https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1212180752936374275
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Yeah, this should be the response to any conservative who pearl-clutches over socialism it medicare for all. Fuck these prejudiced pieces of shit.
It wasn’t wasted. It was gritted.
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LOL
In case everyone forgot, CHOICE was passed under Obama. What Trump passed was called the VA Mission Act.
I was surprised with the Military.com article. It’s from mid-2018 and readily calls out Trump throughout.
In his remarks, Trump did not mention that funds to pay for the bill have yet to be identified, or that the White House and Congress are at odds on funding mechanisms. The bill’s projected costs over five years are also in dispute.
The issue of funding has plagued the existing Veterans Choice Program since it was enacted in response to the wait-times scandals of 2014 in which VA officials were caught doctoring records to show better performance.
The program was again due to run out of funding May 31, but the VA said there was enough money remaining to keep it in operation until Trump signed the VA Mission Act.
a Government Accountability Office report on the Veterans Choice Program released Monday cast doubt on the VA’s ability to implement the reforms called for under the VA Mission Act.
The VA has more than 360,000 employees serving the health care needs of about nine million veterans annually. Most of them are represented by the American Federation of Government Employees, which opposed the VA Mission Act.
The AFGE said that the act amounts to “opening the door to privatization of the country’s largest health care system.”
Possible this will be something for the 2020 president to crow about for their first term and/or an easy campaign promise?
The panel would meet in 2022 and 2023 to issue recommendations on “the modernization or realignment of Veterans Health Administration facilities.”
A more recent article from Sept 2019 for an updated military POV:
They note that participation in the VA system has actually increased since this bill, as many people have contacted them to ask whether they would be eligible for private options, which has led to them better exploring and pursuing their options within the VA system.
The issue, of course, is that while fears of this leading to the total privatization of the VA health care system have not been realized, that is only because veterans as yet have mostly chosen to stay within the VA system instead of seeking private health care options. We all know how easily the privatization winds shift as soon as they are able to force your hand.
In which Trump claims the GOP won impeachment 196-0
I’m dying 
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Tomorrow WaPo fact checkers will probably rate this claim as true.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DonaldDynasty/status/1189930822104756225
I guess he’s talking about republicans voting like 3 months ago.
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Trump approval is up 3 weeks in a row. Approval is 1pt shy of his record.
I think she explained this. The facts of the Ukraine situation changed her opinion on impeachment.
Before Ukraine, apparently the case was not compelling enough that she felt she should proceed without bipartisan support. Once the Ukraine info came out, it was so egregious, that she felt it was her duty to impeach no matter what.
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538 has it dipping slightly at the end of December, but regardless it’s clear that impeachment is not some sort of political victory for the Dems.
Should really look at how much was spent since the first gulf war.
Their sinister, curiously unified position being that people should stick to agreements.
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Jesus Christ, that is depressing. “Ms. Thunberg’s activism” isn’t a good thing that happened. It’s not any kind of thing that happened. It’s a person who said some words to the media.
Edit: And the impeachment of Trump also isn’t any meaningful thing that actually happened in the world. The whole world now thinks what is on TV is “things happening”.
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