What A Surprise: The Reality TV Star President Is A Lotta Show And Not A Lotta Boat
As I've been predicting, Trump slipped out of the health care mess to a great extent by having two convenient places to lay all the blame -- on the Democrats for Obamacare and on the Republicans for the tanking of the mess that they'd proposed to replace it.
But consider his promise about healthcare in the campaign stage -- the sort an 8-year-old blusterer makes on the playground: that he would replace the ACA with "something great."
Doyle McManus writes in the LA Times:
What went wrong?First, Trump never bothered to learn the details of the bill he was trying to sell. "Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated," he declared last month.
Second, Trump signaled repeatedly that that his heart wasn't in the effort -- that he'd be just as happy, maybe happier, if the bill didn't pass. His aides insisted that it not be called "Trumpcare"; they preferred "Ryancare," implicitly assigning blame to the Speaker of the House. What congressman would be eager to vote for a flawed bill if the president wasn't fully committed?
Third, Trump never sold the bill to the public. His spokesman claimed last week that he "left everything on the field," but that didn't include something as simple as giving a speech to the nation. Polls showed the bill winning the support of as few as 17% of voters, another reason for members of Congress to flee.
Fourth, he couldn't strong-arm wavering lawmakers.
Trump's main argument was that anyone who voted against the bill would suffer when they ran for reelection. But the members of Congress, most of whom have run more times than the president, didn't believe him.
One reason is that the lawmakers most opposed to the bill, the far-right Freedom Caucus, don't need Trump to raise money for their campaigns. Powerful conservative organizations, including the constellation of groups around Charles and David Koch, promised millions of dollars to underwrite them if they voted no.
This is a replay of what happened with Schwarzenegger, when he was governor of California. I voted for him -- hoping a businessman would destupid California politics and spending a little. Schwarzenegger barely did more than occupy space in Sacramento.
It turns out that you need to build coalitions to get political work done. This generally takes more than bullying and bluster and a love of golf.
Contrary to what the Trump acolytes prefer to believe, there are probably few "opinions" Donald Trump has that he didn't hold the opposing point on previously.
Now, just my guess here -- but there's a good chance hasn't read the year 2000 book he has his name on as co-author, "The America We Deserve."
As Jon Greenberg writes at Politifact: Trump back then advocated for a single-payer system. Or, as he puts it in the book, "a single-payer plan would create a gigantic agency to distribute funds to doctors. I would point out that by creating one agency we do away with hundreds of smaller ones that are hard to monitor."
Of course! Big government is the answer! -- the one you expect from a Big Democrat. We've all seen how well that works. It's what ruined my healthcare and what's working so well for all those vets sleeping on the hall floor at the VA.
Oh, and let's explore: What is Donald Trump, politically? My take: Narcissistically self-interested, with only the slightest interest in putting in the energy to pretend otherwise.
In the larger frame, this didn't go wrong. It went right.
Ryancare (a.k.a. RINOcare) would have been a disaster for Trump because it would have violated his campaign promise to get rid of Obamacare. Replacing it with Obamacare Lite doesn't accomplish that.
Now, Ryan and his House insiders (and their lobbyists) got a bloody nose. They've learned they won't be able to run over the top of the House conservatives with a phony fix, and they'll have to work with the conservatives to come up with something practical. That will take time to craft, so let's hope they don't rush the process again. The devil is in the details.
For the Democrats, watching the Republicans pull the bill off the floor is not a victory. It is a disaster. Victory would have been preserving Obamacare in all but name, with the Republican authors of the new version set up to take the blame for its inevitable failure both politically and functionally. Taken off the hook for the existing mess, the Democrats would have been able to have their cake and eat it.
Conversely, pulling the bill off the floor is a disaster for the Democrats because it has the potential to sweep Obamacare off the table and replace it with a program that's materially different. The centerpiece of Obama's legacy goes into the dustbin, and the Republicans get credit for the improvement.
