Posted on 05/06/2021 3:11:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
When President DeSantis is sworn in at 12:00 pm on January 20, 2025, he should give a short speech and by 12:10 be firing people. Lots of people.
Okay, it might not be the current Florida governor – we do know it’s not going to be Gov. Nikki! Haley (R – Establishment) or Kristi! Noem (R-NCAA) – but whoever beats Kamala Harris like a drum needs to come into the Oval Office ready to clear-cut the bureaucracy.
Just level it.
Every keen observer understands that Donald Trump’s first and foremost failure as president was personnel. He did not get it right until the end, and then it was far too late. There are two reasons for this. The first is that for all his iconoclasm, Trump used to believe in our institutions and it took him a while to see how totally corrupt they truly are. For years, he gave the NYT interviews even as it trashed him because, well, it was the Times and the Times was prestigious. For much of his term, he had that same kind of deference to establishment figures. He thought Rex Tillerson would be great because he was a rich head of a huge corporation. He thought generals were impressive because they had medals, and he famously got shafted by each and every one of them that he relied upon. He thought, for too long, that the DoJ and FBI and other agencies really had America’s interests at heart instead of the liberal establishment’s priorities.
It was all baloney.
They were all terrible, and they all worked ceaselessly to undermine and even imprison him. It was only at the end that Trump found trustworthy folks who would do their jobs instead of pursue outside agendas. For example, Trump’s third National Security Advisor, Robert O’Brien, was the best National Security Advisor maybe ever – gee, he only oversaw peace achieving in the Middle East – and the reason you might not recognize his name is because he never became the story like McMaster or Bolton. Mike Pompeo – who also will never be president, sorry – was likewise a loyal and effective Secretary of State. But it took almost four years to get the team on-board.
The other issue was that Trump had no Rolodex. The Bush cabal had thousands of loyal obedient minions/potential staffers to call upon in the off-chance that hell froze over and Jeb! got elected to something other than “Most Likely to Fail.” Trump had no one to call. That’s a big part of why his administration was staffed with people who had zero loyalty and spent their time undermining him and his policies.
President De Santis will not have that problem – there’s a whole generation of experienced conservatives out there to call upon to staff his administration. And they will to be ready to separate the wheat form the chaff when they take up their places.
He needs to get to firing. And right away.
He needs to fire Christopher Wray at the FBI and most of the failed Bureau’s leadership.
He needs to fire much of the Justice Department, in particular the Stasi cells that are persecuting political opponents of the Asterisk regime.
And he needs to combine this with pardons, lots of pardons, to ensure their outrageous attempts to punish and silence conservatives come to naught.
He needs to fire whoever the idiot was at the CIA that decided that ad with Intersectional Sue was a good idea. “I’ll have a vodka, shaken not stirred. Oh, and my pronouns are ‘xir’ and ‘xem.’” Putin and Xi must be busting a guy right now.
Then there’s the Pentagon – there’s a lot of firing to be done there. Like the whole Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump was always impressed by generals. That was a huge mistake. DeSantis was in the Navy. He gets it. The next GOP prezzy needs to understand that by the time generals pin on that fourth star, they are all-in on the establishment. Why do you think they are so eager to invoke the woke? Because that’s who they are. Fire them. Then reach down in the ranks to find the guys who aren’t poisoned by leftism and promote them. And take a serious interest in who gets promoted in the future – don’t rubber stamp the promotion lists the Pentagon generates. Obama and Asterisk both understood that if you want a broken, woken military – which they do – you need to promote the lickspittles and suck-ups, not the Pattons. Do the opposite.
Then he needs to rampage through the rest of the bureaucracy, firing to and fro. The libs will howl – let them. MSNBCNN and the WaPo will scream that President DeSantis is creating a conservative bureaucracy – and he will be. Own it. We tried a neutral bureaucracy devoted to the country first and that didn’t work, so we'll take the second-best option, which is one that supports our policies.
Time to play by the new rules, and those are the new rules, folks – we didn’t make them, but we need to play by them.
He reckons without election fraud.
The democrats will kick the fraud machine into high gear to keep their grip on power in this country.
Bottom line the same tactics the rats use to clean house we have to use 10 fold
I think the people no longer have much say in the government they get.
However, if we were to manage to get back into the White House, I think the president should do everything possible to cut off all funds to DOJ and FBI. Transfer everyone to Greenland. Burn those institutions down. 100%. There is nothing good there.
Military leadership as well. Political correctness should kill a military career.
So much housecleaning needed.
We need to bring back dumb election machines first.
The fraud was only allowed to happen because RINO-controlled state legislatures refused to enforce voter ID and did nothing to stop the cheat-by-mail-in ballots being foisted on the electorate by leftist, non-legislative entities.
Primary season begins in March! It's right around the corner!
Vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022 and replace them with conservative patriots, ESPECIALLY in the state legislatures. If conservatives control the state legislatures after the 2022 elections, then a Republican will have a fighting chance to win in 2024.
Trump turned out to be a loser. Everything he achieved has been overturned and then made worse.
Remember, as a candidate Trump severely criticized the swamp, said he would clean it out, all lies.
And puuulease don't go with the line he didn't have support, he knew that going in, and so did you.
The only solution is scorched earth, political war, divide and conquer. Especially at the state and local level because changes there cuts off oxygen to the uniparty.
Root for ANTIFA to succeed. Let them burn all prog cities. Defund anything that has “police” in its title. Cops only protect criminals. With no cops you can do better at protecting yourself.
Range practice, folks, range practice. What? You don't have ammo? Then you sure as hell haven't been living in reality for the last 12 years. Quit posting here and get to work finding some.
Peace, out.
SPOT-ON COLONEL SCHLICHTER COLUMN
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/05/06/clean-house-in-2025-n2588969
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I agree that Trump’s biggest problem was personnel but I disagree with this guy, he should be saying President Trump, not DeSantis.
I’m not against DeSantis at all, if he ends up on the ticket instead of Trump, unless something drastic happens before then, he’ll get my vote. Who knows, maybe Don Jr will be there instead... But until I see that, Trump needs to go back in there and finish what he started.
Not firing 3/4 of the burons in DC on day 1 was my biggest gripe, and dissapointment, about Donald Trump. He should have cleaned house the day he started, he should have walked in the door with a list and started reading off names...You’re gone...you’re fired...SEE YA...
But as the author said, he respected the office and the system, and I think he got some really bad advice too.
Or...he also could have decided to at least try it on their terms first. I know he had a lot of rinosaurs whispering in his ear, he might have said ok we’ll give it a chance, I’ll show you it won’t work, and I’ll show you why...then after re-election the gloves come off.
The old give ‘em more rope play...but I’m just guessing...
You know in your bones America is dying. The Uniparty isn’t going to stop ‘till the carcass rots.
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I think 80 million Americans disagree with you and I suspect MOST Freepers do.
Washington lost more men in battle to Tories/Loyalists. I now know how he must have felt. Fortunately he had some good people watching his back.
So true.
And we know how soon THAT’S going to happen.
I’ve seen some positive steps by some more conservative states but I doubt it will be enough.
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