>>20245702 Defense Secretary Austin has been released from the hospital two weeks after being admitted. He is “expected to make a full recovery.” PN
And the good news is, he's lost 200 lbs and is a lot more attractive and doesn't look like an ape anymore
>>20245909 (You), >>20245925 (You), >>20245979 (You), >>20246083 (You) NBC Admits Deep State Exists – Key Operative, Mary McCord PN
Nov 13, 2023 - Politics & PolicyAnother reason why Mary McCord and DS are freaked out. More FEAR PORN
Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab
(They call it a power grab but every President did this, look at the 1,000s and 1,000s Clinton, Bush, Bush & Obama put in. This is what an organized Administration does.) Jim VandeHei, & Mike Allen1/2
Former President Trump's allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potential foot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024, officials involved in the effort tell Axios.
Why it matters: Hundreds of people are spending tens of millions of dollars to install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to54,000* loyalists across governmentto rip off the restraints imposed on the previous 46 presidents.
• The screening for ready-to-serve loyalists has already begun, driven in part by artificial intelligence from tech giant Oracle, contracted for the project.
• Social media histories are already being plumbed.
What's happening: When Trump took office in 2017, he included many conventional Republicans in his Cabinet and key positions. Those officials often curtailed his behavior and power.
• Trump himself spends little time plotting governing plans. But he is well aware of a highly coordinated campaign to be ready to jam government offices with loyalists willing to stretch traditional boundaries.
If Trump were to win, thousands of Trump-first loyalists would be ready for legal, judicial, defense, regulatory and domestic policy jobs. His inner circle plans to purge anyone viewed as hostile to the hard-edged, authoritarian-sounding plans he calls "Agenda 47."
• The people leading these efforts aren't figures like Rudy Giuliani. They're smart, experienced people, many with very unconventional and elastic views of presidential power and traditional rule of law.
Behind the scenes: The government-in-waiting is being orchestrated by the Heritage Foundation's well-funded Project 2025, which already has published a 920-page policy book from 400+ contributors. Think of it as a transition team set in motion years in advance.
• Heritage president Kevin Roberts tells us his apparatus is "orders of magnitude" bigger than anything ever assembled for a party out of power.
• The policy series, "Mandate for Leadership," dates back to the 1980s. But Paul Dans, director of Project 2025, told us: "Never before has the entire movement …banded together to construct a comprehensive plan to deconstruct the out-of-touch and weaponized administrative state."
Project 2025 gets muscle from 80 partners, including Turning Point USA, led by MAGA star Charlie Kirk; the Center for Renewing America, headed by former Trump budget director Russ Vought; and American Moment, focused on young believers for junior positions.
• A separate group of former Trump officials — the America First Policy Institute, led by Brooke Rollins — has a Pathway to 2025 laying groundwork for what it calls "the next America First administration."
Trump insiders relish rebuilding the team with purists. But the truth is, they have no choice: Many more-traditional Republicans quit the first administration in frustration or were fired by tweet. And some former advisers are talking to prosecutors or are charged with crimes.
• The Trump campaign tells us no outside group speaks for him: "The campaign's Agenda47 is the only official comprehensive and detailed look at what President Trump will do when he returns to the White House. … While the campaign is appreciative of any effort to provide suggestions about a second term, the campaign is not collaborating with them."
How it works: The most elaborate part of the pre-transition machine is a résumé-collection project that drills down more on political philosophy than on experience, education or other credentials.
• Applicants are asked to "name one person, past or present, who has most influenced the development of your political philosophy" — and to do the same with a book.
• Another query: "Name one living public policy figure whom you greatly admire and why.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election
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Details: Heritage's "Presidential Personnel Database" already has 4,000+ entries, we're told. (Note see below how many were added under Obama)
• We're told immense, intense attention will be given to the social-media histories of anyone being considered for top jobs. Those queasy about testing the limits of Trump's power will get flagged and rejected.
• The massive headhunting quest aims to recruit 20,000 people to serve in the next administration, as a down payment on4,000 presidential appointments + potential replacements for as many as 50,000 federal workers* who are "policy-adjacent," as Trumpers put it. Note how many Obama added in just four years.
