Apparently, the exercise of considering a Trump administration and potential cabinet for 2025 has kicked up quite a conversation. As an outcome, perhaps some expanded food for thought is worthwhile, and maybe even a little fun and educational at the same time.
I come at this discussion as a person who continually tries to navigate the mechanics of the silo system in Washington DC. Additionally, many of the positions at the top of the silos, what we would consider cabinet members, have various levels of influence from ‘moderate‘ to ‘none at all‘ depending on the construct of the individual agency (silo).
As an outcome, the nuts and bolts of what we want to see happen, let’s call that generally ‘elimination of political corruption’, are slightly disconnected from how it is possible to happen given the nature of how each institutional silo is constructed.
Some silos are more impervious than others. Some cabinet members are more functionary than others, and in some instances, the deputy is more important than the primary.
To get deep in the weeds, we need to understand each silo as a completely autonomous operation; holding various levels of attachment to the overall DC system depending on how the silo is structured and, in some cases, weaponized.
Then we need to evaluate overall skillset from a very practical, non-pretending level. There is one shot at this, and the construct of the Trump 2.0 administration must begin with the end in mind. That end includes accepting that one four-year term will not be enough to remove the embeds that were seeded over the course of 12 prior years. Some systems need to be taken down to nothing, others can be steered with extreme effort by those who can operate effectively inside the machine.
The reason for a Vice-Presidential selection like Dr Ben Carson has been previously outlined {SEE HERE]. Carson appears to have the faith, stability and integrity to be a stabilizing force amid the sea of chaos that is created when war against evil enterprise begins.
The value of having a faith servant in the role of close counsellor to President Trump cannot be overstated. If Carson is not the correct person to take the role, Carson would be the first to announce it…. which, ultimately, makes him more qualified.
Good is going to have to battle Evil, and at the same time the entire nation will need stability, optimism and a resurgence of faith. In short, no one is winning this political war without putting God, righteousness and prayer at the forefront as the DC temple tables are turned. When it gets ugly, and it will get extremely ugly, something just inherently tells me, Carson will rise.
Perhaps if I expand the list, a bigger understanding will be possible.
This time I shall endeavor to put context behind the names and add some specifics to the silo challenge.
♦ Secretary of State: Ric Grenell.
♦ UN Ambassador: Tulsi Gabbard
The Dept of State is the front agency for the Central Intelligence Agency. When the CIA wants to seed an operative, they are given State Dept credentials. Whoever is running the State Dept will have a working relationship with the CIA Director. Grenell already knows how this works; he will be able to support the Trump Doctrine on day one with a full understanding of institutional context as the downsizing through attrition begins.
♦ CIA Director: Robert Kennedy Jr
♦ Deputy CIA Director: Kash Patel
See how that works? RFK Jr can put up or shut up, but Kash Patel is the insurance policy in the event RFK Jr is bearing false witness. The core agenda is carried out by the Deputy, while the Director is the functionary receiving silo information to satiate the executive (Trump). What happens in the layers below the functionary are what really matters. Kash has eyes-on, without the distractions of the functionary role.
♦ Defense Secretary: Vivek Ramaswamy.
♦ Asst. Defense Secretary: Eric Prince.
Many people understandably freak out with a Def Sec with no experience in military. However, the Def Sec is designed to be civilian led military; the President is the commander in chief. The Def Sec executes military efforts to support the President. This is the problem with having career military as Def Sec, they regard the institution as more important than the instructions they receive. [See Mark Milley and/or James Mattis and/or Alexander Vindman, they go rogue.] The U.S. military needs to be managed now, brought to heel and Wokeism removed. Ramaswamy, a functionary, can put up or shut up.
Again, see how that works? Prince becomes the insurance policy. The nuts-and-bolts guy to make sure the military silo is carefully reconstructed and the flag officers that need to be removed and replaced are removed and replaced.
