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30/01/2017 16:31:38
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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30/01/2017 15:49:12
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>>LOL!!!! So what do you think of Trump's first week or so as president?

Controversial. Can't be sure whether he has a cunning plan to wear the opposition out (paraphrasing Boris) exhausting the wells of outrage, or whether he's just forging ahead and damn the torpedoes, or whether his advisors are inept.

FWIW, I can't agree with everything done, or more particularly the way it is communicated. E.g. allowing the opposition party to concoct a "Muslim ban" when the vast majority of Muslim nations are not affected, should have been predictable and could have been headed off by a pre-emptive tweet e.g. "I agree with President Obama that some nations harbor terrorists. Lets not just talk about it... lets make sure we are keeping them out. Meanwhile decent citizens of friendly Muslim and non-Muslim nations are part of the American dream and are always welcome."

How hard is that? Instead they use terms like "extreme vetting" that are too easily redefined as extreme unfairness. Even the Pope weighed in.

Historically the US public has been very tolerant of risk mitigation and there is precedent. For example, citizens of most Western nations can visit the US for up to 90 days without a Visa under the ESTA program introduced by the Obama administration in 2009. It's basically a website application, pay $14 and you're free to come in and out for 2 years. Citizens of other nations require more "extreme" vetting including in-person interviews. That's risk mitigation at work. Since then, the Obama administration identified a handful of riskier nations known to harbor terrorists. So what's wrong with implementing another tier of risk mitigation. It's been presented badly by the new administration allowing the opposition party to call it a ban and stir up more protest.

The other angle is that his Twitter use is fragile, since they can feign offense at any strongly worded tweet to cut him off and bask in adulation from celebrities and protestors.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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