Discussion: New York AG: Trump Is 'Reckless And Cruel' To Halt Obamacare Payments

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“People will suffer and people will die”

I’d like this be the milder of the rhetoric we see. Keep it up AG’s.

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That GOP bumper sticker’s already in production.

“Trump 2020: People will suffer and people will die.”

It’s a runaway hit with Republican focus groups.

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Trump “reckless and cruel”? Who could have predicted that?

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A famous quote from Richard Mourdock (R IN defeated by Joe Donnelly in 2012) said:

“To me, the highlight of politics, frankly, is to inflict my opinion on someone else.”

This seems to me to be a big part of Trump’s plan too… He is looking to ‘build bi-partisan’ support by trying to make everybody believe that he is taking hostages. His general plan being that he will threaten to shoot the hostage unless the opposition gets on board to give him whatever his cause du jour happens to be (the wall, the ban, Iran, etc). But the most important target audience for these diatribes is his base. He wants to impress them most of all that he is a “tough guy”.

Does anybody else see Steve Miller’s fingerprints all over this bombastic strategy of late?

It strikes me that Trump taking advice from Miller is sort of like taking Ex-Lax to solve a diarrhea problem. Following Miller’s advice may have a short term effect by projecting strength to the base but at the end of the day the only outcome from his proposed solution is a big bucket of shit.

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These are the guys in the white hats. And they don’t carry guns.

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Wow, you have a way with words. And I like it.

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Is there anyone besides me who would really like to know what Bannon’s answer was when Trump asked him what the 25 amendment was?

OT and I’m sorry - it has really been bothering me.

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Trump Is ‘Reckless And Cruel’ To Halt Obamacare Payments

Trump: Yes, I am. And very Proud. So is Putin.

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Absolutely. Miller (puppet of Bannon) will slant every issue to turn our government into a fascist cult of personality. He’s feeding trump lines that clearly represent more knowledge and eloquence than trump ever possessed, and we know he’s behind the multiply-failed attempts to ban Muslims from the US and deport all brown people.

I’m somewhat surprised Kelly was able to squeeze out the rest of the Bannon cabal, but not Miller.

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My only quibble with the New York attorney general’s statement is that he said it was “Breathtakingly Reckless”.

Breathtaking implies surprise. As this is intended to break government and punish poor people I think “Expectedly Reckless” is more appropriate

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“It’s got something to do with Jared’s Security Clearance application”, Bannon answered.
Correctly.

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Trump gets off on being seen as cruel. It makes him feel powerful.

It would be better to call him “Reckless and Weak.”

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And that, folks, is how plain old diarrhea becomes explosive diarrhea - by projecting strength to the base.

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“Don’t worry about it, Mr. President. Go back to twitter.”

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Trump should be careful about getting in a fight with Schneiderman since there are doubtless numerous offenses that Schneiderman can prosecute him for and he can’t pardon himself for state crimes.

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New bumper sticker:

Trump for Big Brother in 1984

Trump is cruel and ineffective. A loser. Why would he, a millionaire, care about people with little or modest income?

My guess is Bannon more or less explained that the people in his Cabinet can have him removed from the Presidency.

Bannon has always been one of the chief architects driving the in fighting at the WH. And he wasn’t going to miss an opportunity to feed an unstable Donald’s paranoia while also pointing out those he felt were not being sufficiently supportive of Bannon’s internal battles.

That particular tactic is very similar to what Lewandowski did, Bannon just did it more aggressively…keep Donald worried and off balance so he only listens and trusts Bannon. Neither of them completely succeeded, largely because Donald doesn’t trust anyone, especially those whispering in his ears to only trust them while they are vying to share the spotlight.

To whit, Kelly’s faux pax of saying “running the country is the hardest job he has ever had” is a good indicator that he in on the same path.

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Miller is a POS.