President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[falafel]

I know I am lucky that I don't have to worry about getting health issues taken care of. I am all for those less fortunate having the opportunity as I do to take care of their health needs.

I get bronchitis every year and have it now. I called my Dr. to get the antibiotic that takes care of this. They can no longer prescribe without seeing me. They can see me a week from today.

Urgent care.

[Uncle Ted]

Since Drumpf has taken office the market is up, employment is up, drone strikes are up...

U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 432% Since Trump Took Office

When he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush’s drone wars. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning head of state ordered ten times more drone strikes than the previous president, and estimates late in Obama’s presidency showed 49 out of 50 victims were civilians. In 2015, it was reported that up to 90% of drone casualties were not the intended targets.


Current President Donald Trump campaigned on a less interventionist foreign policy, claiming to be opposed to nation-building and misguided invasions. But less than two months into his presidency, Trump has expanded the drone strikes that plagued Obama’s “peaceful” presidency.


According to an analysis from Micah Zenko, an analyst with the Council on Foreign Relations, Trump has markedly increased U.S. drone strikes since taking office. Zenko, who reported earlier this year on the over 26,000 bombs Obama dropped in 2016, summarized the increase:


“During President Obama’s two terms in office, he approved 542 such targeted strikes in 2,920 days—one every 5.4 days. From his inauguration through today, President Trump had approved at least 36 drone strikes or raids in 45 days—one every 1.25 days.”


That’s an increase of 432 percent.
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http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/us-drone-strikes-have-gone-up-432-since-trump-took-office

Something else the republicans can brag about.

[byu71]

Urgent care.

good advice. I checked and they accept my insurance.

[Topper]

good advice. I checked and they accept my insurance.

Better yet, go to the ER!

[byu71]

Better yet, go to the ER!

I don't think my insurance will pay for an ER visit for bronchitis. I guess I could claim to be undocumented.

[Commando]

I don't think my insurance will pay for an ER visit for bronchitis. I guess I could claim to be undocumented.

What do you imagine the benefit of that would be?

[creekster]

What do you imagine the benefit of that would be?

He would then have people like you in his corner.

[Commando]

He would then have people like you in his corner.

I dunno. Jury's still out if he'd be an Uncle Tom or not.

[frank ryan]

I don't think my insurance will pay for an ER visit for bronchitis. I guess I could claim to be undocumented.

That wouldn't do you any good.

[Topper]

I don't think my insurance will pay for an ER visit for bronchitis. I guess I could claim to be undocumented.

Just claim you feel you can't breathe and that your throat is on fire. Once they start treatment, tell you now you only feel these and these symptoms.

[frank ryan]

Poor picked on Michael Flynn, victim of anti-Russian fear mongering. Turns out he worked for the Turkish regime as recently as November.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/09/michael-flynn-foreign-agent-sean-spicer

[Uncle Ted]

Poor picked on Michael Flynn, victim of anti-Russian fear mongering. Turns out he worked for the Turkish regime as recently as November.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...nt-sean-spicer

Yeah, you can trust those democrats... what the hell was Trump thinking appointing a democrat?

[Walter Sobchak]

Good news for frank ryan (and SU)... they can stop taking their meds for anxiety:

Inside The Investigation To Get To The Bottom Of Russia’s Role In The Election
<https://www.buzzfeed.com/alimwatkins...election-worry>

Over the last month, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s normally quiet hallway have devolved into a blinding media circus. Dozens of TV reporters and cameras line up outside the committee’s frosted glass doors, mobbing each of the panel’s 15 lawmakers as they make their way to the secure hearing space. Microphones and spotlights in hand, the reporters shout questions on Russia and alleged connections to the Trump administration.

A month into its sweeping investigation into the Kremlin’s efforts to undermine the US election, the Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to answer all those questions — publicly, coherently, and fast. As the days tick by, they’re less and less sure they’ll be able to.

Even some Democrats on the Intelligence Committee now quietly admit, after several briefings and preliminary inquiries, they don’t expect to find evidence of active, informed collusion between the Trump campaign and known Russian intelligence operatives, though investigators have only just begun reviewing raw intelligence. Among the Intelligence Committee’s rank and file, there’s a tangible frustration over what one official called “wildly inflated” expectations surrounding the panel’s fledgling investigation.

Since the probe was first announced in December — days after the FBI and CIA told Congress they believed the Kremlin had worked to elect Trump — political infighting has fundamentally shifted its mandate. Instead of a surgically precise examination of the raw intelligence that led US agencies to conclude the Kremlin attempted to tilt the election, the Intelligence Committee investigation has quickly become the catch-all for any politician’s lingering questions related to Moscow. Now, several committee sources grudgingly say, it feels as though the investigation will be seen as a sham if the Senate doesn’t find a silver bullet connecting Trump and Russian intelligence operatives.

“I don’t think the conclusions are going to meet people’s expectations,” a second official said.

Time for Dems to do some soul searching and self-reflection maybe?

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[Walter Sobchak]

Time for Dems to do some soul searching and self-reflection maybe?

And maybe drop this obsession with Russia? God forbid.

The Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...icle-1.2993659>

A troubling new poll was just released showing that the Democratic Party is significantly less popular than both Donald Trump and Mike Pence. My gut tells me that Democrats will ignore this poll, or blame it on bad polling, and continue down the same course they are currently on: being funded by lobbyists and the 1%, straddling the fence or outright ignoring many of most inspirational issues of the time, and blaming Bernie Sanders for why they aren’t in power right now.

As a general rule the Democratic Party doesn’t listen well and struggles to hear the truth about itself.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Republicans now control the House, the Senate, the presidency, and the overwhelming majority of state legislatures and governorships. This new poll from Suffolk University illustrates just how that’s possible. Here are the base results of the poll with favorable/unfavorable ratings.

• Pence: 47%/35%
• Trump: 45%/47%
• GOP: 37%/48%
• Media: 37%/50%
• Dem Party: 36%/52%
• Hillary: 35%/55%
• Congress: 26%/52%

In other words, the Democratic Party has a favorability rating 11 points lower than Pence, nine points lower than Trump, and even one point lower than the GOP.

Their unfavorable rating is 17 points worse than Pence, five points worse than Trump, and four points worse than the GOP.

This is a disaster. At a time when Donald Trump is the least liked President ever measured at this point in his first term, the Democratic Party has found a way to be even less liked than him. This is how Donald Trump wins a second term.

No wonder SU wouldn't take me up on my wager!

[frank ryan]

Yeah, you can trust those democrats... what the hell was Trump thinking appointing a democrat?