Trump

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Love, hate, fear, waiting, etc.   Trump is here, he is real, and he is impacting the world.   


Trump is actually doing what I expected, he is leading.  Make no mistake, what happens now from the USA Government is Trump, he is driving the train.  While some Repubs may say otherwise (e.g., McCain) Trump is making the US Agenda. 


So here is my migration thread from the election thread.  I plan to only post here and stop posting on the elections thread because Adam asked really nicely. 

Yes Adam, we both know that is not true. 

From a US Military view (majority, not all), they are excited to have a real Commander In Chief again, this is even more so than when Reagan took over from Carter. 

After 3 days of President Trump, I am personally more hopeful for America that I have been since Saint Ronald.  Damn the Torpedoes and full ahead.  I believe he is on the right (correct) track.  Yes I will not agree with all he will do, but so far he is doing fine by me. 

Build the Wall. 

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Whoa: State Department’s entire senior management team resigns

By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives January 26, 2017

This is going to be one of those stories that’s either awesome or horrifying, depending on your predilections. If you’re a creature of Washington who believes in the sage wisdom of “nonpartisan” career bureaucrats, then you’re horrified that these fine, experienced public servants feel they can’t serve under the wild-eyed lunatic Donald Trump. If you’re interested in draining the swamp, on the other hand, it’s hard to get more drainy than this:

    The State Department’s entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, The Washington Post reported.

    Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s undersecretary for management who had served in the role for nine years, resigned unexpectedly along with three of his top officials

    Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, resigned as well, the report said.

    All of them served under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

    They join a number of other officials who have departed since President Trump took office last week.

    The State Department’s entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, The Washington Post reported.

    Patrick Kennedy, the agency’s undersecretary for management who had served in the role for nine years, resigned unexpectedly along with three of his top officials

    Assistant Secretary of State for Administration Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Michele Bond and Ambassador Gentry O. Smith, director of the Office of Foreign Missions, resigned as well, the report said.

    All of them served under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

    They join a number of other officials who have departed since President Trump took office last week.

http://canadafreepress.com/article/whoa-state-departments-entire-senior-management-team-resigns#

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EPA Employees ‘Coming to Work in Tears’ Because of Trump Win
'The mood remains dark'

BY: Elizabeth Harrington   
January 26, 2017 11:52 am

Environmental Protection Agency employees have not accepted Donald Trump’s victory and are still “coming to work in tears” more than two months after the election.

“At EPA headquarters, the mood remains dark,” ProPublica reported Wednesday. “A longtime career communications employee said in a phone interview Tuesday that more than a few friends were ‘coming to work in tears’ each morning as they grappled with balancing the practical need to keep their jobs with their concerns for the issues they work on.”

Trump’s victory has been tough for bureaucrats. The State Department held stress workshops after the election so they would not “become paralyzed by fear.” EPA employees were caught crying before, just after the election, as were White House aides. Energy Department employees were granted counseling. Sobbing staffers greeted Hillary Clinton on Capitol Hill a month after her loss.

EPA employees are upset that the new president will take a different approach than the Obama administration. ProPublica called Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general who has sued the EPA over its climate change regulations, to lead the agency “dramatic.”

The Trump administration froze all EPA grants and contracts to make sure new grants are in line with the new administration’s objectives. They also asked for the schedule of all planned meetings and presentations by the agency through mid-February.

Doug Ericksen, the EPA’s communications director for the transition, told National Public Radio that “we’ll take a look at what’s happening so that the voice coming from the EPA is one that’s going to reflect the new administration.”

Employees are also scared that the climate change part of the EPA’s website will be removed.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/epa-employees-coming-work-tears-trump-win/

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Outrage Dilution

Posted January 26th, 2017 @ 8:24am in #Trump #Whenhub

I’m having a fun time watching President Trump flood the news cycle with so many stories and outrages that no one can keep up. Here’s how the math of persuasion works in this situation:

1 outrage out of 3 headlines in a week: Bad Persuasion

25 outrages out of 25 headlines in a week: Excellent Persuasion

At the moment there are so many outrages, executive orders, protests, and controversies that none of them can get enough oxygen in our brains. I can’t obsess about problem X because the rest of the alphabet is coming at me at the same time.

