Yesterday, I did a longish classic fisk job on what I thought was Chapter One of Project 2025, the 900 page policy book that the next righty government should zoom in on.
I was wrong. It was part of the foreword. I spent 3100 words just giving the business to the first promise from these cocksuckers, which is to basically depersonalize anyone who isn’t tied to a family unit.
It has dawned on my poor fevered brain that trying to take the whole frigging book on would be a fool’s errand guaranteed to send me to a locked ward again. So, in the interest of my sanity, I will just kick dirt on the rest of the foreword. If you’re feeling froggy, you go read the rest. So that will only be at minimum four days of writing-I would never complete a full “analysis” of the whole book by election day, nor by the next one. It’s probably going to be wonky egghead shit anyway, which I do not have the background to critique. It won’t be fun for you or me. Besides, if my little writing hobby is back on track, there are plenty of things in real-time that are happening that should command our attention.
Without further ado, let’s page down the PDF and scoot to Promise #2:
DISMANTLE THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE AND RETURN SELF-GOVERNANCE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
As we saw in Promise #1, they don’t really give two shits about your right to self- govern. They would like to govern quite a few aspects of your personal life, it turns out. Let’see what kind of lies they spin about what “dismantling the administrative state” means and how “self-governance” is defined.
Of course, the surest way to put the federal government back to work for the American people is to reduce its size and scope back to something resembling the original constitutional intent. Conservatives desire a smaller government not for its own sake, but for the sake of human flourishing. But the Washington Establishment doesn’t want a constitutionally limited government because it means they lose power and are held more accountable by the people who put them in power.
Sometimes these Constitution-lovers never read the thing they ostensibly treasure. If anything is limited, it’s the Constitution. We can barely amend the thing for the sake of the public because the process is almost impossible, especially in these fractious days of rancorous infighting between our two dipshit major parties. That’s neither here nor there-my point is, the document does provide the framework to create the government. Between the executive and Congress, we pass bills and laws. Lots of them. Why? It’s a big motherfucking modern democracy of 350,000,000 people and counting. We are a very long way from colonial living and thinking. The Supreme Court makes sure those entities don’t get over their skis too much. The Constitution engineered this process. We’re not supposed to live by twenty-seven circumscribed rules that were mainly written for a different America-that’s fucking absurd. It’s just a total misreading of how this government works. Do we pass bad laws? Sure. Is the repeal process harder than it should be? Probably. All we have is this system. Maybe it’s not all that great. I guess I want a limited government as well in ways-it should fuck off from my personal life. I’ll pay my taxes for the privilege. Is that not enough self-governance?
Let’s move on and see what exactly they are bitching about. I can only assume for the “you’re on your own” tone of Promise #1, they’d like to go even further in ways to tell you to soak your head when you are in need of help.
Consider the federal budget. Under current law, Congress is required to pass a budget—and 12 issue-specific spending bills comporting with it—every single year. The last time Congress did so was in 1996. Congress no longer meaningfully budgets, authorizes, or categorizes spending. Instead, party leaders negotiate one multitrillion-dollar spending bill—several thousand pages long—and then vote on it before anyone, literally, has had a chance to read it. Debate time is restricted. Amendments are prohibited. And all of this is backed up against a midnight deadline when the previous “omnibus” spending bill will run out and the federal government “shuts down.”
This seems to me to be a reasonable objection. I am super-tired of the government hanging by a thread because these cunts in Congress bring everything to a halt or a near-halt for political reasons. They cause havoc for real people working for important government agencies. I don’t disagree that perhaps we could use an audit of these constant continuing resolutions. However, chances are if anything is the case, multiple line items are underfunded. The nation is growing and its needs are doing so in tandem. But methinks that author is asking a twee bit too much when he wants congresspeople to read them. They can’t. A lot of them are terminally stupid, elected for their obnoxious personalities more than their ability to represent their districts and states. The only people that can seem to read them is lobby groups, who I believe write most of the bills we pass. If this is what the author is upset about, I get it.
