Trump planning Nov. 4th shake-up

gotta goThe Horn News – If and when President Donald Trump wins re-election… lookout.

According to insiders, it’s a well-known secret that the president has a post-election “execution list” of White House officials he’s ready to replace.

Axios says that when the dust settles, FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel, and Defense Secretary Mark Esper will all be subject to the chopping block.

In fact, sources reportedly told Axios that both Wray and Haspel are deeply resented by Trump and his closest White House associates. Trump — according to news sources — would’ve gotten rid of them long before the election. Continue reading

When “To the victor belong the spoils” is defied

TrumpSartre – Partisan politics has operated under the maxim that no matter which party wins the election, they replace the top leadership positions with their own people. New appointees exchange holdovers from the previous administration with loyalists who can be entrusted to organize the revamped policies, carry out to reforms of agencies and oversees personal selections in order to implement the direction of the winning party.

The underlying premise is that the establishment attains an orderly transfer of power and has the means to reward their dedicated inner circle. But what happens to this model of sharing the loot when the elected candidate does not have the support of a substantial percentage of their own party?

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Red Ice Radio ~ Tjeerd Andringa: Bureaucracy, Geopolitics: Authoritarians vs. Libertarians [Audio]

RedIceRadio  November 4 2013

Tjeerd Andringa is an associate professor of Sensory Cognition at the ALICE Institute at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He recently wrote a fascinating paper that provides an in-depth analysis of bureaucracy as a psychological phenomenon.

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The paper also lists key-features and indicators of encroaching government administration that creates virtual iron cages with papers, rules, forms and protocols. Andringa details the driving forces of bureaucracy from the perspective of cognitive science. He explains that the authoritarian’s fear of a complex world is existential, so the technocrat in charge of government or other organizations is quite ruthless in the efforts to simplify the working environment (the real world), in order to try to understand it better.

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