When you encounter a situation that is working great except for one identifiable problem, you can focus on the problem and try to fix it. But if you have a dozen complaints at the same time, none of them looks special. The whole situation just looks confusing, and you don’t know where to start. So you wait and see what happens. Humans need contrast in order to make solid decisions that turn into action. Trump removed all of your contrast by providing multiple outrages of similar energy.

You’re probably seeing the best persuasion you will ever see from a new president. Instead of dribbling out one headline at a time, so the vultures and critics can focus their fire, Trump has flooded the playing field. You don’t know where to aim your outrage. He’s creating so many opportunities for disagreement that it’s mentally exhausting. Literally. He’s wearing down the critics, replacing their specific complaints with entire encyclopedias of complaints. And when Trump has created a hundred reasons to complain, do you know what impression will be left with the public?

He sure got a lot done.

Even if you don’t like it.

In only a few days, Trump has made us question what-the-hell every other president was doing during their first weeks in office. Were they even trying?

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For a fun party trick, ask your most liberal friends if they think the Federal government should have a say in whether a woman gets an abortion or not. When they say the Federal government should stay out of that decision, inform them that President Trump shares their opinion. He doesn’t want the Federal government to be in the business of making health care choices for women. He prefers leaving that decision to the woman, her doctor, and state laws.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/156399716951/outrage-dilution

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Trump is doubling down on voter fraud, this should be a great opportunity for libs to stick it to him egging him on as there is  nothing to see. 

Why Do Democrats Fear Trump’s Probe of “Fake” Voter Fraud?

http://townhall.com/columnists/deroymurdock/2017/01/28/why-do-democrats-fear-trumps-probe-of-fake-voter-fraud-n2277853
Deroy Murdock
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Posted: Jan 28, 2017 12:01 AM

NEW YORK — Three days into President Donald J. Trump’s action-packed first week in office, he promised “a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD,” as he explained Wednesday morning, via Twitter. This will include “those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!”

This impending probe follows Trump’s private remarks to congressional leaders Monday night that some 3 to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote last November 8.

Democrats, in response, are foaming at their mouths, although one wonders if they have any foam left. How odd. They should welcome this examination. If voter fraud really is a fevered, baseless, Right-wing fantasy, as they reliably insist, this investigation will vindicate them and make Trump look like a cranky, paranoid conspiracist. Liberals should smile and egg Trump on.

Instead, Rep. Adam Schiff (D–CA) warns, “Our new president is doing deep damage to himself and to our country.” Regarding Trump’s plan, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) insists: “Fight it NOW!”

Democrats and their sentinels in the Old Guard media unconvincingly argue that Trump offers “no evidence” of voter fraud, so don’t investigate. This total non-sequitur is akin to a doctor looking into a patient’s eyes and saying, “I see no evidence of lung cancer, so let’s skip that chest x-ray.”

In their hearts, the Left knows Trump is right, at least on the existence of voter fraud. And that’s what terrifies them. His investigation will highlight the fraud that exists and, furthermore, show whether these problems are as pervasive as Trump believes.

Indeed, registration irregularities are disturbingly routine. According to a 2012 Pew Center for the States report, 1.8 million dead Americans were registered to vote. Also, 2.75 million Americans were enrolled in two states each, while 68,725 were enrolled in three. Indeed, Pew found, “24 million — one of every eight — active voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.”

And, yes, Virginia. Voter fraud happens.

CBS2 Los Angeles found 265 dead voters in southern California last May. Many cast ballots “year after year.”

Ohio Democrats cheered Melowese Richardson at a May 2014 Cincinnati-area rally, as Townhall’s Guy Benson recalls. Richardson was convicted of voting twice in 2012 and casting ballots in three earlier elections on behalf of her comatose sister.

North Carolina announced in April 2014 that 13,416 dead voters were registered, of whom 81 recently had voted. Among 35,750 North Carolinians also registered in other states, 765 voted in the 2012 general election both inside and outside the Tarheel State.

South Carolina’s attorney general determined in January 2012 that 953 people “were deceased at the time of their participation in recent elections.”

