Reposted from Brownstone Institute - July 14, 2025
This past week, the Supreme Court delivered an opinion that could change everything, if not immediately then eventually. It permits the elected president to control the composition of the executive workforce. This involves millions of people in hundreds of agencies who heretofore imagined themselves to be the true and permanent government of the US.
As Laura Ingraham says, it's Christmas every morning.
Yesterday Elon Musk reported to President Trump. It was awesome. I lost count of how many gifts arrived in that report. The best review is by Jeff Childers and I could not hope to match it.
SWAMP APOCALYPSE ☙ Wednesday, February 12, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS
long but a great review worth your time.
Pressed for time? chatGPT summary to the rescue. You are welcome, but you'll miss Jeff's great writing and clever nuances.
### **Summary of Key Points:**
Our country was changed in less than a week to make a U-turn back to our roots of individualism, self-reliance, and as minimal government interference as possible. The Government is the enemy that must be kept small to be controlled if the citizens are to live free.
This is the best summary I have seen so far. One could summarize it as:
Trump found a bankrupt business, froze all spending, and required zero-based budgeting before anyone could spend another dime - It's that simple, done routinely to failing businesses. The US was on the road to bankruptcy and our President may have stopped it just in time.
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/baptism-of-fire-tuesday-january-28?r=eyllm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Welcome
this is an experiment in policy exploration at scale (many readers) using chatGPT as a rudimentary but fast researcher and calculator,
Disclaimer: Yes, yes, yes. There are many flaws to this investigation. First, the investigator (me) has questionable credentials (no PhD, oh my, only an MBA in International Finance and 50+ years in banking, corporate finance, and startup business management). Second, chatGPT is hardly a reliable failproof assistant. Third, like any policy proposal, it depends on the political perspective. Fourth, the devil is always in the details and one of those PhDs can find enough to sink this ship.
Presuming you have nothing better to do, join me into the rabbit hole.
Reprint from X.
This is a great assessment of how and why our world may finally change. Perhaps the Silent Majority has finally confronted the cost of the American Cultural Revolution we tolerated for years and called Woke
Trump, His Disrupters, and a Chance to Return to Normalcy?
Many of Trump first-round picks share some common themes. One, many, who were in the past victimized by government bullies and cowardly bureaucratic grandees, or proved sharp critics of the administrative state, are now, in karma-style, in charge of the very agencies that hounded him.
I like to think I am not too old to learn a new strategy. So, I paid close attention and asked myself why would someone hope to convince a voter to possibly change sides by suggesting they are garbage?
You can tell I AM GARBAGE and was not likely to become a turncoat, but still, why go on TV and call Gen Z's stupid, why call Hispanic and Black men mysoginist?
The only reason I can fathom is an incredible level of arrogance, a belief so great of one's moral superiority, a claim to one's superior intelligence and education that divides "us the morally superior" from "them the garbage".
That line of thinking started in 2015 with Hillary's claim that all "the college-educated" were on her side. Oops, not all were then, but from her loss, she and her ilk learned nothing. So Kamala served word salads to the same crowd with a few insults for spice. Even the college-educated found the salads lacking and went for garbage.
Check out this interview.
To be sure, neither Tucker Carlson nor Harmit Dillon are disinterested impartial observers. Carlson is well known to be a Trump supporter and Dillon has run for Chair of the RNC.
However, an attorney like Dillon may be presumed to have ample proof of her claims as a defense from a defamation suit. Both Dillon and Carlson seem to be truly offended by the extent of reported corruption. You be the judge in preparation for voting
https://x.com/LibertyValkyrie/status/1845071045046284648
In 1987 Micheal Crichton published "State of Fear" an interesting novel that contained in appendix the best bibliography available at that time to non-scientist. It predicted the state of mind of most of society in the US today and how private interests and the mainstream media were intent in shaping collective beliefs.
Today Michael Shellenberger demonstrates that we have in fact fallen into the hands of those private interests, not because they had evil intents but simply because they ignorantly believed "the most heard" and gradually most of us came to drink the same cool-aid. It is not too late for a little education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqcDyHdbYd4&ab_channel=TheTelegraph
And for the data-focused/minded reader, check the data and the charts that debunk what we hear. It is free education https://environmentalprogress.org/the-case-against-environmental-alarmism?utm_source=pocket_saves and the good news is that even the activist "average" forecast does not warrant the hysteria of the "extreme" forecasts that are much advertised because hysteria sells media.