What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Brain]

A general observation: many US government organizations have historically been heavy hitters globally, their regulations and assessments have carried some weight worldwide in many industries. That prestige is starting to evaporate, since US government is a joke now.

[Valmy]

 

What the hell? Those have never been central tenents of the American Way of Life. Maybe the God thing. Pride in our homeland! Obedience to the Law! Those sound like the sort of tenents immigrants once came here to escape.

[Zoupa]

I'm not sure why the Department of Labor has someone tweeting out these things in the first place. Is NASA going to start tweeting about manifest destiny next? The Parks Service about the Monroe doctrine?

[Zoupa]

A general observation: many US government organizations have historically been heavy hitters globally, their regulations and assessments have carried some weight worldwide in many industries. That prestige is starting to evaporate, since US government is a joke now.

The CDC was the gold standard. Now they post antivax stuff on their website. 

[Tonitrus]

I'm not sure why the Department of Labor has someone tweeting out these things in the first place. Is NASA going to start tweeting about manifest destiny next? The Parks Service about the Monroe doctrine?

Now I'm going to need to find a small sticker of Yogi Bear saluting for my national parks pass..

[garbon]

I'm not sure why the Department of Labor has someone tweeting out these things in the first place. Is NASA going to start tweeting about manifest destiny next? The Parks Service about the Monroe doctrine?

If only we could disband social media companies...

[HisMajestyBOB]

So far the USCPSC's social media account has flown under the radar. 

[crazy canuck]

A general observation: many US government organizations have historically been heavy hitters globally, their regulations and assessments have carried some weight worldwide in many industries. That prestige is starting to evaporate, since US government is a joke now.

The CDC was the gold standard. Now they post antivax stuff on their website. 

There was a time when our courts found judgments of US courts to be helpful when analyzing novel legal issues.

[Syt]

I'm not sure why the Department of Labor has someone tweeting out these things in the first place. Is NASA going to start tweeting about manifest destiny next? The Parks Service about the Monroe doctrine?

Arbeit macht frei?

[The Minsky Moment]

 

Travail, Famille, Patrie

[DGuller]

A general observation: many US government organizations have historically been heavy hitters globally, their regulations and assessments have carried some weight worldwide in many industries. That prestige is starting to evaporate, since US government is a joke now.

My hope is that the obvious insanity going on now will actually mitigate the reputational damage to some extent, because the world knows that the stupid tweets are not really coming from the same agencies that earned the prestige, even if they carry the same name. 

It's like if a widely respected man goes down the street naked yelling obscenities:  the behavior is so obviously crazy that you know it's not the same man doing it, even if the body is the same.  You know a mental health crisis is behind it, and it doesn't erase the man that was there before.  Of course, all this makes a difference only if you can treat the mental health crisis and return the man to what he was;  if the crazy guy persona is the new normal for him, then it gets bleak.

[crazy canuck]

Institutional integrity is quite a bit different from an individual having a mental break with reality for a short period of time.

Institutions are made up of many people, and many people have been terminated from important positions within those institutions.  It will take generations for the United States to recover, if at all.