Trumpcare 2.0 — Stealth Attack on Pre-Existing Conditions

April 20, 2017 by Steve Stoft

In search of a victory for Trump’s first 100 days, the Republicans are attempting to repeal Obamacare by Saturday, April 29. They would phase out the Medicaid expansion that now covers 14 million poor people in order to cut taxes on the rich. And they would end the requirement that insurance companies not charge higher rates for people with pre-existing conditions.

This contradicts a whole raft of Trump’s campaign promises:

“I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now. … The government’s gonna pay for it.” —On 60 Minutes, Sept 27th, 2015. [Read more…]

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Wife to Rexxon Tillerson: God’s not through with you!

March 25, 2017 by Steve Stoft

Rex Tillerson. Did God tell him to be Sect of State

Sect. of State Tillerson to the conservative IJR: “I didn’t want this job. I didn’t seek this job.” Asked why he took it — “My wife told me I’m supposed to do this.”

He never met Trump before the election. But afterwards, Trump wanted to talk to him “about the world.” Tillerson continued, “When he asked me at the end of that conversation to be secretary of state, I was stunned.”

Tillerson went home to his wife, Renda St. Clair, who shook her finger in his face and said, “I told you God’s not through with you.” Tillerson says, “My wife [Read more…]

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Trumpcare: Ask the doctors and nurses

March 22, 2017 by Steve Stoft

Today, Mar 23, 2017, the Trump and the Republicans will tried (and failed) to get the House to pass Trumpcare. You should know what they were trying to do. The Republican-dominated CBO said this would have brought the total uninsured to 52 million by 2016. But what does Trump say? On Valentine’s day, he tweeted that Trumpcare would “save health care for ALL Americans.” Don’t bet on it.

Forbes, the magazine for the richest Americans, tells us that AHCA shows a “stubborn desire to make health insurance unaffordable for millions of Americans, and trap millions more in poverty.” And what do the doctors, nurses hospitals and AARP say? [Read more…]

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Trumpcare: More uninsured than BEFORE Obamacare —CBO

March 14, 2017 by Steve Stoft

“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” Trump said. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.” Actually, the Republican-dominated CBO just said that’s completely backwards.

You’d have to insure 28 million more Americans for everybody to have insurance. Instead the Republican bill will cut the number insured by 24 million. The end result will be not just more uninsured, but actually a higher percentage uninsured than when the ACA was passed in 2010. [Read more…]

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How to Culture Jam a Populist President

February 4, 2017 by Steve Stoft

Hugo Chavez, a leftist Venezuelan populist, but he operated like Trump

“The populist recipe is universal. Find a wound common to many, someone to blame for it and a good story to tell. Tell the wounded you know how they feel. That you found the bad guys. Label them: the minorities, the politicians, the businessmen. Cartoon them. As vermin, evil masterminds, flavorless hipsters, you name it. Paint yourself as the savior. Enrapture your followers with a good story. One that starts in anger and ends in vengeance. A vengeance they can participate in.”

Those are the words of Andrés Miguel Rondón, a Venezuelan, speaking of Chávez whom he sees as identical to Trump. He is writing to explain how Chávez defeated people like us and how to avoid the failures of those who resisted him. [Read more…]

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Islamists for Trump: “Rejoice with support from Allah”

November 9, 2016 by Steve Stoft

“Rejoice with support from Allah, and find glad tidings in the imminent demise of America at the hands of Trump,” said the Islamic State-affiliated al-Minbar Jihadi Media network, one of several jihadi forums to post commentaries on the results of the U.S. election.

“Trump’s win of the American presidency will bring hostility of Muslims against America as a result of his reckless actions, which show the overt and hidden hatred [Read more…]

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Trump — a Guide to His Con Game

November 6, 2016 by Steve Stoft

Trump and his supporters brag about how presidential he will be: “If I want to be, I can be more presidential than anybody.” People boast to cover up their weakness. But who cares if he’s not presidential; he’ll make America great and that’s huge.

So what if he mocked a NY Times reporter’s disability and mimicked Hillary’s stumble when she had pneumonia? There’s no need to look presidential or even respectable, since he’s going to make America so great. As he’s told us: [Read more…]

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Five Amazing FBI Facts Debunk Fake Email “Scandal”

November 3, 2016 by Steve Stoft

“Thanks, Dennis. Can you talk this morning?” that’s all Clinton wrote in one of the classified-as-Secret emails that she sent from her server. Don’t believe me? See for yourself here on Wikileaks. Here’s how that works:

Dennis Ross, an old foreign policy hand, who started out in the Pentagon under Pres. Carter and then served under George H.W. Bush, sent Hillary an email on Sept 23, 2012 from his unclassified server. He did not mark it Classified in any way. It arrived on Clinton’s unclassified server and she read it. She hit “reply,” typed the question above and hit “send.” [Read more…]

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Four FBI Facts Prove there Is No Email Scandal

October 30, 2016 by Steve Stoft

“She did not break the law,” said FBI Director Comey. I knew that. But what was she thinking!? My friends wanted answers. I found my first clue in the NY Times: The State Dept email system is an unclassified system just like Clinton’s server was. What the hell?!

You can jump to the Update on Comey and the “new” emails, but some of it may not seem believable until you learn the four FBI facts.
Here’s a shorter, newer overview of the whole fake “scandal.”

I had to read the FBI Report and listen to the committee hearing to find the real story and learn what FBI Director Comey and the press left out. The FBI’s first objective was to uncover classified emails on unclassified systems like Clinton’s personal email server (Report p.1 [A]). But they also found: [Read more…]

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This Could Destroy Trump: He’ll Stiff the Veterans $6M

September 30, 2016 by A. Weinberger

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Trump is coming unglued over his taxes. Yes, he comes unglued a lot, but this issue is at the heart of his campaign, so it could destroy him. Peter Kiernan, a decorated Marine veteran of Afghanistan, figured out how to do this. And it’s such a fabulous (and fun) idea that Reid Hoffman, the founder of Linkedin, almost immediately gave him a $5 million matching grant.

Kiernan leverages the fact that Trump really is hiding something huge and that’s why he cannot and will not release his returns. He figured out how that can make it safe for us to put an enormous amount of pressure on Trump, basically at no cost. It’s 99% sure Hoffman will not actually spend one cent even though he really is putting $5M pressure on Trump. [Read more…]

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