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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
You can give those as a reason to reorganize, yes.
Now that I've looked at the Survey; yes, it is. Under the Department of Homeland Security in the Cabinet Agencies, not the Other Agencies, Boards and Commissions.
edited 14th Apr '17 8:38:41 AM by DingoWalley1
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Or they can just read the data however they want to and ignore your reasons, so, you know, be careful about that.
This survey is just a way for the Trump administration to say "See? We were right, the citizens agree with us!" And they'll try to warp whatever the results are to suit their needs. So, I'm inclined to say that nothing should be changed unless it's something that really does need it. They just want to justify their BS.
It would be funny if ICE was the only thing that got a significant response. They would have no idea what to do with that.
I am worried that the IRS will get a big response asking for it to be axed because it's, you know, completely necessary to the functioning of the government. Yeah, paying taxes sucks, but it is genuinely your duty as a law abiding citizen to pay taxes to the government that provides a ton of services.
Time: Inside the Grassroots Movement to Groom a New Generation of Democratic Candidates
This is a brief survey of Ossoff and some of the ways young people have started to get involved in politics as Democrats after Trump's victory.
Despite the surveyors limiting this study to women, tis more important for a general sobering trend it may reveal. Some Women Who Backed President Trump May Be Having Second Thoughts
The focus groups, which were conducted by Democracy Corps on behalf of Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund, collected observations from 52 women in battleground states where there was disappointing turnout for Democrats in 2016 and in midterm elections.
The researchers found that when presented with the Congressional Budget Office's findings about the AHCA and Trump's proposed budget, the women who voted for Trump didn't push back, which is how many Trump voters have previously responded when presented with negative information about him. Instead, voters expressed doubts about the health plan and budget, and concern that Trump's wealth — which was such an asset to him during the election — may be impeding his ability to understand their needs.
"During the campaign, his wealth worked for him: he was an independent actor, he couldn’t be influenced the same way, he didn’t need the money, all those arguments were powerful," says Page Gardner, founder and president of Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund. "You now see that his wealth has become in some ways a negative for him. Because if he’s proposing all these cuts which they can’t understand, the wealth is now ‘he doesn’t understand my life, he’s lived a pampered life, he doesn’t get it, he’s never walked in my shoes.'"
"That’s very important I think, because these are voters who voted for him because they thought he understood their frustration and their needs," she said.
...Even in groups where they were outnumbered by Trump supporters, the anti-Trump participants were so vocal that focus group moderators had to coax the Trump supporters into the discussion. ...women who supported Trump are having some serious doubts. They still supported his "straight-shooter" approach and wanted him to deal with immigration and border control, but they also called him a "hot head," "egotistical," and worried his lack of experience in foreign affairs could "lead to war."
In short, people are starting to realize why sticking your hand in the toaster oven is a bad idea. We told them and told them and told them, but they were like, "DUDE, don't f*cking tell me what to do." And now they're nursing second-degree burns and reconsidering whether or not they should have been listening.
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So this only speaks about these Trump voters who do follow sufficiently non-partisan news. Afraid that that is not a big proportion of Trump voters.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanSomething interesting I came across:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/donald-trump-steve-bannon-breitbart-215026
If Trump Fired Bannon, Would He Seek Revenge?
Friends and foes imagine his options for brutal payback.
Parting ways with Donald Trump’s chief strategist, it seems, is rarely a simple proposition. But with Trump undercutting Bannon in recent interviews and speculation running rampant that he could soon lose his job amid vicious West Wing infighting, the White House may soon be doing just that.
I asked friends and foes alike to imagine how, should Bannon get the boot, the pugnacious populist might exact his revenge.
Taken together, their suggestions amount to an epic, Kill Bill-style revenge saga that starts with Bannon leaking personal dirt on his enemies to the tabloids, using the megaphone of Breitbart News to exacerbate divisions inside the administration, and siccing an army of internet trolls on his adversaries to harass and defame them. It ends with Bannon using Cambridge Analytica data to identify and primary their vulnerable allies in Congress, then releasing a “Where Trump Went Wrong” documentary on the eve of the November midterms and finally—in this revenge fantasy’s epic climax—running against Trump himself in 2020.
Bannon doesn't seem like the type who'd run for president.
Donald Trump has overtaken Barack Obama on executive orders
and, as always, there's a Trump tweet that could be used to criticize Trump himself
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I've thought of that too. It's currently my favorite slogan. "Hindsight is 2020." Anyone who runs that will win because it's snappy, it's funny, and it's easy to get behind. That means people will say it. A lot.
Hillary had two slogans but no one was really saying them much besides her. Trump's supporters, on the other hand, were screaming MAGA at the top of their lungs.
edited 14th Apr '17 12:15:02 PM by TobiasDrake
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