♦ National Security Advisor: John Ratcliffe
♦ National Security Council (NSC), Chair: Michael Flynn [Tasked with taking NSC from current size to 30-50]
♦ Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), Secretary: Tom Homan
♦ Treasury Secretary: (Executive Privilege)
♦ Fed Chairman: (Executive Privilege)
♦ United State Trade Representative: Ambassador Robert Lighthizer [restart where he left off]
♦ Commerce Secretary: Peter Navarro
♦ Chairman of the National Economic Council (NEC), Chair: Lou Dobbs
♦ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Administrator: Sarah Palin
♦ Federal Communication Commission (FCC), Commissioner: Mike Benz
♦ Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CPFB), Administrator: Pam Bondi
♦ Dept of Agriculture, Secretary: Kristi Noem
♦ FBI Director: Matt Gaetz / Josh Hawley
♦ Deputy FBI Director: Andrew Bailey
♦ FBI Legal Counsel: Rudy Giuliani
♦ DOJ Attorney General: Ken Paxton
♦ DOJ Deputy AG: John Eastman
♦ Asst. Deputy AG in charge of DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD): Sidney Powell
♦ DOJ Civil Rights Division: Mark Robinson
♦ Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI): Rand Paul
♦ National Security Agency, Director: Thomas Massie
♦ FEMA Director: Jeb Bush [Yes, THAT Jeb Bush. He’s insufferable at everything else, but he knows how to handle emergency management very effectively, and he’s bilingual.]
♦ Office of Management and Budgets (OMB), Director: Kevin Hassett
♦ Interior Secretary: Marjorie Taylor Greene
♦ WH Press Secretary: Kerri Kupec
♦ WH Communications Director: Amanda Milius
♦ White House Chief of Staff: Dan Scavino (no question), or Kari Lake
♦ White House Presidential Personnel Office (PPO), Director: Steve Bannon
♦ WH PPO Deputy Director: Catherine Englebrecht
Something like that….
PS. First SCOTUS nominee: U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen
I am beginning not to care about all of this…
Dear GreyRockMan,
I know it is all so very wearisome. Most of my friends have stopped being involved because it is so draining. It is so much easier to push it off in a corner and ignore it all, live in our own little bubble, and pretend that life will be fine.
But you’ve got to know deep down inside that it won’t be fine unless we all do our part, as much as we each can, to help save this country.
Please continue to care.
Oh, I am not pretending it is fine, I am simply trying to survive and don’t appreciate being silenced by the left or the MAGA, hence caring less about MAGA and its leadership.
So, you’re not pretending it’s fine or will be fine, rather pretending that not caring about the war we’re in so you don’t have to do your part is good. Not. A Fool’s errand. Just the person no one wants in the trenches. So go crawl in your closet in fetal and let real men & women warriors do the job. 👋 bye. Like the War For Our Independence, not everybody fought the fight. Yet those few brave souls gave it all to give us our freedom. It was ugly, brutal, messy. But it was right and just.
Wear your chains well.
Barry go back to your pond on the Vineyard and take a swim in your chains.
sometimes the least you can say is the best thing to say. kind of like hunting . you gotta get into the rabbits head
before you do anything.
The left uses psy ops to discourage anyone not voting for them to sit home and not care. It is part of their plan. The RINO’s also use this strategy to shut down, discourage, and drive away the grass roots conservatives who volunteer to change things. Nothing ever changes so the ones who try to change things lose patience, and they walk away.
It’s less votes they have to manufacture, so anyone who doesn’t vote and volunteer just makes it easier for evil to win.
Pick your battle and stick with it.
Thank you, minnesotamike55. My apologies to all treepers.
No need to apologize. I was ready to walk away from precinct strategy and a committee I was on because the RINO establishment kept telling me I was wrong and overrode my every attempt to clarify rules and go by them. Another America First volunteer told me to stick with it because if I walked away, it’s exactly what they wanted. We then won the election for leadership and are aligning with other districts working to knock others off the MAGA ladder we are climbing .
Some people have great instincts and the gift of reasoning to pull folks back from giving up after clever psyops drag their spirits down… they are leaders and you
are among them, minnesotamike55. 🙂
At some point, I hope to re-engage at the precinct level though now is not the time.
A credit to you, minnesotamike55
Hang in there, Christmas isn’t over yet on the 7th we have little xmas. cheer up 👆
Great – now find yourself a cave somewhere remote – go there and leave us alone – some people care about America and the American people – they are called patriots – I suspect you would know nothing regarding this
“Secretary of stamping out communism”
The judges would have accepted “The Joseph McCarthy Memorial Emeritus Secretary for The Eradication of all American Death Cults — Because the U.S. Constitution is NOT a Suicide Pact.”
