âThe federal website and state-run online insurance markets have signed up 12.2 million people for this yearâ
Not even close to the huge crowd attending the Trump inaugural.
Overdrawn Rhetorical Apocalypse ⌠yeah, so typical of Hitlerâs speeches:
âHitler was a performer and one who had uncanny talent and ability to rouse up the crowds. I donât think he was angry as much as the audience had tremendous anger, and he tapped into that in a powerful way.â
I am happy to see AP fact checking Trump â itâll get a lot more traction this way. Please continue, news media, to call a spade a spade. Thank you.
Interesting fact check article. Too bad the AP is fake news, at least to Trump supporters.
America was doing OK on January 19 and it is doing OK now. Ok isnât really great, but it isnât an apocalypse. We need a President who inspires us to greatness. We donât need a President who tries to scare us to death without evidence.
Plus, theyâre all Democrats who didnât vote for him, so he doesnât have to represent them, right?
It seems a lot of people in the GOP donât understand how democracy works.
My question isâŚDid we get this same fact-checking from the AP and a lot of the media, particularly when the entire Republican slate of candidates were essentially claiming the same bullshit about massive illegal immigration from our Southern border (minus Drumpfâs superlatives) during the primaries?
They all said the same shit over and over again. It sure would have been helpful to show how they all used demagoguery to hype this issue and have done so for years. Frankly, because the media let them get away with it forever, its one more reason we donât have comprehensive immigration reform today.
When you constantly allow both sides to give out information about what is actually happening on the borderâŚand one side constantly lies about itâŚthere should be no moral equivalency to taking both sides seriously. This demagoguery should have been called out a long time ago. The only thing thatâs different today is the boneheaded superlatives that add no substance to the already empty rhetoric by the Trumpanistas. And now we have mass deportations probably happening with absolutely no transparency as a result. Great. Just great.
BtwâŚthanks AP for finally doing your job. It looks like it took being threatened by the Orange Menace to have finally woken you up from your slumber.
Trump is a short-fingered, drama queen wannabee.
Do we have the right to question Trump?
Should we try harder to understand his mental illness and forgive him?
Nah, intercourse him.
The PPACA (Obamacare) covers every single person in America who has a health insurance policy. The PP stands for Patient Protection. Itâs not only access and affordability, itâs reform.
Facts mean NOTHING to the conservatives because they frame things using their ideology which is âFather knows best so donât question Him or you will be punished severely until you learn to be goodâ. And no, much of the press in its glee to cash in, just turned into a huge version of the idiotic National Enquirer. Basically, the systemic problem, a feature of how things actually work and which the conservatives refuse to acknowledge at all, has basically been abandoned as our society has been polarized over the last 30 years by think tanks dedicated to propaganda and changing brains.
The DNC will be all but useless in the LONG range process of progressive values being reintroduced into the debate on what America stands for as outlined in our founding documents. We need the young people, so we must speak to their wants and needs. Today and for the rest of our lives, we progressives must absolutely dedicate ourselves individually and in our neighborhoods and towns, to developiing and using the language that describes our moral views as they pertain to our government and how we cooperate in this world to deal with our mounting problems. The conservative track is destroying us. The progressive track is where most people want to be.
Itâs time for presenting our views in ways that actually measure up to the 21st century knowledge of how our brains use information and conclude the actions to take. Remember that only about 2% of our brain activity is devoted to what we consider as conscious thought. The tools we can use are beginning to have effect with allowing our right emotions in sync with facts to say âHell no, we canât abide this lying crap since look how itâs destroying our world view of who we are!â We demonstrate, demand our representatives answer our questions about what theyâre doing to restore a government process that works for the people, not the corporations and the ignorant greedy wealthy like Trump. And we telll them what we want, why, and we get to work changing our society into the one we need and want.
Thatâs why the figures of 22 million or whatever the latest numbers actually are, doesnât encompass how the PPACA will affect many other people insured by healthcare providers in the country if taken away. The figures look more like 30+ million because of the collapse of the insurance markets if a solidly affordable replacement is not offered immediately upon repeal will be disastrous. Even the delay of providing a replacement will have effects on those in the market looking for health insurance that werenât covered under Obamacare. Without subsidies, mandates and putting back in risk corridors the numbers could be staggering. Btw, we can all thank Lil Marco for fucking up the risk corridors just so he could have some special issue to agitate about when running for President.
I remember 20 to 25 years ago â shoot, even 10 or 15 years ago â when talking politics with my conservative friends, someone would always pipe in with a comment like, âNo, youâre wrong. In the latest issue of the New York Times/Wall Street Journal/Washington Post/Time/Newsweek, they reported on this issue, and they disagree with what youâre saying.â
Now, I hear from conservatives and Republican voters, âNo, I donât read any newspapers, I donât watch the TV news â itâs all a bunch of bullshit. I do my own research.â
Overdrawn Rhetorical Apocalypse âŚ, The headline should read AP FACT CHECK; TRUMP LIES.
In other news, tomorrow the sun wil lrise in the east.
From CNN:
Trump declines to attend White House correspondentsâ dinner. Updated 5:51 PM ET, Sat February 25, 2017
Quick! Somebody book Alec Baldwin in his place!!!
Itâs just Don the sexual predator and pathological liar being an a## again. Every day he shows what an a## he is.
âTrump declines to attend White House correspondentsâ dinner. Updated 5:51 PM ET, Sat February 25, 2017â
âQuick! Somebody book Alec Baldwin in his place!!!â
That would be perfect!!!
Give him a little time. Heâll arrange the apocalypse soon enough!
A cowardly move by a coward.