WATCH: Trump’s Second Term: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

0:04 | we’re going to dive straight in with our

0:06 | main story tonight which concerns the

0:07 | presidential election the thing you’re

0:09 | actively ignoring so you can devote all

0:11 | your brain power to mil Manor if you’re

0:13 | not watching real quick this season not

0:16 | only are the mils dating hot younger men

0:18 | they’re also and this is true dating the

0:20 | young guys dads as well and it is

0:23 | exactly as awkward for everyone as you’d

0:25 | think today you’re going to be exploring

0:27 | a tantric yoga class oh God like no way

0:32 | no there’s some things that you just

0:35 | don’t do with your son or with your

0:37 | father are you traumatized a little bit

0:40 | yeah yeah I bet although not to victim

0:43 | blame here but you did sign up to bag

0:45 | mils in a televised sex contest so no

0:47 | brain was ever leaving that Mana

0:49 | unscarred the election is in full swing

0:52 | right now and it’s pretty much your

0:53 | usual campaign candidates offering

0:55 | policy proposals trading barbs and

0:57 | occasionally getting convicted of 34

0:58 | felonies and complaining about the judge

1:01 | you saw what happened to some of the

1:03 | witnesses that were on our side they

1:05 | were literally crucified by this man who

1:09 | looks like an angel but he’s really a

1:11 | devil okay Trump definitely doesn’t know

1:14 | what the word literally means but given

1:16 | his inability to talk about the Bible it

1:18 | is possible that he doesn’t know what

1:19 | crucified means either though I could be

1:21 | wrong maybe Jesus got nailed to Planks

1:24 | because of his hush payments to a porn

1:25 | star I don’t know I don’t have the close

1:28 | personal relationship that Trump has

1:30 | with the Bible which for the record is

1:31 | sourly holding it up like he’s showing

1:33 | off the bug he just squashed with it but

1:36 | as massively flawed As Trump is as a

1:38 | candidate husband Boss Father and human

1:40 | being he is currently slightly ahead of

1:43 | Biden in the poll so there is a pretty

1:45 | good chance he can be back in the white

1:47 | house next year and given that it’s

1:48 | worth talking about what he plans to do

1:50 | if he gets there because Trump does have

1:52 | a second-term platform you can go on his

1:54 | website and see it all laid out and it

1:56 | is pretty alarming for instance here he

1:58 | is talking about his plans regarding

2:00 | trans rights I will ask Congress to pass

2:02 | a bill establishing that the only

2:05 | genders recognized by the United States

2:07 | government are male and female and they

2:10 | are assigned at Birth no serious country

2:13 | should be telling its children that they

2:15 | were born with the wrong gender a

2:18 | concept that was never heard of in all

2:20 | of human history nobody’s ever heard of

2:22 | this what’s happening

2:24 | today it was all when the radical left

2:27 | invented it just a few years ago

2:31 | that is really the Trump experience in a

2:33 | nutshell right there hateful ideology a

2:35 | promise to make life harder for

2:37 | minorities all wrapped up in a non-sec

2:39 | so stupid it is inconveniently funny the

2:42 | radical left invented trans people a few

2:46 | years ago I’m sorry what did they put it

2:48 | on Shark Tank and I somehow missed it

2:52 | that is another instant classic line

2:53 | read from one of Humanity’s worst brains

2:56 | Trump’s also promising mass deportations

2:58 | in his next term here is is Steven

3:00 | Miller his former adviser and first

3:01 | draft Pixar villain talking in depth

3:04 | about the logistics so you grab illegal

3:07 | immigrants and then you move them to the

3:09 | staging grounds and that’s where the

3:10 | planes are waiting for federal law

3:12 | enforcement to then move those illegals

3:13 | home you deputize the National Guard to

3:16 | carry out immigration enforcement and

3:18 | then you also deploy the military to the

3:21 | southern border the military has the

3:23 | right to establish a fortress position

3:26 | on the border and to say no one can

3:28 | cross here at oh wow those are some

3:31 | strong words from Miller there only

3:33 | slightly undercut by his tendency to

3:35 | look at all times like a condom full of

3:37 | soup but but that is still just the

3:40 | beginning Trump plans to require local

3:43 | law enforcement agencies to use measures

