And. for those who have been wronged and betrayed I am your retribution.
Donald Trump, speaking to a crowd, but in reality, talking to himself.
In January, 2019 a Trump administration official named James Sherk went to work on a problem that was eating away at the then president. It seemed there were some career civil servants who were dragging their feet when it came to implementing some of Big Don's more, let's say, ambitious ideas.
One of those light bulb moments included gutting civil rights acts and protections in order to make it tougher for black kids to get into places like Yale University. They were taking up spots that could be filled by white and Asian students and that seemed pretty darned discriminatory, especially if you are white, or Asian and don't think much of black people to begin with.
The major problem was a lot of those uncooperative civil servants were protected by law as career government employees and they couldn't be fired on a political whim.
These things take time so it wasn't until early 2020 that Sherk's plan, "Schedule F," was ready to go. Unfortunately for the Donald there were further delays thanks to the Covid pandemic. By the time he got around signing the executive order implementing Schedule F all the focus was on the 2020 election campaign. Schedule F appointments would have to wait until after Trump was re-elected.
Oops.
When Mr. Trump lost---by a lot---he went a little funny in the head. He was too busy plotting to overthrow the government of the United States to even think about it.
So, you might ask, what is Schedule F? When Donald Trump signed that executive order he removed the civil service protection for tens of thousands of career government employees. They could now be fired at will and replaced by political appointees with no thought about their actual qualifications. You know, yokels who don't know an FDA lab from a public restroom, but are all damn loyal to Donald John Trump.
It was still there for Joe Biden in January, 2021. Fortunately for all of us President Biden believes government jobs should be held by qualified individuals not a bunch of political hacks and toadies. One of his first acts in the Oval Office was to get rid of Schedule F.
Ah, but hope springs eternal in the dark hearts of those who prefer a Putinesque form of government. In an interview with Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute, Sherk pointed out Schedule F remains ready to go. If Trump gets back to the White House he already has the blueprint from which to work.
To that end, Axios has reported conservative groups devoted to all things Trumpian have been out there, vetting scads of candidates who would replace career federal employees should their man regain the White House. Axios also reports sources have told them, the next Trump administration, "anticipates needing an alternate labor force of perhaps as many as 10,000 personnel." And each and every one of them would be utterly committed to Donald Trump.
As early as last year, Axios reported the Heinrich Himmler wanna be, Stephen Miller (the guy who came up with the idea to kidnap the children of immigrant families) has been assembling a cadre of, "general counsels." They will be on board immediately These lawyers will be there to, "aggressively implement Trump's orders and skeptically interrogate any career government attorney who tells them their plan is illegal or can't be done."
That's right, next time around there won't be any naysayers. Donald gets to do whatever he wants with no questions asked.
That's how it works in a dictatorship.
10-3-23
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