IMO, Trump's problem is that he had to work through Ryan and a fundamentally un-conservative House leadership. The actual conservatives in the House did the hard work for Trump of shutting down the Ryan gang. I hope Trump has learned he can't count on Ryan et al. to bring back conservative legislation on any subject, especially not quickly. Anything Team Ryan comes up with needs to be treated as suspicious and be put under the microscope before Trump puts his own reputation on the line by backing it.
Lastango at March 25, 2017 11:01 PM
Im not sure this bill that got pulled was any better than just letting Obamacare collapse on its own. Meghan McArdle sure seemed to think it was a dogs breakfast.
Once the insurance companies pull out of the remaining few markets where the policies are still offered, it will be far easier to achieve a political consensus on what should replace it.
You do know the IRS isnt enforcing the tax penalty anymore right?
News for you, Social Security is collapsing too and there wont be the political will to replace it or change it, until it does collapse.
Politicians are cowards. But, it still isn't Trump's job to act as the house whip.
Obama's budget proposals went nowhere for eight years, and yet if Trump doesnt get everything on his wish list, he is going to be the *failed presidency*
And the democrats will still own the Obamacare failure they were hoping to pin on the republicans with this new crap replacement.
I said a long time ago that the only thing I hoped for a Trump presidency was more originalist Supreme court justices.
Isab at March 25, 2017 11:17 PM
I agree with Lastango: this was tactical.
The idiotic cucks in Congress put together Obamacare Lite, which wouldn't have been any better, and might have been even worse than what we have now. Trump forced them to bring this to a vote, where it failed.
So now we have that off the table. Let things settle a bit, and then he can propose a real solution.
a_random_guy at March 26, 2017 1:15 AM
I see a large quantity of revisionist history here in the comments.
Trump himself declared over and over that an important component of his own presidential agenda was to repeal and replace the ACA.
Trump himself declared that this replacement would go through congress quickly and easily.
None of those things took place and here we are with folks declaring that apparently everything went according to plan.
I fully agree with the notion that passing legislation and building consensus is difficult... but Trump ran on an entire campaign that for him all of this would be easy because of how fantastic he was at making deals.
Reality is smacking his supporters in the face quite hard right now and I suppose they are in a state of denial about what was actually promised to them both on the campaign trail as well as in his stated post election political agenda.
Artemis at March 26, 2017 3:01 AM
"if Trump doesnt get everything on his wish list, he is going to be the *failed presidency* "
When someone spends an entire year declaring over and over how they are the only one who can fix things and how easy it will be for them as compared to everyone else they will tend to look like an unintelligent failure when everything they attempt consistently falls apart.
Bragging can only get you so far... at some point you have to demonstrate that you can actually do what you say you can do.
I predict that more and more of his supporters are going to come to the realization that they have been conned by a professional bullshit artist.
Artemis at March 26, 2017 3:09 AM
As I read your column, my impression, Amy, is that you dislike President Trump so much that you'd rather continue to have ObamaCare than see him succeed. However, Judge Gorsuch will soon be on the Supreme Court, and the Dems will endure that the Reid Rule is extended to Supreme Court nominees. Given the age and ill health of Justice Ginsburg, President Trump will likely be able to replace her with someone from his list, and, also, possibly Justice Kennedy. There will be tax reform, both business and individual, and a lot of federal programs (and their regulations) will be eliminated. I've seen estimates that merely by eliminating obsolete and redundant programs and regulations (especially those promulgated by different agencies which assert overlapping authority), up to 20% of the programs and regulations could be eliminated, with 15% of the federal workforce, without any substantive changes to services and protection. And, don't believe that ObamaCare won't be revisited. However, it won't be drafted in secrecy. Although I realize that the press isn't reporting it, but President Trump, against determined opposition, is steadily moving to fulfilling his campaign promises. I hope this won't disappoint you. But, if ObamaCare isn't done away with, I trust your future columns on that subject will tell us how much you enjoy high premiums, high deductibles, fewer providers, but paying for coverage for pediatric dental, birth control, and the other mandates irrelevant to a 52 year old, single, childless, self-employed woman, because that is what politicians gave you. Maybe, over a few years, a crass businessman can change some of that.
