tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post7838288556718927167..comments2024-03-29T11:47:06.499-04:00Comments on Face to Face: No Trumpian executive orders since Establishment takeover, aside from tradeagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-13008625408198848162017-06-03T22:52:22.361-04:002017-06-03T22:52:22.361-04:00Much better messaging after tonight's jihadist...Much better messaging after tonight's jihadist attack in London. Vintage Trump:<br /><br />"Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 4h<br /><br />We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!"agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-79930031390880261652017-06-01T04:58:11.954-04:002017-06-01T04:58:11.954-04:00He can't threaten to repeal DACA any more than...He can't threaten to repeal DACA any more than he can threaten to impose a Muslim travel ban, as leverage to get what he wants from Congress.<br /><br />By now Congress understands that he can only get his exec orders enforced if the Swamp / Deep State / Establishment is OK with them. They like DACA too much to allow it to be dismantled just because the election-winner puts pen to paper saying it shall be so.<br /><br />Anyway, the time to have used that leverage, if it existed, was leading up to the interim spending bill.<br /><br />And Trump doesn't need Congress to provide the funding -- remember all those creative ways he outlined of getting Mexico to pay for the Wall on the campaign trail? Increase the fees for visas -- that's through the State Dept, so "all he needs to do" is issue an exec order directing Tillerson to raise the visa fees by X amount in order to provide Y amount of the Wall costs.<br /><br />Or slapping taxes on remittances -- get creative and make them "fees" too imposed by an executive agency (Treasury?), not taxes needing Congressional authorization.<br /><br />Again, the time to impose those non-Congressional means was back when we found out we got hosed by that interim spending bill, and that Congress will never fund the Wall (unless we re-define it to be a patchwork of crappy low fences and worthless drones).<br /><br />The fact that he hasn't made good on any of those non-Congressional means is another example of the absence of executive orders to accomplish the distinctive Trumpian agenda, as of the past couple months.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-27496409052174699872017-06-01T02:25:23.655-04:002017-06-01T02:25:23.655-04:00he needs to use DACA as a leveraging tool...threat...he needs to use DACA as a leveraging tool...threaten to repeal the Obama executive order unless Congress will allocate funding to construct the wall.jovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17255734827055994617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-55440016046234011092017-06-01T02:22:32.854-04:002017-06-01T02:22:32.854-04:00hopefully he rejects the Paris accord by Friday..hopefully he rejects the Paris accord by Friday..jovahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17255734827055994617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-87024139996777641452017-05-31T22:03:52.180-04:002017-05-31T22:03:52.180-04:00Over four months after the Muslim ban was struck d...Over four months after the Muslim ban was struck down, he still hasn't taken the Andy Jackson style action that many fans thought he would. I wouldn't count on the Supreme Court to back him up -- upholding a Muslim immigration ban is far more toxic to a cuck like Roberts than saying "sorry no gay marriage".<br /><br />He doesn't even use the Twitter bully pulpit to crusade against judicial overreach anymore, not since the second one was struck down.<br /><br />The only approved topics that he can rail against on Twitter are intel leaks to the media -- not the far more scandalous surveillance and unmasking by the Obama people -- and that the Russian story is fake news / witch hunt to explain why the Dems lost so pathetically.<br /><br />After each radical Islamic terrorist attack, you don't hear "Time to get smart, tough, and vigilant -- EXTREME VETTING".<br /><br />He doesn't talk about immigration at all, other than to say he has a heart about DACA.<br /><br />And so on and so forth.<br /><br />Again, what a reversal from what both the haters and the fans were expecting -- a daily tirade about his core issues, either in general or related to the news. So much for the Twitter dictator.<br /><br />As far as I can tell, the Left is still stuck in their delusion about him being a fascist dictator rather than an out-gunned hostage, aside from the trade issue. But then most of the Right is holding onto that fantasy too. Memes are more irresistible than reality.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-4912553056386179992017-05-31T18:36:25.513-04:002017-05-31T18:36:25.513-04:00One of my friends predicted in December that Trump...One of my friends predicted in December that Trump would quickly realize that nothing short of outright civil war (maybe not even that) would really make the swamp drainable. He'd try his best for 2 months then coast for the rest of his term. I almost wonder if that's what happened after the immigration bans and he learned that anything important he does will get overruled by SCOTUS, but I'm doing my best to keep the faith...<br /><br />...I'm waiting to see if something interesting happens around the time of this solar eclipse that everyone is talking about.Ezekielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15442971682346253234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-1768079256264547822017-05-31T12:51:05.102-04:002017-05-31T12:51:05.102-04:00One of Trump's distinctions is he's not an...One of Trump's distinctions is he's not an ideologue willing to get martyred over the agenda he got elected to pursue.<br /><br />If he thought it were possible to accomplish it, he'd go full force. But if the Swamp has told him that he's allowed to pursue trade / manufacturing policies and nothing more from his distinctive agenda (standard GOP stuff is fine too), otherwise he will be impeached by Congress, set up by the intel agencies, crucified in the media, and finally taken over by the Generals from the Pentagon -- why would he make an example out of himself? Just to inflame the base and set them off on a bloody revolution against the swamp and the elites?<br /><br />Trump is a pragmatist, not a revolutionary, so he won't push things in that direction, fearing the chaos that the country would descend into.<br /><br />So far, it seems like his response has been to go along with the Swamp's agenda, while pushing as hard as possible on trade, and plan for someone with more political capital to take his place later on, someone who would be better positioned to stand up to the interest groups. And likewise for better people to get elected into Congress, not cucks or liberal traitors.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-46821554990598671132017-05-31T08:42:57.480-04:002017-05-31T08:42:57.480-04:00"It's obvious that the GOP Congress plans..."It's obvious that the GOP Congress plans to stall for time by pursuing issues that Trump did not win the primary or the general on, so that they'll never have to get around to the Trumpian issues, while he signs whatever BS they churn out on healthcare and taxes -- assuming they ever hammer out an agreement in Congress. They're going to keep sending bills back and forth on those two issues until Trump's term is over. That way, they don't outright defy the President by pursuing contrary policies, but they also don't have to get their cuckservative hands dirty with populist and nationalist outcomes either (aside from trade)".<br /><br /><br />Jesse Ventura during his governor period complained that both parties were colluding to obstruct him and make him look bad. And, he feuded a lot with the media, at times calling them out for holding a grudge against someone who wasn't a product of either party's culture. Being that he won without either party's support, he was free to attack both parties. And he didn't have to worry about impeachment.<br /><br />Something that a lot of Trump critics are overlooking is that he if wanders too far off the reservation, both parties will unite in an impeachment effort. If Trump totally stuck to his guns, and his tenure flamed out, it would be curious to see just how enraged Trump's base would become.Ferylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01336057631877941839noreply@blogger.com