Winston Churchill once described democracy as cumbersome, awkward, prone to mistakes but still the best system of government ever devised.
The British statesman who led the UK through its darkest hours during World War II would be appalled at what is transpiring these days in the world’s foremost democratic republic, the United States of America.
The world’s premier democracy cannot approve a long-term budget to fund its massive government. It depends on those damn “continuing resolutions” that keep the money flowing for three to six months. Then our Congress returns to hassling among its members over whether to extend the debt ceiling, spend money on essential government projects, protect the environment, engage in foreign relations … all those kinds of things.
What’s happened to our government? For one thing, a once-great political party, the Republican Party, has been hijacked by the MAGA cabal of rabble-rousers who have less interest in government than in raising hell. Democrats, meanwhile, have staked out positions on the far left that remain out of reach for anyone in the middle, let alone the far right, to reach.
The MAGA cultist in chief, Donald Trump, has brought on board two unelected know-it-alls — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — to offer advice on how to slash trillions of dollars from the federal budget. One of these yahoos, Musk, is the richest man in the world. Do you think he cares about or understands the importance the federal government has for millions of ordinary Americans? Of course not!
But they’ve got Trump’s ear. That’s all that matters to a man about to take the reins a second time as the nation’s chief executive.
Winston Churchill died in 1965, long before Trump entered the political world, so he didn’t get to witness what the rest of us have seen. He believed in his view of democracy … but I have to wonder what he might say about the mess that the MAGA crowd has made of the “best form of government” ever devised.
“MAGA cabal” is what’s saving our democracy from the far left democrats. Without them, we would certainly be in a world of hurt.
We are not in a world of hurt today, but we’re about to be if Trump continues to insist that Panama give back its canal and Denmark sell us that huge island, Greenland.
You do know that Panama is charging US ship hundreds of thousands of dollars to pass through and virtually nothing for others to pass through.
That is Panama’s right as a sovereign nation. We have no standing to grab the canal because we don’t like paying high fees.
You’re only against it due to Trump. We had ownership for a long time.
I hope you had a very Merry Christmas!
I know we built the canal and owned it for 70 some years before we turned it over. My Christmas was great. Yours was too?
It has been good. Spending time in Florida with old friends and family.
I stayed home. Family came to see the old man.
I have a feeling the bromance between Trump and Musk is not going to end well.
Neither of them are willing to share the spotlight or “ Do what is right regardless of who gets the credit.”
Musk is conflicted in just about every way possible as he tries to do away with the regulators who regulate his businesses.
He has huge contracts with around fifteen government agencies. He has deep ties to China as well.
Trump, the self-described stable genius – picked Matt Gaetz to be AG or America’s Top Cop.
The newly released ethics report reveals Gaetz was paying underaged women for sex and doing a lot of drugs and hosting parties that might make PDiddy
envious.
The genius could have made one phone call and found out what was in the report before embarrassing himself.
We are in for a wild ride next year. Chaos is back- and bigger than ever!
You can rest assured Trump will not tolerate Musk’s name appearing in the news more frequently than his.