Wfjag at March 26, 2017 5:49 AM
As I read your column,
My column is science-based love advice and I have never, in the 20-plus years I've been writing it, mentioned Donald Trump. What you read on this page is my blog.
Obamacare has ruined my healthcare. Neither the Republicans nor Donald Trump (the "Tony the Tiger" President -- It'll be "Great!") proposed a solution that unruins my healthcare.
I suspect it's ruined forever, with the price high monthly and a deductible I never had. I'm not eligible for a subsidy because, thanks to what's happened at newspapers, I have almost nothing left at the end of the year. My gross adjusted income, after all my expenses, is crumbs -- not as much as the lowest O-care subsidy. I would be forced onto Medicaid, which I do not want.
That's not real care. Discovering that, I wanted to take the lowest Obamacare subsidy (never having wanted others to pay for me), but I am not eligible for it because I am eligible for Medicaid. I am forced to either take Medicaid (no fucking way) or pay what a millionaire earner would pay.
So, I have healthcare but I needed a uterine biopsy and it was $562, and I had to tell the doctor I couldn't get it -- nor could he do anything in the office visit that would cost me money beyond a pap smear. It seems unlikely I have cancer -- however, after paying into the system every month for an affordable HMO (formerly affordable), my healthcare is now healthcare in name only.
I'm working on making real money again - working so hard on it, like by doing the TED talk (so I could learn how to be a speaker) while writing my book. I am just trying to hang on right now and stay above water, but I have been trying to do this retooling for a while, and I'm hopeful that my hard work will pay off. To stay afloat now, I wake up every day at 5 a.m. to write and work into the evening and I've been editing for $160/hr. -- doing the fine editing I do (to make every word in an op-ed, etc., count for the person I'm editing it for). I also edited a book this year before the author turned it in.
Amy Alkon at March 26, 2017 6:25 AM
I'm amazed that it's not clear that Trump wins in this dog fight.
He stated his intent but the party that denied him did not provide an answer to an issue they been rallying against for years.
That's not Trump's fault and any "adult" would recognize that.
This attitude that Trump has to go, it's okay to pepper spray his supporters, it's okay to shut down discussion will ensure his next (or someone similar) Presidency. You guys aren't winning any points here.
Bob in Texas at March 26, 2017 6:28 AM
> more and more of his supporters
> are going to come to the realization
> that they have been conned
This is a darling mix of what I was getting at here, with a little bit of Ppen's dislike for the little people as expressed here.
Some, who we'll call Sillyfolx™, are theatrically eager to prove they know how the Big Game is played... They want to demonstrate as much social elevation from others as possible; they're terribly needy that way, so they're in a hurry. For these Sillyfolx™ to be sufficiently flattered, social phenomena must be sincere, comprehensible, and wherever possible, unchanging.
Sillyfolx™ thus affirm that Trump voters were simply taken in by promises in the manner of democracy across its young history; that because Trump will fail in this-or-that campaign theme, his voters will feel terrible shame for being had by such a transparent con man. Sillyfolx™ squeal "Trump lied!!!," incessantly; "That's not even what he said last Thursday!" Sillyfolx™ luxuriate in the impending comeuppance of lesser beings, when Trump voters will at last recognize Sillyfolx™ as their intellectual superiors.
This comeuppance is unlikely. Hillary anticipated it for about two years... Until she had to shutter the Clinton Global Initiative and lay off 90% of the Clinton foundation.
Now, it's fun dislike the Sillyfolx™ (who are often but by no means always lefties) for being obtuse. Trump is so very different from any predecessor that you'd have to be oblivious not to see it, or to judge him in only conventional contexts. He was elected for what he is, not merely what he says... And we all know people (our friends, but too frequently our bosses) who say things they'll shortly disavow without an apology or a moment's regret.
