Your freedoms and independence are under attack by our elected politicians and unelected regulators. Bureaucrats in executive departments such as the FTC, FCC, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Departments of Education, Energy, and the Interior continue to create laws—which they are not legally empowered to do.
Case in point: The Department of the Interior just placed a fence around 13 million acres of Alaskan land, restricting new oil and gas leasing. Alaska U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan called it an illegal attack on the state’s economic lifeblood—the oil and gas industry. Tens of thousands of Alaskans are employed in the energy sector and will be affected by executive department regulations that were never authorized by Congress. The Biden Administration’s green agenda, pushed by liberal Democrats, is infringing on states’ rights. What the federal government refuses to understand is that the states created the federal government, not the other way around.
Case in point: The Department of Education recently announced changes to Title IX regulations. The revisions force schools across the nation that receive federal funding to abide by new rules that permit transgender students to use locker rooms and bathrooms that conform to their gender identity, not their biological sex. As bad as this is, watch what’s happening to women’s sports at schools. This shit show will pit states’ rights against bureaucratic federal overreach and end badly. Be warned! Liberals are making an end run against every industry. None will be spared.
Case in point: The Department of Energy is using the rather benign word pause to effectively slam the brakes on approvals of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. It is conducting an endless series of reviews and analyses, all with the ultimate goal of halting all LNG exports from the United States to customers around the world. Environmentalists and climate change activists hail the move as a brave move forward to put an end to global fossil fuel dependence. U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm indicated that only projects that are pending before the Department of Energy will be the subject of the indefinite pause. The United States is the largest global exporter of liquified natural gas. I suspect that officials in Louisiana and Texas are deeply disturbed by this latest pronouncement of the Biden Administration and are reviewing legal options to stop government overregulation.
The Biden Administration is singlehandedly destroying the pillars of American society.
The Marxist March to Average
The Biden Administration seeks to kill ambition, purge America of excellence, eliminate overachievement, and replace it with mediocrity and equality for all. This is no longer a nation of unlimited opportunity. It is now progressing to become a nation where all outcomes are mandated equally—a gray nation where everyone is indistinguishable from their neighbors.
Exceptionalism will be stamped out by government decree—Greatness Not Practiced Here.
All citizens’ needs will be supplied by a limited number of mega corporations under the control and guidance of a centralized government. Entrepreneurs will be regulated and taxed to death until they cry uncle and give up, closing their stores and franchises that they pinned their hopes and retirement dreams on. Think back to the COVID pandemic, courtesy of the China Communist Party. The only businesses that were allowed to remain open were the giants— Costco, Walmart, Amazon, Kroger, and the like. Mom-and-pop businesses were forced to close under the threat of fines and arrest.
The government knows it’s much easier to control a limited number of gigantic companies than tens of millions of smaller mom-and-pops. As long as liberal Democrats control the narrative, we as a nation are at risk of becoming a failed socialist state. If the Democrat apparatus had their way, they would eliminate entrepreneurs and any opposition to their plan for a centralized economy with all orders and direction emanating from the Washington ultra-elite.
If you aspire to be great, you are not welcomed here. Excellence is discouraged, and we have regulations against that sort of behavior. Best you be like everyone else. Average is what you should aspire to.
Imagine what this country will be like for your kids and your grandchildren if we remain on this toxic path.
The American Dissident
Question the government, and be accused of unethical behavior, ostracized, targeted, blacklisted, deplatformed, or shunned—all by indoctrinated liberals who themselves are guilty of unethical and reprehensible behavior. Personal attacks, so frequent on social media, gain national attention with arguments devoid of fact. For instance, read about personal attacks on prominent conservative truthsayers such as Ben Schapiro, Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, Mike Rowe, and others. Make no mistake. Freedom itself is at risk in an era where being right is considered wrong, where telling the truth is met with vicious personal attacks, and where corporate mass media acts to propagate lies until people believe them because they have read or heard them so often.
The far left has indoctrinated a massive number of Americans who now believe that Joe Biden is a great president and has accomplished wondrous things. They downplay 12 million illegal aliens flooding into this country. They downplay the massive increase in crime and fentanyl deaths.
They downplay the national debt, the budget deficit, inflation, and mortgage interest rates. They rail against conservatives who stand up and tell the truth—that the emperor wears no clothes, that Joe Biden is a delusional and dangerous politician who is controlled by others and incapable of rational thought without the aid of a teleprompter. America desperately needs more patriots to stand up and tell the truth—to combat the dangerous lies the government and government- influenced media spread.
