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EnergizedLib

(3,034 posts)
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:23 PM 9 hrs ago

The felon wants the ACA replaced

So, from Truth Social, the felon apparently wants the ACA (as he calls it the UnAffordable Care Act) replaced with cash payouts out to the people to buy their own healthcare.

He must really be confident he’s going to successfully rig November and suppress the vote, isn’t he? As he keeps piling more debt on, markets keep tanking, gas prices, grocery prices soar, we have a deeply unpopular war that’s seen the deaths of American soldiers and Iranian schoolgirls, those of us who care about the Epstein Files, the DHS shutdown, a police state which has murdered Americans, at least one sexual assault we know of, no body cams, no masks, healthcare prices already higher, and this clown thinks it’d be a good idea right now to tinker with people’s healthcare right now on top of it?

The felon better hope he can tamper, tamper, tamper in November, else MAGA will be drenched in a sea of blue.

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Vinca

(53,968 posts)
1. Apparently, he wants to beat his own record for killing Americans.
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:27 PM
9 hrs ago

He'll send you a thousand bucks for a $15,000 policy you still can't afford.

EdmondDantes_

(1,783 posts)
3. If they were rigging elections, why do we keep winning?
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:32 PM
9 hrs ago

On the other hand, if an idiot with a long history of saying stupid things that are infeasible ideas, why wouldn't he keep saying stupid things that are infeasible ideas?

EnergizedLib

(3,034 posts)
4. My point is
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:37 PM
9 hrs ago

Obviously, they’re going to try to steal in November. Whether or not they succeed, they’ll absolutely try.

So, if the elections aren’t rigged, it might exceed the blue tsunami of 2006. He must be banking on them being rigged, because no way would voters otherwise tolerate this.

EdmondDantes_

(1,783 posts)
11. No we don't know that Republicans are going to cheat if you mean changing votes
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:52 PM
7 hrs ago

We know many Republicans are expecting to lose and so are retiring which historically has been a sign of significant losses for the party experiencing the retirements.

We know we keep winning off year and special elections and over performing when we don't. If they have a magic cheat button, are they forgetting to use it?

We know Trump is trying desperately to make voting harder because he expects to lose.

We know that Trump is deeply unpopular and we are heavily favored on the generic ballot polls.

Given all of that, and Trump's enormous ego, what's his incentive to change? He's not going to make people forget what he's doing because he's president, and so any "change" wouldn't be effective. His best tool is to double down because that's what he's done his entire life.

Stop thinking that we can only lose if they cheat. We are quite capable of losing elections, but we are also quite capable of winning them.

EnergizedLib

(3,034 posts)
13. Are the stakes not higher this year?
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 06:17 PM
7 hrs ago

Remember, we did well in some off year/special elections during the Biden administration and we avoided a bloodbath in 2022, then 2024 happened.

My point l was getting at is, wouldn’t he try to cheat and to rig this November? If Republicans wouldn’t try so hard to cheat, we’d run away with this. Yes, I know we’re capable of losing elections - we can’t only lose if they cheat; but trump’s unpopularity/unpopular policies/war/economy is setting up for us to win big in the fall, and if things stay where they are or get worse, no way are we losing unless they cheat - especially with history on our side.

Marie Marie

(11,285 posts)
5. Does this idiot know that individuals buying individual policies for themselves or their families
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 03:39 PM
9 hrs ago

pay waaaayyyy more in premiums than those who pay into group policies? Giving people a pittance to go out and buy their own insurance would be a disaster - just like everything that he does. All to remove Obama's name from a successful plan. But he thinks dangling cash in front of the citizenry will make people like him, Maybe they will until they see how little he is giving them and how little that will go towards buying decent health insurance.

underpants

(196,458 posts)
8. Of all the noted colossal screw ups, that's the daily- monthly one that sticks with people
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:21 PM
8 hrs ago

People either monthly have to pay that bill or see it come out of their paycheck OR they’ve just dropped coverage and hope everyday nothing happens.

His compulsion with a black man publicly embarrassing him that one night drives both his attacker on OBAMACARE and ending up with the same deal with Iran that had Obama’s name on it.

Arthur_Frain

(2,353 posts)
7. The question is "how many votes can he buy in this way?"
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:16 PM
9 hrs ago

I’m not overly optimistic about the general intellectual or moral capacity of our electorate.

Especially amongst the younger voters, there are way too many out there who will respond to a cash payout because at this point they don’t believe they’re going to get anything else.

EnergizedLib

(3,034 posts)
9. You can only screw the people so much for so long
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 04:46 PM
8 hrs ago

Before they wake up and put a stop to it all.

Of course, if we truly had a more moral and intellectual electorate, the felon would’ve been laughed off the stage in 2015.

Arthur_Frain

(2,353 posts)
14. Man,
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 10:28 PM
2 hrs ago

I’ve been waiting for the electorate to wake up since Bush I.

Sorry if I lack hope at this point. They haven’t.

Deuxcents

(26,885 posts)
10. So..who does he propose sell us the healthcare insurance? This makes no sense to me at all.
Sun Mar 29, 2026, 05:00 PM
8 hrs ago
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