(#1,027): We the People

Today, we end the 5th week (35 days) of the MUMP Regime. Yes, yes, I know, to most of you reading this post, it seems more like an eternity . . . something akin to the maleficent continuation of the Harding Administration, the one big difference being, from what I have read and learned, old Warren Gamliel, the original “America First” President, was a fairly benign gasbag with a well-developed self-deprecating sense of humor. Unlike IT, “Wurr’n” (as his wife Florence “The Duchess” called him), did not demand unswerving fealty in order to serve him; rather his cabinet and major advisors were drawn largely from his longtime twice-weekly poker circle (at which the Duchess mixed and served up the highballs). And unlike IT, Harding, the nation’s 29th POTUS, in addition to being an inveterate gambler (who was said to have lost the White House china in a single poker game), smoked and chewed tobacco, and had a bastard child (Nan Britton) who wrote a best-seller entitled President’s Daughter. Then too, when Harding quite unexpectedly died at age 58, there was a lot of speculation that his much-older wife, the aforementioned “Duchess,” had murdered him in order to save his/their reputation.

If it were not for Felon47, Warren Harding would still be considered the worst president in the history of the United States.

Getting back to IT’s first 5 weeks back in the White House:

He has all but ceded the reins of government to the non-elected multi-billionaire Elon Musk, who runs an unofficial “department” (DOGE). which owes nothing to anyone save IT and his BFF.

Managed to get his spineless U.S. Senate to approve 3 of the most unqualified people ever to serve in a presidential cabinet: RFK, Jr. at HHS; Pete Hegseth at DOD; Cash Patel as head of the FBI, (and as of this past Saturday, head of the ATF [Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives}), as well as an “unqualified henchman”, far-right podcaster Dan Bongino (who has never served in the bureau) as its next Deputy Director (the person in charge of its day-to-day operations). This marks the first time in the bureau’s 117-year history that the second-in-command post has not been held by one of its senior agents.
Unilaterally removed virtually the entire board of the Kennedy Center (including Chair David M. Rubinstein, a fellow billionaire), created a new board made up entirely of IT loyalists who then - mirabile dictu - selected him to be the center’s new chairman of the board. (n.b. It should be noted that IT has criticized past Kennedy Center programming, specifically drag performances, and vowed to reshape its cultural direction. When asked by the press, he admitted that he has never attended a single Kennedy Center event.)
Officially and unilaterally changed the name of The Gulf of Mexico to The Gulf of America (only within the couintry’s own continental shelf, which extends 22 nautical miles from the U.S. coast), thereby earning a gigantic raspberry from much of the Western world, and a threat to sue both him and Google Maps from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Ph.D., the daughter of Carlos and Annie Sheinbaum Yoselevitz.
Announced that his regime was firing 2,000 USAID workers and putting thousands of others on leave. This past Friday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols rejected pleas in a lawsuit from USAID employees to keep temporarily blocking the government’s plan. The move escalates a monthlong administration assault on the agency that has closed its headquarters in Washington and shut down thousands of U.S. aid and development programs worldwide following an effort to freeze foreign assistance. Felon47 and his co-president/chief cost- cutter contend that the aid and development work is both “wasteful and furthers a liberal agenda.”
Following a midair collision between a passenger plane and an Army helicopter at DCA outside Washington, D.C. several weeks ago, IT, without citing a scintilla of evidence, insisted that DEI activities at the FAA under Joe Biden were to blame, and then proceeded to fire several hundred FAA employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend.
Hoisting a shiny-red chainsaw overhead while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, DOGE head Elon Musk vowed to cut between $1 trillion and $2 trillion from the annual federal budget by 2026. He even suggested that all Americans would receive a $5,000.00 check in the mail as their part of the savings. He said that in its first month of operation, the total estimated savings were $55 billion (which over the course of 12 months would be $660 billion . . . far less than the $1 to $2 trillion he had promised. Within a week, the DOGE website’s “wall of receipts” showed savings of just $7.2 billion. (n.b. If the MUMP Regime were truly, vitally, concerned about cutting out WFAA (“Waste, Fraud and Abuse”) from the federal government, wouldn’t it be one whole hell of a lot smarter to hire accountants and auditors, rather than allies and acolytes to oversee the project?)
As of February 25 - one day shy of 5 weeks - ITs approval rating on virtually every major poll shows him already underwater . . . the first time in the history of polling this has happened in a POTUS’s first month in office. Not surprisingly, Felon47 went incandescent, proclaiming the figures to be a conspiracy of lies, and rambling on Truth Social “I won the Presidential Election in a landslide, won ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, THE POPULAR VOTE, AND ALL FIFTY STATES SHIFTED REPUBLICAN, A RECORD, AND NOW I HAVE THE BEST POLLING NUMBERS I’VE EVER HAD.”
The new regime roster seems to be totally ignorant (whether truly or willfully) that firing tens - if not hundreds - of thousands of probationary federal employees in one fell swoop is going to wreak havoc with the economic multiplier. Simply stated, people without jobs and/or savings stop spending money; a lack of spending means that businesses like grocery and big box stores see a significant drop in sales, which means that they too may have to cut their personnel costs, which means more people without ready cash to make purchases. Unlike tech companies (which Musk knows best) where employee salaries and benefits are the No. 1 expense, in the federal government personnel costs make up about 4% of the entire budget. In other words, our co-presidents don’t understand Jack about how things work in the world of government.

