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I refuse to concede the future of our democracy to Donald Trump
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It's naive to think that Trump wouldn't surround himself with loyalist rubber-stampers. There won't be any Mark Espers in his second administration. The whole federal bureaucracy will be replaced with Trumpists.
Read up on Schedule F. If Trump takes over the White House again, he can fire entire departments of civil service employees and replace them with whomever he wants.
Imagine a bunch of Trumper loyalists being installed to run the FAA.
The department of energy... I kinda like the idea of nuclear physicists being in charge of nuclear weapons, energy and disposal of radioactive waste. But, nah, loyalty to the president is way more important than qualifications.
And here’s the thing. All nuclear weapon development and all non-deployed nuclear weapons, and all fissionable material, are under the control of the Department of Energy. When the USAF or USN unbolt a warhead from a missile for maintenance, the team that picks the warhead up and transport to to a DOE is part of the DOE, not DOD. DOE doesn’t just develop fuel policy, the Department of Energy is a huge organization with many responsibilities.
Just disbanding it and doling out those management jobs to lay-people who applied on a website to attend Project 2025 loyalty indoctrination camp just seems like a monumentally bad idea. It’s just beyond absurdity that this even has to be pointed out, and yet, here we are.
I believe various heads of the old Soviet Union practiced the employment model of believing any yahoo could learn to be a rocket scientist while on the job. And look where it got them.
I think he doesn't even know about the Department of Energy.
However, he's going to eviscerate the Department of Education and turn the Department of Defense from a part-corporate-captured operation for laundering taxpayer dollars into republicans' pockets into an explicit money-laundering operation which doesn't do shit for soldiers or the nation's defense. We'll become even weaker and more corrupt than Russia, and while China's extremely corrupt
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/world/asia/china-military-corruption.html
They're better-positioned to siphon resources from across Africa and east Asia to sweep in, economically and politically. They don't have the projection power to sweep in militarily (at least in the foreseeable future, but watch American units' logistics get gutted and we couldn't hold off cartels alone), but don't need to. The power vacuum would give make that unnecessary.
I'm not concerned about Trump knowing things, he's an idiot. I'm worried about the Heritage Foundation knowing about them.