Move Fast and Break Things

Donald Trump has been re-elected President. Republicans also have secured the Senate, and while it isn’t official yet, it appears they will also control the House.

Our prediction didn’t turn out too badly, we missed on Virginia and Minnesota but did capture the large swings in deep blue states like Illinois.

You can almost set your watch to the next manufactured crisis from the “deep state”, but hopefully Trump moves 100 miles an hour from here.

There are a few policies we’d like to see in the next administration, and this is just meant to be a fun post. We will do another expanding on Russiagate specifically.

1. DOJ Task Force - There should be a team setup inside DOJ reviewing the Netyksho case, DNC hack attribution, public-private surveillance and data collection, and more. There are indications that some confidential human sources for the FBI are employed as journalists at major media outlets. Everything needs to be reviewed. If documents merit it, a criminal investigation should be pursued and it’s time for mass-declassification of documents.

2. Government Efficiency - It appears Trump is set to pursue this one already, which should result in a dramatic shrinking of the government. As one example, DHS was set up to consolidate intelligence after 9/11, but today it has 250,000 employees and dozens of departments with unclear missions. All of that should be eliminated. Agency by agency, massive cuts should be the first move. As a consequence, Virginia could conceivably be put back into play for Republicans as government employees residing in the North move to find work.

3. FOIA reform - FOIA processing should be consolidated and brought “in-house” across the whole of the federal government. Requesters should be able to engage an advocate who holds a security clearance to fight for disclosure of documents before an independent board.

4. Comprehensive data privacy legislation - They abused data sources and government contracts to mine for dirt against Donald Trump, which should have highlighted the need for new legislation. All cell phone and internet data should belong to the individual in perpetuity. It should not be bought, sold, or shared without consent and consent should not be required for a transaction. It shouldn’t even be allowed to be stored beyond 1 year. This will upset big tech, but it’s time for them to be cut out at the knees anyway.

5. Social Security - The antiquated social security number system needs an upgrade. A more modern system could see tokenization and public/private keys. They need to look at privatization as well.

6. Schools - Spending has increased every year for decades, largely because classroom sizes have decreased. Teacher unions suggest smaller class sizes leads to more one-on-one attention but that doesnt appear to be the case. It’s time for a study that keeps funding the same for a school, increases classroom sizes to 30, provides tutors to every student and lengthens the school year. Let’s see what happens.

7. Diplomas? - Standards have collapsed. Take a look at Baltimore schools if you need an example. There are schools without any students reading at grade level or proficient in math. If they obtain a diploma, what value does it have? We should do a study that eliminates school grades and credits for diplomas, and instead uses a comprehensive test as the only benchmark. If a student passes it at 15 years old, give them their funding to take with them to start college courses for 3 years.

8. Health Care - Our system has the worst characteristics of socialism and capitalism because it’s both. There is a massive delta between cost and spending, and there is no competition to bring down costs. The question is how do we make a system that enables a single doctor to prescribe medication, do blood testing and send it to a lab, and also do x-rays himself (no specialists) at a price point where insurance isn’t needed? Every problem in the answer to that question is what needs to be changed. When someone doesn’t need insurance for their standard healthcare issues, costs will go down.

9. Election Reform - I’m not a proponent of “voter fraud” narratives, but the current system really can’t be audited once ballots are accepted. That is a problem. There is nothing wrong with voter ID and some simple changes.

10. Mental Health Reform - We need a federal framework. Right now our system is a mess and quite different state-by-state. Generally speaking, you can have a mentally disturbed individual sharing that they have homicidal ideations and refuse to take their medication and at most, you might be able to involuntarily commit them for a day for an evaluation. That’s a huge problem. We need a system that protects the rights of the mentally ill but also balances the risk to the public. How do you deprive someone of their liberty who hasn’t committed a crime? We might need a constitutional amendment on this.

Two years ago Republicans took the House and I interviewed for a position on the Weaponization Committee. I made sure Jim Jordan knew everything that I had on Russiagate and they were supposed to be a modern Church Committee. Instead they did nothing.

That can’t happen again. We will use all of our power and contacts to make sure that the Trump team knows where to look.

I know enough to know there are breath-taking disclosures ahead.