DUMP on Trump
Some really interesting stats coming in.
Previously men under 30 went full Trump.
Now men under 30 have rejected that what they previously supported. A big 180 turnaround.
Waking up that they were screwed over with lies.
A lot of what Mamdani has promised he can’t do. Has played the Trump way perfectly.
It’s all yours Burls, I’ve no interest in what you say when your first discussion point is the queer folk.
Roadkill wrote:
A lot of what Mamdani has promised he can’t do. Has played the Trump way perfectly.
Yeah bugger all chance of a Republican Mayor in New York especially one backed by Trump.
Mamdani spoke Arabic in his winner’s speech.
Imagine the aneurysms within the maga movement.
seeds wrote:
It’s all yours Burls, I’ve no interest in what you say when your first discussion point is the queer folk.
It's now a sanctuary for mental illness, much like Melbourne is for Australia.
burleigh wrote:
It’s all yours Burls, I’ve no interest in what you say when your first discussion point is the queer folk.It's now a sanctuary for mental illness, much like Melbourne is for Australia.
^^^^^^ thats why Twump is a native NU YourrrKa
burleigh wrote:
I felt empathy for Biden with his obvious dementia decline but I fail to have the same sympathy for Donking . Some MAGAts actually believe Donny is totally switched on . This analysis of Trump has a good explanation and examples of his behaviour and the MAGAts will ignore this and go after the guy who is exposing what the reality is .
This guy has been anti-trump for nearly a decade, yet look at him and look at Trump. What a jealous peanut. Trump wouldnt even spit on him
Very good speaker! Take note Donald Duck.
Very funny flick to the nuts, “ I wish Andrew Cuomo the very best in private life.”
Hey CMC, I have not seen ya before. Which means nothing, but I wonder what the CMC stands for? I ask because here in the Bay Area (SeppiLand) that has a distinct meaning. Are you a local?
You can see Donking is pissed off because he’s suddenly not the center of everyone’s attention in his own office . 
Supafreak wrote:
You can see Donking is pissed off because he’s suddenly not the center of everyone’s attention in his own office .
He's still the centre of your attention which i will never understand supa.
^^ and like this - Sophie Mirabella, a nasty piece of work and now a Morrison era appointed Fair Work commissioner
Prez : Wish I had a Dr Evil Phone Bank at my finger tips...Wotz that Number Again!
Department of Death will change the number 911 > _ _ _
(Can frame my Doctor's Certificate above the Fireplace!)
truebluebasher wrote:
Prez : Wish I had a Dr Evil Phone Bank at my finger tips...Wotz that Number Again!
Department of Death will change the number 911 > _ _ _
(Can frame my Doctor's Certificate above the Fireplace!)
most interesting thing about that vid is rfk jr. doing a super skedaddle stage left
so many questions...
sypkan wrote:
Prez : Wish I had a Dr Evil Phone Bank at my finger tips...Wotz that Number Again!Department of Death will change the number 911 > _ _ _
(Can frame my Doctor's Certificate above the Fireplace!)
most interesting thing about that vid is rfk jr. doing a super skedaddle stage left
so many questions...
They showed RFK jr went and got a chair for him from another room and a wet towel so he was actually trying to be helpful.
Donking rambles on with this BS and has butt plug believing that Donking has been chosen by God to save the world .
^^^
well there ya go
a nice conspiracy for once...
I thought he was all paranoid of some big pharma contagion or something
^ how's number 6, the 'solved' wars, at 4:00..?
could he BE any more David Brent
when he brandishes his sad little vanity leaflet,
and says '..this is..' with a lingering look..
basesix wrote:
^ how's number 6, the 'solved' wars, at 4:00..?
could he BE any more David Brent
when he brandishes his sad little vanity leaflet,
and says '..this is..' with a lingering look..
His leaflet is a photocopy of a tweet he put out about the 8 wars he’s ended , producing the paper was supposed to be proof that what he saying is true . Dementia Donking , in his own little fantasy world believes if he thinks it , then it must be true . It’s like his statistics that he got from walmart , that thanks giving would be 25% cheaper this year , what he didn’t mention was that this year , there were only half the items on the list compared to last year. Economics Donking 101 . https://fortune.com/2025/11/08/walmart-thanksgiving-meal-basket-price-t…
Reading comment from a paper re Trump and govt shut down.
