Posted on 02/10/2025 7:16:00 AM PST by Red Badger
Americans rejected Kamala Harris because she reminded them of a condescending administrator who cloaks her incompetence by scolding everyone smarter than her. In response to her crushing defeat, Democrats made that persona their entire personality.
When the Trump administration arrived in Washington with an air of “we can just do things,” the media and other Democrats stepped into the unflattering role of sore losers screeching “you can’t do that.” (Where, oh where, was this principled originalist restraint when the last administration tried to jail a political opponent while propping up a Potemkin president?)
Trump’s approach has conservatives wondering: What were Republicans doing for our entire lives? All these years of talk about bloated government, and this whole time we could just stop sending tens of thousands of dollars to fund transgender comic books in Peru? All those strongly worded statements about men in girls’ locker rooms, and all it took was the guts to say, enough?
Meanwhile, his approach has his perennial critics tripping over themselves to scold and condescend about every victory voters are cheering. How dare you complain about your tax dollars funding condoms for terrorists? The feds weren’t really paying off Politico for its positive coverage, they were just buying an absurd number of five-figure subscriptions. You’re so un-Christian for caring more about the safety of your family than those poor criminals ICE is sending back across the border!
It’s an optical rake the left keeps stepping on. No one thinks “curtailing government’s power and reach” is “the most damaging” thing to ever happen except the bad guys. It has never been clearer how much the people who grease the Washington blob hate Americans.
Take the panic over Elon Musk bringing in a few twenty-something brainiacs to help cut government waste. They are “lacking in government experience,” the media warn. Government experience, after all, is what has made our bloated federal bureaucracy so efficient and productive in serving taxpayers! I bet the customer service reps at the IRS have lots of government experience.
The problem is, government experience has never been responsible for American greatness. We never would have made it to the moon if the space program was run by a Dr. Fauci type. We never would have made it to Berlin with Mark Milley.
As often as not, American greatness has happened in an attempt to prove the “you can’t do thats” wrong. Rebellion is our founding myth, after all! We carved a nation out of a continent because we believed we could and were bold and young and inventive enough to try, not because we trusted the experts.
Chuck Yeager was 24 years old when he broke the sound barrier. He did so with two broken ribs and closed his aircraft’s hatch with a broom handle because his injury wouldn’t let him reach the hatch. It’s a good thing OSHA wasn’t there to tell him that wasn’t safe!
The youngest man who explored the Louisiana Territory in the Corps of Discovery was 17; at 33, William Clark was one of the old men of the group. The Wright brothers were in their 30s when their flyer lifted off at Kill Devil Hills. So save me the hand-wringing if some young men are here to help drain the swamp — the rest of America is happy to see them.
Joe Biden was right about one thing: There is a battle for the soul of America. It’s the caffeinated real estate mogul and his millennial veep versus The Experts who have been running things into the ground and getting pensions for it. It’s the kids with new ideas versus the Chuck Schumer types, who are literally shaking their canes. It’s the people who believe in ordering their loves around their families and communities before the rest of the world, versus the people who care more about starting foreign wars than keeping your streets safe.
The former kind of people built America — the people who were young and reckless enough not to realize they were doing things once deemed impossible. The latter category would have grounded Yeager’s plane for not being up to code and told Lewis and Clark their band of explorers didn’t have enough biracial lesbians in it.
It’s not like statue-toppling, self-flagellating Democrats have made a secret of hating America. But their derision for American history has given way to derision for the American spirit, and it’s playing out with a candor that’s kind of amazing. The party that catapulted Barack Obama on the slogan “Yes We Can” has become the party of “No You Can’t.” They stand athwart history yelling, you’re not authorized to do that without permission!
In the battle between the “just do things” and the “you can’t do thats,” whose side do you want to be on?
Kamala Harris reminded voters of a common scold-——a condescending
factotum who cloaks her own incompetence by scolding everyone smarter than her.
In response to her crushing defeat, Democrats made Harris’ losing persona their entire personality.
Hurrah! True and well-written.
Pocahontas is very upset today
video
Trump letting Elon Musk and Project 2025 Architect Russ Vought kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Feb 10, 2025
https://rumble.com/v6j5rsg-warren-trump-letting-elon-musk-kill-the-consumer-financial-protection-burea.html
Pocahontas is very upset today
She is on the warpath.
Trump is a bull in the proverbial China closet?
That exactly why I votred for him.
Cry Havoc and loose the DOGEs of War!
Otherwise, this Nation is surely doomed.
its been that way sincem Obama, and his proclamation about those who ‘slander the prophet’ veiled threat against free speech!!
Great post.
“In the battle between the “just do things” and the “you can’t do thats,” whose side do you want to be on?”
Exactly.
I hope every Freeper is paying close attention.
It is also the secret to a happy and successful life.
Get the negative nellies out of the room and then do what you need to do.
America’s Official Dung Beetle Party.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Very well written. I don’t believe that the American people are stupid. What will make the biggest difference in their regaining their confidence will be silence from the lying mockingbird media.
I had thought this silence would require force. It turns out that bouncing checks may suffice.
Democrats Have Become The ‘No You Can’t’ Party
NOT their spending and corruption proves it they only fear someone else getting into the act.
Corrupt liars to the bone.
>>>I don’t believe that the American people are stupid. <<<
Half the people are below average IQ.............
File under “We won”.
I think this derives from a fundamental difference between conservative positions that today (under Trump) tend to be preferred by the Republican party which derive more from British Common Law, and the positions favored by Democrats (who are neither liberal nor progressive) which tend to reflect the philosophy of the Napoleonic Code.
The key difference between these two systems is that common law is a bottom-up legal system that implies, “What is not forbidden is permitted.” In other words, common law defines what you can’t do while leaving you free to do everything else, while the Napoleonic Code, also known as civil law, is a top-down system that often becomes a vastly more bureaucratic and controlling approach to governing citizens, effectively spelling out in detail what you can do, under a “Government knows best” mantra. A thing that isn’t specifically permitted is forbidden.
The Republicans adhere to traditional American ideals deriving from British Common Law, while the Democrats cleave to continental European values deriving from the Napoleonic Code.
The far-left RAT bass turds owe Americans an apology. Those POS accused Americans of doing what they are now doing if President Trump didn’t win. If you really want to know what the Swamp RATS and weasels are up to, listen to what those POS accuse Americans of doing.
Lining their pockets just like the other "side" of the Uniparty. I don't care who was in on the grift, I want to see ALL of them bankrupted and imprisoned.
What possibly are the Democrats good for?
They’re quite adept at fomenting hate and ridicule; but in those immortal words of that consummate politician Komala Harris “Nothing comes to mind.”
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