The Republican problem with the American Medical Association (the AMA)

[Tom Rinaldo]

and the Hospital and Nurses Associations, and AARP, and many of the leading insurers, is that they actually know something about what they are talking about when they oppose Republican plans to repeal and "replace" the Affordable Care Act. That makes their view points rather like those of climate scientists world wide: Informed.

No wonder then that Republicans refuse to listen to and believe them.

[dalton99a]

1. Republicans have no use for experts

They don't give a shit anymore. The rich can always afford medical care

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. It's consistent with their overall war on objective truth

1984 was a little late in arriving, but war is peace and hate is love.

[Moostache]

3. Everything I don't like is FAKE NEWS! - Orange Shit-Gibbon

That is the new 'reality'...we have a POTUS that retweets fever-swamp conspiracies from Hannity as "REAL NEWS", who propagandized the BOY SCOUTS and regaled them with tawdry tales of sex cruises and electoral college totals from 9 months ago...this man-baby is pathetic, zooming towards being the most pathetic figure in major event world history...

When I was 10, my brother and I got in trouble with my dad...for what I do not remember, just that we were getting yelled at really good...I attempted to throw my kid brother under the bus by bringing up the fact that he was bad in school and did not get good grades and that HE SHOULD BE THE ONE IN TROUBLE....my father, to his eternal credit, immediately sent my brother to our room and made me stay behind. He in no uncertain terms made it clear to me, as a 10-year old boy, that there is no honor or dignity in trying to deflect blame from yourself by pointing out the flaws in others and pushing them in front of yourself as a shield. He told me straight up that I was going to receive the punishment for both myself and my brother and that if I ever did anything like that again that the punishment would double again and again and again until I stopped. This was a lesson I have passed on to my sons and daughters to the day and one I have never forgotten...YOU are responsible for YOUR ACTIONS...and no one else.

Trump clearly never was taught to be a man or to be accountable or to be a respectable human being.

[Tom Rinaldo]

4. Thanks for sharing that wisdom from your father.

Meanwhile the Boy Scouts gather tens of thousands of children together to look up to Donald Trump as a role model.

Half of the elected Republicans are just fine with Trump as President, the other half act like they are already in this too deep so they have no choice other than to defend him. Cowards. They are acting like I did when I was five years old. My Mom was walking me to a neighborhood movie house and I got ahead of her and didn't notice that the sidewalk ahead had just been poured with fresh concrete. So I waked onto it, heard the workmen shout something, and just began running, trying I suppose to get through it as fast as possible. I wasn't capable of admitting my error and reversing my steps. But then again I was 5 years old.