I am old enough to remember when the Republican party bordered on paranoia, warning about government interference in our personal lives. They cautioned gun registration was a trick to gather info on gun owners so that when the government mounted its takeover of America, it would have the information it needed. Noted gun advocate and attorney and Research Director for Independence Institute Dave Kopel wrote in 2013, [But] “gun registration is very good for one thing--confiscation. And even more immediately, gun registration is ideal to bolster the quickly growing public persecution of gun owners.” In 2017, the Heritage Foundation issued a scathing report about the Obama administration, accusing the IRS of allegedly targeting political opponents. We all remember the infamous words of former president Ronald Reagan in a 1986 press conference when he said, “I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.” Now, they want to dismantle the FBI and the CIA.
Suddenly, the party that throughout its lifetime wanted the government out of our business is in favor of an unaccountable pseudo-government entity having access to all our financial, healthcare, birth, and employment status information. For years, the GOP railed against unelected judges in the Supreme Court, socially engineering our lives. There is deafening silence by the GOP in the face of an unelected man [Elon Musk] who holds dual citizenship in both South Africa and the U.S. and is pillaging through America's most treasured financial secrets with a group of his tech bros. The name Edward “Big Balls’ Coristine has surfaced recently as one of Elon Musk’s wunderkinder(s) poking around in my and your affairs. Coristine is a nineteen-year-old college dropout who reportedly idolizes Musk.
Since the moment Donald Trump filled the front row of his Inaugural audience with the new American Oligarchy, namely Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Musk, and others, the words of former President Biden should not only remind but haunt us. In his goodbye to the nation, Biden warned of an emerging American oligarchy, “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead,” Biden said.
The cherry on this rancid sundae is Russ Vought, the new head of the Office of Management and Budget. Not too long ago, in a presidency not so far away, an American president attempted to extort the president of Ukraine. President Trump, in the run-up to the 2020 election, wanted the President of Ukraine to go along with his scheme to say former President Biden was under investigation for corruption. When Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused, Trump ordered the withholding of American support for the war with Russia. Behind that planning was Russ Vought—the then-acting Director of the OMB, who was instrumental in the delayed release of aid to Ukraine. Vought is the latest to join a group of loyalists, including new Department of Defense head Pete Hegseth and new Attorney General Pam Bondi. So, while Mr. Trump tosses shiny things of distraction in the air, we need to keep an eye on what he does, not the nonsense he says to take our eye off the big balls.
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