In Fairfax County, Virginia, Heritage Foundation scholar Hans von Spakovsky discovered 278 non-citizens registered to vote in 2011, of whom 117 had voted in state and federal elections.

If these five examples seem paltry, check out the Heritage Foundation’s non-exhaustive sample of 742 criminal convictions for vote-fraud.

Media Matters ridiculed vote fraud concerns as “a series of myths that right-wing media have pushed for years.” And yet it keeps taking place.

It would help if Democrats, Left-wing activists, and the hyenas in America’s newsrooms explained just how “widespread” voter fraud must become before they consider it an injustice. Every ballot cast by a cadaver or an illegal alien negates a ballot completed by a legitimate voter. How many such genuine votes is it OK for fraud to obviate? Is it 100? How about 1,000? Maybe 10,000 — or ten times that figure?

How many on the Left who attack Trump on this issue would sign up to have their votes erased by invalid ballots? Every Leftist who screamed, “Count every vote!” during the 2000 Florida Bush v. Gore meltdown should empathize with the Right’s parallel imperative: “Protect every vote!”

While the world patiently awaits that development, America’s 45th president may pursue this issue as energetically as his predecessor concealed it.

“President Trump’s decision to renew the federal government’s interest in enforcing laws against election fraud and the procedures that work to prevent such activities is important,” said J. Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and former federal prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Voting Division. “The Obama Administration had the tools to fight voter fraud but let them gather dust. Because of that neglect of their duties, aliens got on the rolls, people voted multiple times, and lawlessness took hold of our elections.”

In Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, Adams chronicles the mercifully departed Obama Administration’s hostility to ballot-integrity laws. Indeed, former attorney general Eric Holder sued Florida in 2012 when state officials tried to remove 51,308 dead people and other ineligibles from voter rolls, as required by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 and the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993, signed by President Bill Clinton!

Adams recommends a machete that would help Trump chop quickly to the center of much of this fraud.

The Homeland Security Department’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database lists all non-citizens in America. These include green card holders, foreign tourists, exchange students, and those on work visas as well as illegals who have broken the law or otherwise surfaced on Uncle Sam's radar. Adams tells me: “This is the ultimate alien database.”

Comparing SAVE’s names with registered and actual voters should demonstrate, rather swiftly, the extent of non-citizen involvement in America’s election system. It also would identify violators, who should be punished.

“If that federal database were used to scrub the state databases,” Adams predicts, “all sorts of illegals would pop out. That’s what the Left fears the most. It would reveal rats everywhere.”

Obama barred state election officials from SAVE since, as he might have said, Let me be clear, vote fraud is a myth, so why measure it? When Florida successfully sued to access SAVE, DHS did not hand Tallahassee these records. Instead, Florida officials had to ask DHS to scrutinize each suspicious name individually. This slowed things to a trickle.

Trump should open SAVE’s spigots so every state may compare its voters against this massive database. States led by Republicans, who cherish ballot integrity, most assuredly will embrace these records.

In contrast, California, New York, and other Democrat strongholds likely will spurn SAVE.

Luckily, Adams observes, there is a statute for that. Then-U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy used 42 U.S. Code §1974b to acquire election-related documents from southern states that blocked blacks from voting in the early 1960s. What sweet justice for Trump to deploy the same duly enacted federal law that RFK harnessed to demand the voter rolls of intransigent Democrat states and determine if they are awash in illegal aliens and other non-citizen voters.

After Trump’s inquiry, the scale of voter fraud may or may not reach his claim of 3 to 5 million bogus ballots. By now, however, the Left should know better than to underestimate him. Trump has a gravity-defying knack for confounding his critics and landing on his feet.

Trump’s analysis almost surely will show that voter fraud is greater than zero, which is the number that Democrats claim it to be. And that’s the point. Americans should have zero tolerance for voter fraud. How sad that this problem is among the few things that reputedly tolerant Democrats actually tolerate.

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Going to try to post after BE had connection issues.  They continue to have display issues based on the characters on the above post (screen capture should be below).

