Sanders: 'Trump is right' on Australian healthcare system
"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Saturday that President Trump "is right" to praise Australia's healthcare system compared to the United States.
"President Trump is right," Sanders tweeted. "The Australian health care system provides health care to all of its people at a fraction of the cost than we do."
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/332223-sanders-trump-is-right-on-australian-healthcare-system
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When it comes to opposing Trump's agenda we need every voice and as usual Senator Sanders isn't holding anything back.
Go, Bernie go!
If Democrats manage to save ACA from the wrecking ball it won't be by thanking Trump.*
*Broadcast on Thursday:
"Thank you Mr. President. Let us move toward a Medicare for all system"
It's hilarious.
Seriously.
No one on the left is laughing at people dying from lack of health care. What we're laughing at is the predictable internet overreaction to Bernie using Trump's words against him. It was only a matter of time before some yahoo at the Hill decided to cherry pick his quote and use it for click bait.
Bernie is on record repeatedly stating that people will die if this bill is passed so I'm not too worried about anyone misunderstanding his meaning.
I find myself having to ration my outrage these days and the Hill taking a quote out of context just to get the internet all riled up doesn't even register on my Outrage-o-meter.
When Trump is out of office I may have to recalibrate it but for now it's fine where it is.
They happen continually. If that is the case, then he needs to start exerting better message discipline so as not to be taken out of context.
Like I said, I'll save my outrage for things that actually deserve that emotion. For instance I had a meltdown over the vote and celebration on Thursday because to me that was morally reprehensible.
Fortunately click bait headlines from the Hill designed to get people all worked up over a nothing-burger don't bother me in the least. I usually try not to let them exploit me like that since that's exactly the reaction they're looking for. I prefer to mock them instead and yes, you can expect more of that whenever I feel like mockery is deserved.
So thanks anyway but my concern is exactly where it should be. I don't need to adjust my focus at all or waste my outrage on leaders like Bernie who are busy fighting our enemies:
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Your concern over my concern is always appreciated though.
(Some people would be positively beside themselves if they couldn't gin up a good outrage-gasm on a regular basis, eh? )
Quite right - although everyone needs a hobby.
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But for some reason all I can picture in my mind now is this cat:
It's obvious that a few people didn't bother to watch the video, if they had they'd know Bernie was mocking Trump. It was actually a very effective ad, I've watched it several times. And of course as we all know news anchors, pundits, comedians, pretty much everyone who's not a Republican is laughing their ass off at Trump over his mistake. And some are even using the opportunity to make fun of the Orange Shit Gibbon - like Bernie did in that video.
But some people are Very Upset because they think this mockery is praise.
This just gets more and more hilarious.
I can't imagine why. 
Source (remove space): https: //twitter.com/SenSanders/status/860901737829470208
Give the video start button a few seconds to show up.
The screenshot is from about 12 seconds in:
considering it's the essence of the post to which I was replying, I concur.
sometime around the end of elementary school, if I recall correctly.
He was still really annoying but we didn't miss that phase at all.
Mindful of the DU policy on Sanders I'll leave it at that.
are we.
Cracked me up...
Bernie showed how truly clueless Trump is about health care.
But Bernie's response has been by far the best, he really laid into Trump and the republicans in that Chris Hayes interview on Thursday.
CBS news went into an in-depth explanation of Australian Health Care, after they showed the clip of him sitting there with PM Turnbull.
And on CNN, they had some clueless rethug listen to Trump, and he immediately began in on how Americans could never live with an Australian-type system, then when he was asked why Americans wouldn't prefer free medical services, he blurted, "TAXES!! EXORBITANT TAXES!!". So she pointed out to him that Australians are taxed at a rate of only around 2% of their income in order to have free healthcare...guy had no answer to that. I half expected him to begin in on socialism but his mouth fell open and nothing came out, ha!
Bernie really nailed him and the pundits loved every minute of it - that video is everywhere.
