So guys, what's it like living in a boring echo chamber nowadays?

[Derf]

They were more intact then than they are now.

Meaning they weren't already starting to crumble?

This is all part of Project 2025's plan to "bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will," as Russell Vought put it.

While Trump established in his first presidency that he could break any guardrails, at will, and get away with it, he had enough experienced staffers, generals, and advisors to reel in the craziness. Of course many were fired, but they slowed him down enough.

It was the work of the intervening four years of pulling together Project 2025 (which he pretended no to know about) which prepared his executive orders and set the stage for the disastrous DOGE, which didn't end up saving hardly any of the 2 trillion promised, because why? Maybe because, as one engineer for DOGE said, he "didn't find the levels of fraud, waste, and abuse he expected;" in fact, he was "pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was." DOGE tore through the government with the intent to carry through Vought's agenda:

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.​

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We want to put them in trauma."​

NOAA, the VA, FEMA, NASA, SSA, FAA, and more, these agencies were gutted; experienced workers protecting American lives and interests were given the fork in the road, while ICE was given a greater budget than many world armies.

And? Why is this bad?

So now you know why I can, with Catholic conscience, vote for a Democrat. The right's had a stranglehold on voters for decades, I know from personal experience. It was a guaranteed vote for the GOP, preached from the pulpits.

Just as black votes were guaranteed for the Democrats, preached from the pulpits. My dad voted democrat until Bill Clinton, when he voted for Ross Perot. Oh, my dad was a pastor in one of those pulpits. I don't think I ever heard him endorse a republican. Meanwhile, I voted for Ronald Reagan before Ross Perot came along. I just didn't see what you are referring to.

Wanting to annex Canada and Greenland.

You might find this interesting: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-times-the-us-attempted-to-acquire-greenland/

Note that one of men that put the kibosh on the Greenland acquisition in the 1800s was also against purchasing Alaska. Probably considered it too insane, I suppose.

Definitely persevering. : )

And hopefully willing to reconsider positions sometimes?

 

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Meaning they weren't already starting to crumble?

Meaning nothing's perfect. Take the Patriot Act, for example,

And? Why is this bad?

Why is any of it good? Pick any part and illustrate what's good about it.

Just as black votes were guaranteed for the Democrats, preached from the pulpits. My dad voted democrat until Bill Clinton, when he voted for Ross Perot. Oh, my dad was a pastor in one of those pulpits. I don't think I ever heard him endorse a republican. Meanwhile, I voted for Ronald Reagan before Ross Perot came along. I just didn't see what you are referring to.

You might find this interesting: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...-times-the-us-attempted-to-acquire-greenland/

Note that one of men that put the kibosh on the Greenland acquisition in the 1800s was also against purchasing Alaska. Probably considered it too insane, I suppose.

That doesn't change the craziness of Trump not being willing to rule out taking it by force. Greenlanders aren't interested, so he's not going to get anywhere, but what a way to erode goodwill with our friends, and for what?

Same for Canada. Goodwill eroded, tourism down, sales of American goods down, distrust and dislike created and fomented by the mad emperor.

And hopefully willing to reconsider positions sometimes?

If I hadn't been willing to reconsider positions, I'd still be a right-winger. My first vote was for Ronald Reagan, btw.

 

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Random madman rant in the Oval Office:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115119151783895076