Election 2024: Restoration, Not Just Maintenance or Managed Decline

We are down to the wire. November 5^th, here it comes.

The polling is up and down and all around. Trump is ahead of Kamala Harris by one or two points in all the swing states, according to many polls. Yet the lingering fears of voter fraud and election tampering remain high among the MAGA faithful. Vigilance and voting early is important, but ensuring that the Democratic machines cannot manufacture ballots is also a must. Has anyone paid attention long enough to prevent that gross corruption? We shall see.

To the credit of the RNC and its new leadership, Republicans are proactively fending off voter fraud issues and election integrity problems. Still, I agree with Evan Power, Chairman of the Florida GOP: every state should adopt the Sunshine State’s flawless, effective, and smooth voting procedures. Once a state synonymous with crisis-level counting problem (Elections 1876, 2000, 2018), Florida has become the hallmark for sound election procedures—and across two time zones!

I have my fingers crossed for Donald Trump to win, whether by a little or a lot. But the fight will not be over, not by a long shot.

Our country is bitterly divided. The fact that Americans are so invested—nay, obsessed—with the Presidential election is contrary to everything that the Framers hoped for. The Presidency has become too oppressive and omnipresent in our life and times. Note that I wrote “The Presidency” and not “The President.” As Greg Greenwald has observed, the United States government has been functioning without a functional president for the last six months, the perfect evidence that the Deep State is real and needs to be eradicated root and branch.

The federal government spends too much, does too much, is too much.

I welcome Elon Musk and retired US Congressman Ron Paul’s cost-cutting proposals. Forget the Office of Government Efficiency. Just go “Javier Milei” on the federal government and start shutting down all the useless, unconstitutional executive departments. I would start with the Department of Education, but Housing, Transportation, the Interior, Commerce, and a few others should be on the chopping block ASAP.

But I want to make a greater plea from our next President and our remaining, resilient citizenry, regardless of who wins the Presidential election this November.

I am tired of managed decline, and I do not want the hastened, woke decline of Kamala Harris and Company. Aren’t we tired of the specter of Communism becoming a little more concrete with every passing year? Aren’t we tired of the next generation struggling with deeper mental issues and steeper financial problems?

Since the end of the Cold War, post 9-11, we have seen nothing but the casual then accelerated erosion of our constitutional Republic. Though I have a slight, cautious optimism that Trump will win the election, I fear that he will continue to lose the war: the war against culture Marxism, the fight against moral decline, and the battle against unconstitutional oversight and overreach.

It’s not only his failures from his previous four-year team. George W. Bush relished the surveillance state, and Barack Obama fed the Military-Industrial Complex as well as fomented government intrusion into one-sixth of the American economy (Obamacare).

We the People can no longer neglect nor ignore the burgeoning, ballooning national debt, either. From the erosion of the dollar to skyrocketing costs for food and fuel, unconstitutional indebtedness must be savagely savaged. No more excuses!

Will President Trump step up and change course from his previous four years? He cut the regulations; he allowed energy production to flow unhindered. There was generous economic improvements. But the spending, the immigration issues, the Swamp all remained stagnant or malignant. We can no longer tolerate Trump-like half-measures as a people or as a country. Four more years of managed decline and tapering the excesses of the political Left plus the Woke DC bureaucracy won’t cut it. And We the People should not tolerate it.

It saddens me that I must look to once-backward foreign countries like Argentina and El Salvador for hope and guidance. Nayib Bukele has cleaned up his country, locking up all the gangs, improving public safety to such a level that his Central American nation is safer than the United States! He is expanding business, investment, and international prestige for his once-pariah state. He turned a gang-invested hell-hole into a must-visit destination.

Then there’s libertarian President/Rock Star Javier Milei. This man has taken a chainsaw to every government program. He is privatizing at the fastest clip in modern history. He hasn’t just tapered but flattened inflation. And he embraces cultural restoration, as well. He educates the next generation about the Right to Life. He has lectured Globalist Cesspools like the WEF and the UN that their collectivist visions are myopic dystopias.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not just winning another war on terror, but he wins with such assiduousness. No prolonged battles, and terrorists in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran are on the run. He puts his people first. He stops illegal immigration and stands up for the rights of Christians, though they are a minority in his country.

Why can’t we have good things, too? Shouldn’t the President of the United States make these broad, bold moves? Trump should follow the example of his international peers. But will he?

