I want to point out two articles worth readers’ attention. The first is by Jeffery Tucker and offers a layman’s explanation of the rise of the administrative state to supremacy over the constitutional order embodied in the US Constitution. As Tucker says, this supremacy has been made abundantly clear during the Covid Regime. Indeed, Fauxi is still going around stating that public health measures are the exclusive province of public health bureaucrats and judges and courts should butt out.
I have to admit to reading these posts and becoming very, very down on the path our country is on. I've read Brownstone for awhile now and enjoy Mr. Tucker immensely. The administrative state is a behemoth that cannot be reigned in. The federal government pushes the states around and most of them, save Florida and couple of others do nothing. They don't push back at all. Despite what has happened in some of our schools in regards to CRT, etc, I don't see us making enough progress to matter. The school unions are entrenched like ticks on a moose. The only thing that will stop them is the moose dying from having the blood sucked out of them. Everywhere you look you see the left on the march with little to stop them. Sure, once in a while we see a small victory only to be followed by the relentless onslaught of these ideologically driven zealots. Just this weekend - sitting around a fire - women that I've known for years started asking me about Uvalde and what I thought. They wondered becuase of my 30 years as an LEO and military guy. You should have seen the reaction when I told them there are no solutions to what happened there. I've known these people for years and see them as fairly conservative on many issues. Their jaws dropped when I told them I own a "black rifle." For what? Why? Are you paranoid? It was an amazing eye opener for me and another reason for me to feel pessimistic about where the country is headed. Anyway, just a rant and kind of all over the place. Good luck.
BTW: I finally got around to reading Alex Washburne's piece on the airline mandates, but got gobsmacked when he said, "While vaccines were shown to be safe and effective..."
I mean, really? I realize that was tangential to his main point about the widespread implementation of unconstitutional diktats, but I simply had trouble granting him any credibility from that point on.
At this point in the Covid debacle we have to be hitting on all cylinders in opposing medical tyranny. They will certainly try again to lock us down and mandate the jab. If we continue to ascribe unearned credibility to the tyrants by pretending that their vaccine approach was "safe and effective" -- when both claims are utterly, horrifically wrong -- we abandon the best arguments against resuming worthless mitigations. Yes, there are important constitutional issues, but it is worse than that. They violate the constitution AND they are dangerous and ineffective.
First with regards to Trump, I suspected and now firmly believe that as a newbie to the District of Corruption, he had to trust and rely on a lot of people that sabotaged him left and right not to mentioned the Sussman/Elias/HRC sedition. There's a great photo of him glaring at Fauxi at the lectern and I suspect his thoughts were "I can't fire this guy or stop him from wrecking our country". As to clearing out these vermin, I've seen folks mention moving parts of the deep state out to fly over country which might make some progress. Does anyone remember the seen from the original Walking Tall movie where the Sheriff moves the judges office to the men's room?
Lastly, to really make effective changes, we (those that are not insanely partisan) still have no confidence in the election system. I watched this video on machine fraud in Dekalb County, GA with them showing a hand recount not matching the machine count. Ok, but why? How did this happen? "software error", human error, intentional manipulation? The results are at ~ 5:01 and they are wildly different. Why???? The votes counted on election day when hand counted were 1/3 greater!
During my tenure with a large IT vendor whose name you would recognize, one job I had was working with many resellers of our equipment across the state. I had one of them tell me how the State of Florida Department of Revenue would do random sampling audits to ensure vendors were properly collecting and reporting sales tax. They would only pick a sample of the data as a full audit would be far too time consuming, but if that sample didn't pass, watch out. I had written my state rep a while back that we really need to have spot audits of election results just like the DOR does for tax receipts with perhaps a random precinct basis statewide which would catch some of the shenanigans, but also puts folks on notice. Otherwise, I think we will be in tyranny hell given their belief that they can cheat and get away with it. 4eva.
Get rid of pensions, mandate that no USG salary may be > 25% above the US median salary, eliminate administrative judges. Every rule not specifically written by Congress sunsets with the election of a new president. Upon leaving the USG tax every penny of income above their final government salary at 95% for seven years. Eliminate any government service that is found in the Yellow Pages. Sure, we'd lose some good people, but the bureaucracy would reduce itself.
Back in the early 1990's a magazine called The Washington Monthly, that was edited by a basically honest team blue guy, had an article in which it polled federal gov't workers asking them what % of their agency staff could be let go without impairing their ability to do their job. Remember, this was in a team blue publication and asking federal employees themselves. The Washington Monthly wanted to repurpose the money saved into new programs (as if it wouldn't have just gone down new ratholes). Anyway, these federal gov't employees estimated that 25% of their staff was complete fluff.
Awareness is the first step in reforming / fixing any system. In the last 6 years, we have taken huge steps forward on awareness of how crazy things are, and lots of hidden problems have been exposed.
Sunlight is a huge disinfectant.
My change in attitude from 6 years ago to now has been incredible. I thought I was pretty informed, and I knew very little of the Wef, great reset, election fraud, gop corruption, administrative state, etc.
I was able to avoid getting 'boosted' on a doctor's advice, but I'm pretty much regretting the two vaxxes I did submit to...against my strong instincts that natural immunity was/is a better bet.
