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[Aj @AJpkback]

This right here!

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

I'm concerned that many people do not understand the historical and institutional context in which the DOGE labor reforms are unfolding. They look at this as if these are some random, chaotic, arbitrary, strange, and even cruel measures to impose on a devoted civil service.

The reality is very different, and I'm not even sure that Elon entirely understands this. For more than a century, even dating back to 1883, the civil service has grown and grown without check from the elected branch, either the presidency or the legislature . The bureaucracies have ballooned from a few to 450 or so. The bloat and absurdities have grown too.

Get this: no one has ever known what to do about it. Not Coolidge, not Hoover, not Nixon, not Reagan, not Clinton, no one. No president has been able to crack this nut. The only reforms ever to have made it through are those that make the administrative state bigger, never smaller.

Countless cabinet secretaries have come and gone, always with the intention of making a change but leaving saddened, demoralized, outwitted, outgunned, and ultimately devoured.

No president has seriously taken on this problem because they simply did not know how. The unions are powerful, the intimidation from the deep institutional knowledge is overwhelming, the fear of the media as been powerful, and every single president comes to power vaguely feeling threatened by the intelligence agencies. The industries that have captured every single agency were also far too powerful to unseat or control.

This combination of institutional inertia has blocked serious reform for a full century. No one has dared. No one has even had a theory or strategy about what to do about this problem. It had become so terrible that most people in politics have simply surrendered, like homeowners who know there are rats in the basement and bats in the attic but long ago gave up trying to fix the issue.

All this time, the American people have felt themselves ever more oppressed, weighed upon, taxed and regulated, spied upon, brow beaten, and otherwise overwhelmed. Voting never made any difference because the politicians no longer controlled the system. The bureaucracies ruled all.

The Biden years underscored the point. We didn't even need a conscious and present executive. We only needed a figurehead to pretend to be president, just like the Soviet premiers in the old days. The institutions ran everything and the people controlled nothing.

How to deal with this? Trump alone figured it out in his last term: he simply took charge of the agencies in a limited way. There were screams of horror and plots galore. They performed a long stream of clever schemes to destroy him and show him who is boss, which is not the democratically elected president but the forces behind the scenes.

The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful. Shut up, mug up, obey, and disturb nothing, let the administrative state do its thing without oversight or disruption, and then you will get your honorary library and bestselling autobiography and go down in history as great.

Trump refused the deal and look what happened.

Four years have gone by and Trump is back again, this time with a determination to slay this beast, one that he knows all-to-well. The efforts of DOGE and MAHA and MAGA are epic in scope, breaking a century of pathetic acquiescence toward the deep, middle, and shallow states, at last using moral courage to confront the problem head on, come what may.

They are profoundly aware that they MUST act fast and with some degree of ferocity, even recklessness, else we will default back to the status quo of leaders who pretend to be in charge while the embedded system runs things behind the scenes.

It has been this way for TOO LONG. The voters this time have demanded change, and mustered the faith to believe that change is possible. This is precisely what DOGE is attempting, to make good on a promise, a promise that for once the voters actually believed was credible.

They simply must succeed. There might never be another chance. The way of failure is the path everyone knows the US was on, toward economic stagnation, political scolerosis, and eventual irrelevance in the unfolding of the next stage of social evolution.

[Aj @AJpkback]

I won’t be using this really Follow me @Ayeshafdfny

[Aj @AJpkback]

@PeteHegseth opening statement

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Absolutely!
I don’t understand why so many can’t live between the lies and shine truth

[Samuel Sey @SlowToWrite]

Anyone, especially a Christian, who attempts to make Andrew Tate anything more than a weak man with a strong mouth shouldn’t be taken seriously.

[Aj @AJpkback]

@JohnLeFevre I would not call Karen Pence choice to not stand and shake as pathetic.
Trump or Melanie could have also reached over to shake hands.
They didn’t seem to care.
If she would have said something nasty or refuse to shake their hand when offered… then … okay I would feel ya

[Aj @AJpkback]

Or does it

[Aj @AJpkback]

1977
Oh how the science changes

[Aj @AJpkback]

@TomFitton Everyone should be carrying

[Ron DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis]

This morning, the Twenty-Second Statewide Grand Jury released its final report. This Grand Jury was tasked with investigating vaccine manufacturers and their production process for vaccines following the COVID-19 pandemic.

While we are still reading through the report and its recommendations, it details that, through deception and taking “advantage of scientific journal infrastructure” to hide adverse events from the public, Big Pharma engaged in a "pattern of deceptive and obfuscatory behavior." Big Pharma brought in billions of dollars in profit, and the federal government amplified bogus “studies,” all while suppressing any opposition that went against their preferred narrative. Instead of federal agencies acting as a backstop to bad incentives, they worked closely with Big Pharma as they cut corners, even becoming unpaid advertisers on their behalf.

The Grand Jury also details the frustrations of many, stating, "these sponsors have taken in billions of taxpayer dollars for creating and selling their vaccines; they cannot be sued if something goes wrong with them; they have access to critical information about deaths related to a side effect of their products; and the public does not have access to that information.”

The Grand Jury has made a number of recommendations that should be followed. The status quo cannot continue. The American people deserve transparency on how Big Pharma is using their federal tax dollars, and they deserve regulating entities that operate as watchdogs, not cheerleaders.

[Aj @AJpkback]

@Tanzania_SRH @paediatricstz @TAMWA_ @usembassytz @CanadaTanzania @UNAIDSTanzania @UNAIDS_ESA @MarieStopesTZA @WHO_Tanzania @UKinTanzania We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@PPFA @powertodecide I think you mean adoption care.

We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@ArmandKleinX @gqhkhjdbdn We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@MichelleMaxwell @gqhkhjdbdn We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@PPFA We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

https://t.co/A15YdoKV0r

[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@CDCTobaccoFree @CDC_DRH We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@ReproRights We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@editorNRTimes @RHNuk @elysiumcare @OdstockMedical @RamsdensLLP @CNPhysio @AlcedoCare @BISServicesltd @SlaterGordonUK We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@AAPD @866OURVOTE We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@UngaTheGreat Wow

We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

https://t.co/A15YdoKV0r

[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!

[Aj @AJpkback]

@DisRightsUK We are wondering peoples thoughts on people with different abilities/disabilities

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[Aj @AJpkback]

Individuals with disabilities are valuable and capable regardless of their health conditions.  We all deserve dignity!