GOP Columnist David Brooks Opines…

I want to see what he does with national security.  I want to see what he does with North Korea.  I want to see what he does to the economy.  I want to see what he does with respect to strengthening the borders.

 

I don’t, I’ve already seen what he can do with his executive orders, his utterly incompetent levels of law knowledge, how he treats the other branches of the government, how he treats his staff, how he spins/deflects EVERYTHING away from himself instead of taking responsibility for clear and obvious shortcomings, how he BLATANTLY lies about things that are so easily fact checked and then when he gets called out he spins/deflects responsibility for his lies. The man is a sociopath, if your idea of change is to flip everything into chaos then get the f**k away from me. Were there a lot of things wrong prior to Trump taking office? Yes. But you don’t stop a leaking gas pump by lighting a match. Trump is on an extraordinarily dangerous path right now, it’s only a matter of time before he does or says something that results in a significant emergency. Protests are one thing, all-out riots, even revolt against one of his orders appears to be inevitable. And at what point does he do something that is so against the will of an individual state/states that those states just flat out say “no” and go against the will of the president?

Meanwhile the rest of the world is just sitting and watching (laughing) this absolute circus, this country just rip itself to shreds. It’s a total dumpster fire and Trump is backing up the gas tanker ready to fuel the flames.

You claim that they sneaked around everyone’s back with these actions but overturning onerous regulations was a flat out promise from Trump himself.  He is doing EXACTLY what he said he was going to do and calling his bluff would be a huge mistake at this point.

Excellent links, Trump can’t be happy that even Fox news doesn’t support the border wall. The environmental impact of this wall could be devastating to wildlife.
Perhaps we need to step back and look at immigration reform, helping other countries like Mexico et al build their economies so their citizens don’t feel like they have to come here and pick crops or do day labor just to make a buck.
The real solution to immigration across our southern border seems to be a non starter for some.

Side note: I find it amusing that the board censors “p iss”, but not “s**tshow”. 🙂

His deregulation executive order was absolutely insane, not from a policy perspective, but from a sanity perspective. It barely registered a blip on the media’s radar. 

I can’t help but feel like Trump is out front commanding all the attention, while the actual players are using that distraction to pass things that otherwise might p**s people off.

This is common practice regardless of which party holds more sway, like things passing quietly on Christmas and/or New Years Eve. NDAA 2012 hidden clause springs to mind.

This common practice, in my opinion, lends some credence to the idea that privately the US has been a one party system, publically masquerading as two, for quite a while. At least since 2001, perhaps since 1963. Blocking of other party candidates from ballots and debates is further evidence.

Seriously, this is the kind of stuff that gets overblown. I didn’t vote for Trump and I think he is bat sh*t crazy but I am so tired of the media twisting news and not letting us the reader determine the implications of the changes.

@skiny-you do realize that the legisltaion regarding coal mines and streams was a new piece of legistation that the Obama Admin put in place right before Trump came into office. So your statement about allowing the dumping of coal polition into streams is way overblown. The EPA rules for streams are still in place like they have been all along and the water won’t be any more polluted than it has been throughout all of Obama’s administration. 

Referring to the endangered species legisltion; it hasn’t even been brought up for a vote in the House(btw it has to pass both houses of congress) and yet you are talking about it like its a done deal and Trump snuck another by us. Dude, at least read the article and don’t get sucked into the hype. Btw this was not a Faux News article. Check your sources.  Oh, and is taking time to analize the economic impact of the species act really that terrible. I bet you would feel differently if it ment the elimnation of your job or business. 

Isn’t 50 laboratories of democracy preferable to this circus?

In some ways, yes. In lots of other ways, no. When each state starts deciding their own set of things like environmental regulations or safety standards or financial regulations without any sort of national commonality, you’re just begging for a disaster. In states with very small minority populations, who protects the civil rights of these minorities when the majority feels they are of little importance? Living as a non-LDS person in Utah, the prospect of this state establishing a completely independent set of regulations and laws is utterly terrifying.

It’s never as simple as “States Good, Federal Bad” or vice versa, and the truth lies somewhere in the middle.