Posted on 02/24/2025 6:14:32 AM PST by MtnClimber
The American public is caught between the ongoing mass delusions of the Left and the "move fast and break things" actions of DOGE.
I’ve been watching in horror for the past ten years as the Left - aka, the people with all of the institutional power - lose their minds. I know they don’t see it that way. They think I’m the one who lost my mind. I was radicalized by the Right, they think. I had a nervous breakdown, they think. But the truth is that I haven’t changed. The only thing I did was refuse to go along with the madness.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I went along with it at first. Even though history told me Trump couldn’t lose in 2016, I was still awash in misery and fear not just that year but every year of his presidency until the very last one when I realized everything I once believed was an illusion.
I was in a bubble, a feedback loop, built by social media, tribalism, collectivism, and a wildly dishonest legacy press. My mistake was trusting that they were telling me the truth. I was shocked to find in 2020 that they were not. They were gaslighting us, doing the bidding of the Democratic Party, just as they are doing now.
As an example of the level of hysteria we’re dealing with here, a review posted in Variety details how the Brazilian film, I’m Still Here is a “warning” for the United States. The headline, “It could happen here.”
I’m Still Here is about Rubens Paiva, who, according to Wikipedia, was a “Brazilian civil engineer and politician who, as a Congressman at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, opposed the implementation of the military dictatorship in Brazil in 1964. Due to his involvement with activities deemed subversive by the dictatorial regime, he was arrested by the military forces and subsequently tortured and murdered. His remains were never found.”
That is a perfect description of how the Left sees the Trump administration, even though they lost in a free and fair election to Trump, an election they could have won if they hadn’t installed Joe Biden in 2020, then turned on him, pushed him out of power and installed Kamala Harris, forbidding any kind of democratic process to find a stronger leader.
Their loss is entirely their own fault. They had everything - money, media, celebrities, and power- and they still lost. Much of the reason why they lost is their disconnect from reality. They could not speak to the people, much less address their needs.
That disconnect from reality is imagination gone wrong. It’s too bad they can’t funnel it into telling better stories, making better movies, writing better books - but all of those have been captured by dogma and can only tell the same story over and over again. And that’s what they’re doing here. It must be true that Trump was an unstoppable, extraordinarily evil presence they could not eradicate by normal means and they are helpless against his power.
I hoped that with the second Trump win, the mass delusion would be punctured, but I was wrong. It’s much worse now than it’s ever been. The Woketopians locked away in their doomsday bunker read to me like David Koresh once the FBI announced they were outside.
It’s hard for me to watch people this afraid. To them, the mass deportations are military police and Hitler’s army. To them, purging schools of indoctrination is “book banning.” To them, scaling down government is fascism. I don’t know how to help them see reality. Or how to help them at all.
What is even more ironic in attempting to compare Trump to Brazil in the 1960s or any fascist dictator is that only one side has attempted to jail its political opponent. Only one side spied on and framed their political opponent. Only one side put protesters in solitary and called them terrorists.
Only one side will destroy your entire career over how you voted or a joke on X. Only one side demands conformity and that you obey their Newspeak or else. Only one side censored free speech via social media, violating the First Amendment. And they were just getting started.
Here’s a pro tip - how you know you’re not under the rule of a fascist dictator is that you can call them a fascist dictator in public, and nothing bad will happen to you. They had four years to prove to America that they were the better side, but they failed. Rather than confront that reality, they’ve found a way to pivot away from their faults. And of course, they’re all coming back to X, even Stephen King:
In case you missed it, that’s Stephen King standing up for a governor who has vowed to defy Trump’s Executive Order to keep biological men out of women’s sports. When I say there is no saving the Left, I mean there is no saving the Left. There is only saving America from them.
Musk has control of X. He could ban Stephen King and every single person who calls him a fascist and a Nazi, and much worse. He doesn’t. Not only that, but he allows the worst tweets about him to live on the app, some of them with over 100K likes as the so-called “resistance” cosplays that they’re under the thumb of a fascist dictator.
It’s their mass delusions that have always been a threat not just to this country but to themselves. At this rate, they’ll be out of power for a generation.
Unless, of course, MAGA moves too fast and breaks too many things.
Smart Politics, Dumb Politics
Doge is, I think, serving the American people well on one hand. Our government was too big. There was too much fat on the bone, too much fraud, and too many unaccounted-for billions. We were headed for bankruptcy, and our inflation is out of control. So why not go in with a chainsaw and mow it all down, like Javier Milei did in Argentina?
Musk is the richest man in the world. He will suffer no consequences for mistakes made. Trump and MAGA, however, will.
Of course, we know this is a rigged game. They’ll never give Trump or Musk any credit for anything they do. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post are all at war with the Trump administration going on ten years by now. They’ll attack attack attack until his poll numbers drop, and then they’ll feel emboldened to go in for the kill.
The latest mass hysteria episode comes after Musk announced he would send emails to workers ordering them to prove their work or be fired, as he did at Twitter when he bought it. Here is the email, which seems harmless enough:.....SNIP
How far is too far for the corruption and criminals in government??? Seems they went pretty damned far!
"How Far is Too Far for DOGE?"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Respectfully to PDJT47 and Musk, when they wake up to the fed's constitutionally limited powers, including the fed's limited power to appropriate taxes, then DOGE will be remembered as just the first step in draining the swamp.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The ultimate goal for Trump and Musk imo, is to lead ALL the states to effectively"secede" from the unconstitutionally big, tax-hungry federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular vote for federal senators) Amendments.
Trump is going to break the public services unions.
Bkmk
They should have demanded resignations from every non-elected government employee, except the military, on Jan 20 and required application for re-employment from each employee!
People still don't seem to get it: the USA is FLAT BROKE!. We are living on high interest credit cards maxed out except instead of asking the credit card companies to give us more credit, congress can just vote for it themselves and the spending spree goes on. We either start letting the pressure out in a controlled manner now or wait for the catastrophic explosion, one way or the other the reckoning is coming.
I don’t think there is a “too far”.
So far not far enough
Sasha Stone may have seen the light in 2016 but she is a shallow thinker. Medicaid and Medicare are destined to evaporate or crumble no matter what along with Social Security but probably sooner than SS. If the Leftocrats are in charge they will just inflate the currency rapidly while only relatively slowly raising the payouts so that hospitals and doctors will more and more refuse to deal with them. SS should have been converted to a private model like the Chilean arrangement long ago. Chileans receive back about twice as much relative their contributions as Americans do and when they die their children inherit the funds which can be added to their own career contributions. In a free market economy there should be no mandatory retirement system and no government financed health care or SS at all. I am not a young guy who cannot imagine being old. I am almost eighty and do receive SS.
Agreed.
My wife would add the 19th to that. She says women should be able to run for any elective office but should not have the vote. Women in the aggregate care most about protection for themselves and their children. Freedom is secondary, even maybe irrelevant. Safety is almost everything.
Woohoo!!
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