Trump:Obama meant ACA to 'Explode' in 2017

By NCD on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 11:49am |

The buck doesn't even slow down on Trump's desk: Trump has accused Obama of lying about his birthplace, secretly aiding ISIS, secretly being a Muslim, and wiretapping Trump’s phone. On Friday, the president added another charge to his indictment: Obama deliberately designed the Affordable Care Act to fall apart — and cause massive suffering — as soon as he left office. 2017 “would be a disaster for Obamacare,” Trump said “That’s the year it was meant to explode, because Obama won’t be here. That’s when it was supposed to be, get even worse. As bad as it is now, it’ll get even worse.”

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NCD ... Oh wow...

The BBC article I linked to over here covers this latest crap out of Trump

~OGD~

by oldenGoldenDecoy on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 4:05pm

Ironic that the internet is the largest most accessible store of facts, history and knowledge ever developed, and we just elected tbe biggest most ignorant lying truth denying ignoramus ever as president.

Fire starting was also a great invention, it was also good for burning down villages.

The buck doesn't even slow down on Trump's desk.

by NCD on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 5:32pm

There has always been a segment of society that believed lies and conspiracy theories. Be it Area 51 or Agenda 21, the Birchers and followers of Lyndon Larouche etc. But that fake information used to be hard to get. One had to find out about news letters and fringe publications and sign up and Pay for them. The kooks had limited media penetration and influence.

Now with the internet it's easy to find and it's free. Occasionally when I'm bored I surf youtube and it's not long before I'm getting some of the most bizarre shit no thinking person would ever believe. I think we all knew that crap was out there and that some people believed it. When we deleted one of those Nigerian emails from our in box we knew that some people were taken in by the scam. What surprised me and I think all of us was the number of idiots that actually fell for the lies and conspiracy theories. Enough people actually believed the lies to elect Trump president. I still find that astonishing.

by ocean-kat on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 7:28pm

Laudably reluctant to rub salt in her wounds, Trump is showing his customary reserve by not gloating over how Obama had evidently planned for this political time bomb to blow up in the face of his old nemesis, Hillary......wait, what??

by jollyroger on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 9:33pm

The Kenyan Usurper diabolically lit the gory ACA fuse on Jan 19th. It was also rigged to eliminate the tell tale wires on the Trump golden bunker phone tap.

The buck doesn't even slow down at Trump's desk.

by NCD on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 10:28pm

[My beloved Hillary] is succeptable to this type of thinking and driving a wedge between her and the KU is a smart tactical move by Trump, this is war. No one will admit that Obama and the Clintonites could have been so ignorant or incompetent to accidentially build the ACA timebomb.

by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 11:10pm

"Now, I have to tell you, it's an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated."

The buck doesn't even slow down at Trump's desk.

by NCD on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 11:24pm

"succeptable" isn't a word. Check your cooy editors, they're letting you down.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/13/2017 - 1:17am

Trump has confused Obama with the GOP that sabotaged the ACA every chance it got. Just one observation from hundreds made back in the previous administration::

Today’s Republicans have taken the position that since the Affordable Care Act must be repealed, it must not be fixed. Why repair the car you’re about to send to the scrapyard? The problem of course is that six years have passed, and there has been no repeal nor major fixes.

Sadly, we’ve all gotten used to this. Ah these wacky partisan times! But it’s worth repeating: to try to damage Barack Obama, Republicans have intentionally made Americans suffer more. The target has always been the president; the victims turn out to be millions of families.

by moat on Mon, 03/13/2017 - 7:05am

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