1 - Just Fred
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Weirdest Cabinet Meeting, Ever
Leave it to Donald Trump to reinvent the Cabinet meeting.
The public portion of these gatherings of all of the president's top advisers are usually staid affairs. Photographers are let in to take pictures. The president makes a very brief statement. A reporter shouts a question, unanswered. The end.
Donald Trump did something very different in his Cabinet meeting Monday.
First, he reviewed the various alleged successes of his first 143 days and made this remarkable claim: "Never has there been a president....with few exceptions...who's passed more legislation, who's done more things than I have."
Um, ok. While Trump has signed a number of executive orders and actions -- the most high profile of which, the so-called "travel ban" was, again, blocked by a court on Monday -- what he hasn't really done is pass actual legislation through Congress. The health care bill is tied up in Senate machinations. Tax reform hasn't moved an inch. Funding for the border wall hasn't happened. And so on.
(Nota bene: You can't say "never has" something happened and then say "with few exceptions." Either it's never happened or it, well, has.)
But, that wasn't even close to the weirdest part of the Cabinet meeting!
You gotta read this:
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Re: Weirdest Cabinet Meeting, Ever
Asking your staff for public pledges of allegiance to "Dear Leader" is something that happens in North Korea . . . NOT in a White House cabinet meeting.
What is going on in Trump's head? Better yet, why are these people capitulating to his unreasonable selfish ego to the detriment of their own integrity?
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Yeah, pretty ordinary cabinet meeting,,,,,,,for Stalin
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Looked like a bunch of suck-ups !
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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0 pieces of major legislation passed
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Dictators need lots of strokes from those around them. That's how you survive in authoritarian regimes.
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Re: Weirdest Cabinet Meeting, Ever
Just Fred wrote:
Dictators need lots of strokes from those around them. That's how you survive in authoritarian regimes.
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
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What a buffoon.
But I must say the evil of Trump has greatly been exaggerated. It helps to take the heat off the more systemic problems.
Nobody's talking about cancelling NAFTA or ending wars, except, maybe, as it relates to Trump.
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Re: Weirdest Cabinet Meeting, Ever
Welcome to the New Exchange!
I would offer a different view. Nobody is talking about the systemic problems that we face because of Trump more than anything else.
His incompetence, his inflammatory statements, his authoritarian actions have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room. Serious matters have taken a back seat to the show, because Trump is interested in the show, and not much else.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Thanks for the welcome.
Welcome to the New Exchange!
I would offer a different view. Nobody is talking about the systemic problems that we face because of Trump more than anything else.
His incompetence, his inflammatory statements, his authoritarian actions have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room. Serious matters have taken a back seat to the show, because Trump is interested in the show, and not much else.
I would say that that is the point -- the show -- and not the policies most corporate Dems and Repubs subscribe to, not the systemic problems of outsourcing and "too big to fail", which neither party will do anything about.
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