To be fair, as much as they hate Obama and a lot of that hate is race based, conservatives have been fighting against “commie health care” for decades the last 35 years. Remember when Bill & Hillary Clinton had a commission to look into expanded affordable care access in 1993? Republicans went nuts, Hillary was…

I don’t think it’s so much that they don’t know how money works as they don’t care. This is how Republicans think, from Karl Rove:

They already have. They’re the KKKRussia Party and everybody with even half a brain knows it.

1) He’s an idiot. It’s how he talks.

Yeah, I’m curious what the thought process was there. It was such a bad move. Maybe he resents the fuck out of daddy for what’s happened and doesn’t give a shit what happens now.

It’ll have to be a very dark satire to work I think. You can’t play this much absurdity straight and yet, the results are horrific. Whoever does it will need a very delicate hand. Of course, this assumes that it’ll be legal to utter the Trump name by then. If we’re lucky, we’ll have outlawed it like Germany outlawed…

I guess they could run and hide in Russia like Putin’s pet Ukrainian dictator did after he was overthrown.

True but the real version isn’t much better.

Let’s not call them underage prostitutes. In Russia they’re trafficked rape victims.

I doubt they’re prostitutes in the classic sense. More like trafficked sex slaves. Yeah, I’m going there and I totally think he’s capable of it.

He does have a few investigators, although most of them are lawyers too. He’s also using FBI agents in the field.

Sadly, I can easily see a scenario where he gets off.

Yup. There’s a reason why Mueller brought in someone who prosecuted a Bulgarian money laundering scheme throughout Eastern Europe.

Yeah, 7 billion of us.

The way the right wing is advocating for him is the only reason it’s a story at all. They’re using him as cover to kill a lot of other people when in all likelihood, he can’t even be helped. That is sick.

Nobody is saying that and you know it.

We have to conflate the situation with that of refugees because the Republicans put their cynical hypocritical position on the two into the same bill! The GOP did that, we didn’t. Thus, their hypocrisy is part of the story. There is so much going on here but virtually nothing happening now is about Charlie at all. The…

No, they can’t do that. Hypocrisy is a useless charge to throw at a Republican. Their base knows they’re cynical hypocrites and don’t care because they’re cynical hypocrites too. Calling them that just makes Dems sound like they’re whining. Dems need to get out there with real people whose lives were saved by the ACA…

And that’s why the GOP is so successful messaging-wise. They choose pointless cases like this and Schiavo and make big emotional plays to their delusional cult base. Trump is this principle writ large. All personal talk but no action.

But you should only fight if there’s something worth fighting for. What are they fighting for? Their child to suffer and be horribly disable for longer? He’s not going to have a life even if he survives, which is highly unlikely anyway. This is either utterly selfish to the point of delusion or it’s a sick political…