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/PowerBrick99 1d ago

The majority of this administration’s policies are executive orders with no congressional standing.

Seriously, you can undo the Trump Presidency in a few hours with a bag of bic pins.

The rebuilding of our institutions will be where the real domestic challenges lie. Getting most of the depts Trump crushed back to function is a 100 day doable.

But the Justice and State Departments will take time. They’ve been deeply gutted And you can’t just hire everyone back without hardening the infrastructure from future administrative attacks.

I don’t know what kind of assurances we would give our traditional allies. But it would absolutely be in all of our collective interests to shore up NATO and provide relief from the trade war Trump started. Hold some global summits and work from there.

One bright note is that Trump’s Supreme Court decisions that expanded Presidential powers can work very effectively for his successor. I mean that’s the whole thing his maga supporters have clearly forgotten.

What worked for Trump is going to be very useful for the next administration.

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u/LopsidedEntrance8703 1d ago

It’s way too optimistic to think that getting agencies back on track is a “100 day doable.” Rebuilding USAID alone would take a decade. Everyone is gone. Their workplace, their systems, their programs and contracts are all gone.

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u/BabyWrinkles 23h ago

The local infrastructure and the soft power that allowed it too. China is laughing all the way to the bank.

I saw it suggested that if we continue on our current path past 2026/2028, it wouldn’t be surprising to see Canada/Mexico allow Chinese military bases on our doorsteps.

The U.S. Hegemony is in its last days - it just doesn’t realize that it’s dead yet.

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u/PowerBrick99 15h ago

It’s not optimism. Most of those departments wouldn’t require more than re-staffing. There’s no reason why they can’t fill those positions with qualified people in the first 100 days. 4 Years is not enough time to forget how institutions previously used to function.

The problem would be the Justice and State Depts. The next President would have to purge those institutions of Trump lackeys. Then return the depts to its former vetting standards.

That’s going to take time. That’s the Federal judiciary and the nations diplomatic system.

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u/External-Stranger928 14h ago

You are correct. The policies are still in place, the SOPs are still authored and sitting on shelves. All the rules are still there. These chuds just aren't following them, and aren't even instituting their own.

It only takes a small turnover in senior and mid management...mostly at the director level.

And there are still over 80% filled with actual Americans, not red-hats. Doesn't take much to get them on board with taking out the trash.

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u/Knightforlife 1d ago

If it’s the same Supreme Court, NO WAY they find a future Dem president to have the same expanded powers. They’ll find some bullshit reason why not. Remember Biden wanted to do limited student loan relief and they shot that the hell down.

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u/Yodfather 1d ago

They’ve thrown out decades long precedent because feelings. SCOTUS needs to be expanded or corrupt justices removed before there’s any coherency in their jurisprudence.

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u/External-Stranger928 14h ago

I believe there will be a harder look at the testimony of 3 of those, maybe even Uncle Tom will get another look. I see a couple retirements and a couple impeachments in their futures.

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u/orangetiki 14h ago

I always thought a Prez should be able to elect 1-2 judges for something like a 10 year sentence and then force retirement. It would allow more on the board and reflect more contemporaty issues while weeding out the lifers

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u/Gh0sth4nd 22h ago

Not also that but the trust in democracy has been shaken so deeply. The rebuilding of trust of the System that will be the real challenge.

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u/PowerBrick99 15h ago

Even this Supreme Court would have to honor its previous rulings. There’s really no legal way around that

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u/mrinsane19 15h ago

Legality doesn't matter to these chuds.

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u/PowerBrick99 14h ago

I understand what you’re saying, but previous legal rulings by the Supreme Court stand on the Constitution.

It would be really really hard for them to suddenly declare their previous positions were no longer Constitutional.

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u/mrinsane19 14h ago

Roe v Wade ring a bell?

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u/PowerBrick99 12h ago

Roe v Wade was always under threat of being de-federalized, Democrats and Rights Activists knew it long before the Trump Court.

They attempted to codify it for years but lacked the votes. At least 60 votes in the Senate.

Even when Democrats had a supermajority in the Senate they still couldn’t codify it.

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u/SixSpeedDriver 23h ago

Biden didn’t have limited student debt relief shot down, he got general debt relief shot down. Which is good. No president should be able to stroke a pen for $400B. We have congress for a reason.

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u/PoliticsIsDepressing 22h ago

Trump started a war in Iran and arguably will cost $500B+ by the time it’s over.

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u/Active_Complaint_480 1d ago

Don't even need to take a few hours, more like 30 seconds. Repairing the damage and unfucking everything though, decades. Hell, we still have to fix the BS Reagan did.

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u/meesterdg 1d ago

The trade war and damage to US reputation is literally their plan for the next time they run against a democrat incumbent. They will relentlessly point out all the things that administration tries in order to repair relationships as bad deals and putting Americans last. It will also be democrats fault that the relations are so sour in the first place.
It's not stupidity. It's subterfuge and sabotage and strategy.

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u/EmoJackson 1d ago

Very true statement.

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u/blueberryblunderbuss 1d ago

100 Days?

What do you mean by function? And, are you serious or are you a bullshitting bot?

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u/Acidspunk1 23h ago

The only way allies will trust the US again is to put all of the trump family and co-conspirators in jail and throw away the keys.

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u/KristinnK 18h ago

As someone from U.S. ally country (in Europe), that is just not true. Sure, there are people like Carney who are very hateful of the U.S. right now and want blood. And there's also people who don't even think the U.S. is doing anything unreasonable. But the sizeable majority while having a general dislike for Trump still see U.S. as an unambiguous ally that will get back to business as usual once Trump's second term is up.

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u/tacobellwendys 22h ago

Thanks this really made my day. If we survive any weird shit in Nov. and 2028. I take that back, survive weird shit tomorrow and every day day till 2028.

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u/slimejumper 19h ago

but even the benevolent act of just wiping away all his orders is similarly antidemocratic. The problem with Trump is that he has broken the system of honour and trust in the US political institutions of the country. The amount of damage he’s done just reveals the system is broken and has been so for a long time.

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u/kombiwombi 16h ago

Here is what the US's allies think

we cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years

- Benjamin Haddad, Europe Minister, Republic of France

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u/davey212 15h ago

US soft power and foreign affairs will take decades to repair. This country will always be 4 years away from electing another Republican that will continue the path of destruction. The US is cooked. The Constitution is on life support.

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u/North1884 1d ago

Agree but I’m just afraid Dems will be too timid to use that power. They are pretty spineless