Welcome, my dear readers, to our first missive of 2023. Sadly, I think this is the year it will really start to come apart, and I don’t know if there will be anything left to unravel come 2024. That being said, I will be here to comment on it all. This week was going to start this year with what would have essentially been Part 4 to our previous series. I really didn’t like the way I ended Part 3, as I was over 2000 words and still had a lot to say about where things were going and proofs to of my assertions to show. As a result, I rushed what should have been another 800-1000+ words into a paragraph or two in the hope that my previous evidence would hold up the argument made. Really not my best work. As much as I want to do that, it won’t be this week, as circumstances have provided a more present and pressing topic for this week’s post. Join me as we take a close look at a case study in what is wrong with American Politics.
As I am sure you are all aware, there are nominally two dominant parties in the United States (US), the Republicans and the Democrats. At least that is what the text books say, but I would argue that it is an illusion and at the core there is but one establishment uni-party party. That doesn’t mean there are not outliers. The Democrats have people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush (not an all-inclusive list). While the core of the uni-party is cunning and evil, the Democratic outliers are vapid, power-hungry, narcissistic, and above all else pathologically stupid. On the Republican side, we have the likes of Dr. Paul (both of them), Andy Biggs, Dan Bishop, Lauren Boebert, Josh Breechen, Michael Cloud, Ralph Norman, Scott Perry, Chip Roy, and Keith Self (Again, not an inclusive list). These people really remind me of Don Quixote, as they are constantly jousting at windmills due to their inability to identify real enemies, lack of courage to face the real issues, or for the opportunity for political grand standing for self-aggrandizement. I don’t know what it is. I do think the Republican fringe all started with the intention of shrinking government and trying to reassert the constitution, but were subverted by the machine once they got to Sodom on the Potomac.
I think the core uni-party tolerates the fringe even when they can be disruptive and painful. I think that because, Left or Right, there are not enough of them to actually accomplish anything and their existence does a great deal to make the lie of adversarial parties much more plausible, when in fact there is little to no difference at a fundamental level at the core of either the Democrat or Republican parties. It doesn’t matter who is in control. When the House, Senate, and Presidency are in Republican hands the size, scope, and power of Washington increases. When all three are in the hands of the Democrats, it is the same increase in size, scope, and power of Washington (here, here, here, and here). Even when the Republicans promise, like in 1994 make a contract with America, to change things, they don’t. And that time, we got the most sweeping gun control ever since the National Firearms Act of 1934 (So much for protecting the second amendment).
The truth is the Establishment Party that masquerades as a two-party system has worked diligently to suppress any other party from rising to prominence or any faction within their own parties from gaining the power to create an actual opposition party. They do this by passing ballot access laws in the states that make it nearly impossible for newly formed parties to get their candidates on the ballot, they prevent third parties from participating in public debates, deny third party access to media platforms, and they fund themselves with tax payer monies while denying it to smaller parties (here, here, here, here, and here). The “major parties” do this while talking about how third parties confuse voters, waste votes, or worse steal votes from candidates with no chance of winning. This narrative has been carefully curated to the point people I know and love have said that they didn’t like any of the Republican or Democrat candidates, but I can’t vote 3rd party because they can’t win and it would help the more disliked candidate. The sad part is the only reason the 3rd party candidates can’t win is that the media has convinced other wise rational people they can’t. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy (here, here, and here)
The sad part is people still refuse to even try and support third parties that often more align with their actual beliefs and values, even while they watch mainstream candidates of moderate means get elected to public service and in just a few years grow exponentially wealthier (here), while making an upper-middle class salary, due to all the little loopholes that allow them to enrich themselves for the benefit of entrenched interests like the military industrial complex, the healthcare industrial complex, the education indoctrination complex, and others, at the expense of the American People. As a result, we find ourselves in a huge mess (here) and haven’t even seen the real start of inflation yet.
Then, we have the fine political theater going on in the House of Representatives right now. It is one of those times when some of the outliers (many of whom haven’t yet sold out and are still trying to believe in something) are acting up (something the parties put up with to help the illusion of their being differences in the two parties). I can think of no better proof that Kevin McCarthy is a uni-party swamp creature primarily interested in his own wealth and power than the fact that after failing the second ballot he didn’t recuse himself from consideration because at that point it was clear that not enough people in the party would accept him as speaker. Unfortunately, however, rather than humble himself and step aside for the good of his party, and the American people, this process has been drug out to three days and seven ballots now (here), each seemingly worse than the last. As a side note, it seems Trump is now on the speaker ballot and I kind of want him to win because that would be nothing but pure comedy gold.
The truth is that it may be too late to save the country, as a lot of very influential and powerful groups are working diligently to bring it down. Agenda 2030, as pointed out last week, requires a multi-polar world that in essence requires a diminishment of America (In a military sense that might not be bad, but economically it will be terrible.) (here), as well as the impending death of the petrodollar (here, here, and here). There is no hope in Republicans or Democrats to right this ship, if it even can be, because by their complicity the uni-party gets golden parachutes and guaranteed status.
We have reached a point where it doesn’t matter who is president, no matter what party they come from, if the current beast of a duopoly that has been metastasizing since the 1850s is left intact. Trump was a total outsider who was completely outmaneuvered and largely rendered irrelevant by the establishment from day one. Even entrenched political agents in his own executive branch worked against him and there was nothing he could do. Some might argue about the unitary executive power, but that is because they haven’t actually thought it all the way through. The president can’t just hire or fire anyone on a whim.
The scope of this theory has changed, both expanding and contracting over time. It is correct in stating that all executive power resides in the president and that power as outlined in the constitution is as follows:
“The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.
He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law: but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.”
The rub comes especially with Trump as to his power to just fire any one in the executive branch that was acting against him. The constitution is clear that the President can hire whoever he wants so long as the Senate says it is ok and if congress says it is ok he can hire other people without asking first. In general, for major positions like Judges, Department Secretaries, and others, the President needs Senate approval to hire people and if congress grants the ability first he can outright hire lesser office holders like assistant secretaries and whoever. The question is, can he fire anyone he wants? And the answer seems to be no. The court did rule in 1926 that the president could indeed fire anyone in the executive branch for cause (in this case strong suspicion of fraud), but in 1934 and 1958 the court ruled that the President couldn’t fire people unilaterally from departments that served multiple branches of government and that the president couldn’t fire lesser officials just to appoint people of his choosing (here).
To fire someone outside of his cabinet, the president needs to prove wrongdoing or the courts will undo the change. An investigation of the president, regardless of how baseless, isn’t grounds. The other problem faced is that there is really no way for the president to know who is working against them or being bad actors until it is too late. Seriously, with hundreds of thousands of employees it would be nearly impossible for the president to even know something was going on until it was too late. In the aftermath of some of the things, as information came to light, many people were fired, for example Peter Strzok and Andrew McCabe, but the damage was done (here). In the end, Trump didn’t understand the game, trusted the wrong people, and was totally crushed by the political establishment and the media as a result. Unfortunately, that will happen to anyone, good or bad, that isn’t already a player in the uni-party.
Bottom line, we can’t vote our way out of this mess with Republicans or Democrats. If we try, the federal government will continue to cater to organizations like the UN, WEF, and others, as the people of America are stripped of wealth and freedom.
1 Timothy 6:15
15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
God Bless You,
-Sam