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
Fema director under executive orders on the books takes orders from no one including congress.
He overides a president.
It would seem you have not done your homework reseach on executive orders giving fema head total control in an emergency.
I am very suprised you picked jeb bush for anything.
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I’m even more surprised that he picked Erik Prince for anything. Especially for a position were he would have a “licence to kill”.
simple
1) you hate someone
2) elevate them to be examined
3) after humiliation, fire them
this is simple.
Why hire them to begin with and waste time we don’t have?
I think FEMA needs to be abolished, and the earth where it stood should be salted.
All it does is encourage politicians to invoke it so they can override the Constitution and Bill of Right as they see fit; as we all just saw.
I don’t want anything like the scamdemic to ever happen again, and right now, it will. Oh it will.
FEMA is good for weather emergencies, et c.
They need to have their power curtailed only.
One of the issues of corrupt government is
that they take a thing way beyond the scope
of what it was intended to do
Does FEMA in Biden’s Administration of Freaks, Crooks & Traitors even show up at emergencies these days or are they, too, dealing with the invasion at our borders? Seems to me they were AWAL in Maui & some other disasters this year.
But definitely a HUGE NO on Jeb Bush for anything!!
On second thought, have to agree. We don’t want anymore ignored East Palestines (or at least ignored until it was pointed out repeatedly.)
And — if it’s not in the Constitution, what are we doing with it?
and you can offer more? sit down and shut up.
Really? “Sit down and shut up” ???!!!
Don’cha hate it when we sound like democrats?
” 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.”
As bad as I think these Generals and Admirals are, Eric Prince -of killing civilians and getting American soldiers killed, as a result, Mercenary Blackwater infamy – is far worse.
No mercenary should ever even be in the US Military, let alone having a big say in running it. We are not suppose to be a bottom rung third world country.
prove it i dare you with facts that do not come from our enimeadia
stupid people would be Sundance haters.
We get it Listless…you hate Prince after stating you didn’t even know who he was lol All of your information is wrong and filled by MSM who hated Blackwater, hated the Iraq War, hated Bush at the time, etc etc Prince would be great in a Trump Admin. He’s a fighter.
You have to remember who’s the mentor, where loyalties always abide, and the amount of hold held on the learner; when the Bush Cartel gets their grip, well, that’s why I call it a cartel and not a cabal. It’s huge, powerful, and relenting in it’s goals. But most of all it’s nefarious. The Bush China Foundation has a lot to answer for; if you can ever get to the top; like all cartels only the small guys are fodder.
‘He’s a fighter’………remember loyalty is honor in a fight.
Bush, Blackwater, Iraq war are tops on the hate scale IMHO. And mainly because they are part and parcel of the CIA’s nefarious undertakings.
If they’re a Bush operative, accolade, flunky or top dog; they have no business in a conservative grassroots enterprise/USA…..they follow their own constitution.
Jeb should never be in any position of power, either.
They announce themselves.
“I remember at one point in Iraq, there were ninety-three flag officers on the ground. Ninety-three, in an effort that was ultimately extremely expensive and that the US lost. Anyone who says that Iraq is a success story today is kidding themselves, because it is absolutely owned and subjugated by the Iranians.”
If you were Secretary of Defense, what would you do on day one?
DARING & CONQUEST: WITH ERIK PRINCE
https://im1776.com/erik-prince-interview/
TJ,
Thanks for the article read !!
Clown.
Erik Prince is an American Patriot and a Hero. More than anyone can say about you.
Erik is a Bush accolade and CIA trained and minded; bad to the core IMHO. He let the men down to serve his masters.
“Benjamin Braddock: If Trump gets back into office, do you think there’s a chance he will be able to get personalities like that into the Pentagon?Erik Prince: I think Trump never really controlled his national security apparatus for much of the administration – the Agency, State, and the rest. He never really put any kind of transformative leaders there at all. My beef with Pompeo was that he never made any real changes at the Agency or the State Department. Mattis was a four-star general in a five-star capacity as SecDef. It was steady on course, as conventional as the day is long. So, there needs to be real transformation. And it’s not just at a SecDef level, you need a Congress that is willing to change some of the laws as to how procurement is done, and to support a SecDef that would winnow out – not just fire people – but remove and consolidate billets, because we have the same amount of flag officers now that we did in WWII when we had 14 million men under arms then. Now we have 1.4 million, i.e. 10% of that. Yet we have the same amount of headquarters staff. And this is in the era of digital communications, video conferences, and the like, where you should be able to run flat and fast. Instead, we have bloat, upon bloat, upon bloat. And then you throw in the DEI, ESG, and all the other stuff that is not focusing on lethality. The military should be like a voracious attack dog that sits patiently until you tell it to go, and it goes. That’s not our military today.”
Erik Prince is not who you’ve been told he is (or he’s not who you pretend he is). Read the interview linked by TJ, or better yet watch him on the Shawn Ryan Show. Guy is sharp as a tack, and 100% a patriot.
William Calley had his defenders too.
Don van der Vaart would make a fantastic EPA administear. He is an extremely brilliant chief administrative judge in NC, former state environmental secretary, chemical engineer, and true patriot. He would end EPAs regulatory overreach while protecting Americans from real environmental dangers. He made the short list in 2016 but never made it to an interview with PDJT.
