The Absurd GOP

[Angrboda]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Killing Off His Core Supporters

The Trump administration is ending a key health insurance subsidy program that aimed to keep premiums for seniors' prescription drug plans in check, claiming that it benefits corporate insurance companies, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz.

Currently the government pays billions of dollars to insurance companies as a subsidy to keep prescription drug insurance at an average of $36 per person per month, according to KFF, a health policy nonprofit.

Ending the subsidies may increase premiums for some by as much as $20 a month, according to KFF.

Boru

[Angrboda]

[The Grand Nudger]

I considered putting this in the stupid things religious people say thread, pretty clear we're dealing with cult doublethink.

One of the metrics of shelter costs that I find most interesting is that they’re going down pretty rapidly in places like California because everybody’s leaving. And so when we look at the aggregate numbers, the fact that it’s actually, even though there are high prices in California, it puts downward pressure on inflation because shelter costs are such a big share of inflation and everybody’s leaving the state.

-Kevin Hasset. Purportedly in charge of national economic policy. People are not leaving California......house prices are going up, not down.

[Angrboda]

Hassett is a moron. Every week he comes out with one of these nonsensical gems.

[Angrboda]

[Fake Messiah]

Ted Cruz claims that Democrats support getting rid of Thanksgiving and Christmas while implementing Sharia Law. He also claims that democrats want to abolish senate and congress.

[The Grand Nudger]

No one else counts on gop voters being as stupid and expendable as gop politicians see them. They can't stand poor white trash, but boy howdy do they love the way they vote.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ted Cruz claims that Democrats support getting rid of Thanksgiving and Christmas while implementing Sharia Law. He also claims that democrats want to abolish senate and congress.

This stood out to me:

‘They want to make the president report to the House of Representatives.’

How is this extreme or Communist? Your Founders envisioned the Executive as more or less the errand boy of Congress. Just another case of American conservatives getting angry over shite they made up themselves.

Boru

[The Grand Nudger]

60% of evangelical protestants..Ted Cruz's core constituency.... believe that god directly ordained trump as president. In their mind, this is something like making god report to literal demoncrats in the house.
(I probably didn't have to add that they think something like this is what established the united states, too - but I did, for good measure)