The other thing he fails to do, and I am speaking as someone who has never tweeted, he fails to retweet crap that is over the top.

He gets alot of ugly nasty thrown his way by lefties. He should just pass along and retweet some the worst of it. Make the left and democrats/msm own it. They created these delusional hitler hunters, let them be the ones to correct it.

Would crack me up to see them have to cover some ugly leftist trolls, merely cause the POTUS, retweeted it.

I still smile about the flag burning tweet. I saw the troll aspect right away, I had to spit something into the trashcan cause it came back up when I sstarted laughing, really.

Could they resist pouncing? Nope. And they showed everyone that they are for free speech, but only if it agrees with their side, otherwise shouting down and safe spaces are employed. It was classic, and brilliant.

Do I love Trump? nope. I did vote for him. IF he does nothing but scrap ocare, and burn down a large part of DC, I will be happy.

He could easily put Virginia back to a red state by just cutting the govt workforce through attrition.

Waaaaaay too much slack, IMHO.

trump campaigned on nearly everything and really nothing (mutable) – bet most have “forgotten” his promise to release his tax returns after being elected, as one example of probably a string of broken promises to come.
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He thrives on media attention and to maintain that he must remain an enigma.

Problem is, an enigma as POTUS creates its own problems, with unpredictable outcomes.

A moral man of principle might be able to navigate that, but that doesn’t seem to be the man we have (at least, that is something he has yet to prove).

The cheers and “hope” will quickly end if (when?) we have a major trade battle (and its economic consequences), and/or we see a rogue nation take a step too far that even trump cannot ignore (and clumsily responds to).
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trump has to get this sh*t right from day one, and operate with some discipline.

His first 90 days MAY set the tone and direction (notwithstanding what we will have already seen between Nov 8 and inaugural day), but who knows?

That’s about as much “slack” as I’d recommend giving him, considering he seems to be the biggest “RINO” (in the original sense that Neo wrote about) in several generations, and has had more than plenty of time to give us a sense of what he would really do.
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Until then, it is not worth much commentary, as it is all speculative, likely on yet another shiny object that trump would have the media (and the rest of us) chase down to fill time and attention with.

Very true. They’ve already been going for him, snapping at his heels at every opportunity.

The headlines and the stories are laden with negative spin and innuendo.

It’s a deluge of vicious reportage—no doubt because they love America?—and it should be contrasted with the headlines and stories about both Obama and Clinton.

In fact, what the media doing is full-frontal incitement.

(Obama, too, has this attitude. Naturally so.)

And they’re preaching to a crowd that includes some very excitable people.

To the point where anything, unfortunately, is possible in the fury that has been whipped up.

If I were Trump, I would watch my back.

“RINO” usually is short for “a Republican the speaker doesn’t like.” It used to have more meaning than that, but now it’s come down to that.

I wrote about the evolution of the word here.

I supported Cruz with my own time and money in Iowa, and we won. Yet, that turned out to be a flash in the pan. I have questioned djt’s ‘vision’ all the way until he won 270. Now he will be POTUS. So I will cut him a year’s worth of slack.

As Neo has said “We will have to wait and see.” You are keeping your eyes open and have been aware of Trump’s characteristics. some others, not so much it seems already.

I hope he turns out better than I expect. Time will tell, it always does,

I linked to it today, along with my February argument that Trump can be thought of as a Bill Clinton Democrat.

Ron Paul’s attempt failed, though he did significant damage to the Republican Party, and I think it likely that Trump’s will, too.

I have often wished that those who use the word, which I almost never do, would give us an operational definition of the word.

(I haven’t bothered to make an operationalal definition of “RINO”, but I don’t think it would be hard to do. You could, for example, begin by looking at which party received most of their contributions, whether they had opposed or supported Ronald Reagan, whether they thought George W. Bush should be impeached, and so on.

For members of Congress, you could just look up how loyal to the party they are in floor votes.)

As you well know, I am not a big djt fan. I find his bombast and outlandishness off putting. However, I do not think he is ignorant. I have been encouraged and surprised by many of his cabinet picks.and I enjoy how he drives the msm up the wall. So I will wait and see what he does in 2017.

I advise you do the same. Ankle biting ain’t the way brother.