3:45 | like stop and frisk cut funding for any

3:47 | school that has a vaccine or mask

3:49 | mandate and impose a universal Tariff of

3:51 | at least 10% on All Imports and notably

3:55 | he’s promising to get revenge on his

3:56 | enemies at rallies he’s told supporters

3:58 | that I am your retro ution which sounds

4:00 | more like something you’d hear out of

4:01 | the mouth of Megatron than a major

4:04 | presidential candidate and he’s been

4:06 | specific about who exactly will be on

4:08 | the receiving end of that retribution we

4:11 | will root out the Communists marxists

4:14 | fascists and the radical left thugs that

4:17 | live like Vermin within the confines of

4:20 | our country that lie and steal and cheat

4:23 | on elections and will do anything

4:26 | possible they’ll do anything whether

4:28 | legally or ille legally to destroy

4:30 | America and to destroy the American

4:33 | dream first was he falling asleep at the

4:36 | end there but second it’s not usually a

4:39 | great sign when a politician starts

4:41 | referring to groups as Vermin unless of

4:43 | course they’re running for mayor of

4:44 | zootopia and they’re gunning for the

4:46 | little rodentia vks then it’s actually

4:48 | pretty Savvy politics and you think well

4:51 | okay Trump’s making big scary promises

4:53 | but he did that in 2016 to and he broke

4:55 | a lot of them that is true although he

4:57 | did also go on to do a lot of damage he

5:00 | blew up the Iran nuclear deal withdrew

5:01 | us from the Paris climate agreement

5:03 | slashed access to food stamps and gave a

5:05 | huge tax cut to corporations he

5:06 | separated children from their families

5:08 | at the border suggested curing Co with

5:09 | bleach or a bright light summoned an

5:11 | Insurrection and put in three Supreme

5:12 | Court Justices who helped overturn Ro v

5:14 | Wade and seem to have no intentions of

5:15 | stopping there but it is true that a lot

5:17 | of his other major policy goals from

5:19 | ending the Affordable Care Act to

5:21 | getting Mexico to pay for his border

5:22 | wall remained Out Of Reach Trump as

5:25 | president was sort of like a hamster in

5:27 | an attack helicopter sure he wants to

5:30 | bathe the world in Blood and Terror he

5:32 | wants it with his whole rotten hamster

5:33 | heart but luckily he doesn’t know what

5:35 | buttons to press and his brain’s the

5:37 | size of a peanut so that puts some hard

5:39 | limits on the damage he’s actually able

5:41 | to

5:42 | do this time though Trump will have a

5:44 | lot more help not only are the courts

5:46 | more conservative and the Republican

5:48 | Party more firmly aligned with him but a

5:50 | group of conservatives has come up with

5:52 | a plan of action to ensure that he can

5:53 | hit the ground running and even if he

5:56 | does meet resistance from Congress or

5:58 | the courts he will now have ways to go

6:00 | around them that is why while Trump’s

6:03 | first term was bad his second could be

6:05 | much much worse so tonight let’s talk

6:08 | about Trump’s second term who’s making

6:10 | those plans for him what they entail and

6:12 | how much damage they could do and the

6:14 | main Insight we have into all of this

6:15 | comes from something called project 2025

6:18 | which I know sounds like a sexy CW

6:20 | sci-fi drama starring a shanty Chad

6:22 | Michael Murray and turtle from Entourage

6:24 | but incredibly it’s even worse than that

6:27 | basically project 2025 aims to do for

6:29 | Trump’s whole presidency what the

6:31 | Federalist Society did for his judicial

6:33 | picks give him a step-by-step game plan

6:35 | that he simply has to execute and then

6:37 | take credit for they’ve even made a

6:39 | promotional video for it on inauguration

6:42 | day the four years ahead seems like an

6:44 | eternity it’s not because the left has

6:46 | engineered our government and

6:48 | institutions to reject conservative

6:50 | ideology the 2025 presidential

6:53 | transition project brings together

6:54 | conservative organizations to ensure the

6:57 | policy and Personnel are in place on

7:00 | January 20th 2025 using four pillars we

7:03 | are laying the foundation for the next

7:05 | president to end Washington’s

7:07 | bureaucracy and restore American

7:10 | Prosperity yeah more than a 100

7:12 | conservative organizations have come

7:14 | together to work on this and they’re all

7:15 | there you’ve got the Heritage Foundation

7:17 | Liberty University the NRA Turning Point

