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I know you know what it is, and know it's nothing like QAnon, but if you or anyone else wants a refresher, wiki crushes it. Might as well get familiar with it because you're going to be hearing a lot about it the next few months.
@UW_Doog_Bot , this is how autocracy/kleptocracy is implemented and democracy is dismantled, little by little. It's not a grand sweeping strongarm move. See: Orban. There's many ways to skin a cat. Your Chevron argument falls apart when you consider the courts.
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It’s hard to take anyone seriously who posts an idea from the Heritage Society and insist that will be policy.
It’s dumb, my guy. You are struggling mightily here when you receive any pushback for what are over-the-top proclamations.
I don’t care what the Heritage Society thinks. I care about presidential and party platforms.
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You know Wikipedia is run by US Intelligence, right? Right?
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Even if that were true, which it is not, Wikipedia is not a source. The page is an aggregation and summary, with attached links, and 151 sources. I'm providing you with a primer. It's on you to pursue it. The Heritage Foundation is one of the most influential conservative think tanks in modern America, with tentacles and partnerships everywhere. Reagan implemented/initiated 60% of the Heritage Foundations Mandate for Leadership policy recommendations within the first year of his presidency, and called it a "vital force" during his presidency. The HF had a huge say in the first Trump administration, staffing, policy, etc. Betsy DeVos, Mick Mulvaney, Rick Perry, Scott Pruit, Jeff Sessions, etc, all Heritage Foundation. Trump embraced 2/3rds of the HF's policy proposals in the first administration. HF has been ranked as having the most significant impact on public policy globally from 2017-2019.
And this was all before 2022, after a leadership change to Kevin Roberts, where the full public embrace of national conservatism ideology began in the HF, and 2023 when a working relationship with a state-funded Hungarian think tank, the Danube Institute, began. I won't get into the Orban link anymore, but it's all out out there to explore.Currently, the HF, its Mandate for Leadership proposal authors, and its coalitions, are chock full of ex and future Trump administration officials and advisors, including Stephen Miller, Navarro, Meadows, Vought (the policy director of the RNC), John McEntee (Trump's loyalty cop and "deputy president"), and more.
Part of all this, the HF and Project 2025 is tasked with building a Presidential Personnel Database, a net cast to identify loyalists, purity tests and all, to serve and staff the Trump administration after the Schedule F purge of civil servants, as I spoke about before.
The core tenet of Project 2025 is the overhaul of the federal
bureaucracy. The plan includes the reclassification of tens of thousands
of federal employees under a proposed "Schedule F" to facilitate easier
firing and hiring of personnel aligned with conservative values. The
goal is to ensure that federal agencies are staffed by individuals who
will implement the president's agenda without resistance from career
civil servants.
And this is just part of it. You and @EverettChris can dismiss it all, attack sources, keep your head in the sand, and/or embrace it all you want. These are the facts, IDGAF what you do with em, but you should know about em. -
Homerun!
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Ern thinks actual climate change legislation that fucks Americans is off in the weeds but boy does he know his conspiracy theories
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@DerekJohnson this site is increasingly frustrating and difficult to use.
Let's see, if you were going to be a dictator would you
A) Fire tons of federal employees, reduce the size of the federal government, and return power to the states/Congress/judiciary
Or
B) Hire tons of feds, massively expand the federal agencies and militarize them, expand the scope of federal power, and expand executive power
Let's clearly look at who has done which in the last decade plus.
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Wow I'm convinced
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Furthermore, I love the caricature of Trump of being at the same time a near senile bumbling kleptocrat while also playing 6D chess to align the powers of the federal government into a dictatorship.
Even given that, you'd think this would be a solid argument for a limitation on federal powers but no, somehow it's still necessary to vastly increase the size and scope of said government.