Ok. He’s getting around to The Administrative State. In caps by the author.
The term Administrative State refers to the policymaking work done by the bureaucracies of all the federal government’s departments, agencies, and millions of employees. Under Article I of the Constitution, “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.” That is, federal law is enacted only by elected legislators in both houses of Congress.
OK. Target acquired; bureaucracy. I am personally unsure if a mega-democracy like ours could be managed without one. As I have said above, to ask the brainless nightcrawlers in Congress right now to take that kind of herculean work upon them is entirely too much to ask. They don’t want to do it anyway. Farming the task out to wonks is inevitable.
In recent decades, members of the House and Senate discovered that if they give away that power to the Article II branch of government, they can also deny responsibility for its actions. So today in Washington, most policy is no longer set by Congress at all, but by the Administrative State. Given the choice between being powerful but vulnerable or irrelevant but famous, most Members of Congress have chosen the latter.
Wow! Exactly what I said. Maybe this guy is worth having a beer with. However, my point still stands that even if our congresspeople were competent, and the lion’s share are not, much of what we do needs to be dealt with by people who can specialize.
Alright. Now the author does a Martin Luther impression and nails several theses to the church doors:
A combination of elected and unelected bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency quietly strangles domestic energy production through difficult-to-understand rulemaking processes;
Pish. The oil giants are doing just ducky. And their pipelines and wells are shoddily maintained, killing biomes and spilling everywhere “with impunity”. These corporations need to be accountable to some sort of agency. It’s as if the author has never read about one doing whatever awfulness it needs to do to maximize shareholder profits. It’s a long standing myth that we are not energy independent. I’m not 100% sure why this is an obsession anyway. We import and we export at the same time, and this has not changed in decades.
Bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security, following the lead of a feckless Administration, order border and immigration enforcement agencies to help migrants criminally enter our country with impunity;
The border “crisis” has been in the news on loop lately, but as we know, we’re playing politics with who gets to fix it up. If you were conscious during the Reagan administration, and this Reagan-quoting author certainly was, you know that we have been fucking up Latin America and South America for a generation, making countries warzones to ward off the ever-present bullshit threat of Communism and giving money to CIA backed gangs to prosecute an impossible to win, fake-ass War On Drugs all while exacerbating the problem to force countries in our hemisphere to be dependent on us. People are poor and scared and they come here for asylum. This is a self-inflicted gunshot wound-blowback for atrocious intervention. I don’t know what to do here myself, but one thing I do know is that this country is going through a fundamental change in its character-our reputation (unearned of course) has been one of acceptance of the poor and downtrodden. The lady says so. That’s simply no longer the case. Especially if you don’t have white skin.
Bureaucrats at the Department of Education inject racist, anti-American, ahistorical propaganda into America’s classrooms;
This chucklehead believes in reverse racism. Wow. Still? After all we have done to destroy black lives we are supposed to believe this claptrap is true? Only the people with all the power have been disgusting racists, and that’s us whities. If you don’t like what we’ve done, suck it. It got done and your kids should know. Slavery. Segregation. Lynching. Railroads separating white and black communities. I could go on. It is nowhere near ahistorical to teach the tragedy. It is no more anti-American to do so than it would be anti-German for teaching the Holocaust.
Bureaucrats at the Department of Justice force school districts to undermine girls’ sports and parents’ rights to satisfy transgender extremists;
Whine all you like, but trans people exist. I’m not interested in your ignorance of the gender spectrum. Your religion does not trump science and it never has. We’re moving on and leaving you behind. There are many mistruths told about hormones and such. Cis girls can hang. Relax.
Woke bureaucrats at the Pentagon force troops to attend “training” seminars about “white privilege”; and Bureaucrats at the State Department infuse U.S. foreign aid programs with woke extremism about “intersectionality” and abortion.