7:20 | USA rodeo clowns for Trump the center

7:22 | for ruining Thanksgiving the marriages

7:24 | between a man and his property Institute

7:26 | arm The Unborn the union of Twitter guys

7:28 | with goatees and rappers Brown Shades

7:30 | Captain Planet villains for brighter

7:31 | tomorrow and of course Americans for how

7:33 | zo should let you the bald eagles

7:35 | they are all here they’ve even produced

7:38 | a 900 page handbook on their goals which

7:41 | are sweeping it proposes dismantling

7:43 | Noah the agency that tracks hurricanes

7:45 | and protects marine life because it’s

7:46 | quote one of the main drivers of the

7:48 | climate change alarm industry it also

7:51 | proposes eliminating the Head Start

7:53 | program installing a pro-life task force

7:55 | to replace Biden’s reproductive

7:57 | Healthcare one outli plans to defund the

7:59 | de J dismantle the FBI and eliminate the

8:01 | Department of Education and commerce and

8:03 | states that pornography should be

8:05 | outlawed and the people who produce and

8:07 | distribute it should be imprisoned and

8:09 | these proposals are extreme because the

8:12 | people who wrote them are extreme and

8:13 | they’ve been laying all of this out in

8:15 | plain view mostly on conservative

8:17 | podcasts one of the major architects of

8:19 | project 2025 is Russell vort who served

8:22 | in the White House during Trump’s first

8:24 | term he’s a self-described Christian

8:26 | Nationalist and here he is making a

8:28 | targeted pitch for one funding cut that

8:30 | Trump could make I am opposed to the

8:32 | Department of Education because I think

8:34 | it’s the department of critical race

8:35 | Theory I mean you have grants after

8:38 | Grant of culturally responsive learning

8:40 | where you’re funding essentially a

8:42 | cultural revolution not just with

8:44 | teachers but with the students that’s

8:47 | what all this wokeism about yeah

8:49 | apparently the Department of Education

8:51 | is funding a cultural revolution I

8:53 | presume that is why every kindergarten

8:55 | classroom now has the new edition of

8:56 | brown bear brown bear what do you see

8:58 | where he responds a parasitic member of

9:00 | the

9:02 | Bourgeois but but V and the rest of the

9:06 | project 2025 team aren’t just devising

9:08 | policy they’re making sure they’ll have

9:10 | the right people in place to implement

9:12 | it one of the reasons Trump got off to a

9:14 | slow start last time is that because

9:16 | nobody expected him to win there wasn’t

9:18 | a plan in place for what to do once he

9:20 | did Jared famously Tau the Obama White

9:23 | House not long after the election and

9:25 | asked how many of the individuals there

9:27 | would remain into the next

9:28 | Administration to which someone

9:29 | presumably had to tell him not many you

9:31 | idiots you have to hire people

9:34 | yourself that is what you just won but

9:37 | that confusion won’t happen this time

9:39 | because project 2025 is assembling a

9:41 | database of prospective hires not just

9:43 | for the White House but across the

9:45 | entire federal government they’ve

9:47 | likened to a conservative LinkedIn

9:49 | here’s one of the leaders of that effort

9:51 | John mckinty making his pitch for people

9:53 | to sign up if you want to work and make

9:55 | a difference you can go to Project

9:57 | 202.org

9:59 | you can apply you can take the training

10:01 | you can learn about being a political

10:03 | appointee and how to be effective which

10:05 | is so important okay you got the job now

10:08 | what do you do how do you take on the

10:10 | bureaucracy how do you do all these

10:11 | things so that’s where we’re trying to

10:13 | help just give the president a little

10:15 | leg up on Staffing it’s essentially an

10:18 | open audition for people who might want

10:20 | a new job because they lost their old

10:22 | one back on January the 6th for some

10:24 | reason and their goal here is clear to

10:27 | assemble an army of vetted train staff

10:29 | who can begin dismantling the

10:31 | administrative state from day one which

10:33 | is a little weird if you think about it

10:35 | they’re assembling an army of future

10:37 | government bureaucrats who hate the

10:38 | government if you were interviewing for

10:40 | a job at Cheerios and the interviewer

10:41 | said why do you want to work here and

10:43 | you replied because I hate Cheerios and

10:45 | want to destroy it you’d be immediately

