They should tax guacamole. That would increase the speed of the EU-Mexico free trade deal. More guacamole for me.
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Trump pressures Democrats on Obamacare to get border wall deal
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They should tax guacamole. That would increase the speed of the EU-Mexico free trade deal. More guacamole for me.
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Dirtyshubb
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Yeah. I can't see it not happening.
Meanwhile, Dems are wasting their time with a Unity tour where stupid ass Bernie Sanders still wants to cry about the primary/divide while we're on the precipice of a massive grassroots movement that's already showing out in heavy R leaning areas less than a hundred days in to the presidency.
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Living in a state run by a former CEO for governor. Hes never passed a budget. We're headed right for the cliff.
Bam Bam Baklava
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This is Trump right now, and just like the film it will probably work too.
What part of the first 100 days leads you to believe it will probably work?
Gotta believe in GOP where they tell you things will get done with no gameplan in place to get it done. Ryan was great with that messaging.
Yeah it's crazy to me that despite all that's happened Democrats don't seem to have much of a bite in them. They should feel like cornered animals ready to strike. Not hazy day dreamers.
ArkhamFantasy
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Democrats be like
yanipheonu
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He doesn't seem very good at this.
Herr Schwarz
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I think he's desperate for a legislative win on his terms his deal.
And is becomming increasingly frustrated. And the assholes around him won't fight back so have to at least *appear* like they are fighting for it.
Then after all is said and done they'll say "can't do it" and trump will go "ok"
He'll probably ask 10 times and on the 11th be chill.
But I heard he's got an extreme temper behind closer doors so like I said, his patsys are just trying to look busy.
And is becomming increasingly frustrated. And the assholes around him won't fight back so have to at least *appear* like they are fighting for it.
Then after all is said and done they'll say "can't do it" and trump will go "ok"
He'll probably ask 10 times and on the 11th be chill.
But I heard he's got an extreme temper behind closer doors so like I said, his patsys are just trying to look busy.
PeakPointMatrix
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Trump is pressing a loaded barrel to his temple?
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It's bad if he can't give up the one thing not even a lot of Republicans want and that can be easily used against him in the upcoming years.
BoogieWoogie
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Imagine Trump's rally happening on the same day he shut downs the government.
Trump is in a weak bargaining position and now he is threatening democrats he has alienated since before he was inaugurated. So much for the best deals.
foxuzamaki
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But the wealthy don't even want this, the wealthy are the ones paying the brown people literally pennies hahahahahaha
So trump really has no idea what he is pushing
They will cheer it and then be shocked when their SS/disability payments don't come on time.
Dems are past the point of being able to do anything significant to save or overhaul the ACA, this isn't a deal in the slightest. Trump and Republicans are still capable and willing to dismantle the ACA with or without a cash flow, so it's best just to leave it on them so when shit comes tumbling down they've been the ones who engineered every decision hastening it's demise and the cluster fuck that comes after, so that way the 15 Republican voters who actually pay attention to things will notice lol/sigh/fml
Possible government shutdown the midnight before, along with another potential health care failure, on top of the correspondent's dinner, and on his day 100... he has a rally.
Going to be a full blown meltdown.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Seems the base wants democrats to hold their ground.
Let's hope they do.
If they don't, they can't turn around and blame the base for not showing up at midterms.
Let's hope they do.
If they don't, they can't turn around and blame the base for not showing up at midterms.
shadowsdarknes
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Hey Trump, the billions in subsidies that go toward the PPACA are for people to get healthcare.
It's not as frivolous as you think. This isn't money for thousands of nationwide gender neutral bathrooms or whatever you guys think Democrats want.
It's not as frivolous as you think. This isn't money for thousands of nationwide gender neutral bathrooms or whatever you guys think Democrats want.
pretty done
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They just stole $640 from my tax return for not having insurance. I'm sure they'll be fine, there's a bunch of people like me getting robbed.
ArkhamFantasy
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Trump: "THE DEMOCRATS JUST SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT FOLKS".
There's no reason not to. I don't see how Trump has any leverage. He's already vowed to dismamtle the ACA completely, asap.
