Hey! Non-Americans!

Though Voopy correctly points out that Trump hasn't actually successfully done that much my opinion of him stands; he's a semi-sociopath guided by greed throughout his entire life, dragged into the money-making business buy his dad, since then stumbling through debts while making risky bets on big stock, barely making any real friends, getting a few trophy wives and then the American audiences were ready to give the goofy guy a reality show where he could theatrically be bossy and throw around one-liners. And once in office his completely impractical ideas (you know the ones) get conveniently obstructed and then he gets the mind-blowing, just mind-blowingly genius plan to, 'hey remember when I had to pay less taxes? I had more money then, let's do that now' and stunning everyone with the never seen genius of this plan, scrapping like 25% of taxes of by far the world's biggest economy actually got investers pumping in some new money and companies saving some money, whodefukkathunk?? Just give the man a Nobel prize already.

"So be it?" That says volumes about what is WRONG with this country.

That's mostly because the Republicans have sabotaged Obamacare since Trump came into office. They still haven't replaced it with anything and what they have come up with puts millions off of health care. The ACA would have been a much better law if it had had the public option that was originally supposed to be in the law (i.e., the larger your pool, the better rates you'll get). I guess with the way things are now, the country will have to go through much pain before people open their eyes to the fact that there are other countries with better systems that we can at least model on (single-payer universal, the so-called "Medicare for all" that Sanders is proposing, etc.). I still don't know what the Republicans problem with the ACA was. It was modeled after a similar system that Mitt Romney implemented in Massachusetts, so it was originally a Republican idea. In a way, they either must have thought that Romney was a communist (which echoes Republicans responses to Social Security in the 1930s) or they didn't like the idea of a black man running with a Republican idea. In either case, we aren't making any progress in this area.

I'm glad you're getting a better deal, but I'd like to correct part of your statement. There is no such thing as "Obamacare insurance." Health insurance provided on the ACA marketplace is offered by private insurance companies. The mandate NEVER required you to get insurance on the ACA marketplace. You could have shopped around outside if it, which you have just recently done. When the ACA marketplaces began, the rates were better than what was offered outside of it (though you had to be careful about deductibles; the cheaper ones had high deductibles). 

I didn't realize how upset Dark Elf and other posters are about Trump.  I would address several of Dark Elf's concerns but I feel nobody on this thread would want me to.  I feel like I've crashed an anti Trump party.  Forgive me if I've offended anyone.   So, I will bow out and let you guys thrash Trump without my dissenting voice.  

Before I go let me say, I didn't vote for Trump or Hillary.  I was a Bernie Sanders fan.  I boycotted the 2016 election. 

holy sh*t... a real blast from the past...

great to see you back Peter...

Yeah.. the site has been a toilet for some time so I haven't been around much, that coupled with simply not having too much say that hasn't been said a 100 times over the years regarding the same topics and same bands.

Yeah...  I can't say I dream of Tony (Ivan gets my dreams haha) but jesus christ do I miss him.....