How does anybody handle this?

[EndlessWire]

We elect a Dem for President, and begin rebuilding. What do you do about those department hires that were hired by the rat weasels, and you don't want them there? What do you do with them? They have rights, too.

I'm just thinking of Bob, the world's worst health Secretary. He fired everybody in that vaccination department, or whatever it is, and replaced them with antivac individuals with his own pseudoscience thinking. We surely don't want them in there, do we?

In the general sense, we now have a lot of unqualified individuals in control of well, everything from our health system, tax system, interior system, foreign affairs, the military--well, everything. We are infested. How do you sort that out? If you were someone looking for a job, and someone hired you into a department under trump, and you began working in good faith, do you just get fired?

I certainly think that we can eliminate the fictitious department of DOGE, invented so Musk could eliminate his legal detriment. Shut it down and thus the jobs go away. Examine ICE and check the real employees from the masked thugs that are probably not really permanent employees. Stuff like that.

I'm just trying to think of how we survive this assault. Do you make everyone reapply, so you can vet them? If I were elected Pres, I'd shut down DOGE on the first day. Or, maybe the next morning.

Form a trusted panel to look over everything, and get the ball rolling. Take the danged flagpoles down, and dig up the concrete and replant the Rose Garden. Replant the ancient tree he cut down. Lysol the entire WH, get rid of the crappy gold features, and generally refurbish everything. Maybe I'd let his ballroom remain (not built yet, but it's coming.) Would have to get rid of the gold crap in there, too.

I think a new Pres will have to gladhand everyone. That will take time, so the Pres has to be able to work his/her (her/his) way through the pack while working immediately to restore foreign relationships (maybe send the Secretary of State around on a tour, or something,) and start the national healing.

We don't have to reimplement the bad stuff we had. We can overhaul our laws and attitudes, and do better. We were working it, but very slowly. We have to speed up somewhat.

Sigh. I'll be dead before my nation has stepped out of the shadow of rump. et al. But, I think that Germany did it, and we'll do it, too. We have lots of examples of smart moves from around the world. We can analyze all that. We'll fix it.

[Doodley]

1. I hope we will ever be in that position. We need a clear rejection of MAGA to have a strong mandate.

I hope that happens. I don't know how we get out of this. We need very strong leadership and a strong majority in both houses.

[newdeal2]

2. The next president cannot be afraid to wield power

I’ll leave it there for now.

[Doodley]

3. Yes, the next Democratic president, but you can't assume the next president will be a Democrat.

Personally, I hope we go into a bad recession and public sentiment as well as enough lawmakers hit the MAGA brand hard. I can't see a more efficient way we will get rid of this cancer. Then as you say, it's a hard job of rebuilding.

[JoseBalow]

4. We need to undo every fucking thing drumpf has done

All of it, including his vile desecration of the Rose Garden.

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5. It's tradition and custom...

...that the members of the previous Cabinet leave their posts (one way or the other) when a new president comes in. That's also been the case for most Deputies and Assistants. That's why so much is made about "career" people, who tended to remain regardless of the party coming into power because they provided continuity, along with institutional knowledge. I continue to admire those having the optimism we're going to have elections next year, much less a transfer of power in three. There aren't enough right-wing cable channels, think tanks, lobbying firms, businesses, or universities to take in the folks from the Trump Cabal at its scheduled end. If you're trying to appeal to the general public, would you hire any of these fascist clowns?

These people are all-in because there's no place for them to go if this ends. Does anyone here think JD Vance or Marco Rubio have any chance of reaching a higher office after serving this administration? These people will be toxic even as lobbyists because of their association with the ignorant bully they've tied their fates to. People don't forget when you threatened their jobs.

Those who continue to believe the old rules still apply are doing it at their peril. These people are the American Reich, they are ride-or-die, and continue to show they have no fucks to give. The movie "Jaws" had it right 50 years ago: we're going to need a bigger boat.

[EndlessWire]

6. Yes

I'm talking about the rank and file in a best-case scenario.

I also think that we will have a problem with both elections. People do have a habit of saying, but that's not how the law goes. It's kind of silly when the law is being criminally ignored. But, I think that if a crisis isn't manufactured to shut down the elections, then trump will hold a sham election just like putin does. We should have investigated the 24 election to discover how they did it.