Project 2025
If Trump wins this election isn’t there checks and balances that prevents any president from doing anything considered to be unconstitutional?
Why are people afraid like it’s going to happen if he wins?
If Trump wins this election isn’t there checks and balances that prevents any president from doing anything considered to be unconstitutional?
Why are people afraid like it’s going to happen if he wins?
A lot of Project 2025 seems to relate to governmental human resources, and the replacement of civil servants the president can fire at his/her discretion. Trump is not averse to firing people as both a public official and private businessperson. In fact, he brags about it (like he was doing during last week's debate against Biden.) The fear I have for Project 2025, is that Trump will fire a whole slew of lifelong civil servants from as many federal agencies as he desires and replace them with loyalists who have no intention of enforcing the rules/regulations the agenc(ies) was/were created to enforce.
shareThe concept of a neutral civil service requires that they BE NEUTRAL.
Trump should completely fire everyone he can and replace them with loyalists who will NOT, "RESIST", like we have been seeing.
A loyalist should not be loyal to Trump or any other executive; s/he should be loyal to the federal agency they work for and enforce the rules and regulations (be they financial, environmental, medical, etc.) that the agency promulgated to carry out the purpose(s) for which Congress created that very agency.
shareShould. But for quite some time we have seen that the agencies are instead loyal to the dems, or the lefty agenda
AND are not following Congresses rules, but instead often making up their own,
AND then, not even following them.
This is the obvious response. And at least the republicans are doing it openly and formally, instead of stealth the way the dems did it.
It's the federal agencies' job to make up the rules. Congress writes the statutes that confer authority to the various agencies to promulgate rules and regulations to enforce the purpose of the statute(s) Congress enacts. Now if those agencies are not following those rules and regulations, then I have a problem with that. But I don't think a wholesale firing of all of these civil servants is a viable solution, and it seems that is what Project 2025 is aimed at doing. Surely, there are good agency workers who are loyal to the purpose(s) for which their agency was created.
I would hate to think these veteran civil servants would be discarded by the pipsqueak HR upstarts who seem to be the masterminds behind Project 2025. And it seems like these guys are in grave danger of placing themselves on the wrong side of history. Put another way, they're placing all their eggs into Trump's basket. If Trump wins, they may get a chance to enact the 'sweeping changes' they envision. If Trump loses, Project 2025 is dead-in-the-water. What are these guys going to do for the next four years while a democrat is in office? What are they going to tell prospective employers/consulting clients, "What have I been up to ... You remember Project 2025? Yeah, we're taking some time to refine it; we've renamed it Project 2029."
1. They have been writing those rules badly, reflecting lefty ideologies regardless of who is in charge.
2. They have NOT been following their own rules.
3. From what I have seen of these civil servants, it seems that hte lefites have been using HR hiring practices to fill the departments with like minded lefties. Even the fucking military is talking like some retard from Berkley. Here is an example for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W7x8T07t_k&list=PL27dEqIq9j5EPUwVPrUPhBceqVzzbQsvc&index=121
I watched the clip you hyperlinked, and I disagree with the senator's position and all of the commenters of that clip. I don't think a strong military and respect for diversity and inclusion are mutually exclusive. I think in decades past there was a pattern of prejudice and bullying that was just accepted as 'okay' or 'normal' for the military. Setting forth written goals/protocols was likely the only way to get the military to change. My grandfather, who was a WWII veteran, endured much prejudice on account of his religion. We still won the war, but dealing with that from your own comrades was an unnecessary burden to deal with on top of the very real risk of getting killed by the enemy. So I don't see the interrogating senator as some sort of hero.
shareLets not lose focus.
The point is that that general is a lefty partisan. He is not doing his job of trying to recruit the best military, he is pursuing a left agenda.
You clearly agree with that agenda. Well, ok fine. And are ok with your fellow parisans being in positions of responsibility and using the power that gives them to push your agenda.
OK fine. Personally I liked the idea of a neutral government worker, loyal to the COUNTRY, not a political party, but we have lost that. Clearly.
So, instead of the old standard of republicans being your bitches, and playing by the old rules well you ignore them so that you can win,
we, HOPEFULLY will win and then replace the lefties with good republcian loyalists who will be happy to implement the policies WE want, instead of RESIST and being UNGOVERONABLE.
I just think that you can have the best military while still maintaining a culture of acceptance and equality. I don't think it has to be one or the other. And I wonder if the general's complete testimony was shown on that clip (i.e., what came after the senator's grand-standing question), he likely echoed the same principle.
shareYou are really insisting on ignoring my point.
