Agenda 47 – Trump’s own plan for vengence and profit…and fascism.

Trump promised to be a dictator on the first day. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou

This video “Aftermath” (below) is exactly what will happen…

Just read this in an article: “[Muslim Americans] might decide to vote for Trump anyway because they believe it will be easier to mobilize Democratic opposition to the war if a Republican is in the White House, said Abed Ayoub, national executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.” (https://www.vox.com/politics/353037/trump-gaza-israel-protests-biden-election-2024)

They don’t understand yet what will happen to the first group of protesters who’ll face a White Supremacist-tinged military under Trump…an army selected to believe that Democrats are the “enemy within.” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmcHp6_cd0)

There will be no second group.

Keeping up with the Trump-Denial News!

Trump is currently in denial as to his involvement with Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation folks. Luckily, we have this handy cheat-sheet from the ever-awesome Popular Information!

(cnn)[From the Time Mag. interview] He’s proposing a brand of quasi-autocratic leadership based on personal whim, a desire for retribution and almost no acknowledgement that the presidency is an office constrained by laws, the Constitution and the bedrock republican recoil from unbridled executive power.

The real threat is not from the radical right. The real threat is from the radical left. And it is growing every day. Every single day.
The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within.
Our threat is from within. – Donald Trump

We’re starting off with some overview videos. Here are quick overviews.

This is a longer, more detailed discussion of Trump’s terrifying revenge-flavored overlay.

Agenda 47 from his website

You can read the Trump’s Agenda 47 here. Every item is either motivated by revenge or power-grabbing.

“I don’t think it’s a big mystery what his agenda would be,” says his close adviser Kellyanne Conway. “But I think people will be surprised at the alacrity with which he will take action.”

  • 1. On Day One, re-issue 2020 executive order restoring the president’s authority to fire rogue bureaucrats.
  • 2. Overhaul federal departments and agencies, firing all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus.
  • 3. Fundamentally reform the FISA courts, ensuring that corruption is rooted out.
  • 4. Establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and abuses of power.
  • 5. Launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the media to create false narratives, pressing criminal charges when appropriate.
  • 6. Make every Inspector General’s Office independent from the departments they oversee, so that they do not become protectors of the deep state.
  • 7. Establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure that they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people.
  • 8. Continue Trump administration effort to move parts of the federal bureaucracy outside of the Washington Swamp, just like President Trump moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. Up to 100,000 government positions could be moved out of Washington.
  • 9. Ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and regulate, such as Big Pharma.
  • 10. Push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress.

Agenda 47 from his speeches and interviews.

“I keep telling people: ‘Watch the speeches. When you look at the content of what he’s putting out there, he couldn’t telegraph this any more clearly: what he stands for, and what he’s up against.” – Stephen K. Bannon, Trump’s 2016 campaign chief executive

IT’S READY TO LAUNCH

  • It’s ready to go:
    • The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has drawn up plans for legislation and Executive Orders as it trains prospective personnel for a second Trump term. 
    • The Center for Renewing America, led by Russell Vought, Trump’s former director of the Office of Management and Budget, is dedicated to disempowering the so-called administrative state who control everything from drug-safety determinations to the contents of school lunches.
    • The America First Policy Institute is a research haven of pro-Trump right-wing populists.
    • America First Legal, led by Trump’s immigration adviser Stephen Miller, is mounting court battles against the Biden Administration. 
    • Surround himself with suck-ups: The Heritage Foundation is already collecting resumes to install thousands of Trump loyalists throughout the federal government who agree with their terms. His people have imposed loyalty tests on prospective job applicants, asking whether they believe the false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.

CONSOLIDATING POWER – DISMANTLING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

“It’s extremely worrisome because I think competency and experience are going to be out the window. In this [recent Time] article, he says that he wants to put loyalists in these positions of power, and a litmus test to secure a job would be that you believe that the 2020 election was stolen from him.” – Sarah Matthews, former White House deputy press secretary.

  • staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen
  • Unchecked power: Gives the president unchecked power over all federal agencies – juicing the “unitary executive theory.
  • Restore Nixon’s “impoundment power“ – Allows the president to bypass Congress by refusing to spend certain congressional appropriations, thus giving himself the power to starve any government programs he doesn’t care for.
  • Expand presidential immunity – “While in office Trump was shielded from Justice Department prosecution by a Nixon-era memo that said the department should not indict sitting presidents, as criminal proceedings “would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.” That guidance does not apply after presidents leave office, but Rolling Stone reports that Trump is looking to change it to give presidents lifelong immunity”
  • Weaponizing the Department of Justice – to make things appear lawful when they are not.
  • Schedule F – gut the civil service: This is an executive order from his first time that would allow him to fire at-will merit-based civil servants. This is also a top to-do item for the Heritage Foundation with their Project 2025. Trump tried to do this while in office with his last-minute “Schedule F” employment catagory. This was revoked immediately by Biden upon taking office.
    • His allies estimate that they won’t have to fire all 50,000 employees. “Firing a smaller segment of “bad apples” among the career officials at each agency would have the desired chilling effect on others tempted to obstruct Trump’s orders.“
    • Make every Inspector General’s Office independent (i.e. – installing one of his loyalists) from the departments they oversee, so that they do not become protectors of the deep state.
  • Break up departments: This whole idea is based on two fallacies:
    • NO need: Upwards of 80% of federal employees already work outside the national capital region.
    • Too local: putting an agency in an area it regulates or serves can make it captive to regional interests.
    • Why?: agencies and private companies can get their work done and maintain connections with their stakeholders from anywhere, so why waste taxpayer dollars, and disrupting employees and operations?
      • PORK. By arranging a headquarters move to their state or district, lawmakers can bring home the bacon in the form of federal jobs.
      • Dismantling departments: Makes it easy to “fire” people who don’t want to move and pay them less.
  • KILL FISA!: “KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!” Trump wants revenge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court, which approves applications for electronic surveillance, physical search, and other forms of investigative actions for foreign intelligence purposes, for spying on his campaign’s Russian connections. He doesn’t actually care about anyone else’s issues.
  • They’re BACK! – He will fill his Cabinet with people like Jeffrey Clark (indicted with Trump in Georgia),  Stephen Miller (attorney general material?) and Steve Bannon (chief of staff?). Trump will not worry about getting Senate approval this time. In his first term, he made unprecedented use of the “acting” designation, and may do it again. “I sort of like ‘acting,’” Trump said in 2019. “It gives me more flexibility.”

GO-TO FASCIST MOVES

Whether or not he was kidding about bringing a tyrannical end to our 248-year experiment in democracy, I ask him, Don’t you see why many Americans see such talk of dictatorship as contrary to our most cherished principles? Trump says no. Quite the opposite, he insists. “I think a lot of people like it.”

(atlantic) If he wins in November, Trump would inevitably interpret the victory as a public endorsement, or at least acceptance, of his views about [unlimited] presidential power. And all signs suggest Trump has already concluded that hardly any elected officials in his party have the stomach to confront him. That degree of loyalty functionally eliminates the possibility that Congress could impeach him and remove him from office, almost no matter what he does.

  • Appoint a “real special prosecutor” to go after Biden: After he was indicted on 37 counts for hiding documents at Mar-a-Lago, he announced – “This is third-world-country stuff, ‘arrest your opponent,’” Trump said at a New Hampshire campaign stop in October. “And that means I can do that, too.
  • Pardon the more than 800 insurrectionists who were convicted by a jury or pleaded guilty, validating the use of violence as a tool of political expression
  • Use the military to quell election protests against him: He is ready to use the Insurrection Act to send the military to quell potential unrest on Inauguration Day, with or without permission from a state’s governor. Critics have called the ideas under consideration dangerous and unconstitutional.
    • (Brennancenter.org) “…the Supreme Court ruled in 1827 that the president alone decides whether invoking the Insurrection Act is justified; the courts may not review or second-guess that determination. As for Congress, if it disapproves of a president’s use of the act, its only recourse is to pass a law ending the deployment. The president would likely refuse to sign such a law, and Congress would then have to muster a two-thirds supermajority to override the president’s veto.”
  • A private army: he would send in the National Guard to quell campus protests and to participate in immigration enforcement, using it more as a personal presidential militia than a legally circumscribed reserve force.
  • Encouraging political violence: He doesn’t rule out political violence if he loses, stating that there would be a “bloodbath” if he did not win the presidential election in November. (May 2022 – The times Trump has advocated for violence)
  • Weaponized commissions and departments:
  • Shutting down “Fake News” & “The Enemy of the People”:
    • (AP)”Trump repeated both phrases and vowed to investigate NBC News and MSNBC for “Country Threatening Treason” and try to curb their access to the airwaves: “I say up front, openly, and proudly, that when I WIN the Presidency of the United States, they and others of the LameStream Media will be thoroughly scrutinized for their knowingly dishonest and corrupt coverage of people, things, and events,” Trump said in the post. “Why should NBC, or any other of the corrupt & dishonest media companies, be entitled to use the very valuable Airwaves of the USA, FREE? They are a true threat to Democracy and are, in fact, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! The Fake News Media should pay a big price for what they have done to our once great Country.” 
    • Press criminal charges against government employees (whistleblowers) who “collude with fake news.”

