Reader John McCall, who writes John’s Substack, left an excellent comment yesterday. He said, “Has it escaped anybody's attention that this nation is un-governable? A columnist, yesterday or so, wrote the first of a series on how to fix things. His first post made a cogent case for elimination of Civil Service so that unelected bureaucrats would be much less able to make policy according to their own agenda, rather than carry out the policies agreed to by elected officials.
Unfortunately, our country is now filled with soy boys, crazed liberal white women, and miscreants who support the rape, burning and beheading of women and children in the Middle East. We are country without a rudder God at her back. We have no common language no common religious base, and no consideration for each other. Educational system has created a group of uneducated halfwits, who have hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to institutions that could not teach them the difference between right and wrong. We are being led by a ship of fools who would even make, the evil LBJ seem kind.
We have created the mess for our children and grandchildren through a combination of indifference and hubris. Like all of us, when we were growing up, the future looked bright. For our children, all they can look forward to is a world that may be a combination of the walking dead, and Skynet rolled into one. Thank you for this beautiful essay.
" It is time for all of us to leave the monster we created.".
When The United States sends a senile child molester into a war zone such as Israel is to do what, exactly?? Biden drools all over himself when he eats, so why is he going out into the public and into a war zone, no less. It is a sure sign that the powers that be really want to get rid of him.
As far as the way today's article started with the picture, I was reminded of the 1960's song "SIGN SIGN EVERYWHERE A SIGN, BLOCKING UP THE SCENERY, BREAKING MY MIND, DO THIS, DON'T DO THAT CAN'T YOU READ THE SIGN............"
This comment is going to come across as very pessimistic and cynical, but I think it is reality. As a country, we are ungovernable. I fear we have passed the point of being able to right the ship of state, so the ship must crash into the rocks before anything constructive is accomplished.
1. The fiscal problem is Medicare/Medicaid. It will take in ~$400 billion in taxes, and spend over $2 trillion. That's the $1.6 trillion deficit. Medicare taxes need to at least triple, and possibly quintuple, if Big Pharma is not broken up. No politician can get elected/re-elected on tripling a payroll tax, so it's not going to happen.
2. Cut all benefits for illegal immigrants and start sending them back to where they came from. I think public sentiment is starting to grow in favor of this, but the optics to accomplish it will be horrible.
3. We need an FTC free of regulatory capture by multinational corporations in every sector of the economy--defense, healthcare, Big Pharma, technology, banking and finance, consumer goods, agriculture, manufacturing, etc. The American consumer is subsidizing consumers around the world, and the American labor force is being undercut by cheap illegal immigration and jobs shipped overseas. Surprisingly, Biden's FTC is the most aggressive in fifty years in targeting monopolization and breaking up Mega Cap companies like Google and Amazon, and stopping mergers like Kroger and Albertson's that create monopolies, b ut it is not enough. This is the stumbling block behind the curtain for the battle for the speaker of the house. The conservative caucus is trying to break the control that megacap companies have over Congress. This is why the press, the Dems and the GOPe are all screaming from the same page that the multiple failed votes for a speaker is because "there are no adults in the room" and "this is embarrassing the U.S. on the world stage." No it's not. It's our Constitution in action. As we all know, the swamp doesn't give a damn about the Constitution if it stands between them and unaccountable power.
We will probably crash into the rocks. Then the battle begins to determine what the next government will look like.
It seems to me the only thing that keeps our country afloat is that every other country in the world is worse off than we are.
My recent little trip to Europe plus Egypt and Turkey illustrates this well. In Italy and Greece they use the euro. Now I really don’t know what supports the euro as it is a conglomeration of countries with a currency for all. It goes for about $1.11 for a dollar. What it is backed by is a mystery to me because you can buy a lot more in Greece with a Euro than you can in Italy with a Euro. Vendors in both countries really don’t want to take dollars when you buy something. In Egypt the Egyptian puns is worth very little. It exchanges at around 1.00 for 28-30 Egyptian pounds and you need a lot of Egyptian pounds to buy anything. The vendors there want US dollars. In Turkey the lira there is junk. Dollars are widely accepted.
Anyone want Russian rubles? How about Chinese yuan? Nope.
These other countries are more broke than we are. That is what keeps us afloat in my opinion.
Oh, and they have just as stupid leaders and governments as we do.
