Obama not loving America
I read a writer's post of Redstate yesterday and she stated that Obama did not love America. while I will agree Obama was not a great or even good president (he was, at best, lower end of mediocre, IMHJO). I feel this was a false statement to make and way over the top. This really shocked me as I respect her and have found her to be usually level headed. I hope this was just a momentary lapse and her being merely human.
#MAGA
If ISIS really wants to get under Trump's skin, they should make hats with the above hashtag but add under it "Make Arabia Great Again". The early morning tweets from Trump and Spicer's press briefings would be classic in their meltdowns.
Take On Wall Street
Remember how Trump, during the campaign, promised to take on Wall Street and stand up for the common man? Well, it seems that what he really meant by taking on Wall Street was that he would take on Wall Street as his chief advisers and cabinet members and screw the common man. He is looking for them to reduce regulations, which, on the surface, seems like a good idea, but is in reality a cover to reduce protections for the common man and employee.
As a Classical Liberal, I'm all for shrinking government and reducing the amount of regulations that really aren't necessary but Trump will ultimately shaft the common man. Remember, the wealthy, the corporations, etc, do not have never created jobs on a large scale. All they have ever done is, bottom line, provided jobs created by the consumer. It is the consumer that creates jobs and the Great Depression helped prove that as a true fact in an unequivocal manner.
Journalists not reporting/under reporting terrorism.
This is a patently false statement by Trump and his administration is that it is being done in a deliberate manner with the agenda to undermine him. Not every act of terrorism is going to garner the same attention due to limitations of resources, time and/or space. When Trump released his list, he failed to list the Quebec Mosque incident or the Charleston SC Church incident. Both are classic acts of terrorism but Trump wrongly believes that it is impossible for domestic terrorism to occur by those who are not Muslim. His misguided and definitively wrong belief will allow for the resurgence of Right Wing and White Racist terrorism.
Government efficiency
Too many people are under the impression that the federal government needs to act in a quick and efficient manner. The Founding Fathers settled on creating a government that under normal circumstances would operate in a slow, deliberate manner. There was no single intent of the Founding Fathers and never was. The myth perpetrated by the Right about the "Intent of the Founding Fathers" is just that, a myth. The Constitution and the Federal Government is a series of alternatives and compromises. You had Hamilton on one end and Jefferson on the other with Madison being more towards the middle but leaning towards Jefferson while Adams was also more towards the middle but leaning towards Hamilton. The rest of the Framers and Founding Fathers also fell between Hamilton and Jefferson to varying degrees, which is further proof that there was no single "Intent of the Founding Fathers".
Efficiency means not wasteful, not speedy. People need to realize that.
Trump not committed to democracy, the Constitution or Separation of Powers
A look at his speeches from both his campaign and inauguration makes a great case for him wanting to be an autocrat, as this article points out:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/02/07/unlike-all-previous-u-s-presidents-trump-almost-never-mentions-democratic-ideals/?utm_term=.e5579c8b1b5a
And then this article in the New Yorker further backs up this point and I am quoting Evan McMullin from the article so the Right won't think that it is a hit piece:
http://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/how-president-trump-could-seize-more-power-after-a-terrorist-attack
“I do believe the world faces a serious and growing terrorist threat,” Evan McMullin, the former C.I.A. officer and Republican who ran for President as an independent candidate against Trump, said. “But Trump, either by ignorance or malice, is distorting the nature of that threat by targeting very well-vetted immigrants, including legal permanent residents and refugees. He simply does not have a strong national-security case to make against these people, which is why it is reasonable to wonder if he has some ulterior motive for taking such extreme steps against them.”
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Trump’s efforts to hype the threat from terrorism during a period of domestic calm should be regarded with extreme skepticism. As McMullin noted, “Trump’s strange focus on the terrorist threat” was “out of step with reality at the moment” and was “a telltale sign of a leader contemplating policies that would otherwise be unacceptable.”
G. O. JUB
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