Also add some lines about Dems putting USA into the danger by not funding the wall and balls to wall military expansions.
True, it's more have their cake and eat it too. THEY will still have undocumented they can exploit. Just like THEY still outsource to China while dictating others not to.
HeisenbergLannister
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They are very bad people. SAD!
Important to the wealthy? I would think they like the cheap labor from immigrant workers.
It's important for the racists.
So I really don't understand the whole wall thing. Like, I do get why it's supporters like it, but it's pointless in it's excess.
You build a giant ass wall along the border. Ok, you just blew a few tens of billions of dollars.
Then you need to hire a bunch of border patrol to man it, or it isn't effective. A wall isn't stopping anyone from coming unless it had something insane like autonomous guns to shot anyone who gets close.
So why not just hire a bunch more border patrol and have smaller outposts (I'd assume these things already exist) along the border? Increase the man power so you actually have "security" along the border.
Anyway, yeah Trump is an idiot. He doesn't understand you don't just make a deal between two massive and unrelated pieces of legislation in a week. Especially when it's solely for his personal "I did so much in 100 days" agenda.
You build a giant ass wall along the border. Ok, you just blew a few tens of billions of dollars.
Then you need to hire a bunch of border patrol to man it, or it isn't effective. A wall isn't stopping anyone from coming unless it had something insane like autonomous guns to shot anyone who gets close.
So why not just hire a bunch more border patrol and have smaller outposts (I'd assume these things already exist) along the border? Increase the man power so you actually have "security" along the border.
Anyway, yeah Trump is an idiot. He doesn't understand you don't just make a deal between two massive and unrelated pieces of legislation in a week. Especially when it's solely for his personal "I did so much in 100 days" agenda.
Trump: A public showing of how big CEO's do business.
plagiarize
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It's definitely racist motives regardless. If the wealthy were really that concerned about losing their cheap labor it wouldn't be a driving force of the Republicans, vastly funded by the super wealthy.
Of course it's also to keep a target for the poor people to kick so they feel better about themselves.
That's not even entirely accurate. Trump is a "CEO" but not in the way most people think of the term as it relates to large publicly traded corporations. He answers to no one but himself. A CEO of a publicly traded corporation would know how to handle people much better than Trump.
Then he's certainly not doing the image of CEO's any favors.
Trump also thinks MS13 is Obama's fault. Except for the fact that they've had a presence in the majority of states since the Bush years and the FBI has been actively following them since then.
Of course he isn't. He's just a selfish, narcissistic, single minded baby. He doesn't know how the real world works. Don't remember where this is from but he's "the poor mans idea of a rich person." I think there's another part to that but I forgot it.
Seriously. They need and should be telling trump to go fuck himself. They had better not cave on anything here.
I'm convinced that the people who were rallied by the cry to Build a Wall!! don't actually care if a wall actually gets built and will not hold it over Trump's head when one doesn't get built.
A huge chunk of the Trump base is racist. And they like the hate being projected at minorities, particularly Latinos, by that particular rallying cry. They feed on it, whether or not the wall actually gets built doesn't matter.
The wall is more than a dog whistle. It's a dog bullhorn.
Two promises. He also would be leaving Obamacare in place.
Democrats should let Obamacare die; Trump would take the fall and by now it's clear Americans won't learn their lesson unless millions of them die. People will keep voting for dumbasses like Trump until they see their healthcare bills blow up and their loved one suffer before their eyes.
Now now, let's not let something like facts get in the way of utilizing fear and bigotry to score political points.
TheLaughingStock
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The Democrats beat them at that too. Mainstream Republicans suck at everything. Trump needs to push his unorthodox positions as a Republican and hope enough Dems help him out if he hopes to win again. Pushing the conservative agenda isn't going to work well and he'll end up a loser.
The wealthy funded Trump very late compared to the candidates they actually wanted in office, Jeb, Rubio, and Cruz. Most people that are wealthy aren't nationalists and if they have libertarian bent then they are in favor of mass immigration. Most of them probably don't even want the wall because it's an expensive public works project.
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