10:47 | grabbed by security and never seen again

10:49 | you think Cheerios around you

10:51 | think you rule the serial a for 80 plus

10:54 | years without burying some bodies

10:56 | around with Cheerios and I promise

10:59 | you’ll find

11:00 | out and once project 2025 is Wrecking

11:03 | Crew is in place they’ve outlined a

11:05 | number of strategies that can be used to

11:07 | make sure Trump can do as much as

11:09 | possible without needing Congress a lot

11:11 | of them derive from the so-called

11:12 | unitary executive Theory which was

11:14 | developed during the Reagan years it

11:16 | supporters argue that article two of the

11:17 | Constitution gives the president

11:19 | complete control of the executive branch

11:22 | as one person who’s read that Manifesto

11:24 | puts it it turns the separation of

11:25 | powers among the three branches into a

11:27 | game of rock paper scissors EX ccept

11:29 | rock beats everything here is one

11:32 | example that there used to be thing

11:33 | called impoundment where a president

11:35 | could stop or redirect money that

11:37 | Congress had already appropriated for

11:39 | something congress actually made that

11:41 | illegal in 1974 after some abuses during

11:45 | the Nixon Administration it may ring a

11:47 | bell for you because it came up during

11:48 | Trump’s first impeachment hearings when

11:50 | he held up Aid to Ukraine to try and get

11:53 | them to look for dirt on the Biden

11:54 | family but Trump’s team now wants to

11:57 | bring impoundment back to thwart

11:58 | anything liberal that comes out of

12:00 | Capitol Hill just listen to Larry

12:02 | cuddler one of Trump’s top economic

12:04 | advisers in his first term get very

12:06 | excited when talking about it so let’s

12:08 | get back to you know you and I agree how

12:11 | about giving the power of empowerment to

12:13 | the president ow great idea impound

12:17 | their tases off impound their rear ends

12:20 | off that’s what you do and leave all

12:23 | this legislative BS just impound impound

12:27 | impound wow he’s getting fired up there

12:30 | also impound their rear ends off sounds

12:33 | less like a statement about Presidential

12:34 | Power and more like a slogan from a

12:36 | pride event in the cars

12:38 | universe but it goes well beyond

12:40 | empowerment in fact it’s one of the most

12:42 | boring sounding parts of project 2025

12:45 | that can actually end up being the most

12:47 | Insidious because it could make

12:48 | achieving all Trump’s other goals so

12:51 | much easier it’s called schedule F and

12:53 | to explain it I’m afraid I’m going to

12:55 | have to briefly talk about government HR

12:58 | procedures so just sit tight and when

13:00 | we’re done I promise I’ll play you

13:01 | another clip from Mil Manor as a

13:04 | reward very basically there are two

13:07 | kinds of federal employees the first

13:09 | group are merit-based career positions

13:11 | these jobs tend to be experts

13:13 | administrators and support staff that do

13:15 | the important work of keeping the

13:16 | government running it could be an

13:18 | engineer at Nasa a nurse at the VA or a

13:21 | railroad safety inspector at the

13:23 | department of transportation workers

13:24 | like that have robust employee

13:27 | protections meaning they can’t be fired

13:28 | for political reasons because their jobs

13:31 | aren’t political that way they can work

13:33 | over many administrations gaining the

13:34 | kind of extensive experience that the

13:36 | government needs to function the second

13:38 | group consists of political appointees

13:41 | like cabinet secretaries and those under

13:43 | them they are hired by a new

13:44 | Administration to ensure the campaign

13:46 | Promises of the new president are being

13:48 | worked on and they tend to leave when

13:50 | that Administration does there are about

13:52 | 2 million career federal employees and

13:55 | only about 4,000 political ones who

13:58 | change depending on who is in charge

14:00 | those are the ones the new

14:01 | administrations do have to hire in Jared

14:04 | you idiot okay that is

14:07 | essentially all the background you need

14:09 | to know about Federal personal

14:11 | management if you’re bored it’s over and

14:13 | if you’re hard welcome

14:15 | home and either way here is that

14:18 | promised clip from Mil Mana I am

14:21 | definitely conflicted kissing Joey and

14:25 | it is so weird cuz my son’s name is Joey

