US Politics Thread 2021-24

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Bidens not confident he knows where he is.

Yeah but I'm not sure Trump isn't on the same slippery path, some way to catch up but on the same path.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Yeah but I'm not sure Trump isn't on the same slippery path, some way to catch up but on the same path.

He is always on the same slipper path. It is the only path he knows.

[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Bidens not confident he knows where he is.

Considering what Raskin said earlier about not certifying the election results. Maybe Biden thinks he’s going to stay in office and turn this country into a fascist state like the U.K.

[August]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Yeah but I'm not sure Trump isn't on the same slippery path, some way to catch up but on the same path.

You're not sure eh?

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Considering what Raskin said earlier about not certifying the election results. Maybe Biden thinks he’s going to stay in office and turn this country into a fascist state like the U.K.

The UK is a fascist state?

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Considering what Raskin said earlier about not certifying the election results. Maybe Biden thinks he’s going to stay in office and turn this country into a fascist state like the U.K.

Raskin is instigating it. Yet, they point out Trump.

[AVGWarhawk]

[Otto Harkaman]

Weird

[ET2SN]

Oops, someone got caught lying again.

Mind, you, we all know that CBS is the channel for Gen Z and latte drinking , vegan Millennials who enjoy DEI and Taylor Swift. *



*- For those of you outside of north America, I'm kidding. CBS is the "old farts channel".

[August]

Here's a much bigger lie about Medicare that will actually matter:

Thanks to the IRA, Part D Is Fighting for Its Life


The Biden Administration continues to pretend that it’s been protecting Medicare and the seniors who depend on it, but last week the Health and Human Services (HHS) bureaucracy was forced to pull out all the stops to mask the havoc caused by their signature legislative achievement, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
Each year, insurance plans submit bids to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the right to offer prescription drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries. These bids provide CMS with information about the package of benefits offered and the cost of offering these benefits. CMS summarizes this information for the public at the end of each July, and usually includes information about average premiums. For years, premiums have been stable and even exhibited declines as they did over the course of the Trump Administration.


Last year, the first year the IRA’s Part D changes started to take effect, premiums increased 21 percent. Policymakers and insurance plans have been warning that this year would be even worse, but the Administration ignored these warnings, and publicly predicted premiums this year would be stable. But as the final bids came in from plans, reality set in.
CMS delayed announcing the premiums and instead suddenly unveiled a three-year Premium Stabilization Demonstration. The new demonstration, announced100 days before a Presidential election, allows CMS to assume more of the plans’ costs by injecting taxpayer dollars into the program and mute the IRA’s massive inflationary effects.


CMS’s lack of transparency and the haphazard creation of this demonstration program—plans have only been given a week to decide if they will participate—suggests the Agency should have more carefully considered what plans had been telling it for months: they could not participate in the program and seniors would lose coverage if something drastic wasn’t done.
The effort CMS is investing to hide the program’s collapse is shocking even to those of us who expected trouble. The bid announcement included information on how much plans believe it will cost them to cover an average beneficiary each month. To call the increase an explosion would be an understatement; since 2023, just after the IRA was passed, the cost to provide benefits has increased a whopping 417 percent.

https://www.realclearpolicy.com/arti...e_1050305.html

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by August

Here's a much bigger lie about Medicare that will actually matter:








https://www.realclearpolicy.com/arti...e_1050305.html

IRA is and was crap from the go. Harris will look the other way on that as well.

[Rockstar]

[em2nought]

I was Midshipman "Nought" at one time, so I think under the rules pertaining to democrats I can be Ensign "Nought" now.

[Jimbuna]

'Unhappy with the narrative': Trump privately seething about Harris’ crowd sizes

Since she became the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris has been packing venues with thousands of loud supporters. This has reportedly gotten under the skin of former President Donald Trump.

Rolling Stone reporters Ryan Bort and Asawin Suebsaeng on Thursday spoke with an unnamed "Republican source who's spoken to the former president in recent days" who confided that Trump is quietly boiling over with anger about how Harris has commanded the news cycle over the last two weeks. Specifically, the source said Trump is "unhappy with the narrative" that Harris is attracting larger crowds to her rallies than the ex-president. Trump essentially said as much in a recent post to his Truth Social page.

"If Kamala has 1,000 people at a Rally, the Press goes 'crazy,' and talks about how 'big' it was - And she pays for her 'Crowd.' When I have a Rally, and 100,000 people show up, the Fake News doesn’t talk about it, THEY REFUSE TO MENTION CROWD SIZE," Trump wrote. "The Fake News is the Enemy of the People!"

Harris and Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz — whom the vice president announced as her running mate on Tuesday – have been barnstorming across the Midwest since Walz joined the ticket. Harris spoke to a crowd of thousands at a basketball arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and even posted a side-by-side comparison of crowd sizes on her campaign's Truth Social (which Trump owns) account on Tuesday night. The top photo of Harris' rally shows the stadium packed to the rafters, while the photo of Trump's crowd size shows the attendees are mostly concentrated in the lower bowl.

"Same arena in Philly," the @KamalaHQ account wrote.

Meanwhile, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) has been struggling to muster the same enthusiasm during his campaign stops in comparison to the Democratic ticket. On Wednesday, a video of a Vance rally in Macomb County, Michigan — which Trump comfortably won in both 2016 and 2020 — showed there were approximately just as many journalists present as there were supporters. This prompted some to ridicule the GOP vice presidential nominee as "low energy."

Aside from his Thursday press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump has done only eight public events since the late June debate with President Joe Biden. Harris and Walz, in the meantime, have a packed schedule after announcing a seven-state blitz of rallies across the country, including in states deemed safe Republican, like Montana.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...5220910&ei=266

[Skybird]

Trump seems to bidening. His recent desastrous press conference of which I saw a few excerpts saw him spiralling out of control and into a deep neurological crisis that seems to have started deconstruction his brain's inner structure.
See, thats how a spoiled brat behaves when it finds out it is no longer dominating the headlines, but its rival does. He is a pseudo-male Karen.


My worries about the time after an election that he may have lost then, are deepening.