The Daily Win, DAY 16

2/5/2017 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

This is the Daily Win / NTOWY thread.

If you wish to be a Winner too, and if you can proudly proclaim, "Not Tired Of Winning Yet," all you need do is let me know on this thread. Don't send me a Freepmail, I might miss it.
(Warning: All this winning can become highly addictive. If you feel you are becoming too addicted to winning, we urge you to seek help at the Twelve Step Recovery Program, Winners Anonymous)

IN ONLY 15 DAYS AS PRESIDENT,
DONALD J. TRUMP HAS:

1. President Trump withdrew the U.S. From Climate & Environmental Accords, and cut funding to the UN by 40% via Executive Order.

2. President Trump took it to the media (Donald Trump’s media summit was a ‘ __ing firing squad’)

3. President Trump planned to dissolve 'Net Neutrality' (Trump transition team appointments indicate a bid to dismantle net neutrality)

4. President Trump erased all mentions on the White House web site of “climate change” and "LGBT rights." He did that within one hour of taking the oath of office.

5. President Trump issued an Executive order to “ease the burden of Obamacare”. He did so within hours of being sworn in.

6. President Trump signed an Executive order withdrawing America from the widely-criticized Trans-Pacific-Partnership trade treaty

7. President Trump returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office

8. President Trump issued an Executive order starting the construction of the border wall, and to strengthen immigration enforcement.

9. President Trump ordered agencies to halt regulations until the rule is reviewed and approved by the new president's appointed agency head.

10. President Trump announced the end of “Sanctuary cities” and the defunding of federal funds for any city that chooses to continue breaking the law.

11. President Trump issued Executive Orders to proceed on the long-stalled Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines.

12. President Trump fired the State Department’s entire senior management team.

13. President Trump announced a ban on visas from dangerous Muslim-majority countries with inadequate screening.

14. President Trump worked with the House (who complied) to permanently ban taxpayer funding of abortions.

15. President Trump issued an Executive order banning funding to pro-abortion groups overseas.

16. President Trump announced his intention to withdraw From Climate & Environmental Accords, as well as cutting UN Funding by 40%.

17. President Trump said that persecuted Christians be given priority when it comes to applying for refugee status in the United States.

18. President Trump announced a Federal agency hiring freeze.

19. President Trump FIRED Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director (Daniel Ragsdale) for insubordination.

20. President Trump FIRED Acting Attorney General (Sally Q. Yates) after she defiantly refused to enforce his immigration executive order.

21. President Trump appointed Marine Corps Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis for Secretary of Defense.

22. President Trump plans to cut the Environmental Protection Agency Federal employee count in HALF.

23. President Trump imposed an immediate gag order on the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Agriculture.

24. President Trump signed an Executive order in which Homeland Security will publish a weekly list of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens

25. President Trump's Administration actually uses the term "Radical Islam" -- a departure from Obama, who never used the term.

26. President Trump nominated a well-written and spoken Originalist (Neil Gorsuch) to the Supreme Court of the United States.

27. President Trump expressed support for the March For Life, saying "The #MarchForLife is so important. To all of you marching -— you have my full support!”"

28. President Trump abruptly halts all Obamacare advertisements.

29. President Trump has planned to meet with Japan to bring hundreds of thousands of jobs to America.

30. President Trump halted $181 billion in regulatory costs on first day in Office.

31. President Trump has had Rex Tillerson confirmed as Secretary of State.

32. President Trump issued an executive order to streamline environmental reviews of high-priority infrastructure projects.

33. President Trump issued an action that instructs the Secretary of Commerce to contact stakeholders to review the impact of Federal regulations on domestic manufacturing.

34. President Trump FIRED two D.C.-based Secret Service managers, one of which was suspected of 'slow-walking' an investigation of a defiant agent based in Denver.

35. President Trump stopped payment on Obama’s final hour giveaway of $221 million to the Palestinian Authority,

36. President Trump pledged to start a major investigation into voter fraud in the 2016 election.

37. President Trump FIRED a State Dept. Arms Control chief while still in the air, and was told to turn around and fly back. (WARNING: Link is a Democrat Underground location).

38. President Trump FIRES a U.S. Border Patrol Chief (Mark Morgan), for endorsing and defending Obama's order to shield radical Muslims from deportation.

39. President Trump's pro-business and anti-government leanings caused 5000 new manufacturing jobs to be created, while 10,000 government jobs were eliminated.

40. President Trump, after the riots and violence at UC Berkeley, warned them that unless free speech prevailed, they would lose Federal funding.

41. President Trump signed Executive Order to begin “a great rebuilding of the Armed Services of the United States”.

42. President Trump offered to send forces to the breakaway Soviet Republic of Chicago to assist them in restoring order.

43. President Trump tweeted “Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!”

44. President Trump's actions spurred the Miami-Dade mayor into ordering jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties.

45. President Trump tweeted out a criticism of a 'so-called' judge for 'ridiculous' restraining order on travel ban Executive Order.

[Lazamataz]

As regards bullet point #45:

Federal Judge James Robart overturning this Executive Order is the first substantial challenge to President Trump. There will be many more, but this is the first.