ELIMINATE THE EPA!!!
Ronna McDaniel Hit With Wave of Resignation Calls Under Christmas Post
https://www.newsweek.com/ronna-mcdaniel-hit-wave-resignation-calls-under-christmas-post-1855410e
She is a disgrace.
She should resign.
The link no longer works.
This on Truth Social post by Matt Gaetz. Many comments directed at Gaetz – the Masonic hand tuck. Another questioned symbolism of Poso behind Bannon’s left shoulder. Any ideas Treepers?
I have already made my opinion on Gaetz clear; he accomplished NOTHING for MAGA, either with his drama over election of McCarthy, or his drama over election of Johnson, it was all Kabuki theater, and yet another layer of controlled opposition.
Agreed. Drama queen fundraiser is all Matt Gaetz has ever been.
I agree with SD on Gaetz. (in case we’re counting votes)
I really have an issue with those proclaiming themselves to be “firebrands” but all they produce is a flash and a puff of smoke. Judge them not by their words but by their fruit.
I would say he has his hand on his heart. IF it is a secret sign, why on earth would he do this publicly for all to see and knowing it would be commented on. I think it’s just another attempt to ‘Get Gaetz at any cost’
“The masonic societies do not often inter-meddle with politics; tho I have known an instance or two, in a different state, in which their influence was exerted for the brethren, and to a very bad effect…
“To the honor of the craft be it mentioned, they have generally avoided any abuse of their power in this respect.”
–Noah Webster, The Revolution in France, 1794
Secret societies, secret clubs, secret departments, secret governments; hiding something in plain view? He’s a puppet in the dog and pony show of DC……….
And We laugh; it really is a comedy show, not the drama they think it is.
His coat was open, his hand was on his heart.
Getting rid of Kevin McCarthy was the “ONLY” thing Congress did right for the last 2 years.
Mat Gaetz deserves a metal.
“…why on earth would he do this publicly for all to see and knowing it would be commented on.”
Because that’s what they do. They’re proud of their affiliation and proud of being a 33 Degree. Must research and Masonic affiliations as well. You won’t like what you find.
More of a Bush Cartel symbol if you ask me; under the cover of the CIA.
Ya know; never show your hand.
Who’s that in the background, behind Bannon, with that hand tuck thing? (Never heard of hand tuck as a symbol so now will always be looking for it).
My late father was in the Masons, rode those motorbikes in parades, raised tons of money for many charities, especially the Shriner’s Children’s Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. He left it in his later years. I asked him what it was all about and yes, it had roots in ‘mystical’ or as some say ‘heretical’ teachings but in practice, some of our nation’s founding fathers are said to have been in that organization which, according to my dad, at least in the US, it was more like a male business-owner’s club with secret handshakes, like some college fraternity.
Speaking of fraternities — problem is, in the high levels, it’s like Skull ‘n’ Bones.
What is the context of this image?
Why do some have their hand over their heart and some do not?
I must admit I do not know Kerri Kupec. And I’ve heard Tucker Carlson suggested for VP. But, I think he’d be good as press secretary, and tremendously entertaining in that position.
and more importantly, it would require minimal effort and prep on his part, but getting him to make that sacrifice…and it would be a huge sacrifice that might change him and his family forever (since we have such a decrepit side to our national identity now)
Tucker has the ability to achieve a Tony Snow level of excellence in the unlikely event he would even consider such an appointment.
Tony Snow was one of the good guys.
Tony Snow was good, but I think Tucker could be the greatest spokesman for MAGA-really terrific…like nobody before him…the greatest we’ve ever had.
The democrats hire professional liars. Having a truth teller would be… “unbelievable!”
I could imagine Tucker laughing with his shoulders shaking
at stupid questions asked of him
Or giving them that confounded look when they make some longwinded statement as the premise of an idiotic question.
I think that was all hype. How would he take another full time job after just launching his own media company?
Saving the country takes priority over his media company. Being the Press Secretary would appear to be beneath him. But, I think he, like Trump who was not afraid to take questions and engage with the hacks in the press, would be great at exposing the fake news for the frauds they are. And, in the long run, if he is successful in removing the wool that covers the eyes of the msm viewers, then he has a chance to bring about the destruction of the msm opening up a huge segment of the market for his outlet. It has the potential to be a good business decision, as well as the right thing to do- win-win…Winning.
Sundance-
You realize that if this list becomes true, the Deep State and the Globalist Cabal are gonna have heart attacks?
I love it.
Heart attacks! Yes, an excellent way to thin the crowd of maddened wokesters.
Where does Sundance fit in?
Head of CISA to make sure the feds stay out of censorship and propaganda? but that should be abolished.
Maybe a new position to identify agencies and NGOs that should be abolished?
“abolished or defunded (eg, all soros-associated and antifa-associated entities”
Do you know what Sindance’s real name is? Maybe he’s already in the list.
I hear he’s steely as you please
He could be Samurai Japanese
No, he’s not on the list. 😉
“Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that will require unremitting vigilance.”
–Thomas Jefferson to William T. Barry, 1822
Michelle Bachman–Department of Education
We should just get rid of this department in its entirety. Let the states take care of education on their own. Competition will inherently make it all better.
I am a teacher, and I could not agree more. It’s useless.