42 million people will lose their SNAP for food.
Out of a population of approx 360 million, that is a staggering number.
Something seriously wrong with a system that allows such a high % of population living in poverty for a country so rich.
Stay over there if you like that kind of wealth disparity Pauline.
This is spun out - the weight of all the skyscrapers is sinking the Big Apple.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-york-city-is-sinking-unde…
Trump and key Republicans are now saying they want to unilaterally do away with the ACA aka Obamacare.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trum…
This is really what the shutdown is about. Democrats, and anyone that pays attention, knew that Trump and the Republicans in Congress are not going to extend the "enhanced subsidies" at the end of the year unless they are forced to, and they'll do anything possible to dismantle the ACA completely. For anyone who thinks this is only a giveaway to insurance companies, I'll try and give a brief primer on how health insurance worked here before the ACA.
You essentially had 2 options. Work for a large corporation that offered a "group policy", or buy your own. If you didn't want or couldn't find employment with such a company, you could buy your own at affordable rates... if you were young, had never had any serious health issues, "preexisting conditions" etc. Otherwise you'd be denied coverage, or offered insurance at a incredibly high price and that excluded treatment for anything you'd had before (heart issues, diabetes, cancer, etc etc) and you'd better hope you never needed to go to the hospital. I knew of plenty of people who were bankrupted by a single hospitalization. Here they call this "medical bankruptcy."
The ACA changed that, and now you can't be denied coverage. (The big mistake was that the ACA didn't offer a public option, as in essentially government run coverage such as is now done with Medicaid and for senior citizens, Medicare. The pressure from the insurance industry was responsible.)
So what about now? First, let's talk about the enhanced subsidies. Last year our insurance would have cost about $3000 per month, and the subsidies covered a large part of that. For our family, not extending those subsidies will add another 1K per month to what we pay, and it will raise the "out of pocket" costs (what we would pay in the event of hospitalization etc) to just over 20K USD.
16 months ago, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of the ACA we had excellent coverage and care. Our out of pocket expenses were around 5K in each of 2024 and 2025. Not nothing, but manageable. Her treatment is now over and she has an excellent prognosis.
But let me explain clearly what will be the case if Trump and his cohorts scuttle the ACA which is now their stated intention: My wife will simply be denied insurance. End of story. Just like it was here before the ACA. Don't pay any attention to "Let's give the money to the people, who can buy their own policies." Without the ACA, insurance companies will simply go back to doing business the way the did before.
Let me add to the story, so you can understand the implications of that. My wife had 12 rounds of chemo. According to the oncologist, each round would have cost about 14K usd. So there's well over 150K Her surgery? Around 40K. A year of immunotherapy infusions? About 120K. 2 months of radiation? I didn't ask and couldn't even begin to fathom. All told we'd have been in the neighborhood of $400,000 US, which of course would be around $600,000 AUD.
Now let that sink in.
That’s fucked up.
Couple of Trumpers here!!
One, anti vaxxer +++
One an evasive evangelical that hates main stream religions. (Those bloody Catholics)
Move over here Mick66.
mick66 wrote:
Trump and key Republicans are now saying they want to unilaterally do away with the ACA aka Obamacare.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trum…
This is really what the shutdown is about. Democrats, and anyone that pays attention, knew that Trump and the Republicans in Congress are not going to extend the "enhanced subsidies" at the end of the year unless they are forced to, and they'll do anything possible to dismantle the ACA completely. For anyone who thinks this is only a giveaway to insurance companies, I'll try and give a brief primer on how health insurance worked here before the ACA.
You essentially had 2 options. Work for a large corporation that offered a "group policy", or buy your own. If you didn't want or couldn't find employment with such a company, you could buy your own at affordable rates... if you were young, had never had any serious health issues, "preexisting conditions" etc. Otherwise you'd be denied coverage, or offered insurance at a incredibly high price and that excluded treatment for anything you'd had before (heart issues, diabetes, cancer, etc etc) and you'd better hope you never needed to go to the hospital. I knew of plenty of people who were bankrupted by a single hospitalization. Here they call this "medical bankruptcy."
