Buster has big plans
Trump has big plans to make himself (and future presidents, but what are the chances he’s taking that into account?) dictator.
Donald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.
Their plans to centralize more power in the Oval Office stretch far beyond the former president’s recent remarks that he would order a criminal investigation into his political rival, President Biden, signaling his intent to end the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence from White House political control.
Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him.
Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.
In other words he wants to make himself a dictator and he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about what happens after his head explodes.
He wants to revive the practice of “impounding” funds, refusing to spend money Congress has appropriated for programs a president doesn’t like — a tactic that lawmakers banned under President Richard Nixon.
He intends to strip employment protections from tens of thousands of career civil servants, making it easier to replace them if they are deemed obstacles to his agenda. And he plans to scour the intelligence agencies, the State Department and the defense bureaucracies to remove officials he has vilified as “the sick political class that hates our country.”
The Heritage Foundation is overseeing the operation.
The agenda being pursued has deep roots in the decades-long effort by conservative legal thinkers to undercut what has become known as the administrative state — agencies that enact regulations aimed at keeping the air and water clean and food, drugs and consumer products safe, but that cut into business profits.
Who needs clean air and water or safe food and drugs? What a piffling administrative pansy-ass Murka-hating idea.
“The notion of independent federal agencies or federal employees who don’t answer to the president violates the very foundation of our democratic republic,” said Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, adding that the contributors to Project 2025 are committed to “dismantling this rogue administrative state.”
You know what really violates the very foundation of our democratic republic? Trump anywhere near any kind of government power.
Personal power has always been a driving force for Mr. Trump. He often gestures toward it in a more simplistic manner, such as in 2019, when he declared to a cheering crowd, “I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
Yeah that’s a more simplistic manner all right. It sounds like a toddler.
It’s important to understand that Freedom must be guarded jealously by preventing us from exercising it.
What would Trump’s rise be in reaction to? Hitler’s rise was largely due to Germany’ loss in World War 1 and the onset of high unemployment in the 1930s Depression.
And who are Trump’s equivalents of Hitler’s Jews? He needs a credible scapegoat for the proclaimed need for MAGA; to pay for America’s perceived decline. But then again, maybe it’s been shoved into his ‘Too Hard Basket.’
Perhaps he could sign Stormy Daniels on as Chief Presidential Adviser. Worth a try, surely. But It’s a tough one.
I’m sure that he could use Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, Omar.
Trump doesn’t need enemies of the type that Germany might be perceived to have had. All he needs is someone to criticize Trump, even in the mildest manner, with honest criticisms. His MAGAs will rise up and riot.
We HAVE become a lot of pansy-asses, but not like the right thinks. They are the ones creating that. They don’t have the courage to confront a would-be dictator, so they pretend his goals are their goals. Actually, his goals are their goals, but they want power for themselves and are using Trump to get it. He may fool them…they may find themselves ground under the new dictatorship as quickly as everyone else.
And how many of these are “We want government small enough to drown in a bathtub” types?
They’ll only realize that he’s not really on their side when it’s too late. They can’t see that he’s only in it for himself; but as long as he hates the same people they hate, and makes it safe to enact that hatred, they don’t care. But if they try to cross him or rein him in, they’re as disposable as all of those who don’t agree with absolutely everything he says and does, and those who have opposed and distrusted him from the beginning.
Alfred Hugenberg has entered the chat.