Great column Don. Divorce from DC is the only strategy that gives any possibility of success. It will never happen, of course, because of the love of power over others that the denizens of DC seem to have. It’s hard to tell where the stupid (LGBTQIAEIEIO, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity - DIE, doing away with cheap and reliable energy to solve the non-existent Globull Hot Cold Wet Dry Crisis, etc) and the evil cross over, but it doesn’t much matter now. So many sheeple sincerely believe and fight for things that aren’t close to being true that there doesn’t appear to be a way to untangle this mess. Not as long as all the institutions of the nation feed nonsense to the masses (latest example: “THE EVIL JOOS KILLED 500+ INNOCENT GAZANS BY BLOWING UP THE HOSPITAL”) that don’t want to know anything more than what the dead tree press or the idiot box tells them. Don’t know how it went down at the end of the Roman Empire, but I suspect we’ll see it play out in real-time on the InterWebz. Sigh... It’d be so much easier to be a sheeple...
When unelected bureauocrats are making the rules up on the fly and elected officials allow enforcement without a challenge we are doomed.Todays pols are too busy entertaining deep pocket lobbyists to hear the voters screams of indignation and the justice system appears to have lost the scales.Thank the good Lord for Don Surber and like-minded writers for speaking out for Patriots across the fruited plains.Great eye opener again but the poll needed aota.
"The Uniparty is busy with destruction of this nation for the rest of us in order to gain it for themselves (and buy time to accomplish such by throwing the rest of us minimal scraps)."
Truth that cuts as sharply as a brain surgeon's scalpel. This nation's Political Class is bent on burning it to the ground to rule over the ashes.
"That depends on what the meaning of cut is because only in government do people believe that you increase spending and call it a decrease."
Wasn't that President Bubba's forte? Parsing and manipulating the language and definitions of words to suit his ends - and doing the same with his administration's budgets?
"Expecting Congress or a president to fix this problem is like expecting Lizzo to lose weight."
True - but it can't be fixed - it needs to be disassembled, destroyed, and rebuilt from the ground, up.
I submit that is what most of us mean when we say that returning Trump to the office of POTUS is this nation's last best hope. Trump cannot fix what has become the monster - but he can effectively blow it up.
We are seeing that having no SotH is of no consequence - that could never be demonstrated had Gaetz not won that concession in January, and had it not worked as intended. Just breaking the destructive cycle has been of tremendous benefit.
My preference is to slay the monster first, then leave it. Leaving the abuser is just the first step - unless it is killed, it will always be the abuser.
Given blue states' affinity for Islam and its adherents, Absurdistan is the clear winner.
Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Don Surber
Except for her atheism, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged makes the most sense to me. We need to take our best and disappear so the Rich Men North of Richmond can fail together while wondering what happened.
The only way we can execute a national divorce is to leave the existing system and start a new one (i.e. get out of the GOP so they can fail). The next best thing is to have someplace to go to build our own country
Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Don Surber
As to permanent employment in government, here in Chicago we had an all patronage hiring system for city and Cook County employees. Everyone was a temporary employee and could be fired at will. Government employees understood that if their elected official sponsor was turned out of office, they'd be history too. The upside was accountability. The rude clerk at the Department of Vital Statistics cost votes. The guys leaning on a shovel instead of filling potholes helped form an overall impression of the quality of service. Ward Aldermen got that and saw to it that things got done in their wards and that constituents' concerns were addressed.
It was the city that worked in more ways than one.
Except those same workers were expected to knock on doors and pass out flyers at election time. Some of this took place on the city's time. And the idea that everyone could just be fired because they were hired (effectively) by a pol who later lost re-election seemed unfair in the mind of the Federal judiciary so we got a consent decree called the Shakman Decree.
Now practically nobody can be fired unless convicted of a felony requiring incarceration. Even that takes years. Unsuprisingly, city and county employees couldn't care less about service to constituents and see their elected bosses as temporary employees to be ignored. Now the city is a mess - broke, violent and with a downtown business district that is collapsing, taking the tax base with it. Circling the drain.
There is a growing Texit movement here. If Trump is prevented from winning next year, I am all in. The logic is straightforward and unimpeachable. If Texas were independent today, and was invited to join the Union, would it make sense to anyone? Sam Houston put it this way 177 years ago: "The United States needs Texas more than Texas needs the United States."
When top men in government publicly condone sodomy and lesbians along with the torture, mutilation and destruction of infants and children for profit and pleasure then it is no longer a government. It is a Satanic instrument of evil that flies into the Face of God's Providence. Hammertime.
My wife floats the best idea yet: Break up the DC block party. Make the congress rule from their home cities where they are immediately accountable to the people who elect them. Hell, put them in store fronts with no back rooms so the voters have access to the creeps they elect...24/7, day and night.
Sir Don's brilliant comment of the day: "Name a human activity that the government does not have its nose in."
