The Shape Of Things To Come

[PoliticalChic]

1. OK.....I used to hold Trump in high regard: singlehandedly he took on and defeated the entire Democrat/Marxist terrorist......
They besmirched his repution, attacked his businesses and family, blocked his attempts to same America (the walll), impeachd him, lawfared him with bogus indictments and convictions, and even allowed....yes, allowed,...attempted assassinations.


2. But in the face of it all, he revolutionized the Republicaan Party from a minor party of the rich, to the new home of the middle class, and the working class, of Americans.


3. And unlike the greedy, corrupt thieves who became rich at America's expense....Obama, the Clintons, the Biden Crime family.......he gave up a fortune for America.....



4. ......and he has set in motion a real future, beyond his term. Look at the ages of the folks he selected to populate his administration.
Chief of Staff – Susie Wiles
US Ambassador to the United Nations – Elise Stefanik
National Security Adviser – Michael Waltz
"Border Czar" – Tom Homan
Ambassador to Israel – Mike Huckabee
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator – Lee Zeldin
Middle East Envoy – Steven Witkoff
White House Counsel – William McGinley
CIA Director – John Ratcliffe
Department of Government Efficiency – Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy
Secretary of Defense – Pete Hegseth
Homeland Security Secretary - Kristi Noem
Deputy Chief of Staff – Dan Scavino
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor – Stephen Miller
Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs – James Blair
Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel – Taylor Budowich
Director of National Intelligence – Tulsi Gabbard
Secretary of State – Marco Rubio
U.S. Attorney General – Matt Gaetz



5. We were given this chance once before:

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

1. OK.....I used to hold Trump in high regard: singlehandedly he took on and defeated the entire Democrat/Marxist terrorist......
They besmirched his repution, attacked his businesses and family, blocked his attempts to same America (the walll), impeachd him, lawfared him with bogus indictments and convictions, and even allowed....yes, allowed,...attempted assassinations.


2. But in the face of it all, he revolutionized the Republicaan Party from a minor party of the rich, to the new home of the middle class, and the working class, of Americans.


3. And unlike the greedy, corrupt thieves who became rich at America's expense....Obama, the Clintons, the Biden Crime family.......he gave up a fortune for America.....



4. ......and he has set in motion a real future, beyond his term. Look at the ages of the folks he selected to populate his administration.
Chief of Staff – Susie Wiles
US Ambassador to the United Nations – Elise Stefanik
National Security Adviser – Michael Waltz
"Border Czar" – Tom Homan
Ambassador to Israel – Mike Huckabee
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator – Lee Zeldin
Middle East Envoy – Steven Witkoff
White House Counsel – William McGinley
CIA Director – John Ratcliffe
Department of Government Efficiency – Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy
Secretary of Defense – Pete Hegseth
Homeland Security Secretary - Kristi Noem
Deputy Chief of Staff – Dan Scavino
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor – Stephen Miller
Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs – James Blair
Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel – Taylor Budowich
Director of National Intelligence – Tulsi Gabbard
Secretary of State – Marco Rubio
U.S. Attorney General – Matt Gaetz



5. We were given this chance once before:

You said "I used to hold Trump in high regard ". Has something changed your mind?

 

[PoliticalChic]

You said "I used to hold Trump in high regard ". Has something changed your mind?

Yes. Didn't you understand the OP?

My estimtion for this man has skyrocketed.


At great cost to himself and his family, he has planned an agenda that may last decades into the future, a future for America and my children.

 

[toobfreak]

Yes. Didn't you understand the OP?
My estimtion for this man has skyrocketed.

The OP does not make that clear, I had to read it three times myself before I realized you were trying to compliment him and not denigrate him.

At great cost to himself and his family, he has planned an agenda that may last decades into the future, a future for America and my children.

You betcha. I can't say how long it'll last, but yeah, he has obviously spent a lot of time and learned a lot since 2015-16, his four years in office, and the Biden years, learning, thinking, analyzing, strategizing and planning.

