Pic Of The Moment: This Week In Jeb Bush's World: Repeal Obamacare, Replace It With Apple Watches

[EarlG]

Jeb Bush Wants to Replace Obamacare With His Apple Watch

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[marym625]

1. K&R!

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Oy vey...

I thought he was the "smart" Bush?

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Actually, I think this tact will probably earn him votes among the right-wingers.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

96. I used to think that W was Dumber

but out of Dumb and Dumber - I think Jebb seems to be Dumber. The Republican electorate has has a low IQ so he will appeal to them.

[Baitball Blogger]

97. Not necessarily a lower I.Q.

Many of them just pretend to be dumb. They think that if people think they're too stupid to understand the laws, that they'll be given opportunities to go beyond the scope of the law. "Oh, it's just ignorance." How many times have you heard a police chief or other head of a criminal investigative agency use that excuse when it involves investigating someone in their own inner circle? I've heard it too often.

It's very easy for Republicans to play this game. They don't like leaders who try too hard to follow the law because it means they will have to share the benefit of programs with people they don't like.

I think that what is going on behind Republican motives is far more discriminatory and racist than anyone realizes--and this is the basis of inequality in our society.

[whopis01]

61. What makes you think he isn't? n/t

[AlbertCat]

3. What a fucking idiot

Can we have someone with at least a high School knowledge of science and medicine run for a change? I mean, it's like Newt Gingrich all over again!

Oh that's right.... Dems don't live in a SciFi movie. Better vote for them.

[Cyrano]

4. "An Apple a day keeps the doctor ...

oh, hell. You know the rest. This is the kind of crap we always expected from George W. Do you suppose he was really "the smart Bush?"

[C Moon]

27. ha ha! :D

[Kali]

5. this just can't happen again

[spooky3]

79. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice...

You can finish this with the George W. or the classic version. Jeb promises to deliver the same comic gold.

[TlalocW]

6. Maaaaan.. I knew when these things came out

Apple fanboys would be doing all they could to point out to others that they had one, but Jeb just really took it to the next level.

TlalocW

[66 dmhlt]

86. Jeb heard it has that special "If-you-knew-then-what-we-know-now" app ...

[SpankMe]

7. The stupid...It burns! n/t

[valerief]

8. It's quite amazing that his own brain can't tell him when he's eaten too many`

butterscotch sundaes. Quite amazing indeed.

[Voice for Peace]

41. good catch

[Dont call me Shirley]

9. What a bizarre comment, Jeb! Healthcare is not managed on a watch.

[BlueJazz]

10. It would be cheaper just to sign up for health-care than to buy one of those damn things.

[Saviolo]

11. That's very helpful!

Because absolutely everyone can afford an Apple Watch to maintain your health status!

Let's take the people out of healthcare entirely! I'm sure we'll all be perfectly healthy and happy with a string of apps on our phones telling us that we're eating too many butterscotch sundaes. Except for those apps that have ads from Dairy Queen in them. And the apps that tell people they're smoking too much! Except for the ones with ads from Camel and Marlboro.

Nono, those money-driven corporations really -really- care about the wellbeing of people!

Welcome to the new narrative, everyone. Tone-deaf politicians who are so out of touch with their constituents that they figure an expensive gadget that hardly anyone can afford is better than a health care system.

[Gore1FL]

13. It was helpful for him to point out that things not available until 5 years from now

were not available 5 years ago.

It's a low bar to be the "smart" one in the Bush family.

[libodem]

14. I wish his mother were running

They look exactly alike and we could trash her as they have our venerable former first lady,

[onehandle]

15. My Apple Watch is great for health tracking.

It also has a bullshit detector that beeps loudly whenever a Bush opens its mouth.

Some 'advisor' told him to mention the Apple Watch so that he appears 'hip.'

[JHB]

16. So if he drops a butterscotch sundae then slips on it...

...twisting an ankle or a knee, or smacking his head hard, what will his watch tell him?

"Don't do that"?

[ejbr]

21. +1

[sarge43]

33. "Take two aspirins."

"Fill out these forms."

[geardaddy]

17. Fuckwit. n/t

[niyad]

18. dear goddess, PLEASE tell me that this is from the Onion!!

[47of74]

19. Could it also be programmed....

...to deliver an electric shock anytime the wearer thinks Jeb and his brother are good honest people?

