{"id":58282,"date":"2025-02-03T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58282"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T19:36:20","slug":"something-to-consider-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58282","title":{"rendered":"Something To Consider"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 3rd, The Federalist<\/a> posted the following headline:<\/p>\n

If Presidents Can\u2019t Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake<\/h1>\n

That seems to be where we were until 2024. We had the situation described by Carroll Quigley in 1966:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can \u201cthrow the rascals out\u201d at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.\u201d <\/strong>
\n\u2015 Carroll Quigley, <\/span><\/strong>Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

That seems to have abruptly changed in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

The Federalist reports:<\/p>\n

Amid the hundreds of substantive<\/a> executive actions President Donald Trump has taken in his first two weeks back in the White House, perhaps none matter more than his efforts at bureaucracy-busting. That notably includes what Julie Kelly calls<\/a> a \u201cFriday night massacre\u201d days ago of the Department of Justice\u2019s January 6 prosecutorial staff, which erased 30-40 temporary positions Biden\u2019s DOJ had attempted to make permanent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, \u201carguably, he has done more in two weeks than Trump\u2019s entire Department of Justice did during his first term,\u201d Kelly said in a Saturday video. So has acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, both while the Senate confirmation of U.S. attorney general nominee Pam Bondi remains pending.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes<\/p>\n

If the executive cannot control his own personnel, agencies, and funding lawfully given to him by a duly elected Congress, elections mean nothing. If the executive is not actually an executor, then the entire bureaucracy is an autocratic, self-licking ice cream cone. It runs the country, not any elected official. And Congress is complicit, because it allows the distribution of opium funds to Afghanistan and queer \u201csafe spaces\u201d in Kenya without ever having to take a public vote on any of this garbage, so long as these taxpayer-provided slush funds slather their retirements and relatives with \u201cnonprofit\u201d and \u201ccontractor\u201d lard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whatever you want to call unelected bureaucrats and \u201cnonprofit\u201d grifters distributing funds obtained from American citizens against our consent as expressed in elections and line-item votes, it is not a republic, nor a democracy. If Trump can\u2019t fire his own employees and redistribute public funds the executive branch has been given by law, he\u2019s not really the president, and elections are fake.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All this means Trump isn\u2019t \u201cweaponizing\u201d or \u201cpoliticizing\u201d these agencies. He\u2019s fighting their inherent weaponization. Firing and investigating people who abuse public power, and ending the theft of American labor to fund evil international patronage schemes \u2014 that isn\u2019t retribution, it\u2019s justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please follow the link to read the entire article. We live in amazing times. The voters may actually be getting their country back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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