The Swamp is Deep and Trump tried to pick someone that would be honest and patriotic but where are going to go to choose someone to replace an FBI or CIA director? The list is short and they are lifers of the beltway and you have very few that are not influenced by the swamp. People like Peter Navarro are few and far between.
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I get tired of reading people criticizing Trump's appointments. It's tiring explaining this all the time. McConnell is the head of the beast on who gets in. Trump had to do some fancy footwork to get Grennel/Ratcliffe. The way that went down was a perfect illustration. This is also why I was never truly excited about all those judges Trump got through. How could anyone be a white hat that gets approved by McConnell and the Senate?
True, so very true. You would need to go way down the food chain and probably pretty young to find someone not a member of the swamp.
The swamp has specific bloodlines going back centuries, if not longer.
Good luck with that.
And then they would never get approved.
I’m not sure exactly how the executive branch works, is the President limited to hiring/firing senate confirmed officials? If not, the best thing for our country would be for the President to just fire every employee of the executive branch except for the dod side of things, and then just never replace them.
That would singlehandedly fix the majority of our countries problems, and the rest would probably sort themselves out in short order.
The problem with that is that the swamp would never allow that and would either JFK or 25th any president who tried to do it. Because clearly a politician who wants a smaller government is insane, right?
Trump would have been better off appointing people with high scores here on T_D, vs. many of the folks he did appoint. At least he would have gotten people serious about implementing our America First policies.
For example, I'm pretty sure acting FBI director MewThat would have been much better for the country than Chris Wray. See where I'm going with this? Of course, for this to work, there have to be at least a few lower level folks willing to report to the boss what is actually going on in their respective agencies.
Trump should have had a very public whistleblower channels for MAGA folks to report on wrongdoing by the swamp folks they work with.
This would be great, but they never would have been confirmed by the Senate.
Exactly. We're agreeing up front to take a 6 month sabbatical from our jobs to work in government (the epitome of citizen-statesman, by the way), and we just tag team, from one T_D patriot to another, with the outgoing person giving the incoming person the scoop on what the outgoing person has learned, tips, etc.
We'd go, serve our country with no expectation of being there longer than the time period allotted to get an acting person approved.