Posted on 05/23/2022 3:06:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
“The task of every dedicated employee is to carefully consider the company’s goals of the company, evaluate obstacles to their achievement, and formulate detailed plans to overcome those difficulties. However, when you are up to your ass in alligators, it is sometimes difficult to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp.” — Sign on the wall of one of the author’s prior employers
Donald Trump promised us that he’d drain the Swamp. As a real estate developer, you’d think that he understood how that should be done. The State Department is known as “Foggy Bottom” because it is in what was originally a fetid swamp. Land had to be reclaimed using filling to “drain” that swamp. Disney World, near Orlando, is built on swampland, as any golfer will discover after a rainstorm. Much of that land became usable after swamps were filled in. And the beat goes on.
The bureaucratic mire in DC is full of predatory beasts, noxious insects, and other unseen hazards. Directives from the White House are apt to be ignored because there is no one translating those directives into marching orders for the lower floors of government-owned buildings. This leaves the denizens of departments to their own devices, none of whom are the slightest bit concerned with anything beyond the office water cooler. Thus, if the concerns of the cubicle align with the editorial page of the Washington Compost, then all is well, and the office sports pool becomes the most urgent part of the day.
If the Secretary of Department X decides to go full MAGA, little or nothing will actually happen, since most of his underlings frankly don’t give a damn. They are protected by Civil Service rules and can’t be fired short of the next millennium.
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Modern swamps are considered environmentally protected areas, so draining such requires a perpetual battle with the EPA. Guess who wins!
The problem was that Trump naively thought he had support from several repubs and took them at their word, they blindsided him. So appointments like Sessions and Wray bit him in the ass.
If he wins again I hope he will have better luck, unfortunately the swamp has a lot of dangerous chameleons that will only on show their true form (e.g., Barr) when it does the most damage.
Jeff Sessions’ immediate failure should have been the defining moment.
The reason why I supported Trump in 2016 was because he said he would drain the swamp.
If he actually wants to drain the swamp after he's elected for his third term, he actually need to get those policy making positions filled. Filled with people who know how to work the system but aren't absorbed by the system.
And then those people need to get, very quietly start making regulatory changes. Most of the damage done by Fedgov is not because of laws, but because of regulations implementing those laws. Most regulatory changes happen without anybody noticing. Quietly make a proposed change in the Federal Register, ignore any activist comments made, and then implement the changes.
And don't tweet about it until AFTER it is a fait accompli. Tweet about other stuff to infuriate and distract the leftist media.
If he decides to go for his third term, he's got one more shot to not only undo the damage from Biden but get his agenda accomplished. I think he can do it but it's going to take a massive amount of discipline in his communications strategy.
I think it would be smart if he was to start quietly recruiting the right people to fill all of those Plum Book positions (see above for link to plum book). That way on day one after he's inaugurated, every single non-confirmed position can be filled and he can present a full slate of nominees to the Senate for confirmation...hopefully Turtle's successor will actually work with him to get those nominees through the meat grinder fast.
If Trump wins in 2024, Mitch McConnell will still run interference on who he appoints to key positions, like before. McConnell is a huge obstacle for Trump and his agenda.
John Kennedy (D): Executive Order 10988 (1962); Federal employee collective bargaining.
Jimmy Carter (D): Senior Executive Service (1979); political appointments above GS-15.
Under pinned by the 17th Amendment. It gave the parties and lobbyists the power.. not the state capitals. Took the check and balance off the Senate, skewed the Judiciary
Till the 17th Amendment is repealed, the uniparty, aka the swamp, will continue
Our Founding Father’s were not stupid
It's TIME to DownSize DC!
Restore the Constitution!Size DC!
Flush the SWAMP!
There are definitely ways to drain:
1) Courts. Already, Trumpian courts have rendered several anti-Swamp rulings, most notably the HUGE Fifth Circuit ruling against the SEC that basically undoes about 95% of administrative law justification. It stops just short of overturning Chevron, but Robert Barnes of Barnes Law notes that there are other suits out there specifically focused on Chevron.
Steve Bannon told me that the PRIMARY characteristic Trump used in selecting Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh was not their position on moral social issues but on their responses to multiple screening questions on Chevron and their willingness to unravel the Deep State.
