[jcfrei]

Just cancel it, make a new Act with a different name and equal purpose, claim victory. Seems to be the most likely procedure with the current administration.

[quesera]

Easier: Make some trivial amendment to it (does not need to be ratified), and then just start calling it something else.

"It was a disaster, but We Fixed It because I'm your favorite."

[malfist]

Isn't that how they "fixed ACA" last time around? Failed to have the votes to repeal it, so they "saved" it

[blitzar]

They got rid of the much hated, terrible, corrupt, illegal Obamacare and replaced it with the much loved and wonderful Affordable Care Act.

[giancarlostoro]

Can't tell if trolling

[blitzar]

Who me or the politicians who go to town halls and tell their constituents this is what they did (one of the 5 things they did this week perhaps).

[actionfromafar]

This is where we are at. So many people are unaware that ACA is Obamacare. Obamacare evil.

[giancarlostoro]

Yeah, I've seen a few videos where people are asked if they want to purge Obamacare, then asked if they support the Affordable Care Act, the reactions are priceless.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Hero John McCain saved it

[ttyprintk]

“Only I can fix it. Tortilla chips (those are gang chips) taking up too much room on the table. Don’t know why you’d stick up for gang chips. Potato chips belong. ”

[nodoll]

>Seems to be the most likely procedure with the current administration.

For example?

Also please show that the major current on-going efforts, like ongoing negotiations, measures in the border etc, were worked upon as intensive as it is now, in the previous administration.

[alistairSH]

Trump replaced NAFTA with USMCA during his first term. He claimed it was the best deal ever.

This term, he's claiming the deal is terrible and starting a trade war (which is likely not winnable and probably ends up settling for something approximating NAFTA again).

Which is it? Best deal ever, or crap? He's lying about one.

[JohnTHaller]

As part of it, Trump signed the "deal" that had Canada supplying power to 3 states. The same thing he later railed against and wanted to know who could have possibly done it. It was him.

[nodoll]

So I searched for "NAFTA USMCA difference" and there are a lot of articles that describe the differences.

I agree that Trump sometimes exaggerate stuff, but that does not mean that there is nothing is there.

I think It is very dishonest to claim that all the current administration is doing is just continuing what the previous ones did, but with changed names.

[ttw44]

If we want to play the "whos more dishonest" game, we should probably look at what he said about his own trade agreement years later.

[BLKNSLVR]

The point of the argument you were replying to was that Trump signed the USMCA in his first term, but it's now saying it's a terrible deal for the US and reason enough to start a trade war with Canada over.

A deal he himself signed.

Trump doesn't just exaggerate. Trump outright lies. Minute by minute.

[nodoll]

Even if that is true, that only make him look better. He made a mistake and is now correcting it. Not sure why it is a bad thing.

[actionfromafar]

Trump signed USMCA. Now he claims some idiot did USMCA.

[blitzar]

Both facts check out.

[selectodude]

> For example?

USMCA

[nodoll]

Not sure if you are the same person. But anyway, I cannot read your mind. Please explain your justifications for the claim or please share an article that does it.

[malfist]

USMCA was NAFTA, which Trump was against before and then supported it after the rename. Only the name changed, the treaty did not.

[nodoll]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398744

[xadhominemx]

You know how to use Google, right?

[selectodude]

That would put a wrench in whatever weird contrarian play that keeps getting OP banned.

I don’t know why I even engaged. Haven’t had my coffee yet.

[le-mark]

Why don’t YOU show those things? That would at least be the start of a good faith discussion and not a whataboutism bias tirade.

[nodoll]

Show what things?