Unfortunately, our country is now filled with soy boys, crazed liberal white women, and miscreants who support the rape, burning and beheading of women and children in the Middle East. We are country without a rudder God at her back. We have no common language no common religious base, and no consideration for each other. Educational system has created a group of uneducated halfwits, who have hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to institutions that could not teach them the difference between right and wrong. We are being led by a ship of fools who would even make, the evil LBJ seem kind.
We have created the mess for our children and grandchildren through a combination of indifference and hubris. Like all of us, when we were growing up, the future looked bright. For our children, all they can look forward to is a world that may be a combination of the walking dead, and Skynet rolled into one. Thank you for this beautiful essay.
" It is time for all of us to leave the monster we created.".
When The United States sends a senile child molester into a war zone such as Israel is to do what, exactly?? Biden drools all over himself when he eats, so why is he going out into the public and into a war zone, no less. It is a sure sign that the powers that be really want to get rid of him.
As far as the way today's article started with the picture, I was reminded of the 1960's song "SIGN SIGN EVERYWHERE A SIGN, BLOCKING UP THE SCENERY, BREAKING MY MIND, DO THIS, DON'T DO THAT CAN'T YOU READ THE SIGN............"
Repeal the 17th
Sadly you vote your way into socialism, or through stolen elections, but you have to shoot your way out.
This comment is going to come across as very pessimistic and cynical, but I think it is reality. As a country, we are ungovernable. I fear we have passed the point of being able to right the ship of state, so the ship must crash into the rocks before anything constructive is accomplished.
1. The fiscal problem is Medicare/Medicaid. It will take in ~$400 billion in taxes, and spend over $2 trillion. That's the $1.6 trillion deficit. Medicare taxes need to at least triple, and possibly quintuple, if Big Pharma is not broken up. No politician can get elected/re-elected on tripling a payroll tax, so it's not going to happen.
2. Cut all benefits for illegal immigrants and start sending them back to where they came from. I think public sentiment is starting to grow in favor of this, but the optics to accomplish it will be horrible.
3. We need an FTC free of regulatory capture by multinational corporations in every sector of the economy--defense, healthcare, Big Pharma, technology, banking and finance, consumer goods, agriculture, manufacturing, etc. The American consumer is subsidizing consumers around the world, and the American labor force is being undercut by cheap illegal immigration and jobs shipped overseas. Surprisingly, Biden's FTC is the most aggressive in fifty years in targeting monopolization and breaking up Mega Cap companies like Google and Amazon, and stopping mergers like Kroger and Albertson's that create monopolies, b ut it is not enough. This is the stumbling block behind the curtain for the battle for the speaker of the house. The conservative caucus is trying to break the control that megacap companies have over Congress. This is why the press, the Dems and the GOPe are all screaming from the same page that the multiple failed votes for a speaker is because "there are no adults in the room" and "this is embarrassing the U.S. on the world stage." No it's not. It's our Constitution in action. As we all know, the swamp doesn't give a damn about the Constitution if it stands between them and unaccountable power.
We will probably crash into the rocks. Then the battle begins to determine what the next government will look like.
It seems to me the only thing that keeps our country afloat is that every other country in the world is worse off than we are.
My recent little trip to Europe plus Egypt and Turkey illustrates this well. In Italy and Greece they use the euro. Now I really don’t know what supports the euro as it is a conglomeration of countries with a currency for all. It goes for about $1.11 for a dollar. What it is backed by is a mystery to me because you can buy a lot more in Greece with a Euro than you can in Italy with a Euro. Vendors in both countries really don’t want to take dollars when you buy something. In Egypt the Egyptian puns is worth very little. It exchanges at around 1.00 for 28-30 Egyptian pounds and you need a lot of Egyptian pounds to buy anything. The vendors there want US dollars. In Turkey the lira there is junk. Dollars are widely accepted.
Anyone want Russian rubles? How about Chinese yuan? Nope.
These other countries are more broke than we are. That is what keeps us afloat in my opinion.
Oh, and they have just as stupid leaders and governments as we do.
Great column Don. Divorce from DC is the only strategy that gives any possibility of success. It will never happen, of course, because of the love of power over others that the denizens of DC seem to have. It’s hard to tell where the stupid (LGBTQIAEIEIO, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity - DIE, doing away with cheap and reliable energy to solve the non-existent Globull Hot Cold Wet Dry Crisis, etc) and the evil cross over, but it doesn’t much matter now. So many sheeple sincerely believe and fight for things that aren’t close to being true that there doesn’t appear to be a way to untangle this mess. Not as long as all the institutions of the nation feed nonsense to the masses (latest example: “THE EVIL JOOS KILLED 500+ INNOCENT GAZANS BY BLOWING UP THE HOSPITAL”) that don’t want to know anything more than what the dead tree press or the idiot box tells them. Don’t know how it went down at the end of the Roman Empire, but I suspect we’ll see it play out in real-time on the InterWebz. Sigh... It’d be so much easier to be a sheeple...
