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If he is reelected this November, will Donald Trump manage to drain the swamp this time? The swamp-dwellers are saying no.
Ever since he began his first run for president, Trump has famously vowed to drain the swamp, that is, clear out the far-left bureaucracy in Washington that bears so much responsibility for the leftward drift of the nation over the last decade and a half.
In his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2017, Trump announced:
Today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another, or from one party to another—but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the American People. For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished — but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered — but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country…. That all changes — starting right here, and right now, because this moment is your moment: it belongs to you.
Unlike numerous other presidents who had spoken in the past about taking the government from the oligarchs who controlled it and giving it back to the people, Trump’s words didn’t herald a push to expand government power under the guise of working for the people. On the contrary, he was determined to expand the freedom Americans enjoyed and roll back government power.
The swamp, however, struck back hard, and Trump’s promise that power would be transferred back to the people remains unfulfilled. Trump has been criticized for failing to follow through on his promise, but at that time, no one knew just how entrenched and determined the swamp dwellers were.
In fact, before Trump was elected and the Washington bureaucracy rose against him, few people, if any, knew that there was a swamp at all. One of the most important results of the Trump presidency was not one anyone intended: it revealed the deep corruption and politicization of the civil service. Now, a more experienced Trump is again vowing to destroy the swamp, but the swamp-dwellers are insisting that they’re not going anywhere and will continue to run things. The gauntlet has been thrown down.
The Washington Examiner reported Thursday that the will of the people just doesn’t matter to Beltway bureaucrats: “Washington’s bureaucracy, expanded and emboldened by the Biden-Harris administration, feels so secure that most managers would impose new regulations even if voters ‘overwhelmingly’ rejected their plans.”
According to a new survey, fully 54% of “federal government managers would defy voters to do what they want.” The Napolitan Institute, which states that “we recognize that the only legitimate authority for government comes from the consent of the governed,” and that “our mission is to amplify and magnify the voice of the American people so clearly and powerfully that it becomes the driving, framing and shaping force for the crucial conversations of our nation,” conducted a survey of 500 swamp denizens, aka federal bureaucrats.
One of the questions these arrogant usurpers were asked was this: “Imagine that you work for a government agency and have the ability to draft new regulations. After carefully researching an important issue, you determine that a new regulation is needed. If voters overwhelmingly oppose that regulation, what should you do?” The Examiner notes that “just 35% would follow the wishes of voters and trash their regulation while 54% would ‘follow your research and issue the regulation.’ The rest were unsure.”
Nor was this a one-off. Another recent poll showed that a majority of swamp denizens think we peasants are getting out of line: “51% of federal managers believe that people have ‘too much individual freedom.’ Just 31% said they have ‘too little.’” Who do these people think they are? Like all leftists, they think they possess superior knowledge and wisdom, and thus should be entrusted with political power at the expense of the ordinary Americans for whom they have so much contempt.
If he wins the election, will Trump defeat the swamp this time? It shouldn’t be solely up to him. Both parties should see it as being in their interest to destroy this massive and unaccountable federal bureaucracy. The deep state’s coup attempts against Trump should lead to civil service reform that makes it possible for a president to remove various officers and appoint people in their place who will implement his agenda. Democrats should support this as well as Republicans: no elected president of either party should be impeded by unelected bureaucrats. But it is likely that the Democrats have too much to lose if the full story of the deep state were revealed to support such a move.
All the Swamp Birds are leaving the Witch as well and Both The Swamp Thing and Man thing are packing up and moving out to find a better swamp rented a U-Haul Truck
Swamp Thing and Man Thing. Cool comic book references! I don’t think either of them would want to live in D.C. I don’t know if Man Thing could drive a truck though….. 😛
I saw the first Swamp Thing movie he could heal with his touch
It’s not Washington you need to worry about it is Turtle Bay where “pacts” are currently being negotiated by bureaucrats around the world.
Admittedly, if Washington was drained it would slow things down but America no longer has the influence it once had, that is now in the hands of China and islam.
We still write the checks. Eliminate our contribution and it falls in.
