We'll NEVER get out of this!!!
Posted on 05/18/2018 11:31:53 AM PDT by ethom
Trump is draining the swamp —Rebuilding government may be impossible
In the 2013 novel “A Delicate Truth,” John le Carré presents the “deep state” as a moneyed, cultured élite — the “non-governmental insiders from banking, industry, and commerce” whose access to information allows them to rule in secret. Trump’s conception is quite different. A real-estate baron, Trump is at war with the clerks — the apparatchiks who, he claims, are seeking to nullify the election by denying the prerogatives of his Administration.
This attack on “bureaucracy” is really an attack on the State Department, the intelligence community and ordinary bureaucrats who enforce regulations and monitor compliance with the law. Even the usual suspects at the conservative think tanks who usually have the inside track on jobs in a new Republican administration have been shut out.
Many people claim that underneath the bluster, Donald Trump is just another Republican who likes to use Twitter. But while he was made possible by the modern conservative movement and a political system that enabled such a man to become president, he is nonetheless unique. This evisceration of federal government institutions is nothing we’ve ever seen before.
The story about the elimination of experts and the deliberate erasure of institutional memory in department after department is chilling. It will be difficult, if not impossible, to replace these people even after Trump is gone. His lasting legacy may be the destruction of the federal government as we know it.
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” … and when did bonuses to government workers begin...”
That started back when Carter (Civil Service Reform Act of 1978) did away with GS 16-18s.
Here’s the theory & history:
https://chiefhro.com/2014/05/19/the-problems-with-the-senior-executive-service/
“The story about the elimination of experts and the deliberate erasure of institutional memory in department after department is chilling.”
Spoken like a true socialist. This writer can’t grasp the concept of a self-governing people absent the intitutions of central government. There would be no experts, apparently.
To me it sounds like heaven.
Typical brain-free, obese loser.
President Trump should give him self the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
I am convinced she can defeat any all-you-can-eat buffet!
But, it SOUNDS bad. And to your average democrat, who can’t find the Bering Sea on a map, and flunked out of statistics in high school, climate change is a real threat.
“...deliberate erasure of institutional memory in department after department.”
The left promised “the long march through the institutions” and they delivered it.
Trump is a huge threat to them, just when they had everyone where they needed them and a fabulously corrupt future president in Hillary.
She says that like it is a bad thing.
Oh, yeah, it sounds horrible. They could say “the Indian Ocean now has no ice at all” (true because it never had any) and most of their ignorant sheep would gasp “Oh noes!”
All of this stunning ignorance in the most connected world in history.
Then he is doing better than I thought!
When my wife and I heard this on the radio in our car, we cheered. By gum, that’s what we elected Pres. Trump for!
Digby is the pseudonym of political blogger Heather Digby Parton[1] from Santa Monica who founded the blog Hullabaloo. She has been called one of the “leading and most admired commentators” of the liberal / progressive blogosphere.[2]
Digby began as a commenter on the blogs of Bartcop and Atrios and launched her own blog on January 1, 2003,[3] calling it Hullabaloo “because one function of blogs is to cause a ruckus”[4] and decorating it with a picture of a screaming Howard Beale from the film Network. She has been joined by other bloggers on Hullabaloo, including composer Richard Einhorn, who blogs under the name “Tristero”.
Digby graduated from Lathrop High School in Fairbanks, Alaska. She studied theater at San Jose State University (then known as San Jose State College) and worked on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and for a number of film companies, including Island Pictures, Polygram, and Artisan Entertainment.[3]
She won the 2005 Koufax award for blog writing and accepted the Paul Wellstone Award on behalf of the progressive blogosphere from the Campaign for America’s Future at their “Take Back America” conference.[5] Digby had initially kept her identity secret and it was widely assumed that Digby was male until she made an appearance at the 2007 CAF conference to accept the award.[5] Digby has since written regularly at Salon under her actual name of Heather Digby Parton.[1] She also won the 2014 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.[6]
Is that really a bad thing?
Trump is draining the swamp —Rebuilding government may be impossible
And this is a bad thing? The same federal government that is running a four trillion dollar deficit?
I wish the president great success in this endeavor.
If Parton wrote this (and her identity and organizational affiliation is confusing), then she’s an environmental wackjob.
She says that No. 3 would apply to his attorney Michael Cohen (i.e. that Trump didn’t apply his idea of limiting government officials from lobbying), but as far as I know Cohen wasn’t a government official, just a lawyer.
She definitely is short a few billion gray brain cells but a brain transplant wouldn’t solve her stupidity. However, maybe we could find another brain type, A.B. Normal, for her. Would fit right into that little cranium sitting on top of her useless body.
#8. You’ve raised a crucial issue, namely is all “institutional memory” necessarily a good thing. Given the treasonous machinations of Obama in destroying our government, religious, business, and foreign affairs institutions, and putting in no-nothings, traitors, fools, and incompetents, I’m glad that Trump is getting rid of the “fungus, molds and mildew” of the Obama regime.
I know something about institutional memory both as a professional historian and as an “expert witness” on certain research/records pertaining to environmental cleanup issues, the Vietnam war, and Internal Security. After my career is over, I will have passed on my records and notes from over 25 years of specialized research, plus “shop talk”, to my successor, I feel comfortable that our unit is in very good hands.
The same goes for a group of us who have had internal security experience/work/research and Vietnam experiences. Efforts are being made to leave our “institutional and life experiences” behind in various archives and historical organizations.
This is especially true for our Vietnam experiences since the Left has a near monopoly on “books” that are being used in academia, despite the fact that many of the writers have never been there during the war.
If Trump is putting in qualified people to deal with both domestic and foreign affairs, and their loyalty is to the United States and its preservation, then the president is doing America a great favor. He has to undo 8 years of Obama’s treason, a treason so deep that it will take decades for historians to uncover all of his Marxist, pro-Islam machinations and subterfuge. Just ask the Israelis about this.
Cleaning out the politically and unethically corrupt leaders of the FBI, DOJ, NSA, CIA, DNI etc. is a prime necessity RIGHT NOW. The leftist (Obama/Clinton) “Deep State”, as opposed to the “Anti-Trump Deep State of bureaucrats and politicians”, is a major threat to America’s actual existence as a free country.
The rot and subversion “Run Silent,Run Deep”, very silent and very deep. This is not “institutional memory”. It is the destruction of our American institutional memory supplanted by “fake news”, “fake history”, and “disinformation”.
Institutional memory can be good or bad. With Obama and the Clintons, it was worst than bad, and very destructive. It has been on par with the Stalinist attempts to blot out and rewrite Soviet/Russian history, just like those attempts by other communist and fascist countries to “cleanse” their histories of the truth.
If these investigations of the Obama/Clinton “Deep State” network attempts to wipeout the real “institutional memory” of American history, and to substitute a fake “institutional memory” based on Marxism, racism, genderism, and a psychotic hate of Conservatives and the President, these exposures will ensure that America retains its real history, the good and the bad.
Otherwise, you’ll understand why your kids come home from school hating America, the President, the Armed Forces, the Police, Conservatives, religion, the NRA, entrepeneurs, and our history.
That is something we, and the President, cannot let happen. We will not let the Left have their “1984” of lies and deception. We will preserve the Truth and let it shine for all to see.
It’s called, “MAGA!!!”
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