Trump Administration Issues More Devistating Executive Orders

Trump is at it again with controversial words and actions.  The biggest of these was an executive order speeding construction at long last, of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.  Also involved is the Dakota access pipeline going across that Standing Rock Indian land, where the protests have been.  The President said “We intend to cut business regulations 75%, perhaps more”.  I’m assuming he’s talking about pollution regulation.  Trump said that the environmental study for the Keystone XL and other pipelines would be drastically cut.  Trump met with the big three auto makers today but not Toyota or Honda.  He says “If someone wants to build anything here we tend to be known as a very friendly place.  Meanwhile Trump has also been heralding the accusation that five million illegal aliens voted in the last election denying Donald Trump the popular vote, which he says is his by right.  But if this is all true then Donald Trump should have no problem doing a massive investigation of the voting patterns in the past election.  “Put your money where your mouth is”.  The White House press secretary was asked about that today and he said “I have no facts to back this up” in sort of a Herman Kane type statement.   Clearly photographs don’t lie and vast stretches of the parade route had no people there.  Some said attendance was only 250,000 people.  Clearly the stage is set for more discontentment and protests by people on our side.  Whatever happened to the “honeymoon period” anyhow?   It goes without saying that this is the most unusual first week or whatever of any administration.

Thom Hartman said something interesting today.  He said that the propagation of a lie is a lot easier than most people suppose.  Some so called “lies” are things I still believe like that there was massive child molestation and other psychological abuses at the Mc Martin preschool.  The “facts” supposedly are that there wasn’t any such molestation or psychological games and abuses.  It’s all just in our minds.  Hitler told the lie that the Jews and the “trade unionists” and the socialist were responsible for the Versailles treaty that humiliated Germany after World War I.  So if you have a predisposition to believe already that Jews are no good from something you heard in your church then Hitler just reinforced what you already believed.  People are brainwashed by FOX news being told the same lies repeatedly so that people believed them.  A psychological probe would show that ALREADY these people had a predisposition to believe the lies of FOX before they heard them.  So that when Donald Trump comes along and tells even bigger lies of course the people will believe his lies without question because they are already a part of the person’s prejudicial make-up.   Once a lie gets emplanted using the word NOT is of little avail.  You’ve heard of the saying “Try not to think of a pink elephant”.  But in order to NOT think about pink elephants you hav to have the mental conception of what a pink elephant is and then told NOT to think of the thing you already have a mental concept of.  So goes Hartman’s theory.   So people believe there was massive voting fraud by illegal aliens.  After all we already know “The illegal aliens have taken over”.  We are told that Obama has lost jobs and to this day people believe things such as God created the world in six days and Barock Obama was born in Kenya and that crime and joblessness and illegal border crossings increased dramatically under Obama.  And you can’t talk to these people out of it.  In a late note Nicky Haily has been cleared for Secretary to the United Nations today.    Now the charge is made that her appointment is part of a complex deal with South Carolina.  

Federal agencies are clamping down on public information and social media in the early days of Donald Trump's presidency, limiting employees’ ability to issue news releases, tweet or otherwise communicate with the outside world, according to memos and sources from multiple agencies.  The steps to mute federal employees — seen to varying degrees in the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of the Interior, Transportation, Agriculture and Health and Human Services — are sparking early fears of a broader crackdown across the government, as Trump vows to pursue an agenda sharply at odds with his predecessor.  New administrations have long sought to control the message coming out of federal agencies. But watchdog groups worry about what restrictions the Trump administration may yet impose on federal workers, who are already reeling from the president’s decision Monday to freeze most hiring, as well as a move in Congress to allow lawmakers to impose draconian salary cuts for individual employees.

The Trump administration has instructed officials at the Environmental Protection Agency to freeze its grants and contracts, a move that could affect everything from state-led climate research to localized efforts to improve air and water quality to environmental justice projects aimed at helping poor communities.  An email went out to employees in the agency’s Office of Acquisition Management within hours of President Trump’s swearing-in on Friday.   “New EPA administration has asked that all contract and grant awards be temporarily suspended, effective immediately,” read the email, which was shared with The Washington Post. “Until we receive further clarification, which we hope to have soon, please construe this to include task orders and work assignments.” According to its website, each year the EPA awards more than $4 billion in funding for grants and other assistance agreements. For now, it appears, that funding is on hold, casting a cloud of uncertainty over one of the agency’s core functions, as well as over the scientists, state and local officials, universities and Native American tribes that often benefit from the grants.

One thing I can envision seeing soon is the utter dropping of all humor from left wing web sites.  The reason is because things are serious to the point of grave right now.  We aren’t even though the first week of the administration.  Can you imagine what kind of damage will be accomplished in the first one hundred days of this administration?  Judy was mentioning how she likes the idea of these cabinet people all calling themselves believing Christians.  This is an important selling point for Trump to put his plan into force.  You need the business pro pollution and greed conservatives.  You need Trump to throw a bone to the libertarians out there talking about draining the swamp and all.  And you need the support of the fundamentalist Christian community.   Neither Trump nor these fundamentalist Christians have given a second I suspect, to the affect Trump’s closeness to these crooks and otherwise malcontents in his cabinet will have on Christianity as a whole.  The only reason why they are choosing to say they are Christians is because the right wing republican establishment that really runs the country is telling them to.  Otherwise I doubt they could care less about who Jesus was or what he taught and practiced.