Monday, December 08, 2025

'Sort of Blackmail'

Billions in rural health funding hinge on states passing Trump-backed policies.

Posted by retort at 10:34 AM | 45 COMMENTS | permalink

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'Sort of blackmail': Billions in rural health funding hinge on states passing Trump-backed policies

Democrats and health advocates described the strategy as highly unusual, and some fear it could be wielded to favor politicalâ° allies. www.politico.com/news/2025/12 ... [image or embed]

-- Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) Dec 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM

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Sort of? It IS blackmail

#1 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-12-08 10:45 AM

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-08 10:52 AM

Given all the fraud that has been exposed (Somali) we should just stop until we put controls in place.

#3 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-08 11:02 AM

---- off you idiot Russian stooge

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-08 11:07 AM

we should just stop until we put controls in place.

You actually want to stop Lewzer's blackmail program?

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-08 11:09 AM

I believe the technical term is, "Extortion," which is nothing new to anyone at this point.

#6 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-12-08 11:09 AM

No I want to end the ACA and the huge transfer of wealth from taxpayers to insurance companies and fraudsters (I realize the 99% overlap).

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-08 11:10 AM

And replace it with what, exactly? Remember, you --------- have had 20 years to figure it out.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-08 11:26 AM

whatever you do keep attention away from
billions of fraud in tampon land minn...especailly now that it's looking like the vp candidate knew and that lots of the money ended up wit omar's family members.

and attention away from how the biden administration stopped looking for the
J6 bomber because it wasn't leading to trump.

idiots

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-12-08 11:31 AM

FYI Pedo47 and his sick buddies raped children.

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-08 11:34 AM

STD is upset that people aren't talking about her pet conspiracies of the week?

#11 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-12-08 11:36 AM

And replace it with what, exactly?

Drowsy Don has priorities...stay up all night rage tweeting....golf....eating....there is just so many hours in a day and you what, want him to do something he promised to do to help the peons?

He's got a concept of a plan.

He's got what he wanted to pass last time which was just more tax free medical accounts for the top 10% and then something that is called insurance, that in reality is just a premium extraction tool from the middle class wallets that covers nothing and allows the insurance to refuse to pay for screenings and preventative medicine and brings back pre-existing conditions so when someone has skin cancer they can be dropped by the insurance company because they didn't put down on the form they had a skin blister from new shoes when they were six.

#12 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-08 11:39 AM

And replace it with what, exactly?

You'll find out in 2 weeks.

#13 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-12-08 11:57 AM

No I want to end the ACA and the huge transfer of wealth from taxpayers to insurance companies and fraudsters (I realize the 99% overlap).

#7 | Posted by visitor_

You just described what was happening BEFORE the ACA.

Get sick? Lose insurance.
Ever been sick? Insurance costs 2,500% more IF you can even get it
Insurance coverage? Whatever Insurance companies feel like
Insurance Profits? As much as they can get

Republican solution? None
Republican replacement plan? None

Republican Idea? Return us to the REALLY bad system we had before where Insurance companies can steal as much as they want

#14 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-12-08 12:07 PM

whatever you do keep attention away from the Epstein Files.

#15 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-12-08 12:09 PM

Totally screwing up the system and then attempting to patch it by spending huge sums of money hasn't worked. So the solution is to continue throwing increasing amounts of money at it? If you believe the solution to high costs is spending more of other people's money, you might be a Democrat.

#16 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-08 12:15 PM

Visiturd voted for the------------ who just pissed away $40 billion on Argentina.

#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-08 12:17 PM

The advantage of the Republican non-plan is that it fails without costing much. The Democrat plan is throw money at the problem and expect what exactly?

#18 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-08 12:17 PM

#17 The difference is that we'll get more than 40 billion back from Argentina, what's the return on our Ukraine investment? That's right it's all about corruption.

#19 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-12-08 12:19 PM

Visiturd repeats every single lie his child-raping hero grunts out.

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-08 12:20 PM

News flash: responding to garbage like visiturd is an exercise in futility.

#21 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-08 12:27 PM

Medicaid for all.

Full coverage, no Copays including illegals.

Pay for it by cutting the Military 80% to a 200 Billion dollar budget.

Or Universal care with Government clinics and Doctors.

Which would be Cheaper.

Why have private insurance at All?

They Provide nothing but added costs for Profits.

Parasites.

#22 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-08 12:27 PM

#19 100% oops:

$40,000,000,000.00 to Argentina:

Then there is the little issue that Trump has mandated US banks to provide Argentina another 20 billion in loans. However, thus far banks have refused unless the US government guarantees the loans.

In other words, we, the taxpayer could be on the hook for 40 billion. That madame, is highly likely since Argentina has reneged 20 times on IMF loans since the 1950s.

#23 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-08 01:01 PM

we'll get more than 40 billion back from Argentina

And Mexico will pay for the wall.

#24 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-12-08 01:25 PM

STD is upset that people aren't talking about her pet conspiracies of the week?

#11 | Posted by chuffy4

HER ? who T F do you think you're talking

to....CORKY ?

