mr davis calls this essay: left with the ashes, and its where we're heading at full speed in one way or another;

The Heritage Foundation has put together a 920 page book called “Mandate for Leadership" in PDF, for free. It details the changes they would make, day #1 of a Trump second term. The reason I bring this up, is it shows that there could be a plan to save America from the Administrative State. It is possible. Even acknowledging that the communists that currently run Washington would fight it tooth and nail, lawsuit after lawsuit, the authors of the book know that too.

This is a landmark work of extreme importance. I would take it and use it to rebuild a state or a confederation of states, but this is what should have been done in the first Trump presidency, not the second. Now, we’re locked in a death struggle with the world, holding back a Chinese and Islamist invasion with toilet paper as a border.

We’re too far down the rabbit hole of debt to ever emerge and people like Mike Johnson are just handing us shovels to go deeper. This continuing resolution that they just passed denies the overwhelming leverage the House has with the border issue. Securing the border now has almost 80% support, but Johnson refused to use shutting down the government as leverage until Biden shuts down the border. As an added poke in the eye, they did nothing about the spiraling debt or the Pelosi-era spending rate. Inflation continues to pile on and it’s clear as a bell that Washington cannot be reformed soon enough to solve any of these issues.

I compare that to the wildfires in the Texas Panhandle, where I live. A disaster, yes, but the people and resources deployed by the citizens themselves have been quick and relentless. People opening up their land for displaced cattle, donations of food, clothing, water and arrangements to provide hay, or transport cattle, even from other states, where several cattle trucks were sent to move the cattle that had their pastures burnt. That is the greatness and the power of Americans. We’ve seen it in every disaster. It works, because there are no regulations against it, red-tape laws that prevent it. Soon there will be, because there is not one thing the people do that the government can allow. It must have total control over every aspect. That is “the democracy” they seek to protect: control........more........