14:28 | and they all right oh my God oh my God I

14:33 | will say this I know that is gross and

14:35 | incestuous but you all like that

14:38 | when it was on Game of Thrones you laed

14:40 | it right up if that clippard had a

14:42 | dragon in it would that make it any

14:43 | better for you anyway during Trump’s

14:46 | first term he got frustrated by the fact

14:48 | so many of the career government

14:50 | employees seem to be undermining him by

14:52 | telling him things that he wanted to do

14:54 | were illegal or that things he said were

14:56 | wrong or you know testifying publicly

14:58 | about the laws they seen him break but

15:00 | schedule F would fix all of that

15:03 | basically it’s a new designation that

15:04 | would reclassify around 50,000 Korea

15:07 | civil servants as political appointees

15:10 | meaning they wouldn’t have Civil Service

15:11 | protections from getting fired and

15:13 | whoever replaces them could be hired on

15:15 | loyalty not on Merit here is Russell

15:18 | vort explaining the plan to Don Junior’s

15:21 | fiance we have uh a number of ideas most

15:25 | notably schedule F which uh allows us to

15:28 | reclassify if you work on policy you

15:31 | have the opportunity to be reclassified

15:33 | and turned into an atwi employment that

15:35 | doesn’t mean you’re going to get fired

15:36 | tomorrow but that does mean that you are

15:38 | now working for the president of the

15:40 | United States you’re not working for

15:42 | your own institution or your own

15:44 | institutional benefits right you don’t

15:46 | work for the institution you work for

15:48 | the president so if for example you’re a

15:50 | government weather forecaster using your

15:52 | expertise to predict the path of a

15:53 | hurricane and hypothetically a president

15:56 | assembles the Press only for it to

15:57 | become clear he’s ended your map in

16:00 | Black Sharpie for some reason

16:02 | your job isn’t to correct him is to say

16:04 | absolutely right Mr President you truly

16:05 | are the best at weather except the truth

16:08 | is Trump wouldn’t even need a Sharpie to

16:10 | do it next time because whatever map

16:12 | exists in his head would already be the

16:14 | official position of the National

16:16 | Weather Service in that interview vort

16:18 | goes on to lay out exactly what schedule

16:20 | F would do and it is worth listening to

16:22 | him closely because it’s very important

16:24 | even if Kimberly guilfoil is clearly not

16:27 | listening to him at all

16:29 | the whole notion of Independence

16:30 | Kimberly there’s this view for a hundred

16:34 | years that agencies should be

16:36 | independent of the president and some of

16:38 | them are really independent under

16:40 | statute and some of them just want to

16:41 | call themselves independent all of it’s

16:44 | unconstitutional and all of it is

16:46 | designed so that a president of the

16:48 | United States can’t call these

16:50 | individuals up and say hey you guys work

16:52 | for me this is my policy agenda these is

16:55 | this is what I want you to do I will say

16:57 | that dead eyed sure is absolutely the

17:01 | level of conversational B I’d expect

17:02 | from someone in a relationship with Don

17:05 | Jr there are Tibetan Monks who aren’t

17:08 | that good at mentally transporting

17:10 | themselves somewhere else now

17:12 | interestingly Trump actually signed an

17:14 | executive order enacting this schedule F

17:16 | plan back in October of 2020 but barely

17:19 | anyone noticed because the whole thing

17:21 | had been developed in secrecy and issued

17:23 | only two weeks before the election under

17:25 | it anyone with a role developing policy

17:28 | could be reclassified but they basically

17:31 | decided that almost any role could be

17:34 | policy related in fact vort who was

17:36 | serving as Trump’s director of The

17:38 | Office of Management and budget at the

17:40 | time Drew up a list of potential

17:41 | employees that could be reclassified

17:43 | that amounted to 68% of his Department’s

17:47 | Workforce Now thankfully Biden undid

17:50 | schedule F immediately upon taking

17:51 | office but Trump says he plans to

17:53 | reinstate it on day one of his second

17:55 | term and to understand just how

17:58 | consequential that could be it is worth

18:00 | going back to that guy you saw earlier

18:01 | John mckinty he is a big proponent of

18:04 | schedule F he also happened to work as

