Posted on 07/15/2021 9:43:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yeah, yeah.
Sure they will.
Shut up, Nunes.
“That is a question only Bill Barr can answer...and hasn’t yet.”
And he never will.
“Trust Barr.” Said the Qballs.
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Yaaaaawwwwwwwnnnnnnnn.
LOL! I thought it was Babylon Bee.
Cue the “Geez...Not this Shit Again” meme...
Not sure how anyone can put the blame on Trump. The blame should be where it belongs, on:
Lots of blame to go around, but from what I witnessed, the word inaction doesn't apply when it comes to Trump and what he tried to get done all the while being actively subverted by 99.99% of the fed gov. Unprecedented, actually.
Now, I suppose one could argue that it's Trump's fault for not nominating a new AG && FBI director every month, since just about everyone he could have nominated, and gotten through a confirmation hearing, would have wound up doing the exact same thing to the swamp crooks. (nothing).
I really have to wonder why this has taken so long. It maybe as simple as racking up income through steady employment. If that is the case, we might as well pay the same amount up front to get results back early. That’s assuming there are any results. I don’t trust establishment types to do the right thing.
Nobody will go to prison. The people who have to go to prison (Cough.FBI.DOJ.Cough) are the people who make arrests. They’re certainly not going to arrest themselves.
99% of the FedGov works in the Executive Branch. Trump was in charge of the Executive Branch but because he had such a shallow understanding of what his authority was and an absolute inability to communicate effectively - past the media as it were (as Reagan could) - he couldn't accomplish lasting change. That is ALL on Trump.
As it turns out, having someone manage one of the largest bureaucracies on the planet who doesn't have a clue how government works because he never worked in government in any capacity wasn't a very good idea. He compounded that bad idea by choosing people to work in his own West Wing that rarely shared his vision for the country and the world.
Being an effective president takes a lot more than giving barn-burning speeches to audiences full of supporters. It even takes more than wanting to accomplish the right things. Trump's policy instincts were great, one of the best in the modern era. But, he simply didn't understand how to breath lasting life into those policy ideas and positions.
99% of the FedGov works in the Executive Branch. Trump was in charge of the Executive Branch but because he had such a shallow understanding of what his authority was and an absolute inability to communicate effectively - past the media as it were (as Reagan could) - he couldn’t accomplish lasting change. That is ALL on Trump.
You don’t get it on this one. The executive branch mostly just ignored President Trump when not outright obstructing him.
I talked to one government contractor who flat out admitted his team just QUIT WORKING once Covid hit.
Trump was mostly a figurehead as POTUS. I wish it was different but it is what it is.
Better chance of Free Beer tomorrow.
They ignored him because they knew he would never inspect what he expected.
Trump ordered a complete withdraw from Syria in November of 2019. On Election Day 2020, the DoD had MORE service members in Syria than they had when Trump issued the order to withdraw.
How did that happen? Well, I’m told by people in the Pentagon that Trump never actually issued any order Syria. Instead, he just talked about it, proclaiming on Twitter that he ‘ordered’ the Secretary of Defense to withdraw troops. Did he? Who really knows. But, what didn’t happen is that was never put it into writing and transmitted to the DoD. So, they simply didn’t pay attention to what they read on twitter.
Because Trump had never worked in government, he simply didn’t understand how government worked. Manage the bureaucracy takes more than proclamations made in interview, news conference or on social media. It takes the considered execution of the bureaucratic regulations and - here’s the tough one for Trump - it takes follow-up. If you tell a government worker to do a thing, then you give them a deadline and then inspect their work. Trump never did and here we are.
I'm sure they show up on the daily delusional Q thread.
Believe it when I see it and not a moment before.
Ah, I see you're new here. Us old timers are still waiting for something to come of Whitewater.
99% of the FedGov works in the Executive Branch. Trump was in charge of the Executive Branch but because he had such a shallow understanding of what his authority was and an absolute inability to communicate effectively"
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I would go back to my original argument. 99.99% of the fed gov was actively subverting him.
Trump could issue orders...effective/lawful/legal/pro-USA orders all day long until he was blue in the face.
Who would carry out those orders?
The very same people who were trying to oust him with their ongoing coup? Those people?
As it turns out, having someone manage one of the largest bureaucracies on the planet who doesn't have a clue how government works because he never worked in government in any capacity wasn't a very good idea."
I would argue, that he was exactly who we needed then...and now. NOT someone who was part of the broken system.
The problem wasn't Trump, the single person. The problem was the ~entire fed gov, to varying degrees, backed a 4+ year coup against him. The problem was the supporting cast.
Had just Ryan and McConnell alone, acted just like Trump from day 1 and supported him fully, it would have made an enormous difference. Then add in other (R)'s in "leadership" in the first 2 years as well as Comey acting like Trump, working with him, instead of trying to oust him in a coup...and things would have been very different.
It wasn't that Trump didn't know how to manage a large entity. He knows far, far better than most career politicians how to manage.
The problem was that it was essentially the entire government against him.
Pretty difficult to be a captain of a ship with the entire crew in mutiny. The captain won't get much done and wont last long.
I would say, your balsa rocket ship, will make several trips to Mars, before any rat 🐀 is ever held accountable, for anything.
The guy had zero management experience, let alone for a large enterprise, etc.
Yet...he got far more of his reckless policies started/completed.
Why?
Not because of his vast government experience or his superior management skills.
He got more done because those around him thought like him, wanted to get what he was pushing done. He gave the "orders"...and they complied, with earnest.
And perhaps most importantly, the fed gov / media didn't have an ongoing coup against him.
Actually, Obama had quite a bit of government experience. Really, he only had government experience. His entire adult life was working as an ‘activist.’ What do activists do? They game the system - the system run by the government - to change their world. He saw first hand how government worked at the local level (as a ‘community organizer), the state level and then as a Senator.
He understood how deals get done in politics and how to make incremental but lasting change. This is an invaluable skillset to have when governing.
Trump entire life was the Art of THE Deal; he was a big deal kind of guy. Big Deals, however, don’t get done in DC. Instead, it’s a patchwork of tiny, little deals that moves the ball, incrementally. I’ll do you this little favor today, and you do me that little favor tomorrow. That’s how the sausage is made.
And while Obama didn’t have the personal management skills to make sure his policies were big implemented, he had worked in and around government long enough to populate his inner and outer circles with true-believers as you smartly mention. Trump came to DC with Jared & Ivanka both of whom were - wait for it - DEMOCRATS. Other than Larry Kudlow and Stephen Miller, that’s it more or less. He went through three or four Chiefs of Staff in four years and never had the kind of bruising consigliere that Obama had in Valerie Jarrett (and a couple others) who could make things happen.
For all these reasons, Obama was a surprisingly effective president, which is to say he was able to implement lasting change where Trump really wasn’t.
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