September 5, 20232 yr 8 minutes ago, Toastrel said: How embarrassing, to have this elected to office.
September 6, 20232 yr 7 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said: FAFO moment right there. It reminded me more of the 1998 WCCW Battle Royal. Go von Erichs!
September 6, 20232 yr 5 hours ago, Toastrel said: How embarrassing, to have this elected to office. Somebody who clearly did their own research.
September 6, 20232 yr This should terrify all Americans... Right-wing establishes ‘government-in-waiting’ for second Trump term, plans firing of 50,000 public workers WASHINGTON (AP)—With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump, recruiting thousands of Americans to come to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to his own. Led by the long-established Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials, the far-reaching effort is essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s return—or any candidate who aligns with their ideals and can defeat President Joe Biden in 2024. With a nearly 1,000-page "Project 2025” handbook and a supposed "army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the "deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers. "We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” said Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project and a former Trump administration official who speaks with historical flourish about the undertaking. The unprecedented effort is being orchestrated with dozens of right-flank organizations, many new to Washington, and represents a changed approach from conservatives, who traditionally have sought to limit the federal government by cutting federal taxes and slashing federal spending. Instead, Trump-era conservatives want to gut the "administrative state” from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing. The goal is to avoid the pitfalls of Trump’s first years in office, when the Republican president’s team was ill-prepared, his Cabinet nominees had trouble winning Senate confirmation, and policies were met with resistance—by lawmakers, government workers, and even Trump’s own appointees who refused to bend or break protocol, or in some cases violate laws, to achieve his goals. While many of the Project 2025 proposals are inspired by Trump, they are being echoed by GOP rivals Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy and are gaining prominence among other Republicans. And if Trump wins a second term, the work from the Heritage coalition ensures the president will have the personnel to carry forward his unfinished White House business. "The president Day One will be a wrecking ball for the administrative state,” said Russ Vought, a former Trump administration official involved in the effort who is now president at the conservative Center for Renewing America. Much of the new president’s agenda would be accomplished by reinstating what’s called "Schedule F,” a Trump-era executive order that would reclassify tens of thousands of the two million federal employees as essentially at-will workers who could more easily be fired. Biden had rescinded the executive order upon taking office in 2021, but Trump—and other presidential hopefuls—now vow to reinstate it. "It frightens me,” said Mary Guy, a professor of public administration at the University of Colorado Denver, who warns the idea would bring a return to a political spoils system. Experts argue Schedule F would create chaos in the civil service, which was overhauled during President Jimmy Carter’s administration in an attempt to ensure a professional workforce and end political bias dating from 19th century patronage. As it now stands, just 4,000 members of the federal workforce are considered political appointees who typically change with each administration. But Schedule F could put tens of thousands of career professional jobs at risk. "We have a democracy that is at risk of suicide. Schedule F is just one more bullet in the gun,” Guy said. The ideas contained in Heritage’s coffee table-ready book are both ambitious and parochial, a mix of longstanding conservative policies and stark, head-turning proposals that gained prominence in the Trump era. There’s a "top to bottom overhaul” of the Department of Justice, particularly curbing its independence and ending FBI efforts to combat the spread of misinformation. It calls for stepped-up prosecution of anyone providing or distributing abortion pills by mail. There are proposals to have the Pentagon "abolish” its recent diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, what the project calls the "woke” agenda, and reinstate service members discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. Chapter by chapter, the pages offer a how-to manual for the next president, similar to one Heritage produced 50 years ago, ahead of the Ronald Reagan administration. Authored by some of today’s most prominent thinkers in the conservative movement, it’s often sprinkled with apocalyptic language. "Some of these visions, they…bleed into some kind of authoritarian fantasies where the president won the election, so he’s in charge, so everyone has to do what he says.” A chapter written by Trump’s former acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security calls for bolstering the number of political appointees, and redeploying office personnel with law enforcement ability into the field "to maximize law enforcement capacity.” At the White House, the book suggests the new administration should "re-examine” the tradition of providing work space for the press corps and ensure the White House counsel is "deeply committed” to the president’s agenda. Conservatives have long held a grim view of federal government offices, complaining they are stacked with liberals intent on halting Republican agendas. But Doreen Greenwald, national president of the National Treasury Employees Union, said most federal workers live in the states and are your neighbors, family, and friends. "Federal employees are not the enemy,” she said. While presidents typically rely on Congress to put policies into place, the Heritage project leans into what legal scholars refer to as a unitary view of executive power that suggests the president has broad authority to act alone. To push past senators who try to block presidential Cabinet nominees, Project 2025 proposes installing top allies in acting administrative roles, as was done during the Trump administration to bypass the Senate confirmation process. John McEntee, another former Trump official advising the effort, said the next administration can "play hardball a little more than we did with Congress.” In fact, Congress would see its role diminished—for example, with a proposal to eliminate congressional notification on certain foreign arms sales. Philip Wallach, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies the separation of powers and was not part of the Heritage project, said there’s a certain amount of "fantasizing” about the president’s capabilities. "Some of these visions, they do start to just bleed into some kind of authoritarian fantasies where the president won the election, so he’s in charge, so everyone has to do what he says—and that’s just not the system the government we live under,” he said. At the Heritage office, Dans has a faded photo on his wall of an earlier era in Washington, with the White House situated almost alone in the city, dirt streets in all directions. It’s an image of what conservatives have long desired, a smaller federal government.
September 6, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, mr_hunt said: This authoritarian lunatic deserves every second of this.
