Because according to him, NAFTA is an unfair treaty that disproportionately advantages Mexico.
Which is its own kettle of “what planet are you operating *from *?!”, but that’s neither here nor there.
From his tweets it doesn’t sound like he’s at all happy with how things are going.
I suspect that “most people” have not been affected one iota by the Trump presidency. We’re watching the mess unfold from a distance, but so far not many of us are affected. Of course there’s still plenty of time left in his 4-year term…
This makes me feel tingly all over.
I think it’s going about as expected. Perhaps a bit better, actually.
His cabinet appointments are pretty good, on the whole. The SC nominee is very good. Other than the immigration order, the other executive orders have been fine. (I’m particularly pleased with the pipeline order, as I happen to own stock in ETP :))
The downside is Trump’s idiotic and immature tweets and interactions with certain foreign leaders etc. Not good, of course. Hard to measure in terms of substantive harm, though.
What’s worse, at least from a liberal progressive POV, is that the chaos and dysfunction in the executive branch is an opening for the legislative branch. McConnell and Ryan are making hay while the sun shines, and making sure that we get an ACA repeal, Dodd-Frank rollback, Gorsuch on the SCOTUS, and everything else that’s been on the loathsome to-do list for 8 years. Seriously: a high priority for making sure that crazy people can buy guns? WTF is that about?
(I do believe that Mitch McConnell is the politician I’ve despised most in my lifetime; at least since Nixon. He’s absolutely gleefully without scruples or decency. I can’t believe he rolled the dice on the SCOTUS opening and won. There is no justice.)
Sure, if you like unqualified people who buy their positions, people who lie repeatedly about dealings with Russia, big oil, Wall Street lackeys, and people bent on destroying the Departments which their heading. I’m guessing that last one is the one that could, if you want to ignore the reasons the departments exist, be good. But I’m not feeling it.
I don’t mind him that much.
And there it is. The money. That’s what this cabinet has been built by and for. To make a lot of money for people who have a lot of money already. That’s kinda the rub here with his appointees. If you’re all about big businesses and don’t want them to have to deal with actual regulations that put something other than money first, you’re all good. Heck, maybe in a few years, if you make enough, and donate enough, you too can get a cabinet position. They’re for sale now.
I guess I must like that type of person. Only explanation.
Yes, there it is. After a company I own stock in was severely harmed financially by Obama deciding to change the rules after enormous money was spent following standard procedures and regulations, in order to benefit a more PC cause, I’m actually pleased that Trump is belatedly trying to rectify this wrong. Fat cat rich guy, for sure.
Don? Explain? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I don’t think it is. Sure, I’d like you to explain rather than counter an unmade strawman, but there you have it.
Or, you could look beyond the one thing that helped you out financially (which had little to nothing to do with the actual cabinet members he picked) and make a case for liking these cabinet members.
McConnell certainly represents a lot of what’s wrong with the Republican party and the poiltical class in general, but he’s a lot better than Harry Reid. McConnell at least respects the Senate and lets the Democrats propose amendments. Reid used to fill up the amendment tree to prevent the minority from amending bills.
Well the other possibility would be that I disagree with your characterization of those people.
Glad to have helped.
You seem to have misread that post. I was commenting about executive orders at that time, not cabinet members.
I don’t like making predictions when it comes to Trump, but I was stunned by the size of the women’s marches across the globe. I’m also stunned at the resistance to repealing the ACA and how much public opinion changed in a very short amount of time. I don’t see all this anger and passion just disappearing in a matter of months, especially since the ACA legislative battle hasn’t even started.
Outrage fatigue is real and I certainly feel it, but if we focus on action and results instead of anger, we can manage it.
By all means, don’t bother to explain at all.
It’s never about the person who ends up in the White House; it’s everything to do with the gaggle of miscreants he brings in with him. In this case, what has emerged from the clown car makes the Republican primary lineup look like an Algonquin round table.
It’s only been three weeks: why would you expect him to have done anything by now? First you have to have people in place to develop and implement policies–not only the Department secretary but thousands of lower level policy makers. This takes weeks/months to happen. Then it takes time to develop the policy. Then it takes time to check with the existing tens of thousands of pages of laws and hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations. Then it takes time to find the money and implement the policies. For major initiatives laws have to be passed by Congress–which takes many months.
While I have a very negative view of Trump and the Republicans your expectation that things should happen almost instantaneously is unreasonable.
No, I think Fotheringay-Phipps has explained it quite well. He favors – to give some examples – a Secretary of Education who is a sort of wrecking ball hell-bent on destroying public education (her only saving grace is that her extreme incompetence may slow her down); a head of the EPA who wants to destroy the EPA and who hates only one thing more than he hates the environment, and that’s any kind of government regulation; a Secretary of State (aka Comrade Sovietsky) who is the recipient of several Russian Hero medals and is ideal for supporting the new president in his quest to piss off every one of America’s allies and trading partners, and so on, in a fairly consistent pattern of anti-government buffoonery and comical incompetence. When you look at the details, Phipps has a lot to be happy about!
Seems to me there were many pre-election news reports about Trump supporters seeming to vote against their own interests. And they all seemed to think that he would only really do the things they liked, and didn’t mean all of the other stuff. For example, Trump was very popular in California farm country for deregulation; now the farmers are starting to worry about a labor shortage. Actually keeping all of his promises will cause a lot of pain for a lot of people.
Personally, I’m cheered by the fact that the Trump administration is a massive clusterfuck. Their incompetence is the only thing that can save us from all the evil they want to do.
A much better explanation, supported by your posts on the board, is that you’re a fucking idiot and asshole.
I suspect you are overly sensitive to having your “expertise” rejected in GQ. Get over it.