The Belly of the Beast

[AceDesSpades]

(and not have it come up 2025?)

 

[Wat_Tyler]

What is that, a math(s) Project???


I liked the "live studio audience" and the bad hair.


Sweet Babeh Jeebus!!!

 

[AceDesSpades]

Chaos Math

The AlGorerhythm may be replicated, but never with the initial conditions. Bad seed reproduces bad fruit.

Reenforces the negatives.

 

[jomar]

Wow, way to keep that confirmation bias echo chamber chugging along. I’m surprised Rightguide hasn’t chimed in with a gatewaypundit article.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Well thank you for your well-thought-out reverberation.

It will echo in our minds...

 

[AceDesSpades]

I guess he pretty much approves of the beast since he wishes not to damn or decry it...

Government Union like Spidey?

 

[AceDesSpades]

These are good 'tater chips. I like them as well as my French fries...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Good tater chips are good.


They need to come out with Tater Swift chips . . . kinda bland and less filling, but not the best choice.


I'll be here all week, ladies-n-germs . . . .

 

[AceDesSpades]

They disappear when turned sideways...

No ridges, just ruffles

sugary

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Don't want sugar on my taters, swift or no.

 

[Politruk]

Leviathan

"The time has come to end the Administrative State once and for all.

"This failed experiment launched a century ago by Progressive Statists like Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt is a deeply unconstitutional approach to government that is antithetical to the free, representative government founded by the American Republic. It is the polar opposite of what our founders envisioned with the unelected bureaucrats doing the governing of the country while not responsive to “We the People,” as the people didn’t elect them and, more importantly, don’t have any recourse to redress their grievances against the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of the Administrative State via its statutes and regulations that benefit the State and its allies."

Ned Ryun and Mark Corallo, American Greatness

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/23/tearing-the-leviathan-apart/

What they're not is anything we don't need. Every modern industrialized state needs a bureaucracy of comparable scale.

 

[RobDownSouth]

What is all this nonsense about the "administrative state"? Every state is administrative. A county school district is an administrative state.

As a card-carrying "glibertarian", AJ's ideology prevents him from accepting responsibility for his actions and/or the failures of his lack of action.

The "administrative state" is nothing more than a convenient excuse for him to evade responsibility for the multitude of poor choices he has made in his life.

 

[Politruk]

Leviathan

"The time has come to end the Administrative State once and for all.

"This failed experiment launched a century ago by Progressive Statists like Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt is a deeply unconstitutional approach to government that is antithetical to the free, representative government founded by the American Republic. It is the polar opposite of what our founders envisioned with the unelected bureaucrats doing the governing of the country while not responsive to “We the People,” as the people didn’t elect them and, more importantly, don’t have any recourse to redress their grievances against the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of the Administrative State via its statutes and regulations that benefit the State and its allies."

Ned Ryun and Mark Corallo, American Greatness

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/23/tearing-the-leviathan-apart/

Every federal agency is presumed to have a certain sphere of autonomy -- every one has a mission statement, part of the legislation creating it, which does not change from one administration to the next.

Remember, this is the way it's supposed to work. Congress creates agencies with this in mind, and not with the intent that they will be the president's instruments.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Don't want sugar on my taters, swift or no.

People who put catsup on eggs.

Should be shot on sight.

Salsa. everyone knows

 

[AceDesSpades]

Leviathan

... Beyond this cowardice, Congress' fiscal frivolity is visible everywhere. Take the issue of expired authorization. The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already flagged "$516 billion to programs whose authorizations previously expired under federal law. Nearly $320 billion of that $516 billion expired more a decade ago."

This, again, is nuts. It not only reveals that Congress doesn't care much about its own rules and oversight power—if members want to continue spending on these programs, they should duly reauthorize them—but shows that the government is way too big for Congress to handle.

Next, take the issue of improper payments. According to the Government Accountability Office, payments that "should not have been made or that were made in an incorrect amount" reached $236 billion last year. Since 2003, the total has been $2.7 trillion. Medicare and Medicaid each account for over $50 billion annually, while the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program had $3.6 billion. GAO offers recommendations to address a small part of the problem, but Congress has failed to adopt them. Improper payments continue and even grow every year....

Veronique De Rugy, Reason.com

 

[AceDesSpades]

Reminds me that there was a lawsuit just this cycle over removing the dead from the voting rolls...

 

[AceDesSpades]

The sheer size of the federal government has created a self-perpetuating vortex of dysfunction. The bureaucracy and scale of spending have grown so vast and complex that meaningful oversight has become nearly impossible. But while Congress cannot effectively monitor the thousands of programs, agencies, and expenditures under its purview, by making only token attempts to live up to its constitutional responsibilities, it all but ensures even more waste, duplication, and programs that continue long past their usefulness.

The only cure is to shrink the size of government. Trump is talking about it, but it's mostly in Congress' hands.
De Rugy


Step 1: FairTax.org

 

[ll74]

Leviathan

Drink!

 

[Politruk]

The sheer size of the federal government has created a self-perpetuating vortex of dysfunction. The bureaucracy and scale of spending have grown so vast and complex that meaningful oversight has become nearly impossible. But while Congress cannot effectively monitor the thousands of programs, agencies, and expenditures under its purview, by making only token attempts to live up to its constitutional responsibilities, it all but ensures even more waste, duplication, and programs that continue long past their usefulness.

The only cure is to shrink the size of government. Trump is talking about it, but it's mostly in Congress' hands.
De Rugy


Step 1: FairTax.org

It doesn't do anything we don't need done. Why shrink it?

 

[AceDesSpades]

Limits of survival are set by climate, those longs drifts of change which a generations may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate that set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe climatic provinces, fluctuations of annual weather, and occasionally may observe such things as “This is a colder year than I’ve ever known.” Such things are sensible. But humans are seldom alerted to the shifting averages through a great span of years. And it precisely in this alerting that humans learn how to survive any planet. They must learn Climate.
Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

In this, climate is a wonderful metaphor for political winds of change.
The accepted model was the prevailing winds of collectivism.
Social Justice for the one has to be injustice to a group.
Blind Justice for one is Social Justice to the group.