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Deuxcents

(23,029 posts)
6. IDK but I hope so. He's got the right disposition, education, experience and speaks 5 languages fluently
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:48 PM
20 hrs ago

Including the English language, coherently

2naSalit

(97,319 posts)
3. Words of wisdom...
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:37 PM
21 hrs ago

And food for thought.

I hope he runs for higher office again. He's got some experience now and we really need him.

ancianita

(41,018 posts)
5. He's been on Fox News more than Bernie Sanders. Moreover, Buttigieg could talk those hounds off their red meat truck.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:46 PM
20 hrs ago

bucolic_frolic

(51,390 posts)
4. This Trump administration represents 95 years
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:42 PM
21 hrs ago

of Titans of Industry - Oligarch - CEO Capitalist anger at the State and the New Deal.

dlk

(12,771 posts)
7. Sounds nice but
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:05 PM
19 hrs ago

Who decides what gets built and how it gets built? Americans have been so divided, by design, realistically, how do we ever move forward, together?

ancianita

(41,018 posts)
11. I hear you. It will be tough. We'll have to win a trifecta in 2028 first.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 10:38 PM
19 hrs ago

In the 3rd largest country on the planet, rebuilding will always be much harder than the teardown it will have experienced, for sure.

Presumably, such rebuilding will be prioritized, in my political opinion, by those who represent their voters -- us, the Democratic Party. With a trifecta won, we know the experts and can set priorities for the governmental agencies and essential rights and services to Americans at large.

I've heard Jeffries and other Democrats working on our Project 2026, which will purge trumpcult, rebuild and harden the enforcement of rule of law in the 3 branches of government.

It's broad brush right now -- we're in the middle of fighting a fascist dictatorship -- so at this point one shouldn't have to know all the details of our future restoration plans before one commits to good candidates who'll implement them.

So who do we start with? Folks like AOC, Frost, Newsom and especially Pete Buttigieg, who'll fire partisans and American non-voters up!

dlk

(12,771 posts)
14. I'm concerned the voting systems have been so comprised by Musk and others
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:28 AM
9 hrs ago

Democrats will not have the opportunity to win another election. The billionaires have spoken.

ancianita

(41,018 posts)
13. In the broadest sense he's talking about the US Constitution constituting the institutions of our 3 branches of govt.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 11:18 PM
18 hrs ago

So what has Project 2025 dismantled and destroyed?
Read its four pillars and you'll know which ones they are.
We've done nothing but talk about these destructions since Jan 20, the felon's inauguration day.

Project 2025's supporters say it will dismantle a government bureaucracy that is, they believe, unaccountable and biased toward liberalism.[8] Its critics have called it authoritarian, Christian nationalist,[9][10] and autocratic.[12]
Legal experts say it would undermine the rule of law,[13] the separation of powers,[5] the separation of church and state,[14][12] and civil liberties.[5][13][15]
Some critics have suggested Project 2025 is based on personal vengeance, or that its proposals for national conservatism are merely an "attempt to intellectually retrofit a rationale for Trumpism".[8]
Compared to previous Republican agendas, Project 2025 contains more elements of culture war and advocates for wider implementation of policy across the federal government.[117]
While some proposals might require the support of Republicans in Congress[8] or favorable rulings from the Supreme Court, much relies on executive authority.[citation needed]


Hope that helps.

Martin Eden

(14,604 posts)
15. If I had an allotment of 100 recs per week
Wed Jul 16, 2025, 08:34 AM
9 hrs ago

I would give them all to Secretary Pete for pointing out an opportunity and positive course for the future.

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