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4400 employees!
Agree. Michelle Bachman can dismantle it.
In fact every department and agency created by Jimmy Carter should be immediatly defunded and abolished. DOE, DOEd, any others. The biggest water carrier of the trans movement is the DoEd using Title 9.
And my daughter played sports 4 years in high school! I know what it encouraged then was the likes of Meghan Rapinoe. When my daughter went on college visits she came back totally discouraged and just about quit her Senior year, because she would have been the only straight player on many teams, and she literally felt unsafe.
The Department of Education is not a constitutional defined position as are many within the Federal government. It was created under Reagan and only served to centralize rather than meet the needs of children. This needs to be abolished and returned to the states. No Director needed.
Well, slow down just a little bit…
Just thinking out loud,…
IIRC several States have signed into law, a statewide “school choice” law, only to have it undermined,..Az. for sure is one.
It was passed by the Legislature, signed into law by Gov. Ducey and was supposed to go into effect Jan 2023 and Hobbs and her Giverment have just ignored it.
The Fed. Givernment DOES have a role, in intervening in a State to insure citisens rights are being protected….
Is there any way the Fed Dept of Education could be used to insure in all States parents have a right to educate their kids in public, private, parochial or home school, and any Fed, State, County or district money per pupil, goes with the kid?
This is one area where enacting reform at the State level has met up with INCREDIBLE resistance.
Just thinking out loud,…
To quote an article from CATO Institute, “The Department of Education, along with so much else the federal government does, is unconstitutional. The only things that are constitutional for it to do are those things enumerated in the Constitution. Hence, if something is not listed there, it cannot do that something, period. That’s the whole point of enumerated powers.” https://www.cato.org/blog/yes-department-education-unconstitutional
I enjoy your thoughts very much Dutchman and understand your point here. But bear with me on this one. If the states retained control then the needs of citizens would revert back to local control where the parents could be more in charge of the education of their children. The carrot and stick control of the fed could no longer dictate what the local citizens must do to receive federal aid. It would also mean that there would be one less department to fund in the federal government. Just think how many federal agencies are not enumerated in the constitution that could be terminated and defunded. We might actually be able to bring the national debt under control!
I’m all for local control of schools…BUT, I live in a small community whose school system is heavily impacted by hundreds of children from a nearby, untaxable federal military base. The local school system, unable to levy residents of base housing, depends on federal impact funds augmenting local school bonds to provide the necessary staffing, materials, etc., for the increased student load. Would you (a) not provide impact funds to handle the increased student enrollment and have the local community pay higher taxes to fund local schools impacted by a heavy transient population? (b) keep an Ed Dept to manage federal impact programs? (c) reassign school impact fund management to the Def. Dept? This is just one sample of the kinds of issues to be thought out before taking an extreme measure of eliminating a federal department such as the Dept. Educ. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m all for slimming down the size of the federal bureaucracy, but experience says before getting rid of something it’s wise to understand why it’s there and all that it does.
re: Constitution…the “Opinion Clause” of Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 “he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments” is the Constitutional basis for the executive cabinet.
We all, military kids included, did just fine getting well educated for decades before Jimmy Carter saddled us with the monstrosity Dept of Ed.
We’ll do better without it.
I thought it was President Reagan that started the DOE.
late to the party here, I stand corrected, it was Carter.
My point is not in the education but in the financing of it at the local level in communities without the tax base to support a large transient federal population (be that a military base, a national lab, etc.). One agency (currently Dept Ed) overseeing federal impact funds to education in local communities seems a better choice to me than divvying it up among agencies (Def. Dept., Energy Dept., etc.).
Perhaps pruning that office out of the Dept of Ed to be a stand-alone agency is a possible answer; I don’t know, not being well schooled in the mechanics of federal hierarchies and civil service rules. All I’m saying is before eliminating Dept of Ed, determine if there are programs within it (like federal impact) that ought to be saved and then determine how best to save them.
The impact funds could be supplied by DOD, without touching local school policy.
And would you do the same with the Dept of Energy providing impact funds to areas with national labs (like Sandia, Hanford, Idaho, etc.)? Having one agency overseeing education impact funds makes more sense to me than spreading the accounting responsibilities across multiple departments.
Does any national lab affect the population of local schools like say, Ft. Leonard Wood? (or any of the huge bases here). When DOD kids are educated overseas, do they go to the local schools and affect their tax base? Just asking.
The national lab at Hanford (Eastern Washington) and the associated Columbia Generating Station directly impacts the Tri-Cities schools (Richland SD, Kennewick SD, Pasco SD). Hanford has gone through a number of changes to its mission and there have been the consequent fluctuations in manpower. I suspect similar scenarios at some of the other national labs, especially those labs situated in remote locales (because of the uniqueness of the work of those labs) like the lab at Idaho Falls, or, the one at Los Alamos NM.
Overseas, the Def. Dept. has the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DODDS) which provides an American education for children of Defense Dept personnel (military & civilian DoD employees and some civilian contractors working for DoD – although I think civilian contractors pay a tuition: not sure about the tuition thing, it’s been a long time since I had any contact with DoD schools).
