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National Security Emergency

EO 13618 and Sections of the Patriot Act dealing with commerce, transportation and banking invoked.

Don't think for a moment Trump won't take immediate advantage of this to assign himself extraordinary powers.

Fascists look forward to crushing widespread dissent.
It is what they live for, and it gives them even more support from their fans and voters because they can cast the protesters as "the enemy".

Sure, and most people out of that 20 million will bitch about it a little and then go on with their lives, their ever-shittier lives as Trump makes it so.

But maybe 1000 will have uninsurable kids who die as a direct result, and they will have someone specific to blame. They will be lone wolves with medical bankruptcies, dead children, and nothing to live for except to kill those bastards who murdered their kid. And America is awash with guns.

This is why I think Congress will be reluctant to cancel ACA with no replacement. Because somebody (or LOTS of people) will show up to kill them if they do.

(Not me, of course: I have no children and am on Medicare. And I'm not in any way suggesting this. I just believe it would happen.)

Nothing else left to lose.

I'm so with the tens of thousands of protesters who marched last night (although I wasn't actually with them). Senator Frankin was on last night, and, although he was subdued, he felt that there would be strong resistance in the Senate, especially regarding the ACA and environmental issues. More worrisome are the executive order actions, or reactions, that might occur, especially regarding immigration. We're in for lots of fights, but remember, too, Trump had no specifics, so he won't hit the ground running. He's surrounded by B-grade amateurs.

Comedians are going to have a FIELD DAY.
We might even see Jon Stewart come out of retirement.

And if there is one thing we can be certain of it is that B-grade amateurs are going to make serious and expensive mistakes when elevated prematurely to pro status.

Donald Trump promised to "repeal and replace Obamacare." Congress is going to simply repeal it without any sort of replacement because that is what Republicans do. The question is...will Trump just yank health insurance from 20 million people, many who voted for him, without any sort of plan in place to get them the medical care they need? His supporters have complained loudly that their Obamacare rates are rising. Will President Trump sign into law plans that will cause them to rise even more drastically? We don't know any of this yet.
What we do know is that Trump is already walking back most of the things he promised during his campaign.

Where are Carlin, Pryor and Bruce when we need them?

Dead? Like all our hopes and dreams?

he can't walk back repeal of ACA. that is not in his hands. the House will once again pass a bill to repeal and the senate will concur. Mr Trump will sign.

Case closed. [bang] Next

the pundits have long argued they will not repeal without a replacement. in 50 attempts by the House to repeal has there ever been a replacement offered???? nope. and that should be the clue.

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Everyone is wringing their hands wondering how the polls got it so wrong. Learned and complicated theories and explanations abound.

No one seems to be applying Occam's Razor.

The simplest explanation is that unprotected voting machines were hacked in battleground states.

For more than a decade, there has been considerable reason to fear the rigging of voting machines, yet bugger all has been done to take the simple measures that would eliminate voting machine hacking. Immense blather this year about vote rigging, but the most likely rigging, voting machine hacking, studiously ignored.

I have been trying to find reliable state-by-state exit polls to compare with the official results, but so far have been unable to find them on our awash-with-information internet.

Just a coincidence, of course. ---
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