Trump Dictatorship and All Things Politics

[fishonjazz]

Russ Vought, OBM, coming forth as the Grim Reaper. Well, Vought did say he wants to put federal workers “in trauma”. Clip has a sadistic feel overall. Trump is sick, maybe he thinks this will scare Democrats.

Russell Vought - from Project 2025 to Trump's shutdown enforcer

The Office of Management and Budget boss may not be a household name, but he's a key figure in Washington's shutdown.

www.bbc.com

"I know nothing about Project 2025," Trump wrote in July 2024. "I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal."

Now, however, Trump is using the conservative blueprint as a threat to get Democrats to agree to his budgetary demands. And he is holding up Vought, who authored a chapter on the use of executive power, as a kind of budgetary angel of death, ready to take a scythe to government programmes near and dear to Democrats.

In case that particular metaphor wasn't clear, on Thursday night Trump shared an AI-generated parody music video on Truth Social with Vought portrayed as the grim reaper, set to altered lyrics of Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper…..

Balding and bespectacled, with a greying beard, Vought's public statements typically have the measured cadence of a bean-counter or professor. He lacks the narrow-eyed glower and amped-up rhetoric of Stephen Miller, another longtime Trump adviser who oversees White House immigration policy.

Make no mistake, however, Vought has become an influential player in this White House, having turned the Office of Management and Budget – usually referred to by its acronym OMB - into the principal engine behind Trump's push to slash government spending and its workforce.

What a douchebag. Absolutely horrible president. By far the worst in history.

 

[fishonjazz]

trump and the Republicans should simply allow people to have their healthcare. Then if the money is used for illegal immigrants healthcare simply arrest those responsible since it's already against the law to use taxpayer money on illegal immigrants healthcare.
Win win for trump. Voters are happy to keep their healthcare and lower premiums and trump can prosecute his enemies for breaking the law if they do break the already existing law that has existed for decades.

Easy peasy. However, trump wants this shutdown so he can strip power from the other branches of government and increase the power of the executive