I know of some school districts that actually went bankrupt and dissolved or absorbed by larger districts because of the feds coming in so the district had to build and staff to support the influx of kids and then, when the feds downsized or pulled out all together, the district was left with white elephant facilities, a staff glut, a higher wage scale because of the higher level of educational services required, and no way the local tax base could sustain it.
Educating dependent children of federal employees (military or civilian) is not a simple matter – it directly affects the federal dependents and also the children within the local community. Thank you for your interest.
A military base provides hundreds of civilian jobs, not just on base but off base with restaurants, retail, gas stations, car dealerships, infrastructure.
Most bases were built in the 50s and 60s. I think the communities have had time to adapt
Base closures have resulted in shifts (some quite sizeable) in unit assignments in CONUS. An army division moving HQ from one post to a new post means potentially hundreds of kids having to be absorbed into an existing school structure (facilities, staffing, transportation, etc.) not prepared for such a large influx. The same is true for those localities that once had a large military population, for example, then lost it due to DoD movements, and then reacquired it again decades later (localities around JBLM are an example).
Building schools on base would be preferable. And I said hundreds, when I should have said thousands, of civilian jobs.
The left coast must hate that there are military bases in their domain. Lol
“Building schools on base would be preferable.” And that used to done, but that is still a transient expenditure — great when the military manpower is up, not so great when the manpower is down. Who teaches? DODS or local school district? To what standards set by whom? Who accredits the school? And so on. It’s a mess and something the DoD shouldn’t be wasting time on. So, federal impact money was created to help local school districts; with one department overseeing all federal impact money rather than many departments trying to do the same thing.
Set up a dept in the DOD, if there isn’t one already, to handle that and use DOD funding.
The Department of Education was established under Carter.
Thank you!! I said the same thing before I read your correction!
Marmie, just to clarify: Carter was responsible for creating the Department of Education, not Reagan.
I stand corrected regarding the president who I matured the Department of Education. It was Carter one year before Reagan took office. However the principle remains the same. Here is a brief history of the movements to create a federal department and we are no better off because of it. https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/09/department-of-education-history-000235/
I will agree with you that no law, no policy, no rule, no tax, or any other thing put in place by the Dimms has ever been repealed by the GOPe.
Thank goodness someone in the GOP caucus demanded a sunset provision in Clinton’s assault weapon ban.
You are not completely wrong. Reagan had the chance and responsibility to strangle that monstrosity in the crib. Instead, he hired a crypto-socialist to run it, T. Bell, and later a Democrat, B. Bennet (I think he changed his affiliation when hired). Broken promise.
The troubles we could have been spared with a little thought and action. Much as I like Reagan, he was a dunce on education.
Look up Charlotte Iserbyt, who said she was red-pilled by Reagan–not in a good way.
Wow. Never knew about Bennett. That was when dems were different. His ideas about core knowledge (which is not common core) were very traditional (and needed…and right.)
How were students doing before the Dept. Of Education came into existence? How were they doing on reading, math & science skills? Because between the teachers unions & the Dept. Of MisEducation, we have too many kids who can’t read, write, etc., made even worse by COVID mandates & lockdowns. And there’s the whole transgender crap AND now pro-terrorism & activism.
Get rid of teachers unions & DOM-E. This ain’t working.
It was actually created during the Carter Administration. It began fully in 1980 — an election year (the year Reagan was elected.)
The Department of Education was created by Jimmy Carter, as a payback to the teacher’s unions in helping to get him elected in 1976.
One of the main reasons that I supported George W Bush in 2000 was his campaign pledge to ELIMINATE the entire department…But when one of his first acts in office was the disastrous No Child Left Behind program, which greatly EXPANDED the Federal overreach into local schools, I knew that we’d been sold a pig in a poke!! 🤬🤬🤬
You don’t want NM running their own education! I live here. We’re always 49th or 50th in education even though in the middle range of what most states spend. We seem to be unable to vote the corruption out.
I believe Carter created that monster.
No lunatics from the North Star state, They are all Farm labor union pos.
I’d like to see the Dept. of education be totally shut down and authority returned to the states.
I would LOVE to see Michele Bachmann in a position within the Trump organization.
Michelle Bachman for Secretary of State
Hmmmmm . . . I would start by eliminating the Federal Income Tax and all Silos, Cabinet Positions, and the appurtenant personnel, for functions not enumerated in the Constitution. All remaining Federal departments are to be distributed to the 50 states, no relocation assistance available. I would eliminate welfare and spend the money on buyouts and unemployment for the 90% of Federal employees RIF’d, to last no longer than 6 months. Let’s remember, the States largely duplicate Federal functions: let the States take those functions over.
After the purge, say 6 to 12 months later, consider adding back ONLY two or three Cabinet positions that seem useful, that have been missed.
We need a chainsaw!!! And a wrecking ball!!!
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I love your idea to eliminate welfare. Long past it’s due date.
I don’t think such an immediate, radical surgery is practical, although I like the goal.
I believe a lot of what you propose can better be achieved by a State Government (it only takes ONE!) challenging the Fed. Governments overrreach; they WILL win, its only because no State has challenged it, that the Fed overreach has persisted.
This is the case for vast areas of the Fed. Government; a State Government hardly has to aim, just shut their eyes and throw a dart, so to speak.
Such cases WILL get fast tracked, and a ruling in the States favor will apply to all 50 States, so its an efficient way to cut the Fed Gov. down to size, very complementary to what PDJT is doing in D.C.
