The Elite Are Discrediting Themselves
The Elite Are Discrediting Themselves
Last week, the Secretary-General of NATO felt the need to tweet about transphobia. Millions of people in NATO countries find no use for that sort of thing. These people are winning elections and wondering if NATO is relevant anymore. The Secretary-General helped them answer the question negativesly.
Corporations continue pushing woke agenda items, Alphabet Gang initiatives, and bragging about the ESG and DEI — things advanced by leftists and abhored by people on the right. It is not a surprise that a growing number of people on the right have turned against the free market at the Fortune 500 signals loudly it has taken a side in the culture war.
The Senate Chaplin yesterday prayer for the people of Iran as they grieve the loss of their president, which they are not doing. The State Department issued a statement of condolence on the death of the butcher of Tehran. The BBC noted the monster’s complicated legacy.
The government covered up COVID data that did not conform to guidance, refused to change guidance as data changed, and collaborated with businesses to fire people who refused the COVID-19 vaccine, which did not stop people from getting COVID-19.
Now, the post office is so busy making sure Amazon packages get delivered on time that it refuses to perform its basic constitutional duty to deliver mail on time. My daughter mailed her graduation announcements on April 16th. We have friends who live within two miles of us who just got them this past weekend. I know a guy who got a notice of failure to pay his taxes before his check showed up to the IRS. He mailed the check before April 15th. Boards of Elections are sounding the alarm that absentee ballots are not being delivered. I am in that boat. My absentee ballot never got processed, and the election is today.
Teachers on TikTok are bragging about using the public education monopoly to indoctrinate kids into the Alphabet Gang’s agenda. School boards are silencing parents who read from books available in elementary school libraries due to their content. However, the parents are accused of banning books when they want them removed from the elementary school.
The elite are failing and discrediting themselves. But it is more than that. They are discrediting Western security institutions, the free market, and our constitutional order and governing entities. By picking cultural sides and failing to be truthful and competent, the elite are undermining the very foundations on which our republic depends.
Oh Lord yes, the USPS is awful (everywhere) . Since COVID the mail takes forever even to just go across town. I no longer mail anything because of it (and the rampant check-stealing and washing that is going on in some areas from post boxes, too).
My personal examples are 1) early last December (first week) I mailed a letter with a sensitive document from my new home in Alabama to my son in Austin, Texas. I sent it certifed, return receipt requested, which I've done many times in the past for work documents. I paid extra for this service. That letter bounced around between Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas for SEVEN WEEKS, continually looping around without being delivered. I could see this because of the tracking on the return receipt request. One time they tried to deliver it, but no one was home so they left a note saying when they'd try again. They never tried again. The note they left didn't even say what post office someone might try to pick it up from. It continued to loop around. They finally delivered it at the end of January 2024. And no, I never got my return receipt/proof of delivery THAT I PAID FOR.
2) During the 2022 tax season I mailed a state tax return and a check for a small amount due to the State of North Carolina for one of my kids whose taxes I completed. Any time I have to mail a return versus filing electronically I always send it certified, return receipt requested, so I have proof I sent it. It took twelve weeks to arrive, and the return receipt was finally returned six months after I sent the documents and 3 months after they were received in NC.
3) Back in my former home state of Pennsylvania they are having problems with absentee ballots being delivered and/or returned on time, which dates back to COVID and has persisted ever since. I was a Judge of Elections there during both primary and general election cycles, and I can't tell you how many provisional ballots we had to issue every election because people didn't get their ballots, or they were not marked as received on time in their tracking, and came into the poll to vote in person if they could.
There is a LOT of people's money being wasted on services they are not receiving. And they're raising the price of stamps AGAIN! It's time to privatize this useless waste of government spending once and for all. Put FedEx in charge of it. Hell, put the people who keep the drive-through lines at Chik-Fil-A moving in charge of it. NOBODY could possibly do any worse than the USPS is! UPS and FedEx are getting my business now. They cost more, but at least I know things will actually arrive and in a decent amount of time.
I am surprised that Michael Cohen isn’t Biden’s Speech writer as they are both very talented at dishonest storytelling.