XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2025-12-19, Governor Swill  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:19:23 -0000 (UTC), pothead   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 2025-12-17, Collectivism fails  wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:06:43 -0500, Governor Swill   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>To repeat, millions of Americans can now afford health insurance who   
   >>>>couldn't before.   
   >>>   
   >>> Actually they can't. Not without government subsidy.   
   >>>   
   >>>>The rising cost of health insurance has more to do   
   >>>>with Republicans chipping away at ACA than with the original design of   
   >>>>the program. Add to this the GOP has repealed most of the mechanisms   
   >>>>that paid for ACA thus increasing the budget deficits.   
   >>>   
   >>> More undocumented nonsense.  For four long years the Republican Party   
   >>> did not have the power to do that, and yet the Dems needed to increase   
   >>> the subsidy.   
   >>   
   >>As I have stated many times, the republicans have never been in lockstep like   
   >>the democrats are.   
   >   
   > Which is patently false.  Only lately has the GOP begun to split as   
   > the ballot box risks of being a Trump supporter increase.   
      
   Nope.   
   It's more severe these days, but think Murkowski, Collins, Rand Paul and other   
   lontime   
   RINOs.   
   There are others, but those are the main ones.   
      
   >>And the MAGA movement although a good thing IMHO has divided the party even   
   more   
   >>between the straight line republicans and the MAGA republicans.   
   >>   
   >>The democrats problem is going far left while many old time republicans still   
   >>remain but even so, at least up until recently, they still manage to vote   
   party   
   >>line.   
   >>   
   >>The republicans have Murkowski, Collins and the usual suspects who oppose   
   >>everything and might as well declare themselves democrats.   
   >>With the slim margin that is all it takes to lose.   
   >   
   > And yet the all vote the party line.  Rarely do they differ.   
      
   Huh?   
   No they don't.   
   Do some research.   
      
      
   >>Then you have the inept, either for a reason or just the way it is   
   >>endless investigations by the republicans.   
   >>They manage to bungle every single one of them and the MAGA loyal   
   >>are getting tired of hearing Jim Jordan, Comer and others appearing on   
   >>Fox claiming, "we've got them this time", when it's just bull.   
   >>   
   >>Along those lines, Bondi and Patel need to go.   
   >>They are flaccid and ineffective and I suspect at least with Bondi there   
   >>is more behind her poor decisions IMHO.   
   >>How is it possible to bungle every case presented to the DOJ?   
   >>Seems suspicious to me.   
   >   
   > You, yourself have pointed out that Trump's hires can't be trusted.   
   > The fact is, he hires based on loyalty to himself just as did Stalin   
   > and the Tsars and as does Putin.   
      
      
   I have.   
   The difference is Trump is a narcissist.   
   Not comparable to Stalin or even Putin.   
   All politicians, world leaders crave power and Trump is no different but   
   to compare him to dictators or fascists is wrong.   
      
   > Hiring based on loyalty instead of competence and ability gets you   
   > what Russia is today.   
   Purely, maybe.   
   However it needs to be a combination.   
   If your core group are not loyal to you, you are doomed.   
   Look at Hitler and Stauffenberg and others who undermined Hitler to various   
   degrees.   
   Heck, look at Von Hindenberg.   
   Same thing.   
   If you can't trust your confidants you are in serious trouble.   
      
   >   
   > That's what Trump is doing to America.   
      
   I see things improving.   
   A patrolled border.   
   Inflation down.   
   Public sector jobs up.   
   Record military recruitment after woke DEI eliminated.   
   Respect on the world stage.   
   Interdiction in the drug traffickers.   
   Drill baby drill.   
   Gas and fuel prices down.   
   Eliminating NGO slush funds.   
   Trimming an over bloated government.   
   Cracking down and deporting illegals.   
   Prescription drugs set to be reduced in price.   
   Elimination of green crap like mandates for EV and a war on fossil fuels.   
   Capping immigration from countries known to be harmful to the US.   
   etc.   
      
   I consider that improving America.   
   And after Biden's train wreck Trump has his hands full for sure.   
      
   --   
   pothead   
      
   Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views,   
   but then are shocked and offended to discover that there   
    are other views.   
      
   William F. Buckley, Jr.   
      
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