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I am of the opinion that POTUS can shutter agencies without Congress acting, especially when those agencies are unconstitutional in the first place

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I know I'm probably dreaming, but it would be really cool if Trump would nominate a bunch of successful business owners, that really want to go back to their businesses and be left alone. He could then tell each one to shrink their departments as fast as is reasonable and as much as possible even to elimination.

I'd love to eliminate everything, but if we eliminated it all in a day, there are so many people 100% dependent on the government that it would be a bloodbath, so realistically we just need to make a path to eliminate things as fast as possible. Some things, like the Department of Education, should be eliminated within a year. I think the government employees, who lose their jobs, would be the only people harmed at all. In the long run, they could all find actual productive jobs.

Some departments would have to have a much longer path to elimination. Chile eliminated their version of Social Security, but it took something like 50 years because they didn't want to toss out anyone who was currently dependent on the government or just shy of retirement. They allowed younger people to chose to invest most of their retirement (if I recall they still paid a small amount like 20% to the system) and use their investments to fund their retirement. All of the young people wound up better off than they would've been if they'd stayed on the system. We could do something similar, especially if we cut a bunch of other departments and we could even tax non-citizens with work permits (they'd be ineligible) to help keep the system afloat till we could wean everyone off of it.

Honestly, we should be able to abolish 50-80% of government in 5 years without much hardship to anyone other than government employees.

IMO we need Congress to create mechanisms to unwind social security, the US Army (Constitution permits a permanent Navy but not a permanent Army), the Federal Reserve and the Federal pension program

Pretty much everything else can go in a day - Dep of Ag, Dep of Edu, Dep of Energy (turn the nuke stuff over to the military), Dep of HUD, EPA, and many others can just be shut down immediately

it's only for people convicted of crimes

I think California is seeing some backlash from letting all the criminals do whatever they want, so for a while they will probably get "tough on crime"

Yeah they think "the English" (ie white Americans) are basically crazy and want to keep them at arm's length

well if you wanted more child trannies there was already a candidate for that

so Oliver was basically pitching to culturally left libertarians

who exist but not as a major voting block

welp, now the Nazis are gonna take over and print everything in a gothic font

if I bought in around 50% I'd sell out my initial stake, maybe a bit more

I think the odds of a cheating attempt are more than 8%

soon! we're just sweeping up the states that can actually run an election that looks trustworthy

this thought has occurred to me

Trump's 2016 victory united the corporate/bureaucrat wing of the Dems (exemplified by the Clintons but including Biden) with the commie wing (exemplified by Obama but including Harris)

I think their recent infighting has resulted in the establishment Dems sitting this one out

He had a bit I just watched - claimed that if Trump wins it's just the beginning, need to block out neocons from Trump admin. He says there's no foreign country that's a serious threat, and the neocons work for Israel to get America into wars.

I don't think I'm this pessimistic but he has a point:

"These people are trying to do a beat-for-beat remake of the 2016 election. We have the same slogans, the same “outsider” arguments, the same promises. Our villain is just a dumber, colored version of Hillary Clinton. We have a cast of characters billed as a “super team” assembled (most of them new because many of the 2016 people don’t want anything to do with this election and others were exposed as frauds). Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Jared Kushner is running the show."

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/a-failed-soft-reboot-of-the-2016-election/