I'm not making perfect the enemy of good.
There is more than one route to error, that is just one of the routes.
I don't understand your point. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that we're broke and by far the biggest threat to our liberty is government spending.
Post-Patriot Act era, no, the biggest threat to our liberty is
not government spending, the biggest threat to our liberty is the American Gulag in Cuba and the fact that
any American can be sent there without trial, (not even a hearing for writ of habeas corpus!), forever. Springing from this evil root is the entire tree of post-911 tyranny which has been constructed over the past 23 years, including the 2008 Obama Housing Heist, and the 2020 COVID Vaxx/Lockdowns Heist.
Secondly, "US government spending" isn't primarily about Congress. It's primarily about the Federal Reserve, which has an annual budget of
infinity. From this infinity-cash, the Fed is able to corrupt and control the entire US economy, in addition to buying up all buyable govenrment officials, elected or not. Which is almost all of them. Even if you could wave a wand and appoint yourself dictator of America for four years so you could "cut the budget", so what? It would all come raging back as soon as you left office, even worse than it was before, because you failed to address the root problem. I'm not saying that's an argument for inaction on the budget itself, it's not, but "cutting the budget" is a 40-year old talking-point that has lived way past its prime. We are many trillions of dollars of reckless QE-forever, and one American Gulag past the point where "cutting the budget" was even remotely close to the top priority in fixing the US government, assuming there is any path at all by which it could be fixed.
Just veto a couple spending bills. I'm not making perfect the enemy of good. But Trump is bad.
You're just assuming we're still living in the golden age of pre-911 Newt Gingrich, "Contract with America" and that all that RINO nonsense. All of that is dead and gone. It died on 911 even though it took a decade or so for that to become apparent to me. Ron Paul made a heroic last attempt to take a stand against the tide of evil in 2008 but the mass of the American public was not ready for that yet, meaning, they were still trapped in the Infinity-$$$ PSYOP. Most still are today, but there is a non-negligible minority of normie Americans who are waking up, as evidenced by the LPMC takeover of the national LP, as just one example. I don't know exactly where Trump fits in all of that, all I know is that all the right people hate him with the fury of a trillion suns. That's significant and that, in my book, is what makes Trump
still worth watching in 2024.
Assuming Trump gets re-elected, I'll be curious to see the excuses of Trumpsters when we get price inflation worse than under Biden. Remember that the root cause of inflation is govt spending.
The root cause of inflation is Fed money-printing, most of which turns into government spending (but not all of it).
The problem with the fair-weather RPFers who show up only during election years, is that they expect us to fight the Establishment with both hands tied behind our backs. I'm an anti-State libertarian, I think that taxation is actually evil, not merely because of the harm that it does, but because it is just annuitized tribute. Modern taxation is Genghis Khan in a business-suit, nothing more. Fed money-printing is just a criminal counterfeiting racket. Thus, our economic order is dominated by an organization (the State) who is robbing and counterfeiting like there's no tomorrow,
which has risen to such a level as to be an outright war on We The People. I'm no useful-idiot Fedboi who's gonna go put on red-and-black costume and stand with the FBI "Blood Tribe" PSYOP, but the kind of war which they are baiting is precisely that kind of war. You can only provoke the tamed lion so many times before you're going to get mauled to death, even though the lion has no fangs or claws.
When this all started, we were calling it "Clown World" -- you know, keeping it light. "What a bunch of Clowns!" But it is becoming increasingly clear, day by day, that these are not and never were Clowns, these are assassins and fifth-column infiltrators. So, if the "Clowns" want to fight for
really reals, it will be their funeral. Nothing can be more certain. The time when polite matters like "budget cuts" could be taken seriously has passed. Since the traitors have gone full-send this time and attempted to strike the kill-blow, the doors will be shut and, once they are, no one is leaving until the question of power has been settled, once and for all. Those who want power the most deserve it the least, and will never have it. Even the power they seemed to have had was all just an illusion, and they don't even know
that.
