Trump47 Cabinet Picks & First 100 Days Agenda

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mpaer said:
I got changed for the better
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President Biden Signs Postal Reform Into Law

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It is objectively tragic how little credit Biden - like him or not - gets for anything, considering how monumental some of the changes he helped enact are.

Meanwhile, a morally odious man unfit for any office gets (and takes) credit for anything that goes right, even if he had nothing to do with it.

I sincerely hope history is kinder to him than even those in his own party have been.
 
CRHeel94 said:
Biden's team did a terrible job of shaping the narrative of his achievements.
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One of the many stupid things Biden’s team did was to try to give the economy a nickname, “Bidenomics.”

As Reaganomics, George Costanza (wanted “T-bone,” got “Koko”), and Howard Wolowitz (wanted “Rocketman,” got “Fruit Loops”) attest, you don’t get to pick your nickname.

“Reaganomics” was not a compliment. In 1982, it was a harsh word, almost a cuss word. By the time of “Morning in America” in 1984, it was a positive and the Reagan Administration and campaign happily used it.

The Biden Team thought the economy had turned and improved and they tried to give it a name, “Bidenomics.” That worked as well as George Costanza and “T-Bone.”
 
CRHeel94 said:
Biden's team did a terrible job of shaping the narrative of his achievements.
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I agree with this, but that's been true of Democrats for at least the last decade or so, even before Trump. And while it's definitely true that there is now a media double standard for Trump and his Democratic opponents, Democrats haven't done themselves any favors. If they invented a cure for cancer, they would somehow screw up the PR campaign so that they would have difficulty convincing many people to use it. The disconnect between the great popularity of most Democratic positions on abortion, gun control, promoting diversity (even "wokeism"), gay rights, and the relative unpopularity of so many Democratic pols is definitely worrisome.
 
finesse said:
The press had such a double standard of coverage that they had a really tough job getting any coverage from the media.
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On the outside, felt like they were shielding Biden from the media too much and none of the surrogates were effective at filling in on that particular message.
 
nycfan said:

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses​

Trump feuded with the mail agency in his first term. Privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains.

“President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.

Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.

Told of the mail agency’s annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. …”
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As we are in week three of a postal strike / lockout here in privatized mail Canada, not sure your average rural American will handle their Christmas stuff going undelivered, let alone pay checks etc etc. Tell you who is not going to bother opening a distribution hub and armpit lick Idaho, Trump's best friend Bezos.

But yeah privatize away.
 
altmin said:
As we are in week three of a postal strike / lockout here in privatized mail Canada, not sure your average rural American will handle their Christmas stuff going undelivered, let alone pay checks etc etc. Tell you who is not going to bother opening a distribution hub and armpit lick Idaho, Trump's best friend Bezos.

But yeah privatize away.
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I'm legitimately curious. I truly think I get a piece of mail I care about about once every other month and that is a mail order prescription. There are brick and mortar alternatives, And I think I could easily go without mail service for weeks and possibly several months. I'd probably prefer it as my garbage cans would be less full of junk mail.

But I get Amazon packages from Amazon, UPS, FedEx and even the US postal service several times a week. I live in the Raleigh-Durham area. Is the lack of a postal service in Canada an issue just for the rural folks? If you are having an issue yourself, how close are you to a population center of say 50,000 people or more? What types of postal delivery are you lacking?
 
nycfan said:


“…Previous attempts to do so have faltered. Daylight Saving Time was first introduced during World War I to assist with the nation’s industrial productivity during the Great War – not, as popular rumors frequently suggest, to give farmers more day time during harvest.

Daylight Saving Time was kept permanent during most of World War II, also for reasons to do with industry and energy. During the gas crisis in the 1970s, the country once again tried making Daylight Saving Time permanent, only for public approval to plummet after complaints of children being hit by cars while waiting for the bus at night. [I assume they mean in dark morning] …”

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Trump says GOP will try to eliminate Daylight Saving Time | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday the Republican Party would try to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, calling it “inconvenient” and “costly.”
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But the key may be that this is one of the few things that Musk/Ramaswamy can actually get done fairly easily.

To the extent it’s debated, Businesses have usually indicated a preference to make Daylight Saving Time permanent (to have more daylight after school and work hours), BTW.
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They should do this.

In a 24/7 world, this practice cost us billions in programming cost alone. There are also studies that show an increase in medical needs on the day we spring forward and lose an hour sleep.

It's a stupid idea and should go away.
 
nycfan said:

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses​

Trump feuded with the mail agency in his first term. Privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains.

“President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.

Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.

Told of the mail agency’s annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. …”
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I could have sworn that I read that the postal service is actually doing much better financially, utilizing last mile delivery for most of the major carriers, since they have a monopoly on mail boxes that those carriers cannot utilize.

Of course, I'm sure all the people in very rural areas are going to love this.

Not sure which way I fall on this topic.

Speaking of subsidies, our government shouldn't subsidize religious organizations or trumps properties either.
 
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