No discussion at all of the healthcare bill, the most significant policy undertaking of the administration and Senate so far, on what is ostensibly the political board. Color me shocked.
Trump announces he doesn't have tapes on Comey less than 15 minutes after the Senate bill is unveiled. Let that sink in.
>>131065369
This board ate it up because on the whole people here have basically no grasp or understanding of policy in general, which is why they focused on culture so much. You can't talk about politics if you don't understand how it works
>>131062751
hahah teenagers dont need health care, they will live forever!
Funny that McConnell and Paul Ryan both relied on govt assistance as kids, now they are taking it away for everyone else. Plus they are all on govt health care for life. McConnell has never had a real job in his life.
Back in May of 2015, when Donald Trump was still running in the Republican primary race, and every Republican candidate was pathologically lying about Obamacare in order to gain favor with the most ignorant of voters among the ignorant Republican base, Trump tweeted the following: “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”
That’s right, Trump insisted that he would never touch Medicaid. But as it turns out, his Trumpcare bill cuts Medicaid so severely that it’s tantamount to genocide. Trump’s plan would literally murder an untold number of low-income Americans. And this is after Trump conned low-income rural white Americans into voting for him by promising them he’d never touch their Medicaid. Now he’s trying a novel new political strategy by specifically murdering his own base.
>>131066184
This board makes it impossible to talk about how mind-rendingly shit this bill is though because if you mention that people will actually die, you get the 15 year old edge lords saying that's a good thing. When your entire political beliefs structure can be boiled down to "my position on any issue is the most irreverent one possible" and fail to see how boring and unoriginal that is, maybe you shouldn't be talking about politics
For fucks sake