[Might be hard though to fit that on the letterhead though …] 😉
I’d rather see my tax $$ go to letterhead ink for that than to Ukraine.
Nice fantasy! There’s no chance that the evil ones will allow Trump to regain the White House. He’ll be imprisoned or killed first. Sorry, I just don’t see it happening.
Lighten up BH. The consequences of either of those actions ends the game for them.
Always the optimist…
I agree with your post, but as UN Ambassador, she can only vote the way her boss tells her. She’d be harmless there.
We need out of the UN entirely
Get out of the UN and the UN out of the USA.
WEF Young “Leader” Yes to Klaus Schwab.
Hell no on VR as SECDEF.
Sarah Sanders. No one can carry a stick to her. She is outstanding and effective speaker. That able to cut through to connect with people.
Inconceivable that she was excluded
Good point. She is incredible.
Far better SecInt than MTG, who frankly seems to be heading for early onset dementia with a side of megalomania.
Oh, Sundance, that is a terrific lineup and I like your reasoning!
Can we get Jeff Clark, Russ Vought and Frank Gaffney in there somewhere? Jeff Clark, like John Eastman (wonderful man), has a great legal mind and deserves a place on the Trump Team.
Frank Gaffney is all about China and the danger they pose to us, and Russ Vought has been working very hard to train up younger people in how to serve in a Republican Administration. I believe he is former OMB.
Good people who know other good people!
and as a post script, we need some people with a similar philosophy as President Javier Milei! This is a portion of his address to the nation – it holds true for us, and we need people to serve who have this same attitude:
https://gettr.com/post/p2x6wrsbc87
What about Sarah Huckabee Sanders? I like Dr Carson very much, but she is so much younger and is defiantly a Maga First conservative.
Really wish folks would spend as much time selecting and vetting their local government representatives/employees.
Should also consider who would replace the ones sundance listed who are in office now.
Kari Lake for Press Secretary (if not BOTH V.P. and Press Secretary) just to watch the daily exploding heads & verbal evisceration of the White House Press Corp.
Gotta admit, definitely not okay with ANY D’s (nor even most R’s) in any of these positions. Loyalty to Trump, America, & Americans Uber Alles! Ruling Class Delenda Est!
To paraphrase William F. Buckley, Jr.: “I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand red-cap wearing non-politicians in the Boise firearms, hunting, & fishing license registrants than in a society governed by the two thousand GOPee (establishment eunuch) career politicos in The Swamp.”
I support more Delenda Ests!
Counting chicken before they’re hatched again and are we closing down any Departments or is this Government going to be just as big as the establishments? Dept of Education, AFT, etc.
I had Tucker Carlson for White House Press Secretary. I’m cruel to lefties that way.
trump/carson.
YES!!!!
Why the CVN 77 hat?
Still not impressed. MTG in any role is ridiculous. She’s a novice and as changeable as the Montana weather, while being far more easily influenced. If you insist on Ben Carson whispering in Trump’s ear he can be his assistant. Honestly we should be looking outside of government for many of these roles, or at the state level. Put the people back in control. And we should leave the UN and kick them out of the states.
Your expanded list is even better, sundance – I had no time to look at it yesterday, hope to read it all today.
But MAGA kudos for including Lou Dobbs in any capacity!
I also notice that you still haven’t gotten to discussing the Pig Pharma captured agencies (perhaps someone has in an earlier page of threads here, if so I apologize for the redundancy).
It’s essential that the medical deep state be fumigated as well in this exercise, especially the CDC and FDA, both now victims of “elite capture” by woke corporations. Drs Ryan Cole, Robert Malone, Steven Hatfill (sp?), and writer Naomi Wolf are all good possibilities in my humble opinion.
And now that I’ve finally read the entire thread, I have a few more names I didn’t see mentioned:
Darren Beattie – would be great in any investigative role, as would young Natalie Winters
Tina Peters – been thru MAGA election fraud fire in Colorado and stepped up
Dan Schultz – started the precinct project
And a slew of random names of guests from Lou’s podcast over the past year – all very impressive:
Russ Tice (NSA expert)
Julie Kelly (J6 and legal expert)
Tom Fitton or Chris Farrell at Judicial Watch (or anyone from that excellent NGO)
Abe Hamadeh (another veteran of AZ election fraud)
Lee Smith
Mark Morgan (to help dismantle DHS and fix the border)
Steve Friend (FBI whistleblower)
Dr. Judith Curry (climate change debunker)
Will Scharf (former fed prosecutor who saw Obammunist tricks)
Jeff Landry (I know, Louisiana needs him as AG, but he’s one of the only non-Soros ones…)
Heather MacDonald
Joe McBride (lawyer advocate for J6 victims)
Hope these are some food for thought…
Didn’t see Dept of Edumakashun. Good. One of my biggest disappointments from the first term was the failure to disband it completely. Needs the Carthago delenda est treatment.