Now mind you, all the above is but a minor, minor sampling. It is indeed monstrous to realize that America (and the world) still has 259 weeks until this regime is (G-d willing) replaced. Or, to be a bit more optimistic, 615 days and a few hours until the 2026 midterm elections - assuming they’re run on the up-and-up - can put Democrats back in charge of the House and Senate.

Many people I speak with in my travels tell me that they have pretty much stopped watching or listening to the news. It is, they say, just too painful and frightening to read or hear what the regime is doing to turn the country we love into an autocratic oligarchy . . . a country run for benefit of the super wealthy by the even wealthier. They see too much heartlessness, treachery and downright illegality - as well as the bold-as-brass undoing of America’s historic ethos of world leadership and compassion - to feel utterly powerless.

The 3 Most Important Words in Our History

Ah, but this is America; a country that belongs not to the unfathomably wealthy and corrupt, but rather, to “We the People of the United States.” These are the words which begin our most important document, the Constitution. I am beginning to see the rebirth of protest from We the People; of average citizens - Democrats and Republicans showing up at townhall forums and giving their members of Congress unshirted hell; of citizens inundating their members of the House and Senate with surface mail, email and voice messages stressing that that which is most important in their lives . . . winning reelection . . . isn’t going to happen unless they stand up and say NO YOU DON’T to the regime. (BTW: if you do not know who your member of Congress is or how to contact him/her, you can simply go to CONGRESS.GOV and find out). This Friday, Feb. 28 there will be a nationwide economic blackout organized by The People's Union USA, which describes itself as a "movement uniting citizens to reclaim power from corrupt politicians and corporations." Additionally, hundreds of people have been showing up in front of Tesla stores in order to protest Elan Musk.

Just a few hours ago, more than 20 Musk staffers resigned over DOGE’s (“Department of Government Efficiency”) “dismantling of public services.” And, in what might be a sign of things to come, Maine Governor Janet T. Mills actually defied IT right to his face, telling him that she would not accede to his executive order banning transgender athletes in women’s sports. “See you in court,” she said, while seated with a group of bipartisan governors in the White House State Dining Room.

And so, dear readers, I beg you to neither disengage from, nor abandon the office of citizen . . . the highest office in the land. We must do everything in our power to return this country to the people; to those who understand that when America is in the hands of the people, the country is healthier, safer and saner, and the whole world benefits.

We began with a paragraph about President Warren G. Harding and, for the sake of consistency, will end with him as well. As weak and unsuccessful a president as he was, he actually did more to preserve and protect the Constitution than any of our 47 chief executives. How so? He moved it (along with the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, known collectively as the “Charters of Freedom”) from a simple overflowing wooden cabinet in the State, War, and Navy Building (where they were fading) to the Library of Congress where the three documents were restored. Today, these three “Charters” have a safe and permanent home in the Rotunda of the National Archives.

Thanks President Harding: your place in history isn’t very good . . . but at least you did something positive for every American.