JetBlackPanda
Member
Happy Birthday America!
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Trump to Senate Republicans: kill Obamacare now, replace later
- Thread starter GK86
- Start date
QuantumZebra
Member
I am now fully convinced that all Trump cares about is destroying everything Obama has done.
That is literally it.
It could be a bill stating "you shouldn't kick puppies" and angry white guys would be out in the streets yelling "kick puppies!" at minorities and women while Trump is busy pushing a law that gives tax kickbacks for every puppy kicked.
That is literally it.
It could be a bill stating "you shouldn't kick puppies" and angry white guys would be out in the streets yelling "kick puppies!" at minorities and women while Trump is busy pushing a law that gives tax kickbacks for every puppy kicked.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Trump is going to get a Hitler movie meme out of this.
Deuce Deuce
Member
Maybe Republicans are playing chicken with the BCRA hold outs (Collins, Heller, etc).
"Support this crappy bill or lose it all!!!" sort of thing.
"Support this crappy bill or lose it all!!!" sort of thing.
Raylan Targaryen
Member
Yeah there will be no replacement..
Sho_Nuff82
Member
So the plan was just to go back to having no plan. (and yes, I realize the unfortunate double entendre here).
GG, no RE
GG, no RE
acheron_xl
Member
Almost like he doesn't think forthcoming elections will have any impact.
andythinkpad
Member
How about you block off yourself inside Trump tower and lit it on fire?
it's as if donald trump thinks of himself only. gee, who could have guessed that.
But didn't they do this knowing Obama would veto it? As with pretty much everything they did under Obama, it was all for show to play to their base and pretend they were doing something. Really don't think they are going to get the votes to only repeal when they know full well it would actually go through and then have to face the consequences of that later.
Laevateinn
Member
Fox and Friends has far too much power.
Imperfected
Member
He's the monster Fox News created. He sat there watching this drivel religiously for eight years during the Obama administration, letting it rot his already poor brain on the road into senility. He literally thinks--because it's what they've told him--that everything Obama has done is the worst thing that's ever happened to America, and simply undoing all of it will be a great service to the country.
The entire network should be dismantled. God knows how many more imbeciles like him they're churning out.
The entire network should be dismantled. God knows how many more imbeciles like him they're churning out.
bigmit3737
Member
What's his grudge against Obama? Is it the inauguration audience size that has him feeling inferior ?
I understand he also stated the birthed movement but I wonder if that was started to as a political tool to gain an audience for his planned presidency run.
I understand he also stated the birthed movement but I wonder if that was started to as a political tool to gain an audience for his planned presidency run.
OriginofHysteria
Banned
2011 white house correspondence dinner.
For starters, Trump has discriminated against black men renting from him his entire life. So a black president, just by existing, pissed him off. Then Obama personally criticized him at a very public event for his birther movement bullshit and its been personal ever since.
bigmit3737
Member
thestopsign
Member
The thing that I will take solace in is that even if the GOP does repeal Obamacare temporarily they will still never be able to take away Obama's legacy of proving that healthcare and protections for all should be a right.
n00bsauce87
Member
45 is afraid.
He's original intent was to like Obamacare degrade since he didn't want to fund it and give a sour taste in the people's mouths when it comes to increasing premiums.
Now he just wants it dead.
He or people close to him are afraid of the optics it will be for people at home for republican districts..
He's original intent was to like Obamacare degrade since he didn't want to fund it and give a sour taste in the people's mouths when it comes to increasing premiums.
Now he just wants it dead.
He or people close to him are afraid of the optics it will be for people at home for republican districts..
plagiarize
Banned
They're probably thinking the moderates and Democrats will have to support whatever shitty alternative to *nothing* they offer up if they successfully get it repealed.
Their attempts to blame the democrats for refusing to support a bill they were completely excluded from working on have been painfully transparent. So this is probably the idea.
'We were trying to pass something that would have brought healthcare to millions and the democrats voted against it. Don't think too hard about how we were the people who took that healthcare away in the first place."
Their attempts to blame the democrats for refusing to support a bill they were completely excluded from working on have been painfully transparent. So this is probably the idea.
'We were trying to pass something that would have brought healthcare to millions and the democrats voted against it. Don't think too hard about how we were the people who took that healthcare away in the first place."
Wowfunhappy
Member
Twitter > TV > Twitter ?
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Obama's black and he made fun of Trump at a White House dinner. That's it.
KarneeKarnay
Member
Man. If I were a republican senator, I would do as much as possible to stay away from this. I would rather shoot myself in the foot, than have to put my name with this.
If this passes it would be toxic to anyone who trusted it.
If this passes it would be toxic to anyone who trusted it.
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
Zero chance this happens, zero.
Yep, you cannot polish this turd. Nuking it from orbit would be an end for their career, they know that. It doesn't matter if this is what POTUS wants, this shit isn't happening.
Yep, you cannot polish this turd. Nuking it from orbit would be an end for their career, they know that. It doesn't matter if this is what POTUS wants, this shit isn't happening.
Yeah and they are talking about retroactive tax breaks for the wealthy through the capital gains tax cuts. Retroactive tax breaks for what was supposed to incentivize future capital investment. Lol
D
Deleted member 1235
Unconfirmed Member
he's trying to shape reality into
'I got rid of that monsters horrible policies'
as his legacy. he can blame his ineffectual presidency on having to turn back all the monstrous doings of the great black demon that rode before him.
CrocMother
Banned
Hopefully this failure will kill the enthusiasm of all the hardcore repeal people and they won't vote anymore.
These people came out of the woodwork to vote for Trump and I hope they go back.
These people came out of the woodwork to vote for Trump and I hope they go back.
Agent Gibbs
Member
Has he been taking tips from Teressa May?
NO HEALTHCARE IS BETTER THAN BAD* HEALTH CARE
*Bad as in it was made by a black man and taxes rich people
NO HEALTHCARE IS BETTER THAN BAD* HEALTH CARE
*Bad as in it was made by a black man and taxes rich people
hydragonwarrior
Member
That's pretty much it. I"m sure what keeps him going is when he remembers how he was roasted at that dinner. I'm sure he holds grudges and will stop at nothing to reduce Obama to nothing in terms of political history.
Beer Monkey
Member
This is not happening. I'm still calling Portman anyway.
That was their plan, but they abandoned it because it was unworkable, because too many senators knew that repealing without a replacement was massively unpopular. But repeal and replace isn't working either.
EdibleKnife
Member
Thing is: the more he fucks with media, the more he denies and belittles science, the more he makes life hell for minorities, the more he outright kills Americans by encouraging backward "health care" initiatives like this, the more he solidifies his place as objectively one of the worst leaders in the countries history who only used his power for spite and our first black president as someone people will continue to remember fondly particularly how his progressive policies fell victim to his pettiness and ego of a slug who couldn't take a joke.
Honestly the gop isn't that smart.
Because that would be genius. People have such a short attention span of would work with ease. People already and immediately forgot what insurance was like before Obamacare.
Coriolanus
Banned
What an odd thing to say. That's been proven since 1948. Heck, probably even earlier than that.
Similar threads
- Locked