His choices are not being made flippantly overnight, nor is he looking to the deep state establishment again for any solutions.
He's been burned enough, it is back to Trump the Businessman and the Art of The Deal. He is going to make Washington finally run like a business accountable to a budget and a timetable instead of a bureaucracy which hides its slop, waste and sloth behind unlimited taxpayer gouging.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

Yes. Didn't you understand the OP?

My estimtion for this man has skyrocketed.


At great cost to himself and his family, he has planned an agenda that may last decades into the future, a future for America and my children.

Ah, i has mistakenly thought you were disappointed. My mistake "Bigly"...

 

[PoliticalChic]

Ah, i has mistakenly thought you were disappointed. My mistake "Bigly"...

Nay, nay.....my fault....I was being too cute by half.
The post before you also agreed with you.


I will be more direct.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

PC is tricky.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"The first pick was the most orthodox and least surprising. Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that Trump was expected to select Florida senator Marco Rubio as his secretary of state. And—after a few days of nervous waiting for Rubio and his supporters—he finally did just that.

When it comes to the dynamics of the MAGA coalition, Rubio represents a Republican establishment at peace with its leader: a rival turned supplicant whose loyalty since 2016 has been repaid.



The second pick was a little more surprising. Tulsi Gabbard—a military veteran and former Democrat until she came out as a Republican this year, and a longtime critic of the foreign policy establishment—is Trump’s selection for director of national intelligence. This is like putting an antiestablishment fox in charge of the deep-state henhouse. No one disputes the dynamic—they just disagree on whether that’s a good thing.



But the third announcement yesterday was the real jaw-dropper: Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, Trump announced, would be his pick for attorney general. The news was met with shock across Washington.
What does Gaetz represent? Full-bore MAGA. The 42-year-old congressional troublemaker would be unimaginable in a previous iteration of the GOP: fully on board both stylistically and ideologically, and unquestioningly loyal."

Rubio, Gabbard, and Gaetz. . . Oh My!

Plus: What would Trump’s deportations actually look like? Border czar Thomas Homan talks to The Free Press. And much more.

www.thefp.com

 

[Edgetho]

It took too long but late is better than never.

It is well-known that communist doctrinaires left the USSR and took up residence in the EPA, one of the -- No, not one of the....... THE most disgusting, THE most useless, THE most despicable arm of Big Goobermint, the EPA, just took one in the shorts. Which, IMO, needs to be completely and utterly destroyed, burnt to the ground, the Earth salted around it and its employees driven into the wilderness to be imprisoned if seen trying to enter areas of civilized humanity......

But this is fun to see --

Major court decision could invalidate many federal environmental regulations​

November 13, 2024 1:54 pm Robert Zimmerman

In what could be a major legal ruling [pdf], a two-judge decision this week in the DC Circuit Court ruled that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), which has for years imposed environmental rules on other federal agencies based on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), does not have the statutory authority to do so, thus invalidating every regulation so imposed.

All three members of the three-judge panel agreed that the Agencies acted arbitrarily and capriciously in [in this particular case]. However, before reaching that conclusion, the majority analyzed whether the CEQ regulations the Agencies followed in adopting the plan were valid, an argument not raised by any of the parties. The majority held, sua sponte, that because there is no statute stating or suggesting that US Congress has empowered the CEQ to issue rules binding on other agencies, the CEQ has no lawful authority to promulgate such regulations.
…Although this decision does not explicitly vacate any action taken by the CEQ, it does establish a precedent that CEQ rules lack statutory authorization, and therefore that other agency actions taken under the CEQ framework are at risk of being vacated. If this decision is not overturned by the full appellate court sitting en banc or by the US Supreme Court, it has the potential to completely change the landscape of NEPA review.

