I know, right? I mean, some people in government have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats. That makes them automatically suspect. Like this guy: https://img.washingtonpost.com...
Or for an even more lopsided example, this guy: https://img.washingtonpost.com...
I don't know how the president could ever get a fair hearing when there are people like that in the government.
Hiring free market, limited government judges.
But only 2 judges have been confirmed, and 15 more have been nominated even though there are 132 federal judicial vacancies.
Relaxing burdensome regulations - coal mine opening (and no the coal is not used for heating or electricity but for the production of steel)
But a lot of those regulations were issued in late December, so he's just revoking regulations that weren't in place very long anyway.
Pushing for (instead of against) the Keystone Pipeline
Sure, I'll grant you that.
Pushing for (instead of against) fracking
Pushing for (instead of against) off-shore drilling
I'm not sure there's actually much of a difference from Obama's policies. For instance, environmental groups were upset that the Obama administration approved 1500 offshore drilling and fracking applications from 2010 to October 2014 and oil production boomed under Obama.
Getting out of the TPP
That's different than what Obama pushed for, but Bernie Sanders, and eventually Hillary Clinton, both came out against the TPP. I'll grant you that it is a change in policy from the previous administration, though.
Getting out of the Paris Treaty
Yes, I agree that he did do that.
And, as you mentioned, increased funding and activity on illegal immigration.
But even that's a mixed bag. ICE arrests were up, but deportations were down during the first 100 days of Trump's presidency compared to the previous year.
But back to the subject of the article. The closure of federal data centers started before the Trump administration, and it seems as though he's now trying to take credit for it.
Not to mention that he's gotten no major legislation through. So I really do believe he's not very effective.
I'm a concrete thinker, so I'm going to need some examples. All right, I'll go the Mad Lib route with the help of the command line.
$ ruby -e 'print rand() * 100, "\n"'
52.99307311000596
Great, that's X. Now for y and Z
$ shuf -n 2
nepheloscope
poison-tipped
Okay, so now we'll see how the conversation would actually play out.
Conservative: That doesn't work, 52.99307311000596% of nepheloscopes are poison-tipped.
Liberal: No! 52.99307311000596 shouldn't be poison-tipped!
Conservative: "Should" doesn't matter, 52.99307311000596 -are- poison-tipped.
Liberal: You racist fuck, you think 52.99307311000596 should be poison-tipped!? That makes you a bigot!
Yep, sounds about like what I expect Thanksgiving dinner to be like.
It is built on the backs of free, stolen content and that's how they got that big,
Dude, they're just following your advice.
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. -- Dave Olson