BTW, lost in Roberts’ Ocare decision, even by conservatives, was the fact that he ELIMINATED using the Commerce Clause as a mechanism for regulating most things. Now that other legs are being cut out from underneath them, the Deep Staters will find it much more difficult to pull an end run anywhere else.
2) Trump started to do this, and in his next term he should continue: move as many offices out of DC as possible. Eliminate to any degree possible a “social network” of Deep Staters at cocktail parties and lunches. Make them HAVE to interact with ordinary Americans over whom they govern.
3) Bannon had a great suggestion for Trump’s next term. It would be costly, but definitely worth it: begin massive “early retirement bonus” buyouts of personnel, and once gone, kill the position immediately. This has tremendous logic behind it, as it is not nearly as hard to kill an empty seat/office as one in which someone is still getting money from.
4) Elect MAGA. This is the longer term solution, but Congress after all writes laws. Trump was a federalist and constantly begged Congress to handle the problems. A powerful MAGA core in the House & Senate (don’t even need a majority) can dramatically change all Deep State law.
There is option number 5...
A majority of States turn red and uphold their rights, denying fedgov encroachment (10th amendment) and refusing to comply.
Of course we know how fedgov reacted last time this was attempted and the resulting war that killed many young men. The fedgov reaction to States holding to their rights and starving the fed beast would might certainly have a similiar consequence, considering the fed tyrants currently in power, however, it is still better than option number 6.
Option number 6...Same as April 19th, many years ago version 2.0, which would be even more terrible and split this nation into pieces, with rife opportunity for foriegn enemies to claim parts of the pieces.
...that is all
GM,
The courts, the DOJ, intellegence agencies and elections are completely corrupt and will be inadequate solutions. Furthermore, entranched leftist government employees sabotage at every level. One man cannot dismantle this problem.
I see six branches of federal government:
1-Executive
2-Legeslative
3-Judicial
4-Entrenched leftist government employees (the shoe throwing saboteurs)
5-Propaganda lying media
6-Anti US, pro-globalist intellence agencies.
Each and every one of these work in coordinated unity to further the dismantling of this nation and also worked in collaboration to destroy the one man who attempted to bring them down. One man has no chance.
States rights are the penultimate battle and the strongest weapon we have to right this sinking ship, or the final battle will be very ugly, when God fearing Patriots defend their rights on thier own.
“The Bureaucracy” is a necessary evil in government. A leader or a leadership group cannot implement their policies and decisions without them. It really does take a multitude of personnel to implement decisions across any branch of government. But, everyone in said bureaucracy needs to understand that they do not make the decisions or the policies, they are only there to implement them.
To begin to “drain the swamp”, a couple of things need to be done/cued-up right now. Those are:
1) Begin to identify and expose all those in the Executive branch of government, both politically appointed as well as civil service/government service, who demonstrate political motivation in their decision making or the implementation of policies. That means everyone, regardless of which party their political views may align with. Cockroaches do not like it when the light is shined on them.
2) Have Congress pass laws limiting or eliminating most of the roadblocks to firing civil service, contractors, and other government employees. Anyone who works for the executive branch should know up-front that they work directly for the President and at his sufferance.
The entire Executive branch workforce (government employees/civil service and contractors) need to know that they are employed to implement the decisions of the President, whoever that may be at the time. They may not agree with those decisions, but that does not matter. If they are asked to do something that is patently illegal, it should be reported to the Department’s legal team or to their respective OIGs. If they are asked to do something that is morally repulsive to them, they need to leave and go to another job where they can be comfortable. That may be harsh, but that is the way the bureaucracy is supposed to work.
No government employee of any flavor takes an oath to any particular President or administration, just like the military they take an oath to uphold and support the Constitution. It is time to remind them of that fact.
Draining the swamp is a futile endeavor, it will just fill up again. Better to fill it so it can’t ever be a swamp again.
Love it! This post is some of the best news I have heard since the nightmares of 2020.
And don’t go thinking there’s only one party in the Swamp (Kushner and Mnuchin were at least honorary Republicans for four years):
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