But I also dislike Sillyfolx™ for having their heads up their own assholes. It's not just that the election of Trump is disruptive for the consequences of his character: It expresses thundering political dissatisfaction from just under half of the voters, and from the majority of the Electoral College.
The game has changed, and you should be humbled by that. If you're not, if you're still observing these events as a way to shoot your nose in the air and distinguish yourself from some lesser member of the human species, then I think you're worse than merely arrogant: You're fucked in the head, Sillyfolx™.
I think Trump's election is goddam *huge* in what it portends for a world of universal cellphone communication and 140-character political principles. America isn't just the best culture on the planet, it's the most important... And its electorate has demonstrated that the culture has wandered off course, with government and finance rewarding the strong & already-competent while the less-able & less-blessed are ignored (or mocked as "deplorable" by those who ask to serve them).
This is so big that it might be as important as women's suffrage or the end of slavery... We just don't know whether it's the end of something horrible or the start of it.
The 2011 "Lincoln" movie from Spielberg comes to mind, specifically the scene in which Thaddeus Stevens (Jones) challenges his functionaries who can only view Honest Abe's eagerness for abolition with cynicism: "Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment."
The election of Donald Trump is ironic; it's wet, with moving parts and illogical emotions and unfamiliar odors and unforeseen consequences.
History is not about you. If you're flattered by it, you're doing it wrong.
Crid at March 26, 2017 6:41 AM
If you're flattered by almost anything, you're probably doing it wrong.
Crid at March 26, 2017 6:43 AM
I won't call this a win for Trump. But I also don't call it a loss.
Trump hasn't proposed a healthcare plan that I can recall. Yes, he has spouted some vague gibberish. But little more than 'it'll be great'. Ryan came up with this bill so calling it Ryancare is apt. As for what Ryancare would have done, it just accelerated the Obamacare death spiral. A fairly minor change. The conservative caucus torpedoed it, but they don't have anything to replace it that can get passed. And the Dems are still saddled with a failing Obamacare. It's hard to say who will take the beating harder in 2018.
"Reality is smacking his supporters in the face quite hard right now and I suppose they are in a state of denial about what was actually promised to them both on the campaign trail as well as in his stated post election political agenda."
The problem with this is no one paid attention to his promised. His supporters rarely cared about anything Trump actually promised. So not getting the things they never really cared about doesn't matter. What does matter is what those supporters mythologized onto Trump independent of anything Trump said and did. I can't even guess where the line is there.
"I suspect it's ruined forever, with the price high monthly and a deductible I never had."
Yes it is. Obama killed it and now it is dead. It isn't coming back. Even if the Ryan bill passed it wouldn't come back. Even if Radcare (from Radwaste) was passed it wouldn't come back. It is gone.
Ben at March 26, 2017 7:22 AM
"Radcare."
From the guy who wants Congress to sign off on wars?
Fuggedaboudit...!
Crid at March 26, 2017 8:14 AM
Who thinks this is the last, the only opportunity to change healthcare legislation?
It's not.
If it isn't fixed, Republicans will lose their seats.
Radwaste at March 26, 2017 9:09 AM
I don't think this was a game of supertactical, three-dimensional chess. The GOP may now come up with an alternative plan, but that would be due to this loss rather than having the loss be a cunning Phase I in a longer plan.
As for Congress, they've had seven years to work on the "replace" part and sell it to the American public, and it doesn't seem that most have done anything other than vote to repeal when they knew they wouldn't win.
I agree this wasn't a major Trump defeat — it's on Congress, mostly — but to spin this into a win for him, much less a tactical one, is hard to swallow.
Kevin at March 26, 2017 9:28 AM
I like the part where the Clinton family isn't pertinent.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 26, 2017 10:38 AM
That's because for the last 8 years, the Republicans have not had to govern, even when in the majority in one or both chambers. They'd been reduced by a no-compromises president to shouting opposition slogans and voting "no" on anything that crossed their desk.
