Thursday, November 10, 2016

315.366 - 2016 project and what he said

every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that appreciates

what he said

what should we expect from this president-elect?  what he said, I suppose.  that he's going to build a wall, a monumental and ornamental and YUGE wall all along the southwestern border between Mexico and the continental United States.  that he's somehow going to get Mexico to pay for it.  that he's going to round up and deport eleven million of our friends, neighbors, and colleagues.  I'm not sure about this one, but I think he's also going to round up and deport about three and a half million Muslims.  then not let any Muslims back into the country until legislators figure out what the hell is going on.  how much faith have you in that?  he's going to get rid of the Affordable Care Act.  he's going to obtain a Constitutional amendment that imposes term limits on senators and representatives.  he's going to impose a hiring freeze on all federal employees.  he's going to require that every new federal regulation eliminate two others.  he's going to ban for five years White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists.  he's going to ban forever White House officials becoming lobbyists for a foreign government - except for himself, I presume.  he'll completely ban foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.  he will either renegotiate NAFTA or get out of it.  he will take the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.  he will direct the Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator.  he will direct the Secretary of Commerce and the U. S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trade abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to find some legal way to terminate those abuses.  he will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion energy reserves.  he will permit the construction of the Keystone Pipeline.  he will redirect the money now intended for UN climate change programs and use it to fix America's water and environmental infrastructure.  he will cancel every "unconstitutional" executive action, memorandum, and order issued by President Obama.  he will begin the process of replacing Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court.  he will cancel all funding to sanctuary cities.  he will round up and deport over two million criminal illegal immigrants, and cancel visas to foreign countries who don't accept the return of their criminal illegal immigrants.  he will suspend immigration from terror-prone regions where vetting cannot safely occur.  there are also ten laws he will start work on which will Make America Great Again.  that's what he says he'll do.  I think we should take him seriously.  do I appreciate this monumental effort?  oh I do!  I think it will completely change the structure of the country we are familiar with now.  I am awed that he expects to accomplish this in a hundred days.  I suspect a lot is hidden in those words that you and I will not like, will not be comfortable with.  it will be an interesting time, as in the Chinese curse:  may you live in interesting times.

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