18:06 | the Director of the White House

18:07 | personnel office for the last year of

18:09 | Trump’s first term a job that he got at

18:11 | the age of just 29 after initially

18:13 | starting out as the guy who literally

18:15 | carried Trump’s bags here is mckinty

18:18 | telling the fun story of how he got his

18:20 | big promotion I was walking with the

18:22 | president on the colonade in the white

18:24 | house he said what what’s on the

18:26 | schedule today I was reading through 99

18:29 | this 10 a.m. that I said you have your

18:30 | PO meeting he said po I said yeah the

18:33 | personel office is coming by he said oh

18:34 | I’ve always had so many problems with

18:36 | that office you know and then he just

18:39 | looked at me and said do you think you

18:41 | could run that office and for some

18:43 | reason I said yes I could run that

18:46 | office wow that that is an amazing story

18:50 | although I don’t know how good it makes

18:52 | you look to be honest so there I was

18:54 | holding the president’s purse when he

18:56 | says hey you you’re alive and in my

18:58 | field of vision do you want to do some

18:59 | so that I don’t have to he really

19:01 | saw my value in that

19:03 | moment by all accounts MC used his

19:05 | sudden power to purge anyone even

19:07 | suspected of disloyalty to the president

19:10 | his team pulled in even fairly low-level

19:12 | employees to make sure that they towed

19:14 | the Trump party line for instance an

19:16 | office assistant at the doj was asked to

19:18 | explain why she voted in a local

19:20 | Democratic primary a few years earlier

19:23 | and employees were expected to endorse

19:25 | policies that had nothing to do with

19:27 | their work officials at the EPA and HUD

19:30 | were apparently asked do you support the

19:32 | president’s plan to withdraw all US

19:34 | troops from Afghanistan and pity the

19:36 | random plant biologist at the EPA who

19:39 | had to be like I don’t know how will it

19:42 | affect

19:44 | ferns incidentally since leaving the

19:46 | White House mcant has kept busy not only

19:48 | working on Project 2025 but also

19:50 | starting this terrible conservative

19:52 | dating app called the right stuff I’ve

19:55 | got to tell you about something I am so

19:57 | excited to announce

19:59 | a dating app for all of us conservatives

20:01 | you’ll start off by building your

20:02 | perfect profile no pronouns necessary we

20:06 | want you to put your best foot forward

20:08 | which includes your favorite photos of

20:10 | yourself doing what you love or being

20:12 | with the people you love our prompts

20:14 | give you the opportunity to let people

20:15 | know various sides of you so remember be

20:18 | authentic and creative okay a few things

20:21 | first you don’t need a new dating app to

20:23 | find conservatives online just go on to

20:25 | any existing app and filter for people

20:27 | who describe their views as moderate any

20:30 | single woman in a big city can tell you

20:32 | moderate just means I’m a right-wing nut

20:34 | job but I’d like to get laid please and

20:36 | there is so much in that ad from the

20:39 | image of trump himself in one of the

20:40 | profile photos to the fact that some of

20:42 | those fun prompts include naming your

20:44 | favorite liberal lie and if you actually

20:47 | go on the App you’ll find another prompt

20:49 | for you to fill in that just says

20:50 | January 6th was and what is the right

20:54 | answer when a dating app asks you to

20:57 | rate an insurrection January 6th was a

21:00 | total turn on now get over here and

21:02 | shatter my like it’s a capital

21:05 | window matin also created a Tik Tok

21:08 | account for the site where every video

21:10 | seems to be a POV shot of what it’s like

21:12 | to be on a date with him which seems to

21:14 | be an absolute nightmare I was watching

21:18 | TV yesterday which I usually don’t do

21:20 | and I noticed something with the

21:23 | commercials when did everyone in America

21:25 | become black and gay do you really think

21:28 | handing over your gun ends gun violence

21:32 | that’s like chopping off your own dick

21:34 | to stop rape if you say Palestinians

21:36 | deserve a Homeland just for themselves

21:39 | you’re woke but if you say white people

21:42 | deserve a Homeland just for themselves

21:44 | you’re racist it’s funny how New York

21:47 | went from trying to ban big gulps to

21:50 | people openly in the

21:52 | [Music]

