Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing
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Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing
Matthew Yglesias - VOX
So far in his 500 days in office, Trump has benefited from a fairly benign set of objective circumstances. He inherited a strengthening economy from Barack Obama and made a reasonable selection to head up the Federal Reserve.
His tenure has been marked by an extraordinary level of drama, but on some level, relatively little has actually happened in reality. But when things have happened, Trump has been unequal to the task of handling them. Last year’s hurricane season created a catastrophe. The return of Central American asylum seekers to their pre-Trump level immediately devolved into a humanitarian crisis. America’s relationships with its traditional allies are in tatters for no real reason. China is relaxing its enforcement of sanctions on North Korea , and Iran is opening a new nuclear facility .
And even though Trump is remarkably skilled at taking advantage of the news cycle’s tendency to move on, reality is less forgiving. Another hurricane season is coming. None of Trump’s border antics are going to stop people from coming north. Some trouble or another — whether in the realm of the economy or foreign policy — is essentially inevitable. And when the trouble comes, America will be facing it isolated and discredited, led by a team with no credibility or integrity, headed up by a man who can’t be bothered to put in a moment’s thought or hard work on even the topics he proclaims himself to be focused on.
Whether or not one deems the asylum claims being made as meeting the formal legal bar, it should be obvious that nobody takes their children on the perilous route through Mexico with dim prospects of an ultimately successful asylum application without being seriously distressed back in their home country. By the same token, it’s not a coincidence that the family migrants are coming specifically from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador rather than the more stable countries to the north or south of that triad.
It’s not obvious that there was actually anything especially terrible about the status quo as it existed in 2016 — a lot of people came, they were typically released into the interior pending asylum hearings, most claims were rejected, and a certain number of people skipped their appointed court dates. In the Trump administration’s mind, the fact that crossings are occurring at a much higher rate in 2018 than they were in 2017 is a big problem, but the reality is that it’s simply a return to the level we were living with before Inauguration Day.
But while reasonable people can disagree about which problems are important, there’s simply no denying that the origin of this problem is in Central America. If Trump wants to make solving the problem a major priority, he needs to make Central America a major policy priority. Instead, he’s picked a secretary of state with no experience in the region, made himself politically toxic by calling El Salvador a “shithole country,” embroiled the country in pointless fights with Mexico over NAFTA and a border wall, repeatedly threatened to end aid to Honduras for no reason , and decided not to show up at the Summit of the Americas
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Working with the Central American countries holds no attraction for the white nationalists in Trumpworld. They would rather tell Central America to go fuck itself.
No shit.
Trump doesn't have to know what he's doing. He has only 'three bases' to deal with. The fetus folk. Angry labor that lost their jobs to overseas under bidders. And the most important ones of all; The upper tiers in the ionosphere who need more wealth accumulation and know it is beneath them to sacrifice anything for the nation that guarantees their ill deserved bounty.
Central American problems? Too convenient, especially when there are the 'chosen few' now making very good bank by warehousing children.
What about the racists and misogynists?
I thought racism was dead. And the only racists were those who don't like racism.
Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing
That is fairly obvious, me thinks. Of late I am not sure anyone else in DC does.
IMPRISONING CHILDREN, FORCIBLY TAKEN FROM THEIR PARENTS, THIS, IN ORDER TO PANDER TO A WHITE NATIONALIST POLITICAL BASE … WHILE PAYING MILLIONS OF TAX PAYER DOLLARS TO PROFITEER PRISON COMPANIES … WILL EXACT A PRICE!
When Republicans lose the House in November, and, when the Mueller Investigation pours gasoline on what is becoming the fire of the Trump parade …
… MANY OF THE CURRENT “JAILERS,” WILL BECOME THE JAILED!
Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Alex Azar, et al, are guilty of "CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY!"
"Deliberate acts, typically as part of a systematic campaign, that causes human suffering or death on a large scale."
Trump clearly doesn't know what he is doing because between his own flip flops on the issue, the 3 or 4 stated White House positions on the issues have all contradicted each other and it is like the Keystone cops only not funny.
First they find statements going back to Trump's campaign and at his election that said they were going to do separations, then Sessions held a very public press conference saying so, Kelly said so and Miller drafted the plan, then when it kicked into high gear and all of them were called out for it, all of a sudden everyone's story changed, they lied and it morphed into a CYA fest.
Nielsen in a presser said they don't separate families, then they do, but then they don't and then an executive order which still isn't retroactive, no plan to reunite those they already separated and now Trump says drop the whole thing after Republicans failed to pass the immigration bill.
Trump is running out of people to blame. Sessions is being threatened with excommunication from his church over using the Bible to falsely defend this crap and has the nerve to go on a Christian program saying "he is hurt". Garbage!