WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump plans to take executive action on a nearly daily basis for a month to unravel his predecessor’s legacy and begin enacting his own agenda, his aides say, part of an extended exercise of presidential power to quickly make good on his campaign promises.
But in a reflection of the improvisational style that helped fuel his rise, he has made few, if any, firm decisions about which orders he wants to make, or in which order. That is a striking break from past presidents, who have entered office with detailed plans for rolling out a series of executive actions that set a tone for their presidencies and send a clear message about their agendas.
He has plans to order action to undo Obama's legacy daily.
He may have even decided to run for President after the roasting he took by Obama.
His wife plagiarized parts of Michelle Obama's speech.
He wanted his Inaugural cake made the same as Obama's.
He had a major hissy fit about crowd comparisons between his and Obama's Inaugural crowds; so much so that it was the focus of his Press Secretary's very first address.
Let's not forget about the birther campaign.
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Pool reports later clarified that the attendants who were cheering and clapping when Mr Trump spoke were not CIA staffers but people who accompanied Mr Trump to the briefing.
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Matlock and I got our pictures taken this morning. My eyes aren't usually that baggy, I swear. I was just tired.
One of nososure's best friends broke up with her boyfriend over her attending that event in Denver. It was a sexist thing he said, he being of a Cheeto dumpster fire bent.
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Matlock and I got our pictures taken this morning. My eyes aren't usually that baggy, I swear. I was just tired.
One of nososure's best friends broke up with her boyfriend over her attending that event in Denver. It was a sexist thing he said, he being of a Cheeto dumpster fire bent.
I have few principles about potential romantic/sexual partners that I will never break. One is that I will not become involved with anyone who supports Cheeto Benito. I’m not merely saying this arbitrarily; I actually did turn down an offer for sex from someone whom I found out was a Dump supporter (and whom I otherwise found attractive). Given the revival in anti-Semitism associated with his administration, I’d rather be celibate than deal with the self-loathing that would inevitably accompany such an encounter. I can cope with celibacy, and I don’t need more self-loathing.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
Matlock and I got our pictures taken this morning. My eyes aren't usually that baggy, I swear. I was just tired.
One of nososure's best friends broke up with her boyfriend over her attending that event in Denver. It was a sexist thing he said, he being of a Cheeto dumpster fire bent.
I have few principles about potential romantic/sexual partners that I will never break. One is that I will not become involved with anyone who supports Cheeto Benito. I’m not merely saying this arbitrarily; I actually did turn down an offer for sex from someone who I found out was a Dump supporter (and whom I otherwise found attractive). Given the revival in anti-Semitism associated with his administration, I’d rather be celibate than deal with the self-loathing that would inevitably accompany such an encounter. I can cope with celibacy, and I don’t need more self-loathing.
Masturbation is sex with someone you love, so that's all good.
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It seems every president does that proclamation thing. Your country is weird.
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
I feel like Robert Reich's little dialogues are a little too cute sometimes. Maybe they're real but edited to make them punchier...
I did have some thoughts about the possibility of impeachment though.
First is... if Trump is impeached during the current Congress, he almost certainly will be convicted. This is in spite of it requiring 67 votes in the Senate. Trump needs some ace up his sleeve to prevent it. Why is that?
1. The GOP leadership probably needs to be on board for impeachment to happen.
2. Around 50% or more of the House GOP probably needs to vote for it, otherwise they'll close ranks, rather than letting it pass with Democratic votes over the objection of most Republicans
3. As Omar said, "You come at the king, you best not miss." Given #1 and 2, they won't impeach unless they have the votes to convict. Assuming you get nearly 100%, if not 100%, of Democrats, the GOP even has quite a bit of wriggle room to let some vulnerable incumbents preserve their status among the Trumpkins.
The question is then about the likelihood of those conditions being satisfied.
In my opinion, the GOP is making a mistake, however, if they think they can impeach and convict and have a result that leaves them coming out ahead, or even merely staunches the bleeding. Trump will fight back, for one. And for another... he won't stop lashing out just because you've removed him from power. He will do everything he can to destroy the people who betrayed him, even if he's doing it from Twitter in Trump Tower, instead of from the White House. Maybe they think they can make him the fall guy for their unpopular agenda... but you can bet Trump will blame them for the failure of their agenda (and he'll actually be right) if he's kicked out of office.
They must really want to starve granny, oppress workers and watch children die from preventable diseases due to lack of health insurance. It's the only explanation for why they're not standing up to him now, even when he's doing things like appointing Ben Carson to HUD and putting Rick Perry in charge of the nukes which probably don't fall under things they actually want to happen.
That said, while I do think impeachment under a scenario similar to Reich describes is possible, it's also quite possible they lose their nerve and/or they decide that the biggest lesson of 2009-2016 is to never allow any bipartisanship, and try to rely on pure partisan tribalism to protect them from the damage of the Trump presidency and their own horrific agenda. They may decide it's better to go down with Trump and hope they hold onto the 42% or so of tribal Republicans by never granting the Democrats an inch.
That, of course, depends highly on what the polls tell them. It is possible that Trump will become so unpopular that they conclude that removing Trump is the more palatable option. But the GOP has such a concentration of crazy that it might be pretty hard for Trump to stop having at least plurality support within the party...
No more TPP either... and I wonder how smart that was. Among the qualifications to be in the trade agreement were certain standards of anti-corruption legislation and enforcement, environmental regulations, and regulations against child labor. None of which China or India could qualify for, so this would have been a good way of leveling the playing field where trade is concerned.
No more TPP either... and I wonder how smart that was. Among the qualifications to be in the trade agreement were certain standards of anti-corruption legislation and enforcement, environmental regulations, and regulations against child labor. None of which China or India could qualify for, so this would have been a good way of leveling the playing field where trade is concerned.
This levelling will now happen by the US striving to match China and India in corruption, environmental damage and labour abuse.
"We speak Dutch," the video pitch mentions. "It's the best language in Europe. We've got all the best words. All the other languages failed. Danish total disaster. German is not even a real language. It's fake."
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