The first fruits of Trump: Today's news for January 23rd

"A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."--Matthew 7:18-20

For all the air expended on President Donald Trump this weekend, here is what he has done to merit it:

CNN Money:

Trump and Obamacare: Where we go from here

President Trump's executive order on Obamacare Friday reaffirmed his commitment to dismantle the health reform law. But it could have little tangible impact on the law... at least initially.

The order directed the Health and Human Services secretary and the heads of other agencies to minimize the financial burden of Obamacare on Americans, states, insurers, health care providers and others to the maximum extent permitted by law.

Therein lies one of the main hurdles to quickly taking down the Affordable Care Act. Much of Obamacare is controlled by law or by a hefty slew of regulations that an executive order can't undo with the stroke of a pen.

So this non-action led to...?

CNN:

Protesters across globe rally for women's rights

More than one million people marched through Washington, D.C., and other American cities Saturday to show support for women's rights and express their discontent over the election of President Donald Trump.

The Women's March drew members of Congress, world-famous actresses and countless citizens...

The protesters came out for a range of reasons, including immigration, health care and a general antipathy to Trump. But most said they wanted to show support for women and feared that there will be attacks on women's rights during Trump's presidency.

The connection seems to be missing.

But Trump picked up on it:

Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 22, 2017

So what exactly are these women protesting? There is only one thing to protest at this point in time, especially considering these protests were planned before Trump entered office: The election resulted in a sexist becoming president. In other words, they didn't like the election results.

News flash for the protesters: The American people, by voting or not voting, selected Donald Trump to be president. Protesting that is comparable to protesting the sun rising in the morning. That is how our system works. Deal with it, or move to another country.

Aziz Ansari said it best during his Saturday Night Live monologue:

We can’t demonize everyone that voted for Trump. Some people are like, everyone that voted for Trump is a dumb racist misogynist homophobe. Hold on. We’re talking about 63 million people. You know? Don’t judge them by their words. I’m sure there’s some people that had different political priorities. I’m sure there’s some people that voted for him with reservations.

I’m sure there’s a lot of people voted for Trump the same way a lot of people listen to the music of Chris Brown, where it’s like, “Hey, man! I’m just here for the tunes. I’m just here for the tunes! I don’t know about that other stuff. I just like the dancing and the music. I don’t condone the extracurriculars.”

If you think about it, Donald Trump is basically the Chris Brown of politics.  

On another note, here is a problem that has been left to Trump from previous administrations:

Business Insider:

NASA is in a strange and expensive pickle with the Russians

NASA, in dealing with Russia's monopoly on human spaceflight, is hoping Boeing can help — that is, by buying tickets the company owns for rides aboard Russian rockets.

When NASA retired its last space shuttle in July 2011, it expected commercial carriers like SpaceX and Boeing to launch its astronauts into space by 2015.

But both companies hit snags with the development of their rockets and spaceships, causing the first planned launches to slip to 2018, according to a September 2016 audit by NASA's Office of Inspector General (OIG).

This left NASA with one option for getting astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) for the next 3 years: a Russian spacecraft called the Soyuz.

NASA is no stranger to buying Soyuz seats — it has done so for more than a decade — but Russia has taken full advantage of its temporary monopoly to charge ever-more-exorbitant sums for them. And now the space agency may need more than it originally expected.

This is called "monopoly pricing". This is also what happens when our "enlightened" leaders show no foresight in their policies.

This is also the cost of big government. With a federal budget running trillions of dollars, who cares about a few extra million going to Russia? How many other government programs show such reckless spending because they are only a few million dollars here and there? Unfortunately, in government, metaphorical trees that produce no fruit are never "hewn down, and cast into the fire".