[Did Obama really make government bigger? @CNNMoneyJanuary 25, 2012(Note his first four years)Employees: The number of *federal employees grew by 123,000, or 6.2%, under President Obama, according to the White House's Office of Management and Budget.Much of the hiring increases came in the departments of homeland security, justice, veterans and defense.] https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/25/news/economy/obama_government/index.htm]
Reality check: Technically, this apparatus will be inherited by any Republican nominee — Heritage officials tell us they've briefed the campaigns of Trump, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
• But this is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump's closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025.
• One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration. Miller is charting an even harder line on legal and immigration policy than last time. While he maps a White House return, he's president of America First Legal, which vows to fight "lawless executive actions and the Radical Left."
Between the lines: Trump doesn't hide his intentions. It's important to tune out the theatrical language that drives social media and cable TV, and focus intently on the directional guidance of his second term.
• He's telling us exactly what he intends to do — like it or loathe it. And this time, he'll have prefabbed institutional muscle to turn pugilistic words into policies and action from the get-go.
Here's what the early days of a second Trump presidency would look like, based on his words and our conversations with Trump insiders:
1.His top obsession will be the Justice Department, the FBI and the intelligence community— all of which hethinks conspired to investigate him, thwart him, screw him. He's been very clear that he's willing to unleash these agencies against political enemies. (it was proven he was conspired against assholes)
The next priority will be the Department of Homeland Security and the border, with plans to erect sprawling detention camps, "scour the country for unauthorized immigrants," and "deport people by the millions per year," The New York Times reports. We're told Trump's top criterion for immigration officials will be whoever promises to be most aggressive. Trump has told allies he's confident the Supreme Court will back his most draconian moves.
As first reported by Jonathan Swan for Axios last year, a key tool for Trump's "revenge term" would be the use of Schedule F personnel powers to wipe out employment protections for tens of thousands of civil servants across the federal government. Trump allies want a deep and wide purge of the professional staff that often serves across new administrations.
4.Officials close to the Pentagon tell us they're worried about a plan, articulated by former Trump official Russ Voughtin the Heritage document, to direct the National Security Council to "rigorously review all general and flag officer promotions to prioritize the core roles and responsibilities of the military over social engineering and non-defense related matters, including climate change, critical race theory [and] manufactured extremism." Indeed, the Trump allies see obstacles to remove at every level of every agency.
The bottom line: This Trump-allied machine has the most power over the formation of a potential future government of any group in U.S. history.Trump, if elected, will leverage it to do things with government that none of us has seen in our lifetime. AMEN
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/13/trump-loyalists-2024-presidential-election
REMEMBER THESE CORPORATIONS, THEY WILL BE BLED DRY FROM CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS
Updated Aug 3, 2021 - Economy
More corporations are requiring workers to get vaccinated
Life for the unvaccinated could get more difficult as bosses increasingly move to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory.
• The big picture: The federal Government in May said it is legal for companies to require employees to get vaccinated for coronavirus.
• By the numbers: 64% of Americans said in June or July that they would support federal, state or local governments requiring everyone to get vaccinated, according to a survey conducted by the COVID States Project.
• Our thought bubble, via Axios' Caitlin Owens: Many vaccinated Americans appear to be losing patience with people who are still unvaccinated, which will probably make them all the more tolerant of mandates.
The companies:
• Tyson Foods plans to require all employees in the U.S. to be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Employees working in Tyson Foods' U.S. office locations must be vaccinated by Oct. 1. All other team members have through Nov. 1 to get the vaccine.
• Microsoft will require employees, vendors and guests entering its buildings to be vaccinated and show proof beginning in September, CNN reports. "As we have done since the beginning of the pandemic, we continue to closely track new developments and adapt our plans as this situation evolves, keeping employee health and safety top of mind," the company said in a statement.
• Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent an email to employees announcing that those going back to the office needed to be vaccinated. The company is also extending its work-from-home policy through Oct. 18.
• Facebook said that anyone going back to work in their U.S. campuses must be vaccinated.
• Netflix is requiring that the casts for all of its U.S. productions be vaccinated, as well as everyone who comes in contact with them, Deadline reports.
• Walmart Chief Executive Doug McMillon said that the retailer's corporate workers and managers must be vaccinated, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.
• BlackRock says that only fully vaccinated workers are allowed to return to the office, a company spokesperson told CNN.
• Morgan Stanley is prohibiting all unvaccinated staff and clients from entering its headquarters in New York, CNN notes, citing a memo sent to workers.
• Saks Fifth Avenue is requiring that all workers be inoculated, per the New York Times. The company says it will be returning to in person work in September.
