US government internet and spectrum overseer resigns, along with legislative director The head of the US government department that oversees the internet and telecommunications spectrum unexpectedly resigned on Thursday, along with his Congressional go-between. Assistant Secretary of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), David Redl, and NTIA Assistant Secretary for Legislative …
If the author is going to explicitly state that there's an argument over some "whim" he should state what it was. Else we're just playing political dirty trick games. Again. We already know you don't like the current POTUS - you rarely fail to indicate that. Explicit reasons why would elevate the conversation to a more adult level. They shouldn't be that hard to come up with.
Explicit reasons why would elevate the conversation to a more adult level,
It's not just this President. Nor those who ran in the last election. All of our leaders (politicians the lot) have become enamored of the "sound bite" ant that goes back at least as far as Johnson. For once, I just wish they'd shut up and do their job. If Hillary or Snaders had one, I'd be doing the same thing.
This one is particularly bad in that he hammers on old issues into the ground, tweets whatever pops into his mind (repeatedly and daily) in an effort to get attention. Let's add that he's not filled a bunch of vacant department top management positions. If he'd stop making himself a target by beating on the other side, they'd probably leave him alone but it's a battle of sound bits and no one will win. We the people will lose in the long run.
I dearly love this country but not the clowns running it and they are getting worse by the week.
it is increasingly impossible for anyone who wishes to put reasoned and evidence-based policymaking ahead of presidential whim to remain within the current administration.
So what? Why would the Trump regime care? It's not like there are any consequences for their bad behaviour.
Obviously Trump and his inner circle are all delusional incompetents, but what of his handlers, the Deep State manadarins running the show? Are they also in thrall to hopelessly blinkered corporate bosses, ie the money? Is there no-one on this Titanic who can see the iceberg, or do they believe it's an icebreaker, and Full Steam Ahead?
I wouldn't be sure he has "handlers". From everything in the press (both sides) he's does what he wants and if anyone tells him different... they're gone pretty quick. Your concept of the Titanic applies well here. Sooner or later, there will be the big iceberg and it won't be pretty.
but what of his handlers, the Deep State manadarins running the show?
They only exist in Trump's hyperbolic, jumbled rhetoric, fed to him by Alex Jones and the other conspiracy theorists he so admires. If every branch of government doesn't do what he wants right away, his thinking goes, then it must be because there's a cabal of Obama-era leftovers working against him. It certainly can't be anything to do with him not filling all those vacant federal posts, or him appointing heads who are actively against what their department stands for, or his lack of understanding about the structure and process of government and his unwillingness to learn, or his abuse of executive orders getting shot down by the courts, or his inability to keep White House staff onside for more than a few months until they despise him and resign or until they get arrested. No, it's got to be someone else's fault. It's just got to be.
You're obviously correct </sarc> - it's the Mueller report that goes against what you state when they proved that the blue team had been pushing a conspiracy - hard - for over two years and charging us for doing so. No one at the FBI was fired for any sort of misbehavior in making up false evidence and misfeasance in telling the press lies. There was no entrapment by using foreign assets to bait campaign workers...and on and on. OBviously, you're correct but only as long as you can't read a report made by stated enemies of the guy they were reporting on. Who have rather a track record of being thorough.
it's the Mueller report that goes against what you state when they proved that the blue team had been pushing a conspiracy
You only read a few words of a precis of Barr's four-page summary of the Mueller report, didn't you? Or did you just have it read to you by Fox & Friends? After all, if that was good enough for Trump then it was good enough for you.
With his arrogance, stupidity and mind of a 5 year old, Trump is annihilating every semblance of governance and burning every ounce of credibility the United States has ever had.
Whoever will be President after that waste of air is basically going to have to rebuild the US government from the ground up. And I'm thinking there will be a lot of candidates to go in and help clean up the mess, because all the competent people are on the sidelines, probably chafing at the bit, thinking of all the damage that is being done now. They're going to want to help make things right.
