Trump Presidency | Summarized

[ewsieg]

While the Trump Presidency thread goes deep into his daily activities, I figured a summarized version might help point out the good and bad in his presidency.  Obviously I suspect there will be a lot more bad, but IMO he has so much bad, that horrible things he does, tend to drown out the really horrible things he's done.  So, I plan on weekly putting the good and bad of the last week here.  Others are free to do the same.  Note: I'm starting this in part because of all the issues i've had with Trump, the one I mention this week truly got my blood boiling and I felt it was drowed out.

The good - blank

The bad - His decision to stop sharing Russian intel with Ukraine and forcing that change with other Ukraine allies as well.  This does not cost money, this was done to punish Ukraine and nothing else.  People died as a result as Russia took advantage and hit Kyiv and other areas harder than they have in quite awhile.  Their blood is on his hands.

Honorable mention on bad - The search on all things 'gay' and other keywords, in an attempt to rewrite history.

Edited Sunday at 03:08 AM by ewsieg

[mtutiger]

It's not gotten the attention that it deserves IMO, mostly because of literally everything else happening, but the release of water that Trump ordered from Lake Success and Lake Kaweah in the Central Valley of California, ostensibly to help the LA wildfire effort, was some of the stupidest, Mad King Ludwig level **** I have ever seen. Maybe it's because I'm a civil engineer by trade, but anyone with a fully developed cerebral cortex should have been able to look at a map and notice that water from these two dammed up lakes flow have a bunch of mountains separating them from Los Angeles, no manmade structures (like an aqueduct) to convey the water across said mountains, and that the water from these lakes would (if the channels had enough flow anyway, which they generally do not because of agriculture usage) end up in the San Joaquin River, which flows north and dumps into the San Francisco Bay.

The end result of this was the risk of 1.6 billion gallons of water wasted (latest reporting is that most was recaptured in groundwater recharge ponds), the very real risk of property owners ending up flooded, and farmers, in one of the largest agricultural output areas of the country, potentially being deprived of water that it will need during the time of year when water reserves are being built up prior to planting season.

It's popped back up in the news due to more information coming out about a memo that was drafted at the time stating that it wouldn't help (https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-corps-knew-trumps-water-211325193.html), but still, I think it's an underrated event that shows how little intellectual curiosity that the President has and the consequences of not listening to experts who know WTF they are talking about.

[Tiger337]

He did bring back plastic straws though.

[Tigerbomb13]

8 hours ago, mtutiger said:

It's not gotten the attention that it deserves IMO, mostly because of literally everything else happening, but the release of water that Trump ordered from Lake Success and Lake Kaweah in the Central Valley of California, ostensibly to help the LA wildfire effort, was some of the stupidest, Mad King Ludwig level **** I have ever seen. Maybe it's because I'm a civil engineer by trade, but anyone with a fully developed cerebral cortex should have been able to look at a map and notice that water from these two dammed up lakes flow have a bunch of mountains separating them from Los Angeles, no manmade structures (like an aqueduct) to convey the water across said mountains, and that the water from these lakes would (if the channels had enough flow anyway, which they generally do not because of agriculture usage) end up in the San Joaquin River, which flows north and dumps into the San Francisco Bay.

The end result of this was the risk of 1.6 billion gallons of water wasted (latest reporting is that most was recaptured in groundwater recharge ponds), the very real risk of property owners ending up flooded, and farmers, in one of the largest agricultural output areas of the country, potentially being deprived of water that it will need during the time of year when water reserves are being built up prior to planting season.

It's popped back up in the news due to more information coming out about a memo that was drafted at the time stating that it wouldn't help (https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-corps-knew-trumps-water-211325193.html), but still, I think it's an underrated event that shows how little intellectual curiosity that the President has and the consequences of not listening to experts who know WTF they are talking about.

I always wondered if he just thinks that north to south on a map means up and down, which is something that a three year old would know that isn’t how gravity works. 

Edited Sunday at 12:33 PM by Tigerbomb13

[chasfh]

3 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I always wondered if he just thinks that north to south on a map means up and down, which is something that a three year old would know. 

I don’t think I learned that until I was four.

[CMRivdogs]

10 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

He did bring back plastic straws though.

I've had a few bio disposable straws. They work for me. Donnie must suck extremely badly 

[romad1]

the irony of the King eliminating state and local control over things.

[casimir]

I forget, are we tariffing today anyone or is that tomorrow?

[mtutiger]

2 minutes ago, casimir said:

I forget, are we tariffing today anyone or is that tomorrow?

Steel and aluminum tariffs hit this Wednesday...

[casimir]

2 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Steel and aluminum tariffs hit this Wednesday...

Should be interesting to see how that affects canned goods, which, oh wait a second, weren’t grocery prices promised to be reduced?

[chasfh]

14 minutes ago, romad1 said:

the irony of the King eliminating state and local control over things.

It is never not ironic. War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, all that. Something else to keep in mind is “feature, not bug.”