The Manifest 2025 gang seems to be so enthusiastic about the acquisition of the power they are now wielding through Trump and Musk that they are fumbling over each other. Subsequently, we see mass firings and a rehire of federal employes and other foolish actions. It reminds me of the Red Guard under Mao, who cleaned house under horrible circumstances. Their movement was to promote rebellion, defend the cultural revolution, and praise Mao Zedong. If things continue the way they are presently unfolding, I think we are in for a very hot summer. If you want to cut back on the government by getting rid of jobs, all you have to do is be patient. People die, quit, and retire and agencies will diminish in size along with the services they were designed to provide. According to AI in fiscal year 2021, 96,956 federal employees retired. In 2022, 70,000, in 2023 115,900. In that same year 2022 77,000 quit. I presume this number would include those who died. But enthusiasts are blinded by their fervor and created a lot of pain, disruption of families, disruption of government services, and put the country in a state of discombobulation which has gone beyond our borders.
This is what happens when have adolescent minded people run the government. A case in point is the attempt to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. I ask, what does that do? The only thing I can see that all it does is to insult the Mexican people. I presume that is what is behind it. However, the subject in and of itself caused me to think that a more proper label of the gulf would be the Gulf of the Americas, since its shores are on all three Americas, South, Central, and North, not just the North. European map makers named it the Gulf of Mexico when from Florida to California was Mexico. Pedro Menendez in the 1500s claimed all the land from Parris Island, South Carolina to the Pacific Ocean as Spanish Territory. Many large bodies of water were named by the early European map makers. For example, Martin Waldseemüller European mapmaker named America in honor of Americus Vespucci. Nevertheless, I contend that changing the name is another adolescent dream, along with acquiring Canada and Greenland, and making Gaza a resort, and ending the war in the Ukraine in one day.
In an earlier post I put on Facebook, I mentioned democracy in the below terms in an attempt to better clarify. “Some people are unable to grasp the concept of democracy. Abe Lincoln said it best in the shortest terms possible in his Gettysburg address. ‘… that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth.’
In China that government is of the politburo, by the politburo, for the politburo. For a country like North Korea, it follows suit, that government is of Kim, by Kim, for Kim.”
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