The real shocker: Trump is a politician who delivers on his promises

http://nypost.com/2017/01/28/trump-is-a-politician-who-delivers-on-his-promises/

By Michael Walsh           January 28, 2017 | 9:25pm

Here we are, barely a week into the Trump administration, and half of the country that opposed him during the election is quivering with rage. He?s building the wall! He?s banning immigration from some Muslim countries! He?s wrecking ObamaCare! He?s sacking top officials at the State Department! He?s threatening sanctuary cities! What?s going on here?

It?s called: keeping his campaign promises.

The answer is simple: we?ve become so inured to politicians lying to us to get elected that we find it hard to believe that the new man in the White House actually meant what he said ? and can?t wait to get on with it.

Not since the heyday of Ronald Reagan have the Democrats been in such shock and disarray. First, they ? and their ?never Trump? collaborators on the right ? said he?d never get the nomination. When he did, they assured themselves there was no way he could beat the Hillary Clinton juggernaut so beloved of the media, the insulated superrich and the dependent class.

Whoops!

That all changed on Nov. 8. Of course, they?ve reacted to the upending of their fantasy world with petulance, threats, marches, actual violence and lawfare. Indeed, a few dead-enders calling themselves the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed suit last week charging the nation?s First Businessman with violations of the emoluments clause in the Constitution, which forbids US office holders from accepting things of value from foreigners.

Never mind that with that provision the Founders were trying to prevent officials from profiting from high office via bribes or blandishments; or that Trump has relinquished control of his real-estate businesses; and that his income prior to becoming president had nothing whatsoever do with the presidency. If it?s emoluments you?re seeking, check out the Clinton Foundation.

Even for some conservatives, the vigorous pace at which Trump is taking action is disorienting.

George H. W. Bush squandered the fruits of the Reagan revolution and the end of the Cold War in his pursuit of a ?new world order? and a duel with Saddam Hussein. His son talked a good game about immigration and terrorism but finished neither the fence Congress explicitly authorized in 2006 nor the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Even Reagan never abolished the education or energy departments, as he promised.

While Trump?s actions so far are mainly symbolic ? he still has to flesh out his Cabinet, push Congress to appropriate monies to begin construction and hire the diggers and masons for the wall ? he?s already given his supporters hope that this time, things just might be different.

And that?s what has everyone in the country in such an uproar. After 65 years of government by the congressional Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party, Americans now confront the brave new world of a president who will cut through the red tape and make change happen.

Half of America ? the coasts and the big cities ? is apparently shocked by Trump?s eagerness to start delivering on the promises that got him elected in the first place. They?re not used to a politician who not only means what he said on the campaign trail, but also is not dissuaded by the usual recalcitrant Washington bureaucracy, media nitpickers and congressional back-scratchers.

Doesn?t he know how the game is played? That the rule is to wink at the rubes who make up your base, then quickly join the insider?s game. After all, Republicans like the horse-trading majority leader Mitch McConnell and senator John McCain have fashioned entire careers out of promising their constituents one thing and delivering their big donors something altogether different. Surely, D.C. will corrupt Trump the way it has most everybody else.

Worst of all, they can?t believe the other half of America is actually cheering Trump on as, on one hot-button issue after another, he?s giving them exactly what they voted for, at warp speed.

First signs are they like it. Decisiveness has always been a prized quality; a recent Rasmussen poll put Trump?s approval rating at 59 percent and rising (although others have him as low as 36). The cries of ?You can?t do that!? are beginning to abate as Americans realize that, in fact, yes we can.

So what?s next? Look for the new Pentagon chief to quickly begin hitting ISIS harder. Look for a humane but effective evaluation of Obama?s permissive policy toward ?Dreamers? ? children of illegal aliens whose sob stories have passed their sell-by date. Look for sanctuary cities to come to heel as Trump?s threats to cut federal funds start to bite. (On Wednesday, Miami-Dade?s mayor announced a new policy of cooperation with Homeland Security regarding so-called ?detainer? requests, which the county up until now had been refusing for financial reasons.) Look for more housecleaning at State and elsewhere as the swamp drains and the number of undersecretaries dwindles.

And maybe, just maybe, look for a new attitude from the media if it wants to stay relevant: tough but fair.

What do you mean, he can?t do that?