Time for states to rise up and take back the power they have willingly given to the federal government.
State AGs: Lookin’ at you.
The federal government has first and the biggest dibs on taxpayers money; when it’s much smaller, the states will get their due both from citizens and business; competition will be great. Growing economy instead of an import economy.
But We’ve got to get to the need for ‘family’ to be the base of operations. Where futures are planned for the next generation. Where money is earned to take care of kids.Where children are the center of the future.
No disagreement from me. Our government is the largest government in history. It is way too big.
While you are at it, go read the Articles establishing the Army and the Navy.
By rights the States should have Armies, which are called forth when needed by the US for three specific purposes, enforce laws, put down insurrections, and Repel INVASIONS.
The Navy is for Foreign Policy, i.e. to project US power around the world, mainly to protect shipping and commerce. By the Constitution we should have Armies of the States (remember that was as it was in the Civil War) who stay here and protect our borders. Anything going outside the borders is Navy; Navy Sea, Navy Air, Navy Land (Marines) Navy Missile and Navy Space and Sattelites. Most of the Early astronauts were Navy fighter jocks.
We could make the Pentagon a Triangle if it was run by the Constitution.
This discussion is catnip since the RINO/Dem nuclear option – “Senate confirms no one” becomes extremely likely. We are less than one year away and the real prize (as Sundance knows) is gaining MAGA control of Senate. Sorry for my pessimism, but the Exec branch is important for clearing out the swamp, but the embedded Thune, Cornyn, Rubio, etc…I dont see how it comes together after the election unless I’m missing how to apply pressure beyond civil unrest
Yes, PDJT older and wiser to the ways of the RNC and D.C., and with far larger base of support than he had in 2016, must find ways to navigate the roadblocks, in order to get the personelle he wants .
For VP, any one the RNC wants, he doesn’t and vice versa.
So, he must just announce with no consultation with the RNC; don’t give them the opportunity “behind closed doors” to Veto.
As for Senate Confirmation several options.
-Recess appointments (good for 1 year) require ONE Senator to defy leadership, and call for a recess.
-Go with a succession of temporary appointments, can only appoint those who have previously gone thru Senate Confirmation and a piss poor way to run an administation, frankly.
-Have “something” ON Senate leadership, so they are blackmailed into confirming his nominees, cause thats the currency of the Swamp.
Until the 17th Amendment is repealed, the Senate is an enemy of the people and a “supercommittee” of deep state apparatchiks. That amendment, and the 16th, (IRS) have got to go. Anything else is Titanic deck chair rearranging.
ABSOLUTELY AGREE!!
Well, I see it.
With a Super MAGA landslide, the weight and will of the people who are fully engaged in seeing real change. They hang over every appointed cabinet official, like a 100 bolder, held up on 10lb fishing line!
Hey Mr. Cabinet head, we notice your promised results are not forthcoming and it’s been 2mo since you took up the role. We insist you get outta the way now, you’re stinking the place out.
“Next”
Sorry for my pessimism, but the Exec branch is important for clearing out the swamp, but the embedded Thune, Cornyn, Rubio, etc…I dont see how it comes together after the election unless I’m missing how to apply pressure beyond civil unrest.
HappyPappy, think about it, that’s where Erik Prince comes in…
You’re right without legal elections We’re hog tied…….and they know it.
Our system is set up with the means to set term limits with our votes; to censure representatives. Illegal votes put more debris in office that it can’t be swept out.
catnip / how to apply
“Come forward, then, and give us the aid of your talents and the weight of your character towards the new establishment of republicanism.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Robert Livingston, 1800
Jeffrey Gunter talks about his run for Nevada’s Senate seat
https://rumble.com/v35srp6-jeffrey-gunter-talks-about-his-run-for-nevadas-senate-seat.html
Republican Congressional Candidate, Abe Hamadeh, warns of a Marxist transformation
https://rumble.com/v3sr2a4-calling-out-people-who-want-to-destroy-america.html
As I posted earlier, ALL POSITIONS REQUIRING SENATE CONFIRMATION SHOULD BE KEPT SECRET. THE MOMENT, THE SECOND, PRES TRUMP IS SWORN INTO OFFICE AND BEFORE THE SENATE GAVELS IN, PRES TRUMP’S LIST SHOULD BE SENT OVER AS INTERIM APPOINTMENTS TO THE SENATE. They can hit the ground running on DAY ONE. No longer can the president or the country be at the mercy of Mitch and his merry band to draw out and obstruct nominations of those who will get the job done. They are backstabbers who do not share our goals and should be viewed and dealt with as such.
Impressive list. As per usual and none I disagree with. Let’s get after it Sir.
MTG is a grifter and screw Jeb. It doesn’t matter how good he’d be, it would be a bad look.
I am glad you clarified your thoughts behind your selection of RFK Jr and Vivek. They would be serving as functionaries that deal with matters at the top and then delegate to the nuts and bolts to get the job done. An executive position and the spokesman who in essence dictates which way the wind is blowing. I really like your reasoning behind all of the suggestions.
The lifers at the CIA would never ever let RFK truly run the show, for obvious reasons.
Great list! I like it and
the reasoning behind it.
Makes sense.
