At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing.
To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year.
Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad.
But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curbing the madness that his predecessors fueled.
And so none did—until now.
Not since Franklin Roosevelt’s rapid and mass implementation of the New Deal administrative state have Americans seen such radical changes so quickly as now in Trump’s first month of governance.
Americans are watching a long-awaited counter-revolution to bring the country out of its madness by restoring the common sense of the recent past.
It is easy to run up massive debts and hard to pay them back. Politicians profit by handing out grants and hiring thousands with someone else’s money or creating new programs by growing the debt.
Yet it is unpopular and considered “mean” to spend only what you have and to create a lean, competent workforce.
1776, not 1619, is the foundational date of America.
Biological men should not manipulate their greater size and strength to undermine the hard-won accomplishment of women athletes.
Affordable fossil fuels, when used wisely, are still essential to modern prosperity.
American education must remain empirical and inductive, not regress into indoctrination and deduction. If college campuses no longer abide by the Bill of Rights, then perhaps they should pay taxes on income from their endowments and guarantee their own student loans.
If American citizens are arrested and arraigned for violent assaults, destroying property, and resisting arrest, then surely foreign students who break the laws of their hosts should be held to the same account—and if guilty, go home.
Tribalism and racialism, and government spoils allotted by superficial appearances, are the marks of a pre-civilized society. Such racialism leads only to endless factions and discord.
It is easy to destroy a border, and hard to reconstruct it. And it was not Trump who invited in 12 million unaudited illegal aliens, a half million of them criminals.
Who is the real culprit in the Defense Department—the new secretary with the hard task of restoring the idea among depleted ranks that our race, religion, and gender are incidental, not essential, to defeating the enemy and ensuring our national security?
Is it really wise to divert money from needed combat units and weapons to indoctrinate recruits with social and cultural agendas that do not enhance, but likely undermine, our national defenses?
Who is the real callous actor—Elon Musk, who is trying to prevent the country from insolvency by eliminating fraud and waste, or those who bloated the bureaucracy in the first place with jobs and subsidies for their constituents, friends, clients, and fellow ideologues?
No one likes to fire FBI agents.
That certainly is an unpleasant job for the new FBI Director, Kash Patel.
But again, who are the true culprits who so cavalierly turned a hallowed agenda into a weaponized tool to warp elections, harass political enemies, lie under oath, surveil parents at school board meetings, doctor court documents, and protect insider friends?
Massive borrowing is an opiate addiction that needs shock treatment, not more deficits to break the habit. An unchecked administrative state becomes an organic organism that exists only to grow larger, more powerful, and more resistant to any who seek to curb it.
Yet those who brought the cultural revolution of the last years are now screaming that it is unfair to restore what they undermined. It is as if a patient blames only the tough chemotherapy and not the invasive cancer that it seeks to cure.
Most of the Trump people are not high-fiving firing people. They are not laying off miners or frackers and directing them to go “code” or dismissing half the country as “deplorables.”
The left screams that those who are tasked with balancing a budget and pruning back a strangling bureaucracy are heartless.
No, the pitiless are those who recklessly sought to hire with borrowed money and fire people on the basis of their race, used federal programs to feather their own nests, and harassed and arrested those for their politics.
No SWAT teams are now raiding the homes of ex-presidents.
No one is trying to take a presidential rival off state ballots.
No one is coordinating local, state, and federal prosecutors to indict, harass, and bankrupt an ex-president.
And no president—his dementia sheathed by political insiders and toadish media—is working three days a week, avoiding press conferences, or stonewalling reporters’ questions.
No wonder the current normal seems abnormal to the status quo of the recent past.
I wonder, do all the federal employees that are wailing about how unfair it is that they have to show up and perform the duties they were hired to do or have to provide a brief synopsis of their work output last week realize just exactly how unsympathetic their reaction to the incoming administration makes them to the normies outside of government, for whom all of this is pretty much a standard feature of being gainfully employed?
Six years ago, the company I worked for was sold to a new owner. It was explained to us that there were changes coming and, if we could adapt to those changes, we were welcome to stay-- in fact, we were encouraged to do so–but, if not, we were free to make other arrangements. No one that voluntarily left got compensation packages to tide them over while they looked for new jobs; they just moved on. And while there might have been some grumbling in the ranks, everybody made their choices and lived with the consequences.
It is entirely tone-deaf to throw temper tantrums and stage protests over the possibility that they might be held to the same standards of productivity and accountability as millions of Americans are, every day, in the private sector, particularly when their salaries and benefit packages seem outsized when compared to those not funded by tax dollars.
It is not the fault of the Trump administration that the administrative state has become so monstrously bloated or that so much of it is driven by an ideology that is antithetical to our Constitution. It is, however, this administration’s duty to do something about it
The fundamental difference between those that do and those that don’t; the chasm between those that act as opposed that those who complain is?
