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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-exactly-like-Ted-Williams dept.

The Center for American Progress reports

On [April 29], Donald Trump marks the 100th day of his presidency, and finds his approval ratings much lower than any of his modern predecessors.

One reason for this could be perceptions about his accountability. To become president, Trump made a lot of promises to a lot of people--663, in fact. In just 100 days of what would be 1,461 days of a first term, Donald Trump has broken 80 promises he made before he was sworn in.

[...] A close analysis of the 663 promises Trump made on the campaign trail shows how few he has kept, and how many more he has broken.

Trump's promises about what he would accomplish in his first 100 days are not the first vows pegged to a key milestone that were summarily ignored or broken. As a candidate, Trump made several pledges about the first paper he would sign, as well as what would he would do during his first minute and first hour as president. He kept none of them. On his first day in office, Trump failed to keep 34 different promises of what he said he would do on Day One in the White House--and fulfilled just two.

In total, during his first month in office, Trump broke 64 promises. He kept just seven of his promises in that first month.

Including those from the first month, Trump has broken 80 promises and kept seven in the first hundred days. Three promises have been addressed with some caveats in a separate category below.

[...] When the AP's Julie Pace asked Trump about the 100-day plan, Trump replied, "I'm mostly there on most items."

The reality shows the opposite.

[...] Trump promised he won't let countries steal our jobs anymore.

"We'll put our people back to work, we will not let other countries steal our jobs. It it is not going to happen anymore." Worcester, MA, 11/18/15 [Video]

According to a ThinkProgress analysis of Labor Department data, at least 11,934 American jobs have been lost or are in the process of leaving the United States since Inauguration Day.

In going to a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to celebrate his amazing string of accomplishments over the last 100 days, Trump avoided the White House Correspondents Association dinner where he was sure to have been the butt of about a billion squarely-on-target jokes.

As for Trump's claim that "No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days", Politifact notes

The 15 major bills [which Franklin Roosevelt signed in his first 100 days] included those that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Tennessee Valley Authority (both of which still exist) and the Home Owners Loan Corp. He signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which established farm subsidies, and the National Industrial Recovery Act, which started public-works efforts to reverse the Great Depression. He signed legislation to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and wine, and he issued executive orders to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps and to effectively take the United States off the gold standard.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:59PM (25 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @10:59PM (#503251)

    Merge the Democratic Republicans into one conservative party and give us a liberal party choice.

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:07PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:07PM (#503266) Journal

    Agreed.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:16PM (20 children)

    Be careful what you wish for. Progressives are not remotely liberal. That would be the libertarians.

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    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:33PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:33PM (#503295)

      You're like the dude in The Princess Bride. You've had so much of the kool aid that the poison no longer has any affect on you. Now if you could only be as smart and cool as the Dread Pirate Roberts instead of a trollish libertarian that is *most smart*.

      PS: your fedora is in the mail

    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:02AM (13 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:02AM (#503313)

      > Progressives are not remotely liberal. That would be the libertarians.

      Not in America.

      "Libertarian accommodation of conservative illiberalism is how libertarianism became philosophically arbitrary anti-leftism and withered."

      Wil Wilkinson [twitter.com] VP for Policy, Niskanen Center [niskanencenter.org]

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:53AM (12 children)

        Fraid so. Think tanks do not get to represent individualists.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:13AM (11 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:13AM (#503379)

          Lolwut?
          Do you even logic, bro?
          Its an observation of the current state of the movment, not a 'representation' of anybody.
          But, if there is one person on soylent who most embodies what he's describing, its you.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:28AM (10 children)

            RTFwebsite. Claims to be a libertarian think-tank. That's an oxymoron on account of we're very much individualists.

            And if you think I'm in any way illiberal, do please explain how. You might even be correct on a niche issue but overall you'll be horribly, astoundingly wrong.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:40AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:40AM (#503394)

              Claims to be a libertarian think-tank. That's an oxymoron on account of we're very much individualists.

