Don’t Worry About Project 2025

The flurry of executive orders signed by Trump in his first hours in the hot seat have come directly from 2025….

Trump claimed he had “nothing to do with Project 2025.”Yet, 16 of the 26 executive orders Trump issued on Day One were cribbed directly from the pages of Project 2025. Here’s a summary of what they do…

Jeffery St. Clair has compiled a list of these EOs….(thank you for saving me the time)….

+  An Executive Order rescinding 78 executive orders issued by President Biden.

+ Prohibits federal agencies from engaging in censorship, and orders an investigation into any federal censorship from the past 4 years.

+ Directs the Attorney General to review and remediate any “weaponization” of the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission over the past 4 years. The National Intelligence Director is directed to do the same for the intelligence community.

+ Orders all federal departments and executive agencies to terminate remote work arrangements and require full-time in-person work.

+ Places a freeze on all federal regulations that are proposed but not yet published in the Federal Register, and postpones for 60 days any that have been published but not yet taken effect.

+ Places a freeze on hiring federal civilian employees and contracting, excepting immigration enforcement, national security, or public safety.

+ Directs all agencies to act to reduce the cost of living, including by expanding the housing supply, reducing unnecessary expenses and requirements that raise costs, and eliminating climate policies that increase the cost of food and fuel.

+ Orders the withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

+ Commutes the sentences of 14 people convicted of offenses related to January 6 and otherwise pardons all 1,500 other individuals convicted of crimes related to January 6. Dismisses all pending indictments.

+ Directs the Attorney General not to enforce the TikTok law for 75 days.

+ Orders the withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO).

+ Recategorizes policy-influencing positions in the federal workforce to Schedule F (giving the executive branch greater ability to hire, fire, and manage them).

+ Direct implementation of performance standards and evaluations for career senior executive federal employees.

+ Revokes clearances from 50 former intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story.

+ Declares an emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and directs National Guard deployment, construction of additional barriers, and use of aerial systems to impede unauthorized physical entry by aliens.

+ Orders the Secretary of Defense to direct the military to repel unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities on the U.S.-Mexico border.

+ Suspends entry of refugees into the United States effective January 27, pending a report within 90 days by the Department of Homeland Security on whether to resume them.

+ Directs the federal government not to recognize U.S. citizenship for persons born in the United States but whose parents are not citizens or lawful permanent residents. Effective 30 days from today, for births on or after that date.

+ Directs implementation of a policy of establishing a physical wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, removal of aliens unlawfully present in the United States, and terminating categorical parole programs (Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans).

+ Authorizes temporary top secret security clearances for 6 months for certain staff designated by the White House Counsel.

+ Directs trade investigations to begin.

+ Orders a review of federal regulations to remove regulatory burdens on oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuel, critical minerals, and nuclear energy. Revokes 12 Biden climate-related executive orders. Pauses federal funds for building electric vehicle infrastructure.

+ Orders a study on diverting water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to southern California.

+ Directs the Attorney General to seek capital punishment in federal capital crimes, to ensure that the 37 federal death row inmates commuted by Biden are imprisoned in consistent conditions, and supply lethal drugs to states that administer the death penalty.

+ Directs a report within 60 days on federal building standards that reflect classical architectural heritage.

+ Declares a national energy emergency, directing expedited delivery of energy infrastructure.

+ Suspends offshore wind energy projects.

+ Orders a pause on foreign aid disbursements for 90 days to assess programmatic efficiencies and consistency with foreign policy.

And the EOs are only the beginning….

Just wait and see what is next from the Lord High Destroyer…

The quality of life for most Americans will suffer…..but not to worry it will Make America Great Again.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Is FEMA In Danger?

I live in hurricane alley and after a destructive storm like Katrina FEMA was there to try and help the Coast recover…..granted there is a pile of bureaucracy that one must navigate but nonetheless it was a godsend to our recovery.

The new president has hinted that the department could be on the chopping block.

The president went on his first official trip to California and North Carolina two states that is dealing with disasters like storms and wildfires….

In Asheville, North Carolina, Trump reiterated to reporters his plan to sign an executive order to overhaul—and maybe eliminate—the Federal Emergency Management Agency, reports USA Today. “FEMA has been a very big disappointment,” he said, per the AP. “It’s very bureaucratic. And it’s very slow. Other than that, we’re very happy with them.” Trump said he would prefer that states take care of their own disasters. “Whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican governor, you want to use your state to fix it and not waste time calling FEMA,” he said, per CNN.

“FEMA has turned out to be a disaster … I think we recommend that FEMA go away,” he said during a tour of North Carolina to see damage done by Hurricane Helene last year.

In case you are not aware of what FEMA actually does…..

According to the agency’s website, it’s mission is “helping people before, during and after disasters.” The agency says it employs more than 20,000 people and has 10 regional offices nationwide, allowing it to “leverage a tremendous capacity to coordinate within the federal government to make sure America is equipped to prepare for and respond to disasters.”

FEMA was officially created in 1979 through an executive order by President Jimmy Carter, and the agency says its history can be traced as far back as 1803. In 2003, FEMA became part of the Department of Homeland Security.

The agency aims to help people and communities understand and prepare for possible disaster risks, coordinates the federal response to disasters, and supports disaster recovery, according to its website. For more information about what specifically FEMA does and how it operates, you can visit the FEMA website.

Is eliminating FEMA part of the “Make America Great Again”?

If you have never had to deal with the aftermath of a real disaster then you have no damn idea what FEMA does or how it aids people in a crisis.

Like most of Trump’s ideas this is a piss poor one.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”