I was a Republican governor of Pa. I’m voting for Joe Biden. (Tom Ridge)

---SNIP--- I actually consider it a point of personal pride that I’m recognized for being among the first Republicans to reject Donald Trump. It was way back in December 2015. I told NBC’s Chuck Todd that day that I could never support Trump. I said then that he was an embarrassment to the Republican Party and our country. I said he belittles, demeans, and ridicules people who disagree with him, and that I’ve never thought that loud, obnoxious, and simpleminded solutions to complex problems are the kind of qualities we want in a president. I believe that earned me my first of several Trump tweets of indignation.

Trump does two significant things as President:
1. Sign bills passed by Congress
2. Appoint Supreme Court justices

Maybe it is time for you to take a refresher on what the President's actual responsibilities are? Have you ever heard the phrases “executive orders”, “commander in chief”, “head of the executive branch”, etc...??? The President is the leader of the military for goodness sakes.

Here is a partial list of the agencies who take their orders from the President:

Executive Office of the President (EOP):
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)
The White House
Executive Agencies:
Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Agricultural Research Service
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Economic Research Service
Farm Service Agency
Forest Service
National Agricultural Library
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Rural Development
Department of Commerce (DOC)
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
Census Bureau
International Trade Administration (ITA)
NOAA Fisheries
National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Ocean Service
National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
National Weather Service
Patent and Trademark Office
Department of Defense (DOD)
Air Force
Army
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
Marines
National Security Agency (NSA)
Navy
Department of Education
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
National Library of Education (NLE)
Department of Energy (DOE)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Office of Science
Pantex Plant
Sandia National Laboratories
Savannah River Site
Southwestern Power Administration
Y-12 National Security Complex
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Citizenship and Immigration Services
Coast Guard
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers
Intelligence Careers
Secret Service
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae)
Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes (OLHCHH)
Public and Indian Housing (PIH)
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Bureau of Land Management
Bureau of Reclamation
Fish and Wildlife Service
Indian Affairs
National Park Service (NPS)
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE)
US Geological Survey (USGS)
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
US Marshals Service (USMS)
Department of Labor (DOL)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
Department of State (DOS)
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN)
Department of State Library
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Department of the Treasury
Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Bureau of the Fiscal Service
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
United States Mint
Department of Veterans Affairs
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Broadcasting Board of Governors
Radio Free Asia
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Voice of America (VOA)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Corporation for National & Community Service
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Farm Credit Administration (FCA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA)
General Services Administration (GSA)
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Office of Government Ethics (OGE)
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
Peace Corps
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Selective Service System (SSS)
Small Business Administration (SBA)
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
United States Postal Service (USPS)
US Postal Inspection Service
United States Trade and Development Agency
BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, AND COMMITTEES
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)
American Battle Monuments Commission
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC)
Federal Maritime Commission
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC)
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (FRTIB)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
International Boundary & Water Commission
Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB)
National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
National Council on Disability
National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
National Mediation Board (NMB)
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB)
Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission (OSHRC)
Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC)
Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
United States International Trade Commission (USITC)
Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb (Import/export data)

I said he belittles, demeans, and ridicules people who disagree with him, and that I’ve never thought that loud, obnoxious, and simpleminded solutions to complex problems are the kind of qualities we want in a president.

Well, there we have it folks. Let's parse this one sentence. "Belittles, demeans and ridicules." Exactly what is Mr. Ridge saying about President Trump? Sounds like Mr. Ridge is ridiculing and demeaning President Trump, especially when you get to the "loud, obnoxious and simpleminded" part. Pot meet kettle. Hypocrisy at it's best.

Now let's examine the next few words, "people who disagree with him". This phrase is typical of leftists. It falls into the category of partisanship and collegiality. To sum it up in just a few words, "if you don't agree with us, you are nonpartisan." Except people vote for a President to not agree with the other side. They expect disagreement and the expect the promises that President makes to be kept. They do not want the other side's solutions. It should be noted that Mr. Ridge was a very nonpartisan politician. He was in the mushy middle where he would bend to one side or the other, never standing on principle. And since he had no principles he never fought anything. And since he never fought for anything (other than saying he did, while conceding to the left) he never won. To be absolutely blunt, Mr. Ridge was a loser, because he never won.

