Posted on 10/19/2024 4:52:16 PM PDT by mbrfl
This is an inside baseball story that will be overlooked by most, but it carries profound implications.
The winner of the presidential election usually merges the president-elect’s transition team with the federal transition system. Current government bureaucrats then begin a process of briefings, agency/institutional transfer coordination and funding to assist the incoming president’s team. However, as we saw in the aftermath of the 2016 election, the government side of the transition worked behind the scenes to impede Trump’s ascendency into office, and factually supported the corrupt government IC officials who were targeting Trump.
For election 2024, President Trump’s transition team is now saying they are likely to go it alone and skip any federal transition assistance in advance of inauguration day. That decision is making the deepest parts of the Deep State apparatus very nervous. That decision has major ramifications and could, likely would, include the incoming Trump administration setting up offices outside Washington DC.
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Sundance is responding to an article from Politico.
actions.
not words.
Attorney Generals???? There’s only one Attorney General at the federal level and he sits in the Cabinet. That AG usually goes with the change of administration! Trump has no say over state AGs those are decided by state elections. Now if you’re talking about DOJ federal prosecutors then yes fire them all the minute the oath of office is administered. Rat administrations always do this. Past GOP administrations including the previous Trump administration were very slow to do this. Also slow to fire Schedule C employees, slow to keep political appointees from converting to GS status. He needs to be aggressive about culling the number of ‘excepted service’ & SES positions. Supposedly they serve at the executive’s pleasure, I’ve never seen it work that way in my 30+ years around FedGov. (Note they are not covered under the normal CS ‘protection’ rules!)
Republicans always come in playing ‘gentleman’ Rats never do. As far as the Civil Service goes, I think Trump in his first administration thought he was dealing with professionals. He clearly wasn’t. This is particularly true with the flag ranks in the military. I’ve had a number of senior guvie friends tell me the worst “Deep Staters” are the senior flag officers. The stories from my friends are shocking not just non-professional in behavior but insubordinate. Many need to be forcibly retired. For example, FDR promoted George C. Marshall over some 33 more senior officers in order to get one who would do his job. Maybe Trump needs to do that!
Not kidding; next assassination attempt will likely be coming soon.
A great start. Next, pare down the bloated departments and break up the DC monopoly by sending them them to places where they can actually do some good, and where they live amongst the locals who know their stuff and pay them with their taxes. Interior to Denver for example, Commerce to New York, Agriculture to Omaha. And finally eliminate those agencies like the EPA which were created in the late ‘60s and ‘70s mainly to placate rioting hippies.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/18/trump-transition-distrust-feds-00184404
Here are a few paragraphs in the middle of the Politico article that caught my eye:
Trump allies also harbor distrust of the executive branch, according to two people familiar with their thinking. Trump’s 2016 transition alleged that special counsel Robert Mueller improperly obtained their communications from the GSA amid his probe into Russian interference in the election.
Ken Nahigian, who became executive director of the 2016 Trump transition after the election, argued the existing GSA process was particularly onerous and restrictive, without many advantages. Raising money was particularly difficult with the $5,000 limit on contributions, and the GSA also required the disclosure of the transition’s donors, he added. Nahigian has recommended to those around the Trump campaign or transition that they reject the GSA’s support.
“You have to follow all the GSA rules to a tee; it’s very onerous,” Nahigian said, adding, “People cost money.”
He argued, moreover, that there is still plenty of time to coordinate the 2024 transition. Those involved in planning for a Trump transition — something the former president is superstitious about — have also expressed confidence in their ability to put together a menu of policies and political appointees.
Quit that kind of talk. Why would you post something like that?
No business as usual this time around - be suspicious, very suspicious of the subverters.
“For election 2024, President Trump’s transition team is now saying they are likely to go it alone and skip any federal transition assistance in advance of inauguration day. That decision is making the deepest parts of the Deep State apparatus very nervous.”
If true, this is a very smart move on Trump’s part. He now knows that there are very few people he can trust in the Dist. of Corruption.
“Trump is going to turn down free money? Since when? Ever?”
He never except one dime of his Presidential pay while in office. He gave it all to charities.
. That decision is making the deepest parts of the Deep State apparatus very nervous. That decision has major ramifications and could, likely would, include the incoming Trump administration setting up offices outside Washington DC.
GENIUS!!
Whomever came up with this is a genius. That’s probably exactly where the sabotage began in 2017.
I certainly remember that.
“Just polygraph everyone who has a security clearance.”
That happens, anyhow. The trick is having the right polygrapher, and giving him the right questions to ask.
“That decision has major ramifications and could, likely would, include the incoming Trump administration setting up offices outside Washington DC.”
No opportunity to bug everything.
You do Keagles and push out on your rectal muscles and your heart rate will slow and you can lie with impunity.(Vagal maneuvers stimulate the vagal nerve and your heart rate will steady) That’s how that lady Chinese Spy did it in the earlier 2000s. Polygraphs actually filter out more honest people who might have the occasional immoral thought or temptation but would never act on it.
ex. “Would you ever be tempted to steal money?”
Yes I might be tempted...
Instant fail! You told the truth and in your life you might not be a thief...but every one gets tempted toi do something.
Another ploy...Have you ever done something that you could get in trouble with law enforcement if they found out about it.
Well many people have even if it was decades ago during their crazy youth. It’s a 50 50 chance that if you said no the lie detector might not pick up on it especially since it was decades ago and you are convinced you are not that same person.
If you say yes...well another instant fail!
The Lie detector can’t really tell the true liars who can beat the machines and I think many liars have beaten the system or those who have a real ability to believe in their own goodness so completely that their scores are perfect.
It is good as a strong psychological ploy. Those truly honest within themselves will always fail. And those who truly have something to hide will be shown to be deceptive and thus failed.
Some people are just nervous when asked deep probing questions...they will react to each question deeply and nervously...sure the techs try to set up screening bias parameters to filter out normal human reactivity electronic noise but many sensitive types will still fail as well. They will feel each question deeply and that makes for possible deception as a polygraph tech would perceive it! Not fair...but there it is.
lol, don’t ruin a good story!
Freepers (and Treepers) beware - dem troll alert. Viking kitties around?
Chatter has Musk being appointed Director of Government Reduction and Efficiency, and will eliminate the entire “federal transition system”.
Because I can see the truth and don’t shrink from it.
I don’t want that to happen, far from it. The left/deep state has tried to stop Trump before and graduated from Lawfare to 2 attempts already. It would be foolish to think they won’t try again.
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