The ACA changed that, and now you can't be denied coverage. (The big mistake was that the ACA didn't offer a public option, as in essentially government run coverage such as is now done with Medicaid and for senior citizens, Medicare. The pressure from the insurance industry was responsible.)
So what about now? First, let's talk about the enhanced subsidies. Last year our insurance would have cost about $3000 per month, and the subsidies covered a large part of that. For our family, not extending those subsidies will add another 1K per month to what we pay, and it will raise the "out of pocket" costs (what we would pay in the event of hospitalization etc) to just over 20K USD.
16 months ago, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of the ACA we had excellent coverage and care. Our out of pocket expenses were around 5K in each of 2024 and 2025. Not nothing, but manageable. Her treatment is now over and she has an excellent prognosis.
But let me explain clearly what will be the case if Trump and his cohorts scuttle the ACA which is now their stated intention: My wife will simply be denied insurance. End of story. Just like it was here before the ACA. Don't pay any attention to "Let's give the money to the people, who can buy their own policies." Without the ACA, insurance companies will simply go back to doing business the way the did before.
Let me add to the story, so you can understand the implications of that. My wife had 12 rounds of chemo. According to the oncologist, each round would have cost about 14K usd. So there's well over 150K Her surgery? Around 40K. A year of immunotherapy infusions? About 120K. 2 months of radiation? I didn't ask and couldn't even begin to fathom. All told we'd have been in the neighborhood of $400,000 US, which of course would be around $600,000 AUD.
Now let that sink in.
Need a few Luigi Mangione disciples to take up the cause.
seeds wrote:
That’s fucked up.
Couple of Trumpers here!!
One, anti vaxxer +++
One an evasive evangelical that hates main stream religions. (Those bloody Catholics)
Move over here Mick66.
Hah! Yeah, you've got a great thing going on, and moving over has long been a topic in the house. I've still got a folder with all of our visa docs from various points in time. During the initial one I was still in the trades and with an occupation on what I think was then called the Long Term Skills Shortage List, but we were just short on the points scale. Would do it in a heartbeat, but there are only a few options once you've hit 55 as I have. Not giving up hope though, as my daughters are considering emigrating, one after university and the other to finish her studies there. If they did make it in, we'd have a shot in time, so we'll see.
As for the Trumpers, my take is that it's like watching a zombie movie. No matter who or what someone was before, once they've been bitten, it's over.
Hiccups wrote:
Trump and key Republicans are now saying they want to unilaterally do away with the ACA aka Obamacare.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trum…
This is really what the shutdown is about. Democrats, and anyone that pays attention, knew that Trump and the Republicans in Congress are not going to extend the "enhanced subsidies" at the end of the year unless they are forced to, and they'll do anything possible to dismantle the ACA completely. For anyone who thinks this is only a giveaway to insurance companies, I'll try and give a brief primer on how health insurance worked here before the ACA.
You essentially had 2 options. Work for a large corporation that offered a "group policy", or buy your own. If you didn't want or couldn't find employment with such a company, you could buy your own at affordable rates... if you were young, had never had any serious health issues, "preexisting conditions" etc. Otherwise you'd be denied coverage, or offered insurance at a incredibly high price and that excluded treatment for anything you'd had before (heart issues, diabetes, cancer, etc etc) and you'd better hope you never needed to go to the hospital. I knew of plenty of people who were bankrupted by a single hospitalization. Here they call this "medical bankruptcy."
The ACA changed that, and now you can't be denied coverage. (The big mistake was that the ACA didn't offer a public option, as in essentially government run coverage such as is now done with Medicaid and for senior citizens, Medicare. The pressure from the insurance industry was responsible.)
So what about now? First, let's talk about the enhanced subsidies. Last year our insurance would have cost about $3000 per month, and the subsidies covered a large part of that. For our family, not extending those subsidies will add another 1K per month to what we pay, and it will raise the "out of pocket" costs (what we would pay in the event of hospitalization etc) to just over 20K USD.