21:54 | street okay you clearly have some

21:56 | questions there and I can see your food

21:57 | is getting C so real quick one everyone

22:00 | in America isn’t black and gay though

22:02 | some people are and sometimes they do

22:03 | appear in commercials two to be clear I

22:06 | think you just made yourself the rapist

22:07 | in your own hypothetical there three is

22:10 | wanting a Homeland just for white people

22:12 | racist yes yes it is thanks for asking

22:14 | and finally people in New York have been

22:16 | openly in the street long

22:19 | before big gulps were even invented and

22:21 | it’s an odd thing to bring up seconds

22:22 | before inserting an entire hamburger

22:25 | into your face and while I know those

22:27 | Tik toks are very very dumb one of them

22:30 | is actually a pretty good reminder of

22:31 | MC’s entire philosophy when it comes to

22:34 | government Staffing so Elon must cut 90%

22:38 | of Twitter’s staff and it’s still

22:40 | working fine should we try that with

22:42 | government next yeah is that the best

22:45 | comparison though because I’m not sure

22:47 | Twitter is working fine so much as it’s

22:49 | a ruined Castle slowly sinking into the

22:52 | bog of irrelevance but I guess there are

22:54 | a lot more Nazis on there now which does

22:56 | seem to track with your plans for

22:57 | government look I am not saying there

23:00 | aren’t lots of ways to make the

23:02 | government more efficient there are but

23:03 | this isn’t the way to do it because

23:06 | there is clearly a problem with making

23:08 | large chunks of the government

23:09 | subordinate to the whims of the chief

23:11 | executive and his advisor SL Amer food

23:14 | comedian SL founder of Trad wife e

23:17 | Harmony especially when this particular

23:20 | chief executive famously values loyalty

23:22 | over all else just listen to this head

23:24 | of a government worker Union Point out

23:26 | the obvious do you want people doing

23:29 | scientific research at the nuclear

23:30 | Regulatory Commission who don’t have the

23:32 | qualifications to perform that kind of

23:34 | work their only qualification is an

23:37 | allegiance to the Trump agenda it’s very

23:40 | disheartening and it’s it’s scary I

23:42 | think that there will be a massive

23:44 | Exodus of competence right when you fire

23:48 | everyone who knows what they’re doing

23:49 | and only hire people who will say yes to

23:51 | the rich guy in charge that’s not a

23:53 | recipe for good government it’s a recipe

23:55 | for the Titan

23:56 | submersible I don’t want scientific

23:58 | research about nuclear power being done

24:00 | by people without experience I don’t

24:02 | want my latte being made by someone

24:04 | without experience oh it’s your first

24:06 | day I’m sorry step aside please give me

24:08 | the Barista with a sleeve of technotan

24:10 | stick and poke tattoos and a septum

24:12 | piercing who’s worked here for 5 years

24:14 | and who hates everybody here experience

24:17 | matters and look there are agencies

24:20 | where you obviously don’t want a

24:21 | president interfering for political

24:23 | Advantage like the Department of Justice

24:24 | or the EPA but across the whole

24:26 | government with schedule F a president

24:28 | could exert a lot of power and enact a

24:31 | lot more policy simply by telling his

24:33 | loyalists what to do for instance Trump

24:36 | wouldn’t need Congress to vote on a

24:38 | nationwide ban on abortion drugs when he

24:39 | could simply have his FDA declare them

24:42 | unsafe instead that plan incidentally is

24:45 | specifically spelled out in Project

24:47 | 202’s handbook which suggests the

24:48 | president have the FDA reverse its

24:51 | approval of chemical abortion drugs

24:53 | something that is a pet project for vort

24:55 | himself who has said among other things

24:57 | the families of the West are not having

24:59 | enough babies for their societies to

25:01 | endure in fact for all Trump’s talk of

25:03 | wanting to get rid of the deep State

25:06 | schedu F isn’t eliminating it it is

25:08 | creating a deep state that is loyal to

25:10 | him and driving good people out of

25:12 | government and people across the

25:14 | political Spectrum have been raising

25:16 | alarms about this Robert Shay a senior

25:19 | official under George W bush and a

25:20 | self-described hugely conservative loyal

25:22 | Republican has said hiring people based