              I get it now. You are like one of those religious fundies who knows only a tiny little bit about their own religion but are snarlingly dogmatic about the part they do know.

              And if you think I'm in any way illiberal, do please explain how.

              Your the guy who thinks it legit to discriminate against people based on their names.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:58AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:58AM (#503402)

              By that logic Ron Paul wasn't a libertarian either because individualists don't join political parties much less represent a group of people.
              Seriously, do even read what you type? Because you should, its great comedy.

              • (Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:16AM

                Ron Paul is an idiot. Libertarians don't join political parties and they damned sure don't think they're any more capable of running your life than you are. The only way they ever run for office is because they think they can do less damage than the other fucker running. Anyone who wants to be in office is not a libertarian.

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            • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:07AM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:07AM (#503405)

              It gets hard to separate the troll from the libertarian. That is your own damn fault. Since it is not always obvious when you are trolling you're gonna have to deal with the fact that most people assume you're quite a jerk, with questionable beliefs in policy that make people question your capacity to be a decent human. Basically you come off as a selfish prick, and since you cop to that fact all the time don't whine about it.

            • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:41PM (3 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:41PM (#503588)

              Claims to be a libertarian think-tank. That's an oxymoron on account of we're very much individualists.

              Are you suggesting that, if two people come together to discuss the state of individual liberty in society, they can not be libertarians? Is any kind of mutually beneficial cooperation anathema to your idea of libertarianism?

              • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:55PM (2 children)

                I'm saying that anyone that proposes to speak with authority over me, or on my behalf without my leave, utterly fails to grasp what it means to be a libertarian by my understanding of the word.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:40PM (1 child)

                  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:40PM (#503884)

                  > what it means to be a libertarian by my understanding of the word.

                  Well, at least you can admit you are profoundly ignorant of what it means to be a libertarian.
                  You are just a libertarian of convenience. You've adopted the label as way to excuse your profoundly anti-social behavior.
                  It lets you be an asshole and pretend that your shittiness makes you morally superior to the people you shit on.
                  But the only person you are fooling is yourself.

                  Individualists are not libertarians. They are just social outcasts.
                  Actual libertarians care about all that collective stuff you disavow - community, institutions, egalitarianism.
                  They just believe government isn't the way to accomplish those goals. But they still care about the goals.

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday May 03 2017, @06:09PM (1 child)

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 03 2017, @06:09PM (#503811) Journal

      While I partially agree with you, as you didn't capitalize libertarian, libertarians aren't Liberals. They've got very different ways of evaluating proposals.

      OTOH, all of the major US parties, and that appears to include the Greens and the Libertarians as well as the Democrats and Republicans, are believers on centralized governmental control of power. I abbreviate this as statist. Unfortunately, people have proven over and over again that centralized power *will* be abused. And the first thing anyone does on attaining power is work to ensure that they won't need to pay for any misdeeds. This isn't always successful, but it seems to always be the first goal...and please note that this isn't restricted to governmental organizations.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:36AM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:36AM (#503391) Journal

    You can have our Canadian parties: our Conservatives will try to screw you by making corporations all-powerful. The liberals have cozied up with big business in order to raise funds and so are just little 'C' conservatives.
    Kind of like Dems and Reps, huh?!

    The only way to really improve things is to cut out large donations to parties. There should be a cap at something like $100 for a personal OR a corporate donation, and no more $10,000 fund-raising dinners.

    This would make the parties have to really make the people happy so that they could get more donations from the 'people'.

    Sometin' like dat, anywho.

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    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:05PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @01:05PM (#503598)

      Or, people could learn to think critically for themselves and stop being swayed by advertising/marketing campaigns that run on money instead of facts.

      Yeah, not gonna happen, but it would work if it did.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:55PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:55PM (#503713) Journal

    Merge the Democratic Republicans into one conservative party and give us a liberal party choice.

    Nooooo!

    No liberal party. Just merge Democrats and Republicans into one party that has the best of both. The fiscal responsibility of the Democrats and the social progressiveness of the Republicans.

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