The Winning Smile of The Chosen One
Hey guys, remember that time that Comrade Stupid said that gutting Social Security and Medicare were second term projects?
CNBC: Will entitlements ever be on your plate [for cutting]?
TRUMP: “At some point they will be”
CNBC: But you said you wouldn’t do that in the past
TRUMP: “We also have assets that we never had” pic.twitter.com/FgZnzYz33l
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2020
Here’s the full exchange, in case you don’t want to hear the jackass bray:
JOE KERNEN: Entitlements ever be on your plate?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: At some point they will be. We have tremendous growth. We’re going to have tremendous growth. This next year I– it’ll be toward the end of the year. The growth is going to be incredible. And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that’s actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it’s such a–
JOE KERNEN: If you’re willing–
PRESIDENT TRUMP: –big percentage.
JOE KERNEN: –to do some of the things that you said you wouldn’t do in the past, though, in terms of Medicare–
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Well, we’re going– we’re going look. We also have– assets that we’ve never had. I mean we’ve never had growth like this. We never had a consumer that was taking in, through– different means, over $10,000 a family. We never had the kind of– the kind of things that we have. Look, our country is the hottest in the world. We have the hottest economy in the world. We have the best unemployment numbers we’ve ever had. African American, Asian American. Hispanics are doing so incredibly. Best they’ve ever done. Black. Best they’ve ever done. African American. The numbers are incredible. The poverty numbers. The unemployment and the employment. There’s– there is a difference, actually. But the unemployment and employment numbers for African Americans are the best we’ve ever had. You know, we just– came up with a chart, and it was a very important to number to me. African American youth has the highest, by far, unemployment. The best unemployment numbers that they’ve ever had. And the best employment numbers. Right now we have almost 160 million people working in the United States, and we’ve never even been close to that, Joe.
We know that Comrade Stupid lies the same way that fish swim and birds fly: it’s what he does, it’s his core competency. He lies therefore he is. Diogenes not only walked past him, he laughed so hard he blew out the lantern. Yet oddly, The Russian Usurper’s two statements are aligned. Could this be the moment where he breaks all precedent and tells us something true?
Now, of course, during the 2016 Goat Rodeo, Comrade Trump told us that he would never touch Medicare or Social Security, so he was lying then or now, or both? Anyway, even though he’s a proven liar, he’s cunning enough to know not to do this right before an election, but if this shitgibbon somehow manages to stay in office, the whammy is coming.
Mock Paper Scissors 
Whatever the fuck is he talking about “$10,000 per family”?
Also, too, $10,000 is not going to make up for cuts to SS & Medicare.
Also three, he’ll sell that shit like wildfire to the MAGAts, promising to get “gummint out of your social security and medicare!” because they’re
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The $10.000 per family is straight from Otto Hizazz.
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Is the only thing he can do is offer(with fingers crossed) bribes for everything?
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If we work hard to get a good legislature-both Houses-he will not succeed with this plan.
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1) I question the way this administration comes up with unemployment numbers.
b) What happens to these wonderful numbers he keeps spewing if you include the debt he keeps ignoring?
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roket – the numbers are fudged. But you knew that. They used to count people on UI, and the people looking for work, as a percentage against the people actually working, which was a fairly useful indicator, but still not “The Whole Story.” But they changed that back in the realm of Chimpy, and now they only count the people who are currently drawing on Unemployment, and since the unemployment checks eventually run out, they’re then dropped off the rolls. And they don’t take into account people only working part time, and the folks working 2 or even 3 jobs are not counted correctly – it’s just another job that’s been filled, and it’s another way to skew the numbers.
I hope this helped.
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He has no brains at all, nothing but hot air. I live on my social security now. Retired at 62, and there is no $10,000 pie in the sky for me. If he managed to cut social security, I’d be forced to live on food stamps. Oh, Wait?
I really think though that there are more than enough of his people on social security and disability, that it will become a tsunami against that plan. They may be willing to cut your throat but that’s “their” money, and he better not F with that.
I sure hope so anyway.
Dog help my kids though when they get too old to work anymore. They are 44 and 41 now.
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w3ski – I’m on SSDI myself, and I was considered to be so permanently disabled that in the past 13 years I’ve never had a re-evaluation, but now I’m dreading the future, when they could capriciously call me in for an eval. And from what I’ve heard, the only info the examining Dr. takes into consideration is the initial, original eval & diagnosis, and NOT any changes that may have occurred since then, or any documents from my own Dr., or any of the numerous specialists I’ve gone to.
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People thinking that somehow this is an admission that Trump is about to cut Social Security and Medicare are deluding themselves; Trump simply had no idea what the journalist was talking about – “Entitlements, what’s that?” – so he simply rambled about the economy.
Move along, nothing to see here.
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trump has no idea what SS, Medicare, or Medicaid programs are and how they are funded. Moscow Mitch has probably told him that these are welfare programs where the government is giving old people FREE stuff until they die.
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Did anyone else read African American youth has the highest, by far, unemployment. *” and think:
So they have *less employment?
Why is he bragging about this?
No, wait, it’s who is he bragging to, isn’t it?
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MD – I noticed that too, and was puzzled by it. Did he misspeak? Because prior to that he claimed that Black employment was doing fantastic, before he switched to unemployment. So if Black unemployment numbers are the highest they’ve ever been, hmmmm…aspiring future slave-owners should be delighted by this news.
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Yeah, exactly.
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