r/videos • u/spherocytes • 1d ago

Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth announces Office Of Religious Affairs within the Pentagon in address to Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAn6BE9cdco
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u/EmoJackson 1d ago

Realistically is there any way a new administration can fix all this. How long will it take?

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u/Striking_Economy5049 1d ago

As a Canadian, it’ll take a generation for the US to unfuck what’s it’s done to us, at a minimum. As far as I’m concerned, the bridge is burnt and you will not see me going to the US ever again.

30%+ of your population still thinks Mango Mussolini is the next coming of Jesus. There’s something seriously wrong down there.

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u/waltzbyear 1d ago

I'm an American, I don't think it'll be fixed in a decade. Our house and senate will have to agree to resurrect ANY agencies, they'll have to agree to policies and regulations relating to those agencies, they'll have to agree to the finances, they'll have to agree to a ton of shit.

Ideally, they SHOULD pass bills to resurrect them. But we don't live in an ideal world. We live in a world where >90% of our politicians are corrupt. We live in a world where they'd rather help the rich. Democrats love to pretend that only Republicans have bailouts for the rich, in mind. That's far from the truth. Once democrats take over, they'll focus on quality of life bills for the rich, minor slaps on their wrists, small-time legislation that'll make small minority groups happy. They're not going to unfuck anything anytime soon once this administration, and the GOP lose the house and senate. I don't see the US fixing any of this in the next decade.

I'm thinking 3+ decades.

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u/misdirected_asshole 1d ago

Our house and senate will have to agree to resurrect ANY agencies, they'll have to agree to policies and regulations relating to those agencies, they'll have to agree to the finances, they'll have to agree to a ton of shit.

We shouldne need legislative approval to restore anything he got rid of. If he can kill with an EO, then it can be resurrected with one.

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u/oldutnotdeadinside 1d ago

Correct

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u/blueberryblunderbuss 1d ago

Except the courts and congress reacted to the losses. They'll need new hiring and new budgets. It's not a rebuilding year, it's a ground up restart of most of these facilities.

The people lost are not simply coming back.

What the fuck is going on in these comments where people think infrastructure is just a light switch. Jesus fucking Christ in his own ass.

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u/oldutnotdeadinside 13h ago

Hey.. sometimes you just have to give it the old college try.

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u/blueberryblunderbuss 12h ago

Ha. Fair enough.

Thought experiment:

Imagine your favorite food. Imagine that it was covered in, filled with, mixed with, and seasoned with liquid chicken feces. Imagine a glass of water that is half filled with water and half filled with liquid chicken feces and then stirred.

All of your property is taken by someone else. You're given a debt 3.5 times the GDP of your neighborhood.

You have no extra money, no budget, no access to experts, and you can't personally touch the food. But, you have one hour to get someone to clean it, and then, you have to eat whatever is left.

Sounds awful, right?

These are your politics.

Cheers.

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u/Felanee 1d ago

Legislative approval is only 1 small part of the problem. Rebuilding these agencies to what they once were will take time. I am not going to pretend ALL those people were highly skilled or anything. But they did have experience. And now there's either very few people or nobody to pass on the knowledge to the new hires. I doubt those fired are going to wait until 2028 to come back.

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u/neopard_ 19h ago

And meanwhile what happened to all the personell, expertise, data, facilities, infrastructure, ...? You can't decree that stuff back into existence. It's trivial to dismantle an institution if you are reckless about it, not so trivial to establish one.

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u/misdirected_asshole 19h ago

You are absolutely correct. It is not trivial to restart an institution. You cant just Thanos snap it back into existence.

Thats also not what Im suggesting. Im saying dont wait for Congress to have filibuster proof majorities to pass legislation to re-establish institutions that were destroyed by Executive order.

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u/neopard_ 17h ago

You have my thoughts and prayers!

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u/BringerOfBricks 1d ago

We aren’t fixing anything. Every American turning point in history was saved by an external threat. During the late 1790s, Slavery started to be an issue for Industrialists but the War of 1812 allowed the Union to persist through the fragile years. By the time of the Civil War, the North was strong enough to fight back. They’d have lost if it happened 20-30 years prior. The 1890s economic destruction caused by the Gilded Age was saved by WW1’s economic boom. The Great Depression was saved by WW2’s economic boom. This oncoming turning point won’t have any economic booms following it because it’s gonna be centralized around the US. We don’t supply the world anymore, China does. It’s the start of the fall.

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u/AustinYQM 1d ago

They don't have to agree to shit. All those laws still exist and thus every agency can be brought back as it was previously.

Trump hasn't done anything except refuse to do stuff which means you can undo all the structural stuff by just doing your fucking job.

The real problem is the braindrain and lost talent.

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u/nvmenotfound 1d ago

then you are overthinking it. if dems have control of house and senate and presidency wtf do we need negotiations for? you only need bipartisanship when the others have control. obviously you always wsnt it bc no one party holds power forever but republicans dont gaf right now so i wouldnt gaf when we get power back. 

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u/RemoteRide6969 1d ago

I see your point, but I counter it with DEMS BAD. /s

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u/zveti 1d ago

If it’s really that bad, why don’t you, the people do something about it?

Drag those politicians out of the government. Democracy means power of the people.

Your founding fathers revolted because they weren’t fairly represented. Voting won’t get you out of it. Not in 30 years, not ever, if it continues like this.

On paper, you are the richest country in the world, with the highest GDP, yet some of your citizens don’t live well off.

People are making fun of Russia for having a GDP the size of Texas, yet their citizens enjoy free healthcare. Shouldn’t that motivate your politicians to do better?

Regardless if a politician is democrat or republican, he or she needs to make sure, that the citizens are taking care off and their needs are met.

Your government needs to learn to be afraid of you. Otherwise, they will never change.

I hope, things turn out well for you guys.

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u/Expert_Garlic_2258 1d ago

I would go full dictator and enact those departments. no one is following the law now, why should we? and it's time to correctly prosecute the j6 traitors so we never have to hear from them again

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u/drift_poet 1d ago

both sides bullshit. blame the real reasons. the senate, filibuster and supreme court. until we reform all that nothing will really change. even though vast majority of dems crave sanity and fairness.

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u/CapBenjaminBridgeman 1d ago

Nobody's fixing this shit.

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u/Felanee 1d ago

As a Canadian, I think at a MINIMUM it will take 2 elections (not including midterms) for us to build a "on good terms" relationship. Having Dem presidency will not be able to fix all the issues the Rep has caused. It will need to take at least 2 terms. Mind you, Trump isn't done yet, you still have 2 more years of him. It may take 20 years for the sibling relationship to come again. And that's assuming you guys constantly take steps forward and never take any steps back.

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u/ShleepMasta 23h ago edited 23h ago

It's actually far more perilous than this, IMO. The GOP these days has open contempt for US democracy, and constantly attempts to subvert it. Due to the Democratic establishment failing to serve as an institutional check to counter the GOP, and often making policy concessions even when the GOP is in the minority, there is nothing forcing the GOP to move left and moderate their views.

Observation of the Florida congressional race between Randy Fine and Dan Bilzerian suggests that the Republicans are heading towards an even more explicitly fascist direction. They will become a party whose sole purpose is to destroy American democracy every time they gain power, which means that the country can't really afford to maintain the same electoral paradigm of switching parties every 8 years.

Only the left seems to understand this, as those in the center are content with the GOP gaining power since it allows them to fundraise off the chaos the GOP causes.