Seems like everyone is having a laugh at Trump's expense. Except Trump and the deplorables.
And boy do we all need a reason to laugh these days.
Good to see you round these parts.
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That screenshot of trump is 12 seconds in to the vid the BS fans made.
Thank you for standing up against this, Athena
BERNIE SAID "I LOVE REPUBLICANS" ZOMG O NO!!! 
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The screenshot of trump with the big shit eating grin on his face is about 12 seconds in to the little vid the BS fans made.
kcr
...tastes like chicken!
Bernie was showing how clueless Trump is about our health care system. He even included pictures of Trump grinning like a demented baboon for effect. I don't understand how anyone can possibly mistake this for praise - unless they take the tweet out of context by leaving out the content of the video - and even then that's a stretch.
Of all the ridiculous non-troversies lately this one is the most absurd.
Not to mention Bernie has also been extremely critical of the bill that just passed the house. On Thursday he pointed out that the Republicans and Trump celebrated voting to allow people to die without insurance:
Donald Trump and Republicans just celebrated voting to let thousands of Americans die so that billionaires get tax breaks. Think about that.
3:15 PM - 4 May 2017
It is possible to focus on more than one thing at a time: keeping the ACA and fighting for something better.
It's internet: ZOMGWTFBBQ???
From the "context" one would think that Trump is somehow emulating the Australians. Never mind what the Australian plan is or isn't, or what Bernie really meant, he appears to be straightforwardly praising Trump's ACA replacement.
gd thing unless he comes out and says he's a "perverted asshole that only got rigged in because of comey, the Russian hackers, the 3rd party LIARS, the M$M, and Voter Suppression".
Terrible "OPTICS"
I'm guessing Senator Schumer is having some serious buyer's remorse about now. . .
I found that background music fucking annoying, too.
Way to try and Normalize trump, BS.
Mahalo, ucr
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Source: https: //twitter.com/SenSanders/status/860901737829470208 (remove space):
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You'll find it refreshing.
Just how right Trump really is. God forbid we focus on his actions throwing millions off healthcare and relegating them to death. A comment that wasn't completely insane managed to escape from his lips. We must all now stop and praise him for being right. Meanwhile, the bill moves to the senate and Trump salivates over killing millions of Americans. But he said something right about Australia. We must all be brought to heel to acknowledge that. 
The problem isn't so much Bernie's tweet. It's that anything he says results in his supporters mobilizing around ensuring that his every word be heeded and revered. And we see the results of that here. The focus is not on the horror of ACHA but in ensuring everyone knows just how right Trump was.
If we lived in a time in which citizens did not devote themselves first and foremost to reverence for great men, his words would be nothing more than words. They might not matter more than the words of a local school teacher or pharmacist. People wouldn't bother themselves about whether strangers liked or disliked the politician any more than they would the schoolteacher. They would focus on the efforts in congress, on the policy and the lives impacted by it. But we don't live in times in a time where citizens are viewed as equal to elected officials. We live in the times where the utterances of a couple of great men must be defended, validated, and championed above all else.
Hat tip to Jurgen Otto!
That is AWESOME.
(I had to google that...I am proud to say I've never seen anything Lindsay Lohan)
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The screenshot of trump with the big shit eating grin on his face is about 12 seconds in to the little BS vid
ucrdem
As if there were no other opportunity on the internet to attack Democratic leaders, as if the rest of the internet weren't a breeding ground for Russian trolls and right-wing propagandists, as if there were a forum anywhere else but on DU for supporting the Democratic Party.
I, for one, like the new DU. I like that DU decided to take a stand and refused to allow Russian trolls and right-wing nutcases to take over the last place online that allows Democrats to have a discussion without tearing each other and the Democratic Party down.
Oh wait, that's what he said about Democrats.
Saying "Trump is right" is definitely not a pom pom celebration statement.
"feeble" and "can't fight back".
It's the friggin OPTICS.
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That pic of trump is a screenshot that ucrdem took from the Vid.. 12 seconds in.
