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Saturday, November 02, 2024

A key ally to former President Donald Trump detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest, defund the Environmental Protection Agency and put career civil servants "in trauma" in a series of previously unreported speeches that provide a sweeping vision for a second Trump term.

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In private speeches delivered in 2023 and 2024, Russell Vought, who served as Trump's director of the Office of Management and Budget, described his work crafting legal justifications so that military leaders or government lawyers would not stop Trump's executive actions. . . .

In his 2024 speech, Vought said he was spending the majority of his time helping lead Project 2025 and drafting an agenda for a future Trump presidency. "We have detailed agency plans," he said. "We are writing the actual executive orders. We are writing the actual regulations now, and we are sorting out the legal authorities for all of what President Trump is running on."

Vought laid out how his think tank is crafting the legal rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act, a law that gives the president broad power to use the military for domestic law enforcement. . . .

Another priority, according to Vought, was to "defund" certain independent federal agencies and demonize career civil servants, which include scientists and subject matter experts. Project 2025's plan to revive Schedule F, an attempt to make it easier to fire a large swath of government workers who currently have civil service protections, aligns with Vought's vision.

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," he said. "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.

"We want to put them in trauma."


#1 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-11-02 07:02 AM | Reply

I have a feeling if Trump wins, his administration is going to traumatize a lot of people, including people who think they won't be affected. Musk revealed "that a period of intentional 'temporary hardship'is on the horizon for American households"* and admitted "that he knows that Donald Trump's policies would crash the economy if he's elected president, but thinks that the price is worth it."
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meidasnews.com
**www.yahoo.com

What Musk sees as a temporary hardship for some will be a devastating hardship for others. For example, if the stock market crashes, people nearing or already at retirement age will lose the life savings they are using to supplement their social security benefits. If the housing market crashes, wealthy investors will benefit but not average Americans. Case in point:

Profiting off pain: Trump confidant cashed in on housing crisis

When the housing market crashed, Tom Barrack was ready. He built a company that bought more than 30,000 homes across the country--including nearly 5,000 in Texas--and converted them to rentals.


www.texastribune.org

I think that's what Trump himself was trying to do back in 2006 when he -------- fears of a coming housing collapse and opened his own mortgage company. But Trump being Trump and not being the savvy business man he claims to be, f'ed up. From a 2016 WP article:

Trump Mortgage failed. Here's what that says about the GOP front-runner.

In attaching his brand to the residential mortgage market at the height of the bubble, Trump defied a growing chorus of pessimism among economic forecasters and cast his decision as a sign of his own good judgment.

"How you react to the so-called housing bubble can be a barometer of your business personality," he wrote in a September 2005 blog entry, months before the launch of Trump Mortgage. The post, published on the website of Trump University, the now-defunct business that provided seminars for aspiring real estate entrepreneurs, appeared under the headline "The Housing Bubble: Doom and Gloom Don't Pay."

"Are you the type of person who takes advantage of positive situations when they present themselves, riding them out as long as they last? Or do you heed every message of doom and gloom, avoiding risks that could be some remarkable opportunities?"

Recently, as a candidate, Trump has presented himself as a truth teller who sounded an early alarm about the pending mortgage crisis. He told MSNBC last July that he had known the housing market "was a bubble that was waiting to explode."

"I told a lot of people," Trump said. "And I was right. You know, I'm pretty good at thatstuff."

www.washingtonpost.com

Trump was a failed businessman, a liar and a con man from the get-go, and that was before he started showing signs of mental and physical decline due to age-related infirmities. Really people? This is the man you want to entrust with the nuclear codes and our economy?

#2 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-11-02 08:06 AM | Reply

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