The case is complicated, partly because the Byzantine nature of the federal bureaucracy and the many agencies involved. (It is almost as if these agencies created that complexity to confuse and protect themselves.)
The heart of the decision is that CEQ was apparently first created as an “advisory” body to help other federal agencies follow the intent of NEPA in their own rule-making, but instead soon became a “regulatory” body whose rulings other agencies were required to follow. As that authority was never given it by Congress, CEQ exceeded its authority by making its rulings mandatory.

This court decision will likely leave many agencies on their own in establishing environmental regulations, based on NEPA. However, even that regulatory ability faces limitations, based on the Supreme Court’s recent Chevron decision, which said that government agencies do not have right to promulgate new regulations that are not specifically described in congressional law.

In other words, Chevron says that the bureaucracy cannot make things up, based on its own vague opinions.
The trend of all these court rulings appears aimed at limiting the power of the federal bureaucracy. It will however take some time to determine how much that power is limited, as lawsuits begin to percolate through the courts. If there are lot of lawsuits (which does appear to be happening) we should therefore expect that power to be limited significantly.

 

[Oddball]

 

[Oddball]

 

[PoliticalChic]

It took too long but late is better than never.

It is well-known that communist doctrinaires left the USSR and took up residence in the EPA, one of the -- No, not one of the....... THE most disgusting, THE most useless, THE most despicable arm of Big Goobermint, the EPA, just took one in the shorts. Which, IMO, needs to be completely and utterly destroyed, burnt to the ground, the Earth salted around it and its employees driven into the wilderness to be imprisoned if seen trying to enter areas of civilized humanity......

But this is fun to see --

Major court decision could invalidate many federal environmental regulations​

November 13, 2024 1:54 pm Robert Zimmerman

In what could be a major legal ruling [pdf], a two-judge decision this week in the DC Circuit Court ruled that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), which has for years imposed environmental rules on other federal agencies based on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), does not have the statutory authority to do so, thus invalidating every regulation so imposed.


The case is complicated, partly because the Byzantine nature of the federal bureaucracy and the many agencies involved. (It is almost as if these agencies created that complexity to confuse and protect themselves.)
The heart of the decision is that CEQ was apparently first created as an “advisory” body to help other federal agencies follow the intent of NEPA in their own rule-making, but instead soon became a “regulatory” body whose rulings other agencies were required to follow. As that authority was never given it by Congress, CEQ exceeded its authority by making its rulings mandatory.

This court decision will likely leave many agencies on their own in establishing environmental regulations, based on NEPA. However, even that regulatory ability faces limitations, based on the Supreme Court’s recent Chevron decision, which said that government agencies do not have right to promulgate new regulations that are not specifically described in congressional law.

In other words, Chevron says that the bureaucracy cannot make things up, based on its own vague opinions.

The trend of all these court rulings appears aimed at limiting the power of the federal bureaucracy. It will however take some time to determine how much that power is limited, as lawsuits begin to percolate through the courts. If there are lot of lawsuits (which does appear to be happening) we should therefore expect that power to be limited significantly.

Very well thought out, and nicely written.

Can I add the inheritance Joseph Stalin left the world.

And while he died.....his effect is still the stongest motivator of events to this day:
The U.N. charter was authored by a communist, the first U.N. Secretary-general was a communist, and the U.N., from the beginning, was designed to be a Union of World Socialist Republics.



Stalin's spy, Alger Hiss was the leading force in the designing of the United Nations. He was secretary of the Dumbarten Oaks Conversations from August to October of 1944 where most of the preliminary planning for the U.N. was done. He was Roosevelt's right-hand man in February of 1945 at Yalta where the postwar boundaries of Europe were drawn (Roosevelt was a dying man at the time. His death came only ten weeks later). At Yalta it was agreed that the Soviet Union would have three votes (one each for Russia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia) in the U.N. General Assembly, even though the United States had only one.

.... three years later. Alger Hiss was exposed as a communist spy and sent to prison. Only then did people understand why the emblem of the United Nations looked so much like the emblem of the Soviet Union.