"But this would be a good thing, wouldn't it, if there's a multitude of presidential candidates from diverse political backgrounds, instead of just two, neither of whom were really wanted?"
The party system would still exist. Just all governmental checks and balances are burned to the ground now. Don't like a Congressional subpoena from now on? Just say 'no' to it, and make up some excuse later.
Trump is not a deep strategist, or even tactician -- look at his counter-productive foreign policies, his inability to understand that his tariffs hurt America, his desire to torpedo health care laws which are hugely popular among regular Americans.
He is notably shameless, and lacks any real moral or ethical underpinnings to give structure to his efforts. (His lying, cheating, and flip-flops are all well-known.)
What he is succeeding at is raising presidential unaccountability to unheard-of heights.
The piper will be paid when Americans elect a man of similarly amoral and authoritarian mindset, but with sharp intelligence and ruthless will to power. Then Trump's debasing of the Constitutional system of checks and balances will aid this leader in instituting a true dictatorship. (My guess is that it would start with a declaration of a state of emergency by the President, followed by dismantling any powers of the legislative and judicial branches which might check the executive branch. That's the usual way it's done elsewhere.)
Oh, hell, I don't know. Maybe after the end of the current fiasco the Senate and House will react by saying "never again" and reasserting their constitutional role in government. But the dysfunction of the US two-party system makes me doubt that will happen.
The piper will be paid when Americans elect a man of similarly amoral and authoritarian mindset, but with sharp intelligence and ruthless will to power.
He will claim a very moral mindset, run on a fundamental, religious ticket and be named Nehemiah Scudder.
Trump has been classified as a Narcissistic Sociopath by a group of psychologists. Obviously, the man did not submit to an evaluation. However, his words/tweets and actions have been a matter of public record for most of his adult life, probably a larger body of an observation than a typical person undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
What matters to Trump? That people like him. That unfillable void causes the Narcissistic Sociopath to seek those who agree with him. An easy way to achieve that is to seek out those with strong opinions, Fox News, Putin, conspiracy theorists, etc. and build that around a cult of false achievement.
What is somewhat unique about Trump is the use of lawyers and lawsuits to bully his way to forward. In his path is a history of literally thousands of lawsuits over the years, those Trump initiated and those he fought against, that have a common purpose, intimidation of opponents. ( Donald Trump and his businesses have been involved in over 3,500 legal cases in U.S. federal courts and state court and many others in local courts). Trump entered business life as the son of a billionaire. Those familiar with his career deeper than the TV persona have understood that his claims of success were a modus operandi for rolling from one failure to another, with success being the building of an iconic brand name that could be sold more profitably than any other product or service. However, few major publications found it benefitial to take the man on because it would rain down the rath of Trump's legal team and because the US brain-dead public had grown convinced of his glamorous portrayal.
You just have to read the headlines about the turmoil at the Whitehouse as it is in the news everyday. Things like these resignations will impact the Internet when Trump puts in his people. Trump thrives on craziness and until he gets out of the WH we will hope that the other people that are doing their jobs stay.
1) Mr. Ross got it backward: their service was first to American citizens, then to the department, and last of all to the president. The secretary, and a lot of other government officials, forget who it is who employ them.
2) Stop, for god's sake, using "spark" as a verb. We have plenty of words: cause, elicit, invoke. It's just lazy. Trendy, yes, but lazy.
The FCC was created to manage the radio spectrum, but recently, it's been used as a way for the director and senior staff to ingratiate themselves with large telecommunication firms so they can land fat jobs when they leave. Gone are the days when they could be trusted. That bent may be why somebody with a classic notion of the administration decided to get the heck out. NITA is the same thing. It's supposed to be an objective body that manages telecommunications in trust for the people. A lot of what's been going on smacks of large payoffs and promises.
this is the reason why Redl has resigned,
"He was a vocal advocate within the Department of Commerce for repurposing federal spectrum for commercial use and fostering the private sector’s lead in 5G deployment.
the USA chose Betamax over VHS... the rest of the world chose to be on the spectrum selected by the USA Federal all those years ago...
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