[wordpix]

20. Dimmerson thinks if he eats too many sundaes the watch will morph into a heart surgeon

Also, the watch will do a CT scan, PET scan, MRI, colonoscopy, endoscopy, chemo, etc, and interpret the results of tests and scans.

What a f-ing idiot

[christx30]

95. Hopefully that watch can do blood work too

otherwise his diabetes is going to be a problem, especially if he's eating a lot of those sundaes.

[Bossy Monkey]

22. Does this mean that Neil is the smart one? n/t

[lonestarnot]

23. Can his watch give him an apple enema?

[berni_mccoy]

24. OMG

[Stonepounder]

25. I don't care how sophisticated the Apple Watch becomes in 5 years....

I don't think I would let it do my open-heart surgery, let alone my neuro-surgery!

[Moonwalk]

54. I believe there will be an app for that—the watch won't do it, but i'm sure there will be...

...instructions for doing it at home with common, household items Which is where healthcare will be if Jeb has his way. We'll be back to home remedies and bandaging our own wounds.

[C Moon]

26. He's the smart one.

[myrna minx]

28. Isn't he supposed to be the *smart* one? Oof.

[Botany]

39. That is a very low bar

You can also "set a low bar". For example, if you're going to watch an action movie with a friend, and she says "I just hope it's better than (some really bad movie)", you can say:

You're setting the bar kind of low, don't you think?

http://www.phrasemix.com/phrases/set-a-high-low-bar-for-someone

Remember w didn't know that Sunni and Shi Muslims were different before he started his unneeded war.

Myrna Minx

[myrna minx]

59. Hiya, Botany! Good to see you.

Yeah, it is a low bar, but my god, the fact that this family filled with dangerously stupid people feels entitled to a Presidental trifecta is just something to behold. wow.

[Botany]

73. A brief bush family history

Great Granddad Samuel Bush ..... Columbus OH sold weapons to both sides in WW I after
America got involved he still tried to sell to the Germans

Prescott Bush ..... Dealings w/the Nazis including IG Farben that made the gas for the
death camps .... he also tried to overthrow the US Govt. in the 1930s

HW Bush ..... Iran Contra, deals w/Iran on the US hostages, killing of JFK (somehow involved),
rigging the 2000 election, meeting w/the bin Laden Family on 9/11/01, and lots more crap.

the boys Jeb, w, Prescott, and Neil ..... list is too long .... screw it.

No w is out and out stupid but the family is not dumb ..... evil yes, dumb no.

all the best!
botany

[central scrutinizer]

29. Add a mood ring

and you also won't need mental health coverage

[BlancheSplanchnik]

67. ^ lolol

Hey, if I don't laugh, I'll projectile vomit.....

[lark]

30. For being a smart person,

he sure is acting stupid. Give me a break! Is he, or anyone else, cancelling their health insurance because in 5 years they won't need it? Of course not, or to be more accurate, Hell No. Can the working poor afford Apple watches, of course not. Is this one of the stupidest things I've seen, absolutely.

[sarge43]

35. "Is this one of the stupidest things I've seen, absolutely."

Don't say that. He appears to be on a roll and the day's not over.

[deutsey]

31. Those Bushes are just so technomologically with it

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During 1992 Presidential Election campaign, challenger Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas attacked the incumbent president George H. W. Bush as not doing enough to assist the working middle-class and being “out of touch” with the common man. A gaffe–overhyped by media–played right into Clinton’s hands on February 5th, when the president visited a national grocer’s convention in Orlando, Florida.

There Bush expressed amazement at new grocery store technology, first reported by Andrew Rosenthal in the New York Times. (Rosenthal wasn’t even there at the convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who wrote that Bush had a “look of wonder” on his face.) Though it is still disputed what Bush expressed amazement about, it was widely reported at the time that Bush’s amazement was over the checkout scanner-technology widely used by grocery stores since 1980, the very year Bush, a career bureaucrat, moved into the vice-presidential mansion.

Failing to be familiar with this technology made Bush appear to be an elitist who didn’t even have to go to the grocery store, and thus someone who was unable to feel the financial pinch facing ordinary Americans. It sank his re-election campaign. However, it was also argued that Bush was impressed by new scanner technology that could weigh groceries and read damaged bar codes. The Times refused to retract.