The question is this. Are you going to sit on the couch as a spectator or engage and work to change what is so wrong with our country?
A Nation in Decline
Look around. It’s not difficult to see. Notice the worried look on people’s faces and their disappointment and lack of confidence in our government. Watch their reaction to high prices at the grocery store brought on by relentless inflation. Pay attention to homebuyers facing 7 percent mortgages, unable to buy the homes they were hoping for. It’s called fear of the future.
Have you noticed parents who are worried that their children will not have the same opportunities they had? What about the severe declines in education and well-being caused by the government’s response to the pandemic? All this has been reported on and verified. The heavy hand of government regulation everywhere is affecting every industry, every school, and every community.
President Trump’s tag line is “Make America Great Again.” Well, what’s the matter with that? I WANT America to be GREAT again.
- I want fiscal
- I want low
- I want a balanced
- I want to stop out-of-control spending
- I want student loan borrowers to pay back the money they
- I want intelligent immigration
- I want illegal immigrants
- I want strong border defenses and a WALL to keep out those who don’t belong
- I want the rule of law
- I want secure
- I want low mortgage
- I want criminals locked up behind
The Biden Administration works against everything I want, and I want a lot. Don’t you? Will securing these things help stem America’s decline? I think they will go a long way to help. Yes, it’s a long list, but we are a big country, and there are a lot of things that have gone haywire under Biden.
I WANT America to be GREAT again. Don’t you?
The Majority of Registered Vermont Voters Are Dumber Than Bernie Sanders. Why?
1941 was a very bad year. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, and Bernie Sanders was born on September 8, 1941. I would celebrate a world that does not include Bernie the socialist politician, but—heavy sigh—we can’t always get what we want.
Vermonters voted socialist Bernie Sanders into the House of Representatives for 16 years before electing him to the Senate in 2006 and again in 2012 AND again in 2018. He has been a driving force in shifting the Democratic Party to the far left, abandoning the principles that are the bedrock of America. He rails against income inequality yet fails to understand basic human behavior. I am where I am as a result of the decisions I have made and my behaviors. You are where you are for the same reasons. Whether you grew up in Manhattan, Montana, or Louisiana, these facts hold. Decisions and behavior. Period.
For a time, Sanders vehemently argued that millionaires should not exist—until he became one. Now he argues against billionaires. Do you ever wonder who pays for all the new wings on hospitals, concert halls, and university science and library buildings? The gifts are generally from billionaires with a philanthropic philosophy. Sanders owns three homes, which is not bad for a socialist Democrat and far-left village idiot. I guess he wants the kind of equality where everyone, citizens and non-citizens alike, owns three homes.
Andrew Carnegie sold his U.S. Steel Corporation to J.P. Morgan for $480 million. Carnegie, arguably one of America’s first multi-millionaires, was responsible for the funding and building of 2,509 libraries around the globe, 1,795 of them in the United States. It is reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away more than $350 million. This kind of philanthropy would not exist in Bernie Sanders’ socialist America.
So why on earth do the folks in Vermont keep sending this independent socialist to Washington? I’m told that Vermont politics are nothing like national politics. The fact is that a lot of
Vermont’s population is poor, so they tend to vote for candidates who will provide more chickens in their pots. Sanders’ words inspire a lot of progressives and younger voters who have not shared in the bounty that capitalism creates. These voters feel they have not benefitted from our current economic system. They may have lower wages or be saddled with student loan debt. All these are attributable to their behavior and the life decisions they have made. It is not because they live in a capitalist society. If Tommy spends his idle time on self-improvement and education, he will most likely out-earn Bill who is a regular every night during happy hour, followed by 30 hours a week watching football games on television and playing video games.
In Senator Sanders’ own words, the “real cause” of that pain is the “economic system designed to benefit the very, very rich at the expense of everybody else.” BULLSHIT! Sanders is someone who wants to tear down our capitalist system. My fervent hope is that Bernie gets defeated in the next election. At 82 years old, he has already put his hat in the ring. Respectfully, Senator, your hat should be in one of your three homes, and you should leave the politics to American patriots who believe in and love America. Your time has passed. Take your socialist bullshit home.
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