GWB-era, neocon rejects.

Take a big ol slurp from that swamp and smile.