Department of Education is critical to stop the anti-american destructive takeover of our next generations.
Much of our counrry-destructive university craziness is funded by the government.. It is critical to fund only useful work, not DEI and propaganda scams. Starve the university “studies” propaganda programs. Let them find useful work in the private sector…
Make out universities great again !!!
Appointments require Senate approval, which was denied to PDJT.
A plan to have at least one Senator demand a roll call vote when the Senate is actually in recess, but fakeing being in session to foil recess appointments..
Great choices!
And Dr Carson would be a great VP!
2 GIANTS on one ticket!
Wow, what’s not to like about the list. Getting this country back on track requires an A Team, one that will correct the absolute disaster of the previous 4 years. The nice thing about ultra strong leadership, that makes up this cabinet, is that other countries will have to start getting their house in order, or suffer the consequences of having substandard, weak leadership.
I haven’t read ALL the comments BUT none of these excellent choices by Sundance will mean a thing unless we take care of the voting fraud!!!
As one who lived in Arizona thru the 2020 and specifically the 2022 vote, both elections were stolen and we (AZ R’s) VOWED it wouldn’t happen in 2022 and yet it happened right under our noses by the UniParty laughing the entire time!!!
Former DNI John Ratcliffe: We Collected Specific Intel of a Plan by China to Interfere in 2020 Election to Help Joe Biden – They Will Do It Again in 2024 (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/former-dni-john-ratcliffe-we-collected-specific-intel/
There’s no doubt China is up to no good but the real threat is the US Leftists and Never Trump “Republicans”.
The “real threat” is the professional politician and bureaucrat club that masquerades as being on opposing sides of the ongoing political theater. Anyone that was in Federal office (elected, appointed, or employed) that accomplished nothing during the period between 11/3/2020 and 1/6/2021 (and this is every single one of them) should hear the phrase “YOUR FIRED”. Whether it they hear it from PDJT or from the American People should only depend on how they got the position they are in.
Promises, promises.
Forget the inferrments.
Show the receipts or thisis merely continued propaganda for the color revolution the cia/wef is trying to accomplish.
Yes, and the same people responsible for stealing the elections of 2020 and 2022 are STILL in place.
The Az State R party executive committee, which are the ones that installed Steve Richer as Maracopa County Recorder, and Bill Gates and Hickman the egg guy on the Maracopa County Board of Supervisors all still in place.
We HAVE replaced the District board with MAGA, running off 3 RINOS, but thats not nearly good enough.
Which is why I have serious doubts KL can win the Senate Seat, in a 3 way race.
Nationally, I believe we are looking much better, however.
I hear you, Dutch…still tracking all that…p*sses me off still. Judges deciding what can and cannot be presented was huge as well.
I have come to realize that on our Southern border the Uniparty has less influence on voting and voting processes tha the Cartels to the South.
I believe after the Armies are recalled to their prospective states their first duty should be to eradicate the Cartels. This includes the bought and paid for Mexican Army.
Annexing Mexico should be on the table. If they have to pay taxes and social security like the rest of us there will be no incentive to come north. Same with min wage laws. Why relocated a job there that will cost just as much?
We can then look North and invite the Western Provences to join the Union. Leave Quebec to Truedope. We’ll take the natural resources. When 1800 lb moose and grizzly bears roam streets of smaller towns, they may appreciate having their gun rights restored
Hand Counting Paper Ballots is THE Only Chance we have to Remain Free.
https://miamiindependent.com/why-tolerate-probable-election-fraud/
That and implement the long Delayed RealID Act.
Needless to say I think very highly of Dr Carson but just can’t imagine he has the stomach for the ugly battle that fighting the left has become. They are crazy!
I complain that Kari Lake has no experience but my gut tells me she’d be more willing to take on the battle. There are others. We need someone who can stare down the enemies of MAGA – and that includes fellow Republicans. Aren’t we expecting the VP to take over MAGA in 2028? Age is a factor, unfortunately.
Great article, Sundance! This discussion is excellent counterpoint to numerous articles by the MSM voicing concerns if Pres. Trump wins in 2024.
Pres. Trump and his MAGA inner circle have taken the hard lessons learned during his first term and turned them into an action plan to “hit the ground running” on Day One. The plan is part of “Project 2025” and includes a 900+ page playbook developed in concert with the Heritage Foundation think tank.
The Project 2025 Handbook’s authors include Dr. Ben Carson, Christopher Miller, Peter Navarro amongst many others and states on pg. 3 that it is built on four broad fronts that will decide America’s future:
The Project 2025 Handbook addresses changes to specific federal agencies and personnel. Here is the Handbook link: https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
For a quick understanding of Project 2025 and a partial view of Pres. Trump’s vision for his 2nd term, here is an excerpt from an August 29, 2023, AP article – apologies for MSM source (full article at https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981) :
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 return — 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.
Instead, Trump-era conservatives want to gut the “administrative state” from within, by ousting federal employees they believe are standing in the way of the president’s agenda and replacing them with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a new executive’s approach to governing…”
Heritage was coopted long ago. If they’re involved, there is risk to MAGA. Just a caveat.
This publication must be a headfake against our embeded enemies or else Trump & Co have learned nothing.
It certainly will be used as justification for tweets like the one Hakeem Jeffries just released.