Now let's get to something more substantive, "simpleminded solutions to complex problems". Without ridicule on my part, I may get to that later, let's take simpleminded. First, Mr. Ridge is ridiculing President Trump's intelligence. Second, it implies simple, as in a solution that is simple because the person does not have the ability to create a complex solution.

The problem in with Mr. Ridge's perspective is that is based in on a lie. The lie being complex solutions are required for complex problems. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite. First, complex solutions to complex problems rarely work. Second, President Trump offers and delivers simple solutions that work. In other words, we do not need complex solutions to solve complex problems.

I'll give you an example of a simple solution, as President Trump likes to say, "The Wall and the Wheel, these are two things that will never go away." That's a businessman's perspective. His business had complex problems: large, multi-million dollar projects that needed to be delivered on-time, on-budget, and meet some fundamental business goals and objectives. These would be cash-flow and profit.

I can tell you from a lifetime of business experience that simple solutions solve complex problems. Complex solutions have a number of disadvantages. First, they are expensive. Second, they are difficult to manage. Third, they introduce their own problems, making the solution more complex and even more expensive and difficult to manage. Fourth, goals and objectives are lost to complexity. People think more about how to implement the complex solution than meeting the true underlying goals and objectives for success. Complex solutions lead to projects that are late, over-budget, cancelled, or never fully meet their intended goals. In short, they are failures.

Now back to the wall. The wall works. Walls are proven to work throughout human history. It is a simple solution to a simple problem. And this is where we see the big difference between a successful businessman and career politicians. Politicians see every problem as being complex. They lack vision. Vision can be viewed as a product of intelligence. It is the ability to see through a large number of variables and trade offs while distilling the problem to something understandable and solvable. Vision gets the essence of a problem so that you and define concrete goals and objectives. Vision allows for architecturally simple and effective solutions. Vision is an admirable personality trait, and is related to focus and persistence. The focus is seeing the end result and persistence is required in meeting a vision, especially when you have so many saying your solution is wrong, ineffective, and other demeaning things that are abject lies.

Mr. Ridge lacks business experience. He has a history of creating complex solutions to problems, whether the problem was simple or complex. He solutions are abject failures. He lacks vision. He does not possess the ability to see the end result of a solution and to assess if the solution will be a success.

Mr. Ridge spent a lifetime in politics and never built a damn thing that worked. He is a taker, not a maker. He is a mealy mouth pussy that never attempted to make a stake in the American Dream because he rather live off the largess of others than take risks with his own capital. He is a coward and a useful idiot of the left. He lacks conservative principles and loyalty. Lastly, he is a traitor to our Republic. He is aiding a providing comfort to a Marxist enemy. In short, he is the poster child of the deep state.

I think it is important to give an example to back up my rhetoric. Mr. Ridge was the first Secretary of DHS. As such, he was responsible for shaping and forming DHS. You would think that DHS goals were to provide security while maintaining Americans' freedoms and liberty. He did neither. The complex problem of terrorism was never complex. It is a simple problem with a simple solution that did not require endless wars, the death and maiming of tens of thousand of our soldiers, nation building, or diminishing Americans' freedoms and liberties. Mr. Ridge had no vision. He never understood the problem of terrorism, and never had the ability to create a solution to terrorism.

Mr. Ridge aimlessly wandered and squandered, spending hundreds of billions of dollars on projects than did not make American safer or to insure their freedoms and liberties. In fact, he diminished our freedoms and liberties so he could have yet a few more years as a overly paid government employee. He prayed off of Americans fears to line his pocket book while expanding his kingdom of power. Mr. Ridge is the post child of the deep state. He is a vile human being and hopefully he will burn in hell for eternity.

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