I have to admit to reading these posts and becoming very, very down on the path our country is on. I've read Brownstone for awhile now and enjoy Mr. Tucker immensely. The administrative state is a behemoth that cannot be reigned in. The federal government pushes the states around and most of them, save Florida and couple of others do nothing. They don't push back at all. Despite what has happened in some of our schools in regards to CRT, etc, I don't see us making enough progress to matter. The school unions are entrenched like ticks on a moose. The only thing that will stop them is the moose dying from having the blood sucked out of them. Everywhere you look you see the left on the march with little to stop them. Sure, once in a while we see a small victory only to be followed by the relentless onslaught of these ideologically driven zealots. Just this weekend - sitting around a fire - women that I've known for years started asking me about Uvalde and what I thought. They wondered becuase of my 30 years as an LEO and military guy. You should have seen the reaction when I told them there are no solutions to what happened there. I've known these people for years and see them as fairly conservative on many issues. Their jaws dropped when I told them I own a "black rifle." For what? Why? Are you paranoid? It was an amazing eye opener for me and another reason for me to feel pessimistic about where the country is headed. Anyway, just a rant and kind of all over the place. Good luck.
It's a purely emotional response re guns.
BTW: I finally got around to reading Alex Washburne's piece on the airline mandates, but got gobsmacked when he said, "While vaccines were shown to be safe and effective..."
I mean, really? I realize that was tangential to his main point about the widespread implementation of unconstitutional diktats, but I simply had trouble granting him any credibility from that point on.
At this point in the Covid debacle we have to be hitting on all cylinders in opposing medical tyranny. They will certainly try again to lock us down and mandate the jab. If we continue to ascribe unearned credibility to the tyrants by pretending that their vaccine approach was "safe and effective" -- when both claims are utterly, horrifically wrong -- we abandon the best arguments against resuming worthless mitigations. Yes, there are important constitutional issues, but it is worse than that. They violate the constitution AND they are dangerous and ineffective.
A couple of thoughts...
First with regards to Trump, I suspected and now firmly believe that as a newbie to the District of Corruption, he had to trust and rely on a lot of people that sabotaged him left and right not to mentioned the Sussman/Elias/HRC sedition. There's a great photo of him glaring at Fauxi at the lectern and I suspect his thoughts were "I can't fire this guy or stop him from wrecking our country". As to clearing out these vermin, I've seen folks mention moving parts of the deep state out to fly over country which might make some progress. Does anyone remember the seen from the original Walking Tall movie where the Sheriff moves the judges office to the men's room?
https://youtu.be/hmFZ4OrappE?t=53
Lastly, to really make effective changes, we (those that are not insanely partisan) still have no confidence in the election system. I watched this video on machine fraud in Dekalb County, GA with them showing a hand recount not matching the machine count. Ok, but why? How did this happen? "software error", human error, intentional manipulation? The results are at ~ 5:01 and they are wildly different. Why???? The votes counted on election day when hand counted were 1/3 greater!
Here's his substack on it: https://nickmoseder.substack.com/p/heres-why-cnn-is-admitting-dominion?s=r
During my tenure with a large IT vendor whose name you would recognize, one job I had was working with many resellers of our equipment across the state. I had one of them tell me how the State of Florida Department of Revenue would do random sampling audits to ensure vendors were properly collecting and reporting sales tax. They would only pick a sample of the data as a full audit would be far too time consuming, but if that sample didn't pass, watch out. I had written my state rep a while back that we really need to have spot audits of election results just like the DOR does for tax receipts with perhaps a random precinct basis statewide which would catch some of the shenanigans, but also puts folks on notice. Otherwise, I think we will be in tyranny hell given their belief that they can cheat and get away with it. 4eva.
edit: Forgot the Rumble vid:
https://rumble.com/v173qvh-dominion-is-busted-georgia-hand-count-changes-election-results.html
And it’s a Ga Democratic Primary!
Bombshell: Georgia Election Fraud Revealed In Democrat Primary Race!
Dekalb County election results just flipped after a hand count revealed voting machine "mistakes"
Emerald Robinson
https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/bombshell-georgia-election-fraud?s=r
Get rid of pensions, mandate that no USG salary may be > 25% above the US median salary, eliminate administrative judges. Every rule not specifically written by Congress sunsets with the election of a new president. Upon leaving the USG tax every penny of income above their final government salary at 95% for seven years. Eliminate any government service that is found in the Yellow Pages. Sure, we'd lose some good people, but the bureaucracy would reduce itself.
Back in the early 1990's a magazine called The Washington Monthly, that was edited by a basically honest team blue guy, had an article in which it polled federal gov't workers asking them what % of their agency staff could be let go without impairing their ability to do their job. Remember, this was in a team blue publication and asking federal employees themselves. The Washington Monthly wanted to repurpose the money saved into new programs (as if it wouldn't have just gone down new ratholes). Anyway, these federal gov't employees estimated that 25% of their staff was complete fluff.
It would appear then, that no matter what happens in November, it won’t make any difference because the bureaucracy will remain in place.
We really are entering a very, very dark and dangerous time for this country.
Awareness is the first step in reforming / fixing any system. In the last 6 years, we have taken huge steps forward on awareness of how crazy things are, and lots of hidden problems have been exposed.
Sunlight is a huge disinfectant.
My change in attitude from 6 years ago to now has been incredible. I thought I was pretty informed, and I knew very little of the Wef, great reset, election fraud, gop corruption, administrative state, etc.
Yes, eliminating the Spoils System was a catastrophic error. It makes the system rigid and difficult to impossible to fix with elections.
Collapse may be the only cure.
@Yancey
Collapse? As in, one day, the Deep State just turns off its desktops, leaves work and goes home? Isn't it going to have to be a lot messier than that?
Revolution. Thomas Jefferson believed that periodic revolutions were necessary.
Combined with the public sector unionization
I’m noticing recently in the NY Post a lot if stories of deaths do to heart attacks.
This one was a California Dr, 53 years old, probably boosted due to job requirements.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/04/california-celebrity-doctor-jay-goldberg-dead-after-hiking-in-los-angeles-park/
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence…
I was able to avoid getting 'boosted' on a doctor's advice, but I'm pretty much regretting the two vaxxes I did submit to...against my strong instincts that natural immunity was/is a better bet.