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[redwallzyl]

Starver did say that it was meant to be a visual joke.

Trump says that he commends and supports a bipartisan effort for a short term fix to 'the obamacare mess', a mess that he made and exacerbated

I just ignore what he says at this point as it means nothing.

[hector13]

To be fair his timing for stopping the subsidies was probably the best it could've been in terms of economics. The insurance companies have time to actually gouge their prices provide fair market value now that they can factor in not receiving the subsidies for next years projections.

Having read the article holy shit does he not like taking responsibility.

The bipartisan fix is a short-term solution to the problem I created.

Any increase in Obamacare premiums is the minority Democrat's fault for providing us a "product" service you clown that never had a chance of working because I said I'd do something about it even though I have no idea what so I made an off the cuff decision, now I'm making other people fix those boneheaded decisions and I'll criticise them for not getting it perfect the first time.

Also holy shit that website, lots of redirects to nonsense if I leave it open.

[Frumple]

Eh, for what it's worth trying to eliminate the subsidies to begin with was dead on arrival, just took a moment to void its bowels over everything rather than having the decency to be drying up or something. If he's backtracking now it's probably because he finally fucking listened to a legal team worth a damn when they told 'im it wasn't actually going to fly.

Though double checking the article seems to be mostly just that senate thing, which doesn't really have sod all to do with the jackass in chief far as I can recall? Eh, whatever.

... incidentally, apparently the latest travel ban has been hit with an injunction recently, if the thread hasn't already noticed. So hey, fun all around.

[smjjames]

Also holy shit that website, lots of redirects to nonsense if I leave it open.

I've never had that problem with it. I suppose problems might come up on mobile.

[PTTG??]

In retrospect, it's a miracle Obama managed to do anything at all.

[Reelya]

Yeah, nothing good happened until trump came along:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/trump-isis-raqqa/index.html

"I totally changed rules of engagement. I totally changed our military, I totally changed the attitudes of the military and they have done a fantastic job," Trump said on "The Chris Plante Show." "ISIS is now giving up, they are giving up, there are raising their hands, they are walking off. Nobody has ever seen that before."

When Plante asked why that hadn't happened before, Trump took the bait.

"Because you didn't have Trump as your president," he said. "It was a big difference, there was a big, big difference if you look at the military now."

[wierd]

Yup. Egomaniac.

Totally fits. 

"This new thing, that is just like that old thing that was bad? NOW it's super good, because *I* am in charge of it!"

[Jopax]

ISIS guys prolly saw the whole US situation and were sympathetic.

"You guys have enough shit on your plate, we'll keep it down while you sort it out, k?"

[scriver]

It's extra funny because I explicitly remember him going something like "Okay now you guys come up with a way to handle this Isis thing) to his military staff at the early parts of this year.

[Sheb]

To be fair, he did loosen the rule of engagements a bit, probably at the request of his generals, even though the central strategy of Obama was retained, because, well, it was probably the best to be done at this point.

[Frumple]

I mean. I guess? But did it actually make much of a difference? Last I recall most of the effort over there really just kinda' ain't the US doing it, and at least at the mo' I can't remember any mention of those loosened rules really doing jack all of note since trump's verbal diarrhea washed the shit to shore.

[RedKing]

Is anyone surprised at this? At all? Trump is the living embodiment of the Barry Switzer quote, "Some people are born on third base and spend their whole life thinking they hit a triple."

[Zangi]

I mean. I guess? But did it actually make much of a difference? Last I recall most of the effort over there really just kinda' ain't the US doing it, and at least at the mo' I can't remember any mention of those loosened rules really doing jack all of note since trump's verbal diarrhea washed the shit to shore.

He doesn't need to have done anything.  The US military is still at the least present in a supporting role, giving him the room to take the positive credit.

[smjjames]

Changed title because that kerfluffle is quickly turning into Trump's equivalent of Benghazi and his handling of the whole thing isn't helping either. About time for a title blurb change anyway.

I don't know if it warrants the Benghazi comparison, but there are a hell of a lot of questions circling around it and what happened.

[MrRoboto75]

its quite a covfefe either way