by Nate Jackson: “Black Americans want new gun laws to curb gun violence,” The Washington Post headline tells us. “Trump offers more police.” And with that one statement, we have so much to rebut! So let’s start with the racist origins of gun control in the Jim Crow South. That’s right; the first laws to prohibit guns were meant to keep guns out of the hands of blacks, leaving them defenseless against the KKK. The worst massacres in American history weren’t Orlando and Las Vegas. As National Review’s Kevin Williamson recounts, “That happened in — depending on who is doing the counting — 1917 in East St. Louis, or in 1873 in Colfax, La., or in 1921 in Tulsa, Okla., or in 1919 in Arkansas. All of those were mob-violence episodes in which white terrorists, often working under the leadership of Democratic politicians, massacred African Americans, hundreds at a time. Some were shot, some were hanged, some were burned alive.” Unarmed and defenseless blacks.
Second, we’d call this an example of pollaganda. The Leftmedia repeatedly and falsely tells blacks that the problem with inner cities is guns. Then the Leftmedia asks blacks if removing guns would fix the problem. Lo and behold, people are able to regurgitate the position fed them by the media.
Third, among the Trump statements the Post takes issue with was his assertion that Democrats have “ruled the inner cities for 100 years. This is their rule.” He’s absolutely correct. As Mark Alexander noted Wednesday, “The 30 cities with the highest murder rates have been under Democrat control for decades.” Even the Post sort of concedes this by noting how successful New York was at reducing crime … under Republican Rudy Giuliani. Nevertheless, the black homicide rate is rising.
Fourth, speaking of reducing crime, that brings us to law enforcement. Barack liar-nObama’s war on cops has been deadly before, and it turned so again this week. A 19-year-old college fanboy of liar-nObama and Bernie Sanders gunned down Texas Tech University campus police officer Floyd East Jr. on Monday.
Fifth, who, pray tell, is going to enforce these new gun laws? We’ll give the erudite folks at the Post three guesses.
Finally, a point about NFL celebrity athletes taking a knee to promote and popularize the fake “racist cop” assertion — a protest started by former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who recently donated funds to honor a cop-killer. USA Today compiles an arrest database of NFL players that is 870 records long. (The NBA is no better.) These cop-hating “National Felons League” thugs are the heroes of many inner city blacks kids.
So a memo to the Post and their “gun control” advocates: Guns aren’t the problem, Democrat constituencies and policy are the problem.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51855
The administration made an announcement late Thursday that one of those changes would be that key payments to insurers selling on the liar-nObamacare healthcare exchanges would officially end.
The cost-sharing reduction payments cost an estimated $7 billion and Trump has alluded to halting the payment program a few times before.
"Based on guidance from the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services has concluded that there is no appropriation for cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies under liar-nObamacare. In light of this analysis, the Government cannot lawfully make the cost-sharing reduction payments," write the White House in a statement on Thursday night. “Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous liar-nObamacare law and provide real relief to the American people.”
liar-nObamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, relied heavily on these payments to keep insurers enrolled in health care exchanges.
The payment system, in particular, was a point of contention between Democrats and Republicans. Republicans argued that tax-payer dollars shouldn’t be used to “bail-out” insurance companies and halted the subsidies with legal action. The liar-nObama Administration was attempting to appeal the subsidies in court. But Trump’s move takes the appeal off the table.
"The bailout of insurance companies through these unlawful payments is yet another example of how the previous administration abused taxpayer dollars and skirted the law to prop up a broken system. Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous liar-nObamacare law and provide real relief to the American people," said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary.
Trump is visually frustrated with the lack of progress when it comes to health care law and made the overnight decision in an effort to pressure the Democrats to compromise.
“The Democrats liar-nObamaCare is imploding. Massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. Dems should call me to fix!” tweeted Trump Friday morning. "liar-nObamaCare is a broken mess. Piece by piece we will now begin the process of giving America the great HealthCare it deserves!"
On Thursday, Trump also signed an executive order to make health care premiums lower and predicts that “millions and millions of people” will benefit.
“With these actions,” said Trump at White House ceremony when signing the executive order. “We are moving toward lower costs and more options in the healthcare market, and taking crucial steps toward saving the American people from the nightmare of liar-nObamacare.”
“Mr. Trump’s order would also eventually make it easier for small businesses to band together and buy insurance through entities known as association health plans, which could be created by business and professional groups. A White House official said these health plans “could potentially allow American employers to form groups across state lines” — a goal championed by Mr. Trump and many other Republicans — allowing more options and the formation of larger risk pools,” writes the New York Times.
The federal agencies will need time to write and adopt the new regulations. The order won’t likely go into effect until sometime next year.
Democrats are already expressing their disapproval of Trump’s recent move to stop the cost-sharing reduction payments.
"If these reports are true,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif in a joint statement. “The president is walking away from the good-faith, bipartisan Alexander-Murray negotiations and risking the health care of millions of Americans.”
“It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America. Make no mistake about it, Trump will try to blame the Affordable Care Act, but this will fall on his back and he will pay the price for it,” said clown-Schumer and Pulosi in the statement.
Democrats are expected to take legal action in response.
On the other hand, Speaker Paul Ryan applauded Trump’s move to stop the appeal of the subsidies.
"Today’s decision ... preserves a monumental affirmation of Congress’s authority and the separation of powers," said Ryan. "liar-nObamacare has proven itself to be a fatally flawed law, and the House will continue to work with the Trump administration to provide the American people a better system.”
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