Yup, sounds about right. Private enterprise and individuals are more effective than the government.
Wait, you mean FEMA should… plan ahead? In areas that get hit annually by hurricanes? No, that makes far too much sense for the federal government. They prefer to get “surprised” by hurricanes every year.
>>> In particular, he has promoted the theory that the Democrats created the border crisis to bring in migrants who will vote for Democrats, ensuring that the Democrats will never lose again.
Well, it was talked about in Democratic policy/strategy documents. But even if it is unintentional, the end result of US demogrpahics is going to be Democratic majorities in every national election starting next decade. US will shift towards being a state essentially ruled by a single party, with a small opposition -- a system which tends to breed a LOT of corruption. And once a party gets too entrenched, it really really does not like losing power in democratic elections if the electorate start swining to opposition parties (see: Russia, Belarus, Venezuela...)
Ultimately, democracy is just a legitimization story for people in power, but if enough citizens believe in the *idea* of democracy and underlying processes; power can pass peacefully. The left will like to point to J6 as an example where a large group of people did not believe in the democratic transfer of power. Importing illegals (or makign them "legal" via mechanisms like the CBP One app and CHNV program), then using NGOs funded though federal grant programs, to strategically place them in swing states is just as much a betrayal of the levers of power, and just as delegitimizing. It means people will increasingly not feel represented by their government and the social contract will break down.
It would be comical, if it wasn’t so serious. The Biden administration is waging the same lawfare against Musk as it is Trump, yet he keeps bailing them out.
>>> the Biden Administration’s pattern of regulatory harassment” of Musk and his companies.
This is happening, but it's not new. The rule of politics has always been to reward your friends and punish your enemies. When Caesar took power, he wasn't handing out aquaduct contracts to optimates.
The idea of "neutral" politics was something of a 20th-century abberation in the West, and even then there were usually enough regulatory burdens on contracts so that they were never actually awarded to the lowest bidder. Eg NYC contracts usually went to people with mob connections (either Italian or Irish) for a while, before being handed over to affirmative-action-based contractors chosen for skin color (which, TBF, the Irish and Italians were basically doing, too, since they would mostly hire other Irish and Italians).
Elon Musk is on the "wrong" side of the political aisle, so he's not going to get those cushy government contracts anymore.
A long time ago, one of our Presidents knew enough about great men to thankfully look past an organized campaign to cancel his best general. Accused of being both a butcher and a drunk (with mild evidence of the latter and some stats to back up the former), jealous generals beseeched President Lincoln to fire General Grant. Lincoln’s famous response was “I can’t spare this man. He fights.”
We used to understand that our great visionaries come with warts and all. I shudder to think what would’ve happened if President Biden was in charge during the Civil War.
“But sometimes, it takes an erratic, moody, inhumanely demanding person to make things happen. And, time and again, Musk has made things happen—to the benefit of us all.”
Elon is embarrassing our incompetent government and circumventing their censorship. That is why the regime has waged lawfare against him and Trump. The swamp of unaccountable bureaucrats is wasting our taxpayer funds, while seeking to fine or imprison its critics - that is the real danger to democracy. This is Kamala’s Katrina. While hurricane victims were dying last week, she prioritized fancy fundraisers and filming the “Call Her Daddy” interview.
Still waiting on your update about X in Brazil. I suppose the fact that they're bringing it back online undermines your Musk free speech hero worship.
Holy smokes you guys can't seem to get off this guy's jock. It's embarrassing.
Yup, sounds about right. Private enterprise and individuals are more effective than the government.
Wait, you mean FEMA should… plan ahead? In areas that get hit annually by hurricanes? No, that makes far too much sense for the federal government. They prefer to get “surprised” by hurricanes every year.
>>> In particular, he has promoted the theory that the Democrats created the border crisis to bring in migrants who will vote for Democrats, ensuring that the Democrats will never lose again.
Well, it was talked about in Democratic policy/strategy documents. But even if it is unintentional, the end result of US demogrpahics is going to be Democratic majorities in every national election starting next decade. US will shift towards being a state essentially ruled by a single party, with a small opposition -- a system which tends to breed a LOT of corruption. And once a party gets too entrenched, it really really does not like losing power in democratic elections if the electorate start swining to opposition parties (see: Russia, Belarus, Venezuela...)
Ultimately, democracy is just a legitimization story for people in power, but if enough citizens believe in the *idea* of democracy and underlying processes; power can pass peacefully. The left will like to point to J6 as an example where a large group of people did not believe in the democratic transfer of power. Importing illegals (or makign them "legal" via mechanisms like the CBP One app and CHNV program), then using NGOs funded though federal grant programs, to strategically place them in swing states is just as much a betrayal of the levers of power, and just as delegitimizing. It means people will increasingly not feel represented by their government and the social contract will break down.
It would be comical, if it wasn’t so serious. The Biden administration is waging the same lawfare against Musk as it is Trump, yet he keeps bailing them out.
>>> the Biden Administration’s pattern of regulatory harassment” of Musk and his companies.
This is happening, but it's not new. The rule of politics has always been to reward your friends and punish your enemies. When Caesar took power, he wasn't handing out aquaduct contracts to optimates.
The idea of "neutral" politics was something of a 20th-century abberation in the West, and even then there were usually enough regulatory burdens on contracts so that they were never actually awarded to the lowest bidder. Eg NYC contracts usually went to people with mob connections (either Italian or Irish) for a while, before being handed over to affirmative-action-based contractors chosen for skin color (which, TBF, the Irish and Italians were basically doing, too, since they would mostly hire other Irish and Italians).
Elon Musk is on the "wrong" side of the political aisle, so he's not going to get those cushy government contracts anymore.
A long time ago, one of our Presidents knew enough about great men to thankfully look past an organized campaign to cancel his best general. Accused of being both a butcher and a drunk (with mild evidence of the latter and some stats to back up the former), jealous generals beseeched President Lincoln to fire General Grant. Lincoln’s famous response was “I can’t spare this man. He fights.”
We used to understand that our great visionaries come with warts and all. I shudder to think what would’ve happened if President Biden was in charge during the Civil War.
“But sometimes, it takes an erratic, moody, inhumanely demanding person to make things happen. And, time and again, Musk has made things happen—to the benefit of us all.”
Elon is embarrassing our incompetent government and circumventing their censorship. That is why the regime has waged lawfare against him and Trump. The swamp of unaccountable bureaucrats is wasting our taxpayer funds, while seeking to fine or imprison its critics - that is the real danger to democracy. This is Kamala’s Katrina. While hurricane victims were dying last week, she prioritized fancy fundraisers and filming the “Call Her Daddy” interview.