When unelected bureauocrats are making the rules up on the fly and elected officials allow enforcement without a challenge we are doomed.Todays pols are too busy entertaining deep pocket lobbyists to hear the voters screams of indignation and the justice system appears to have lost the scales.Thank the good Lord for Don Surber and like-minded writers for speaking out for Patriots across the fruited plains.Great eye opener again but the poll needed aota.
"We need a divorce — from Washington."
Well, it would be a start.
"The Uniparty is busy with destruction of this nation for the rest of us in order to gain it for themselves (and buy time to accomplish such by throwing the rest of us minimal scraps)."
Truth that cuts as sharply as a brain surgeon's scalpel. This nation's Political Class is bent on burning it to the ground to rule over the ashes.
"That depends on what the meaning of cut is because only in government do people believe that you increase spending and call it a decrease."
Wasn't that President Bubba's forte? Parsing and manipulating the language and definitions of words to suit his ends - and doing the same with his administration's budgets?
"Expecting Congress or a president to fix this problem is like expecting Lizzo to lose weight."
True - but it can't be fixed - it needs to be disassembled, destroyed, and rebuilt from the ground, up.
I submit that is what most of us mean when we say that returning Trump to the office of POTUS is this nation's last best hope. Trump cannot fix what has become the monster - but he can effectively blow it up.
We are seeing that having no SotH is of no consequence - that could never be demonstrated had Gaetz not won that concession in January, and had it not worked as intended. Just breaking the destructive cycle has been of tremendous benefit.
My preference is to slay the monster first, then leave it. Leaving the abuser is just the first step - unless it is killed, it will always be the abuser.
Given blue states' affinity for Islam and its adherents, Absurdistan is the clear winner.
Except for her atheism, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged makes the most sense to me. We need to take our best and disappear so the Rich Men North of Richmond can fail together while wondering what happened.
The only way we can execute a national divorce is to leave the existing system and start a new one (i.e. get out of the GOP so they can fail). The next best thing is to have someplace to go to build our own country
As to permanent employment in government, here in Chicago we had an all patronage hiring system for city and Cook County employees. Everyone was a temporary employee and could be fired at will. Government employees understood that if their elected official sponsor was turned out of office, they'd be history too. The upside was accountability. The rude clerk at the Department of Vital Statistics cost votes. The guys leaning on a shovel instead of filling potholes helped form an overall impression of the quality of service. Ward Aldermen got that and saw to it that things got done in their wards and that constituents' concerns were addressed.
It was the city that worked in more ways than one.
Except those same workers were expected to knock on doors and pass out flyers at election time. Some of this took place on the city's time. And the idea that everyone could just be fired because they were hired (effectively) by a pol who later lost re-election seemed unfair in the mind of the Federal judiciary so we got a consent decree called the Shakman Decree.
Now practically nobody can be fired unless convicted of a felony requiring incarceration. Even that takes years. Unsuprisingly, city and county employees couldn't care less about service to constituents and see their elected bosses as temporary employees to be ignored. Now the city is a mess - broke, violent and with a downtown business district that is collapsing, taking the tax base with it. Circling the drain.
There is a growing Texit movement here. If Trump is prevented from winning next year, I am all in. The logic is straightforward and unimpeachable. If Texas were independent today, and was invited to join the Union, would it make sense to anyone? Sam Houston put it this way 177 years ago: "The United States needs Texas more than Texas needs the United States."
We don’t need a divorce. Our country suffers from a lack of honorable men.
There are fewer problems when men are honorable. Name a problem in our country where an honorable man involved wouldn’t make it better or near zero.
Crime
Politics
Abortion
Divorce
Broken families
Homelessness
Mental illness
Business
Wall Street and wealth building
Sports and entertainment
Your workplace
You name it. Honorable men fix it.
Including feminism. There would be no need for “pink pussy hats” if men were honorable.
Including racism. There would be no need for BLM if men were honorable.
I’m calling for all men to be men of honor.
When top men in government publicly condone sodomy and lesbians along with the torture, mutilation and destruction of infants and children for profit and pleasure then it is no longer a government. It is a Satanic instrument of evil that flies into the Face of God's Providence. Hammertime.
My wife floats the best idea yet: Break up the DC block party. Make the congress rule from their home cities where they are immediately accountable to the people who elect them. Hell, put them in store fronts with no back rooms so the voters have access to the creeps they elect...24/7, day and night.