Trump will be a fool if he selects anyone from within the DC circle. Everyone should come from outside DC area and with no connection to liberals and neocons!! Failure to do that in 2016 killed the real effectiveness of his first term!!!
SUNDANCE ET AL,
NO to BEN CARSON–He’s too good and not physically strong for the job. I would keep him as a spiritual advisor. If we can’t get KARI LAKE, due to her becoming SENATOR, I hope, then MICHAEL FLYNN AS VP. He won’t need Senate confirmation and he can do all sorts of things for Pres. Trump. Turtle will probably still be around, so he will continue to be a thorn in Pres. Trump’s side.
NO, NO, and NO to RIC GRENELL, KASH PATEL, AND DEVIN NUNES. They want to keep the FISA/criminal system going. Also, Ric Grenell had a hand in getting J. Assange out of the consulate and sent to prison. He’s an opportunist. I don’t trust them anymore. It’s sad to admit what you have said all along, that there will be people who we thought loved our country, but just want to keep everything the same. SAD and PATHETIC!!
I also can’t believe that you WOULD SUGGEST RFK JR for CIA DIRECTOR!!! Are you drunk?!!! That guy has a CIA operative as his Campaign Director. We need someone who will ultimately end this agency altogether.
I know this is a wish list and we are all praying that Pres. Trump gets back to his RIGHTFUL place in the WH, but we have to live in reality. The UNIPARTY will do ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING to keep him away from the Oval Office.
BTW, I’ve been here since pretty much the beginning, but only commented twice, this being my second time. I couldn’t pass this up. I also like DUTCHMAN’s comments. I agree with him about the DE MEATBALL being the setup Gov. I noticed that in mid 2020. I also agree with you SUNDANCE about NIKKI HALEY, I hated her when she took down the confederate monuments in 2013 and I knew alot about her disgusting background. The stupid, pandering FORMER MAYOR LANDREAU OF NEW ORLEANS back in 2015 took down the historic Robert E. Lee statue on St. Charles Ave. I’m a native New Orleanian who lives in a suburb a stone’s throw away from the city. I’m a GEN XER and may not know as much as you do and your other commenters but I keep myself informed. I LOVE ALEX JONES and DAVID ICKE and NIGEL FARAGE too.
SUNDANCE, PLEASE don’t take offense to my opinions. These are my thoughts. I TRULY respect what you do with this website and I’m grateful for all you do. I hope that since you live in FL, you keep Pres. Trump on speed dial with your thoughts and prayers. We all dodged a MASSIVE bullet not having H. Clinton as Pres. and so now we need to to dodge an even bigger one coming in 2024. This is for ALL THE MARBLES. I sometimes can’t sleep at night thinking how bad this could all get. I don’t have kids, but II do have young cousins. I feel sad that they didn’t get the really fun times I did going up in the late 70’s and 80’s, even though, nukes were always in the back of my mind.
PEACE & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,
SPEED (my late 14 yr old tuxedo cat)
As long as they make the absolute best choices ,he should be in much better shape. The last freak show on the November past. It was amusing watching highly educated people crying in their beer. My man obummer could have been a contender, these aaaasholes ruined everything . gimme my ball ,and I want a trophy or i’ll sue you!!!
Just saw this post. Hard no on these:
Koch-backed Noem, “libertarian” Massie who is campaigning for authoritarian, neo-con DeSantis, Jeb Bush ??? no excuse, MTG voted for Fiscal IRresponsibility Act and McCarthy can’t be trusted and former WEF connected dem Gabbard
As for FBI, shut it down entirely
Wow Sundance! A lot of amazing picks!
The two that scare me (The two “put up or shut up“ guys), are both snakes.
What about Colonel Douglas McGregor in one of those deputy positions, with someone we can trust much more in the primary?