The Real First 100 Days

Issac Faulk

Issac Faulk is the pseudonym of a published and experienced foreign policy writer, currently in exile.

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  1. Jaybird
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    says:

    Unfortunately, the whole “this meeting could have been an email” criticism has evolved into partisan usefulness.

    I saw it given against Biden’s speeches by Biden’s opposition during Biden’s term (with the notable exception of 2024 where Biden’s opposition was saying stuff like “I want to see if he’ll wander off halfway through the speech!”).

    I want to say that the criticism had the most bite when the speeches were the most boring. If it’s a boring speech, why not replace it with an email?

    But when the speech is, effectively, a pro wrestling promo? Hell, those are *RATINGS GOLD*! Trump’s speech’s numbers were up 14% from Biden last year! (Though he didn’t hit the numbers he achieved during his first term… his lowest rated speech in 2020 got better numbers.)

    What’s the solution? Well… I have no idea. If the wrestling promos give the content that mumbling through a list of bullet points doesn’t, we’re going to get wrestling promos.Report

  2. Philip H
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    says:

    My fired federal colleagues would beg to differ on the no consequences statement.

    As would farmers who have lost USDA support AND contracts to sell food to USAID.

    But sure – tell us again how all this is just a media circus signifying nothing.Report

    • Issac Faulk in reply to Philip H
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      says:

      thanks for reading as always, Phil. no one was fired at the presidents address. in fact, a young man started an amazing chapter in his life and he made a 13 year old a SS agent. message I took from that is “this kid could protect me better than biden’s SS.”

      don’t need USAID to get aid to people in need. way more goes to strategy firms than actual people.

      Let’s do some math:
      If only 12% of $2000 in aid goes to the needy, $240 in aid.
      If I cut the aid to $1000 but I get 37% aid to the needy, it’s $370 in aid.

      Now – did I cut aid or raise it?Report

      • Slade the Leveller in reply to Issac Faulk
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        says:

        Mr. Donaldson is entirely correct. Expecting yesterday’s, today’s, and tomorrow’s grandstanding occupants of the White House to give up their recitation of programs that will be proposed and never enacted, the parade of lame, halt, and wronged, and other tomfoolery is a fool’s errand.Report

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