Good morning kids. First off, a victory at least in the short term, politically, for both President Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson in that the budget resolution passed just minutes after the initial vote had been cancelled. Now that said, the actual details of a final budget have yet to be agreed upon. And yet with all the waste and corruption exposed just with the revelations of what USAID had been doing, let alone the rest of the government, the political wind is at Trump's back vis a vis the base that put him in office in a landslide having had quite enough of the madness of business as usual, plus the other depredations of open borders, crime, and cultural rot/perversion.

The question is, can Trump and his allies muster the will and the power to craft a budget that is reflective of the MAGA and DOGE mission to rein in the tyrannical, corrupt, beast that is the Federal government. For sure the Democrats will resist as will the GOP-E RINOs, grifting, oleaginous parasites who have had their snouts in the trough by aiding and abetting in our destruction since the New Deal came into being 80 years ago.

It's one thing to demand federal bureaucrats justify their jobs. Better still would be Congressmen and Senators, especially Republicans, justify funding these leeches and the agencies in which they work. What does the EPA really do, Lisa Murkowski? Ditto the Dept. of Education. Etc., etc. etc. all the way throughout the radioactive wasteland known as the Federal Triangle (Bartertown aka Bipartisantown).

It's also one thing to rail against welfare, high speed rail, Obamacare and all the rest of the pork that is bankrupting us and putting your children and grandchildren into hock up to their eyeballs. The crux of the biscuit as it were lies in the very word and notion of ENTITLEMENTS. Yes, I get it, we honest taxpaying law abiding citizens have been forced to pay into a system that came into being long before we were born, with no option to not participate in it. Whether we wanted to be a part of it or not, we are a part of the welfare state.

Structurally changing it is one thing, and a very good and long overdue thing that both DOGE and taking a wrecking ball to as much of the bureaucracy that can be done.

As CBD and I touched upon in the last podcast, the notion of entitlements and what that means in light of the Trump MAGA movement. But deprogramming the citizenry of this mentality that we are "entitled" to other peoples' money is quite something else. Look, I get it, we paid into it and when it's our turn, we are indeed "entitled" to get back what was ours in the first place. Hopefully, I want what Trump is doing to start a sea change in the mentality of the citizenry to empower themselves to go back to a time when individual liberty was undergirded by a foundational requirement of personal responsibility to prepare for our future needs of our own volition.

That mentality runs antithetical to how the anti-American Democrat Left gains and maintains power. By becoming mother and father to as many people as possible from cradle to grave, in exchange for giving them the power to take and spend your money as they see fit.

If we can break future generations of that habit, then we really will have made America great again. Two very good essays touch upon this brainwave. First this one:

All of this is actually quite normal. The Romans called this cultural cycle a saeculum, which refers to a period about as long as a human life (80–90 years). In modern times, we refer to these cycles as “turnings,” a term popularized by demographers William Strauss and Neil Howe. A turning is approximately 22 years, and the fourth turning is one in which there is radical social upheaval. We are plainly in a fourth turning right now.

Fourth turnings often (but not necessarily) resolve in violent revolution. The last fourth turning resulted in World War II; the one before that resulted in the Civil War; the one before that resulted in the Revolutionary War and establishment of the Constitution; and the one before that resulted in the Glorious Revolution. The cycles repeat throughout history like clockwork—as predictable as human nature.

Going further is this excellent essay.

. . . a realignment that had been going on for decades suddenly picked up momentum. The Democrat strategy should be obvious by now, and it is not primarily oriented to identity politics. That’s just the ideological window dressing, with plenty of evidence to debunk its substance. Productive private sector workers and entrepreneurs, regardless of their ethnicity or gender, have overwhelmingly rejected the Democrats, along with their woke and green rhetoric. But the economic strategy the Democrats are pursuing may yet work. It appeals to three constituencies.

The first of these constituencies is government workers, about 15 percent of households. This figure, while high, understates their influence because spouses of government workers are likely to share the economic priorities of their partner. Anyone working for a government contractor also benefits when the public sector expands. When government grows, these voters prosper.

Add to that the next constituency of Democrats, the households in America that pay no taxes, conservatively estimated at 40 percent. These are people in lower income groups that are often receiving government subsidies, whether it’s welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, or other benefits. These voters benefit when government aid programs are increased. And when you add together the government workers and the households dependent on government assistance—or at the least indifferent to its expansion because they don’t pay taxes anyway—you already have over 50 percent of the electorate.

It’s at this margin that the battle for the future of America is being fought. And every time another government regulation or tax is imposed on small businesses or households that still manage to maintain financial independence, the resentment they feel against expanding government begins to compete with the economic necessity of depending on government handouts to survive.

No wonder the Left wants to destroy the Family, God and Judeo-Christian morality and ethics because it places the responsibility for our lives, happiness and flourishing on ourselves as individuals.
Speaking of societal dissolution, another crazed beast created by Leftist insanity has mercifully been thwarted:

A Texas man arrested for allegedly planning a “mass casualty event” against law enforcement was “transitioning” genders, a police source confirmed to the Caller.

The FBI’s Houston office announced Monday that it arrested Seth “Andrea” Gregori after he allegedly plotted an attack against police “similar to the 2016 Dallas ambush.” In that 2016 attack, Micah Xavier Johnson ambushed police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five and wounding nine more in a mass shooting. Johnson was reportedly angry over white police officers shooting black suspects.

. . . KENS5 News reported that Gregori allegedly intended to target “white cops” in the CCPD but would leave “Black and Mexican cops alone,” according to the arrest affidavit.
Gregori was arrested for allegedly making terroristic threats against Corpus Christi Police Department (CCPD) officers, according to a CCPD press release.

I imagine this is in part because of the tremendous success of the de facto Trump enacted Operation Wetback 2.0 is shipping the illegals the hell out and discouraging others from entering in the first place. And of course Trump's campaign against DEI and Transgender psychosis being imposed on normal society. Near political terrorism straight up.

The louder, shriller and cruder the calls for violence against Trump, Musk and all of us become, it merely reflects the desperation of those whose power and influence are being threatened.

Stay strong, people because we shall overcome. It won't be easy, but while evil never rests, it will not reign supreme forever.

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