JUDICIARY – To make things appear lawful when they are not.

  • NOT EXTREMIST ENOUGH: Trump referred to “Federalist Society lawyers” as a type of conservative lawyer who wouldn’t go as far as he wanted them to go.
    • He will be picking from more extremist models, that would make Trump’s first-term picks look mild by comparison:
    • They will be young enough to span generations: Due to the relative youth of Trump’s last picks, even if he isn’t reelected, his judges will serve 270 more years than Obama’s judges, and they will decide thousands more cases.
      • In just one term Trump was able to appoint 28% of those judges due to past and continuing vacancies. Most importantly, he appointed 33% of America’s nine supreme court justices and 30% of the appellate judges.

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS/ HEALTHCARE

  • allow red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. (Project 2025 will undoubtedly add this to their menu of acts against women.) or any other draconian idea they come up with to suppress women.
  • Comstock Act: The Heritage Foundation has called for enforcement of this a 19th century statute that would outlaw the mailing of abortion pills and contraceptives nationally.
  • Fetal personhood: 80% of the House GOP conference, included in its 2025 budget proposal the Life at Conception Act, which says the right to life extends to “the moment of fertilization.”
  • Will he or won’t he? – No matter what he says now – if he retakes office, he will sign a nationwide ban on abortion in the morning

HEALTHCARE/SOCIAL SAFETY NETS

  • Destroy the Affordable Care Act.
  • Cut off federal funding for gender-affirming care
  • Inching his way into destroying Social Security and Medicare.

FOREIGN POLICY

(foreignpolicy.com) “In the latest sign of his fascination with using nuclear weapons, former U.S. President Donald Trump told a crowd in January that one of the reasons he needed immunity was so that he couldn’t be indicted for using nuclear weapons on a city, like former President Harry Truman did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

  • won’t help of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. “Russia could “do whatever the hell they want” to a NATO country he believes doesn’t spend enough on collective defense.” 
    • South Korea – suggests the U.S. could withdraw its forces from South Korea if they don’t pay more to support U.S. troops.
    • Taiwan – declines to say whether he would come to Taiwan’s defense. 
    • Israel – he would join Israel’s side in a confrontation with Iran, but he claims that he no longer believes in 2-state solution.
    • Mexico – Trump said that he would order Pentagon to attack cartels.
    • Gaza – In his first term, Trump proposed nuking North Korea, and placing the blame on some other country, like some sociopathic four-year-old. Now, GOP members are suggesting another target to a man itching to flex his power.
      • U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg (R) said that “instead of sending humanitarian aid to starving civilians there, the U.S. should “get it over quick” by dropping a nuclear bomb on the besieged enclave.”
      • Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) told a group of Palestinian rights advocates, “Goodbye to Palestine”
      • Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) in February told an activist, “I think we should kill ’em all,” when asked about Palestinian children who have been killed by Israel with U.S. military support.
      • Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called for Israel to “level the place” soon after the war started. 

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Rolling Stone reports that the ex-president—who is hoping to become president again in 2024—has recently been telling close associates that he wants to bring back firing squads, hangings, and “possibly even the guillotine,” should he return to the White House. (He has also apparently “discussed group executions.”) According to a person familiar with the matter, late last year, Trump “privately mused” about “creating a flashy, government-backed video-ad campaign that would accompany a federal revival of these execution methods.” The videos would reportedly include “footage from these new executions, if not from the exact moments of death.”

