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Assuming he's telling the truth about this (I know, hacky joke there), what do you think he'll do as our Beloved Dictator from noon on Jan. 20 to noon on Jan. 21? How great can America become in one day?
 
I think he was serious about his day one promises. He was talking about "closing the border" amd ordering new mineral and oil extraction on public lands when he said that, as well as "going after" his political enemies. We'll see multiple orders to those effects in the first week. Jack Smith is a dead man walking.

Probably metaphorically.

Probably.
 
3 things right off the bat;

- Firing Jack Smith.

- Banning MSNBC, CNN and CBS from the Whitehouse Press Corp

- making the Australian ambassador, Kevin Rudd, persona non grata.

The only reason dissolve NATO isn't on the list is because that is more than a one day task. He'll do it in his first week though.
 
Patooka said:
The only reason dissolve NATO isn't on the list is because that is more than a one day task. He'll do it in his first week though.
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I don't think he understands that simply walking into the office on day one and saying "you're fired" to most of the federal bureaucracy is easy. Firing tens of thousands of civil service employees - many of whom no doubt work in HR - will be a herculean task. Replacing them all by the end of the first week? Yeah...good luck with that. The last time he won, his transition to the White House was a bit of a clusterfuck, and even if he does coordinate with Heritage and their plans to replace the bulk of the Executive Branch it will be a shit-show of epic proportions.

I'm thinking something akin to when Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten tried to make the empire worship his new god Aten.
 
How many civil servants will have quit by day one that also need to be replaced?
 
Ford said:
Patooka said:
The only reason dissolve NATO isn't on the list is because that is more than a one day task. He'll do it in his first week though.
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I don't think he understands that simply walking into the office on day one and saying "you're fired" to most of the federal bureaucracy is easy. Firing tens of thousands of civil service employees - many of whom no doubt work in HR - will be a herculean task. Replacing them all by the end of the first week? Yeah...good luck with that. The last time he won, his transition to the White House was a bit of a clusterfuck, and even if he does coordinate with Heritage and their plans to replace the bulk of the Executive Branch it will be a shit-show of epic proportions..
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Leaving most of those positions empty is part of the plan. He wants to shrink the government, and "punish" its former employees for defying him. During his first term, some very important positions were left empty waiting for his appointment, often leaving unprepared underlings in charge of whole departments suddenly.
 
Hope Jack Smith made backup copies of all his evidence. Not that any of it will ever get used at this point, but I'd rather it be out there somewhere, than just disappeared.
 
marc said:
Hope Jack Smith made backup copies of all his evidence. Not that any of it will ever get used at this point, but I'd rather it be out there somewhere, than just disappeared.
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Yup. 40 years hence someone will discover a trove of evidence and be amazed that nobody did anything about the obvious conman.
 
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Elixir said:
marc said:
Hope Jack Smith made backup copies of all his evidence. Not that any of it will ever get used at this point, but I'd rather it be out there somewhere, than just disappeared.
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Yup. 40 years hence someone will discover a trove of evidence and be amazed that nobody did anything about the obvious conman.
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Some of us are amazed right now. No need to wait.
 
He's definitely going to be putting down protests with the military and the right wingers will cheer it on as people die in the streets.
 
GenesisNemesis said:
He's definitely going to be putting down protests with the military and the right wingers will cheer it on as people die in the streets.
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Is there any scene of violence that would exceed the right’s bloodlust?
We should bring back gladiator death matches.
 
There won't be protests to put down. There will be apathy.

If people had the anger and engagement to protest then they would have showed up to vote against Trump.
 
ideologyhunter said:
Assuming he's telling the truth about this (I know, hacky joke there), what do you think he'll do as our Beloved Dictator from noon on Jan. 20 to noon on Jan. 21? How great can America become in one day?
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First thing is reverse the slew of Biden Executive Orders, especially as it relates to Federal Employees, and he will try to convert large numbers to his so called schedule F. Those employees will challenge it and it will take some time to see if it is implemented. Maybe it will delay things so long it cannot be effective until there’s a new President. That’s my job effectively. I intend to resist through the federal bureaucracy.

Beyond that, things will still take a while to implement. He can order tariffs without further legislation, but expect a lot of corporate lobbying on that first. Maybe he will do so immediately. That would be great. I’d love to see the economy turn to shit almost overnight specifically because of his policies. First soaring inflation followed by sharp interest rate rises followed by massive credit card debt default.

I expect a lot of fights over his nominees to various positions especially RFK. But Trump rules the roost so he will get them confirmed.

Fuck Trump
 
How to put this delicately; it's probably a good time to learn how to use a kitchen or garden shed for purposes other than originally intended if you live in the US. Lèse-majesté will become a thing on Jan 21.
 
bigfield said:
There won't be protests to put down. There will be apathy.

If people had the anger and engagement to protest then they would have showed up to vote against Trump.
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more people voted for Biden in 2020 yet still plenty of Trump supporters were willing to storm the Capitol. Your logic is inconsistent with demonstrated history.
 
Politesse said:
Ford said:
Patooka said:
The only reason dissolve NATO isn't on the list is because that is more than a one day task. He'll do it in his first week though.
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I don't think he understands that simply walking into the office on day one and saying "you're fired" to most of the federal bureaucracy is easy. Firing tens of thousands of civil service employees - many of whom no doubt work in HR - will be a herculean task. Replacing them all by the end of the first week? Yeah...good luck with that. The last time he won, his transition to the White House was a bit of a clusterfuck, and even if he does coordinate with Heritage and their plans to replace the bulk of the Executive Branch it will be a shit-show of epic proportions..
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Leaving most of those positions empty is part of the plan. He wants to shrink the government, and "punish" its former employees for defying him. During his first term, some very important positions were left empty waiting for his appointment, often leaving unprepared underlings in charge of whole departments suddenly.
Click to expand...

