Found on MeWe:
(Presumably referring to this study.)
And all of us who've "been up the sharp end" in our joint and several ways nod our heads in agreement, and say (loudly, with feeling, in well-lubricated chorus):
Of course it is! You don't think we'd have been there without being demented, do you?
Sheesh!!!
Peter
I guess this post could also be titled "Headline Of The Day":
A man was arrested Monday after he allegedly used fake IDs and information to make purchases at several St. Tammany Parish stores.
Later that same day, his believed accomplice was also arrested for using a fake ID to try and bond him out of jail.
One would think that, knowing your buddy had just been arrested over fake ID's, you might perhaps consider that the cops would be familiar with them and looking for more, wouldn't you?
Oh, well. Looks like itinerant criminals are now in the business of providing entertainment to otherwise bored cops in Louisiana!
Peter
In his usual famously polite, delicate, shy and retiring way, author and friend Larry Correia points out what's needed after the Chevron precedent was overturned. I've edited it for language (this being a family-friendly blog), but if you want the unexpurgated original, it's at the link.
In honor of today's argument about Chevron, here's my proposal for a new government agency that I wrote on here years ago. The Department of **** Your Job Security. :D
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We need somebody who actively HATES the government to run it.
If I was President (ha!) I would only create a single new executive branch entity. The Department of **** Your Job Security.
The DoFYJS would consist of surly auditors, and their only job would be to go into other government agencies to figure out -
A. do you ****ers do anything worth a ****?
B. which of you ****ers actually get **** done?
Then fire everyone else.
Right now it is pretty much impossible to fire government employees. The process is asinine. It is so bad that the worst government employees, who nobody else can stand, don’t get fired. They get PROMOTED. It’s easier, and then its somebody else’s problem.
But the DoFYJS don’t care. If your job is making tax payers fill out mandatory paperwork and then filing it somewhere nobody will ever read it? **** you. Gone. Clean out your desk.
We need to get rid of entire agencies. Gone. WTF does the Department of Education improve? NOTHING.
Gone. Fire them all. Sell the assets.
Any agency that survives this purge, move it out of DC to an area more appropriate to its mission. Do we need a Dept of Agriculture? Okay. Go to Kansas.
This will also cause all the DC/NOVA power monger set to resign so I don’t have to waste time firing them.
Oh, and right wing pet causes, you’re not safe. I worked for the Air Force. We all know that we could fire 1/3 of the GS employees tomorrow and the only noticeable difference would be more parking available on base.
Cut everything. We never do, because somebody might cry. Too bad. They’re called budget cuts because they’re supposed to hurt. Not budget tickles. **** you. Cut.
Shutting off the money faucet will also destroy the unholy alliance between gov/media/academia/tech.
Right now there is a revolving door, government job, university job, corporate board, think tank, the same crowd who goes to the same parties and went to the same schools and all that other incestuous **** just take turns in the different chairs.
Sell the ****ing chairs.
Every entity that gets tax money inevitably turns into a pig trough for these people. Cut it all off. All of these money faucets ALWAYS cause some kind of financial crisis later anyway.
See the student loan crisis caused by the government, here is free money, oh college has become expensive and useless, so now we need more government to solve it. You dummies get to pay for it. Have some inflation.
It’s all bullshit.
Quit pretending any of this makes sense.
The only way the leviathan shrinks is we elect people who actively hate the government to the government, and then only let them stay there long enough to **** the government without getting corrupted by it.
The instant you see the small government crusader you sent to DC going “Oh, well maybe an unholy alliance between the state and OmniGlobalMegaCorp to develop a mind control ray is a good thing” FIRE HIM.
So there you have it. That’s my platform if you elect me president. Fire ****ing everybody. And only give me one term. Thank you.
I think I've found my ideal candidate for November 2024 . . .
Peter
Click over to this tweet by Flappr and watch the brief video provided (it's just over a minute long).
Dang, it got dusty in here all of a sudden . . .
Peter
I'm long since sick of the talking heads that are yammering on about the Biden-Trump debate last week. The essential elements could be figured out by anyone with two working brain cells (or even less) in a few minutes. Nobody yet knows how it'll work out (although it promises to be a cross between a tortured melodrama and a laugh-a-minute yuckfest finding out).
There's one commenter who seems to have his finger on the political pulse of last week's encounter. Speaking in Australia at a conservative conference, Tucker Carlson had this to say. Even if you've seen or heard bits of it before, it's worth taking nine minutes out of your day to hear it again.
I wasn't very enamored of President Trump's performance last week either. Bombastic, sometimes shrill, sometimes childish, sometimes downright dishonest . . . he did not come across as presidential, I'm afraid (at least, not by my somewhat old-fashioned standards). Nevertheless, if the choice is between him and President Biden, I think most of us will line up behind him.
Unless . . . we could persuade Tucker Carlson to offer himself as a candidate?
I'm not sure that would be a good idea; Carlson is invaluable as an honest, no-holds-barred observer of the scene and a trenchant commenter. We need him doing his present job, and calling the rest of our political establishment to account (frequently). Nevertheless . . . what if we had a mind like his in charge - whether from the left or the right, I don't care - taking a long, unafraid look at the catastrophe which is our federal government at present, rolling up his sleeves, and starting in on the cleanup?
Tempting thought . . .
Peter
Gathered from around the Internet over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