• The Washington Post informed its employees earlier this week that it will require all of them — including contractors and guests who wish to enter the newspaper's offices — to show that they have received the vaccine.
• Publisher Fred Ryan said the requirement will be "a condition of employment" starting on Sept. 13.
• Ascension Health, one of the largest private health care systems in the U.S., said that all employees must be vaccinated.
• Lyft employees who work in the company's offices must be vaccinated as of Aug. 2, according to an email shared with CNN.
• Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said that employees wishing to return to the office must be fully vaccinated. He added that people going into the office must also wear masks, regardless of vaccination status, Insider reports.
• Twitter had been requiring that employees get vaccinated, but earlier this week, the company said it would shutting down its offices in New York and San Francisco due to the recent increase in coronavirus cases.
• Walmart CEO Doug McMillon sent a memo to employees saying that corporate workers must be vaccinated by Oct. 4, "unless they have an approved exception." New hires will also be required to be inoculated.
• The Walt Disney Corporation will be mandating vaccines for all its "salaried and non-union hourly employees in the U.S." All new hires will also be expected to be vaccinated.
"Employees who aren’t already vaccinated and are working on-site will have 60 days from today to complete their protocols and any employees still working from home will need to provide verification of vaccination prior to their return, with certain limited exceptions," the company said.
https://www.axios.com/2021/07/30/companies-require-vaccine-covid-netflix-facebook
The Constitution Created the District of Columbia and Only the Constitution Can Make It a State
Heritage Foundation Report
Feb. 1, 2023
Interesting read 20 pages, for Constitution and History Fags
(How did this guy get into the US living here? He’s assisting Bidan Admin I bet)
5 Jan, 2024 20:28
Zelensky rejected favorable peace deal with Russia – ex-aide
Ukraine now faces ten to 15 years of war, Aleksey Arestovich has said
Ukraine had the chance to make peace at the 2022 Istanbul talks but something or someone changed President Vladimir Zelensky’s mind, according to an interview with his former aide, Aleksey Arestovich, published on Monday.
Freddie Sayers, the editor in chief of the British outlet UnHerd,interviewed Arestovichalmost a year after Ukraine’s top spin doctor left Zelensky’s service.He has since moved to the US, saying that Kiev wants him arrested on politically trumped-up charges.
“I was a member of the Istanbul process, and it was the most profitable agreement we could have done,” Arestovich told Sayers. The Ukrainian delegation “opened the champagne bottle” when they came back to Kiev, believing the agreement was a done deal, he added. The protocols were “90% prepared” for a direct meeting between Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Arestovich, when Zelensky called off the talks.
His rejection of the talks has been widely attributed to the ‘Bucha massacre’, which Ukraine accused Russia of, but Arestovich said he did not know that for a fact. Something “absolutely” changed Zelensky’s mind and “historians will have to find an answer to what happened,” Arestovich said.
“A lot of people say it was the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who came to Kiev and put a stop to this negotiation with Russia. I don’t know exactly if that is true or false. He came to Kiev, but nobody knows what they spoke about except, I think, Zelensky and Boris Johnson himself,” he told UnHerd.
Johnson’s role in scuttling the Istanbul peace talks was reported as early as May 2022 by the outlet Ukrainska Pravda. According to the outlet, he came to Kiev with “two simple messages,” that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “a war criminal” who should not be negotiated with, and that even if Ukraine was ready to sign some kind of agreement with Russia, the West was not.
David Arakhamia, the leader of Zelensky’s party in the Ukrainian parliament, brought up the visit in a November 2023 interview, paraphrasing Johnson’s message as telling the Ukrainians “let’s just continue fighting.”
The former British PM finally commented on the matter last week, saying he merely told Zelensky the UK would support Ukraine “a thousand percent” and that any potential agreement with Russia would be “pretty sordid.” He insisted he did not “order” anyone to do anything, however.
According to Arestovich,the conflict has now evolved beyond Russia and Ukraine, pitting the collective West against the ‘Global South’.
“We have to negotiate for an all-new security system for Europe, taking into account all sides of this problem,” he told UnHerd, adding that NATO would need to discuss with Russia “what it would take to guarantee not to use military force in Europe to decide political questions.”
“I should perhaps add that I am absolutely pessimistic that this will happen. I think we face ten or 15 years of war in Europe,” Arestovich said.
https://www.rt.com/russia/590696-arestovich-ukraine-interview/