White House officials, at the start of the shutdown, were certain the Trump administration was better positioned to battle the left during a funding lapse.
In early October, several Trump administration officials had a friendly pool going of how long the shutdown would last. The White House, at the time, was confident Democrats would quickly fold.
No one guessed more than 10 days.
The account, relayed by a person close to the White House granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, underscores just how much the administration miscalculated the Democrats’ will to keep the government closed even amid furloughs and imperiled social programs like food assistance.
As the shutdown heads into its second month, Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated. On Thursday, he called for Republicans to abolish the filibuster to reopen the government — a plea he knows is futile, but that demonstrates his growing irritation with Democrats, said a second person close to the White House.
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When you have no experience with real work, there’s zero chance you have the ability to accurately estimate work
On top of that, surrounding yourself with fake experts (chosen specifically for their willingness to say anything you want to hear) seems like a great way to never know what’s actually going on.
Taco seems like Peak SNAFU principle (From Robert Anton Wilson) in action.
https://hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/SNAFU-principle.html
He said he’d have the war in Ukraine ended on day one.
On day one, he did try to force them to surrender.
It’s almost like people who don’t understand how govt works shouldn’t be president. Or even be allowed to vote, for that matter. It seems like people think there’s a magic wand that the top guy can wave and everything just falls into place.
I think that voter registration should work like driver licensing. And the test you have to pass should be the citizenship exam.
Appealing as the idea is, the problem is who gets to control the exams.
That’s a fair criticism. We know how poll testing has historically been used to disenfranchise minority groups.
That’s why I suggested the citizenship exam, which is a well-established test with specific parameters and existing preparation programs.
Sure, but who decides what’s on the citizenship exam? Who updates it? Who’s in charge of making sure it’s administered fairly?
Right now there’s not really any power to be gained by subverting it, so it’s handled by people who are interested in keeping it working well. Make it the gateway to electoral control, and interest groups will worm their way into control of it - and then you have a variant on poll testing.
You’re right. I just wish politicians would just let us have nice things.
Steel-belted latex satay just takes a lot of slow cooking.
My grandma’s 28hr slow roasted goodyears were “fall off the rim” tender.
Well, and some things are complete delusion on his part as well as conservatives. If anything, Taco created the swamp.
And some things, for instance, this and the wall and repealing ACA, and ruining/“overhauling” education, are just plain not worth doing.