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2017-02-08 Science & Technology

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 06:20|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#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|| 2017-02-08 07:18|| Front Page Top

#2 And he has to deal with bureaucratic sabotage - review your own 9 & 11.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 07:43|| 2017-02-08 07:43|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-02-08 07:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-02-08 08:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-02-08 08:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, thick here as usual g(r)om, but I applaud his determination.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-08 08:16|| 2017-02-08 08:16|| Front Page Top

#7 thick?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 08:45|| 2017-02-08 08:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Dull, slow, hard-headed, etc. Some of my finer attributes.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-08 09:47|| 2017-02-08 09:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Oh, I thought you mean thick from urban dictionary.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-08 10:44|| 2017-02-08 10:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Thick. As in thick skull. Hard to penetrate. Like a liberal.

Posted by gorb 2017-02-08 11:52|| 2017-02-08 11:52|| Front Page Top

#11 Still being an asshole, g(r)om? Keep up the 'good' work.

Posted by Raj 2017-02-08 12:36|| 2017-02-08 12:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Good stuff. And, on the negative side, Trump supports the sheriffs on asset forfeiture.

Posted by KBK 2017-02-08 19:23|| 2017-02-08 19:23|| Front Page Top

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