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| The Longest Nooooo! |
| 2017-02-08 |
| h/t Instapundit Maryland therapist Steven Stosny described a condition he terms "headline stress disorder", a more virulent version of the "election stress disorder" that he detected prior to November 8, 2016. Ever since he won Donald Trump's been on the brain of his patients and it's not going away soon.. ...If former vice-president candidate Tim Kaine can be believed, the condition is real. "Headline stress disorder" is particularly acute among liberals, some of whom are in a state of paroxysmal rage over Trump: over what he is, stands for, how he looks, etc. A kind of self-sustaining chain reaction may now be taking place. It is energy and anger looking for a place to go. How about we put them all on Ritalin - the way they've been doing to our (anybody who doesn't fit their criteria of a good girl) kids? ...With DeVos' accession the juggernaut has moved one step closer to investing the key liberal redoubt of education. The core fortress, the upstream of culture and politics -- may soon be under siege. It demonstrated, if further proof were needed, the growing inability of the old time Democratic bosses to slow, let alone stop the Deplorable advance. In a sidebar to the DeVos' story the New York Times sourly noted that Barack Obama was off kite surfing with Richard Branson, fiddling as it were while Rome burned. ...The more fundamental problem, as John Harris notes in the Guardian, is whether the left has a future in its current form. "All over the west, the left is in crisis," he writes. "It cannot find answers to three urgent problems: the disruptive force of globalization, the rise of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work." ...In his book the Road to Wigan Pier Orwell described the middle-class takeover of what was then a working-class movement: Socialism, in its developed form is a theory confined entirely to the middle classes. The typical Socialist is not, as tremulous old ladies imagine, a ferocious-looking working man with greasy overalls and a raucous voice. He is either a youthful snob-Bolshevik who in five years’ time will quite probably have made a wealthy marriage and been converted to Roman Catholicism; or, still more typically, a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaller and often with vegetarian leanings, with a history of Nonconformity behind him, and, above all, with a social position which he has no intention of forfeiting. And that fact is the key as for how Trump should deal with the bureaucratic sabotage. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #12 Good stuff. And, on the negative side, Trump supports the sheriffs on asset forfeiture. |
| Posted by: KBK 2017-02-08 19:23 |
| #11 Still being an asshole, g(r)om? Keep up the 'good' work. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-02-08 12:36 |
| #10 Thick. As in thick skull. Hard to penetrate. Like a liberal. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-02-08 11:52 |
| #9 Oh, I thought you mean thick from urban dictionary. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 10:44 |
| #8 Dull, slow, hard-headed, etc. Some of my finer attributes. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-08 09:47 |
| #7 thick? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 08:45 |
| #6 Yes, thick here as usual g(r)om, but I applaud his determination. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-08 08:16 |
| #5 I know that #19 is "fake" news in that a) it wasn't the entire mgmt team and b) it is SOP for those people to resign on a change of admin. The fact that all of these contribute to Liberal Insanity is all too the good regardless. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-02-08 08:16 |
| #4 You insist on missing the point, Besoeker. The point is that the federal agencies in charge choose to follow judges illegal rulings. And, I'm sure, they doing similar things - whenever they can - with the rest of your list. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 08:03 |
| #3 Yes, 9 & 11. Encouraging works in progress. Dogs flushing just ahead of the shooters, as is essential. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-08 07:52 |
| #2 And he has to deal with bureaucratic sabotage - review your own 9 & 11. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 07:43 |
| #1 In case you've been away for a bit: 1. Trump erased all mentions on the White House web site of “climate change.” He did that within ONE HOUR of taking the oath of office. 2. Trump issued an Executive order to “ease the burden of Obamacare” 3. Trump returned the bust of Winston Churchill to the oval office 4. Trump withdrew America from the TPP treaty 5. Trump erased all Spanish language from the White House web site. It is now “English Only.” 6. Trump issued an Executive order starting the construction of “THE WALL.” 7. Trump issued an Executive order banning funding to foreign pro-abortion groups 8. Trump's new Secretary of Defense, James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, took the fight to ISIS by bombing them 31 times on his first day as the new Secretary of Defense 9. Trump announced temporary ban on refugees from Syria and Middle Eastern war zones 10. Trump imposed a media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding new contracts or grants 11. Trump announced a ban on visas from dangerous Muslim-majority countries with inadequate screening 12. Trump announced the end of “Sanctuary cities” and the defunding of federal funds for any city that chooses to continue breaking the law 13. Trump announced the hiring of 10,000 new border agents 14. Trump signed an Executive order demanding the Secretary of Homeland Security publish a weekly list of violent crimes committed by illegal aliens 15. Trump signed an Executive order freezing the hiring of non-essential federal employees 16. Trump said out loud the words “radical Islamic terrorism.” 17. Trump stopped payment on Obama’s final hour giveaway of $220 million to the Palestinian Authority 18. Trump used Executive orders to give the go-ahead to the long-stalled Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines 19. Trump got the State Department’s entire senior management team to resign in frustration. Per AlanC's comment, please file under 'things hoped for but not yet seen.' 20. Trump announced his intention to withdraw From Climate & Environmental Accords Along With UN Funding Cuts of 40% 21. Trump tweeted “Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, is now calling President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!” 22. Trump announced he’ll begin a major investigation into voter fraud in the 2016 election 23. Trump got the chief of the Border Patrol to leave the agency in frustration at having to actually do his job! 24. State Dept. Arms Control chief fired while on airplane; Trump, told to turn around and fly back! 25. Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties 26. Trump White House abruptly halts Obamacare ads. 27. Trump appoints Neil Gorsuch to U.S. Supreme Court, a Justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-02-08 07:18 |