Ugh...the actual audio is even worse. He flat-out admits that he doesn't give a shit about Trump being a disgusting misogynist con artist grifter who sucks up to dictators as long as he keeps ramming through right-wing judges.
To clarify: The order is reversed in the audio: He *first* states that he's thrilled that Trump is ramming through all of the right-wing judges that Sasse wants him to, *then* starts going off about what a piece of shit Trump is.
It amounts to the same thing in practice, though.
I mean, which is worse?
"It sucks that he's a rapist, but at least he nominates hard-right judges."
"I'm glad he nominates hard-right judges, I just wish he wasn't also a rapist."
LOUISIANA: Preliminary avg. 2021 #ACA premium changes: +6.9% individual market, +5.2% sm. group market (unweighted): acasignups.net/20/10/16/louis…
NOTE: An increasing number of insurance carriers are redacting their actuarial memos *and* more URRT files aren't being made publicly available via the SERFF database. This means there are more states where I can only run an *unweighted* average this year.
I don't know if this is due to Trump's HHS weakening transparency regulations, *state* insurance depts. doing so, or if the carriers are simply redacting more memos/forms and seeing whether anyone notices or cares, but whatever the cause, it's disturbing.
Remember when the GOP got the vapors over @AOC comparing ICE ripping children from their parents & putting them in cages to "concentration camps"? Yeah, guess what?
Note that Sasse claims he's "criticized" Trump for "spending" but has anyone actually heard him publcly "criticize" him for mocking evangelicals, grifting and "flirting with white supremacists"?
For those wondering how the hell Gary Peters can be in such danger from John James, here’s my take as a native Michigander:
1. First, Gary is a great guy, a great Senator and a pretty good candidate. 1/
2. Having said that, he’s also very low-key and a behind-the-scenes work horse type; his name isn’t always in the news, meaning he’s still unknown to a lot of Michiganders despite being in the Senate for six years.
3. In the 2014 red wave, Peters was the only bright for Senate Dems. Again, he was a good candidate but he benefited greatly by his opponent being the worst Senate candidate in the history of ever, Terri Lynn Land.
⚠️ As Senate Republicans continue packing the court, here's your daily reminder of how many Americans would lose healthcare coverage if the #ACA is struck down by the Trump/GOP lawsuit in all 435 Congressional Districts. acasignups.net/20/09/29/how-m…