16 months ago, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of the ACA we had excellent coverage and care. Our out of pocket expenses were around 5K in each of 2024 and 2025. Not nothing, but manageable. Her treatment is now over and she has an excellent prognosis.
But let me explain clearly what will be the case if Trump and his cohorts scuttle the ACA which is now their stated intention: My wife will simply be denied insurance. End of story. Just like it was here before the ACA. Don't pay any attention to "Let's give the money to the people, who can buy their own policies." Without the ACA, insurance companies will simply go back to doing business the way the did before.
Let me add to the story, so you can understand the implications of that. My wife had 12 rounds of chemo. According to the oncologist, each round would have cost about 14K usd. So there's well over 150K Her surgery? Around 40K. A year of immunotherapy infusions? About 120K. 2 months of radiation? I didn't ask and couldn't even begin to fathom. All told we'd have been in the neighborhood of $400,000 US, which of course would be around $600,000 AUD.
Now let that sink in.
Need a few Luigi Mangione disciples to take up the cause.
Nah, living in a country with a murder rate 7 times higher than Australia's I can say that the last thing we need is more violence, in this case vigilante justice.
mick66 wrote:
Trump and key Republicans are now saying they want to unilaterally do away with the ACA aka Obamacare.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trum…
This is really what the shutdown is about. Democrats, and anyone that pays attention, knew that Trump and the Republicans in Congress are not going to extend the "enhanced subsidies" at the end of the year unless they are forced to, and they'll do anything possible to dismantle the ACA completely. For anyone who thinks this is only a giveaway to insurance companies, I'll try and give a brief primer on how health insurance worked here before the ACA.
You essentially had 2 options. Work for a large corporation that offered a "group policy", or buy your own. If you didn't want or couldn't find employment with such a company, you could buy your own at affordable rates... if you were young, had never had any serious health issues, "preexisting conditions" etc. Otherwise you'd be denied coverage, or offered insurance at a incredibly high price and that excluded treatment for anything you'd had before (heart issues, diabetes, cancer, etc etc) and you'd better hope you never needed to go to the hospital. I knew of plenty of people who were bankrupted by a single hospitalization. Here they call this "medical bankruptcy."
The ACA changed that, and now you can't be denied coverage. (The big mistake was that the ACA didn't offer a public option, as in essentially government run coverage such as is now done with Medicaid and for senior citizens, Medicare. The pressure from the insurance industry was responsible.)
So what about now? First, let's talk about the enhanced subsidies. Last year our insurance would have cost about $3000 per month, and the subsidies covered a large part of that. For our family, not extending those subsidies will add another 1K per month to what we pay, and it will raise the "out of pocket" costs (what we would pay in the event of hospitalization etc) to just over 20K USD.
16 months ago, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of the ACA we had excellent coverage and care. Our out of pocket expenses were around 5K in each of 2024 and 2025. Not nothing, but manageable. Her treatment is now over and she has an excellent prognosis.
But let me explain clearly what will be the case if Trump and his cohorts scuttle the ACA which is now their stated intention: My wife will simply be denied insurance. End of story. Just like it was here before the ACA. Don't pay any attention to "Let's give the money to the people, who can buy their own policies." Without the ACA, insurance companies will simply go back to doing business the way the did before.
Let me add to the story, so you can understand the implications of that. My wife had 12 rounds of chemo. According to the oncologist, each round would have cost about 14K usd. So there's well over 150K Her surgery? Around 40K. A year of immunotherapy infusions? About 120K. 2 months of radiation? I didn't ask and couldn't even begin to fathom. All told we'd have been in the neighborhood of $400,000 US, which of course would be around $600,000 AUD.
Now let that sink in.
That's crazy.
Glad your wife has has good results.
I remember a meme going around with Walter White from Breaking Bad if he was from Canada.
Gets his diagnosis, get treatment, back to teaching. No drug lord career change required.
How can US citizens put up with that level / lack of healthcare??
