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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Mar 29, 2017 -> 02:36 PM) Health care companies getting richer is proof that Obama care "ruined healthcare". Smaller companies that couldn't keep up with all of the ridiculous regulations had to shut down, limiting competition for the larger companies. Now the larger companies can do what they want and limit offerings as they so please. They only offer in the locations where they most profit. If you aren't part of a large group they like, then they limit your access to the majority of their doctors and hospitals, since you have no other companies to choose from. If you are not part of a large corporate group, you are at the mercy of the big health insurance companies, if they wish to help you. But at least they are profiting. I wonder where the majority of their political donations went. That's basically what's going to happen when you try the market-based approach of the ACA, and it's why the ACA has been attacked as "a handout to insurance companies" from the left since the start. In other Trump news, President Trump revokes Obama-era LGBTQ protections, lets federal contractors discriminate

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 29, 2017 -> 02:30 PM) I said I was hopeful cause in regards to a Reagan comparison. I was hoping an outsider would be beloved and be able to get things done. He seemed to be talking the right thing ... jobs, jobs, jobs. With all due respect, you made a good case for Obamacare but doesn't the general public deem it horrible? The good thing about it is all people with past conditions are safe on there. I like that. Reagan was governor of our most economically productive state and had been active in politics for close to two decades prior to becoming President. The general public didn't like "Obamacare" but liked all of its constituent parts until recently. More recently, support for the ACA has shot to an all-time high and several Republican Medicaid hold-out states are taking measures to expand it, which will help hundreds of thousands if not millions more.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Mar 29, 2017 -> 01:24 PM) Remember when you blast me ... I do concede you all are much smarter about politics than me. But why can't I be hopeful for the USA and Trump? Why does that make me bad? Yes I want Trump to succeed. This has been explained before, but I'll try one more time: A lot of us believe that if Trump is successful in implementing his agenda, a whole lot of people will suffer unnecessarily and progressive in many areas in our country will be set back years if not decades or even irreparably in the case of global warming. I'm hopeful that Trump fails miserably and quickly so that the USA may succeed instead. I think Trump's agenda is directly at odds with a "successful" US, even if he and his supporters don't.

I think my favorite thing of the Trump Era so far is that Teen Vogue has become the journalistic vanguard pushing back against Trump's bulls***. Teen Vogue! They're even being directly linked by the ACLU these days.

Speaking of the dumb, useless, multi-billion dollar wall that US taxpayers and no one else will be paying for, Interior Secretary Zinke says we might even be building the wall in Mexico http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/interior...article/2618743

Top US coal boss Robert Murray: Trump 'can't bring mining jobs back' Coal is dead. Natural gas is just killing it on price with or without regulations. Nobody is building new coal plants.

Illinois' Consolidated General Election for many local municipal and township seats is next Tuesday. Early voting is already underway. I've helped out a little bit with my family member who's up for reelection. Hard to say with zero polling, but they won comfortably last time and the voting patterns in their area didn't change appreciably from 2012 to 2016 (just sort of using that as a rough bell weather on turnout and whether there was an ideological shift in the area/who votes in the area). Spent lots of time going door-to-door. Will be going to an election results party next Tuesday to watch the returns come in, which is always nerve-racking but fun. In my own area, I'm actually looking at voting straight-ticket Republican because my choices are moderate Republican incumbents or abolish-township-government Tea Party types. Even though it's a heavily Republican area, conservation is one of the dominating factors in Homer Township/Homer Glen and was a big reason the town was incorporated in 2002 in the first place. I unronically liked one of the Republicans' profiles in the local paper for "telling it like it is" i.e. calling the opposition a bunch of delusional and dishonest assholes in so many words. Anyway the main point of this post was just a reminder to everyone about the upcoming elections. Your local paper can be a great source of information on all of the races that'll be on your ballot.

Looks like the Dems have enough votes to sustain the filibuster on Gorsuch, and the Republicans are planning on nuking it to get him through. https://twitter.com/jasonnobleDMR/status/847122318270836736

Article 50 triggered http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39431070

Fifteen felony charges for the two who made these videos. https://twitter.com/AP/status/846903043043962886

Trump is also claiming that he can't be sued while in office in an attempt to quash a lawsuit from a woman who says she was sexually assaulted during The Apprentice. https://twitter.com/eriqgardner/status/846734950103699457

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Mar 28, 2017 -> 09:42 AM) Trump administration trying to block Sally Yates from testifying on Russia. Lol Looks like they're trying to claim some sort of attorney client privilege, but the AG isn't the president's personal lawyer so not really sure how that'd fly. Nunes is also refusing to recuse himself from this investigation despite clearly having conflicts of interest and not being able to perform impartially.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 27, 2017 -> 12:53 PM) Seeing on Twitter that Virginia and Kansas now look likely to take Medicaid expansion. edit: said Nebraska meant kansas. Also Georgia. http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/03/27/ge...lans-implosion/

Trump hasn't named a US ambassador to Germany yet, but he's sending his daughter to meet with the Chancellor. https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/...403865620688896

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 27, 2017 -> 11:41 AM) I am really starting to believe that Nunes is gonna be walked out in handcuffs soon His source for "Trump was right! Maybe. Well not really at all" was the White House. https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/846368153089298432

Kushner had more meetings with Russians than previously known, will be questioned by Senate https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/polit...ner-russia.html

Clean power plan is dead http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/26/politics/pru...rder/index.html This also means we have no hope of living up to our Paris accords agreement.

I like that it's unusual enough for Trump to be trying to do his job that it's big news. Plus didn't he spend the day on the golf course again yesterday

lmao he still doesn't understand the very basics of how NATO works and why nobody "owes" money to NATO or another country. Trump: Greatest President ever, or Greatest Leader in Human History?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 25, 2017 -> 05:26 PM) Over 200 Iraqi civilians killed by US air strikes. Probably just the first step in quickly getting rid of ISIS. Commander in Chief is on a roll. Believe me. Remember, he campaigned on committing war crimes.

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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Mar 25, 2017 -> 09:42 AM) He mows says he has been saying all along the best thing is to let Obaamcare implode because then they will get the better deal. OK. The problem is his administration is going to do whatever they can to make Obamacare implode so he can get on with wealth care. No mention of fixing the problems with Obamacare seems rather puzzling until you' realize this is US politics. Like was mentioned previously, the POTUS actually wishing for a scenario that would undoubtedly cost American lives is unprecedented. Why isn't fixing Obamacare a consideration for the right if they are so concerned with US citizens, and want them to have better, cheaper health care? There's an ongoing lawsuit right now where House Republicans were suing to have the courts rule that the ACA subsidies weren't properly funded. If Trump really is going to gleefully and openly cheer for the collapse of health care for millions of Americans, this is the easiest way. He can choose to instruct his government to simply not defend the lawsuit in court. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obam...-lawsuit-231724 FWIW the CBO has also recently said that the ACA exchanges are stable, so unless this lawsuit were to succeed, ACA won't be collapsing in on itself before exploding any time soon even with Congress and the WH trying to break and cause harm to Americans who rely on it every way they can. Trump cutting all advertising for the exchange enrollment period is believed to be the cause of lower than expected signups this year, and there's a federal investigation of that underway.

Trump workin' hard https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/845654354308812801

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