It certainly is being used to declare Trump a dictator: replace it with a vision closer to his own.
Finally, it demonstrates a continuance of the behemoth that is killing our nation. Simply because “acceptable persons” are now in the positions doesn’t make it good and right. THERE WOULD BE NO NECESSARY CHANGE.
IF we want to remain a viable nation we will be required to change our thinking or said change will be imposed upon us by outside forces.
Where is Ezra Cohen-Watnik?
All these crazy intelligence jobs and no Ezra?
What’s up with that?
Of course he must be old enough by now to be considered as VP.
You want to take Ken out of TX you will drag half the state with him since no one wants to lose him. Especially now.
If it’s the right half of Texas, maybe a whole lot of them would be great choices for jobs in the 2024 administration.
(This from an old lady in blueMA who often imagines moving there.)
Texas is struggling with RINOs, too.
Devin Nunez??? Why is he not a part of your proposed administration?
Placing a Bush anywhere near a Contract or patronage position is a risky proposition. The “Prescott gene” is strong in them.
If he gets elected, the most important decision is who will carry the MAGA mantle as the battle with the globalist financial behemoth will not be done in a term. We need a way to extricate ourselves from these leeches, the commitments they feed upon and navigate a return to a pre-1915 socioeconomic of situation where Europeans paid for the security of Europe and we acted in our own interest, not in that of a slew of wealthy plutocrats and their financial shills in Wall Street.
Three posts that need to be handpicked are UN ambassador, China and EU ambassadors. We need to be firm with China and find a way to reduce our military footprint in Europe (NATO), while retaining a capability to promptly place two divisions there. We may need two divisions to face China. Plus, there’s the trickle down economics of relocating those payrolls back stateside. Brussels has managed bloodless what Hitler and Napoleon couldn’t. We owe them diddly.
To a lesser extent, the same applies in the Middle East. We should help our friends. Those who are not, should not be concerned with us, but with our friends. Egypt, Saudi and Israel are clearly on our friends list. Turkey… not so much. We can let Egypt police North Africa. The Saudis the balance of the Middle East in the agreement that Israel is to be allowed to retaliate against aggressors.
Nobody in the Mideast is our friend.
Fantasy Politics? Dream team? Carts before horses?
Fight for President Trump return and fight to get real MAGA representation at state and local level
Do not trust globalist India Inc anchor baby Vivek Ramaswamy. He’s looking for a major opportunity to enrich himself because his frauds have eaten a hole in his wealth & he will do anything. The cheering him on because his loser campaign is now saying things to appeal to MAGA and Trump, has to end. He is a threat to our nation
Sundance is an optimist, I have to give him that. But he’s totally off the mark with his musical chairs.
Ben Carson would make a great V.P., my Wife and I supported him in 2016. We saw, he wouldn’t win the nomination, so we went with Trump. Dr Carson validated our decision by endorsing Trump. President Trump needs a V.P. who will succeed him in 2028 and be re-elected in 2032. Dr Carson is not that man. He’s too nice and this is going to be drag out knock-down fight between the America firsters and the globalists.
It has to be understood that the republican establishment collaborates with the dems and globalists in eliminating America as a nation state. It should be remembered that the GOPe obstructed and sabotaged President Trump, during his first term and afterwards. It should also be remembered that President could only nominate people for Cabinet positions that McConnell told him he could get confirmed. We now know that these cabinet members’ first job was to co-opt Trump and when they failed, they went public and stabbed him in the back. The GOPe and dems would have love Trump to pick people that could help him. Congress would have wasted more time blocking the nomination.
President Trump needs a strong V.P.
President Trump has the support of the American people, because he accomplished more to our benefit, against more opposition than any other president. The American voters will have to toss out the globalists and elect America firsters, if we want to turn this around. President Trump can’t do it all on his own.
I like these picks!!! But I’ve always thought Erik Prince for SecDef, but I see your rationale for him as Assistant.
The only problem with many of these picks is that it takes them out of their important positions in Congress. Other than that, I like it!
Where’s Clay Higgins?
concur!
and Cory Mills
Looking back over U.S. History, I think we’ve a remarkable collection of top leaders, i.e. chief executives/presidents, considering what an intrinsically great country we have. How can such an amazing nation produce such bad – or utterly mediocre – presidents?
Most of them were time servers and political hacks. Some of them disasters (esp 20th century ones, starting with Wilson). And look at how the few truly great ones ascended to the office! Washington because he won the Rev War, Lincoln because the Demoncrats hopelessly split their votes. Both Theodore Roosevelt & Calvin Coolidge, the best 20th century presidents, got in by flukes. And the Deep State nixed Goldwater and later Nixon, crippled Reagan, and “Goldwatered” Trump’s 2nd term while trying to “”Nixon” his 1st term.
I can easily believe Donald J. Trump would be LANDSLIDED to victory in 2024; but then, I can believe the Deep State will amass their power and “Goldwater-Nixon-Reagan-JFK” him to keep him out. They’ll do whatever it takes. I think we all know that. They’ve even imported an army of mercenaries to seize our own country from us!
All I can say is, pray! But then, the U.S. officially “secessioned” God from the Constitution from the very git-go. But I’m praying anyway, fwiw.
