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EndlessWire

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Tue Jun 24, 2025, 10:15 PM Jun 24

How does anybody handle this? [View all]

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.

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