The fight for our democracy isn’t over. I do think that if Republicans fail to retake Congress this fall, that it’ll send shockwaves throughout the GOP establishment. I really do think defeating Trumpism will be possible if we once again reject it this fall. If anything, Trumpism is stronger now than in 2020 because so many Rs are running on the Big Lie.
I agree.
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Disturbing but unsurprising. President Ron DeSantis would accomplish the same thing without half the drama of Trump. With DeSantis, you get the same authoritarianism, grift, and racism as Trump, without the porn stars and drunk lawyers.Hmm. First I’ve heard of this.
Inside Trump '25: A radical plan for Trump’s second term
Allies want to empower him to purge potentially thousands of civil servants.
Former President Trump’s top allies are preparing to radically reshape the federal government if he is re-elected, purging potentially thousands of civil servants and filling career posts with loyalists to him and his "America First” ideology, people involved in the discussions tell Axios.
The impact could go well beyond typical conservative targets such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service. Trump allies are working on plans that would potentially strip layers at the Justice Department — including the FBI, and reaching into national security, intelligence, the State Department and the Pentagon, sources close to the former president say.
During his presidency, Trump often complained about what he called “the deep state.”
The heart of the plan is derived from an executive order known as “Schedule F,” developed and refined in secret over most of the second half of Trump’s term and launched 13 days before the 2020 election.
The reporting for this series draws on extensive interviews over a period of more than three months with more than two dozen people close to the former president, and others who have firsthand knowledge of the work underway to prepare for a potential second term. Most spoke on condition of anonymity to describe sensitive planning and avoid Trump’s ire.
This surprised me. Probably should not have surprised me. At the time, when the mob was mockingly calling out “Oh,Naaancy!”, I honestly thought she could stand right in front of them and say “yeah, here I am, what are you going to do about it?” and all those tough guys would have folded on the spot in front of a strong woman.
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Sadly this will inspire and motivate a fairly large voting block.Steve Bannon calls for ‘4,000 shock troops’ to dismantle US government
Newly convicted for contempt of Congress, Steve Bannon is now calling for the federal government to be dismantled ‘brick by brick’
Steve Bannon has called for “4,000 shock troops” to come forward to dismantle the United States federal government “brick by brick”.
Days after being convicted of contempt of Congress, the former White House adviser told listeners of his War Room podcast on Monday of a scheme to purge the government of thousands of non-partisan civil servants should Donald Trump be reelected as president.
Mr Bannon said it went far beyond “draining the swamp”.
“This is taking on and defeating and deconstructing the administrative state,” he said.
“Suck on it. We’re destroying this illegitimate regime.”
The inflammatory remarks came after Axios reported last week that Donald Trump was planning to fire thousands of federal workers at all levels of government should he retake the White House in 2025.
This is why Americans from different views on policy but who share the same commitment to law and democracy need to unite and back the Democrat. For all the flaws of the Democratic candidates and party, at least they’re for the most part still supportive of rule of law, our democracy, and our constitution. Decent people everywhere need to do all they can to keep this authoritarian movement out of political power until a new conservative party emerges. One that actually believes in winning in the market place of ideas, rather than marching young men with guns to overturn elections.
Keep in mind, when SCOTUS rules on this:
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1/6 texts of top two DHS officials are also missing.
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Not just wiped. You have to magnetize the servers to get most of the data off of them.
Eh, they can do multi-writes to garble the data. I have a program that over-writes empty sectors 1000 times or more with garbage. That effectively makes it nearly impossible to recover data. Of course, depending on the media, it can lessen the life of the drive, but it is still pretty effective.
The people have plenty of power. Whether they want to use it or not is the issue.
Hillary never intentionally deleted emails to avoid prosecution. She cooperated with the investigation and Comey never found anything illegal. That’s completely different than what happened here.
That's still a lot more than simple deletion.
