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POTUS 45.0: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

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Drew S. said:
That never made any sense to me. Hopefully it happens eventually.
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It's like the Affordable Care Act. It's okay when it's _their_idea, but it's the worst thing in the world when it's proposed by the other side. If they don't get credit for it then they have to fight it.
 
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Kepler said:
How the heck did he win re-election, though?

That's the thing I don't get about LePage, Snyder, and Brownback. They've all been exposed as morons who are tanking their states, yet IINM they all won re-elections. What the actual f-ck?
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In Snyder's case - 2010, he was able to run as an outsider against a socialist mayor of Lansing, after two terms of all-talk/no hat "Professor" Granholm. Of course he was going to win that one going away.

2014, the Democrats ran a p-ssy moderate who refused to attack or even defend himself. Synder ran ads every 5 minutes trumpeting his economic reforms and declaring, "The Schauer is over". He ended up winning by 4%. Flint's water problem didn't come out until long after the election was over. Schauer is now chairing the Advantage 2020 super PAC that is aiming to get Democrats back in at the legislative level as part of redistricting in 2020.
 
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Woo! Trump met with some fellow Fortune 100 CEO's today and promised to "Wipe out at least 75% or the regulations that hinder their businesses and help fast-track plans to open factories."

(DailyHerald.com, from the WaPo)

Drill, Baby, Drill!! Along with valuing our National Park Lands at $0, we're going to de-regulate everything!!
 
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Did they just announce a federal hiring freeze for everything but national security positions?

Holy shiat
 
aparch said:
Woo! Trump met with some fellow Fortune 100 CEO's today and promised to "Wipe out at least 75% or the regulations that hinder their businesses and help fast-track plans to open factories."

(DailyHerald.com, from the WaPo)

Drill, Baby, Drill!! Along with valuing our National Park Lands at $0, we're going to de-regulate everything!!
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Republicans really are a treat. There's no consideration for anything but making profits now. You could have Reagan rise from the dead, tell them that their grandkids will be chocking and drowning from global warming in 50 years, and they'd still be more worried about getting richer now.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
That will help the economy. :rolleyes:
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No, no, no... See, according to WaPo (saw it reprinted in Chicago at DailyHerald.com) this hiring freeze is in Trump's "contract with the American voter," where he promises to drain the swamp of corruption and special interest. It's totally in the best interest of his constituents and a key part of how he is going to 'Make America Great Again!'

[Hang on while I catch my breath from laughing]




Yep. Let's let him nominate all his buddies to cabinet positions and then immediately put a freeze on hiring middle class people into government jobs where they might be able to make better lives for themselves or their children.

Let's not negotiate a Trans-Pacific trade agreements, turn our backs to them, and claim it's for the good of the citizens who now have to pay higher prices for merchandise. And/or wait for these so called factory jobs to start.

Let's remove regulation from industries, pillage and burn resources to the ground for no reason from our national park land, then p*ss on middle and lower classes and tell them it's just the water from putting out said fires.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Republicans really are a treat. There's no consideration for anything but making profits now. You could have Reagan rise from the dead, tell them that their grandkids will be chocking and drowning from global warming in 50 years, and they'd still be more worried about getting richer now.
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Profit and Shareholders being the only thing Corporations are accountable for is 99% of the problem. It didn't used to be like that.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
People are getting what they voted for. Congrats to all the people who didn't vote for Hillary Clinton.
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I'm being petty and small minded, but one of the things that gets me through the day is knowing there will be millions of people who voted for trump who will suffer in some small way because he was elected. Some will suffer in larger ways, and yes, some who voted for him will even die as a result of some monumentally stupid decision Trump makes. Despite all evidence that showed Trump to be potentially disastrous in game changing ways for our society, these rubes voted for him. They deserve the suffering that is coming their way. 4 years from now we should remind them all of their idiocy and ask if they regret their vote. The ones that are still alive that is.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Why do we need to have 1,100 positions that require Senate confirmation? Are they all really that important that we need to have votes on them? That seems absurdly high to me.

Now, with regards to firing everyone from the Obama administration, failing to hire virtually anyone to fill those positions, and then backtracking on some of the firings, this administration has been demonstrably awful at what they claimed to be the best in history.
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And how many of those positions, just out of curiosity, were created in the last 16 years? That includes Dubya.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Why do we need to have 1,100 positions that require Senate confirmation? Are they all really that important that we need to have votes on them? That seems absurdly high to me.

Now, with regards to firing everyone from the Obama administration, failing to hire virtually anyone to fill those positions, and then backtracking on some of the firings, this administration has been demonstrably awful at what they claimed to be the best in history.
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Since neither you or I works in a management capacity for the Federal Government I don't know that either of us have an answer. I would like to think that "cuts" could happen. Unfortunately every time it's done it's done in an "across the board" or "shut down the government" manor. Also, everyone always comes in and says they're going to slash out the waste. Yet, it never happens. So, the only conclusion I can draw since I don't work there is those jobs are necessary to the function of our government. For me to say otherwise would be arrogant and foolish.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Since neither you or I works in a management capacity for the Federal Government I don't know that either of us have an answer. I would like to think that "cuts" could happen. Unfortunately every time it's done it's done in an "across the board" or "shut down the government" manor. Also, everyone always comes in and says they're going to slash out the waste. Yet, it never happens. So, the only conclusion I can draw since I don't work there is those jobs are necessary to the function of our government. For me to say otherwise would be arrogant and foolish.
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I don't mean eliminate the positions, I mean eliminate the requirement to have them confirmed by the Senate.
 
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