Originally Posted by
Geeko Sportivo
We all discussed Trump's policies for the last 5 years. We all know what they are. We all know how we stand on most of them.
It would be easier for me to talk about Trump's good policies, as they were a handful of them.
OK, so here we go-
Trump did want to end Obamacare- But didn't! So Good One Trump!
Trump refocused national security on great power competition- Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy stands out as one of the most important defense policy shifts of the last generation, reorienting the American military to confront rising and increasingly aggressive powers Russia and China. This includes his start to bringing the Troops home from Afghanistan.
This is something Both Biden and Trump have always agreed needed to be done- Thanks Trump- Biden will continue where you left off in carrying out this shift in military strategy!
In 2018, the Trump administration for the first time attempted a Defense Department-wide audit. An army of 1,000 outside accountants and 150 personnel from the Defense Department inspector general's office fanned out to some 600 locations and collected 40,000 pages of financial documents. So it's great that the government can now watch the Military's discretionary spending. Thanks Trump for doing this, as our country, and even Biden's administration will benefit from this as Officials now predict the Defense Department won’t be able to pass a full audit until 2027 at the earliest. But a lot will get done in the next 3 years and give Biden the information he needs to veto certain Congressionally proposed Military spending. The overall exercise is seen as a milestone in the odyssey to someday verify where all our defense tax dollars are going. What’s more, the audit effort is helping Pentagon managers make their programs more efficient and minimize waste. Efforts to inject more accountability into Pentagon spending are likely to get even more intense during the Biden administration. Thanks again Donald Trump!
Trump cracked down — mostly successfully — on unwanted calls and texts. For years the federal government made little headway against the plague of unwanted automated phone calls that have annoyed Americans — 19 billion such calls last year alone. Despite plenty of rancor, Trump and his agency heads succeeded in working with Congress to make significant headway in curbing — but not yet eliminating — the annoyance. Although these efforts will provide a strong foundation for any moves under Biden to further tamp down the number of calls, businesses say they still lack the legal clarity they need to use automated phone calls and texts for legitimate communication with their customers. Biden and Congress will now face pressure to provide such clarity.
Trump took a big swing at finally fixing health-care technology- something the Obama Admin started. Just before coronavirus upended daily life — the Trump administration released a big ball of rules meant to sweep aside barriers to sharing health information. The administration’s rules have several targets but they focus on practices like “information blocking,” whereby companies or providers might not release necessary data for competitive advantage, and require companies to use standardized recipes to exchange information. Not much impact yet,. Providers and other parts of the industry successfully argued that complying with the rules would be too heavy a lift amid the pandemic, so the Trump administration delayed the effective date. The provisions are, broadly speaking, popular and flow from bipartisan work beginning in the Obama administration. If anything, the biggest critics of the rules want them to be tougher and go into effect faster. For that reason, it’s unlikely a Biden administration will be looking to reverse course.
The anti-monopolists started winning — despite Trump at first, then with his help. For the past decade, politicians on both sides of the aisle have expressed concerns about the growing size, power and influence of tech giants including Facebook, Google and Amazon, but rarely took action against them. Progressive anti-monopoly advocates were largely overruled during the Obama years at the U.S.’ two antitrust agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department. But amid growing conservative anger at the tech giants, Trump's regulators eventually joined the fight and dusted off an antitrust legal playbook that hadn’t been used since the breakup of AT&T in the 1980s.In recent months, the DOJ filed a landmark antitrust case against Google, its biggest monopolization case since the 1990s suit against Microsoft. The FTC, meanwhile, is pursuing its own watershed suit against Facebook that could see the social network broken up. Both lawsuits will continue into the Biden administration — and possibly beyond. Major antitrust cases can take 3 to 5 years, and a trial in the Google suit likely won’t even begin till the fall of 2023.
Trump rallied the world against China's 5G dominance. The Trump administration put national security concerns around 5G in the spotlight, arguing that Chinese equipment used to build next-generation Internet networks posed a surveillance threat to Western countries. In practice, that meant the White House launched a campaign against some of China’s top communications companies, from Huawei to ZTE to China Telecom; even TikTok became swept up in the mix. Although many expect Biden to take a more multilateral approach, Trump’s concerns won bipartisan backing within the U.S. and are likely to keep dominating global and domestic talks. Many countries are still mulling whether they share the alarm coming from U.S. officials.
Trump's White House took quiet steps to promote U.S. development of Artificial Intelligence. Trump in 2019 signed an executive order aimed at boosting the federal government’s role in promoting the development of AI and at providing guidance to agencies on how to regulate the technology. The White House also threw its support behind European efforts to develop global AI standards. Even as Trump disengaged from other areas of international rulemaking, his actions helped give the U.S. a global presence in the international debate over how to regulate AI. Industry leaders are still looking for the federal government to seize an even more active role in championing AI development, and to provide more funding for R&D. And they’re hoping the incoming Biden administration will go much farther than Trump did.
These are all the things I could think of- perhaps some of the steps he took with his Warp Speed development grants. Of course they didn't go far enough, but it definitely was fast enough and he should get some credit for that.
EVERYTHING ELSE HE TOUCHED, AND THERE WAS A LOT, HE FUCKING RUINED, DAMAGED, OR HURT MANY PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES ACROSS THE NATION!
And sorry, that would take a fucking 500 page book just to explain it all!
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