Stephan Miller - Department of Homeland Security. The barbed wire business will get quite a boost.
Secretary of Commerce - Linda McMahon. She has experience in the Commerce Department, as head of the Small Business Association in 2017.
Okay, to be fair, this is more of a reference to the reports that she was being considered for a position in the Commerce Department in 2017 (I think she should have been put in charge of the Census Bureau, so Vince could use the WWE to promote it, but that’s another story) somehow morphing into “Linda is going to be the next Secretary of Commerce.”
Here’s a serious one:
Secretary of Education - nobody. Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education, remember? (What is he going to do - bring back HEW?)
All this ‘cleaning house’ they keep boasting about should get interesting very quickly. There are at least a million civil service employees who belong to one of two unions. I would suspect that their contracts are fairly protective when it comes to termination without cause.
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Trump, or his circle, has apparently already started backtracking on Kennedy getting a cabinet post.
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In all likelihood Trump will nominate bootlickers to be the secretaries, but the Elon Musks, Kennedys, Stephen Millers and other real scum will just unofficially be in charge, and will be empowered to TELL the cabinet secretaries what policy will be.
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Firing a zillion employees per Project 2025 will stall early on. It’s immensely hard and will end with huge amounts of litigation, so it will bore Trump quickly. If he dies and Vance takes over you may see renewed effort, as Vance has more energy and focus.
Not that much of a problem when you dispense with the Department of Labor and then shuttle the complaints to a compliant federal district. Of course, he first would have to bootstrap cutting Labor, so the easier way is actually to just get the GOP dominated Congress to defund the targeted agencies with a continuing resolution which identifies them as “non-essential”, and then furlough everyone and never call them back.
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As a 40-year federal civil servant, I disagree. If your job no longer exists, that is plenty of “cause” for you to be fired, or as we say, RIFfed (short for “Reduction in Force”). They might qualify for some severance pay, or for “early retirement” (the minimum age and minimum time in federal service requirements are relaxed if your job no longer exists), but that’s about it. There were plenty of civil servants let go during the massive base closures of 2005 or so; I was lucky enough to be in a position that got transferred to another organization.
It’s also hard to keep a job if the next budget says that the funding for it is now zero.
Ahhh. . .I forgot about the infamous RIF. I worked with a lot of civil service folks over the years.
Trump has named his new Chief of Staff – Susie Wiles, his campaign manager and a long time Florida GOP operative.
He also made a lot of promises about how he’d run the schools that are gonna be impossible to implement if he destroys the agency responsible for federal oversight of education. Something has to give.
JFK Jr is completely off his rocker, but of course virtually all of Trump’s acolytes are equally nuts. JFK Jr’s particular problem is that his nuttery doesn’t align with any significant Project 2025 political strategies. The Trump administration will be populated by neo-Nazis, not street-corner lunatics.
Agreed, and this will result in all the same turmoil we saw last time, with huge turnover due to firings and resignations caused by all the incessant infighting.
A very frightening possibility. But Trump’s increasingly senile eccentricities and the poor outcomes of his policies may reflect very badly on Vance and his future.
Umm, the fluoride thing has been a rightwing bugbear since the forties,
Communist conspiracy theory (1940s–1960s)
Water fluoridation has frequently been the subject of conspiracy theories. During the “Second Red Scare” in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s, and to a lesser extent in the 1960s, activists on the far right of American politics routinely asserted that fluoridation was part of a far-reaching plot to impose a socialist or communist regime. These opponents believed it was “another aspect of President Truman’s drive to socialize medicine.”[91]
Water fluoridation controversy - Wikipedia
Sure, why not? Trump has a history of telling lies; why are we surprised that this is another one? RFK Jr. did his job; he endorsed Trump, and as always with Trump, when you lay your quid, you’re never sure that there will be a pro quo.
Even Trump, as muddled mentally as he is, must realize that RFK Jr.'s policies would cost him fans. Many (though to be honest, not all) parents, even Trumpist ones, swear by fluoridated water and vaccinations. “Thanks for the endorsement, Robert. Now go jump in the dumpster of history. There’s a good boy, again, thanks so much.”
When I was a kid in Calgary (early 1960s), my mother really looked forward to our return to Toronto. Why? Because Toronto had fluoridated water, unlike Calgary. My early dentist visits when we returned to Toronto found cavities everywhere. Meanwhile, my younger sister, who had never known Calgary’s unfluoridated water, had none.
Anecdotal, but I’d suggest that it’s telling. Plus, the fluoridated water I was exposed to as a child has never made me feel that socialism or communism were viable economic systems.
Yeah, they just didn’t put enough graphene in the vaccines in those days for the fluoride to really be effective.
Also, he’s been dead for 25 years.
It was, when the concept of adding anything to a community’s water supply was new and subject to the usual conspiracy theories, especially when the nation was in the thrall of anti-communist paranoia. But your own cite says it ceased to be much of a controversy in the 60s. Is there any evidence that opposition to water fluoridation is being brought back as a realistic policy issue? If it has, I haven’t seen it.
I keep doing that. Sorry! 
That’s interesting and relevant, so thank you for that. But I’m not sure that anything that “RFK Jr says” qualifies as “a realistic policy issue”.
Do you seriously believe that even under the most regressive imaginable Trump administration that the federal government would somehow prohibit water fluoridation? Remember that, by his own admission, a worm has feasted on some significant part of RFK’s brain.
Now, all we need is for Trump to declare that fluoridated water will lead to boys wanting to become girls during the school day, encouraging Marxism if not outright socialism, and wanting all pregnant women to seek an abortion. That’s a lot to ask of fluoridated water.
But Trump said it, they believe it, that settles it. Yeesh!