The greatest threat to "democracy" is from our elected representatives.
The greatest threat to "democracy" is from our elected representatives.
by Techno Fog
Forget January 6. The threat we face is from the elected officials in Washington, D.C.
Just look at the hellscape they’ve given us.
Federal policies have caused inflation to hit a 40-year high of 8.6% (or, using Carter-era calculations, 16%) for this past year, with energy prices rising 34.6%, eggs up 32.2%, and gas prices up nearly 50%. The cost of meat – ground beef, steaks, pork, poultry – might more than double next year, as the costs to raise livestock skyrockets. The average national price for gas exceeded $5 for the first time in history, causing the typical American household to spend “$160 more on gas a month than a year ago.” Overall, “typical US household is spending about $460 more every month than they did last year to purchase the same basket of goods and services.”
That’s a penalty of at least $5,520 per year for the average American household. But don’t worry, CNN promises “inflation can actually be a good thing for many working-class Americans” and the dumbest person at the New York Times thinks inflation is no big deal. In reality, for many Americans, this merely adds to the pressure of significant increases in home and rental prices, and the soaring costs of college and health care. The government has priced the future out of the American dream.
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What does the Biden Administration say about rising costs? That’s just the price Americans must pay for the “future of the Liberal World Order.” The revolution will always have its victims.
Meanwhile, your 401K and investments are getting decimated, with the stock market closing out “its worst six-month stretch to start a year since 1970.” The Nasdaq composite “is down 22.4% for year second quarter, its worst stretch since 2008.” They bubble they created must eventually pop. And that’s before companies report drops in earnings from the coming recession (if we’re not in a recession already). On that point I’d suggest listening to the prescient Michael Burry:
To combat inflation, the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates – at least for the time being. Will we see a recession rescue package and lower rates before the 2022 midterms? It’s difficult to predict such things, but we think it’s more likely than not. The Biden Administration is desperate to fix the economy, inflation be damned.
Of course, raising rates will cause federal interest costs to “skyrocket.” (There’s that word again.) The debt: that’s the threat to the future. It’s the threat created by the very politicians lecturing us about the “existential threat” of January 6. The future of insolvency, the possibility that our children will be enslaved to someone else’s debt.
According to the Congressional Budget Office:
“Debt held by the public is projected to rise by 66 percent (in nominal terms) over the next 10 years, increasing from $24.2 trillion at the end of 2022 to $40.2 trillion at the end of 2032. Relative to the size of the economy, debt is projected to increase from 98 percent of GDP at the end of this year to 110 percent of GDP in 2032.”
By 2052, this country’s debt will be 185 percent of GDP.
From the Peter G. Peterson Foundation:
“According to CBO’s projections, interest payments would total around $66 trillion over the next 30 years and would take up nearly 40 percent of all federal revenues by 2052. Interest costs would also become the largest “program” over the next few decades — surpassing defense spending in 2029, Medicare in 2046, and Social Security in 2049.”
Real question: what happens when America goes bankrupt?
Then there’s the crime. Smash-and-grab robberies are becoming “normalized” in California and elsewhere, as local prosecutors demand “equity” for looters, making law enforcement decisions on whether “the theft was committed for financial gain or personal need.” Over in progressive-occupied San Francisco, there have been “1,360 drug overdose fatalities – more than double the total COVID-19 death toll there.” Residents are fighting their own government to keep needles and human excrement off the streets. The citizens are losing the battle against the local government, which has formed an alliance with the drug dealers and heroin addicts and vagrants and street-shitters.
Overall, murder rates and violent crimes are on the rise in many jurisdictions. New Orleans reached 100 murders by May 16, 2022. This is “the fastest the city has reached 100 murders since before Hurricane Katrina.” In Chicago, there were 239 homicides through May of 2022. While this is a slight drop from 2021 (Chicago’s “deadliest year since the 1990s” thus making 2022 one of the deadliest years ever so far), it’s not for lack of trying: downtown shootings in Chicago are up 64%. With Americans being assassinated in the streets, the Biden Administration has decided to forego prosecuting thousands of criminal illegal aliens.
Even the small towns are victimized by progressive big-city prosecutors, with their residents being slaughtered by violent felons released through criminal justice reform.1 The cold-hearted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm actually predicted the casualties - and demanded his “reform” not be judged by its “results,” that is, the bodies of the dead:
“Is there going to be an individual I divert, or I put into treatment program, who's going to go out and kill somebody?” Chisholm said in a 2007 interview with the Journal Sentinel. “You bet. Guaranteed. It's guaranteed to happen. It does not invalidate the overall approach.”
These problems - which are financial and criminal and cultural - threaten the livelihood and lives of millions of Americans. They are this country’s top priority. They demand action and fiscal sanity (one can dream) from Congress. They require introspection from our elected officials, as our imploding and fractured nation implicates their malfeasance.
But please, give us more hearings on January 6.
Also - by special request: a brief note on the Supreme Court’s opinion in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. (Brevity is tough on such a case, but I’ll give it a shot.)
If you recall, back in January the Supreme Court stayed OSHA’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, finding that the Secretary of Labor “lacked authority to impose the mandate.” In doing so, it invoked the “Major Questions Doctrine.” (Something we predicted here.) Under this doctrine, the courts look to (1) whether the agency action is a major rule; and (2) whether Congress has clearly authorized the agency action.
Anyways, after staying the OSHA Mandate, it was no surprise the Supreme Court invoked the Major Questions Doctrine against the EPA’s 2015 rules that targeted coal plants and addressed “carbon dioxide pollution from power plants. This was a major rule, and the Court thus required the Government to “point to ‘clear congressional authorization’” to issue such regulations.
The Government failed in that respect.
This is a win for limiting the ability of federal agencies to take major actions effecting millions of Americans and the economy as a whole, and puts the onus on Congress to do its job. As Chief Justice Roberts concluded: “A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.
On a related note, check out our interview with Chris Rufo discussing his activism, the fight against Critical Race Theory, and the future of the Gender Movement.
Do NOT comply.
Liberal World Order he says. Is he sure his side is gonna win? They'd better, cuz this ain't going over well in The Heartland.
Rough est: 80 million Americans would rather get cut down by machine gun fire than submit to these diabolical, effeminate madmen
Yes. The threat we face is from whoever is behind the elected officials in Washington.