  • Killing machine: “In his first term, the Trump administration executed more people than any presidential administration in more than 120 years, and his administration executed more Americans in a one-year period than every state combined. His was also the first administration since the 1880s to put people to death during a lame-duck period, and in January 2021, when it was clear Joe Biden was going to become president, executed three people in four days.“
  • Execute MORE people! Former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin posted, “I was in the Oval Office with Trump when he said a WH staffer he believed leaked an embarrassing story about him [him hiding in a bunker duing the George Floyd protests] should be executed.” Barr said Trump was probably kidding. People like Steve Bannon knows he wasn’t.
    • Execute protestors/migrants: However, Trump wasn’t kidding when he wanted to shoot peaceful demonstrators protesting George Floyd’s death near the White House or when he asked if our troops could shoot migrant families “below the waist to slow them down.” Aides in the room at these times said no. They won’t be there in a 2nd term.
    • Execute those who thwarted him: Trump floated the idea of executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley
    • Execution for lower level crimes: He told supporters the government should execute drug dealers by shooting them, and then “send the bullet to the family” and make them “pay for the cost of the bullet.”
  • Reform: Stop criminal legal system reform
  • Stop-and-frisk funding: will approve Justice Department grants only to cities that adopt his preferred policing methods like stop-and-frisk. This practice unconstitutional by a federal court in 2013, the tactic is widely criticized for discriminating against racial minorities.
  • Protect the bad apples: Will protect power-abusing police and roll back current reforms

NO MORE BEING UNFAIR TO WHITE CISGENDER “CHRISTIANS”

  • rescind Biden’s Executive Orders designed to boost diversity and racial equity. “There is a definite antiwhite feeling in the country and that can’t be allowed either.”
  • close the White House pandemic-preparedness office
  • Reverse civil rights laws – “Trump and his allies want to reinterpret Civil Rights-era laws and other measures aimed at promoting racial equality to focus on combatting “anti-white racism” rather than bias against people of color.” He will be helped considerably by the Project 2025 agenda, which also doesn’t care at all about minority rights and intends to eliminate any programs designed to counter historical racism.

EDUCATION

  • Ban transgender care
  • Ban schools from helping kids through their transition
  • Ban education on sex and gender that diverges from the far right’s idea of the “the nuclear family.”
  • Give huge benefits to home schooling to indoctrinate kids with Christian nationalism.
  • Incentivize teachers to carry guns
  • No affirmative action or DEI departments at colleges or universities
  • Trump Universities return! – “…we will take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments, and we will then use that money to endow a new institution called the American Academy…”it will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that’s going to be allowed.”
    • Interesting that it seems OK to raid the coffers of private colleges, but not OK to place a modest wealth tax on the richest people in our country, for whom he is actually extending tax cuts.

IMMIGRATION – “We will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” 

(guardian) “I want everybody to understand this is going to happen. If President Trump is back in the Oval Office in January, this is going to commence immediately.” – Stephen Miller

(guardian) “This time we need to take Trump at his word. When he talks about mass deportation – in boxcars, or bus loads, or planes, or whatever – that’s what he’s going to do.” – said David Leopold, a former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

(guardian) To skirt around due process laws protecting asylum seekers, Trump has said he will invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act which allows for summary deportation of any non-citizen from a foreign enemy country. “Trump will have his agents remove people, then ask questions later. If somebody looks like they’re undocumented, meaning they have brown or black skin, or speak with an accent, they could be included irrespective of their citizenship,” Leopold warned.

  • REMOVE THEM ALL!: He’s not worried about the optics this time. Without bothering with due process hearings, Trump will create monstrous concentration camps and use the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with local police officers, National Guard soldiers voluntarily contributed by Republican-run states, along with military troops (overriding the Posse Comitatus Act—an 1878 law that prohibits the use of military force on civilians) to round up, detain and deport more than 11 million undocumented immigrants, tearing apart mixed-status families, decimating the industries they work in, along with tanking our economy, including our local agriculture industry here in Ventura County.
    • Stephen Miller describes his proposed “blitz”: “Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown. The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”
    • All temporary protected status designations, along with those granted temporary status for humanitarian reasons, including tens of thousands of the Afghans who were evacuated amid the 2021 Taliban takeover and allowed to enter the United States, will be revoked.
    • Afghans holding special visas granted to people who helped U.S. forces would be revetted to see if they really did.
  • Reinstall “Remain in Mexico” program
  • Expanding on his first term’s “Muslim travel ban” – to “keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the country”
  • Direct federal funding to resume construction of the border wall, likely by allocating money from the military budget without congressional approval
  • Deny funding for jurisdictions that decline to adopt his policies.
  • Deploy troop for border war – Trump was prevented in his first term from using the military as a domestic police force. In his second term – no worries – he intends to attempt a “historic power grab” to legally enable the deployment of U.S. troops “to carry out roles currently prohibited under federal law — including the arrest, detention, and transport of migrants at the southern border.”
  • End birthright citizenship – “The Trump campaign has also said he would sign an executive order on his first day in office to withhold passports, Social Security numbers and other government benefits from children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States.”
    • Not only would this be in violation of the 14th Amendment, it would create a “flood of newly created stateless children. In the United States, that would quickly become a humanitarian crisis.”
    • Could he make it retroactive? In 2015, Trump told CNN … that he doesn’t believe people born in the United States to undocumented immigrants are in fact American citizens. “I don’t think they have American citizenship,” he said. “And if you speak to some very, very good lawyers—and I know some will disagree—but many of them agree with me, and you’re going to find they do not have American citizenship.”
    • Not only is revoking citizenship considered a gross violation of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it would also impose hardship on all Americans, who could no longer point to a birth certificate as proof of citizenship.