The major political party in America is the result of Stalin's efforts.


There are only three things important to the Democrat program, agenda.....Race, Class, and Gender.
Not liberty, not religious freedom, not prosperity, not individuality, not tranquility.
Race, Class, and Gender.
“Cultural Marxism, though it’s dismissed by critics as a “term invented by the Right”, “was an undeniable school of thought taking Marxist categories of oppressed and oppressor beyond the economic realm and applying to it other forms of oppression: gender, race, sexuality.” Caldron Pool

“A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic — and if they looked a certain way, they were inferior. Today, kids again are being taught that the color of their skin defines them — and if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor.” Tim Scott Text of Sen. Tim Scott's GOP response to Biden speech

What The U.N. Doesn't Want You To Know

One moment, please...

 

[Edgetho]

Very well thought out, and nicely written.

Can I add the inheritance Joseph Stalin left the world.

And while he died.....his effect is still the stongest motivator of events to this day:
The U.N. charter was authored by a communist, the first U.N. Secretary-general was a communist, and the U.N., from the beginning, was designed to be a Union of World Socialist Republics.



Stalin's spy, Alger Hiss was the leading force in the designing of the United Nations. He was secretary of the Dumbarten Oaks Conversations from August to October of 1944 where most of the preliminary planning for the U.N. was done. He was Roosevelt's right-hand man in February of 1945 at Yalta where the postwar boundaries of Europe were drawn (Roosevelt was a dying man at the time. His death came only ten weeks later). At Yalta it was agreed that the Soviet Union would have three votes (one each for Russia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia) in the U.N. General Assembly, even though the United States had only one.

.... three years later. Alger Hiss was exposed as a communist spy and sent to prison. Only then did people understand why the emblem of the United Nations looked so much like the emblem of the Soviet Union.





The major political party in America is the result of Stalin's efforts.


There are only three things important to the Democrat program, agenda.....Race, Class, and Gender.
Not liberty, not religious freedom, not prosperity, not individuality, not tranquility.
Race, Class, and Gender.
“Cultural Marxism, though it’s dismissed by critics as a “term invented by the Right”, “was an undeniable school of thought taking Marxist categories of oppressed and oppressor beyond the economic realm and applying to it other forms of oppression: gender, race, sexuality.” Caldron Pool

“A hundred years ago, kids in classrooms were taught the color of their skin was their most important characteristic — and if they looked a certain way, they were inferior. Today, kids again are being taught that the color of their skin defines them — and if they look a certain way, they’re an oppressor.” Tim Scott Text of Sen. Tim Scott's GOP response to Biden speech

What The U.N. Doesn't Want You To Know

One moment, please...

leftists in the Media (which is the entire Media) never forgave Richard Milhouse Nixon for his active role in exposing Hiss. Some say it was the driving motivation behind the Media's take-down of him

 

[Edgetho]

BTW, I didn't write the part you complimented in your reply. Thanks anyway, but....

I can't write. Writing is a skill. At the top, it is art.. I'm a ham-and-egger when it come to writing.

Your writing is very good. Kinda reminds me of Michener or Ruark. Not 'Roark' -- Ruark. Lots of detail.

My writing is dreadful. Just so you know.

 

[BluesLegend]

His choices are not being made flippantly overnight, nor is he looking to the deep state establishment again for any solutions.

Fact! And oh yes I did change my avatar!

 

[PoliticalChic]

BTW, I didn't write the part you complimented in your reply. Thanks anyway, but....

I can't write. Writing is a skill. At the top, it is art.. I'm a ham-and-egger when it come to writing.

Your writing is very good. Kinda reminds me of Michener or Ruark. Not 'Roark' -- Ruark. Lots of detail.

My writing is dreadful. Just so you know.

No, it isn't. You are not kind enough to yourself....one of my children is like that: won't accept a compliment.

Keep on keepin' on!