25:25 | on personal political loyalties would

25:27 | produce an army of suck-ups adding I

25:29 | can’t overstate my level of concern

25:31 | about the damage this would do to the

25:33 | institution of the federal government

25:35 | you would have things formally

25:36 | considered illegal or unconstitutional

25:38 | popping up all across the government

25:40 | like whack-a-mole and the ability to

25:42 | fight them would be inhibited but that’s

25:44 | probably the point here and I do get

25:47 | that Trump unraveling Civil Service

25:48 | protections isn’t the sexiest headline

25:51 | but it’s also the action that could

25:53 | unlock his ability to do all the

25:55 | incredibly damaging things that he and

25:57 | those involved in Project 2025 have been

25:59 | planning so what do we do here well the

26:03 | simple thing is don’t vote for Donald

26:05 | Trump I don’t know if you are planning

26:06 | on doing that but but I think it should

26:09 | be clear by now that the official

26:11 | position of this show is that you should

26:13 | not vote for Donald Trump not not for

26:15 | president not for winner of the Mask

26:17 | singer basically not for anything and

26:20 | while I have a lot of problems with

26:22 | Biden he’s clearly the better of the two

26:25 | options which I recognize is a very low

26:27 | bar being better that Donald Trump

26:29 | cannot be the standard because Trump

26:31 | himself is the very absence of a

26:33 | standard but the truth is even if Trump

26:36 | loses that won’t be the end of this the

26:39 | people who cooked up project 2025 will

26:41 | just move on to project 2029 instead

26:44 | because for them this is about so much

26:47 | more than just one election or indeed

26:49 | one candidate project 2025 is born from

26:52 | an Impulse as old as America it’s an

26:54 | Impulse that says one class of Americans

26:56 | is entitled to lead and the rest of us

26:59 | are lucky to be allowed to serve that

27:01 | thinks there should be a limited

27:02 | government when it comes to rules they

27:04 | have to live by but also a unitary

27:06 | executive to keep the rest of us in line

27:08 | these are old old ideas that have been

27:10 | shouted from podiums by the likes of

27:12 | George Wallace and Pat Buchanon but have

27:15 | now been placed into a new handbook for

27:17 | an only two willing president to use on

27:20 | day one and in a perfect world I would

27:22 | love if we had an opposing party better

27:24 | able to articulate a strong defense of

27:26 | our country’s ideals and that also

27:28 | consistently lived up to them people are

27:30 | entitled to hope for more from the next

27:32 | four years than someone just not being

27:34 | Trump and for at least two supreme court

27:36 | justices to die I’m not saying which

27:39 | ones I would prefer but I think we all

27:41 | have our top

27:43 | two and and for anyone tempted to think

27:46 | well we survived Trump’s first term

27:49 | first not everyone did and it should

27:52 | hopefully be very clear by now a second

27:54 | Trump term really does promise to be far

27:56 | far worse because if Trump’s first term

27:59 | was defined by chaos his second could be

28:01 | defined by ruthless efficiency and that

28:04 | should be troubling to absolutely

28:06 | everyone because project 2025 is a

28:08 | movement whose members joke about

28:10 | wanting a white Homeland and insist

28:12 | women have to have more babies to uphold

28:14 | Western society and its work could be

28:16 | about to be funneled through a man who

28:17 | happily calls his fellow Americans

28:19 | Vermin it is not subtle it’s hard to

28:22 | miss and once you see it you cannot

28:23 | unsee it and I know that’s Bleak so let

28:26 | me leave you with something to which

28:28 | that exact same description can actually

28:30 | apply your third and final clip from Mil

28:34 | Mana oh my God that dads are hotter than

28:37 | the sons even the one on the crutch I

28:40 | want the one in the crutches yeah

28:43 | definitely the dads are giving me

28:44 | coochie tingles would have never thought

28:46 | I’d see my son in this situation would

28:48 | you know all these older women you just

28:50 | never thought you’d like older women

28:52 | yeah no I do I want to call him

28:56 | Mommy we need to be better than this we

28:59 | need to be better than all of this

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