“… 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.” [Article]
…….. The old Obama “White House” >gangsters ~ will still be ‘controlling the embed seeds’ within the Federal Government Agencies. = That’s one of the main problems. … Maybe, much of the Federal Bureaucracy can be dismantled and transferred to the States. …… Will our national politicians ~willing want to transfer “money and the political power it brings” directly to the States? = Of course not.
Reform will take ~years. +There has to be a change ~ to the people in the bureaucracy, and a change to our American Culture; especially the desire for “More Free Stuff” without work, and the crooked morality of the political payoff.
…… In my town more than a 100 years ago, a contractor bribed the politicians and inspectors. … A government facility was built using concrete with far too much sand. Within 10 years, the facility was dangerously dissolving in the rain. ~The facility was replaced with the same design, and correct materials.
…….. Our US Government is quickly reaching the point of dissolving, or becoming a crooked police state. … We need Trump in 2024 to Save America.
No Bush ever in any office IMHO. The Bush Cartel should be brought down not elevated.
AND the name on the hat needs to be disgraced; it’s been protected for too long. Pedophiles should never be protected or elected AND never ever praised. They brought children into the white house, Our house for him; for God’s sake why the honor shown on this site??
I literally got sick seeing Jeb’s name for a powerful office, and the hat made me barf!!
Got help US
President Trump does not need a VP. President Trump has to have / required to have a VP.
Instead of selecting a VP incase ‘something’ should happen to President Trump, pick a VP to ensure NOTHING happens to President Trump.
Just considering only 2024, pick someone:
Who has never ran or held an elected office.
Who has never held a government position.
But, has experience ‘dealing’ with government.
Someone who has national ‘name’ recognition. 😉
A strong religious foundation.
A VP pick that when announced, would have an extreme harsh reaction from the left, that will result in a stronger counter reaction.
Someone who can bring in votes. Not winning a state, but nationally.
Franklin Graham?
That cabinet would DEFINITELY shake up DC!!!
What a breath of fresh air!
No booooosh allowed, no Kennedy allowed, what is this kiss and tell?
Gaetz and Giuliani at FBI with Paxton, Eastman, Powell and Robinson at DOJ would turn that ship around in about 2 to 3 months. And relocate the FBI HQ as far as possible from DC.
They are trying to put a good bit of the FBI into Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL as we discuss this. I am kind of fearful of them being down here with us.
Guam?
No Matt Gaetz, he is a loose cannon who could upset any endeavor.
Gaetz is the only house member I would ever vote for. I would move to his district if my granddaughter didn’t need to be close to Childrens Hospital of Boston.
Interesting and enlightening discussion. I’ll have to come back later to read in more detail.
I had to chuckle when I heard at the state agency where I work the general counsel talking about silos and information. This is a larger structural issue I dont think any of us has fully grasped. It’s one of the main tools used by our handlers to keep the charade up while giving them all plausible deniability. I don’t think it’s even a secret but more so training that certain employees (lawyers) get to protect the “Institution”.
Pierre Delecto for head of Binders of women.
I love every one of these choices. Most of these fine picks are battle hardened already as they have been severely persecuted for remaining steadfast in their support of the MAGA movement and President Trump. They have showed resolve and strength and are very intelligent. They know!
Thank you once again, Sundance, for your prayer derived wisdom.
You are Blessed.
You are loved.
McConnell, McCarthy and Rona is all you need to know. Kiss this country adios, amigo.
Need to put Doug Macgregor in at DOD to clean out top heavy officers, close foreign bases and put military on up to date training
I don’t like Noem for agriculture.
Carbon capture pipelines?
Justin Trudeau for The United States Mens Bathroom Attendant.
Ummm, no.
It would be best if he were moved completely off the North American continent. Perhaps out of the solar system, but off the continent is a start.
I’m in charge of my own ammo.
I suspect some of this was tongue in cheek
I hope.
But both articles have gotten the Treepers into a lively and informative discussion. Which is probably the point.
You have some really good picks but …
I am totally fed up with the alphabet people, and that includes Ric Grenell ! They never work out long term. He served his brief purpose and then faded away. He is the “wife” of the couple. The payback for using Ric was a mini pro homo tour in other countries. While I don’t believe it is right to murder them, I certainly don’t want that lifestyle choice exalted. We already look like a worldwide laughing stock and this is a fairly prominent position, Secretary of State. No thanks!
I am not interested in a bipartisan compromise.
Our government is at war with us and we can’t be in appeasing mode.
We need a strong patriot for a UN Ambassador and Tulsi Gabbard
will always be a DEM at heart.
Jeb Bush is another one – no way in any form!
He is precisely the kind we want to exterminate.
Again, agree wholeheartedly. I remember back when the Mooch and Omarosa were ‘hired’ I cringed until I realized Trump was making the mocking of those offices that were deserved. Same with Tillerson; Trump was sending a message.
The real hires came shortly afterword to the more important orifices: economics. Lighthizer, Ross, Mnuchin, Kudlow. Then, Mattis, Kelly – these guys were allowed to expose themselves for what they were: Theranos, Mattis? Nuff said.
Trump knew quickly what a joke D.C. is except how deadly they can be. Now he knows for sure.
People. As ridiculous as some of these picks are never underestimate the trickery of Sundance to get a conversation started. The vetting has begun.