Something I was giving thought to today and I decided it is like the difference between the real thing and “pleasuring oneself” - at least until the boy famously intoned? “Can I at least do it till I only need glasses?” so aptly it was put.
There is a fundamental reason why Napoleon Hill, in Think and Grow Rich, categorically stated that the biggest mistake a parent can make is leaving their kids an inheritance; explaining that by giving them control of power that they did not earn, cannot comprehend the sacrifices made to attain it and the attendant responsibilities commensurate with great wealth? The result will be? ALMOST invariably? That you will doom them to becoming useless, wastrels, hedonistic fools who will never for forever and a day - all their live long days - never do anything worth of note - except sit on their pot of gold and just “exist”. (That’s my characterization of his, Hill’s, meaning - not his words.)
The originators, crafters of Marxism, as anyone who has even briefly investigated knows, were hopeless users of others; lived off their families - probably at home - and had no compunction about borrowing for necessities while ignoring the inconvenient “necessity” of being responsible - had no affection for the act of repaying. So, it should not surprise us that those who follow in their steps - are from similar poor-quality cloth cut.
Receiving, being given something for nothing, at no cost nor effort on our parts? Adds up to nothing – in terms of our appreciation of the “gift” nor true respect for what it means (in almost all cases).
Unfortunately, in America we have an embarrassing embarrassment of riches – that has made, because “…the livin’ is easy” a population that over the past 70 years or more produced, resulted in at least 50 percent of our population being divorced from reality, divorced from the hard brass-tacks efforts, blood, sweat and tears that go into creating?
Anything – whether we are talking about the unique configuration of the constellations; the coalescence of talent, intelligence and courage that the Founding Fathers represented – when they brought into being the once in a lifetime – once only possible – nye on near to miracle that was the precipitator of The American Revolution and all that was attendant its antecedent consequences – our constitution, our unique in the world dedication to the sanctity of the individual as opposed to the lemming like insanity of the masses who? Whose main goal is always to be safe, take the easy way out and not have to work any harder than they can – get away with not working.
So, what do we have now – soy boys, Fema-nazi feminists whose greatest joy is denying - virtue signalling -that they are not even the sex they were physically born; more concerned with their pronouns than caring about making a living and living a life worth living.
So? We should not be even slightly surprised – ought we now – that we have gotten so, so far off course, astray from a nation based on the facts of life, confused about what constitutes morality, right and wrong because so many of us have never had to earn our own ways, never had to deal with taking actions that had serious consequences and for which we would be held accountable.
But – there is always a but – did you ever notice that? A but, a contraindication, contradiction to our hubristic self-delusions waiting to? No matter how out of whack we let ourselves get – whether 'tis drinking, philandering or even straying into the mental derangement of “transgenderism” – shock us, make us, force us to “wake up and smell the reality roses” – that’s a line I made up incidentally.
Which is where we are at this moment in space and time in America and the world at large. The deliberately imposed perversity of the LEFT during the past four years exposed them for exactly what they are – the single greatest threat to the human race that exists – actually – they have always existed but never been so out in the open nor before made the mistake of thinking they could finally remove their Picture of Dorian Gray masks and show themselves – the horrors that they truly are underneath.
Now? There’s no turning back, going back over the bridges that they went too far because now it truly is war with us “seeing them clearly now” for the evil that must be destroyed and finally – if we keep ourselves focused – we will destroy.
Those who are fighting for America were not like that silly boy who was being lied to and believed the lie about “self-gratification”, we realized that there is no sense in kidding ourselves that there is no difference between, anything to be gained, from not desiring and doing what it takes to experience the real thing – even with its attendant responsibilities that the proceed therefrom and appertain.
The most encouraging development is that Trump and the people in his cabinet know that Democrats cannot be trusted to the extent that they are now viewed as the enemy within. Once the Supreme Court rules on the obstructionism of leftist judges, the resequencing of the national political DNA will be complete.
I almost hate to remind people that in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution, which lists 17 specific, enumerated powers given to the legislature, and not one of them is associated with benevolence, but since most of our elected representatives are less aware of the document they to oaths to uphold than they are in how to get reelected, by buying the votes of the constituents, that support them, with other people’s money they never, themselves, earned, I find it just easier to simply remind them of US Federal Law, that former congresses passed, that is specifically, but not the only law, associated to what the President, and those who are responsible to aid and abet his efforts, are required to do.
18 U.S. Code § 1341 - Frauds and swindles, 18 U.S. Code § 1031 - Major fraud against the United States and Title 9: Criminal 9-42.000 - Fraud Against the Government to include Reduction In Force personnel levels.
Last I checked the President is the head of the Executive Branch which requires but one person. All Executive Branch personal work for him. There is something call the "Separation of Powers"concept which is the only possible way America’s Republic can work and the reason much of it is not working since the Branches seem unaware of their restricted roles. Were they educated in American Civics in HS? The legislature and Judiciary need to stay in their respective Constitutionally authorized lanes.
E. Musk’s position does not require any Congressional consent!