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The Incredibly Dangerous Precedent of the Biden Regime
Biden is now saying that if his Democratic Congress doesn’t give him everything he wants on the climate and abortion, then he’s going to mandate it by executive order.
Does anyone know that this is the definition of a DICTATORSHIP?
America’s system of government was premised on checks and balances; on the distribution of power.
The radical left, now speaking through the hapless and demented Biden (their puppet), now says, “Our way is the ONLY way. When courts or Congress support our goals, it’s the law of the land — and woebetide anyone who disobeys! But when courts or Congress defy our goals, then we are all insurrectionists now.”
It’s madness on a scale never seen before in our country’s history, and perhaps never fully anywhere.
While it’s true that Biden can only get away with so much, since executive orders can be undercut by lawsuits or sheer defiance, the lawlessness and authoritarianism fostered by this attitude is the most anti-American thing we have ever seen in America.
And just think: Biden and the left are acting PRECISELY like they always predicted Trump would act — and rarely, if ever, did. They are the dictators. And they think anyone who disagrees with them ond ANYTHING is a dictator. Including people who simply want the freedom to be left the hell alone.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Classic George Carlin
I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: “Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no “I” in team.’ What you should tell them is, “Maybe not. But there is an ‘I’ in independence, individuality and integrity.”
–George Carlin
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A Nation Run by Mobsters
As her husband’s faux presidency plummets to the ground politically, regime “First Lady” Jill Biden whines how Joe “had so many hopes.” I guess this translates to: “Joe had SO hoped to annihilate America by now. And worse still: Someone else may get the credit!”
What an unspeakable POS. They are a criminal family, in charge of the gang of amoral mobsters we still call a government.
Mobsters ultimately eat their own, and each other, as we all know. The Bidens will probably fall victim to this; but the awful truth remains that we live under the rule, whim and arbitrary power of mobsters.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
Reality Isn’t “Mean” … It Just IS
I received a kind email from a reader who enjoys my columns. (Thank you, by the way!) She remembered I wrote that how you feel is determined by how you think, and asks if that concept doesn’t open the door to rationalization and fooling yourself. She continues: “I have a friend who lives in her own little world. She remembers what she wants to, revises facts, and refuses to discuss (or acknowledge the existence of) anything that might upset her. She is ‘happy’ all the time, in spite of what’s really going on. So how do you tell the difference between fooling yourself into feeling better and actually changing your thoughts for the better?”
Dear Reader, you answered your own question. “What’s really going on” is called reality. And the first rule of living is to pay attention to facts and reality. Many people spend their lives fleeing reality. Some do it with drugs and alcohol, some with compulsive spending or gambling. Still others, like your friend, do it by rewriting the facts to fit her wishes. But in the end, facts are stubborn things, and they have a way of creeping into your life no matter how much you ignore them.
Some people call reality “mean.” But what’s the alternative? Things are what they are, regardless of what you want them to be. Granted, when you ignore unpleasant facts long enough, it can be upsetting to suddenly confront them. But if one stays in reality, the facts won’t cause so much anxiety.
You are correct that changing the way you think can open the door to fooling yourself — IF you lack a connection to reality. The facts are out there, and rational thinking is the antidote to living in your head. By revising the facts to make herself happy, your friend is violating the number one rule of realism.
At this point, some people, including (sadly) some mental health professionals, will say, “All that reality is unhealthy and cold. It’s emotionally repressive.” Nothing could be farther from the truth. The whole purpose of being realistic is to experience the glory of serenity. Feelings help us experience the valuable things in life. But there’s no serenity if your emotions are built on self-delusion.
The rational person doesn’t repress her emotions, but she doesn’t ignore the facts, either. She doesn’t buy something she can’t afford by saying, “That’s OK. I’ll pay for it somehow.” She does things thoughtfully, and knows why she’s doing what she’s doing. Of course, she sometimes makes mistakes (we all do), but because she’s in touch with reality she can correct them before they get out of control.
Does this sound cold and repressed? I don’t think so. There’s nothing wrong with being in charge of your own mind and your own life. The emotions you feel are real, and not manufactured by fantasy. You have a sense of well-being that wouldn’t exist if you were impulsive and in a constant state of disarray, “cleaning up” after bad decisions and poorly thought-out whims. Pilots, surgeons, ship captains and scientists use highly technical instruments to ensure that they are, in fact, dealing in the here-and-now. Is that emotionally repressive? Of course not.
There’s nothing technical or complicated about thinking. It’s just observing facts, correcting contradictions, throwing in a little common sense and applying reason to everyday challenges. The bottom line (and the reward) is that what’s going on inside your mind squares with what’s happening out there in the real world.
Michael J. Hurd, Life’s a Beach
Wisdom of Plato
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
— Plato
Janet Yellen Suddenly Dislikes Inflation. Watch Out!
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday the U.S. faces “unacceptably high” levels of inflation. She says that bringing down costs is a “top priority” for her “administration.”
But her boss is Joe Biden. Joe Biden blames Putin, Trump, eats ice cream and tells people to drive way overpriced electric cars and suck it up.
If this is her boss, why should we pay any attention to what SHE says?
What caused inflation in the first place? Every economist you read will say it’s an increase in the supply of money by the Federal Reserve. Some economists say this is a GOOD thing. Others, like von Mises, George Reisman and Milton Friedman explain it’s a bad thing, because it’s anti-market and it devalues the currency. In short: Exactly what’s happening.
Regardless of one’s theoretical position or value judgments, inflation is an increase in the supply of money by the federal government (via the Federal Reserve). Why does the federal government have this kind of power? The Constitution gives it no such power. It didn’t get that power until around 1913. Since then, we have had a never-ending boom and bust cycle and a Great Depression, a Great Recession and multiple recessions far worse than anything experienced prior to 1913. I repeat: Why does the government have this kind of power? What good does it do real people?
Yellen would have us believe that her ice cream slobbering boss has it as a “top priority” to reduce inflation. But Biden has repeatedly said that inflation is NOT caused by too much government spending (unprecedented spending in 2020 and 2021). In fact, Biden insists, the only solution is way, way, way MORE government spending. Thanks to two genuinely moderate Democrats in the U.S. Senate, we have not yet got that; if we had, inflation would probably be even worse.
The solution to inflation will almost certainly involve a painful recession, kind of like the one we got in 1981-83 when the government last wiped out most severe inflation. But beyond that sad inevitability, the only REAL solution to inflation is the same solution for just about everything else: GET THE GOVERNMENT THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY. We shouldn’t have a Federal Reserve controlling the money supply in the first place; it should be done by a free market, via a gold standard or whatever combination of things people in a free, voluntary-based market decide to do based on their own individual or business situations.
Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason
THE ARTFUL DILETTANTE 