Trump's Day One accomplishments - your predictions!

[flowerseverywhere]

Trump and the republicans bashed bashed Obama in 2016 for his use of executive orders. Funny how quickly that all changed

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...their-effects/

over 300 executive orders so far. Wonder how many will hold up in court? Of mind is birthright citizenship. I could be wrong, but Doesn’t that need congressional approval and possibly changing or adding to the constitution?
and some of the firings will be fought. Every president replaces some positions but to outright say he is firing his enemies seems to be overstepping. Some are protected by contracts and unions.

also, is it lawful not to fund spending that congress has approved? I guess the angst, money and time spent on lawsuits are not going to move us forward. I do fear for some who have lost their protection whom Trump continues to bash and says they are traitors who should be jailed. Like Miley and Fauci. Their are some nutcases out there who might take that as an order.

[iris lilies]

Yes, the growing number of exec orders from each administration points out then growing problem of over reaching government. Doesn’t matter which party is in control. This is very bad for our country. I don’t see the genie going back in the bottle.

And do keep in mind that we are hyper aware of these many EO’s because

1) Trump is loud and proud about pushing them out
2) media is cooperating with Trumpism by bleating them everywhere and passing out a fair amount of fake news along with them but whattaya fonna do?

As for those that will be immediately taken to court—I do not like that either. At all.

[Rogar]

I think he may be testing the limits of how much he can get away with.

The federal employee buyout will be interesting. The first to go will be the ones about to retire and the disgruntled who are skilled and highly employable elsewhere. Six months pay is not that much for jobs that are normally considered career jobs with health and pension benefits that are rare these days. His figures on the number of fed employees working from home is most likely highly inflated, as usual, but based on anecdotal observation working from home sometimes becomes a balance with child care, playing Frisbee with Fido, browsing Netflix, and work. I think it's probably a good idea to get many or most of these back into an office and team environment.

There should be plenty of job openings in agriculture and construction for displaced federal workers.

[iris lilies]

TBH, there is a lot I like about RFK, Jr. Everything except his vaccine nonsense.

I have decided I can’t stand RFK Junior. I tried, I really did. I tried to get over my Kennedy phobia. I always disliked the whole passel of RFK Senior’s kids. They were around my age, the old ones anyway, and so loud and in the news and having drug overdoses and killing people and getting injured and just being reckless.

I listened to four hours of the guy in an interview with Megyn Kelly. Megyn was not easy on him, but she wasn’t antagonistic in tone towards him either. He does not debate honestly and that to me is the bottom line. He keeps changing the subject and jumps around and always invokes his uncle or his father.

But I don’t like any of the Kennedys including Caroline Kennedy who showed up on social media to dis her cousin RFKJ today.

You all on the East Coast can have all of them. Please keep them out of flyover country.

That said, RFKJ is not wrong about everything.

[rosarugosa]

Well even Trump is not wrong about everything, but that hardly inspires confidence.

[catherine]

That said, RFKJ is not wrong about everything.

Yeah, that's the bottom line for me. I agree with him about how the food system is messed up--from the ground up--I love that he wants to support all farmers, and wants to support regenerative ag. I like that he talks about processed foods and food chemicals and impact on national health. I like that he's been an environmental lawyer.

As far as his family legacy goes, I agree that the family succeeds in spinning their narrative to achieve their status as political icons but there are SO many slimy chinks in the armor going down through the generations.

[flowerseverywhere]

Todays’ Tump conference on why the plane crash today happened.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2689341.html


“He then falsely claimed that the FAA website stated that persons with conditions such as “hearing, vision, missing, extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism” were “all qualified for the position of a controller of airplanes pouring into our country” even though the requirements for controllers have long included specific physical and mental health standards.”

there are no words. I’m ashamed to hear such hate come out of his mouth.

[iris lilies]

That is ridiculous, the stuff coming from Trump. It was a military helicopter involved in this crash so I’m sure the government is going to be on the hook for big lawsuit payouts.

This is so sad, all those skaters from the Boston area.

[Tradd]

I heard a few minutes of Trump press conference on the radio at work (they broke in for it). I was like WTF? Ramble ramble ramble.

[Rogar]

In the list of characters in Trumps cabinet line up RFKJ isn't near the top of my worries. He might be OK. My biggest concern would be that he or under Trumps influence would ignore warnings about bird flu and fail to make public any greater concerns. And the subsequent vaccines. His departments could use a good shaking up, so maybe? I'm not sure when Doug Burgum is coming up for the Dept. of Interior. He seems to want to turn a lot of our public lands out west into oil fields.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/trumps-...-public-lands/

I can't watch trump's comments on the plane crash yet. I'm going to have to ease into what he might have said.