A view of it from my perspective:

• The language of the law is quite clear. The President can decide who, if anyone, is allowed to immigrate. Period. However, the left has never been a fan of the Rule of Law.

• I read that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delayed the Emergency Stay, intended to counter the Judge James Robart's order, with an eye towards a ruling Monday or Tuesday. This is the 9th Circuit, so I expect them to uphold the Judge Robart's ruling.

• This will, then, get appealed to SCOTUS. If it is slow-walked, we might be able to get Gorsuch appointed by then. The buzz is he will make it in by April or May. Otherwise, we get a 4-4 split Scotus decision -- unless Kennedy breaks to the side of the Rule of Law. He has before, he may again.

• Even if this becomes a SCOTUS split-decision, where the lower court ruling stands, it is only a temporary glitch. A split SCOTUS decision will only postpone the inevitable, the language of the law is quite clear. Since SCOTUS will have rendered no decision, the case can be brought again (perhaps through the venue of the Federal Judge who agreed that President Trump can actually do Presidential duties), and this ‘push’ will be rectified when we get Gorsuch (April to May of this year).

• This is where Obama and Trump differ. Let us say the roles were reversed, and Obama wanted this Executive Order to be carried out. Obama would purposefully pack the crew being imported with hardcore terrorists (and maybe even equip them and instruct them to act immediately) to show how right he was. He'd gladly let America take a few shots to get his way (eventually). Trump won't.

• Trump could take some strong actions, such as banning ALL immigration, but I feel that would be very bad optics. If I'm him, I let it play out. We win in the end.

[Lazamataz]

See my comments below the win list.

[Lazamataz]

See my comments below the win list.

[dp0622]

The person or people that WILL DIE as a result of the court ruling and the having to wait months, dont win out.

Of course I’m not certain one of these guys are gonna murder an American, but would anyone be shocked that some heinous crimes are committed by the guys the judge let back in?

it sucks. He’s a liberal judge so he doesn’t give a #### about American dying.

[Tax-chick]

Good morning. I hope you have a beautiful day!

[dp0622]

BTW, I never miss the thread but if i’m not on the list, throw me on. Thanks.

[Lazamataz]

Good morning. I hope you have a beautiful day!

My day shall be filled with a horror-filled angst, an all-encomposing hatred that will ooze out into acts of murder and madness. Every single day is a constant series of disappointments, crushing defeats, petty revenges, upheavals and routs, loathed outcomes manifested, horrifying choices, antagonism and misery, lonely torment, anxiety and despair, a despondent sorrow that cannot break. Life is the darkness that only death itself can quench. The pain of existing outweighs the anguish of angst-ridden desolation in all ways.

After all, it is pointless to exist. The insufferable ennui of the drudgery of simple existance destroys, like a cancer in my heart, the shallow vanity of life. All that I ever do, all that I ever think, speak, or see: my life, my dreams, my hopes, my fears, my emotions, they all have no meaning, or effect, or hope, whatsoever. A lifetime of messing things up -- no more important than if I had succeeded in all my efforts -- both without meaning and without purpose. The wisps and cobwebs of this temporary reality have falsely proclaimed themselves as real, and in it's doing, destroyed all they touched.

Other than that, I'm good!

[Tax-chick]

Well, that’s encouraging.

Scatter sunshine as you go!

[mazda77]

Not Tired Of Winning Yet

[Lazamataz]

Well, that’s encouraging. Scatter sunshine as you go!

Off I go, to my monthly visit to lift the spirits of the elderly at a local nursing home! :)

[knarf]

America will just need to be patient while the SCOTUS gets corrected.

It is a good thing, IMO, that these arguments come before a Conservative SCOTUS and finally adjudicated in favor of the Constitution and NOT a rebellious, black robed kangaroo court opining as if they were Congress making law.

I haven't figured it out yet, but here in Pennsylvania, I cannot begin a school board meeting with prayer per a STATE SC that deemed it unconstitutional to do so.

No court can pen law and too many times an opinion is treated as law.

Be patient, America

[Lazamataz]

(PS: You have to admit I have a future as a writer.) :)

[xp38]

It’s Super Bowl Sunday. America’s great religious holiday but a lot of us here are heretics these days. :)

[Tax-chick]

Oh, a sport?

[Tax-chick]

Yes, you do. Your quality adjectives are a thing of beauty.

[Lazamataz]

My intention, when I wrote that (years ago) was to try to stir the readers heart, to feel the text deeply. I think I achieved that. Hopefully nobody died. :)

[Lazamataz]

Super Bowl? Is that a cereal brand?

[Redleg Duke]

Each time someone dies as a result of this ruling, the bloody bandages need to be divided up and slapped on the desks of this judge, Schumer, Pelosi, and the Presidents of the MSM.

[Tax-chick]

I think most readers would find it a bit overwrought. “Is that what I sound like? Geez, get a grip, Petunia!” Trying to verbalize deep suffering almost always ends up sounding like parody; words can’t do everything for us.

[Lazamataz]

Well, that would be an unexpected — and delightful! — result.

Who knows, this little keyboard hand-wringing exercise may have SAVED a life or two. :)