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#25 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-12-08 01:47 PM

there wasn't any new leads in the J6 case.

they used the case files that were sitting in

dust while biden pooped his pants

then when the "white male" according to one

of the principle lying sacks of S tapper...

parents sued Trump for ICE arrests...

you people are stupid

#26 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-12-08 01:49 PM

#25 Saw this recently on the Internet. Reminded me of you, shrimpsizedprivatestacostand:

AFKABL2

The --- ----- Known As Bush Lover 2 is a Republic*nt shill who uses the commie computers at a Houston, Texass library to spam his well-reasoned opinions in an unrelenting simultaneous three-pronged assault on the reader's intelligence, eyesight, and mouse scroll-wheel:


"I know just how disappointed so many of you were with the holiday and all that you didnt get your AFKABL2 SUNDAY NEWS SHOW ROUNDUP so here are some notable quotes..NO NO>>>>you can thank me later..."the idea that gitmo makes terrorists is patently false" - senator kyl from arizona. COLIN POWELL...and this is all you EVER WILL NEED TO KNOW About why he is a RINO " I voted for john kennedy and jimmy carter" JIMMY CARTER??????????????????? nuff said TURBIN DURBIN showed his complete hpocricy when asked about torture and all that...he backed pelosi to the hilt and then NOT 5 MINS later talked about how he supported Paneda on the whole thing..and of course on meet the press..THEY RARELY IF EVER ask a follow up on a democrat.......more to come so dont worry"

"a typical post as written by afkabl2. Srsly.

#27 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-08 01:51 PM

#26

"please.......to get an idea of our world if pot is legal just watch the movie with luke wilson 'idiocirty' or something like that where he gets transpoted ahead a century or so and he is the smartest man in the world...surely there were some sources there to take pots place......euphonisms perhaps..is that the right word?? because they all talked like they were stoned...you know..stupidlike"

"AflacBabbler, on why marijuana ought to remain illegal.

#28 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-08 01:52 PM

@#1 ... Sort of? It IS blackmail ...

I was leaning towards extortion, but "blackmail" also works.


#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 02:07 PM

"we'll get more than 40 billion back from Argentina"

Republican Math is a dangerous thing! Stay in school, kids!!!

#30 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-08 02:15 PM

The advantage of the Republican non-plan is that it fails without costing much. The Democrat plan is throw money at the problem and expect what exactly?

#18 | Posted by visitor_

WTF are you talking about?

Rates were increasing at DOUBLE the rate before the ACA compared to after.

And then you idiots got rid of the mandate.

#31 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-12-08 02:16 PM

Visiturd repeats every single lie his child-raping hero grunts out.

#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-08 12:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

News flash: responding to garbage like visiturd is an exercise in futility.

#21 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-12-08 12:27 PM | Reply

And this is how these two ------- debate.
They are clueless to how policy works or doesn't work so just burp out childish insults.

#32 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-12-08 02:18 PM

In other words, we, the taxpayer could be on the hook for 40 billion. That madame, is highly likely since Argentina has reneged 20 times on IMF loans since the 1950s.

#23 | Posted by A_Friend at 2025-12-08 01:01 PM | Reply | Flag: US Taxpayer Screwed Again

My curiosity about Argentinian libertarian loser Javier Milei and his recent intergalactic chicanery was just resolved thanks to A_Friend: No Extradition from Israel



#33 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-08 02:22 PM

"In other words, we, the taxpayer could be on the hook for 40 billion."

I call it The Bessent & Buddies Bailout.

#34 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-08 02:32 PM

We're living in the times of the new Bourbons, Habsburgs, and Romanovs internationally cooperating to siphon away all the wealth from the masses to the oligarchs.

#35 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-08 02:38 PM

blackmail is corruption

HEY DORKS....speaking of corruption

now we see that MAINE is having some money

being given to democrat buddies and co-lying

scum eating trash...

WRAY and GARLAND knew all about minnesota

stealing billions to elect somalians....like

omar.....bet they knew about MAINE as well..

but "you people" don't care about that...

no one is above the law ...unless they're

cess pool dwellers in the DNC.

#36 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-12-08 02:47 PM

Deflection sucks.

#37 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-08 02:48 PM

well that's my time for the in the 21st

century's "temple of doom and fabrication"....

"you people" have fun spreading your

hate mongering bigotry....find some time to laugh.....

IF THE DOVE IS THE TRUE BIRD OF PEACE....
WHAT IS THE BIRD OF LOVE...
---the swallow.

#38 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-12-08 02:52 PM

The portly------------------- is selling pardons to drug kingpins.

www.latimes.com

#39 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-08 02:56 PM

Deflection sucks.

#37 | Posted by Alexandrite

I belive everything you say

Alexandyke.

now look up the word sarcasm.

as I spend time away from here

and share the afternoon with

the truth.

#40 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-12-08 02:56 PM

Alexandyke.

What an amazing coincidence, that's what your mother calls me.

#41 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-08 02:58 PM

@#40 ... the truth ...

What does your alias consider to be "the truth?"

#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 06:48 PM

If the States were smart, they would never have passed the 17th amendment.

Ever since the States relinquished the Senate, the Fed has held money hostage.

Can't imagine England's House of Lords to make that mistake.

Reverse the 17th.

The EC would be the final nail to the union of States.

#43 | Posted by Petrous at 2025-12-09 11:33 AM

If the States were smart, they would never have passed the 17th amendment.
#43 | Posted by Petrous

^
Well at least the Fascists are honest about never really believing in democracy in the first place.

#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-09 11:36 AM

Snoof, you haven't learned Anerican history.

The Senate involved the States whereas the public was represented in the House.

The Senate protected State sovereignty and kept Federal government in check.

The State would not want a Senator representating them in the Senate and screwing the State in return.

The Senate is no longer answering the State government. It's a six year HoR.

The EC is the same issue.

The 13 States varied in size, population, and industry. Joining as a nation demanded the States remain as individual entities while resolved to be a union for all benefit.

#45 | Posted by Petrous at 2025-12-10 10:06 AM

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