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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
How much of the deregulation from Trump's appointees can be fixed under a new administration? I get the feeling large-scale deregulation is unfortunately easier that putting regulations in place to begin with (partly because it's also easy to convince people that regulations hurt jobs and are expensive).
edited 12th May '18 1:12:09 PM by Raptorslash
It's dangerous to ascribe to them more competency then they actually have, Trump is almost certainly not engaging in a strategy and it would be a mistake to think that he is.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangObama Care's repeal failed because the Republicans knew the truth:
1. They want it gone because they want to milk every single dime from their constituents like Scrooge Mc Duck
2. Their base will never give up free money (how they see it).
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I'm aware of why Obamacare's repeal failed, this does not contradict my point. That the GOP's continual failure is not a strategy and to view it as one would be giving them far more credit then they deserve.
edited 12th May '18 1:35:46 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangIs there a reason why the Republicans are gutting the EPA rather than just destroying it outright, since they have the necessary control of Congress to do that?
Presumably a Democratic president can kick out Pruitt and restore the EPA, though that will take time and effort. I'm surprised they haven't dismantled it entirely since they have the opportunity.
edited 12th May '18 2:14:57 PM by Raptorslash
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-kelly-family-separation-policy-illegal-border-crossing-2018-5
Yeah...
this.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.They've done a lot of what they wanted like dismantling the EPA.
That doesn't really contradict my position that they're incapable of governing.
Yeah...
this.
edited 12th May '18 3:03:14 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangHere's the original interview conducted by NPR, for those interested in the John Kelly statement
. The above-quoted portion is at the end.
The name of the game to a large degree. Let me step back and tell you that the vast majority of the people that move illegally into United States are not bad people. They're not criminals. They're not MS-13. Some of them are not. But they're also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society. They're overwhelmingly rural people in the countries they come from – fourth, fifth, sixth grade educations are kind of the norm. They don't speak English, obviously that's a big thing. They don't speak English. They don't integrate well, they don't have skills. They're not bad people. They're coming here for a reason. And I sympathize with the reason. But the laws are the laws. But a big name of the game is deterrence.
Family separation stands as a pretty tough deterrent.
It could be a tough deterrent — would be a tough deterrent. A much faster turnaround on asylum seekers.
Even though people say that's cruel and heartless to take a mother away from her children?
I wouldn't put it quite that way. The children will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever. But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long.
edited 12th May '18 4:19:27 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"@ Wyldchyld on the previous page: And I do believe that the Republican you mentioned, who did read the documents and afterward expressed his support for Mueller and the investigation, is none other than Trey Gowdy, he of Benghazi fame and the one who recently accompanied Nunes to the DOJ to keep things civil. That says a lot.
edited 12th May '18 4:44:06 PM by Ingonyama
Yes, it was Gowdy. Gowdy has defended the House's claim that their investigation found nothing of concern, yet even he says Mueller should be allowed the independence to conduct and conclude his investigation properly. He has even suggested that Trump should go ahead with the Mueller interview.
Has anyone seen this? It's Buzzfeed, but it has been reported on The Hill as well.
In short, whereas past presidents have reached out to all families affected by school shootings, Trump has only offered condolences to the families that support him and ignored the rest.
These Families Of Parkland Shooting Victims Are Still Waiting To Hear From Trump
The mention came as a surprise to the families of students and staffers who died, who wondered why Trump would discuss the mass shooting at a political event — but not reach out to them personally. Two dads of Parkland victims took to Twitter hours after his speech to say as much.
“I have not received any communication from the president or anyone in his administration,” Schentrup told Buzz Feed News. “Having said that, other lawmakers from both Republican and Democrat parties have reached out to my family.”
Buzz Feed News spoke to nine families of Parkland victims. Of them, eight have not heard from the president since the shooting nearly three months ago. One told Buzz Feed News they have heard from and met with Trump. The other eight families of victims declined to comment or didn’t respond.
“Our president has been very successful in kind of making people like me just say, ‘That’s who he is and so, I guess it doesn’t matter, because that’s who he is,’” Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime died in the shooting, told Buzz Feed News.
“But yeah, it ticks me off for this reason— I’m at a point where it’s like, you know what, if he doesn’t want to reach out to me, nobody has the obligation to offer condolence. To me, in his position, it would have been the right thing to do, but no one’s obligated.
“However,” Guttenberg said, “don’t use my daughter’s life for a political moment, and that’s what he did, and that pisses me off.”
Guttenberg is one of the parents who called Trump out on Twitter on Friday. He responded to a remark by Vice President Mike Pence, who said, “after these tragedies, America has seen President Trump’s leadership on full display.”
Meadow’s father, Andrew Pollack, who has been a vocal supporter of adding more armed personnel at schools, told Buzz Feed News said that he met with the president twice within a month of the massacre — once before a public listening session at the White House and again during a separate meeting on school safety.
Pollack said that the White House has been “very helpful.”
The president also sent a letter sent to the Pollack family, dated March 12. “I am deeply grateful for your presence at the White House for discussion regarding school safety,” the typed message reads.
edited 12th May '18 5:33:19 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.- sigh*
I keep hoping at some point the Trump=Nazi thing will STOP GETTING EVIDENCE.
http://observer.com/2018/05/juan-pablo-andrade-nazis-turning-point-usa/
edited 12th May '18 9:28:28 PM by Eschaton
There are white supremacist members of the Orthodox Jewish community.
Basically its an easy way to prey on any community’s racism while convincing themselves that they won’t somehow be persecuted too. Being a minority doesn’t necessarily prevent that shit.

The FDA chief, Scott Gottlieb
, seems to be pretty good, too. But that might be in comparison to the others.
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"