Posted on 06/03/2017 11:55:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Among my New York friends, one of the most frequent criticisms that I hear of Donald Trump is that he just doesn't have the basic competence to be President. He is ignorant of fundamental issues of public policy; he arrogantly thinks he knows everything, while in fact he knows little or nothing; his attention span is about 6 seconds, and he refuses to learn. I mean, how can such a person possibly carry out in an appropriate way the awesome responsibilities of the presidency?
For myself, I've been withholding judgment. After all, a President doesn't really need to know all that much. He has endless expert advisors, indeed far more advisors than any human being could have time to listen to. Far and away the most important thing he needs to do is avoid making major blunders that can do great harm to the American economy and the American people.
In the decision regarding the Paris climate accord, Donald Trump has just been tested on this fundamental criterion of basic competence, and has passed. Barack Obama was tested on the same criterion, and totally failed.
It is impossible to look at the Paris climate accord with any degree of scrutiny and conclude that a remotely competent American president could have anything to do with it. This conclusion applies irrespective of whatever you might think about whether "greenhouse gas" emissions are causing a problem or even a crisis for world climate. Even if you think that the climatic effect of human GHG emissions is an existential crisis facing the planet, it would still be completely incompetent for an American president to sign on to this particular agreement.
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Regardless what the lamestream media says, Trump is winning. The damage that loser 0bama created is being undone as liberals scream. And why would we want hildabeast or the wampum woman?
Public policy has blatantly ignored 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty for the last 100+ years.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The Paris Agreement is a money pit funded by the US to benefit the EU elite. That is all it is. It is nothing other than that. It has no teeth, no consequences for failure to comply, only big bills paid by the US people. It will fold as it should now that the Sugar Daddy has decided not to play.
A graduate of the Warton School of Economics and the builder of a multi-billion dollar real estate empire and the left wants us to believe he is incompetent to be president. Sure....
Constitution deems him competent because he is over the age of 35 and is a natural born citizen
He has risen from “Being Hitler” to “Competent” in less than six months.
Well done. Paris would’ve cost us trillions and returned nearly nothing nothing even by its own terms.
Unlike his predecessor Obama whose life accomplishments were [the sound of crickets chirping] …
Their alternative?
Oprah Winfrey...
Plus he dove into politics at the top... beat 17 practiced politicians and then beat someone who has spent her life focused on getting the ultimate in power for herself. The man is a genius and an exceptionally hard worker.
We are SO LUCKY.
Nice, um... aria!
Love how the ignorant, who are incapable of grasping simple realities, try to claim Trump is the idiot among us.....stupids am what stupids does....
As much as lawless Obama lowered the bar with what it takes to be president, there’s no reason to question proven successful businessperson Trump’s competence to be pres.
Yes, Trump is a very successful businessman. 0bama only briefly had a real job and said it felt like being behind enemy lines. He has lived off others his entire life, a parasite.
As somebody said the other day, “The global warming hoax does nothing but move trillions of dollars from the many to the few.”
I heard on social media, with a tone of great authority, that Trump did so poorly at Wharton he graduated only thanks to the influence of his father. As for his empire, well, what do you expect? Money of his father....so much ignorance out there.
You missing a sarcasm tag?
I don’t begrudge his father giving him a steak to get started. Fathers have been know to do that since the beginning of time.
It’s all about what Donald did with it. By all accounts: Quite well.
And now he’s paying back & forward.
Just reporting what goes on on social media, not my words. I know better and I read the Trump’s family history. Regards.
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