Augean Stables

From Jeff Tucker:

For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too. Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut.

The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller. Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured. No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

But now we have a chance.  It may be our last, because right now, in the paraphrased words of John Adams, we have men worthy of the time:  a president who has a burning desire to make the changes necessary, an associate of towering intellect and inherent power who may be able to execute that change, and the subordinates who are just as willing to make those changes with the necessary authority (in the shape of presidential appointees), and others (the twenty-something hackers and geeks) who have the knowledge, skills and the tools to be able to root out the corruption and deadweight of accumulated bureaucracy and perverted, un-American policy.

More Wastage

Boy, the hits they just keep on coming:

All the above make various of my digits itch (and one specifically, guess which one), but the last item in particular makes me want to reach for the Mauser.

Fifty-two million tax dollars to the WEF? Don’t those assholes have enough of their own money?  (Never mind that I find their entire existence as an organization revolting.)

Don’t get me started on the rest, because as it is I feel the need for an extended range session coming on.

Old-Fashioned

For a conservative Olde Phartte such as myself, there is much to recommend in this post in Ye Olde Tyme News, which contains all sorts of wisdom vis-à-vis the current DOGE activities.

I, of course, happen to like his last option very much indeed:

If all else fails, a mass execution of thy nonessential labourers always works.  As they say in lord school, “A dead peasant is an obedient peasant!”  Just be sure to spare enough of them to dispose of the bodies afterwards.

Amen, I say and again “Amen”.

No Surprises There

A couple of days ago, Rep. Rich McCormick (R) had a town hall meeting in his Georgia district and a whole bunch of citizens showed up to give him shit about Orange Hitler and Sturmbannfuehrer  Musk.

Well, of course, all was not quite what it seemed:

CBS included a quote from one of the protest’s organizers, Maggie Goldman, describing her only as a McCormick constituent.  Goldman does live in McCormick’s district, though she’s far from a concerned supporter of the two-term Republican. A self-described “Democrat & Political Activist,” Goldman coordinated volunteers for Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020, according to her LinkedIn. Shortly thereafter, she ran for her local county commission as a Democrat seeking to enact a “more inclusive policy agenda.” Goldman has donated exclusively to Democrats and sent Kamala Harris’s campaign more than $1,500 last year, according to campaign finance records

Across the country, similar protests played out at House GOP town halls and district offices. The demonstrations drove mainstream media coverage of brewing backlash against the Trump administration as the lower chamber left Washington, D.C., for a week-long recess. Well-funded liberal organizations organized many of them.

The George Soros-funded groups Indivisible and MoveOn were at the center of the demonstrations. Both groups launched national “mobilization” efforts targeting the “Trump-Musk agenda” and “Trump-Musk coup” during the recess period. MoveOn said its “members and allies will show up at congressional-led town halls and congressional offices around the country, targeting House Republicans whose votes will be crucial in opposing Trump and Musk’s harmful policies.” Indivisible issued a “Musk or Us Recess Toolkit” that showed members how to find their local town halls and urged them to “take the fight to Elon.”

So much for the “backlash”.  But it just shows how much these feral Commie fuckers are prepared to lie and cheat just to try to stop Trump and Musk from doing what they promised to do during the campaign, and who were elected for those precise reasons.

Give it gooder and harder, boys;  we’re still backing you.

Prediction

Oh, here’s a headline which grabbed me:

Political guru predicts Trump White House will COLLAPSE within 30 days

Wait… what?  And which political guru?

Oh, wait… it’s James Carville.

Never mind.

But the best part:

The veteran Democratic strategist told Mediaite’s Dan Abrams that Trump’s popularity is sinking*, and he believes the administration will implode from a lack of public support.

‘I believe that this administration, in less than 30 days, is in the midst of a massive collapse and particularly a collapse in public opinion,’ Carville said. 

I believe he’s getting his dipstick into such “public opinion” sources like the Democrat National Council, or Kamala Harris’s pollsters.  In the meantime:

I’d be very curious to see how many people believe and support the above, as opposed to the “public support” that Gollum sees.  Oh, and Mediaite?  You have got to be kidding me.

Whatever, let’s see if his prediction outlasts the next thirty days… and no, I’m not taking bets nor offering odds.


*“Trump losing support among voters”  is just the new talking point for the Socialists.  Like so much of what they say, it’s not based on any kind of reality, but on wishful thinking.

Okay, Congressman

Here’s an interesting take:

Congressman Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) reminded the country last week why the Second Amendment is so vital to the United States.

The former Long Beach mayor called on the Democratic Party to “bring actual weapons” in the “fight for democracy.”

So you’ll bring your “actual” weapons to fight for democracy — what you call democracy, at any rate.

Challenge accepted.  Be White, and make the first move.  We’ll see how this plays out.

Are they really this stupid?