Trump calls the US a ‘stupid country’ and praises Putin as ‘smart’ in latest Ukraine comments

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  1. MiaBleu

    MiaBleu Well-Known Member

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    Oh they are very "patriotic"............but only to Trump. Not even their nation. for some reason they prefer psychologically impaired bullies people for leaders.
     
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    Gotcha, so the Germans were right to side with the Nazis as they slaughtered their way through Europe. You sir are a nationalist. Welcome to the club. You appear to be a little bit to the right of me unfortunately. My standard is to side with your country's people but only with your country's government when they are not doing something stupid and or evil. Your standard (as inferred from above statement) is to side with your government no matter how genocidal or braindead.

    All the death and destruction that is going to occur over the next month is directly the result of the stupidity of our government. Expecting the idiots that got us into this mess to get us out is optimistic at best.
     
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    Any and all death and destruction this is happening now......is a direct result of one megalomaniac called Putin...

    Just as the death and destruction that took place in Iraq was a direct result of Bush. Both are elective wars of CHOICE.
     
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    www.popularmechanics.com › military › navy-shipsChina Building the World's Largest Submarine Factory
    Apr 24, 2017 · China is building a factory so big that when it's done, it will be able to accommodate the construction of four submarines at once—out of sight from military enthusiasts and spy

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      Dec 21, 2015 · An unidentified Chinese attack submarine simulated a cruise missile attack on the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on October 24, Bill Gertz over at the Washington Free

    Democrats wouldn't let them repeal it, but Trump did have a replacement.


    Trump's new rule will give businesses and workers better health care options


    When President Trump took office, small businesses and hard-working, middle-class families were finding it increasingly difficult to afford health insurance. The Trump administration has already taken significant steps to help, and Thursday we took another one. A new Trump administration rule will provide an estimated 800,000 businesses a better way to offer coverage and millions of workers a better way to obtain coverage, through the expansion of Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs).

    HRAs are employer-funded arrangements that workers use to pay for medical expenses. The Obama administration forbade workers in the individual insurance market to use HRAs to pay for coverage — significantly impeding employer flexibility and worker choice. Trump's new rule undoes this misguided restriction.
    Starting on January 1, 2020, employers will be able to offer their workers HRAs to buy individual market coverage for themselves and their families. The administration's new rule addresses a major inequity by, in effect, providing the same tax advantage that traditional employer-sponsored group plans receive — exclusion of premiums from federal income or payroll taxes — to coverage that workers in the individual market purchase from an HRA.
    The rule will significantly expand worker options since 80% of firms that provide insurance currently offer only one type of plan. Now, workers will be able to use tax-advantaged money from their employers to buy coverage of their choosing. This new flexibility will allow people to maintain their coverage when they switch jobs.
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    In particular, this new rule should help small business workers by making it possible for employers to fund coverage with less hassle and cost than maintaining a traditional group health plan. Between 2010 and 2018, the proportion of workers at firms with three to 49 workers covered by an employer plan fell by more than 25%. This rule should help reverse that decline. The rule also makes it easier for small businesses to compete with larger businesses for talent.



    https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/13/pers...x9fj0WeTr3ZQ9AbDCz5ay1eWdRXVHOYr98P2yCnshbpr0

    Even with Obama Care, over 25 million wasn't covered.
     
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    He's a genius...

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    He is 100% right.
    United States has armed and enriched Russia.
    Is not that stupid?

    If yo do not want military threat then just stop selling your country to your adversaries?
     
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    HRA is employer funded. Meaning one has to be working and the employer must have it.
    My company provides an HSA. And it's my account funded by me and partially by my employers.

    It's an enhancement to the current insurance. Not a replacement.

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    Following implementation of the Affordable Care Act, HRAs must be integrated with a qualified employer-sponsored group health insurance plan to avoid excise tax penalties.[4] Using a Health Reimbursement Arrangement yields "tax advantages to offset health care costs" for both employees and employers.[5]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_reimbursement_account
     
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    Impaired bullies? Anyone remember how Sleepy Joe forgets where he's at when addressing a crowd? He goes right off track onto something completely different. He is going to force you to wear a mask or kick you out of the service. Who was it that said you can't address Senators or Congressmen by Sir or Mam? Pelosi I believe. We can keep this up all day, but it isn't addressing the problems we have. We could have some huge ones
     
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    Yes, but under this plan many other people working would be able to have insurance who couldn't get it before and we have more jobs open than people to work them. If you want to work, there are jobs for you. As I said before, over 25 million didn't have Obama Care.

    Why 31 million people will remain uninsured under ObamaCare

    https://theweek.com/articles/460268/why-31-million-people-remain-uninsured-under-obamacare
     
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    Saying putin is smart isn't supporting him in any way. Anybody who knows anything about putin knows he's smart. In fact most think he's way beyond smart. Saying any of those things is in no way showing support for him......not even a little bit.

    Saying our leaders are dumb also isn't supporting putin. It's simply saying our leaders are dumb. This is crystal clear in the comments he made.

    I'm pretty sure you've said trump is dumb (or much worse). You probably said it many times while he was president and since. Did that mean you were showing support for our enemies? I'm pretty sure you'd say no, it didn't mean that at all. But here you are making these accusations about trump.