Do that and the deep state goons at the IRS will show up at your door for a friendly chat to stress the importance of being a good citizen and paying your taxes or else they’ll have to come back and get rough with you and pry into you finances. They can do that you know and there’s little to nothing you can do to stop them. Try and they’ll bankrupt you.
Cheer up though. They’re from the government and they only want to help you. Now bend over and spread’em…!
And need I remind you that the IRS is fully armed with assault weapons. Bankruptcy is only a slap on the wrist in their twisted view.
Right! Don’t raise your voice at them and keep your hands at your side or they might claim you threatened them and reached for a weapon and that’s why they opened fire on you in your own home!
And if you’re a conservative and/or a Christian and a registered republican, that’s all the more reason they’re likely to shoot you! Deep state gangsters generally don’t like people who aren’t democrats.
This would need to be at a state level rather than an individual level. The state has some firepower and creds to defend itself from the feds.
China is a paper tiger and Islam is a joke. All fire crackers and bluster.
As if either could successfully invade America. We have more guns here than people and we know how to use them. I’d love to blow away some Chicoms and islamopithecines. The Hamas homos may have free passes in blue shit-holes like NYC but not in the rest of the country. Even mostly blue San Jose where I live wouldn’t tolerate their antics.
The Chicoms probably do own or control a lot of the so called “tech industry,” here in Santa Clara Valley, though. And no, it’s not “Silicon Valley.” As if silicon chips have been made here since the 1980s. The only chips made here are potato chips.
I thought silicone valley was next to Hollywood.
I also thought silicone valley refered to cleavage.
Only in women like Stephanie Clifford.
Trump-haters are indifferent about who wins the election? Yeah, right.
Trump haters could care less about the country as long as Trump doesn’t win. They honest think that America can survive a president Harris. Delusional petty and dangerous fools the lot of them.
They’d see the West destroyed, millions dead, the whole world in flames, and they would still say, “Better than Trump!”
Yes, as they choked on their own blood. Scumbags. Party above family, friends and country. They think they’re virtuous but they’re trash.
Secessions and nullifications will be the order of the day soon enough – money is the swamp water – take that away and the swamp is just rot.
Trump doe not know all the deep-state people that run the show and that is why he will not succeed on removing them from governing the country. He would have to fire all the directors of the 400 plus Federal agencies and many of the upper level of management as well. Then start over hiring new people.
That is precisely what the Heritage Foundation and other constitutional conservative advocacy groups are working to build: a slate of replacements for every agency rat that can be fired or reassigned to clean vault toilets in national parks.
Most obviously, it is time to think outside the box. I cannot think of a better team to do so than Trump, Musk and yes, RFK (who I disagree with on many things).
It is a pretense that we still have a republic. It is a false premise this is still a representative government but we just have a bad bureaucracy that runs things. There cannot be both. We can restore what the founders designed through any method, including the methods they originally mentioned or announce the end of the republic and accept the other.
The BS needs to stop first.
Yeah, we’re screwed.
Not wanting to be overly negative and pessimistic but still keeping with the bounds of reality it’s possible that , maybe the terrible awful harm by that pseudo “president” , Joe Biden has done to the United States is still doing and will continue to do is so very horrendously terrible that the damage is most horrific . In addition probably rigged elected national election of 2024, as was before in the year 2020 . Therefore theirs a chance that this year’s Presidential election is likewise rigged in favor of the Communist, Kamala Harris. I really hope this isn’t so.
President imposter Joe Biden is leading America to ruin. Then with Kamala Harris if she becomes President ,with her comrades in the Red/Greed alliance , the terrible harm that will be done to the United States would be completely and totally irreversible. As Abraham Lincoln had said, “You can’t unscramble eggs.”
I have to write, the Washington District of Corruption seems more like a sewer than a swamp to me. Or a huge septic tank. Swamps support a lot of wildlife. D.C. just seems to support disease.
President Trump is totally correct when he says that if the Biden-Harris regime is elected it is the end of this country. We are getting absolute facts from Trump, and it will be proven. Unfortunately it will be too late for the USA.
It’s not a swamp. It’s a sewer.