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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lapsody ⎊✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Selective prosecution
Date: 09/20/23 9:58 AM
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Does it occur to you that there might be a viewpoint out there that says, "The government could be run more efficiently and more effectively by replacing some of these career chair-moisteners"?

No. It looks like a fascist conservative viewpoint of installing Trump as an authoritarian. Possibly by the end of his reign voting will not be necessary. Read on:

An exhaustive manifesto for the next conservative US president produced by Project 2025, an initiative led by the hard-right Heritage Foundation, uses 'dehumanising language' about LGBTQ+ Americans too extreme even for candidates currently seeking the Republican presidential nomination, a leading advocate said.

In the words of Paul Dans, its director, Project 2025 is 'systematically preparing to march into office and bring a new army, aligned, trained, and essentially weaponised conservatives ready to do battle against the deep state'.

...that 'army' has produced something solid: Mandate for Leadership: the Conservative Promise, a 920-page document that sets out policy wishes across the breadth of the federal government.

implementation of many Project 2025 recommendations would rely on broad acceptance of unitary executive theory, a contested vision of strong presidential power, from a compliant Congress and supreme court.

Implementation of 'Schedule F', a plan formulated by extreme Trump allies to purge the federal bureaucracy of officials deemed insufficiently loyal, would also likely be needed,

The Project 2025 manual ' purges the civil service of all (perceived) political 'enemies' [and] advises to ignore checks and balances of the constitution. Pass it on.'

And this is just one article.

theguardian.com - Project policy manifesto lgbtq rights

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