    You are incapable of being rational when it comes to trump. Your hatred for him is out of control and it controls your thoughts.
     
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    Marine1 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I think this was in 2015
    For those still calling for Obama Care
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    On Monday, The New York Times reported that Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield announced their intention to leave Iowa's Obamacare exchange next year because they lost $90 million in three years due to most of their enrollees having "expensive medical conditions."

    On Friday, it was reported that Anthem Inc. Is poised to leave most of the Obamacare exchanges, as they had lost $374 million last year. This is a significant development because, as Guy Benson pointed out at Townhall:

    Thanks to Obamacare's slow-motion implosion, just one single provider remains as a "choice" for consumers who live in roughly one-third of all US counties. In many of those places, Anthem has been that last holdout insurer, which is now reportedly about to end in 2018. Millions of Americans could be left with zero marketplace options, as the planned withdrawal of the last remaining US healthcare giant from most areas marks the latest sign that Obamacare is an unworkable actuarial nightmare.

    Anthem and Wellmark will join Humana, Aetna and UnitedHealth as insurers who have fled Obamacare exchanges, reaffirming that the Obamacare death spiral is real and will only worsen from here.



    Obamacare subsidies to end in 2016, when Obama leaves ...

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    Dec 09, 2014 · Obamacare subsidies to end in 2016, when Obama leaves office. Discussion in 'The Vestibule' started by INTRESIS, Dec 9, 2014.


    Also, how many Americans have lost, or cannot find, full-time jobs because of Obamacare? As we have previously cited, Mort Zuckerman, the chairman and editor of U.S. News and World Report, writing for The Wall Street Journal, argued that “Many employers cut workers’ hours to avoid the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to provide health insurance to anyone working 30 hours a week or more.”
    By casting opposition to Obamacare as merely Republican partisanship, Sullivan has ignored the fact that Hillary Clinton herself has argued that she would “look at all the employment rules” to reverse Obamacare’s perverse incentives.
    “You know, we’ve got to change that, because we have built in some unfortunate incentives that discourage full-time employment,” said presidential candidate Mrs. Clinton in December of last year.
    If Sullivan is so interested in outlining presidential candidates’ Obamacare policies, why did he not report on Mrs. Clinton’s stated desire to reexamine the law?
    Health care insurers have been bleeding red with billions of dollars of losses, despite the Obama administration’s generous re-insurance and risk-corridor subsidies. Those “subsidies are set to expire in 2017, meaning that insurers will have to make ends meet without billions in handouts,” writes Doug Badger for National Review. This may lead to even sharper increases in Obamacare premiums than have already occurred.
    “Even if insurers had received all the reinsurance and risk-corridor handouts they sought—an average of $1,106 per enrollee, or nearly 25 percent of premium—they still would have lost money, our study found,” writes Badger. As it is, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) decided to defy the law and stiff the Treasury, sending billions in payments to insurers instead. http://gulagbound.com/.../will-obamacare-collapse-before.../
     
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    Trumps refusing to condemn Russia
     
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    As you can see the only thing keeping Obama Care afloat is massive amounts of money and Biden wants to bring in two million illegals and migrants in a year. That will only add to the massive debt we already have.

    For decades we allowed in around a million a year from all over the globe to give everyone a chance at the American dream. With that million we tried to bring in some of the brightest minds we could find to help us compete in this new industrial world, which we are falling behind doing. Now Biden wants to flood us with millions of mostly low educated people who will not keep us up on the new industries we must face. I see America falling farther behind. I think the way we are going we won't be much better than the second class countries these people are fleeing from.
     
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    All they can think about is Trump and he isn't in office and I don't think he will run again. They fluff off all the other big problems we have already and the ones we sure might face very soon. People need to open their eyes and see what's going on around them instead of this fixation with Trump.We are headed for some real deep trouble the way we're going.
     
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    maybe, but he sure has played Trump like a fiddle, even has the guy praising him
     
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    For the 2nd time. Link documenting this refusal.? You respond and post like a Bot.
     
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    No it doesn’t. The standards here from some people is straight up CNN. The usual suspects still think Trump told people to drink bleach and called the KKK fine people. They can’t be helped because they’re too far gone.
     
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    And a broken whiny record mixed with bad stand up comedy. (smdh)
     
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    He can't quit him. BrokeBully Mountain...


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    Find a link where he condemns him
     
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    They did eliminate the public mandate though. Now it's voluntary and the Dems in the majority seem to be OK with that.
     
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    Back up your own assertions. The burden of proof is always on the person making the claim. One more bot like response and you are going on my ignore list.
     
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    He has several times.
     
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    I watched CPAC yesterday and Trumps speech was anything but a pro Putin speech.

    This is fake news that low info individuals will parrot.

    I started a thread on Trump at CPAC yesterday that anyone can see the speech at.

    But that's not what the low info fake news crowd is about.
     
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    Ahem….the ‘man’ calling others “dumb” is the one who suggested that it was US forces that landed amphibiously at Odessa and had to be corrected by a talking head that it was Russia of course.

    And this from a former president that still has access to security briefings…! What a moron…
     
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