Part of this is a reference to a brouhaha started by that pencilhead Tommy Cotton a few years back who collected a fair amount of troop complaints about EO, diversity training, and awareness of racism in the ranks. As an ex-soldier myself, I can say that giving staff NCOs the responsibility of this type of training can have mixed results; commanders must pick the right people to conduct these briefings. These are not light subjects and should be broached with good facilitators. But learning about your white privilege, if you are willing to open your eyes a little, is not inherently dangerous to troops nor students. I survived it without hating my own race, I just learned a few things about how easy my ride is. It’s a thing.
I am unable to verify our connecting foreign aid to “intersectionality”, which is generally used as an umbrella term for explaining the problems of manifold traditional outgroups in a society, particularly women. Canada does it to a degree, but the mighty internet offers no clues on whether the United States does. I have no idea what is woke or extremist about abortion, but the Biden administration put an end to the discriminatory nature of refusing foreign aid for reproductive care. Sorry, asshole(s).
We’re done there. Continuing on…
Unaccountable federal spending is the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening. Nearly every power center held by the Left is funded or supported, one way or another, through the bureaucracy by Congress. Colleges and school districts are funded by tax dollars. The Administrative State holds 100 percent of its power at the sufferance of Congress, and its insulation from presidential discipline is an unconstitutional fairy tale spun by the Washington Establishment to protect its turf. Members of Congress shield themselves from constitutional accountability often when the White House allows them to get away with it. Cultural institutions like public libraries and public health agencies are only as “independent” from public accountability as elected officials and voters permit.
Eeek! Education, libraries, healthcare paid by tax dollars? OMIGOSH! What fresh hell is that? What we seem to be getting around to is that this clown is an adherent to the “unitary executive” theory, an idea that regained favor with recent Republican administrations that places lopsided discretion over the bureaucracy created by Congress (as is its right and is only sensible) in the hands of the president. I don’t know about you, but strong executives seem to me to be anathema to the separation of powers; its main job is to execute the laws of the nation. And Congress, not the president, enjoys the right to make them. I have big issues with excessive executive power; first off, it’s a great way to wind up in a quasi-dictatorship where the president can cancel (at the risk of using that now-annoying term) whatever he likes that comes from the legislative branch; second; too many executive proclamations are hardly democratic, usurping power from that same branch. A moribund legislature has been the problem here-if we elected more qualified and engaged people to represent us, we wouldn’t have celebrity presidents and the executive branch trying to run the whole show. That’s on us and the major parties. But that’s not an occasion to allow Mr. President from any party to slash and burn whatever they want. That’s a call for reform.
Skipping a bit we find a final refrain:
Finally, the President can restore public confidence and accountability to our most important government function of all: national defense. The American people desire a military full of highly skilled servicemen and women who can protect the homeland and our interests overseas. The next conservative President must end the Left’s social experimentation with the military, restore warfighting as its sole mission, and set defeating the threat of the Chinese Communist Party as its highest priority.
National defense, in their parlance, is endless war and conquest. Since the inception of this nation we have stalked the globe to gain ultimate primacy on it. And it’s costing us big time in money and lives. Since our disasters in Indochina in the 70s, we have a lot of tallies in the L column. Nevertheless, these maniacs continue to poke the Russian bear and antagonize a newly powerful China. It’s 90 seconds to midnight. We may disagree about how they run their societies, but really, is that any of our business? Who are we to point fingers at other countries for invasion and intervention? It’s a wonder the entire world hasn’t come together to nuke us into oblivion. We’re in a deadly competition for resources and profit. Nothing more. And we are fucking greedy. All of our warring has precious little to do with national defense in a country with two giant seas protecting it.
So, Promise #2 in a nutshell, is give the president the whole enchilada in order to search and destroy whatever isn’t in line with their nauseating, tired “family” values and prejudices. The greatest happiness for the greatest number seems passe among this group. Conservatives, and some may own up to it, are ultimately defined by their resistance to change. That’s unacceptable while we right old wrongs with the tools we are given.
The Illogical Seminary 