[ARCHIVES] MIDLIFE MINI-19, Tuesday, August 29, 2023 - You're Hired [To Fire].
Splaying the beast, in theory.
"WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump, recruiting thousands of Americans to come to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to his own.
"Led by the long-established Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials, the far-reaching effort is essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s second term — or any candidate who aligns with their ideals and can defeat President Joe Biden in 2024.
"With a nearly 1,000-page 'Project 2025' handbook and an 'army' of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the 'deep state' bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers.
"'We need to flood the zone with conservatives,' said Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project and a former Trump administration official who speaks with historical flourish about the undertaking.
"'This is a clarion call to come to Washington,' he said. “People need to lay down their tools, and step aside from their professional life and say, ‘This is my lifetime moment to serve.’
"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.
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"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'" (1.).
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"'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" (1.).
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Note to Self: Democrat Party projection is off the charts, while the Biden ... cough, cough ... Administration has been an Executive Order paper mill, while waging lawfare, from day one, and now for more than two-and-a-half years.
If you listen closely, you can hear the whine.
"'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,' [Philip Wallach, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies the separation of powers] said."
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You’re hired [to fire].
- Matfucius
1.) https://www.yahoo.com/news/recruiting-underway-trump-wrecking-ball-040301796.html
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