Showing posts with label Project 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Project 2025. Show all posts
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Going Feral: Blog Mirror: On DOGE and Keystone XL and lost jobs
Going Feral: Blog Mirror: On DOGE and Keystone XL and lost jobs: On DOGE and Keystone XL and lost jobs
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Federal MAGA voters getting the axe.
I was skeptical that there would be very many of these, but in fact there are. I should have known it.
Not firings. No, Federal (and State) employees who voted for Trump, or in Wyoming for members of the Freedom Caucus.
They were always voting to fire themselves. Did they not realize it?
Well, The naiveite would be amusing, but for it being so tragic and short sighted. Somehow these people believed that the merits of their work would save them from this fate.
Why?
It's not about the quality of their work. They're MAGA cannon fodder.
GoldieSk8s @GoldieSk8sReplying to @realdogeusaTrump voter here. Mass firing probationary employees makes no sense. Forest Service, 26 yr old exemplary 2-year veteran 'probationary' employee GIS tech let go with no warning today. Along with a timber cutter, the lowest paid, most profitable employee they have. This is stupid.GoldieSk8s@GoldieSk8s·Feb 13@realDonaldTrumpseriously, why the low hanging fruit? An EXEMPLARY 26 yr old GIS tech with the Forest Service for 2 years, intern converted to full time, one month shy of being off probation, fired on a Zoom call no warning, sent home in tears. Now I'm questioning my vote.GoldieSk8s@GoldieSk8s·Replying to @elonmusk and @DOGEYou are losing some of your strongest supporters by attacking the low-hanging fruit (me, my family). 26 yo hardworking 2 yr employee of USFS let go with no warning on Zoom. My hard-working son witnessed this, and is disgusted & I am embarrassed. This is NOT how you save America.GoldieSk8s@GoldieSk8s·Feb 13@elonmuskgoing after the low hanging fruit? An exemplary 26 yr old GIS tech with the Forest Service for 2 years as an intern converted to full time, only one month shy of being off probation, fired on a Zoom call no warning, sent home in tears. Now I'm questioning my vote.GoldieSk8s@GoldieSk8s·Feb 13@DOGEgoing after the low hanging fruit? An exemplary 26 yr old GIS tech with the Forest Service for 2 years as an intern converted to full time, only one month shy of being off probation, fired on a Zoom call no warning, sent home in tears. Now I'm questioning my vote.GoldieSk8s@GoldieSk8s·Feb 13Replying to @Bwahahahafunny and @adgirlMMSon told me of a 26 yr old exemplary GIS tech at FS who was 2 yra into 'probationary' let go on a Zoom call. He was very depressed about it. This is not the way, taking out people regardless of performance. I don't understand why it has to be one extreme or the other.GoldieSk8s@GoldieSk8s·Feb 13Replying to @MarioNawfalSeriously, low hanging fruit? EXEMPLARY 26 yr old GIS tech with the Forest Service for 2 years, intern to full time, one month shy of being off probation, fired on Zoom, no warning, sent home in tears. Not classy. Now I'm questioning MY vote.
Monday, February 17, 2025
Project 2025: The Radical Conservative Plan to Reshape America Under Trump | WSJ
This is exactly what's occurring.
Indeed, one of the fascinating things on this one is watching Kevin Roberts just flat out admit, and this was before the election, that Trump was lying in order to get elected, as he had to distance himself from Robert's organization. I.e., Americans didn't want this, Roberts knew it, and he thought Trump lying about his knowledge and intent to implement Project 2025 was okay.
This says a lot about Roberts, who is a diehard National Conservative, and by extension J. D. Vance. Vance actually wrote the forward to Robert's recent book, which was pulled from release so that the forward didn't hurt the Trump campaign.
Sunday, February 2, 2025
The Assault of Project 2025 and the National Conservatives.
]While the Trump Interregnum Blitzkrieg seems to be spastic and random, and frankly more than a little insane, with the attempt to lure Federal employees into quitting with a dubious offer to be bought out of their employment, blaming DEI for a tragic air accident, and the apparent intent to gut the Federal workforce, it does serve to bring into focus what was already starting to be clear and something we already knew would occur.
Somebody, and we can assume it isn't Trump, who is too dense and lazy to really focus on it, is advancing Project 2025.
Oh, Trump, aware of the meaningless nature of his life to date is backing it and advancing it, in hopes to be "great", these aren't Trump's ideas. What is Trump's idea is that associating himself with him will reform the nation, which it will, and he'll be associated with its reformation, which he will be, for good or ill.
Project 2025 is radical. So radical that Trump disavowed any association with it when he was a candidate, but like much he promised, he lied. Project 2025 is clearly the blueprint for the Trump interregnum, and it will be for the Vance Presidency once that occurs in 18 months or so. The thing with Trump is that Trump is not an intelligent man, and therefore a ready made blueprint, to the extent he pays any attention to it at all, is ideal for him. Vance, however, is the real deal. He believes in it.