And instead of coming up with creative solutions or building coalitions to implement sensible reforms, they pitched a massive temper tantrum. Ted Cruz is a good debater and a lousy legislator. And he's the poster boy for the new Congressional Republican Party, in which shutting down the government to make a point is considered more important than working with the opposing party to reach a workable solution that won't get overturned as soon as the opposing party is in charge.
And now that the Republicans are in charge, some of them steadfastly refuse to recognize that governing isn't just about what you oppose. Practical solutions rarely come from radicals and sloganeers. Revolutions rarely produce functional governments.
It's not enough to continually vote "no" on Obamacare when you're in charge. Something must take its place if you want it gone. That replacement can be a freewheeling market-created solution with a predictively disruptive transition period or it can be a less-disruptive regulated framework, a sort of easing into a free market solution. When you're trying to keep the economy on an even keel, disruption is not your friend.
Obamacare was a piecemeal program in its implementation. Exceptions and exemptions were put into place willy-nilly as employers complained and insurers balked. Obama himself issued a series of non-legislative "adjustments" that exempted large employers, a major part of financing structure of the original Obamacare framework. Thanks to those "adjustments," those in the middle class that do not work for a large employer are now bearing the lion's share of the burden of providing coverage for previously-uninsured Americans through high premiums and low coverage. Obamacare is robbing Peter to pay Paul, and Peter's getting pissed. Structurally, the program cannot last at this rate.
So, do we wait until Obamacare fails, as it surely will? Or do we try again to put into place something before the collapse that won't bankrupt the middle class?
" Die-hard conservatives thought If I couldn’t get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff the the flag flying — go down in flames. No, if I can get 70% or 80% of what it is I’m trying to get, yes, I’ll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future." ~ Ronald Reagan
Conan the Grammarian at March 26, 2017 1:31 PM
I like the part where the Clinton family isn't pertinent.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 26, 2017 10:38 AM
Yes, this last election was a dilemma in the classical Greek meaning of the word.
Some principled people who I admire greatly chose to vote third party or not at all. Others of us decided a third party vote was meaningless noise or feared giving Hillary the Hun a popular vote mandate.
I can never become disillusioned with Trump because I was never enamored with him to begin with.
All this rabid lefty foaming at the mouth will insure Donald Trump's reelection particularly as the democratic party is odds on favored to double down on a radical leftie as their nominee.(since they failed this time with the corporate grifter whore)
The dems have gone full SJW and I'm just not sure they have the time or the inclination to right the ship.
Isab at March 26, 2017 1:35 PM
> I like the part where the Clinton
> family isn't pertinent.
Et al.
Crid at March 26, 2017 1:53 PM
> I can never become disillusioned
> with Trump because I was never
> enamored with him to begin with.
I find the propositions discontiguous, and have always had the power to readily despise people I once merely tolerated with disinterest.
Crid at March 26, 2017 2:03 PM
I find the propositions discontiguous, and have always had the power to readily despise people I once merely tolerated with disinterest.
Crid at March 26, 2017 2:03 PM
i just don't have the energy to really despise anyone anymore, It takes too much work, and I'm old.
Artemis, I will make an exception for. If you dont loathe him already, he will keep working at it, until you do.
Isab at March 26, 2017 2:16 PM
No, I'm cool.
Crid at March 26, 2017 2:20 PM
But yes, to wit, see above: Not just "more," but "more and more."
Crid at March 26, 2017 2:31 PM
"Some principled people who I admire greatly chose to vote third party"
Thanks. I do what I can.
And then I stop, because racing season has begun, and I am NOT missing out.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 26, 2017 4:37 PM
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 26, 2017 4:37 PM
☑ Totally!
Gary Johnson.
And Vettel in Albert Park, right?
Sure
Crid at March 26, 2017 5:14 PM
Crid Says:
"This is a darling mix of what I was getting at here, with a little bit of Ppen's dislike for the little people as expressed here."
Actually no... as per usual you are jumping to incorrect conclusions.
