#Presidential Transitions

[deadpresidents]

"It hurt to lose to Ronald Reagan. But after the election, I tried to make the transition as smooth as possible. Later, from my experience in trying to brief him on matters of supreme importance, I was very disturbed at his lack of interest. The issues were the 15 or 20 most important subjects that I as President could possibly pass on to him. His only reaction of substance was to express admiration for the political circumstances in South Korea that let President Park close all the colleges and draft all the demonstrators. That was the only issue on which he came alive."

-- Former President Jimmy Carter, on losing the 1980 election and the transition leading to the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, interview with TIME Magazine, October 11, 1982.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Eric Hananoki at MMFA:

Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official and the director of Project 2025, told a right-wing podcast last year that his group has a “great” relationship with former President Donald Trump, and “Trump's very bought in with this.” His comments fly in the face of Trump’s recent attempts to distance himself from Project 2025.  Project 2025, which is organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation, states that “Dans directs Heritage’s 2025 Presidential Transition Project, organizing policy and personnel recommendations and training for appointees in the next presidential administration. Prior to joining Heritage, Dans served in the Trump Administration as Chief of Staff at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.”  Media Matters has heavily documented the extreme nature of Project 2025. Notably, Heritage Foundation president and key Project 2025 figure Kevin Roberts recently sparked heavy criticism when he said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” 

Following the controversy, Trump attempted to distance himself from the Heritage plan and has repeatedly claimed, “I know nothing about Project 2025.” But media outlets including Media Matters have documented the numerous connections between the project and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.  Dans himself appears to have contradicted Trump’s claim that he knows nothing about the project.

In an unearthed video by MMFA, Project 2025 Director Paul Dans has praised Donald Trump and said that he’s “very bought in with this.”

See Also:

MMFA: Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts on WMAL's The Vince Coglianese Show: “The overlap is tremendous” between Trump's campaign platform and Project 2025

[exploding-asteroid]

remember that

to exist nonetheless

is the most profound form of spite

our existence is resistance

do not let them take that away

[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Project 2025 - Really, Still in Denial?

[guiltyidealist]

In case you haven't had the chance to go through the specifics of Project 25, here's the Wikipedia blurb with some key highlights.

( Please be very alarmed by the statement "we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" )

[astrosouldivinity]

Additional Astrological Factors-Why Kamala Lost the Election:

Transiting Kamala’s 10th house, Saturn symbolizes karma, while the 10th house is associated with public image and career. Meanwhile, Neptune, also transiting her 10th house, represents illusions and deception. I would think that these astrological influences created barriers for her public image and career trajectory. While there are many other factors in both Kamala and Trump’s charts that explain his victory, it appears that, at an energetic level, this outcome was meant to unfold.

Energy is always shifting, and nothing is set in stone within this matrix. There can still be various external influences at play. However, it’s been quite educational analyzing the patterns.

-Kiki

Part 1

[tomorrowusa]

One bit of good news which may have been overlooked in some quarters.

Changes in the way Electoral Votes are counted will make it impossible for Trumpsters to change the results the way they tried in January 2021.

In 2020, election disruptors first tried to get state legislatures to overthrow votes by fiat, then to get Congress to throw out electoral votes on January 6.  In 2024, it will be impossible to pursue either.  The dream of election deniers has been to have persons with power block election certification. Since 2020, all those people have lost at state level. This legislation  closed the gaps and vulnerabilities. 

Read the article for more details.

Curiously, Trump and Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson have a "little secret" regarding the House.

Personally, I think it's probably bullshit. Trump is not the greatest person at keeping secrets though he does excel at bullshit.

Of course if Democrats have a net gain of just six seats in the House, MAGA Mike will not be Speaker on 06 January 2025.

So do not neglect House races. It's interesting that the best chances for Democratic gains are in two blue states (New York, California) and one purple state (Arizona).