Above photo by Barry Thumma/Associated Press
https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/bush-v-grocery-scanner/

[wordpix]

87. recall Jeb released emails from his guv days with SocSec #s

and other personal info constituents included in the messages. Not very bright.

[PumpkinAle]

32. What is the smartest thing about Jeb Bush

his watch.................. and both Jeb and his watch are over valued.

[wordpix]

93. oooh---that's a good one! DUzy

[greymattermom]

34. He's not that stupid

He's doing this on purpose. He doesn't want the job, and there are probably some secrets he doesn't want known. Maybe his tax returns?

[Eric J in MN]

37. If Jeb Bush doesn't want to be president, then why did he form an exploratory committee? NT

NT

[JDPriestly]

36. Does Jeb Bush have diabetes?

And his computer will probably be able to tell him whether he has eaten too much butterscotch or has drunk too much vodka, but he will still need healthcare. He will still need to pay his doctor, his nurses and the hospital.

A worse idiot than his brother? Please not. Does deficient intelligence run in the family?

[Cryptoad]

63. Like you dont need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing,

a Diabetic doesn't need an Apple watch to know when he has eaten too much butterscotch....

[Spitfire of ATJ]

38. Daddy Bush wasn't too smart either....

That's why he picked Dan Quayle.

For the contrast.

[A Round Tuit]

40. Don't know why anyone would waste the bandwidth...

Hell, even the republicans have rejected this nitwit now.

He ain't got a chance in hell...against anyone on the democratic ticket...much less the republican.

Dumbest one out there, yet.

Although it is amusing to see the depths of the Bush stupidity.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. Can he get a colonoscopy by shoving the Apple Watch up his butt?

Can he get an EKG by holding it on his chest? If he bleeds on it will it tell him if he has diabetes or a high white cell count or an infection? If he swallows it will it check for ulcers? If he sticks it up his nose will it report on sinus problems? If he rubs it all over his body will it check for skin cancer or psoriasis or poison ivy?

And if he presses it to his forehead will it point out to him that he has no measurable fucking brain activity???

Idiot.

Wasn't he supposed to be the smart one?

[Moonwalk]

55. I am absolutely sure the Apple Watch can measure Jeb's lack of brain activity right now....

...it is a smartwatch, after all, and creating an app for that should be easy given how obvious his lack of brain activity is.

[Mira]

43. Abyssmal Stupidity Rampant

in the Bush family.
He isn't even able to conceal it.

[SHRED]

44. Will it manage a car accident...

...and a trip to the hospital?

[Curmudgeoness]

45. Yeah, Jeb, just wait until you need your appendix removed

or need a heart, like Chaney. Let's see your watch do that.

[pansypoo53219]

46. ugh. dumb w + dumber.

[RoccoR5955]

47. And what about the people

who cannot afford an Apple Watch, because their jobs have been moved overseas?
Now they have to flip burgers for a living, and work 2 other jobs just to keep a roof over their heads.
And this freakin' moron thinks that a damn Apple Watch will replace doctors.
I wonder if it can detect if he has a brain?
Perhaps it will before 2016, if it does not.

[yurbud]

48. GREAT! Now give everyone a job that pays enough so they can afford to buy an apple watch

[yurbud]

49. this is like Romney saying if you don't have enough money to start a business you can borrow it from

your parents.

"Or hire a team of lawyers to renegotiate the terms of your trust fund. The opportunities in this country are limitless if you have a creative mind."

[yellowcanine]

50. Goody for him. So his plan is to buy everyone Apple watches?

What a dickhead. I actually think he is more dense than his brother George, if that is possible.

[tanyev]

52. I can just see Republican voters going for that one.

Yeesh.

[yellowcanine]

56. Obama phone, meet the Jeb Bush Watch.

The implication is that instead of health care we should give people Apple watches. That ought to work out well for you Jeb.

[hibbing]

51. This thread..one of the reasons I LOVE DU

Oh good golly, I was going to start commenting on each individual post that made me crack up in this thread, but there are too many hilarious ones!! There are always some really funny people on here!

Peace

[Moonwalk]

53. The Instruction Manual for the watch clearly says: "Warning....

Apple Watch, the heart rate sensor, and the included Apple Watch apps are not medical devices and are intended for fitness purposes only."

