Dan

Dan

@dandwig.bsky.social

40 something Mechanical Engineer. Liberal, scared, and despairing.

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Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/

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Create a "life and family" council in place of the Gender Policy Council. No shock here. Of course they also mentioning wiping out comprehensive sex-ed in the process, and categorize all "health services" as "abortion promotion".

So, yeah. Lots of "alignment with the president's vision". Lots of additional political appointees, and lots of micromanagement. That's it for chapter 2.

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Eliminate "Cumulative Impact Analysis" from National Environmental policy. In other words, "this factory only contaminates groundwater with 1/5th the arsenic needed to kills somebody. So we can approve, along with the 4 others already in place".

"create a unified process for major infrastructure projects that includes giving project proponents more control of any regulatory clocks." Exact quote. Let the people trying to build the new pipeline control how long it can be studied.

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The rest of this section is basically about appointing yesmen to all political roles. No mention of expertise, no mention of independent viewpoints. Just "aligned with the President's vision". Oh, and a rant about China and the WTO, with recommended policies to come later.

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NSC: This section is not well phrased, but, as near as I can tell give the political appointee the power to grant clearances. Also prioritize political reliability in military promotions. No, it's not phrased that way, but that's what they mean.

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1.2: Executive Office: Calls on the president to have "great self denial" to eliminate federal power. Just a tip: Great at denying everything you've ever done isn't actually self denial.

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And a bit about how the next president should open more channels to the DOJ, rather than going through White House Counsel. Meaning take more direct control.

Office of Public Liaison Staffers should have extensive ties to lobbying firms. I mean, I'm sure they do in most administrations, but it's not usually recommended.

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Otherwise lots of verbiage saying experts are bad and shouldn't be used for the things there experts in. (Okay, it says bureaucrats, but I think I got the gist). It also calls them underworked and overpayed, which, no. Job security and decent retirement is the trade off for low income.

Long list of White House senior jobs. Little line about how nothing the president does is completely private in legal terms. Wonder when that was added in?

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Into Promise 4 now, by the way. Lots of "the founders meant" in here, and how we should take joy in god and work. Also completely ignoring "the left's" contribution to the end of slavery and votes for women.

Long rant about the evils of Socialism. The usual suspects North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba. No mention of, you know, every single European country.

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2nd bit on that. Natural gas is cheaper to produce, cheaper to transport, cheaper to burn, more efficient, and leaves much less residue. Coal died a financial death, not a regulatory one. (And yes, cheaper to produce and transport means fewer jobs as well).

"When the Founders spoke of “pursuit of Happiness,” what they meant might be understood today as in essence “pursuit of Blessedness.” No, pretty sure they meant happiness.

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Unleashing the fossil fuel energy won’t produce the jobs they claim it will. US coal production peaked in 2008. US Coal jobs peaked in 1955. And with short exceptions fell steadily even as production ramped up. Regulation didn’t kill coal jobs, Caterpillar did.

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Apparently the US consists of only “highly educated managerial elites”, and “patriotic working families who make up the majority of what the elites contemptuously call ‘fly-over country.’” Urban population centers? What are those?

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Lots of verbiage about how congress is losing power. Seems to ignore that if congress ever actually passed laws, they’d override anything the agencies do. Admittedly a lot of this is taking aim at “elites” from both parties, so, I guess.

Okay, I get that China is the largest potential threat to the US right now, but possibly the military should focus its war fighting ability on the sorts of wars we’ve actually been in for the last 80 years, not the CCP?

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Description of "Transgender" as Pornography. The definition of pornography is material that depicts erotic behavior and is intended to cause sexual excitement. Basically a lot of words to admit he’s sexually attracted to Trans individuals and blames them for it.

Hm. “Schools serve parents, not the other way around.” Pretty sure the purpose of schools is to serve the children they teach. Funny how a fetus overrides the rights of the parent, but a school age child doesn’t.

Worth noticing that 29 of 38 people creating this mess held high positions in the Trump admin. 1 more on his transition team, and another appointed but not approved. Also, Heritage, was the source for most of his judicial picks. He’s trying to dissavow it, but the people he puts in power wrote it.

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