The greatness of Donald Trump’s second term lies in the fact that he just doesn’t care anymore about the alleged norms and guardrails that are supposed to restrict us and no one else. He just doesn’t give a damn. He showed it off the other day when he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Predictably, but somewhat halfheartedly, the regime media immediately complained that he was firing the bureaucrat who exposed allegedly bad economic stats. Get it? He’s trying to silence the honest voices of honesty and honestness. But you could tell their hearts weren’t really in it. She’s a Biden-selected incompetent at best, but more likely, a resistance saboteur. They know the scam. And we know the scam. Everything’s a lie and a scam.
Understanding that is remarkably liberating. When you know it’s all baloney, the moral obligation you might have once felt to comply with the norms no longer applies. When you refuse to play their game, you win. And Trump is winning.
This BLS bureaucrat was continually releasing various economic statistics and then, a couple of months later, massively “correcting” them. And I mean, massively – these are huge changes to statistics that everyone from the Fed to other government agencies to businesses were using to do their economic planning. This incompetence had a real effect, and it was especially damaging to Donald Trump, who is making economic revival the centerpiece of his new administration.
This was a case of “You had one job,” and she continually failed to perform it. But that’s just assuming that she’s incompetent. There’s no reason to assume that. At one time, maybe you could default to the assumption that a bureaucrat who screwed up so massively and undermined a Republican president was just not good at her job. Maybe she’s very good at her job and just considers her job to be the same as most of these resistance bureaucrats do – to damage the Donald Trump administration and prevent him from implementing his policies. There’s absolutely no reason to believe that she’s not intentionally misleading the American people with her fake stats. We don’t owe any other bureaucrat the default of assuming good faith. The bureaucracy’s track record of undermining this president is such that the burden of proof is on the bureaucrats to prove their good faith, not on us to prove bad faith.
But even if we did assume her good faith, this hack still needed to be punted. What should happen to a bureaucrat who doesn’t perform her job? Her boss should fire her, and her boss is Donald Trump because we elected Donald Trump president. But, in the twisted perspective of the establishment, Donald Trump has no moral authority to exercise the power of the presidency because reasons, even though he was elected president. This is known as “Our Democracy.”
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Just understand that you are not part of “our.”
The statistics she released last week were disappointing, but even worse, she made massive corrections from previous months indicating that she has totally failed to perform her job adequately. Now, there are excuses. See, there were budget cuts and hiring freezes, and people just won’t respond to the BLS surveys. Oh, well, then it’s OK. I mean, those are some great excuses, so we can’t expect the bureaucrat to act accurately and perform her job. We just have to sit back and accept that she’s going to continue to fail because it’s hard.
What could be a more Washington, DC, attitude?
That attitude certainly won’t apply to you if you try it in the private sector, unless you work as an HR person, in which case you can keep failing forever. No, in the private sector, they generally require results. The American people were not paying her to come up with a compelling excuse. They were paying her to come up with accurate statistics. Is it hard to do that? Yes, it probably is. And? We can trace back a significant number of America’s cultural, political, and social problems to the feminine idea that it’s acceptable not to do your job if you can play the violin hard enough and generate a plausible excuse.
How about demanding that the bureaucrats get it done or get out?
That’s what Trump does, because he was a businessman who built tall buildings. And when you build tall buildings, excuses don’t cut it because excuses don’t keep giant concrete structures from collapsing. You’ve got to get it right. And it’s not unreasonable for him to expect this hack to get it right once in a while, instead of consistently failing to perform to even the most minimal standard.
We should be celebrating this rare example of accountability. We should be cheering on our president for refusing to allow a bureaucrat who simply can’t hack to continue to collect a salary while failing, failing, and failing again, each time with a failure greater than the previous failure. But no. No, we can’t do that because it’s Donald Trump, and Donald Trump is special. The normal rules don’t apply to Donald Trump. Sure, he may have won the election, but that doesn’t give him the right to rule. After all, he rejected his own position in the ruling class. He’s a traitor to the elite. Therefore, neither he nor, by extension, you, the people who elected him, have any right to exercise any of the powers associated with being the president.
We see this all over the place, especially from obscure district court judges with names that sound like they came out of Mordor, breaking every procedural rule to invent reasons why Donald Trump can’t do the basic things that a chief executive can do. That leaves it to SCOTUS to awkwardly play Whack-a-Mole and beat down these uppity robed pipsqueaks. But it’s not just frustrating to have them knowingly abuse their power. It’s frustrating because when they abuse their power, they are stealing our power from us. We have a right to expect the policies that we voted for to be enacted within the bounds of the Constitution. And the Constitution gives the president the power to control the executive branch, whether the bureaucrats like it or not.
Understand that there’s no moral basis for this resistance to Donald Trump. It’s a pure power play. Donald Trump 2.0 got burned badly in his first term by what recent revelations are showing was a deliberate conspiracy to prevent him from actually being the president. They followed it up by cheating in an election, trying to bankrupt him, framing him for invented crimes so he would spend the rest of his life in jail, and then attempting to murder him twice. Yeah, murder him – the campaign of demonization and hate against him certainly had an intended fringe benefit in their eyes of provoking homicidal malcontents to try to shoot him, assuming there’s nothing even more sinister involved. It’s certainly telling that we can’t get any answers about either of the would-be assassins, who did succeed in murdering one American citizen.
No, this is a game of power. It’s a game of power where the president is now playing to win, and we need to back into the hilt. No weakness. No hesitation. Pedal to the metal, folks.
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