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| 2017-01-29 |
| h/t Instapundit He means it. The President of the United States of America Donald Trump says he will use the power of his office to tear up the post-WWII international and domestic settlements. No more world policeman, spending blood and treasure to protect nations that won't defend themselves. No more nation-building. No more hapless victim of a trading order that disadvantages American workers. No more stunting growth with confiscatory taxes and miles of red tape. No more allowing concern for the environment to outweigh the need to beef up our infrastructure and create jobs. This is to be a new post-globalized world order in which he will put America First. And now, not tomorrow. In the past few days the president has cleared the way for construction of the Dakota Access and the Keystone XL pipelines, the latter a project to bring Canadian oil to the U.S. from Canada, and one that President Obama vetoed despite its approval by his own Hillary Clinton-led State Department. He has given his Commerce Department 180 days to develop a plan to ensure that the pipelines are built with made-in-America steel. He has told agents at the Department of Homeland Security that they are to enforce the law against illegal immigrants, starting with the deportation of criminals, and to join him in planning construction of "the beautiful wall" on our southern border. He has begun the unravelling of Obamacare. He has met with a few gaggles of CEOs, separately with those from the auto industry, and with heads of trade unions, the latter a group until now bound to the Democratic party with hoops of steel. He has fired the opening shot in a war to keep terrorists from entering the country. And more. Some of these moves are of more symbolic than practical consequence. But the whole is greater than the sum of the parts: taken together, they make attending to every jot and tittle of Trump declarations and tweets a waste of time. We are on the road to a new world order. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #8 i heard Trump decided to run after he was mocked by Obama at a journalist dinner (available on YouTube). Don't know if it's true that's where he made the decision but I love the myth. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-01-29 22:51 |
| #7 How DARE he mean it! That is NOT how the game is played! |
| Posted by: The Ruling Class 2017-01-29 22:48 |
| #6 I meant planning what he's going to do if elected Ah. A good point, g(r)omgoru. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-29 19:09 |
| #5 I meant planning what he's going to do if elected - not the run itself. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-29 13:16 |
| #4 And it's been reported that he's already registered his campaign slogan for 2020. 'There's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip.' ~ Author unknown |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-29 12:47 |
| #3 It occurs to me that he was planning this for a long time. I've read that President Trump registered his campaign slogan in 2012, g(r)omgoru, though I don't recall whether it was when Mitt Romney won the primary or when he lost the election. And it's been reported that he's already registered his campaign slogan for 2020. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-29 12:44 |
| #2 It occurs to me that he was planning this for a long time. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-29 11:14 |
| #1 We kept sending into the swamp young, "promising", people who said they would stand up for us, only to watch them become corrupted by their new found power and their new desire for more selfish power (Paul Ryan running for VP). Fortunately enough Americans were able to come out and overcome 800,000 illegal votes along with other leftist votes to put a strong man to destroy the swamp, at least for a while. And he may be able to do this in only 4 years. |
| Posted by: Nero White 3083 2017-01-29 07:11 |