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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Some 21 percent of Americans want Trump to focus on the healthcare system when he enters the White House on Jan. 20, according to the Nov. 9-14 poll, conducted in the week after the Republican won the U.S. presidential election.
Jobs took second place with 16 percent of Americans hoping it would be Trump's first agenda item, while immigration came third - picked by 14 percent of Americans, according to the poll. Some 11 percent picked race relations.
The poll shows what priorities Americans would set on the new president, but it does not measure exactly what people want him to do. A separate Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found in late October that most Americans want cheaper prescription drugs and access to larger networks of doctors and hospitals. Only a minority, 37 percent, want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, outgoing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform, and start over, as Trump has promised to do.
Lmao
Can I ask why my last post qualifies as troll bait?
Because I've been offline for an few days, came back to this thread and see someone claiming an attempted power grab to be bad news, so I asked out curiousity.
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to breakCorrect me if I'm wrong here. But if Urban Dictionary's definition of concern trolling is siding with an unpopular opinion to watch the shit fly, what happens to the people on here who just asked an question without malicious intent?
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break
TBF, it is rather hard to believe someone genuinely doesn't understand why the NC legislature pulling that crap is bad news. It's about as blatant a subversion of democracy as you can get. "My guy didn't win, so I'm gonna do everything possible to limit what the democratically elected winner can do in the position he just won — screw the voters!"
edited 17th Dec '16 12:04:33 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised@Dingo Walley 1: Congress can absolutely strip the Supreme Court from jurisdiction over almost any law they choose, and the Court has no recourse, so long as it's not an original-jurisdiction case (and those are far rarer than appeals).
Man, the deplorables/paid Russian trolls have launched a crusade on You Tube. Every single political video is way disproportionately Right in the like/dislike bar (whichever way that is depends on the content of the video), and the comments are packed with idiots spouting Blatant Lies about Russia, Obama, Trump, etc.
It's not even subtle, either, half the comments regarding Russia are saying that there's no proof that Putin was behind the hacking, and the other half regarding Russia are that Russia exposed corruption in the DNC and that Putin is a hero and that the truth is always good. It literally looks like they're reading from a script of what to say.
I decided to pick up Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October to read, because I have the feeling we're gonna have an IRL situation in our near future. It's already becoming a little aneurysm-inducing with a Blood Knight minor character with the name of Putin who's a high-ranking military official trying to undermine Raimus's authority.
You know that conspiracy theory about Bush causing 9/11? It's absurd, but the current crop of GOP leaders seem increasingly like the type that might actually try and do that if they think their control is slipping.
And even if that doesn't happen, New York City is screwed from the now inevitable flooding.

Standard GOP tactic now is to add riders to their laws saying "courts can't review this."
They just don't give a fuck any more.