TOO BAD-Billionaire Trump patrons Rebecca & Bob Mercer are apoplectic over the health care debacle

[kpete]

Trump Is Showing The World What A Weak American Presidency Looks Like
More than just the health care collapse, Donald Trump has so far failed to bring the “Art of the Deal” to the White House.


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BuzzFeed: “Trump spent much of this past weekend watching the U.S. Women’s Golf Open at his family-owned golf club, a kind of metaphor for a presidency disconnected from actual power. But the health care failure — in which Trump allowed himself to lose control of his own agenda, and then lose the fight for that agenda — was the most humiliating in a sweep of presidential defeats.”

“The White House has lost control of its foreign policy to the military and to allies who can’t work with a globally loathed American leader even if they wanted to. He has lost control of his domestic policy to Congress, which has been unable to give him a signature win despite Republicans controlling both chambers. He has lost control of his own aides to leaks and investigations, of his old television cronies to spiteful personal feuds, and most of all of the narrative of an ‘America First’ presidency with a coherent vision or promise.”

*****Also interesting: “Even the president’s top backers are losing patience. Billionaire Trump patrons Rebecca and Bob Mercer are ‘apoplectic’ over the health care debacle, with renewed fears that Trump’s lofty goals of changing Washington have become all but impossible”*****




https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/trump-is-showing-the-world-what-a-weak-american-presidency?utm_term=.inZdABzOd#.yuqj2daLj

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The Mercers believed Trump and gave him money.

[ellie]

14. I wish I could

come up with a way to separate these morons from their money. They are the most gullible people on the planet. Trump is a conman and the Mercers were conned. hahahahahahahahahahaha

[kerry-is-my-prez]

24. I would like a list of these people. I don't think I'd feel guilty about taking advantage of them.

Then, I'd start a foundation and give it to the needy and also Dem candidates.

[FiveGoodMen]

25. "the Mercers were conned"

Really don't give a shit that they were conned.

The fact that they wanted MORE money at the expense of the sick is what matters.

Satan wouldn't stoop so low.

America is beneath hell.

[Hortensis]

35. +1000 "smilies."

to the Mercers.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Just "an idiot with a pen"

Can't even manage that

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/22/1623619/-Trump-is-Grover-Norquist-s-fantasy-president-An-idiot-with-a-pen

[pangaia]

3. Why would a billionaire care about some silly old health policy?

[WhiteTara]

6. They wanted the repeal and replace nonsense

and are furious that they won't get their big tax cut. Their investment in Trump is not paying off the way they thought it would.

[pangaia]

7. But a BILLIONAIRE!

Just buy another yacht and get over it.

[barbtries]

9. no shit

the greed is boundless.

[WinkyDink]

29. Building a mega-bunker three stories underground and supplying it costs $$$$$.

[Hortensis]

37. Only if they can run it over those of us who've outlived

our period of economic productiveness. We're supposed to die "naturally," including when we can no longer write personal checks for our medical care. Instead, we're living far past our period of usefulness thanks to the medical revolution, AND we have the nerve to legislate to make it available to all of us. Millions of diseased, worthless, blood-suckers threatening to destroy our nation by victimizing the worthy few.

From the past, we should recognize the passion of these supercreeps for the cleansing of society. Religious cleansing, racial cleansing, ethnic cleansing... Bigotry against the not-wealthy is just another form of bigotry, and health cleansing by forcing the natural die-off of people no longer able to work would be just another, new way to act out bigoted hate.

And I suspect their contempt is developing into hate more and more with every reverse.

[brush]

12. How greedy can you get? What would they get in a cut, a few hundred K?

They're billionaires and worried about what to them is chump change.

[WinkyDink]

30. You might be looking at the wrong result. Perhaps they want millions of "takers" DEAD.

[brush]

36. Nah, they're about money and the power it brings, unless dead people gets...

them more money and power.

Sick is the real word for them.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Fuck them

They're already wealthy but they still want more at our expense.