My perspective here has nothing to do with either your previous statement nor Ppen's aversion toward rural folks. It is based upon historical events involving Trump and recent polls.
I kind of feel bad bursting your bubble since it looks like you spent a great deal of time trying to address a point/perspective that was never advanced in the first place.
I recommend that next time you ask for clarification when you are confused.
Artemis at March 27, 2017 12:53 AM
Isab Says:
"Artemis, I will make an exception for. If you dont loathe him already, he will keep working at it, until you do."
Good grief Isab... you "loathe" me huh??? That seems quite extreme considering the only interactions we ever have are on this blog.
It's not like I ran over your kitten or vandalized your home.
That is not an emotionally healthy or stable reaction in response to internet conversations.
In any case... love me, hate me, ignore me... I am not particularly concerned as you haven't ever demonstrated yourself to be a kind or warm hearted individual so I don't really have much respect for you as a person anyway.
Just some food for thought to help you put things into perspective... while you are investing emotional energy into loathing me I am too busy to think about you at all. You should really be spending your remaining time on earth interacting with people you enjoy and not preoccupying yourself with me if it is having such a negative impact on your psyche.
Artemis at March 27, 2017 1:09 AM
Well, there went the signal/noise ratio.
Radwaste at March 27, 2017 3:15 AM
Hi there Raddy... it looks like the confederacy of dunces is complete!!!
Do you guys have like a team song and uniform by any chance?... because I think that would be adorable.
Artemis at March 27, 2017 5:25 AM
The kid's in an institution, and always has been... Or he's so fucking terrified of real people that he might as well be. Maybe he's a socially-incompetent immigrant from some shitty nation, pretending to be American. (There have been maybe dozens of commenters from all over the world who do that on this blog, discussing issues with people in a truly free nation, as if they were taking part in online pornography.)
Let's be serious. He's severally autistic or socially crippled. Or perhaps flatly retarded.
Crid at March 27, 2017 9:05 AM
Now, that was mean. Of me. And while I will readily forgive myself, it remains the case that this guy is strange.
Which is ironic, because he talks about the importance of being normal a lot... As if to remind us that we share his need to pass for being a typically adult American. [Some of us don't, and have always exploited our freedom to get our freak on. I love that about this group.]
But he (or she) hews too eagerly to conventional thinking, and is too eager to presume government and other authorities are, and should he, parentally nurturing.
So he's either:
- A resident of long-term institutionalization for severe physical or considerable mental handicap
orI figure however he (or she) is living now, there was one point when an American corrected him (probably publicly) about some point of social decency, the the encounter still stings. So he's (or she's) practicing for the when, strutting self-righteously on our selfsame soil, he can pull that shit on someone else to get even.
Anyway, somebody figure it out: Institutionalized or foreigner. And let us now.
But there's no rush. We're not going to pay you for your effort or anything.
Radwaste might send a small check.
Crid at March 27, 2017 12:41 PM
"And Vettel in Albert Park, right? "
And IMSA - Ricky Taylor at Daytona, 23 hours and 53 minutes completed, bumping Albuquerque off in Turn 5 for the win.
More amazing when Albuquerque rejoined the race and came back to within 0.7 sec to take second place.
Not too shabby for Cadillac taking the top two spots. In all fairness, though, I believe they're using GM (Vette) motors which have dominated the GT classes the past three years, so the way was made much easier.
Still, good to see the Ford GT kicking ass, and Acura, Lamborghini and Mercedes in the fray!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at March 27, 2017 1:01 PM
I am sorry about your health care, Amy, and that stinkerpot of a bill would not have made it any better. Trump's support for it was disappointing.
Repeal and replace should involve some actual repealing. Kudos to the 18-member remnant of the Freedom Caucus who stood against this sick, sad bill until the end.
Maybe Paul Ryno will do the right thing and introduce an actual repeal, but I won't hold my breath. Once again, people like you who actually work for a living take it in the shorts.
