Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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Captain_Swoop said:
Trump Tweets encouragement

"Heading to Nevada to help a man who has become a good friend, Senator Dean Heller. He is all about #MAGA and I need his Help and Talent in Washington. Also, Adam Laxalt will be a GREAT GOVERNOR, and has my complete and total Endorsement. Winners Both!"

"Leaving Arizona after a fantastic Rally last night, in Mesa, honoring, and for, Martha @RepMcSally McSally. She is an inspiration & will be a GREAT SENATOR for the people of Arizona. Her opponent is a Nancy Pelosi puppet, really bad for State. Early Voting NOW! Will be back soon."

"Rick Scott is known as easily one of the best Governors in the USA. Florida is setting records in almost every category of success. Amazing achievement-the envy of the World. Ron DeSantis will build on this success. His incompetent opponent will destroy Florida - next Venezuela!"

"Ron @RonDeSantisFL DeSantis is working hard. A great Congressman and top student at Harvard & Yale, Ron will be a record setting governor for Florida. Rick Scott gave him tremendous foundations to further build on. His opponent runs one of the worst & most corrupt cities in USA!"
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So the imbecile is just going to randomly capitalize words and letters now?
 
Trump confirms US will withdraw from key arms control treaty

President Trump confirmed the U.S. will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), a nuclear deal signed between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War.

“We’re going to terminate the agreement and we’re going to pull out,” Trump told reporters before a campaign rally in Nevada Saturday.

“We’ll have to develop those weapons,” he added.
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https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...us-will-withdraw-from-key-arms-control-treaty
 
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It will be very interesting to see how many of Trump's policies/exec orders will be reversed by the next administration.
 
Stacyhs said:
It will be very interesting to see how many of Trump's policies/exec orders will be reversed by the next administration.
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Any knowledgeable people here who can tell me if it will be possible for a sane new president to get NAFTA, for example, back? I'm assuming not, but you never know?
 
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Any knowledgeable people here who can tell me if it will be possible for a sane new president to get NAFTA, for example, back? I'm assuming not, but you never know?
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Looks like we've got an updated NAFTA now. USMCA, I think it's officially called, even if it refers to itself as NAFTA in the text. In which... Trump's administration got a small fraction of a better percentage on something than was on the table years ago, and he helped out pharmaceutical companies who want to profit more. Not even remotely the victory that he tried to proclaim it to be, in short, but it's there.

Of other concern, though... Hurricane Michael victims can't use phones to summon help, thanks to Trump's FCC head and Rick Scott

Four Florida counties are still registering double-digit-percentage outages in wireless service, according to the FCC’s latest status report — Bay at 47 percent, Gulf at 34.8 percent, Washington at 20.5 percent and Gadsden at 19.4 percent.
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As pointed out by ArsTechnica, in his rush to radically deregulate the telecom industry, Pai specifically repealed the very rules that President Obama passed following Superstorm Sandy. Rules which would have protected consumers from the same lengthy power and service outages that victims of Hurricane Michael are experiencing right now.

Among other things, the November 2017 FCC action eliminated a requirement that telcos turning off copper networks must provide Americans with service at least as good as those old copper networks. This change lets carriers replace wireline service with mobile service only, even if the new mobile option wouldn't pass a "functional test" that Pai's FCC eliminated.
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Worse, in June of 2018, Pai deregulated additional rules—in order to make it easier for such telecom companies to discontinue service following a natural disaster.
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"In 2011, Governor Scott signed the 'Regulatory Reform Act of 2011,' which eliminated virtually all oversight of Florida's residential telephone service," Feld wrote. "This included repeal of Florida's 'Carrier of Last Resort' (COLR) requirements—rules that require carriers to provide service to everyone in the state—as well as repeal of Public Service Commission (PSC) regulations governing service blackouts, timeliness of repairs, or regulation of customer billing."

"The deregulation was so thorough that the Florida PSC is not even allowed to take consumer complaints about residential phone service, which conveniently prevents the collection of any data that might show deregulation has costs in terms of consumer welfare," Feld also wrote in a second, more-detailed blog post yesterday.
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Deregulation leads to the serious problems that the regulations were put there to prevent in the first place, yet again. No one could have seen that coming! No one!
 
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The Great Negotiator. Now the bloviating blob is banging away about the barrel the Saudis have America over. The US *needs* those arms sales desperately, or else the Kingdom will buy elsewhere. Oh, the job losses that would result!

Christ on a pogo stick! Not just telegraphing a weak position out of the gate; blaring it through a megaphone. But I see it as not borne of stupidity. Rather, Trumpy is laying the groundwork for a "too big to fail" state of affairs by which to get critics to relent and let him and his clan of grifty grafters keep their good thing going.

He gives a fiddler's frack about American jobs only insofar as it enhances his prestige. His gimlet eye is only focused laser-like on the flow of money into Trumpco.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump confirms US will withdraw from key arms control treaty



https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...us-will-withdraw-from-key-arms-control-treaty
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Oh goody.

A shiny new Nuclear Arms Race™ for us to enjoy. Weeeeeeeeee!

I'm gonna have to buy me one of those old fashioned school desks so that I can practice my Nuclear Safety Protocol.

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Haven't we been saying this every time that buffoon has done anything since he took office?
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To be fair, many of the other Republican candidates and possibly even Clinton would have pulled out of the treaty, given Russia's disregard for it.
But I see no reason for it to happen now; do US companies have a design ready to be implemented? Do we have a new strategy that would benefit from such weapons? Might we be able to forge a treaty with China about such weapons, isolating Russia and boosting China's participation in international cooperation?

This seems to be another case of White House members desperate to let Trump do something bad so he won't do something worse.
 
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