Not that I'd expect any Bush to actually read an instruction manual or anything else that might give them real and useful information.

I'm guessing everyone at Apple is now wishing that they could pick and choose their customers.

[Thor_MN]

57. So we can start the meme "Bush Watches"?

Bush promised all the rich welfare queens he would buy them Apple Watches.

[zebonaut]

58. You still have to be able to PAY for an Apple Watch

[Jackpine Radical]

60. Hey Jeb, when somebody gave you that watch

it was supposed to be for your retirement. Go learn to paint or something.

[Beacool]

62. I thought that Jeb was supposed to be the "smart" Bush.

I guess there's no such thing as a smart Bush.

[samsingh]

64. the bushies will do to healthcare what they did to iraq

[erpowers]

65. How Dumb Is George W. Bush?

From what I heard Barbara Bush once said Jeb Bush was supposed to be the smart one at least between himself and George. For that to be true George must be extremely stupid. He must have been far more stupid than he showed while President. Either that, or I missed a great deal during the Bush Administration. Because now Jeb is looking like the stupid one. It seems that there are things that Jeb is saying that even George would not have said.

[Maven]

66. really jeb? and is your apple watch going to prescribe insulin for you too?

fucking idiot.

[Johonny]

68. It is the let them eat cake of the 21st century

How out of touch is the entire GOP field? The average American struggles with basic medical needs, they point to their smart gadgets as solutions for the 1%.

[RussBLib]

69. yuck! Butterscotch?!

That's gotta be one of the worst tastes out there.

Surely I'm not the only one.

??

[wordpix]

88. Jeb's heading for a heart attack from butter + white sugar + cream

mmmmm...good example he's setting for the people.

I try to stick to organic, raw and low dairy/sugar, myself.

[Kablooie]

70. I thought W was a doofus but this guy seems like Mr. Nobody.

To be fair he comes across like one of the average, slightly annoying guys at work.
Not overly stupid but not that bright.

He certainly doesn't have the leadership gene and absolutely doesn't have the President of the United States gene.

If the GOP elects him it will be from desperation to have a known name as their banner carrier over any qualities they want for the president.

[SummerSnow]

71. Ok it's official...

Starting today I will be calling Jeb Bush and George Bush the stupid twins

[Jamaal510]

80. "Brainless Bros." eom

[wordpix]

92. Dim, Dimson and Dimmerson

2 Bush prezeldents and "the smart one"

[Joe Bacon]

72. No app is going to relieve the pain I have from RA.

Jebthro is yet another Bush that deserves to receive a golden shower.

[tavernier]

74. The ADA has long had a diet

available for the asking, at every clinic, hospital and docs office in the country. Plain old black type on plain old white paper. no batteries or wifi required. I'm certain it was readily available even back when Jebbie wore his little baby wing tips.

Good grief, the man really is as dumb as his brother.

[3catwoman3]

75. The fullness of his jowls...

...should tell him that he is eating too many butterscotch sundaes. No high tech needed.

[Jim Lane]

76. More Jeberish

OK, I cannot tell a lie; I was curious what the Freepers had to say about this pronouncement, and I must credit Freeper TLI with this brilliant coinage.

Incidentally, more than one Freeper expresses doubt about Jeb's sincerity in saying he wants to repeal Obamacare. With that I agree. I think "repeal Obamacare" is similar to "overturn Roe v. Wade" -- the Republicans have to pay lip service to that goal, to appease the base and to fuel fundraising, but they know that achieving the supposed goal would be a political disaster because of the backlash from all those harmed.

[SoapBox]

77. What an idiot...

A typical Bush.

[joshcryer]

78. He's basically described corporate fascism.

But has done so in a way that he actually believes is OK.

Is it OK that people would be wearing devices that watch your behavior and tell you what you're doing right or wrong?

[El Shaman]

81. Typical

'uppity' Hispanic .

[lobodons]

82. And he's supposed to be the smart one..??

Oh God, please help us!!

[zebonaut]

83. Yippie! Jebs gonna give us all FREE Apple Watches!!!

[polynomial]

84. Peek aboo we see you

That constant mantra that derides the Affordable Care Act all the while constantly characterizing it as “Obama Care” is in your face obnoxiously race baiting, especially in predominant white electorate gathering.

Jeb knows how his new watch could also be used to preserve his life, and build the family fortune other than a warning about an imbalance in his sugar level.

