Project 2025 blueprint for second Trump term envisages replacing thousands of career staff with political loyalists
America’s career diplomats are braced for the threat of a mass purge if Donald Trump wins the November election and for the potential flooding of the state department with loyalty-tested political appointees.
Rather than leading to a seamless change of course in a rightward Trumpist direction, the diplomats’ union and former ambassadors argue, such an attempted takeover would be much more likely to end in legal challenges, gridlock and chaos.
If elected, Trump has threatened to reinstate a policy he unsuccessfully attempted in his first term with the creation of “Schedule F”, a new category of federal employees which would be applied to tens of thousands of civil servants in “policy-related” jobs, robbing them of legal protections and making them liable to be fired at will.
What do you mean ‘if he wins’, you guys should fucking riot. Wasn’t he convicted 34 times? He should be in prison
Obama broke Occupy. Biden and Clinton are vocal about not supporting the anti-genocide protests (except to say the protestor have specific rights).
There are no political leaders sympathetic to protests here. Only those who could maybe be cowed if we really fought. If that was likely, the FBI would infiltrate and agitators would create reasons for enforcement.
We’re talking Floyd levels of riot that would remind people of Jan 6th and leave people feeling justified. MLKs proymtests were NOT popular at the time… We’re looking for something and someone like that. Closest we’ve got is Shawn Fain.
My riot, for now, is my vote and my tepid support of formerly-Dark Brandon. He’s done a lot. More than most. But Garland was a shit pick. And now we’re here with trials delayed all over the place because Garland dithered.
After Trump’s weaponized dispatching of DHS and Secret Service against the protesters in Portland, I doubt we’ll see any success from protests or riots against his election. Just lots of arrests and injuries, and possibly some deaths.
Biden spoke in defense of our right to protest. He spoke out against disorderly conduct and attacks at protests.
US riots will always be localized or at least treated as such by the media, and thus isolated from the rest of the country. It’ll just be more city riots that further divide both sides, giving one justification for cracking down on the other
Set the countryside on fire.
Rural Americans would relish any opportunity to kill city dwellers they see as invading the small communities. While attempting to burn the countryside would certainly catch attention, the more likely event is farmers and sympathetic rural police forces killing urban citizens, especially those with brown skin or blue hair as that’s their normal scapegoats for what’s wrong in America if you listen to coffee shop talk.
I grew up in rural America, I was in a diner getting breakfast before school when gay marriage was passed, the comments from every mouth except mine proved to my young mind that American is firmly divided, and there will be no repairing this house.
I, too, think that the best way to get people on my side is to burn their homes and livelihoods down. /s
If he can follow up on even a portion of what he promises, a 2nd Trump presidency will bring the USA to a halt at multiple levels like a car hitting a reinforced wall. The best version of a Trump presidency is him raging daily as he’s blocked constantly by legal challenges and bureaucratic measures thus getting nothing done. The worst version is that he succeeds in his goals, reforms the USA into a right-wing autocracy and destroys things like checks/balances and separation of church and state.
EnRussification of US
“Likely?”
A purge of any government agency would cause chaos. They work because of lifetime civil servants who are dedicated to making things work regardless of who is in charge.
He purged the State Department at the beginning of his presidency, so we already understand the damage it will do:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/state-department-purge-trump-foreign-policy
No. Fucking. Shit.
The quest of making the United States of America a part of the Trump organization. I don’t know how not many see this.
Due to DNC and Biden inaction and corruption there is a massive enough majority who will set the world on fire and watch as it all burns down.
When Drumpf wins Nov2024 you will know who to blame for this fiasco. And it will be too little too late. Start planning for a mass exodus to Mexico or Canada.
When a large enough brain-drain happens, there is a direct national impact. So if enough sensible people leave after Nov2024, there will be enough stagnation and consequences that most govt operations should grind to almost non-existence. Come Nov2028 if y’all 'Muricans foreign or domestic can’t take back the govt with absolute majorities, forget about it all for the next 50 years. Once enough SCOTUS replacement happens, maybe, maybe there will be a chance to cleanup all the damage and pickup the pieces.
Well yeah it’s intended to sow chaos and topple our government
So. Like…
those diplomats get the Captain Obvious award for the day.
Somebody tell them what they’ve won!
Maybe obvious to you and I, not necessarily obvious to anyone. These issues need to be pointed out as often and loudly as possible. People need to understand absolutely and completely the warnings about electing Trump.