Re Trumpist in Oz and zombie equivalent. Reckon zombies have better cognitive ability.
patrik fitzgerald singing his thatcher-era song 'punch (joke figure)'
jello biafra and motorpsycho covering
patrik fitzgerald's song 'punch (joke figure)'
(the above = 'Punch' two sides of a split 7")
https://alternativetentacles.com/products/v522-patrik-fitzgerald-jello-…
andy-mac wrote:
Trump and key Republicans are now saying they want to unilaterally do away with the ACA aka Obamacare.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trum…
This is really what the shutdown is about. Democrats, and anyone that pays attention, knew that Trump and the Republicans in Congress are not going to extend the "enhanced subsidies" at the end of the year unless they are forced to, and they'll do anything possible to dismantle the ACA completely. For anyone who thinks this is only a giveaway to insurance companies, I'll try and give a brief primer on how health insurance worked here before the ACA.
You essentially had 2 options. Work for a large corporation that offered a "group policy", or buy your own. If you didn't want or couldn't find employment with such a company, you could buy your own at affordable rates... if you were young, had never had any serious health issues, "preexisting conditions" etc. Otherwise you'd be denied coverage, or offered insurance at a incredibly high price and that excluded treatment for anything you'd had before (heart issues, diabetes, cancer, etc etc) and you'd better hope you never needed to go to the hospital. I knew of plenty of people who were bankrupted by a single hospitalization. Here they call this "medical bankruptcy."
The ACA changed that, and now you can't be denied coverage. (The big mistake was that the ACA didn't offer a public option, as in essentially government run coverage such as is now done with Medicaid and for senior citizens, Medicare. The pressure from the insurance industry was responsible.)
So what about now? First, let's talk about the enhanced subsidies. Last year our insurance would have cost about $3000 per month, and the subsidies covered a large part of that. For our family, not extending those subsidies will add another 1K per month to what we pay, and it will raise the "out of pocket" costs (what we would pay in the event of hospitalization etc) to just over 20K USD.
16 months ago, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. Because of the ACA we had excellent coverage and care. Our out of pocket expenses were around 5K in each of 2024 and 2025. Not nothing, but manageable. Her treatment is now over and she has an excellent prognosis.
But let me explain clearly what will be the case if Trump and his cohorts scuttle the ACA which is now their stated intention: My wife will simply be denied insurance. End of story. Just like it was here before the ACA. Don't pay any attention to "Let's give the money to the people, who can buy their own policies." Without the ACA, insurance companies will simply go back to doing business the way the did before.
Let me add to the story, so you can understand the implications of that. My wife had 12 rounds of chemo. According to the oncologist, each round would have cost about 14K usd. So there's well over 150K Her surgery? Around 40K. A year of immunotherapy infusions? About 120K. 2 months of radiation? I didn't ask and couldn't even begin to fathom. All told we'd have been in the neighborhood of $400,000 US, which of course would be around $600,000 AUD.
Now let that sink in.
That's crazy.
Glad your wife has has good results.I remember a meme going around with Walter White from Breaking Bad if he was from Canada.
Gets his diagnosis, get treatment, back to teaching. No drug lord career change required.
How can US citizens put up with that level / lack of healthcare??Re Trumpist in Oz and zombie equivalent. Reckon zombies have better cognitive ability.
OK, just checked out that meme, and yes that (2008) is where we may well be heading back to here. I looked it up, and 20% of American adults didn't have health insurance. Now that's down to about 10%, but I can tell you anecdotally that many (most IMO) won't use Obamacare simply because of at least one of the following sentiments: They don't like Obama and won't have anything to do with something associated with his name/they don't want the government associated with healthcare/they are paranoid about filling out the application. Don't disregard the last one. I've been in the middle of conversations in which people claim that the application asks you very detailed questions about your sex life as well as gun ownership, and that it's a plot to find out where the guns are in America so they can be taken away. Also many feel that Obamacare fits the Biblical description in Revelation of the "mark of the beast." Sadly, I'm not making this stuff up. (Again, back to the zombie analogy.)
Bitch, whine, whatever...
First edition 5/10...
This term NONE so far...No end of war
...No 51st state(Canada)
....No new Green land
....No Great America
...No resort on the edge of the Mediterranean
...Not one mine opened in Ukraine
...NO new laws passed, just executive dictator orders