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And for a little more relevance to some:

Donald Trump set to negotiate new trade deal with Australia

The Australian
11:33AM January 30, 2017

One of US President Donald Trump?s top trade advisers has raised speculation the US will attempt to negotiate a new free trade deal with Australia.

Peter Navarro, director of Mr Trump?s White House Trade Council, named Australia and New Zealand as two nations the Trump administration will seek bilateral deals with.

Australia already has a free trade agreement with the US, signed in 2004, but Mr Trump has repeatedly said he will look at every trade deal the US has signed and renegotiate them if he can get a better deal for American workers.

Professor Navarro, in an interview with FOX News in the US on Sunday, slammed Trump administration critics who argue the decision to pull America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership with Australia, New Zealand, Japan and eight other nations will empower US trade rival China.

?They?d be right if we weren?t going to go right to Japan and Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and Thailand and negotiate bilateral deals,? Professor Navarro told FOX News.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is holding out hope a TPP deal might still survive without the US.

Mr Navarro however described the TPP as ?flawed?, the ?biggest bogus argument in the world? and absurd that the ?kingdom of Brunei would have had the same vote? as the US.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Thursday in Los Angeles there has been no indication from the Trump administration their agreement would be renegotiated.

?The Australia-US free trade agreement works very much in the US favour in the sense that there is a significant trade surplus,? Ms Bishop told reporters.

?We have a trade deficit with the US and there certainly has been no indication at all that the administration is looking to renegotiate the US-Australia free trade agreement.? Prof Navarra said ?nobody in Asia wants to deal with China?. ?They?re afraid of China,? Prof Navarro said.

?Right now China is bullying Taiwan, China is bullying Japan, China is using its economic power basically to have its way with the rest of that region and these countries that are subject to that - which is every country in that region - loves to be with America because we represent democracy, freedom, economic growth, prosperity and we don?t hold a gun to their head and try to make them do whatever we want to do.

?We reach out and say, ?Hey, look let?s work together strategically economically?.? Prof Navarro said the TPP was flawed because it was a multi-lateral deal. ?That?s not what the Trump administration is going to do,? he said. ?The problem with multilateral deals is we reduce our bargaining power and surrender our sovereignty.

?In a TPP the kingdom of Brunei would have had the same vote as the United States of America.

?That?s absolutely absurd.?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/foreign-affairs/donald-trump-set-to-negotiate-new-trade-deal-with-australia/news-story/fdf7a3c37e03642ded9b1f9aa373b559


BTW, often when you try a link you get their subscription page.  What seems to work is google the title and link that way, seems to by-pass the subscription requirement. 

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OK, I admit I am a Trump fan.  That is because I have been the big boss and forced my views upon those that did not believe.  However, my boss took me out because I did not say what he wanted. 

Trump has no big boss other than will of the American people.  And having lived in the heartland of Trumps winning, I cannot help but agree with him. 

Want some more, just go back to all those that said Trump could not win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAPv3zIbzmk

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Well interesting day, Trump fired the Acting AG for saying the DOJ would not defend Trump's immigration Order and the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 

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WHY TRUMP WON: CLINTON SECRET REVEALED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdYr21zAPqE

Regards

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Wow, what an idiot GVT the USA has. Now I have no urge to try Haggis, but if others want to partake it would be fine with me. 

How does that saying go, one man's feast is another man's Famine.

Haggis and black pudding US ban ?could be lifted?

Traditional Scottish haggis has been banned in America since the 1970s.

But now, along with black pudding, Scottish lamb and beef, the dish could be back on the menu stateside.

The US Department of Agriculture has long objected to one of the key ingredients in the Scottish delicacy ? sheep?s lung.

No food for human consumption, whether made locally in the USA or imported from overseas, can contain the animal organ.
http://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/retail/haggis-and-black-pudding-us-ban-could-be-lifted-1-4353500

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mm, hopefully when we get calves soon, that well known Isaan delicacy placenta stew with cow shit sauce will be on the menu again.

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mm, hopefully when we get calves soon, that well known Isaan delicacy placenta stew with cow shit sauce will be on the menu again.

I understand Urleft uses 'bullshit' to make it!!