[DeminPennswoods]

19. They want 0 regulations, too

That's anothe really big deal to these conservative libertarians. Social policy doesn't concern them much.

[Lucky Luciano]

22. Bingo. Total deregulation is one of their big things. nt

[WinkyDink]

28. To get the intended concomitant TAX CUT; to cull the "useless"; to establish an oligarchy.

[DBoon]

39. It increases their feeling of power and prestige

If they can make poor people die in agony

[Solly Mack]

4. Guess they'll go back to the first choice (Cruz) again.

Sooner or later.

That's yet another sicko family.

[oasis]

5. Trump can take his pen and shove it.

[smirkymonkey]

8. I am glad these disgusting pieces of shit are getting what they deserve.

They can all burn in hell.

[ToxMarz]

10. Trump Is Showing The 1% What A Weak American Presidency Looks Like

Their Grover Norquist wet dream:

"Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared."

An idiot in the Presidency is a danger for EVERYONE. What did they expect, they literally begged for and got an idiot! The most powerful idiot in the world!

And all those billionaire dreams of running for President are now on hold, seeing how using the office to enrich yourself may not be a better plan than just enjoying the billions you already have.

[Leghorn21]

11. Say, mercers are bannon benefactors, right? Was it just idle gossip a few months back that

bannon wanted to split out of the WH because of issues with Kush? And mercers begged him to stay?

I'm over-googled right now, but I do believe I read that (fwiw, of course)...and so, that makes this fustercluck even more grand: mercers mad at LOSER 45 AND bannon, who obviously can't keep his boy in line.

Sweet!

[Lucky Luciano]

23. Bannon and Conway are Mercer's people all the way. nt

[zentrum]

13. It's their

.....failure. The fact that they couldn't see through this huckster and fool is on them. No--instead they funded him. They believed their own con.

[SergeStorms]

15. The "Art of the Deal".....

was nothing but a lie to begin with. Trump didn't write the book, and everything contained in it was just more of Trump's galactic-sized ego rocketing out of his ass again.

Trump is an idea some Americans would love to believe. He's a poor person's idea of a wealthy man. He's a powerless person's idea of a powerful man. He's a classless person's idea of a man with class. He's a loser's idea of a winner. He's a ghost, a phantom, a specter. There is nothing real about him, save his propensity for inflicting harm and misery on others.

He's a fart in a tornado.

[Joe Bacon]

20. Its really The FART of the Deal

Stinks to high heaven...

[Initech]

16. Their loss!

When you support a snake oil salesman, don't be surprised when you get scammed.

[Hekate]

18. I hope they choke on their own bile

[DeminPennswoods]

21. People like the Mercers are surprisingly naive

IIRC, the Kochs were disappointed at how little their money bought. A couple years ago, there was an episode of "American Greed" about a guy who claimed to be a rare wine dealer and scammed one of the Koch brothers out of millions.

This is a potential problem for Republicans because if these super rich conservatives decide the GOP is a bad investment, a big chunk of their funding could dry up fast.

[Beartracks]

26. Bugs me when nuts like these hate Trump for the wrong reasons.

Such as "He's not destroying Democracy and decency like he promised!"

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[WinkyDink]

27. Correction: Trump GAVE control of our foreign policy to the military.

[JBoy]

31. Mercers fell victim to the eye-spy intelligence management.

National and International.

[rpannier]

32. The only change the Mercers want is for the

government to be at their disposal

[quaker bill]

33. As expected, the spectacle of a small man eaten by a large job

is not that pretty at all. Stay tuned for more.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

34. Oh, sorry Billionaire Trump patrons Rebecca and Bob Mercer,

that Trump hasn't "changed Washington" enough for you yet. Still waiting for him to fill the swamp all the way to the top, are ya?

Don't worry, he won't quit trying.

[Vogon_Glory]

38. More good money thrown after bad

Maybe the reactionary billionaires should have invested in something less toxic for the planet--like Beanie Babies (to) and used Star Wars (tm) figurines.