Project 2025 was created by the Heritage Foundation. That entity dates back to 1973 and was influential during the Reagan era. There had been far right movements before that, but coming out of the Second World War both parties moved to the middle. The Vietnam War, however, started the disintegration of that, with the Democratic Party moving to the left and the GOP to the right. Now virtually worshipped as a conservative hero, Ronald Reagan encouraged extremism in the GOP, thinking he could harness and control it, which he largely did during his administration.
We've gone into the rise of the far right before, but forces that Reagan had under control have really become malignant since that time. Now they're in control.
They're not dumb. They largely know that they have to drive Trump like a plow mule or encourage him to diddle at Mara Lago while they run amok for a year and a half. That's all they really have, and they know it, before the electorate, which will now be sick of a wrecked economy, come back on them.
The National Conservatives behind 2025 regard bureaucracy with contempt, the way that many conventional conservatives did before. Career civil servants, in their view, and an entrenched enemy of efficiency and are, moreover, lazy. I was once a third party witness to a real argument between a private businessman and a career civil servant, both of whom are ardent Trump supporters, in which the businessman held the civil servant in contempt just because he was a civil servant. All government employees, in his view, were lazy who would have benefitted from being in the rough and tumble of business.
This view of things has been around for a long time in various forms, and often expresses itself in contempt. It's, basically, the Protestant Work Ethic and while a lot of the key figures in National Conservatism today are not Protestant, they're Protestantazed in their view on this.
They're also basically trying to bring into creation a United States that Rod Dreher would approve of. Dreher wrote The Benedict Option but he didn't really mean it. Enamored with authoritarians who claim to hold conservative values, they're ready to impose their version of them upon the country. That country would be insular, cut off from the world, and very Orthodox in the Byzantine sense. Think Russia under the Czars, France under Petain, or Spain under Franco.
The irony of all of this is that on some things real conservatives, such as myself, are sympathetic with the goals of National Conservatives. I'm not a fan of divorce, abortion, transgenderism, and the like. But the radicalism that Project 2025 seeks to undertake goes far beyond that, including basically axing the Federal government to the extent possible, wiping out regulation as much as possible, and removing the Federal government from much of what it now does. In that view they don't really believe in an environment and they feel that human suffering will simply be addressed as it once was, eons ago, by the Church and private parties. This fits into their world view as well, which sort of is Medieval England before King Henry VIII.
This is going to be a disaster. Petain and the French far right couldn't bring about a French version of this without force. Franco had to swim in a sea of blood in order to impose this on Spain. In France, Spain and Portugal the net result was the result of a resurgent left and the ultimate destruction of the right for decades.
All evidence suggest that Trump's initial success, in 2016, was due to his adoption of certain issues that the American middle class felt left out of. Somehow, however, he converted his base, about 25% of the GOP, into radical worshippers who feel he is incapable of doing wrong. 25% of the GOP is less than half of the electorate. National Conservatives know that, and they have to, therefore, recreate the United States from a center left/center right republic into Francoist Spain in eighteen months.
They're hard at work trying.
Last edition:
The Harrying. The opening days of the Trump interregnum
Best Posts of the Week of January 26, 2025
The best posts of the week of January 26, 2025, the week the Orange Clown launched the stupidest trade war in history.
Friday, January 26, 1945. Audie Murphy.
Last edition:
Best Posts of the Week of January 19, 2025. The Death of the United States as a great nation.
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Project 2025. Breaking it down, part 3.
Slogged through the agricultural portion.
Big takeaways 1) they went to eliminate sugar subsidies (I agree with that), 2) they're unhappy with the current school lunch program (agree with that too), they want to do away with the CRP program, which I strongly disagree with.
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Project 2025. Breaking it down, part 2. Big on defense, not on public broadcasting.
Okay, I admit, I'm not going to read all 1,000 pages.
Scanning (and I do mean scanning) the first part of it, I see that they're big on defense, down on Mexico, and want to rebuild the U.S. nuclear capacity.
I question the need to rebuild nuclear capacity, but this is all fairly standard Conservative fair. I guess the major difference would be the "we mean it" tone.
They also don't like public broadcasting. Okay, no surprise there.
Last Prior edition:
Project 2025. Breaking it down, part 1.
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Lex Anteinternet: Project 2025. Breaking it down, part 1.
Because it's so freaking big, as any goal so big would have to be, we're going to break Project 2025. down a bit.
And yes, that has to be inherently unfair, at least to some degree.
Let's start with this. What to they conceive to be their goals? Well, they claim:
So, overall, I suppose it must be judged against this, although not just against this. Other things, including the common good, must come into consideration as well.
This is particularly the case for the second goal, dismantling "the administrative state". We've had an agency heavy state since the 1930s. Conservatives conceive of this as an abuse, and have long struggled to eliminate or curtail it. But is that realistic in a country of over 300,000,000 people.
And, while many people support this in the abstract, how many really support it in reality?
Monday, September 4, 2023
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