Joe Doakes from Como Park emailed me something I’ve been saying myself:
Trump reminds me of Jesse Ventura. He says what the crowd wants to hear so they’ll vote for him and does it really well; plus, he’s running against a legacy putz in Jeb and a bitterly hated crone in Hillary just as Jesse ran against legacy Skip and hated Turncoat Coleman. But once Trump gets in office, will he have trouble getting his ideas into action, as Jesse did?
“I want to bomb ISIS.” Okay, but how? I’m guessing that means ask the White House secretarial staff to call the Joint Chiefs to schedule a task force meeting with group commanders who will prepare a battle order . . . might also want to mention it to the countries who own the airspace you’ll be flying through, which means somebody at the State Department . . . possibly the Russians, too . . . and do we alert the Press or not and who handles those questions . . . ooh, that whole War Powers thing might require notification of Congressional leaders, somebody ought to call whoever we need to call about that . . . .
In a new Republican Administration, the campaign staff would know the policies, know the Establishment crowd, know the insiders, know who to appoint to run the bureaucracy, know who to call to get things done.
Jesse ended up filling offices with Democrats hastily rebranded as Independents, because Jesse had no list of party faithful to appoint. Who will Trump end up with?
That’s not enough of a concern to make me vote for the putz or the crone, but it does make me wonder if throwing out the present rascals will result in any better rascals getting in?
Joe Doakes
Trump has the same problem Ron Paul had; talk is not only cheap, it’s easy. Anyone can do it.
Actually getting it done when and if you get elected? That’s the hard part.
And I suspect neither Ventura nor Trump ever expected they’d have to deliver on their bluster.
Perhaps Trump, in a last ditch effort to get the nomination, will just take his money, buy his own private fighter jets and bombs and bomb them himself. LOL
Jesse got everything he wanted; a carry permit (for himself); lower taxes on watercraft; a Lincoln SUV; a sweet gig refereeing some wrasslin’; a portrait; a refund check named for him.
He also trashed the teachers union, though, which made for some good times, and he didn’t do anything to us.
What is it that Trump wants, and will any of it do anything to us? If we get 8 years of peace and quiet in exchange for stuff he wants, it’s good enough for me.
Hanging by a thread, I also offer this Minnesota connection to national news while claiming it’s not a thread-jack.
In the 1990’s, Clinton imported several thousand Somali’s, and Minnesota happily scooped them up in a warm embrace.
If I’m not mistaken, and I never am, the Somali newcomers made themselves right at home; selling Khat, protesting the war on terrorism, demanding employers accommodate filthy religion of hate, demanding more government programs…their kids formed street gangs, and graduated into recruits for al Shabob and al Queda. I’ve lost count how many Minnesota born head choppers there are out there now, but it’s a lot.
The Somali’s refused to blend in with their American neighbors. They turned their neighborhoods into little Mogadishu’s, complete with the aromatic effects.
I read today, the Governor Jim Beam has declared Minnesota ready and willing to take as many Syrian immigrants as Obama will send. It took a generation for Somali’s to return to jihad, starting from scratch. How much quicker will these Syrians get into action with the help of the native born muzzy terrorists waiting to greet them?
Trump is promising a fence at our border with Mexico…will we need to include fences around Democrat states in the RFQ?
If The Donald gets in, the Pentagon will be required to change all those “NO STEP” stencils to fancy gold plated script. It’ll cost a fortune.
One thing little known radio talk show host Rush Limbo has said that I agree with – It’s difficult for an outsider to get started in politics at a high level without experience because politics is a business that requires experience. Just as you are nearly 99% guaranteed to fail if you were to start a restaurant or auto repair shop with your only experience having been a customer, politics is the same way. Any bureaucrat can figure out a way to stall, obfuscate or otherwise derail an initiative while making it look like they are working away at it furiously. With the The ‘D’, or even with Ben Carson, they will be working like it’s their job as essential government employees to keep the ‘outsiders’ looking stupid.
And when they team up with the Democrat Party-Comedy News Media-Post Secondary Education Industry-Government Grant Scientist Complex; well, we may see bureaucratic clusterf***** we have not seen since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Any bureaucrat can figure out a way to stall, obfuscate or otherwise derail an initiative while making it look like they are working away at it furiously.
Having been in the bureaucracy, there are ways to make administrators pay, both literally and figuratively if you want and don’t mind the bad DC press (and who thinks The Donald would worry much about “bad” DC press?). For the administrators, you can transfer them out of DC into the field as the easiest example. There’s nothing that will kill their career more quickly than managing the Poduck field office and they know it, so if you force transfers out of DC most paper pushers there will quit before they’ll accept a forced move.
You can also change the responsibilities of various GS levels in a bureaucracy. When the FBI wanted to clear out the legacy bureaucracy, they famously let everyone in DC below Director level know they’d be working street crimes at least part of the time. The young guns didn’t much care, but the older guys quickly found themselves transfers to the hinterlands rather than deal with DC’s gangs. You could do the same with the EPA, etc no problem, just force them to do field work in West Virginia 4 weeks a year on location and watch them all quit.
Note that all this requires a thick skin on the part of the President to deal with inevitable press leaks from the bureaucracy. But if anyone would revel in that, it’s The Donald and/or Christy and only one of those is a front-runner.
There is one difference between The Body and The Hair comparison: presence of a VP. Depending on who The Hair’s picks as VP if he wins, he may not have to deal with minutia.
The only thing Trump and Ventura have in common is they’re both thin skinned.