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES: “Drill, Drill, Drill” – yep, that’s most of it!

(pressherald) “If you were shopping for toaster ovens and your choice was between one that posed a 1% chance of setting your house on fire and a competing one that would not only 100% set your house on fire but proudly guaranteed it right on the box, then you would probably go with the 1% model.”

(guardian) “…most voters are unaware of the IRA climate legislation or its significance in driving down emissions. Still, the president’s position on climate change is incomparable to Trump’s, according to Rosenberg. “The contrast is incredibly stark between Biden and Trump,” he said. “Do I think Biden is the best of the best? Of course not. But compared to Trump? That’s just scary.”

  • Drill, drill, drill – throw the entire country open to oil and gas exploration, including areas now off limits, such as the Arctic.
  • Trump will leave the Paris accord again  (Biden joined us up again)
  • undo Biden’s efforts to regulate pollution
  • repealing the Inflation Reduction Act, the landmark $370bn bill laden with support for clean energy projects and electric vehicles. or at least neutralizing it by closing the Energy Department loan office
  • scrap government considerations of the damage caused by carbon emissions;
  • compel a diminished EPA to squash pollution rules for cars, trucks and power plants;
  • dismantle the climate-tracking National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.
  • approve a glut of new gas export terminals currently paused by Biden
  • Trump on own administration’s climate report: ‘I don’t believe it’: Mute, dump or otherwise silence scientific voices warning us of

ECONOMIC POLICIES:

  • extend his 2017 tax scam, which added huge debt.
  • considering a tariff of more than 10% on all imports, and perhaps even a 100% tariff on some Chinese goods. (Trump’s first term tariffs on thousands of products, including steel and aluminum, solar panels, and washing machines, may have cost the U.S. $316 billion and more than 300,000 jobs)
  • ‘Freedom Cities!’ – Trump released a video in March 2023 announcing his plan to hold a nationwide contest to design and develop ten new “Freedom Cities” to be constructed on federal land – if only he can convince his own sides’ conspiracy theorists that walkable cities aren’t really open-air prison dystopias.
  • Trump Universities return! – “…we will take the billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining, and suing excessively large private university endowments, and we will then use that money to endow a new institution called the American Academy…”it will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that’s going to be allowed.”
    • Interesting that it seems OK to raid the coffers of private colleges, but not OK to place a modest wealth tax on the richest people in our country, for whom he is actually extending tax cuts.
  • Keeping the rich rich – “…Trump is making it clear to his billionaire buddies that he’ll take his first chance to double down on tax giveaways for the ultra-wealthy – all while he fights to rip away Americans’ health care, gut Social Security and Medicare, and raise costs on working families,” Sarafina Chitika, a Biden campaign spokesperson, said in a statement.

WEIRD THINGS

  • FLYING CARS! – “How will Americans get around in these “Freedom Cities”? Flying cars, of course.” Yes! We can no longer give driver education to public school students, leaving only those who can afford private lessons the advantage of a lower incidence of both crashes and convictions. Now, we want our now half-educated populace to rule the skies! Ignoring the whole we-can’t-even-afford-basic-safety-stuff – “It’s true that such vehicles are in development, but it does not seem that they’re going to be widely available to families and individuals anytime soon — or maybe ever. Trump’s frenemy Elon Musk, who’s no stranger to zany proposals, dismissed the idea back in 2017, saying, “It’s difficult to imagine the flying car becoming a scalable solution.”
  • Politicizing architecture – “Dictator Chic”: He will his first term executive order – “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture,” demanding that our own great architects copy styles of “republican Rome.” This tendency of fascists throughout history, including Hitler, to borrow what they see as the “authority” of classical architecture is known as “Dictator Chic.” (Note: his own Las Vegas hotel was named one of the world’s ugliest skyscrapers by Architectural Digest)
  • Trump wants to launch “a great beautification campaign” to improve US cities, making the streets more pleasant for ordinary Americans.
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