We were discussing the idea of neutral government workers.
This man is not nuetral. He is primarily focused on pushing the lefty agenda.
That you agree with his goals, is ... distracting you.
Your side has filled these slots with people that agree with you and are pushing your agenda.
That's not the way it was supposed to be. That is a violation of the concept of the neutral civil servants.
Thus, when it is our turn, it would be right and proper for us to purge them and replace them with people that will do the same for US, and push our agenda.
If, someday, you get tired of this back and forth, and want to discuss returning to the tradition of leaving those people and slots alone, and having them be neutral in partisan political matters, i will be happy to have that discussion and probably be very open to the idea.
Until then, I support the idea of both sides playing by the same rules.
I'm pretty bored too with this discussion. But if Congress seeks to redress the historical prejudices, inequalities, and bullying endemic to our military, isn't it that federal agency's and that general's mandate to promulgate and enforce rules designed to serve that purpose? Those DEI rules and regs. are made in furtherance of the will of Congress. At some point Congress had to vote on bringing a culture of diversity, equality, and inclusion into the branches of the military, correct?
shareI don't know that that is true. Could have just been a lefty just taking his responsibility and running with it.
BUT, even if they did give some form of justification, the professional responsibility of the general in charge of RECRIUTMENT, is to get the numbers needed for our defense.
He should at least be honest to the congress about the conflict between trying to do DEI and the need to appeal to the traditional backbone of the us military ie, WHITE MALES.
Any group that celebrate people, by how much they are NOT a group, ie gay instead of straight, black or brown instead of white, female or trans instead of male, is clearly sending a message of being hostile to that group.
And that group is who hte US military really needs, if they want to make their recruitment goals.
That military recruitment officer needs to be fired, and replaced with someone more interested in getting the slots filled with able bodied men, and less with pushing the DEI agenda.
You don't know if it's true if Congress gave some form of justification or if the general was a "lefty taking his responsibility and running with it?" That's a pretty important distinction, Corbell. If no congressional justification, he's rogue and wrong. If there is, he's following through on the will of the legislature and right.
shareEIther way, the point stands. The general is not neutral on the political side of the issue, and focused on his actual job of recruitment. He is a lefty partisan.
That is the point of this in the context of Project 2025.
Trump is denying any connection with Project 2025 which is a lie. So he knows that if people learn more about it, it will be unpopular with voters.
shareBingo!
shareShow me where Trump directly endorsed, approved or agreed to P2025?
shareProject 2025 was drawn up by members of Trump’s former administration and current advisory team, including Stephen “nosferatu” Miller. Trump’s own super PAC, MAGA Inc, has run ads promoting it. The idea that Trump knew nothing about it is absurd.
shareAnd yet, he had no association to P2025. He made it known to everyone, publicly.
Trump is not his former administration, he's not his current team and he's not his super PAC.
This is a perfect example that since 2015, he has been surrounded mostly by snakes, backstabbers and opportunists.
Leaders are generally not concerned about the plotting and scheming of their subordinates.
His campaign staff seems heavily involved with it. Even some staffers making videos promoting it while some Trump PACs are running ads defending it. Not running away from it. Are they doing this on their lunch break and he's completely unaware?
".....This is a perfect example that since 2015, he has been surrounded mostly by snakes, backstabbers and opportunists.
Leaders are generally not concerned about the plotting and scheming of their subordinates."
At least we can agree he doesn't seem to hire the best people. Sounds like he lacks good judgement. Sure you want him back in office?
He's not perfect or omniscient. If you know someone that is either or both of those, feel free to post their names.
shareBasically, all the Dems have is fear. You can't really talk about the kitchen table issues that people vote on if you're a Dem, so you have to scare people into believing that Trump -- even though he didn't do it the last time -- is going to become a dictator and never leave office, instituting that Nazi regime he put in place last time. Wait. There wasn't a Nazi regime. Well, if you keep repeating "Nazi!" the more simple-minded amongst us will believe it really WAS a Nazi regime.
Long answer short, yes, that's what the Constitution is all about. But the Dems are also trying to undermine the SCOTUS that isn't rubber-stamping the progressive agenda anymore.
So be afraid! Be very afraid! 😈👹👿
The more the establishment repeats a lie, the more likely the gullible are to believe it.
shareisn’t there checks and balances that prevents any president from doing anything considered to be unconstitutional?
It's the establishment's last gasp (unless they go the Deeley Plaza route...).
shareYes it’s called congress.
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