“Two kinds of people in this world. Winners, Losers. I lost my power in this world, because I did not use it. Two kinds of trouble in this world. Living. Dying. I lost my power in this world.
And the rumors are flying.” “I Go Insane,” by Lindsey Buckingham,
Musician
February 5, 2025, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FHI.)
It’s surprising how fast you can get done, something that needs to be done, if you do it.
And how things that you don’t do, only get worse.
With Joe and Trump, we’ve had a front row seat to both these approaches. And it seems, from what we’ve seen, that most people want to use Common Sense.
It’s just sensible.
Our country is $36.22 trillion dollars in debt, and our elected governmental officials have been handing out money like it’s candy.
It’s the reason Trump is auditing the federal bureaucracy.
It’s just like getting rid of cockroaches. You would never think of not fumigating if you had them.
Moving at warp speed isn’t something everyone can do, yet the people who are Winners do move fast, while Losers tread water. And when they act, it is only to protect themselves.
Taking a risk is risky.
Take Elon Musk. He’s controversial. He’s a billionaire. Probably the richest man in the world. And he’s sleeping in the US Agency for International Development building, saving the U.S. billions, while he’s doing his DOGE thing.
And that’s making Democrats crazy.
He’s using talented, young people to do the work, to go over the USAID’s books. And they’re also working for free.
Sounds like a Win Win, but Elizabeth Warren is going nuts.
Of course, if Jesus Christ came in to look at the USAID books, Elizabeth Warren would have a problem with it.
And, naturally, The Squad had to weigh in.
“This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met, or seen, or witnessed,” AOC said, smirk in place, about Elon Musk.
“This dude is not smart, and the danger in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise that Elon has. I mean this guy is one of the most morally vacant, but also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we know of.”
Huh?
At this writing, AOC has not had any other accomplishments except mixing up a Slap Your Mama Cocktail, or some other trendy alcoholic beverage.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
And, at this writing, in two days, Musk and his team have found some shockingly inappropriate payments that have been made by the USAID.
$1.5 million dollars for DEI to Serbia, $70,000 for a DEI musical in Ireland, $47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, $500,000 to expand atheism in Nepal, and $32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru, to name a few.
You’d laugh if it wasn’t your money they were spreading around.
On Monday Trump appointed Secretary of State Rubio Acting Administrator of the agency. Smart.
“This is not about ending the programs that USAID does, per se,” Rubio explained. “There are things that it does that are good, and there are things that it does that we have strong questions about.”
Nonetheless, Democrats cried, “How dare Musk save us money!”
And a coalition of federal unions filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department for allowing Musk to access records to the payment system of the Treasury to see where the money’s going.
(This is the same Treasury Department that has issued checks to dead people…I think.)
As far as Musk exceeding his authority, he serves at the pleasure of the President. And, we know the President has no problem saying “You’re fired!”
Democrats do. That’s why Joe continued to be our president, despite his tragic mental illness.
Musk and Trump are unusual. They do things others won’t.
And they know the old saws, “History repeats itself,” and “Doing the same thing over and over is the definition of insanity,” are true.
But they still continue to take risks, at the risk of being controversial.
Simply because it’s time someone put America first.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.