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Are there any measurable metrics by which he is doing a good job?
He'll be one of two presidents that have reduced the US's carbon emissions between first year and last year in office.
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President is not responsible for pathetic Healthcare in California and New York. I'm always amazed how every single failure of the Democratic state apparatus is blamed on the President. Same deal with police brutality.
I'd say he had 3 years to get good healthcare in and spent that time golfing instead?
Snowden is doing OK apparently, he should pardon Assange - who is not so well - quickly.
> realDonaldTrump: ObamaCare is a disaster and Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama's records,I might become a major fan He should be executed, but in the same breathe he may deserve a pardon? Not going to happen. Neither the State Department, the Justice Department, the Defense Department, or the Intelligence Community, is particularly sympathetic to Snowden's cause (for good r…
I'm not American so my opinion won't matter. Yet, in my view Snowden actions have been extremely important to set the discussions we are having today: how private do we expect our digital lives to be be it from the state or from megacorps. I doubt that Facebook/CA affair in 2016 elections would have come to light (or have the same impact) had Snowden leaks not had happened. I doubt that Europeans would have stoped be…
A nice example is uBlock Origin, which was (probably) created as a result of the Snowden leaks. June 2013 - Snowden leaks NSA documents September 2013 - the first commit to the Script HQ extension is made (which soon became HTTP Switchboard, which later became uMatrix and uBlock) https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/commits/master?af...
I agree with all these "wake me up when it happens" poster, because I just generally don't like "nothing happened" news. But seriously, say Trump (or whoever might have been in his place) actually wants to do this as a populistic move: is it hard to do? Does it require any bureaucratic bullshit, arguing with people, forcing stuff, or is it just some paper to sign and it's done? Does it require any effort (and how muc…
If you'd been paying attention you'd know that the President has the absolute, unquestionable power to pardon offenses against the United States, which specifically means: offences under Federal law, but not offenses under State law.
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He'll be one of two presidents that have reduced the US's carbon emissions between first year and last year in office.
Which is all the more impressive given his indifference to carbon footprints, and hostility towards their reduction.
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It's all semantics, he revealed valuable knowledge to the public about how the government was unConstitutionally surveilling them at every opportunity without remorse or apology
It's not semantics. If you killed someone committing their own separate crime, you'd be both a killer and potentially a hero. It is important to make clear he both committed a very serious crime and potentially blew the whistle in act of bravery.
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Unless you count the transformation of our friendly presence in Iraq to a hostile invasion opposed by the government. But, sure, he hasn't invaded any countries that weren't notionally friendly at the time of the invasion.
> our friendly presence in Iraq Once again I marvel at the flexibility of our English language in describing impossible concepts, such as this one.
It is, nevertheless, the case that Trump changed that into an invasion again.
Snowden is doing OK apparently, he should pardon Assange - who is not so well - quickly.