tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post5113786327325866648..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Gleichschaltung in the Justice DepartmentDavid Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-63821810206231332032018-05-27T22:40:57.698-04:002018-05-27T22:40:57.698-04:00Professor
No one else seems to have sounded off ye...Professor<br />No one else seems to have sounded off yet, so why not a question or two?<br />You have pointed this out:<br /><br />"The Trump Administration is trying to destroy the federal government as we have known it since the 1930s."<br /><br />Leaving aside for a moment issues of Trump wrongdoing, is there anything technically illegal about what he has been doing to destroy the federal government as we have known it? If yes, then what? If no, then why not?<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-78024679089209451242018-05-27T05:43:41.911-04:002018-05-27T05:43:41.911-04:00Your last statement got me curious. I read some ar...<br /><br />Your last statement got me curious. I read some articles about transition. Under kennedy they took several months to get several hundred appointees through. By Clinton 800 appointees, took 8 months. 1200 people need approval and procedural and partisan bickering has grown. In addition to Trump's inexperience in the process, delaying it enormously.<br /><br />http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/mar/16/donald-trump/why-trump-appointments-have-lagged-behind-other-pr/<br /><br />Huge bureaucracies with massive inertia exist. Political appointees and the population in general are terribly polarized.<br /><br />https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/for-your-eyes-only-a-short-history-of-democrat-spy-collusion/<br /><br />The above article tries to make sense of the apparent partisan sting operation to get Trump by Obama, Clinton. I don't think they would have dared such overt behaviour against against a standard republican presidential candidate. An outsider, maverick, disapproved of by his own party with low chances of success was an easy target. I recall Delorean cocaine sting. I suppose one can excuse massive disrespect towards Trump resulting from his juvenile behaviour. But now he is POTUS there is no excuse for it. Heads will roll. But once Trump earns Beltway respect, gets his own team in control, survives midterms, maybe gets reelected the hullabaloo will die down. His outsider election campaign has mostly been abandoned. Big banks won, tax breaks are through, DOD got 10% plus. His base in Middle America gets a trade war as he needs rust belt voters. Run of the mill FBI agents are angered at overtly partisan trickery. Things will calm down. Ross Perot would have been similarly dealt with disrespectfully by all sides had he won. J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed all and held sway 40 years in drag no less and Allen Dulles was also powerful like Beria against even Stalin. Richelieu comes to mind. Power is to those who grab it, know how to hold on to it elected, inofficial bureaucrat, outsider, or blue blood.<br /><br />However this little circus will pale once 'the music stops' in the economy. Then we will see if Trump has mettle, 'cojones'. FED, ECB, China, Japan have done all they can. Pensions are inundating state, local budgets. Private, corporate debt at higher rates will explode defaults. 9/11 rallied all around GWB and now almost certainly Trump will get what Obama was spared, a true crisis testing in fire. Energyflowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14476915209268786507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-71863799451364262802018-05-26T10:02:13.599-04:002018-05-26T10:02:13.599-04:00Professor
Thanks for this post.
Liberal globaliz...Professor<br />Thanks for this post. <br /><br />Liberal globalization gets one to this dismantling, not merely of executive federal agencies, but more importantly, of the nation state itself, either way, and by either globalist Democrats like Clinton or globalist Republicans like Bush I and II. <br /><br />Both end up at the same place.<br /><br />You can kid yourself about it, blame Republicans, but that is it.<br /><br />It was predicted, constructed, and heralded by the likes of Kindleberger, many decades ago, when the Bretton Woods System was first put in place.<br /><br />Keynesianism, on the so called left, has turned out to be the fig leaf it originally was.<br /><br />All the bestBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.com