AMERICA'S GRAND EXPERIMENT IN GOVERNMENT BY TWITTER BEGINS JANUARY 20

[herding cats]

They come without warning, and spread wreckage and confusion around the globe.

At American intelligence agencies, they have decimated morale, according to a government official with ties to that community. Key officers who made personal sacrifices because of their love of country are sprucing up their résumés in preparation of jumping to the more lucrative private sector. In the field, agents are finding a growing reticence among overseas sources to continue taking personal risks to provide information to the United States about activities by foreign governments.

In South Korea, they have boosted feelings of security, officials there have confided to contacts in the United States. The American government, they believe, will soon take much stronger action in response to North Korea’s repeated flouting of United Nations resolutions calling for Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear program and halt ballistic missile tests.

For Alec Baldwin, they have increased his fame worldwide. They have informed people who pay no attention to TV that ratings for the Celebrity Apprentice reality show have fallen. For some on Wall Street, one executive told Newsweek, they have created a new strategy betting on “Trump slumps,” in which traders watch television news reports for a corporate development that might anger Donald Trump and then, in hopes he will tweet mean things, enter short-term trades where they would profit if the company’s stock price falls.

All of these extraordinary events are the result of government by Twitter, a bizarre new world where an internet communications platform combines with an impulsive president-elect to create global chaos in investment markets, overseas halls of power and domestic agencies. In the morning or afternoon or the middle of night, Trump delivers 140-character proclamations on policy and piffle in arbitrary flashes of power and spite that shoot across the virtual firmament without warning. Discussions and debates about their content in the news media and on the internet follow for a few hours—Why can’t flag burning be banned? Why is a new Air Force One being built?—before moving on, unresolved, to another Trump topic d’Tweet.

http://www.newsweek.com/2017/01/20/donald-trump-tweets-16-categories-542173.html

To judge how Trump views his presidency, his tweets are the best window.
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[Jacob Boehme]

1. Yes....

And this over-processed, insecure toad who's never held public office even so much as a "Dog Catcher" or a "Water Commissioner" is going to be installed as pResident of the United States and become the Commander In Chief of our entire military.

He can't handle slights, he lashes out, he's petty, abusive and vindictive and he's got a mean streak a mile wide; just to name a few of his more obvious character flaws.

Yet somehow, our Electoral College and Congress have seen fit to allow this walking freak-show to hold the office of Chief Executive and assume all the attendant powers that are ascribed to this office.

Shameful is too mild a word to describe what has been wrought upon our door by those who were sworn to uphold the Constitution.
You all will have blood on your hands when this fool of a man is allowed to exercise his new found powers. I hope your dreams haunt you for the rest of your sorry lives.