ShadowSwordmaster
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It just seems weird that now of all times that Trump is speaking like this. I wonder if this is some sort of trick that we are not seeing here.
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Trump calls House health care bill 'mean'
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It just seems weird that now of all times that Trump is speaking like this. I wonder if this is some sort of trick that we are not seeing here.
smokeymicpot
Beat EviLore at pool.
Just think the bad press is getting to him. He wants to be loved even though he is not.
skullmuffins
Banned
I mean he did run on cheaper healthcare, no cuts to medicare or medicaid, no one will lose their coverage, and everyone will be covered.
wouldn't it be wild if contrary to all expectations, he actually believes in those things and is just now realizing out that republicans are pushing for like the exact opposite?
wouldn't it be wild if contrary to all expectations, he actually believes in those things and is just now realizing out that republicans are pushing for like the exact opposite?
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
That is true. In the past two weeks alone has his numbers go down because of different things.
I suppose there's a very slim chance he could be referencing a statistical mean...
ShadowSwordmaster
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Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
A lot of House Rs twisted themselves & took what they considered a risky vote for health care bill at trump's urging. They're not pleased.
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/874779188301090816
@JakeSherman
A lot of House Rs twisted themselves & took what they considered a risky vote for health care bill at trump's urging. They're not pleased.
https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/874779188301090816
That's what you get for betting your career on a man with no convictions who changes his mind on huge things depending on who he last talked to.
for what it's worth he probably had no idea what's in the bill until recently, and still has but a vague notion.
should be amusing if congress goes the whole nine yards and he has to sell it
BoogieWoogie
Banned
When the AHCA starts killing people, Trump will throw them under the bus like he does with everything and everyone.
Arrogant Bastard
Banned
Yep, he really is. He just wants wins, he doesn't really give a shit. The man is so egotistical it is beyond insane.
Maybe they should grow a pair, cause this bill is going to come back to the House. How about they vote no? Oh wait, cause they are not pleased just like McCain is always upset, distraught, unnerved, shaken, beside himself, etc.
Escape Goat
Member
Doesn't care about improving lives. Wants adulation.
America burned while Trump fiddled.
"We should just let AHCA implode!"
Kind of difficult to, since he'd have signed it into law. Wouldn't stop him from trying though, I'm sure.
Vegetable Lasagna
Member
Trump has to be senile, right? It can't just be stupidity... can it?
Lord Frieza
Member
Yeah, I bet, but will they do anything? No, they'll just fume while they give a check mark to anything that comes through the House. Except maybe the Freedom Caucus. They seem to be the only part of the GOP in the House that has any balls, sadly.
They will be put around a table, with Pappy Trump at the head of it, and be told to say nice things about Pappy infront of cameras and how great allll his decisions and things he says are. And they will do it. Sadly.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
While his stability seems iffy I'd say it's more just the actions of an insanely narcissistic individual. If you look at him as someone who literally NEVER thinks they are in the wrong -
ever - and every decision they make, no matter how shitty, is right - to him, these about-faces on policy or whatever are probably a complete non-issue. He'll just throw some others under the bus to save his own reputation.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
How does Trump's favorite story go again...."You knew I was a snake"
BobTheFork
Member
You had to drag a few of those votes closer to the aisle....did you just fuck them for it?
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Oh boo hoo!
What do you bet he won't sign it when it gets to him? He is actively sabotaging the ACA to make Trumpcare look better, but public opinion on this thing it going to be dire. He will probably throw the entire GOP under the bus.
BobTheFork
Member
I keep hearing this but what I wonder about is when he suddenly reverses these decisions. If he doesn't think he's wrong, he would be dying on that hill and trying to keep the senate from changing it.
I'm willing to consider the possibility that he loses his sanity/senses in these moments and says what he thinks not ever realizing it contradicts what he did a month ago.
BobTheFork
Member
Trump is using the EA/Molyneux cycle
TheLaughingStock
Member
How so? He's already said other countries have better health care systems than the US, he's not really a Republican, and he has supported ideas that are diametrically opposed to what's in the current GOP bills floating around. The weird thing is that he thought hitching a ride with the establishment GOP in order to win the election while not truly buying into their views of the world was workable. People would be better off running as a 3rd party and losing vs. twisting yourself in knots once you win.
gregor7777
Banned
Someone finally read it to him with pictures and analogies using farm animals.
I didn't know they made an Animal Farm pop-up book.
gregor7777
Banned
There is zero chance he would "get" Animal Farm on his own. Zero.
Sadly true. It be great for kids though - a how-to-avoid-future-Trumps.
soundahfekz
Member
this motherfucker is crazy is whats going on.
If Dems started sucking up to trump like republicans have I guarantee you he'd start trying to go against more of the shit he's pushed for. Fuck that shit though
Dude is mentally ill. He has major abandonment issues and needs constant adoration to keep him going. Under the surface of the pseudo bravado is a man who never learned to be comfortable with self. He's only learned how to maintain a position over others to never confront feelings of inadequacy.
The Albatross
Member
I kinda wish my state had a Republican in congress because I'd email him and be like "dude this guy is insane, you have to do something."
....a little from Column A..a little from Column B..etc.
UpDownLeftRight
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To be honest given it's Trump I'm more inclined to believe he's forgotten he had anything to do with it by now.
That beer and high five celebration is going to be the "Mission Accomplished" banner for some of these people.
Yekshemesh
Member
Impossible at this point, Trump could shit in each of their mouths and they'd congratulate him for doing so.
"I would like to thank the President for giving us the opportunity to receive his feces."
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
I think he just does what is the most beneficial to him in the moment. If he thinks it's a good move for some adulation he'll just do it and act like he never said otherwise. I'm convinced he just exists in a mode where his brain is just constantly going over and over in a loop for appreciation and attention.
It's incredible. Everyday it's something new. I'd say this would make for some pretty thrilling reality tv if it weren't already a horror show.
The HBO movies about the Trump administration are going to be absolutely insane.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Just... wow
TheCochese
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You dense motherfuckers.