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I'm not going to state that unequivocally. But same goes with the opposite.

I hope you're right, but am pretty sure you're not. I'll refer you to the posts of Mr. Mx. A few more nudges is all it will take to put wingnuts over the edge, and the upcoming nudges will be more like 7.5 earthquakes to those that are gullible enough to continue supporting Trump. They believe their country is being destroyed from within, that the courts and the rest of the establishment is unjust and against them. They've shown what they're willing to do. They will just be much more careful this time. Like terrorists.

Huh. My recent experience indicates that the party you support is the only one whose unquestioned leader is defending himself against dozens of indictments. Party of criminals, indeed.

Probably not. But his history indicates that he has zero qualms with being a fraudster and a thief, so his past catching up with him won't bother me. Everyone knows this fraud trial is just the appetizer to the main dishes of the documents trial and J6 trial. Justice will be done.

You can go do that research yourself, King Twatadour. Or just sit back and stream tonight's episode of Tucker. He'll tell you what to believe.

No it's not. They come here pre-packaged, in ready-to-slapfight condition. Social and right wing media did this. Rush Limbaugh must be proud while he lights his cigars with hellfire in the seventh ring of Hades. Worst thing that ever happened to American media.

Sort of like calling Trump a victim of the justice system. I think you understand this willful ignorance game quite well. We all see what we want to see, and little more in many circumstances.

Dude, hate to tell ya, but American's privacy is something they are all too ready to give up themselves. See: social media. This isn't some dastardly deep state plot. It's corporations and marketing. I don't like it either, but it's the truth.

More of you telling me what I think, none correct. This is why you're a dipshit. And why I call you out on it. You don't know what you think you do, and you're a sick, deranged fu<knut because of it. I'm not joking when I call you a terrorist in waiting. You sound exactly like the kind of lunatic that would perpetrate violence against your perceived "enemies." Do you have a lengthy manifesto stuffed in a drawer somewhere? Pound sand, kook.

Trump knows they won't allow it, so he can tell his bootlicking authoritarian bastard (shout out to @jonmx for the fun jargon!) supporters he DOES, and they'll blame "derpity derp deep state" interference in transparency when he gets convicted, thereby continuing his hold over them. Violence will ensue.

This leads me to believe it won't be, unfortunately.

The US installed Zelensky as president? First time I've heard that. Got a link?

We did something similar therapeutically with my son when he had some speech issues as a youngster. I can't speak specifically to the efficacy of that aspect of his therapy as there were a number of other elements. But fast forward to today and he has zero speech problems and most of the time I wish he'd STFU already.

I know. That's why I said it. You know I hold you in high regard, despite you being on the wrong side of history.

While we disagree on plenty, I've never thought of you as operating outside of good faith, and trust that you are truthful in your posts. So you have really piqued my interest here. Is there anything else you can tell us?

Would you be okay with going through due process beforehand? That's historically the way we do things here, junior Trump.

All projection, all the time. MAGA!

No. Did your head consent to being banged? Kinda ruining what was already a subpar attempt at a joke here...

Was it consensual?

Well played, sir. Well played.

Quite the hobby you have, BH. None of your posts really have anything to do with what I said; in fact on their face, you're supporting me. But I'm not going to watch your videos. Ever. And LOL at equating canceling student loan debt (and being called out on it by your own party!) with filling the government with unqualified stooges that profess loyalty to Dear Leader in order to quash dissent.

Apropos that you're quoting a psychopathic gangster.

I find your answers to just be boilerplate conservative talking points. Your opinion of the FBI is a perfect, simplistic example. So what's your solution then? Privatize all of it and let "the market" solve our problems? Some things are too important to be decided by profit margin and greedy stockholders. We've seen the results of unchecked corporate "solutions." They'll poison us all for a buck.

Defense, infrastructure, education, law enforcement for starters.

Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump’s vision 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. “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 2 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. 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 “reexamine” 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. The Heritage coalition is taking its recruitment efforts on the road, crisscrossing America to fill the federal jobs. They staffed the Iowa State Fair this month and signed up hundreds of people, and they’re building out a database of potential employees, inviting them to be trained in government operations. “It’s counterintuitive,” Dans acknowledged — the idea of joining government to shrink it — but he said that's the lesson learned from the Trump days about what's needed to "regain control.” Guys totally cool with THEIR POTUS rolling in, gutting the federal gov't to install his own cronies, bypassing congress and ruling by presidential fiat. PSSST... that's what focking dictators do. You're all fully willing to sell this country out to an authoritarian leader as long as it's YOUR preferred authoritarian leader.