Posted on 08/11/2018 5:57:10 AM PDT by Dahoser
Until Trump, the general rule was that when politicians are on vacation they can’t steal your money (at least not as readily).
Political operatives wrapped in a cloak of journalism
But he’s rarely seen in a suit jacket and tie and has proved to be more unchecked at the property, which is dotted with trees, ponds and green lawns.
Yet the two pictures in the article show him wearing a suit and tie.
The Left is mentally ill. Just spend a minute looking at MSNBC. Run by a bunch of OCD-addled idiots.
Work is measured by output NOT appearances. Trump is slaughtering bozo in this regard.
barf alert
So, these 2 twits would prefer everyone get back to work and confirm Cavanaugh? Good to know.
Colvin is gonna end up testing moose piss in Moose Piss, Montana. She's a woman at the sausage factory called the AP and not well-liked to begin with....
The Left doesn’t care about contradictions or hypocrisy. They know that the normies are distractable and have short memories.
If DingleBarry did it, so what?
What matters is that Trump is doing it.
They can be hypocritical because they know they will get away with it.
This is why our Constitution limits the president to two four year terms (max of 10 years). The only president to serve more than two terms (before the constitutional amendment) died in office and was a quivering mess when he died.
Speaking of FDR, I was recently reading about the 1943 "Big Three" meeting in Tehran that FDR had with Churchill and Stalin. The meeting was almost not able to be pulled off due to the constitutional requirements of the president to be available to sign paperwork. Elaborate measures had to be taken to ensure that documents could reach the president in a timely manner while in Tehran. With modern technology, that is no longer a concern no matter where the president travels but that episode underscores the fact that POTUS is literally harnessed to the job 24/7.
On a much smaller scale, I've been in management for the past 20 years and I can tell you that I honestly have no idea anymore what it is like to be on truly on vacation. Sure, I have "unlimited PTO" in my position and don't have to punch a time clock. But no matter where I go, I am constantly available to handle situation that come up. In fact, while I was typing this reply on a Saturday afternoon, I have already gone to my work email inbox twice as I have a team handling a customer situation at the moment.
Last winter, I spent two weeks on Marco Island and still had to handle multiple conference calls, had to deal with crises and give my approval by email on multitude transactions and other matters.
The President of the United States has 10x the workload (at least) so I'm not complaining about my situation. Nor am I begrudging President Trump that fact that he spends much of his time Mar-A-Lago or at his golf resort in Bedminster.
All the time. He is Groucho. They are Margaret Dumont.
I remember these people whining about Trump rallies, when the only reason they care about their tax dollars paying for it is because he’s not a Democrat. Every POTUS had rallies of some sort.
The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .. . . and that goes double for journalists and other writers. Consequently if anyone ever suspected journalists of conspiring against the public, the aim of such conspiracy would probably include promoting the influence of journalists.The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)Well, guess what! Journalists “meet together,” virtually at least, all the time. And not merely because they read each others’ reporting, but because they all belong to the Associated (telling word) Press, which constitutes a continuous virtual meeting which has been ongoing since before the Civil War. And they don’t meet just " for merriment and diversion,” either - but precisely about the conduct of their business. If a normal meeting ends with "a conspiracy against the public,” what can be expected of a meeting that never ends at all?You have to be "naive as a babe to believe” that journalists do not conspire against the public. For the purpose of inflating the importance of their own business. Yeah, yeah - "First Amendment, yada yada . . .” but in reality journalists promote a misinterpretation of the Constitution. The First Amendment exists to protect the public expression of opinion. But it does not give government sanction and imprimatur to what any given journalist (or cabal of journalists) says. I don’t have to believe what any member of the Associated Press says - and I don’t have to believe what they do not say, either. Just because the AP doesn’t report something does not guarantee that it isn’t true.
Arrogant hubris from the very headline!
Snarky, mean-spirited people are not journalists.
President Trump has undone in less than two years most of what Obama did in eight years. Now that is high speed, low drag.
I thought these press people did this everyday.
Insult and malign our President at will. What’s new about this “plan.”
The blatant derogatory framing of the narrative instead of just reporting the facts qualifies you as propaganda and FAKE NEWS.
Lincoln was the first to have to confront the crushing workload of a modern state. And you could just wander into
the White House.
Most don’t know that the subject AS taught was Moral Philosophy.
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