Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

[Ruairi77]

So Trump and Haley are going around the UN shouting and screaming and waving a big stick.
Most countries have taken no notice and ratified the resolution on Jerusalem.
I've been listening to it thismoning and one thing that struck me was that South Korea seemed to add their name to sponsorship of the bill right at the last moment. Rather than just approving it, they sponsored it, going square against the Trump regime.
Interesting times.

 

[Pettifogger]

So Trump and Haley are going around the UN shouting and screaming and waving a big stick.
Most countries have taken no notice and ratified the resolution on Jerusalem.
I've been listening to it thismoning and one thing that struck me was that South Korea seemed to add their name to sponsorship of the bill right at the last moment. Rather than just approving it, they sponsored it, going square against the Trump regime.
Interesting times.

Increased no votes and abstentions after the Trump/Haley threats. Truth is that the Yeas will consider this a condemnation, America won't care, and the US likely won't follow through on threats to cease helping countries that put the US in the crosshairs. And the embassy will still move, of course. Typical UN, days worth of vanity and posturing with nothing accomplished.

SK thing is weird, agreed.

 

[Ruairi77]

Increased no votes and abstentions after the Trump/Haley threats.

I'm surprised there wasn't more abstentions, as for the increased no vote, The US and Israel can now count of the support of Palau, Micronesia, Nauru,Togu-Tonga, the Marshall Islands, Guatemala & Honduras

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[roydo]

He will explode now. Then invade someone.

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[DanEFC92]

He will explode now. Then invade someone.

Swear down I’ve seen Trump supporters claim that foreign relations have improved under Trump, and all.

‘America First’, is swiftly becoming America Alone.

 

[roydo]

Swear down I’ve seen Trump supporters claim that foreign relations have improved under Trump, and all.

‘America First’, is swiftly becoming America Alone.

Was always the way this road goes.

 

[abelard]

States’ Christmas Letter to Kids: No Health Care for You
https://www.thedailybeast.com/states-christmas-letter-to-kids-no-health-care-for-you

Kristy Kirkpatrick Johnson is a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom in Brewton, Alabama, with two small kids and an impending medical crisis.

Her son, Thomas, needs EpiPens for his nut allergies and they aren’t cheap. Without insurance, the pens cost $1,500. Her husband Parker, the family’s sole breadwinner, is the pastor of the local First Presbyterian Church. The family was spending roughly $800 a month for insurance before her daughter, Elizabeth Ann, was born.

They soon got a break though. The Johnsons enrolled both their children in All Kids, a program that covers some 84,000 children in Alabama through the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). And, like that, Thomas’ EpiPens were free, minus the $13 copay they have to put down every time they go to the doctor.

“It’s just been a huge blessing to our family,” Johnson told The Daily Beast in the middle of preparing for a large dinner gathering at their home on Tuesday night. “We just feel that the Lord has really provided for us through All Kids.”

But that break is now perilously close to ending. Alabama officials have announced that, just three days after Christmas, thousands of families could face the news that their children will be denied CHIP coverage unless Congress intervenes. A month after that, families like the Johnsons may lose their current coverage altogether.

“We don’t really know what that means for our kids,” Johnson said. “It kind of makes you nervous.”

The crisis unfolding in Alabama may be shocking to CHIP recipients. But it should not be surprising to anyone who has followed the debate over the program. For months now, advocates have warned that state officials would eventually have to resort to severe measures in the wake of Congress’ failure to re-authorize CHIP at the end of September. Those measures were put off as the federal government sent emergency funding for states in need. But, at some point, the money runs out and reality presents itself.

For Cathy Caldwell, the director of the Bureau of Children’s Health Insurance at the Alabama Department of Public Health, that reality came at the end of last week. It was then that the department determined that they would inform families on Dec. 28 that their children could be disenrolled soon.

“It is very stressful particularly the worry over these families who are stressing over this and the children who are at risk of losing their health insurance coverage,” Caldwell told The Daily Beast on Monday.

The department posted a stark warning on its website on Friday telling families of the perilous path ahead—a warning that it plans to reissue on Dec. 28 with formal letters to families like the Johnsons. On Jan. 1, the state will functionally stop accepting children into All Kids, absent Congress reauthorizing funding for CHIP. By Feb. 1, All Kids will have to start disenrolling current enrollees as well. Separately, Alabama has 74,000 other kids enrolled in CHIP via the state’s Medicaid program, Caldwell explained, who would not be impacted by this contingency plan.

Johnson wasn’t even aware of the possibility that her kids may soon lack insurance until she got a phone call on Tuesday morning from Dr. Marsha Raulerson, a pediatrician in Brewton.

“We had no clue,” Johnson said, remembering how she called her husband incredulously saying, “Did you know? What does that mean?”

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Hmmm I'll bet forcing children and their families to pay $1500 for life-saving medical devices that cost $4 to make will really motivate the lil' slackers to lean in and apply themselves, eh forum libertarians? and anyhow, the failure to decrease your taxes by a negligible amount so as to avoid ^this^ sort of thing would be the greater evil, correct?

a fundamentally rotten country

 

[abelard]

if the United States hadn't so energetically helped rig Honduras's recent election in favour of a drug-trafficking warlord, they'd have fewer votes still.

 

[DanEFC92]

That's a lot of names Haley and Trump are going to have to "take" for their revenge tour

It's genuinely worrying how they seem to see the US' contribution to the UN as a payment for not being contradicted

That's mafia-like behavior.

 

[DanEFC92]

if the United States hadn't so energetically helped rig Honduras's recent election in favour of a drug-trafficking warlord, they'd have fewer votes still.

"You've restored American credibility on the world stage" - Mike Pence, yesterday.

 

[verreauxi]

An interesting article on why the Dems need a better strategy in future elections. From the article...

“The Democratic Party—they always reach out to the Black community when they need the Black vote.” But the party doesn’t maintain contact after elections, failing to show people if and how their vote “moved the needle” on progress, she said.

https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/2017/12/how-democrat-doug-jones-won-alabama/

 

[DanEFC92]

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You don't get presents from god, you get presents from St Nicholas. Fake news I think.