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Democrats had expected to begin the cold new year by throwing a great pity party for illegal aliens, instead they have had to paint on their tears for a new victim: the government.
The government is what they had really been talking about all along when they flipped through their roster of victims, Mother Earth, illegals, criminals, welfare queens, drag queens, and put their solutions on the table, solar panels, open borders, open prisons, free stuff and pronouns.
Social justice really means more government. It’s only government that can get rid of the racist highways, rising (or falling) temperatures, the isms and the phobias, save the planet, keep cities weird and raise up the wretched, huddled masses yearning to never work a day in their lives.
Every form of victimhood is government misspelled. Whatever the question, government is the eternal answer. And now the answer is being questioned not in rhetoric, in op-eds, position papers or FOX News commentaries, but by being taken out in the middle of D.C. and sliced up.
The media has scrambled to make portions of the government identifiable and relatable as it had done for Central American gang members, murderers on death row and six foot tall men who want to play professional sports against five foot tall women, but this is just too much.
There are women who write love letters to serial killers, school shooters have fan pages and there’s a booming market in Hitler memorabilia, but there’s nothing relatable about the gov.
All the stories of USAID contractors weeping their way back to America, the EPA bureaucrats who fear that they may have to get real jobs and the Department of Education hacks who won’t know what to do without their end of the year office furniture buying orgies have touched no one.
“I would love to leave, but I don’t know where I’d go,” a bewildered State Department employee told Politico. He had perhaps heard of the concept of the private sector, but in D.C. such things are one with Santa, the Easter Bunny and a balanced budget as stories you tell little children.
What is one to do when not working for the government? You may as well ask the caged bird to look up at the big blue sky instead of the rusting bars and bowl of turgid water. Just don’t ask the average American outside the bedroom communities of Virginia to wear black for them.
761,358 Americans lost their jobs last year. And their jobs were generally of the kind in which they worked for a living and had their salaries paid by private enterprises, not taxpayers.
Americans have never liked the government much, but then what people ever have? The difference was that over 200 years ago, their ancestors did something about employing measures that ranged from generous applications of tar and feathers to tax collectors to gathering with guns on the tops of hills and shooting at the whites of the eyes of redcoats.
Even all these centuries later, Americans remain unsympathetic to the travails of government.
The media, that is to say the communications arm of the government, would like us to be very upset that $5 billion in funding for electric car chargers (of which a mere 55 have currently been built at the rate of a nice $90 million a charger) have been cut off by the Trump administration.
The public is told to demand that half a billion in foodstuffs and grain be shipped by USAID to Somalia, Afghanistan and other even less nice parts of the world. And the public shrugged. It is told to be agitated that $900 million in Department of Education research must be set aside.
A St. Louis school district where only 1 in 5 children can read will not be getting its electric buses. Can’t you ignorant rubes see what the government does for you, the media prods.
Unlike old school class warfare, very little of this has to do with any portion of the public. And even welfare queens look down on government bureaucrats as by far the bigger parasites.
The proper attitude in D.C. is to look at.$236 billion in “improper payments” in one year and shrug it off as the cost of doing government business. And the public has long since also learned to shrug it off as government corruption. But that hasn’t fostered any affection for the trillion dollar budgets or any conviction that government spending ought to be sacrosanct.
When congressional Democrats take the government hostage semi-annually and threaten a government shutdown (as they are planning to do next month), the public only cares because they are told that it will affect them personally. But very little of the DOGE business now being enacted affects anyone except government employees. And there is very little that the great army of government employees does that is of any interest to anyone other than themselves.
If the Department of Education, the EPA and most of the rest of the morass of government were to disappear tomorrow, the effect would be as negligible as the impact of USAID being rolled into a rug and shipped back to whatever third world country it came from was on Americans.
Some might optimistically believe that it would free up trillions in taxpayer money (but such optimists have never seen more of D.C. than the museums) but the one thing it would not do is significantly affect the lives of most people. Some would be freed of assorted regulatory burdens (that would probably soon be supplemented by even more state regulatory burdens) and only the lifetime career employees would hang around D.C. like canaries with busted cage doors.
Making the case for them is easy for members of Congress, but hard for anyone else.
Crazies admire serial killers and terrorists because they appear to be moved by some great and terrible passion, but the expanding government bureaucracy is where leftist activism ends. If the purple haired shouter in the street with a keffiyah draped over their pronoun buttons and Che t-shirts is where the movement begins, the big gray brutalist buildings are where it ends.
And the Trump administration is proposing to sell off those buildings to the highest bidder.
Activism, no matter how evil, can be inspiring, but there is nothing inspiring about 22,000 square feet of office space, stacks of Hammermill paper and rows of printers all producing enough government regulatory documents that they could be used to build a paper bridge to the moon.
Communism was exciting when Lenin and Stalin were shooting children, but by the 80s, not even the most die-hard Communist could make the Kremlin seem like anything except the headquarters of a stolid tyranny run along ossified rules by drunken elderly bureaucrats.
D.C. is our Kremlin and nobody outside that government citadel cares for it very much.
“Won’t someone please think of the children,” is a timeless classic. “Won’t someone please think of the working class” had a pretty good run for the Left. Even recent variants such as “Won’t someone please think of the cartel members” and “Won’t someone please think of castrating the children” scored points in parts of San Francisco, but “Won’t someone please think of the government” won’t play anywhere outside of Washington D.C.
