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willdup said:

No, just watching the right flooding of the zone with bullshit (to quote Steve Bannon) before what is likely to be yet another tough week for Trump and his campaign.

I don't know much about the recently hired associate Coms director referenced above. I did see that his almost all of his offensive tweets were from during or just after his time as an undergraduate at UCLA. The guy isn't setting any policy, he is a coms guy and I don't really care what his views were as a student. I also don't care if he is gay, trans, whatever. Don't care.

Given this group wants to discuss the kind of people hired to support an administration, let's talk about some of DJT's team.

Since the tweets of the new associate WH Coms guy, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen, Peter Navaro and Elliott Broidy have all been convicted of felonies.

Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis are under indictment and/or pled guilty for their efforts to support Trump's election fraud lies.

Allen Weisselberg, who was the Trump Org CFO and Trump's right hand man for twenty years, is currently serving time in Rikers for felonies.

All these people worked directly for Trump. They make up his team.

But sure, keep getting your panties in a wad about the new associate WH Coms director. That will definitely help save the country.

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If only Rudy could straighten NY out again ?

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-lowcountrydawg said:

Care to comment why none of those low character folks had ever been prosecuted for anything at all prior to becoming known associates of Trump? That would seem to be the best evidence to refute the idea that their prosecution later in life wasn’t politically motivated.

Care to argue my second point with anything besides pointing to other side? Defend the Biden admin specifically?

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I can’t say and I don’t care in the least. Perhaps working with Trump inspires or requires criminal behavior. Evidence would suggest so. As I said, sleaze attracts sleaze.

I’ve gone through the list of things accomplished by the Biden administration more than once and you’ve heard them before, if not from me than from others. There nothing to gain from doing it again.

So far, the three primary things that Trump has told us to expect from his second andministrstion are more tariffs, mass deportations and a far more accommodating stance towards Russia regarding Ukraine. The first two will be highly inflationary and the last one leads to more war. And he’s going to purge the civil service after the loyalty test Project 2025 details.

I find all of that to be disastrous, and that’s without factoring in the tried to steal the election thing, which makes his candidacy a non-starter anyway.

ToddBburn said:

Currently protected sounds like tenured. That in itself says they should be scrutinized and potentially replaced. Many of those federal employees vote democrat and if they voted long term Republican they would have already have been replaced by the left.

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They aren’t tenured and of course there is a process for the civil service to evaluate performance. It doesn’t include a political loyalty test as Project 2025 is proposing, and it shouldn’t.

When you work for the government, you trade current income for stability.

The reason that the majority of civil servants are protected from what is outlined in Project 2025 is because swapping out tens of thousands of functionaries with every administration would render the entire government ineffective. Yes, insert jokes here. Nonetheless, an ideological loyalty test is not where we need to go as a country.

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