Cont: The Trump Presidency Part III

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WilliamSeger said:
Fortunately, even the presidents I've hated were in a completely different class. Whoever follows Trump will have very tiny shoes to fill.
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This. I have disliked politicans before..and from both parties....but I have never despised a American Politician the way I do Trump.
 
His investments may have dropped in value by $600 million but does not indicated anything about income.
 
halleyscomet said:
After all the institutional knowledge Trump's team kicked out when he took office, the next couple administrations are going to be the political equivalent of a "team-building year" in professional sports.
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It's not only the ones who were kicked out. There are probably a lot of people who have left on their own or are waiting for the first decent job offer. I'm guessing that the State Department is suffering the most. I still don't understand why Trump and Tillerson are so hell bent on gutting State.
 
FenerFan said:
It's not only the ones who were kicked out. There are probably a lot of people who have left on their own or are waiting for the first decent job offer. I'm guessing that the State Department is suffering the most. I still don't understand why Trump and Tillerson are so hell bent on gutting State.
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You don't need diplomats when you think that other countries should just do as they are told.
 
"How many phone calls did William McKinley make during the Spanish American war?
None. That's who I was talking about."

I wouldn't doubt him making the above comment.
 
Trebuchet said:
I feel weird defending Trump, but the bill was passed by a bipartisan vote and signed by Obama. No blame attaches to Trump, other than appointing Marino, who could easily have convinced him he had some expertise.
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I wouldn't let Trump off the hook just because the Congress and Obama passed this bill on some kind of unanimous vote (they have responsibility, not saying they don't).

The question that needs answering first is, was Marino recommended through Big Pharma connections? I doubt Trump picked this guy on his own because the guy had experience. Virtually all of Trump's appointments (maybe with one or two generals excepted) came from either the wealthy Evangelical recommendations or just plain wealthy crony connections.
 
halleyscomet said:
After all the institutional knowledge Trump's team kicked out when he took office, the next couple administrations are going to be the political equivalent of a "team-building year" in professional sports.
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I have been musing lately that that is the goal of the Republicans with this administration.

Seeing the writing on the wall demographically, and taking in to consideration that the popularity (or, more accurately, lack thereof ) of the current administration,they may have come to the conclusion that they are unlikely to hold much power after future elections.
With this in mind, they may well see that the best strategy for limiting progressive gains over the next several years is to do their utmost to destroy gains already made, while dumping as much as they can into the military.Kind of like trashing the place on their way out, leaving subsequent administrations to rebuild what had already been built- instead of building on what was in place already.

Only a theory, but it fits a lot of what we see happening in education, state, EPA, etc...
 
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The_Animus said:
Explosive '60 Minutes' investigation finds Congress and drug companies worked to cripple DEA's ability to fight opioid abuse.

http://www.businessinsider.com/60-m...a-fight-opioid-epidemic-investigation-2017-10

And the chief architect of the law is Trump's pick for drug czar. Gotta love how all of his picks are expanding that swamp at record pace.
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I only read the Business Insider story, but I don't see anything "explosive" there - it supposedly made it harder for the DEA to challenge pill shipments to high-use areas, but I'm not sure restrictions by area make sense to begin with. I heard anecdotal accounts of pain patients in Florida having trouble getting legitimate prescriptions filled because Florida had used up its quota.

I started a thread on the "opioid epidemic," but I'm getting a little skeptical of the whole notion. I'm just remembering what a scourge methamphetamine was, and all the headlines were about meth. IMO, all things being equal, meth is a more destructive drug than opioids. However, AFAIK people weren't semi-routinely being sent home with prescriptions for meth.

Fact is that if you just let people have opioids/opiates in reliable doses under safe circumstances, you can mitigate an awful lot of the damage. One reason people are dying is that it's easy to get a shot that includes fentanyl or carfentanil - heroin is being cut with cheap substitutes that are stronger than heroin. I don't think that happened with meth.

ETA: I meant to mention that alcohol kills more people than either.
 
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