I'll try to get more specific in a day or two. But a couple of favorite Dem House candidates of mine are Derek Tran who is trying to unseat Michelle Steel in CA-45 and Josh Riley who is challenging Marc Molinaro in NY-19. Both races are rated as tossups by The Center for Politics at U. of Virginia.

A way to broadly help Dem House candidates is through the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).

Join Our Campaign to Defeat Trump's Republican Agenda

Think back to 06 January 2021. Now imagine how things might have gone if the Speaker had been some Trump lickspittle instead of Nancy Pelosi. That's why Dem House candidates need your help.

[tacticalthaumaturge]

I'm starting to see seemingly unironic posts to the tune of "Biden's useless because he's not taking advantage of the 7/1/24 presidential immunity decision to persecute his political enemies" and

Is that *really* the hill the tumblr left wants to die on? Is it really? That authoritarianism is good, actually, as long as its one of "our guys" doing it?

All I'm saying is that if we're gonna clown (because we gotta process somehow), just be mindful of Poe's Law. And if you're being serious here... the idea that unchecked power is a good thing, actually, is one I don't see compatible with a pluralistic society, and I'm curious why you think it is.

[ladyluscinia]

If the Democrats fuck this up so help me...

[deadpresidents]

"I had learned this morning that Mr. Buchanan had taken exception to my remark on Saturday last that I should feel that I was deserted by my political family if the members of my Cabinet should call on the President-elect before he called on me. The remark was made because it might have happened that if my Cabinet called on General Taylor he might not afterwards have chosen to call on me at all. As General Taylor belongs to a different political party from myself, and as it was his duty to call on me, if he desired to exchange civilities, I thought it was due to their own self-respect as well as to me that my Cabinet should wait until General Taylor paid his respects to me before they paid their respects to him. In this view all the members of the Cabinet expressed their concurrence on Saturday, except Mr. Buchanan. I learned this morning that Mr. Buchanan had said to a member of the Cabinet that notwithstanding my remark on Saturday he had left the Cabinet-room resolved to call on General Taylor on that day, as General Shields by appointment had called at the State Department to accompany him. He did not, however, do so; but called on General Taylor yesterday, immediately after General Taylor had called on me. Mr. Buchanan is an able man, but is in small matters without judgment and sometimes acts like an old maid."

-- President James K. Polk, on his Secretary of State James Buchanan, shortly before the inauguration of Polk's successor, President-elect Zachary Taylor, in an entry in Polk's remarkable and often immensely petty personal diary (which he religiously updated throughout his Presidency), February 27, 1849.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Andy Kroll and Nick Surgey at ProPublica:

ProPublica and Documented obtained more than 14 hours of never-before-published videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, which are intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda created by the Heritage Foundation and its allies for a future conservative presidential administration, has lost its director. In recent weeks, it faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump, whose campaign has tried to distance itself from the effort. But Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state government bureaucracy remains on track. Video trainings like these are one of the “four pillars” of that plan, says Spencer Chretien, the associate director of Project 2025, in “Political Appointees & The Federal Workforce.” For transparency, we are publishing the videos as we obtained them.

The Heritage Foundation and most of the people who appear in the videos cited in this story did not respond to ProPublica’s repeated requests for comment. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for the Trump campaign, said, “As our campaign leadership and President Trump have repeatedly stated, Agenda 47 is the only official policy agenda from our campaign.”

ProPublica and Documented partner up to reveal 14+ hours’ worth of never-before-published videos from The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 Presidential Administration Academy.

[bloghrexach]

Project 2025, also known as the Presidential Transition Project, is a collection of conservative policy proposals from the Heritage Foundation to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should a Republican Party candidate win the 2024 presidential election. Wikipedia

[hale-nathan]

Trump Weird News - Trump Is Project 2025

[lupismaris]

Shout out to academics who use every word in the fuckin English language when writing a proof to try and sound spiffy I promise you do not sound spiffy you sound unintelligible

[arielthedaydreamer]

It's true, I'm the illegal transgender alien