Good luck in your money-making ventures.
mpetrie98 at March 27, 2017 6:52 PM
C'mon Crid... you really shouldn't bottle your feelings all up in side, they will eat you up from the inside, you know?
Just let it all out there little buddy.
In all seriousness though... I can't tell if you are stupid... or if you just think all of the other people on this blog who read your babble are stupid.
Let's break a few things down,, shall we?
1 - "This guy us a fucking shut-in"
2 - "Note the weird..."
3 - " It's like he has no experience with contemporary colloquialisms"
4 - "The kid's in an institution"
5 - "He's severally autistic or socially crippled. Or perhaps flatly retarded."
I could go on, but you get the point... each and every sentence you compose is obsessed with the concept of normalcy and how objectionable it is to be odd or strange.
Then you declare this in the next post:
"because he talks about the importance of being normal a lot"
I don't mean to pry... but have you been evaluated for a psychological condition?... because you really need to be a case study.
You are absolutely obsessed with normalcy... it is the only thing you talk about... the only thing you are myopically focused on with every single sentence you write.
Then in a bizarre twist of epic idiocy you constantly wonder why our discussions tend to include declarations of why you are such an odd egg.
Here is a clue for you since you seem to incompetent to observe this on your own after years of this moronic behavior... you are projecting your own failures and obsessions onto someone else.
Artemis at March 27, 2017 10:07 PM
Also Crid:
"Institutionalized or foreigner."
Why just one or the other?... have these items now become mutually exclusive?
In one of our previous conversations you were asserting that I was in an institution somewhere in Nova Scotia... or maybe it was Newfoundland... in any case it was somewhere on the east coast of Canada.
I can tolerate many things Crid, but these constant inconsistencies in your made up nonsense are utterly unacceptable and really need to be resolved.
It just demonstrates a certain lack of pride in your work... the kind of laziness one should expect from an amateur.
You know, I could go almost anywhere on the internet to be entertained by a freakshow like yourself, but I choose to come here for the quality and attention to detail that makes a bullshit artist like yourself so entertaining for me. Unfortunately continuity errors like this really spoil the experience and so this needs to be corrected.
Can you please escalate this complaint to your supervisor?
I know this criticism may come across as harsh... but I expect excellence from you in terms of your clownish antics... you can do better than this.
Artemis at March 27, 2017 10:53 PM
474 of the most hurtful words you've ever written.
Aspiring immigrant, right?
Well don't blame me, that's what Cousin Dave said!
But he's right, right? You're not actually here yet.... ?
Crid at March 28, 2017 12:11 AM
Crid,
Again you are projecting... you wrote ~400 words... and then bitch and moan about 474 words (which as usual from you isn't even an accurate count... no matter how you slice it we are in the same ball park here).
I've been thinking about it though and I now realize what your fundamental problem is... the real core of the issue if you will.
You are like an incredibly senile person with flatulence issues.
You are constantly farting... perpetually enveloped in your own fetid stench. However because you forget that you are the one who farted you are constantly complaining about how gross and smelly the people around you are.
Now it is time for you to be honest with us Crid... do you suffer from lactose intolerance and short term memory issues?
Artemis at March 28, 2017 12:21 AM
Also:
"Well don't blame me, that's what Cousin Dave said!"
Ultimately the buck stops with you Crid... this is your job... your profession.
Trolling the internet tossing shit everywhere is how you put food on the table and keep a roof over your head.
Needless to say your manager will be hearing from me because you've been slacking. I am sorry if this will negatively reflect in your performance review this year, but I am sure you recognize that you really haven't been doing your best.
Artemis at March 28, 2017 12:25 AM
West Indies?
Crid at March 28, 2017 12:42 AM
awww... now you aren't even trying. I think I maybe hurt your feelings. Do you need a pep talk or something?
Listen... why don't you get some sleep and you can try again in the morning when you are fresh.
If this poor performance continues you might get demoted or forced into early retirement.
Artemis at March 28, 2017 12:55 AM
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