September 6, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, mr_hunt said: when she does that dance at the end her joy is my joy
September 7, 20232 yr 15 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said: when she does that dance at the end her joy is my joy I love her. More people need to do this, stop letting them spew whatever lie they want, make them uncomfortable again
September 7, 20232 yr Remember when Republicans were the party of the military? And once again Jon Stewart is the smartest voice in the room. Normalize calling dumb MFers dumb MFers
September 7, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, DEagle7 said: Remember when Republicans were the party of the military? And once again Jon Stewart is the smartest voice in the room. Normalize calling dumb MFers dumb MFers Quote "Thus far, the hold has prevented the Defense Department from placing almost 300 of our most experienced and battle-tested leaders into critical posts around the world.Three of our five military branches — the Army, Navy and Marine Corps — have no Senate-confirmed service chief in place. Instead, these jobs — and dozens of others across the force — are being performed by acting officials without the full range of legal authorities necessary to make the decisions that will sustain the United States’ military edge..." "Any claim that holding up the promotions of top officers does not directly damage the military is wrong — plain and simple." But I put a yellow ribbon sticker on my SUV?!?!?!! Isn't that enough support?
September 7, 20232 yr War poetry has been going on for a long time mr. Tuberville. Poems about war, poems to loved ones. The oldest emails I still keep are from a friend who almost snuffed it in Iraq and would write poetry and send it in his downtime.
September 7, 20232 yr he's full of sheet. i mean he's a politician so no big surprise, but this POS is playing around with our national defense. Quote Every branch of the U.S. military is struggling to meet its fiscal year 2022 recruiting goals, say multiple U.S. military and defense officials, and numbers obtained by NBC News show both a record low percentage of young Americans eligible to serve and an even tinier fraction willing to consider it. The officials said the Pentagon’s top leaders are now scrambling for ways to find new recruits to fill out the ranks of the all-volunteer force. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks consider the shortfall a serious issue, said the officials, and have been meeting on it frequently with other leaders. the record number of those eligible to serve is the biggest issue. not wokeness. but of course, he's a politician.
September 7, 20232 yr Can we now call them terrorists? Desantis with the slit throats comments and now openly stating if they dont get their way, going to result to violence. Mike Huckabee: If Trump Doesn’t Win, 2024 Will Be Last Election ‘Decided by Ballots Rather Than Bullets’
September 7, 20232 yr 3 minutes ago, Tweek said: Can we now call them terrorists? Desantis with the slit throats comments and now openly stating if they dont get their way, going to result to violence. Mike Huckabee: If Trump Doesn’t Win, 2024 Will Be Last Election ‘Decided by Ballots Rather Than Bullets’ repugs have only won the popular vote in 1 presidential election since 1992. they are a party in decline. what we're seeing now are their last ditch efforts to remain in power...they'll do whatever it takes.
September 7, 20232 yr 34 minutes ago, DEagle7 said: Remember when Republicans were the party of the military? And once again Jon Stewart is the smartest voice in the room. Normalize calling dumb MFers dumb MFers Tuberville is truly an idiot. His political jargon woke agenda aside... The cornerstone reason he believes he can hold up military promotions is because he thinks it is already leadership bloated. Because in WWII there was an officer for every 6000 soldiers... Today it's more like 1 for every 1000. Which is really stupid reasoning. We were mobilized for a war effort during WWII, with draft conscripted soldiers. Today's army is all-volunteer. What, is he going to wait on promotions until war breaks out? Then we won't have officers in place. In the meantime we risk losing potential top brass while they are all waiting for nominations. Tuberville is not worthy of his committee assignment.
September 7, 20232 yr 1 minute ago, toolg said: Tuberville is truly an idiot. His political jargon woke agenda aside... The cornerstone reason he believes he can hold up military promotions is because he thinks it is already leadership bloated. Because in WWII there was an officer for every 6000 soldiers... Today it's more like 1 for every 1000. Which is really stupid reasoning. We were mobilized for a war effort during WWII, with draft conscripted soldiers. Today's army is all-volunteer. What, is he going to wait on promotions until war breaks out? Then we won't have officers in place. In the meantime we risk losing potential top brass while they are all waiting for nominations. Tuberville is not worthy of his committee assignment. he wants to delay until after the 2024 election so they can promote pro-trumpers to those positions. they'll need trumpers in positions of power in the military in order to carry out trump's fascist agenda if he wins.
September 7, 20232 yr 19 minutes ago, Tweek said: Can we now call them terrorists? Desantis with the slit throats comments and now openly stating if they dont get their way, going to result to violence. Mike Huckabee: If Trump Doesn’t Win, 2024 Will Be Last Election ‘Decided by Ballots Rather Than Bullets’ I'm sure the trumpbots will all show up to speak out against these overt threats of violence. Any minute now, I bet.
September 7, 20232 yr You guys are so concerned with military readiness for our never ending proxy wars. Where were you when Obama was stripping down the military and joking about it, all while sending drones all over the middle east. Thank god Trump beefed us back up so we could send it all over to Ukraine and give 4 stars to absolute psychopaths like this:
September 7, 20232 yr 2 hours ago, mr_hunt said: he wants to delay until after the 2024 election so they can promote pro-trumpers to those positions. they'll need trumpers in positions of power in the military in order to carry out trump's fascist agenda if he wins. This. They even documented this in their plan.
September 7, 20232 yr 28 minutes ago, Mike31mt said: You guys are so concerned with military readiness for our never ending proxy wars. Where were you when Obama was stripping down the military and joking about it, all while sending drones all over the middle east. Thank god Trump beefed us back up so we could send it all over to Ukraine and give 4 stars to absolute psychopaths like this: The sign is real. And I always felt like someone came in late and said "Uhh...shouldn't we add the word "for" in there?"
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