Posted on 07/07/2024 2:39:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I don’t find the ideas or concepts and goals objectionable in this document.
I find that there is so much propaganda, and so much unfulfilled promises, that the likelihood of it coming to pass are near zero. My question remains, will Trump (a former NY city lifelong Democrat) pursue and implement this or not.
I was reading a paper by a Lt. Colonel at Air College. In it he describes a new "Plan Orange" for countering the Chinese if they were to become overtly belligerent within the First Island Chain (FIC) of the Pacific. What he accurately describes is an endless war that is a MIC wet dream. One of expensive conventional weapons and defenses in a stalemate that wishes to avoid some ultimate encounter for all mankind. In so doing, the alternative looks just as bad in a death of a thousand cuts wherein the MIC becomes ever richer. But for what? None of any of this makes any sense.
Remember the doctor in "Bridge Over the River Kwai" and as the bridge blows up he looks on saying, "Madness! Just Madness!" That is today.
Beetle bombs anyone?
One is ideas and concepts...the other is execution.
Either without the other is wholly useless.
Keep in mind that back in 1987 in his televised interview with Larry King, he specifically states when asked that he is a Republican.
I understand your point that his conservative indicators may be suspect on some issues, but he has been a Republican for most of his life (This link brings you right to that part of the interview):
1987 Interview with Larry King-Trump declares he is a Republican.
That said, I find this interview in 1987 compelling as a conservative, because it shows how much Trump hates the governmental intrusion into business, and the effect that has around the world to evoke contempt and ridicule at the way we have to do business.
I suspect we could agree some rules are necessary, but that isn't what we have right now. It is a full-on straight jacket, and even back in 1987, Trump chafed at it.
Who, in the heat of battle and a transition of the presidency, is going to find the time to read much of this at all? No wonder leaders get led into ditches having to simply trust on faith what people coach them to do. Busy people need a menu before you give them everything on it at once.
I am very disappointed this is the kind of product Heritage has produced.
And why do they publish these documents in this ridiculous and hard to read gray font?
I just said the very same thing. No serious document that purports to be a useful guide is not arranged with bullet points followed by detailed support. This just proves in spades that these bureaucratic policy wonks don’t know the first thing about management, leadership or business.
Additionally, a lot of the very people who wrote this document are the ones that led Trump astray his first administration. I see a lot of career camp followers and leeches of the government tit in their ranks just waiting for their next chance to take a draw on ths tit.
sounds so SCARY!!! ooo...
Thank you for those comments.
Yes, some of those contributors indeed seem to be the “usual suspects”.
Our opposition is big on infiltration and misdirection.
(not to mention maintenance of the “Status Quo”.)
Any large collection of “ostensible” conservative sources is going to have
its share of wolves in sheep’s clothing well sprinkled throughout.
I am disappointed that the Heritage Foundation proved unwilling to attempt
to more properly separate the chaff from the wheat.
~Easy
maybe contact the Heritage foundation and states your concerns about the document.
“maybe contact the Heritage foundation and states your concerns about the document.”
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I’m still reading the thing, but I thought all of you deserved the opportunity to try to discern for yourselves what President Trump’s biggest objections to it might be.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
thanks for that, I downloaded a copy already
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