President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Who needs a magic wand when you have a pen!?!

 

You forgot the phone.

 

Ragu, I have BCBS through the state teacher's system so I don't have to contend with it and have no firsthand knowledge. That said, copays, deductibles, out of pocket costs, and the price of insurance has gone up forever. I live in Alabama, which refused Federal Medicare assistance. If the state had put in a billion, the Feds would have matched it with eighteen billion. Our governor, abundantly proven to be a complete nitwit by other acts, refused to get involved because Obama. If anything Medicare here has been cut. There was never a state exchange offering insurance companies used to this market, it was all on the Federal exchange. There were only three companies supplying the state market, two of which have withdrawn. Only BCBS is left, which has roughly 85% of the market in the state. Predictably, their price has gone up. A lot. No competition whatsoever.

There were a lot of problems with Medicare when it started, too. Year by year the bad parts were addressed and fixed until it was tolerably decent care. There was never any pretense of that with ACA.

 

Who gives a shit? It's getting gutted in a month and a half anyway, whether it works or not.

 

Because mooslim neegro.

 

So, given all the Jefferson Beauregard Sessions references we've seen in response to Sessions' nomination, should we refer to Ellison as Keith Ellison-Muhammed or Keith E. Hakim? Or maybe just Keith Muhammad.

In one scathing column from 1990 unearthed by CNN's KFile, Ellison accused the university's president of chilling the free expression of black students by openly criticizing a controversial speaker invited to speak on campus by the Africana Student Cultural Center. That speaker, Kwame Ture (also known as Stokely Carmichael), had publicly claimed that Zionists had collaborated with the Nazis in World War II and has been quoted as saying "Zionism must be destroyed."

University of Minnesota President Nils Hasselmo said he "personally found the statements in Ture's speech concerning alleged Zionist collaboration with the Nazis deeply offensive." Ellison, writing under the name "Keith E. Hakim" for the Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper at the University of Minnesota where Ellison attended law school, argued that Hasselmo "denounced Ture's comment without offering any factual refutation of it," and defended Ture's right to speak on campus and to question Zionism.

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When the then-executive director of The Minneapolis Initiative Against Racism, Joanne Jackson, came under fire in 1997 for allegedly saying during a forum that Jews are the most racist white people she knows and that she did not think Farrakhan was a racist, Ellison, who identified by his religious name of Keith Ellison-Muhammad, defended her, saying, "She is correct about Minister Farrakhan. He is not a racist. He is also not an anti-Semite." (Ellison would later address this incident in 2006, writing in a letter to a local Jewish group, "While some at that meeting justified her comments, I spoke out in favor of increased dialogue between the Jewish and African-American communities. I believe that Ms. Jackson's alleged remarks were clearly bigoted, discriminatory story, inappropriate, and even ridiculous.")

In 1998, Ellison launched a bid for Minnesota state representative, a race he lost after failing to gain the endorsement of the Democratic Party in the state, known as the DFL. Both the Star-Tribune and Insight News identified Ellison, who at time was still going by Keith Ellison-Muhammed, as deeply involved in the Nation of Islam at the time. During that race, Ellison rebuffed any insinuation he was, himself, anti-Semitic.

"I am opposed to the subjugation of any class or person on account of their religion, national origin, sex, race, or gender," Ellison said. "I reject anti-Jewish attitude from whatever source."

At the time, Ellison hosted a local radio show "Black Power Perspectives." The show, which aired on KMOJ radio, was hosted by Ellison for years under the name "Keith Muhammad."

Rep. Keith Ellison faces renewed scrutiny over past ties to Nation of Islam, defense of anti-Semitic figures - CNNPolitics.com

 

The auto bailout kept 1.5 million people in their jobs during the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, but somehow you'd rather:

--all of those people (actual human beings) had been tossed out on the street;
--the government had paid unemployment benefits to those 1.5 million people;
--the government had foregone the tax dollars those jobs generate;
--the loss of hundreds of thousands of more jobs among suppliers and service workers who support the auto industry.
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Because better those real tragedies happen to real families than risk MISALLOCATION OF CAPITAL! and LOST OPPORTUNITY COSTS!

Too bad those 1.5 million-plus people and their families didn't understand that the country might be better off in the long term if only we had the collective stomach to watch them suffer.

 

Are there no workhouses?

 

I get that Im the wrong person to say this, but if Keith Ellison and Nancy Pelosi are the faces and voices of the Democratic Party during the 1st 2 years (assuming the country lasts that long) of the Trump Administration you might want to consider moving to the Netherlands. An actual black muslim and a shrew are not going to win a single vote in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Given the large number of Muslims in Michigan, you'd have to consider that Hillary got every vote from them she could. If the Democrats want to win anything worth winning in 2 years, Lena Dunham should be literally sacrificed on an alter on Marlboros and Budweiser to appease the masses. And get yourself a straight white christian man younger than 60 to be your new standard bearer.

 

The youngest member of the House Leadership is leaving to become California's AG.

 

Enjoying your return to sm, I see.