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2024-11-12 Home Front: Politix

CNN - Trump is already wielding power and causing massive disruption

[CNN] President-elect Donald Trump is already flexing raw power, showing he may try to subvert Washington’s checks and balances and leaving foreign leaders scrambling to come to terms with his victory.

Early signs from Mar-a-Lago, the Florida club and estate where Trump is building his new administration, suggest that when he moves back into the White House in January, bolstered by a thumping win and a democratic mandate, he will act with maximum force.

Trump has already taken to social media to issue orders to Senate Republicans running in this week’s majority leader election to endorse recess appointments for his Cabinet nominees — and all three candidates quickly signaled they’re open to the idea. He’s showing he plans to rule a GOP monopoly on power — if Republicans win control of the House, which CNN has not yet projected — with unchallenged authority. He sees Congress as a rubber stamp rather than a separate, co-equal branch of government.

In a move that recalled the late-night drama of his first term, Trump posted on Truth Social shortly before midnight that he had named Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and an advocate of Trump’s plans for mass deportations, as border czar. Homan argued in a recent CBS "60 Minutes" interview that "families could be deported together" but ruled out mass sweeps of neighborhoods or "concentration camps."

His selection is likely to bolster concerns of Trump’s opponents about the former president’s hardline intentions. But the president-elect made no secret of his plans on the campaign trail and his policies will reflect the desire of millions of voters in his governing majority for a wide-ranging shake-up of America’s direction at home and abroad.

For instance, Trump’s decisions herald a new administration infused by outsider populism rather than conventional power brokers. He, for example, ruled out Cabinet posts for Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley, who both had top foreign policy spots last time around. On Sunday, he offered the job of US ambassador to the United Nations to New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, two sources familiar told CNN. And his inclusion of billionaire tech visionary and rabble rouser Elon Musk on a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — a privilege normally reserved for senior foreign policy aides — showed how Trump’s unorthodoxy will challenge every governing convention.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-12 06:16|| || Front Page|| [11182 views ] Top

#1 "Trump’s decisions herald a new administration infused by outsider populism rather than conventional (DEEP STATE) and (CIA) power brokers."

* There, fixed it.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-12 06:36|| 2024-11-12 06:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Yoy turn on the kitchen light, and the cockroaches scatter.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-11-12 08:34|| 2024-11-12 08:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Crimea River.

Posted by Bobby 2024-11-12 09:08|| 2024-11-12 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 to wit:

Posted by Mercutio 2024-11-12 09:31|| 2024-11-12 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Trump expected to choose South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for Homeland Security secretary, source says

"the president-elect is [also] expected to choose Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as Secretary of State"

Posted by Skidmark 2024-11-12 09:45|| 2024-11-12 09:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Trump expected to choose South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for Homeland Security secretary

The one who shoots dogs that refuse to work?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-11-12 11:26|| 2024-11-12 11:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Conventional leadership got us into the mess that we are in now.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-11-12 12:25|| 2024-11-12 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 The sooner, and the greater the disruption, the better.

Posted by Angstrom 2024-11-12 13:19|| 2024-11-12 13:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Trump could do worse than to crib Cromwell's Address to Parliament for his inaugural address:

Cromwell to Parliament:

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.

Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.

Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?

Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?

Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?

Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.

Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God’s help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.

I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.

Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.

In the name of God, go!

Posted by Mercutio 2024-11-12 13:43|| 2024-11-12 13:43|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ my personal choice would be to read the Declaration of Independence.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-11-12 15:35|| 2024-11-12 15:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Pete Hegseth is Sec of Defense

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-12 19:13|| 2024-11-12 19:13|| Front Page Top

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