The Reign of Trump

[Brian Peacock]

Regulations regulations regulations! Trump to deregulate Gorilla cages!
http://www.klkntv.com/story/33736138/fe ... neffective

Good news for shit flingers everywhere.

[rainbow]

With Donald Trump In The White House, Robert Mugabe Wants To Restore Ties With The U.S.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zim ... ce7aa8baa1

Putin, Mugabe and Trump to remake the Three Stooges?

[Forty Two]

"I said early in this campaign I would meet not just with our friends, but with our enemies. Not just with those we like, but those that we don't...Senator Clinton said, 'oh no, that'd be naive, that'd be irresponsible.' I said, 'remember what John F. Kennedy said, he said 'you should never negotiate out of fear, but you should never fear to negotiate.'"
--Barack Obama,

[cronus]

Negotiations are the key to a swift victory.

[Tero]

Trump to tour and thank White America
https://mobile.twitter.com/NBCNightlyNe ... 0573126656

[Tero]

Nothing Trump promised (in words at his websites) promises cheaper healthcare

Since Trump keeps saying he wants to replace the ACA, what are his main ideas and where do they come from? Have they ever been tried before?

Taking away health insurance from about 20 million people — which would happen if the ACA were repealed with no replacement — would be wildly unpopular, and Trump has outlined several parts of a possible successor plan. Some of the ideas come from legislation that was introduced in recent years by congressional Republicans, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, but has never become law. The major changes Trump has endorsed, often without details, include:

changing the tax code to allow individuals to fully deduct all health insurance premiums;
allowing insurance plans to be sold across state lines, presumably increasing competition;
ensuring price transparency for medical procedures and other health care costs;
expanding access to health savings accounts that are tax free;
turning Medicaid into block grants to states;
allowing medications to be imported, creating more competition in drug pricing. (This shows up on Trump's campaign page but not on his transition page.)

In contrast, the Center for Health and Economy, which is nonpartisan and includes both liberal and conservative experts, estimates that 18 million people — mostly low-income adults — would become uninsured in the first year and that Trump's changes would decrease the deficit by $583 billion between 2017 and 2026.

Obamacare 2017
She said that the extent to which Americans value the law is evident from the enrollment surge the day after the election, when 105,000 people signed up for ACA coverage. That is the only statistic HHS has provided since this fourth-year enrollment period began Nov. 1.

The sign-up window will remain open through January, though people who want coverage starting New Year's Day need to buy a health plan by Dec. 15. Officials have projected that an estimated 11.4 million people, on average, will have coverage through the law’s insurance exchanges during the coming year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to- ... ent-trump/

[Svartalf]

Well, if he promised to do away with the Obamacare thing, he actually promised to make health care more expensive.

[Tero]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... nutes.html

It will be a much better health care at a much less expensive cost," Trump concluded. Those are his exact words.

[Scot Dutchy]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/ ... nutes.html

It will be a much better health care at a much less expensive cost," Trump concluded. Those are his exact words.

You cant believe anything this git says. He just lies and lies. It is the new way of politics; forget the truth just lie lie lie so everyone is confused then force through your own plans. Brexit is another good example. Both parties had the same advisor btw.

[Tero]

Drain the Swamp: Revolution not happening. Swamp is too deep rooted in DC

"The swamp is so deep in Washington that simply saying that there are some people who can have jobs in the administration but can't cash in for five years is such a weak response to the pretty significant message that America just delivered last week," said David Donnelly of Every Voice, one of the many good-government groups split by the new Trump guidelines. "If this is the only thing he did, they will see that nothing has changed."
Transition officials said Wednesday that they would expand upon Obama's executive order which forbid administration officials from registering as lobbyists for two years after serving him, a rule that many influence-peddlers today say has done little to actually curb ethics breaches or impact K Street. The Trump aides added Thursday that the new policy would apply to officials looking to work for overseas governments, too, for their entire lives.CNN

[laklak]

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.



From the '75 tour, I saw them at the Omni Center in Atlanta. According to Wiki that was November 24, 1975. Fucking imagine, next Thursday that will be 41 years ago.

[Tero]

All done with cutely naiive Superman 1938 for now.

Meanwhile:
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/14/the ... t-is-over/
The second risk is that politicians end up promising all things to all people, but end up pleasing nobody, fueling political frustration. We’ll see in four years if Trump can bring home low-skilled jobs through protectionist tariffs and boost the U.S. economy at the same time. That assumes Trump is even serious about protectionism. If it turns out to have been a bait and switch move, stand by for rust belt rage in four years’ time.

[Tero]

Trump killing small business, favoring Corporations

"The President-elect's promise to repeal Obamacare next year has left these small business owners fearful that they will have to dismantle everything they've worked for and return to the corporate sector just to remain insured."
http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/18/news/ec ... urs-trump/

[Tero]

(Wisconsin is and was for a while rigged, via voter ID laws)

Garrison Keillor:
It was gratifying that after Wisconsin voted him into the presidency, the gentleman did not talk about putting Hillary in prison. That was a nice surprise. And when he met with Obama of Kenya, the white sahib was well-behaved, listened to what the African had to say, did not interrupt or call him stupid, and in fact thanked the alien for meeting with him. He did a good impersonation of modesty.

Say what you will, the man is flexible. The wall on the border, his reliable applause line this past year, has been downgraded to a fence in some places and may eventually turn into a line of orange highway cones. The 11 million deportees are down to two or three. Hillary may be let off with an ankle bracelet.

Continue:
http://m.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Gar ... 616258.php

[Brian Peacock]

I see the President-erect has gone back on his vow to fight the Trump University class action to the death, instead chosing to gloat over the fact that he settled cheap.