This will be the "and Find Out" part playing itself out. When all those people who knew their jobs administration to administration leave or get fired, what's left of the agencies will be unable to function. That sounds like fun for the "government is bad" crowd, but in order for Dear Leader to "MAGA" he'll need a functioning government. The federal government is an incredibly complex machine, and if you start pulling parts of it down the entire edifice will start to crumble, and that will affect millions of Americans...many of whom voted for that dolt. I read a comment from a federal worker who said the Biden administration was easy because even if you didn't agree with the direction, it was organized and reasonably well-run. Under Trump the last time, it was "chaos" because the people he appointed didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Now take that formula, and cut the staff by half or 2/3. Those partial government shutdowns?

Imagine that, but for a year...or two...or however long it takes for them to figure out they fucked up.
 
Ford said:

This will be the "and Find Out" part playing itself out. When all those people who knew their jobs administration to administration leave or get fired, what's left of the agencies will be unable to function. That sounds like fun for the "government is bad" crowd, but in order for Dear Leader to "MAGA" he'll need a functioning government. The federal government is an incredibly complex machine, and if you start pulling parts of it down the entire edifice will start to crumble, and that will affect millions of Americans...many of whom voted for that dolt. I read a comment from a federal worker who said the Biden administration was easy because even if you didn't agree with the direction, it was organized and reasonably well-run. Under Trump the last time, it was "chaos" because the people he appointed didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Now take that formula, and cut the staff by half or 2/3. Those partial government shutdowns?

Imagine that, but for a year...or two...or however long it takes for them to figure out they fucked up.
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Well, it worked so well for Elon and Twitter, why wouldn’t it work for the US government?
 
Ford said:
Politesse said:
Ford said:
Patooka said:
The only reason dissolve NATO isn't on the list is because that is more than a one day task. He'll do it in his first week though.
Click to expand...

I don't think he understands that simply walking into the office on day one and saying "you're fired" to most of the federal bureaucracy is easy. Firing tens of thousands of civil service employees - many of whom no doubt work in HR - will be a herculean task. Replacing them all by the end of the first week? Yeah...good luck with that. The last time he won, his transition to the White House was a bit of a clusterfuck, and even if he does coordinate with Heritage and their plans to replace the bulk of the Executive Branch it will be a shit-show of epic proportions..
Click to expand...
Leaving most of those positions empty is part of the plan. He wants to shrink the government, and "punish" its former employees for defying him. During his first term, some very important positions were left empty waiting for his appointment, often leaving unprepared underlings in charge of whole departments suddenly.
Click to expand...

This will be the "and Find Out" part playing itself out. When all those people who knew their jobs administration to administration leave or get fired, what's left of the agencies will be unable to function. That sounds like fun for the "government is bad" crowd, but in order for Dear Leader to "MAGA" he'll need a functioning government. The federal government is an incredibly complex machine, and if you start pulling parts of it down the entire edifice will start to crumble, and that will affect millions of Americans...many of whom voted for that dolt. I read a comment from a federal worker who said the Biden administration was easy because even if you didn't agree with the direction, it was organized and reasonably well-run. Under Trump the last time, it was "chaos" because the people he appointed didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Now take that formula, and cut the staff by half or 2/3. Those partial government shutdowns?

Imagine that, but for a year...or two...or however long it takes for them to figure out they fucked up.
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Yeah. The wholesale destruction of the federal Department of Education is mentioned seemingly as an aside in one of the bullet points of Agenda 47. He can't be serious, but if he is: how? He wants to simultaneously exert authoritarian control over content being taught in the schools, and restructure hiring and funding of K-12 education from the ground up, while also destroying the only government agency with the (limited, legally circumscribed) authority to interact with state education boards in any way. Hiring and curriculum are already powers devolved to the states, you'd actually have to vastly expand the DoE to accomplish what he wants, but he claims he's dismantling it. It makes no sense. Ditto accreditation, he wants to destroy the state level accreditation boards and replace them with a federal agency that does not currently exist, staffed presumably by federal employees. But what department would they work for, if there is no federal department overseeing education anymore? Who would they answer to? Not him personally, I'm sure. Our current state accreditation board oversees 70-80 full institutional reviews each term and around a hundred follow-ups, each resulting in a summary document totaling usually well over 200 pages. It would take Trump years to read them all.
 
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Ford said:

This will be the "and Find Out" part playing itself out. When all those people who knew their jobs administration to administration leave or get fired, what's left of the agencies will be unable to function. That sounds like fun for the "government is bad" crowd, but in order for Dear Leader to "MAGA" he'll need a functioning government. The federal government is an incredibly complex machine, and if you start pulling parts of it down the entire edifice will start to crumble, and that will affect millions of Americans...many of whom voted for that dolt. I read a comment from a federal worker who said the Biden administration was easy because even if you didn't agree with the direction, it was organized and reasonably well-run. Under Trump the last time, it was "chaos" because the people he appointed didn't know what the fuck they were doing. Now take that formula, and cut the staff by half or 2/3. Those partial government shutdowns?

Imagine that, but for a year...or two...or however long it takes for them to figure out they fucked up.
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We've seen it before.

The cultural revolution. I do not ask my wife about those times because I do not want to stir up the memories.
 
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