Trump (really, "Javanka") is attempting a rather awkward "pivot" towards the center. Bannon is functionally banished, though many white/nationalist policies will continue. Trump has to mobilize some mainstream support or he will, sooner or later, be impeached. Shooting dozens of rockets at (evacuated) A-Rab targets evokes the magic of the Star Spangled Banner; just the thing for the flyover states.
Enormous amounts of money are flowing, some illegally, some without financial logic, from the most notorious criminal regime in the world before and after the election to Trump, his minions, family and organization, while trump and his cronies and family accept Russian aggression, disrupt our alliances and praise Putin. And are engaged in a coverup.
excellent piece.
As I understand the process of obtaining the massive tax cuts for the very wealthy, there was a direct link to the repeal of Obamacare. Here goes: in order to be eligible to pass the Senate with a bare majority (instead of 60 votes, which would never happen) the loss in revenue from the tax cut has to be balanced by an equal cut in expenditures; this is called "reconciliation." That is where the cuts in Medicare and Obamacare came in. The total amount to be taken from the poorest and given to the richest (including Trump) was supposedly to be some $500 billion. This was Paul Ryan's scheme, which he dishonestly described as "healthcare." The details didn't really matter to him. Of course, they didn't matter to Trump either, his first priority was probably to humiliate the illegitimate Kenyan black man, and he would certainly have profited bigly from the tax cut. Ryan counted on the 7 years of Obama-hating propaganda to allow him to blow the plan past Congress on party lines.
Whether it would have passed the Senate is anyone's guess, but the truly astonishing part of the story is that the reason it failed in the House was a substantial number of tea baggers for whom the massive taking from the poorest WAS NOT MASSIVE ENOUGH. i.e. they wanted essentially no health care for the poorest. Even eliminating maternal care, newborn care, and yearly physicals was not enough for them. By the time all that was cut out, the bill was totally bizarre and could not even pretend to be healthcare, even for the "moderate" GOP'ers in Congress.
Fail.
Trump is doing exactly what the Russians want: bankrupting America by wasting enormous amounts of money on useless arms, and destroying our relations with our allies. Sort of like what Reagan did to the Soviet Union. Is that a coincidence?
Trump (really, "Javanka") is attempting a rather awkward "pivot" towards the center. Bannon is functionally banished, though many white/nationalist policies will continue. Trump has to mobilize some mainstream support or he will, sooner or later, be impeached. Shooting dozens of rockets at (evacuated) A-Rab targets evokes the magic of the Star Spangled Banner; just the thing for the flyover states.
Enormous amounts of money are flowing, some illegally, some without financial logic, from the most notorious criminal regime in the world before and after the election to Trump, his minions, family and organization, while trump and his cronies and family accept Russian aggression, disrupt our alliances and praise Putin. And are engaged in a coverup.
excellent piece.
As I understand the process of obtaining the massive tax cuts for the very wealthy, there was a direct link to the repeal of Obamacare. Here goes: in order to be eligible to pass the Senate with a bare majority (instead of 60 votes, which would never happen) the loss in revenue from the tax cut has to be balanced by an equal cut in expenditures; this is called "reconciliation." That is where the cuts in Medicare and Obamacare came in. The total amount to be taken from the poorest and given to the richest (including Trump) was supposedly to be some $500 billion. This was Paul Ryan's scheme, which he dishonestly described as "healthcare." The details didn't really matter to him. Of course, they didn't matter to Trump either, his first priority was probably to humiliate the illegitimate Kenyan black man, and he would certainly have profited bigly from the tax cut. Ryan counted on the 7 years of Obama-hating propaganda to allow him to blow the plan past Congress on party lines.
Whether it would have passed the Senate is anyone's guess, but the truly astonishing part of the story is that the reason it failed in the House was a substantial number of tea baggers for whom the massive taking from the poorest WAS NOT MASSIVE ENOUGH. i.e. they wanted essentially no health care for the poorest. Even eliminating maternal care, newborn care, and yearly physicals was not enough for them. By the time all that was cut out, the bill was totally bizarre and could not even pretend to be healthcare, even for the "moderate" GOP'ers in Congress.
Fail.
Trump is doing exactly what the Russians want: bankrupting America by wasting enormous amounts of money on useless arms, and destroying our relations with our allies. Sort of like what Reagan did to the Soviet Union. Is that a coincidence?
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."