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Trump governs by disruption — and overloads all the circuits (BARF)
Wapo ^ | October 14, 2017 | Dan Balz

Posted on 10/14/2017 2:13:01 PM PDT by be-baw

Nine months into his first term, President Trump is perfecting a style of leadership commensurate with his campaign promise to disrupt business as usual in Washington. Call it governing by cattle prod.

It is a tactic borne of frustration and dissatisfaction. Its impact has been to overload the circuits of government — from Capitol Hill to the White House to the Pentagon to the State Department and beyond. In the face of his own unhappiness, the president is trying to raise the pain level wherever he can.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; trashtrump
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Another hit piece from the Washington Post. Unfair, inaccurate, and seasoned with a hefty dose of TDS.
1 posted on 10/14/2017 2:13:01 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: be-baw

If ONLY Pres. Trump used a cattle prod on
the RINOs, Americans would cheer so loudly,
Pelosi’s Samoa would tip and sink into the sea.


2 posted on 10/14/2017 2:17:56 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: be-baw

As far as I can see, President has a strategy that works.


3 posted on 10/14/2017 2:19:39 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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It’s why we elected him.


4 posted on 10/14/2017 2:20:58 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Diogenesis

I agree with the story, except for the unhappiness part. I think Trump is enjoying the heck out of this.


5 posted on 10/14/2017 2:21:18 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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This "Chief Correspondent" should get out of Washington, travel across the nation, talk to the millions of citizens who are similar to those of Sandburg's America, and understand that Donald Trump, with all of his former flamboyant and wealthy lifestyle, comprehends more of the problems and concerns of those citizens than all of the Progressive politicians like Hillary and of "media" characters like himself.
6 posted on 10/14/2017 2:22:32 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: be-baw
It is a tactic borne of frustration and dissatisfaction.

Ha..Trump is smart enough to identify and use for his benefit some of the tools of the left

Alyinsky.,...ridicule and personalization

Trump is also using the Cloward-Piven strategy

Before the left have their focus groups...Delphi sessions...assessments....polling etc ...Trump hits them with another ...overloading the dims ability to respond.

7 posted on 10/14/2017 2:23:10 PM PDT by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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the president is trying to raise the pain level wherever he can

This is a valid tactic. Make the other guy suffer far worse than he is making you suffer.

8 posted on 10/14/2017 2:23:44 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: be-baw

Talk about “disruption”??? The left/LIB losers throughout history have been the most disruptive element against civil societies everywhere.


9 posted on 10/14/2017 2:27:06 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: be-baw
Seems like the writer, Dan balz, may be lacking in that department. 👬🙀
10 posted on 10/14/2017 2:27:52 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: hal ogen

Every moment I laugh at these LIB/DIM lunatic losers.


11 posted on 10/14/2017 2:31:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Draining the Swamp can look ugly at times. Especially to the bureaucrat circling the drain.

5.56mm


12 posted on 10/14/2017 2:36:46 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: be-baw

So the president is doing things radically different than those before him(especially in the last administration)...well,that’s what was needed & the reason he was elected. Only the wrong people are the ones who don’t like it.


13 posted on 10/14/2017 2:37:25 PM PDT by oldtech
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I think Trumps having a lot of fun...he’s not unhappy.


14 posted on 10/14/2017 2:40:49 PM PDT by Mercat (I know my redeemer lives.)
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“I think Trumps having a lot of fun...he’s not unhappy.”

It’s so obvious to us, isn’t it? Balz is engaging in mucho projection. He and is ilk are unhappy, so they think Trump must be too. Cognitive dissonance is driving them batty.


15 posted on 10/14/2017 2:44:15 PM PDT by be-baw
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”… to disrupt business as usual in Washington."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Business as usual in DC is largely unconstitutional imo, based on stolen state powers. That is what Trump is disrupting.

Next, although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the uniparty Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably for practice. That being said ...

Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!

Remember in November 2018 !

Patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of state sovereignty-respecting, Trump-supporting patriot candidates on the primary ballots and pink-slip career lawmakers by sending patriot candidate lawmakers to DC on election day 2018.

Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.

Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.

Also, unlike career members of Congress who wrongly remained silent while misguided state officials abridged the constitutionally enumerated rights of citizens during the lawless Obama Administration, patriots need to make sure that candidates on the 2018 primary ballots commit to the following.

Candidates need to commit to making and enforcing 14th Amendment-related laws to prosecute misguided state officials who use state powers to abridge constitutionally enumerated protections, 1st Amendment-protected religious expression and free speech for example, such actions prohibited by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment.

”14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!

16 posted on 10/14/2017 2:54:28 PM PDT by Amendment10
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It's working Mr. President, keep up the good work!!

Like Limbaugh always says; Trump is living in the media's head - 'rent free'!!

17 posted on 10/14/2017 2:55:15 PM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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Folks, 0bama used this strategy much more than Trump does.

There were numerous articles over the years about it.

18 posted on 10/14/2017 2:57:03 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: rktman

Balz! LOLOLOLOL!


19 posted on 10/14/2017 3:00:54 PM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: be-baw

Bwahahaha. Trump is mean, Chapter 37.


20 posted on 10/14/2017 3:03:01 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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