Above all, the United States must be re-united around our constitutional republic, our Anglo-American legal traditions, our Judeo-Christian heritage, and most importantly our Revolutionary Legacy. Right now, these historic accolades are not just under attack, but in disrepute and disarray.

I welcome Governor Ron DeSantis’ reminder of the Vision of our Founders during his RNC 2024 Speech. The American People need to revive that vision, for where there is no vision, the people perish (Proverbs  29:18). It is time for us to cry out “Restore, Restore” (Isaiah 42:22) as opposed to settling for the maintenance of the status quo or managed decline.

President Trump, Restore America’s greatness, and make it stand the test time!

US Senate Tax Reform Passes, Despite Dopey GOPe Holdout

There is so much winning overwhelming us in Washington.

Finally!

Check out this report about the tax reform bill, which passed in Congress early Saturday morning, after multiple amendments.

CNBC Reports:

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a sweeping and contentious overhaul of the tax code early Saturday morning, moving one step closer to sending the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.

Of course it's contentious. Corporate lobbyists and special interests want more of our money in Washington. They have no interest in less money for themselves and their pet projects.

As expected, Democrats voted against the tax reform.

But one Republican also voted no.

Who was it?

The bill passed 51-49 along party lines with just one Republican, Sen. Bob Corker, voting against it.

How did the partisan Democrats respond to this epic win for the American People?

Democrats derided the reforms as a GOP gift to the party's wealthy and corporate backers at the expense of lower-earning people.

Guess what liberal Democrats, the "wealthy" are paying the freight in this country. An unprecedented 40-50% of Americans are not paying taxes at all.

Of course they are going to see a tax cut. This "eat the rich" rhetoric is getting old, and even the finance committee chairman Orrin Hatch finally took a stand against it. "I am so tired of that crap!" Hatch announced

The bill is “removed from the reality of what the American people need,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Trump and GOP lawmakers have repeatedly touted the bill as a boon for the middle class, despite several independent analyses that found it's skewed toward corporations and the wealthy. Two-thirds of middle-class earners would see tax increases, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

No they would not. The biggest gripe has focused on the removal of the SALT deductions, but the reduction in the federal tax rate is great enough to compensate for the removal of the SALT. Besides, the states where people have benefited the most from SALT deductions are high-tax blue states. Frankly, the rest of the country and its taxpayers should not be carrying the weight for these states.

How about New Jersey, California, and Hawaii stop taxing people excessively in the first place? For more information on why this tax reform bill is a boon and not a bane, check out Heritage Foundation Economist Stephen Moore's speech to the California Republican Party convention:

This tax reform legislation is particularly welcome since it repeals the individual mandate from the Affordable Care Act, and helps ensure that Americans won't get hit with that detestable tax, too.

The sausage-making for this legislation may not appeal to many, but key deductions were included to secure support from otherwise wavering Senators, including Steve Daines and Ron Johnson, who wanted to see more breaks for small businesses, not just large corporations.

A series of last-minute changes were made to the bill, including a $10,000 property tax deduction to appease the concerns of Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

Johnson's "yes" came after the bill was altered to address his concerns on the small-business tax, known as pass-throughs.

Why did Corker ultimately vote "No"?

Corker, however, said Friday afternoon that he would not support the bill, citing his remaining concerns over its impact on the deficit.

"I wanted to get to yes. But at the end of the day, I am not able to cast aside my fiscal concerns and vote for legislation that I believe, based on the information I currently have, could deepen the debt burden on future generations," he said in a statement.

I highly doubt this. I actually believe that Corker was looking for any way he could to spite President Trump. Nothing more.

Final Reflection

What has finally gotten the US Senate cracking on serious legislation? Jitters about Election 2018, specifically the loss of one-time McConnell ally Luther Strange. Judge Roy Moore is going to replace him in the United States Senate, in spite of the worst-laid plans of evil men and minions throughout the corrupted national media and the Potomac Beltway.

Republicans are looking pretty weak in the House right now, where Democrats are very likely to upend and take over the seats. That would not be good, and as for the US Senate, they will face a torrent of anti-DC animus and risk every more seats if they can't get their act together.

McConnell probably senses that his time is short, and the Media-Establishment war he was hoping to win--he will not win this time. The nature of Congress is changing so rapidly now, and the "sheep are no longer asleep."

Besides, McConnell is going to have a caucus of conservative Republicans pushing back at his lack of leadership, and whatever he hopes to hold onto in any way will all come crashing down around him if he can't get anything done for the President, for the MAGA Agenda, and for what We the People sent them to accomplish!