The secret applications Bush likely has are parameter” identity theft “, is loaded with data about anti-Bush electorates, his private family application mapping the area for left wing do-gooders. Are you laughing yet, well its not funny, yet it is.

Bush is likely loaded with special apps developed through secret tax dollars with secret metadata captured by the famous, Booz, Allen, Hamilton Public Relations secret squad…subcontracted with partnership with their friendly business partner The Bin Laden family famous for terror, torture and swindling of American tax dollars.

The timing is reset since Jeb said he decided not to go into Iraq with the knowledge we know now. All begs the question since his brother said he did what he did, and Cheney said he would do it again. With that said, what we know now begs the questions of what does Jeb know that America does not know.

If Hillary does not challenge that for an investigation it will be a surprise to me. With that said, Jeb, just fell into the rabbit hole just handed over the election to Hillary. Jeb is late, he is late no time to say hello good by Jeb is late.

All this is an inane rambling that Bush and the Republican Party are impatient to take charge to provoke new way to swindle the American tax dollars.

[tanyev]

85. Hey, how about an Apple Watch paid for by Obamacare?

I mean, if Jeb thinks they're going to be invaluable in managing your heath, why wouldn't your insurance company want you to have one?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

89. pukes always couch their "arguments" in cartoonish overstatements

That would embarrass a 1st grade reading primer.

Butterscotch sundae apps!!!!
Man on dog!!!!!
It's a BAAABYYYY!!!!!!!
Marrying turtles!!!!!

[ellie]

90. i didn't think anyone

could be dumber than W but I guess I was wrong!

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

91. It's just an idea Hop Along Jeb stumbled into

and as it so happens he let it slip out !

[Exultant Democracy]

94. Never vote for a Bush. But this isn't fully crazy.

If we matched wearable health tech with the gameification of health goals in a system that encoraged peer group transparency people would be a lot healthier. The same reason that Obama care make sense is the same reason technological steps like this make sense because the best way to treat illness is to prevent it. I would say for everyone an I watch or whatever dump obamacare in favor of a simple Universal health care and enjoy the savings and health benefits.

[father founding]

98. Yum, Yum

Jeb, you can never eat enough butterscotch sundaes, go eat all you like, as soon as possible.

[Ken Burch]

99. It gets more and more obvious why Jeb's advisors kept suggesting he should hold off on running.

[Ken Burch]

100. Jeb's official campaign nickname should either "Sundae Boy" Or "Mr. Butterscotch". n/t.

[EuroStyleSocialist]

101. OMG - Could it actually be that W was the "smart" one?

What about the one who embezzled all that savings and loan money? Is he available?

[allan01]

102. bah humbug. and the fuck me states

i guess these so and sos want to have us in continual debt and also slap it on our children and our great grandchildren. bah humbug.

[Initech]

103. This could quite possibly be the dumbest thing ever said by a politician.

[d_legendary1]

104. I see the talking points continue

-Unless my (insert brand here) watch can cure cancer, fix broken bones, run blood tests, and diagnose my symptons with the accuracy of a doctor I will not trade in my health insurance plan for a plaything that doubles as a pedometer

-Self diagnosing is as safe as juggling chainsaws on a wire: you think you can do it but we all know how its gonna end. This is also a good reason to end those medication ads that show up on the talking head networks.

-I'm pretty sure most people can't afford an apple watch, let alone health insurance.

I can't believe this guy was once Gubbernor of Flori-duh!

[HughBeaumont]

105. So . . . . .

. . . . the RNC is loaded with

* dumbasses,
* people who think that whole "Church and State Separation" thing is a bad idea,
* a woman who thinks of firing American workers as a slaughterhouse worker thinks of bashing a pig's head in with a pipe,
* people who are still fighting The Cold War,
* people who think America isn't right wing ENOUGH,
* people who say "but . . . . " to the discussion of Universal Healthcare while in the same breath want to expand the M.I.C.,
* people who say "but . . . . " to the discussion of income inequality,
* people who say "don't play the politics of envy" while at the same time being insanely jealous of all the perks and riches our poor supposedly are "rewarded" with.

I seriously don't think the Republicans can Rove their way out of this lot.

I'm also not getting how they have the House and Senate (at least things should change on the Senate front in 2016). Are we really that stupid?