The M.S. Media are always trying t make us feel all Sorry for a Convicted Killer about to be Exicuted while their Victims are totally forgotten
“I would love to leave, but I don’t know where I’d go, a bewildered State Department employee”
Well, these employees can now take the advice of their own dem leaders. When the oil workers lost their jobs 4 years ago because Biden shut down the XL pipeline from Canada, the pompous John Kerry told these workers “go learn how to write computer code.” So now let’s say it again to the lazy, “work” at home, laid off fed workers “time to learn how to code, liberal doofuses.”
Well said! May I add that soon AI will do all the coding and will force the unemployed to do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do. Picking crops.
Yeah, expanding the size of government seems to be the primary dynamic through history. That means expanding the pool of tax money, which attracts careerists like flies to honey.
My friend, government expansion is paramount to anything and everything else. The form of government matters not.
Consider this:
In the history of human civilization, no government that I’m aware of, has ever voluntarily shrunk itself. Revolutions and coup d’états may change the methodologies of government but does not change the fundamental nature of government which is to perpetuate itself via growth.
Shrinking the size of government is a noble intention but at best the notion is an abstraction. Realistically, money, power, careers and pensions depend on an ever growing government.
To quote Ronald Reagan:
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”
More like flies to shit. 😛
Perhaps I will actually care about the fulltime union grifters in government when they start caring about me.
So you plan on living forever, huh? Good luck! It’ll be forever and a day`before government union grifters gives a flying flunk about you, me or anyone else.
You seem a little bitter and angry Robby.
I don’t think I said I hope they do care. I doubt they will and I don’t care. My happiness does not depend on whether some govt worker drone cares about anything but himself.
Grow a pair and take care of yourself.
“The only way to get rid of government waste is to defund agencies with no Constitutional basis — which is to say, nearly all of them.
You cannot make the inherently wasteful efficient, any more than you can make a circle a square, or water a stone. A thing cannot go against its nature. Government IS wasteful. It’s parasitical. It’s self-perpetuating. It thwarts productivity, it stifles innovation, it paralyzes rational thought, and it punishes self-responsibility.
Government cannot be made efficient and cost-effective. Government earns and creates NOTHING. Aside from its strictly limited mandates against violence and fraud, government only consumes, and never contributes. Our focus should be on elimination, not efficiency.” – Michael J. Hurd
“Government cannot be made efficient and cost-effective.”
So how would Objectivism make Government more efficient, if it’s a fait accompli for failure
You and little Michael Hurd don’t want to fix anything. You would rather sit around bitching, moaning and complaining about everything, including Judeo Christianity.
And when Trump finally gets in and starts actually getting the efficiency project going with results, up against basically a judicial coup desperate to keeping the grift going (can you say racketeering?), you never miss a chance to basically take a crap on him.
Objectivists must be the most miserable people on the planet….even more than Gen-Z single white females.
Intrepid: Are you familiar with the concept of “objective reality”? From what you say, apparently not.
No I am not, at least your version of objective reality. Take your anger and spread it around somewhere else. I don’t care what you think. Like I said in my earlier post, you seem bitter and angry.
Guess what, no one is coming to help you. It would be wasted on you, Bobby.
Grow a pair and grow up.
Actually objective reality may be an illusion created by perception.
I think the subjective reality of government parasites is what we need to familiarize ourselves with.
How about just firing them, which Trump is trying to do. There’s subjective reality for them
I worked in Muni government. Myself, Police. But I am aware of other city departments.
Overall, Efficiency, Saving money. (Spend your budget so it is not reduced next year.) Persons spending 1/2 their shift wandering hallways (gossip). Some going home after lunch and taking a nap.
Suggestions for improving our (Police) service or a change in in procedure. “What? Are you saying we’re doing it wrong?”
This is just on a local level, a 100K city. Can imagine this folly ramped up for a nation of 330 million? Go Musk! Go Trump! The USA needs this clean up…
Talk about cushy job: work from home for several years, never get fired, collect a decent paycheck, have authority without accountability; that’s what government bureaucrats are crying about now that they’re getting fired. It’s about time. Welcome to the real world.
According to TV ads, for $19.99 a month you can save– take your pick– starving children, abused animals, the NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center or the ACLU. Now (… drum roll…) the object of one of those saccharine TV commercials will no doubt be cashiered federal employees, the “victims” of government downsizing. If the simpering voice of Sally Struthers doesn’t get those contributions rolling in, then the snarky invectives of Rob Reiner (the “woke” Meathead), her TV husband from “All In The Family,” ought to at least divert some charitable dollars from the aforesaid pitiable cases to our newest vagabonds, surplus federal time-servers. If all else fails, ex-federal employees could simply leave the country and re-enter as illegal aliens, entitling them to feed from another protrusion of the government tit.
“Hey, hey, RFK, hands off the FDA! Hey, hey, RFK, we remember JFK!” – Lil’ Jamie Munchkin Raskin trying to lead a protest chant just now with a handful of fellow government parasites shivering out in the cold with an audience of one Minitrue Media cameraman. They got off two of those choruses before the four hosts of Studio Six B were laughing so hard in decision they had to turn the video off. It was funny as fuck.
Hey, Jamie Munchkin. Nice Friar Tuck hairdo. Ever heard of a comb-over? Or a hat? Or just staying out of our sight?
Did you see the story about the stinkiest member of Congress? I always suspected there was something wrong with him, some medical condition under those bulky clothes.
“Laughing so hard in DERISION……”
Fucking spell-check.
All those Government Workers out of aa Job can take up a Jobs in Public Service as Sanitation or Washing Windows