It would appear that the medieval magic wand of Merlin has transmogrified, over the ages to to a modern form, the black velvet-tipped “Sharpie,” now wielded by an Orange Sorcerer, aided by his Apprentices, a/k/a: “The Muskrats.” This modern iteration of the medieval Magic Wand in the hands of the contemporary Sorcerer, evinces power, far beyond that demonstrated in the days of King Arthur.In the hands of this evil Sorcerer, under the surreptitious claim of “eliminating “waste, fraud, and abuse,” has wreaked such a degree of evil that mere contemplation and obligatory acceptance are as analogously difficult as swallowing bite-size stones. Such arbitrary and reductive evil practiced by the Sorcerer and his Apprentices is egregious and devastating, both, procedurally and substantive. It may be useful to examine both categories.
[Procedural irregularity]: The creation and alteration of governmental departments are the legally designated office of the elected legislature, i.e., Congress. The prudent and pragmatic procedure involves the conduct of an investigation regarding the \ function of the proposed, or existing, department, followed by a hearing (often public) and a conclusive determination by the designated Committee. The results are thereafter reported back to the Legislature for appropriate action.
No such orderly and legal prerequisite has been observed by the evil Sorcerer; only the quick, regally assertive action of his magic wand, viz., the black, velvet-tipped “Sharpie.” Observably, this demonstration of the purely arbitrary power of the orange Sorcerer is as egregiously irregular as it is societally devastating (as will be shown). The uninformed, ignorant, reductive exercise of sophomoric impulse, by the egoistic Sorcerer with the egotistical flourish of the omnipotent wand has had empirically devastating societal results.
[Substantive harm] The uninformed, arbitrary elimination of key governmental departments by such neurotically assertive flourish of the magic wand, has, in addition to the irresponsible and hurtful discharge of countless dedicated federal civil servants, resulted in the serious handicapping of the proper functioning of the Nation. Such previously existing utilitarian] entities had been needfully established and had been engaged in the traditional performance of vitally necessary governmental functions and humanistic services; including the furnishing of food, and medical assistance where desperately needed, domestically and internationally.. The latter, in addition to its empathic purpose, has the significant, additional office, internationally, of, what is termed, “soft diplomacy.
The baselessly cruel and insensitive elimination of USAID, which had been furnishing desperately needed food and medicine to needy third world countries, the elimination of the Department of Education, the FAA, the health research facilities of the NIH, plus, the foolhardy and hazardous elimination of NOA, the EPA, and other existentially vital agencies; in addition to the financial handicapping of necessary agencies such as Transportation, the IRA, the IRS, Small Business administration, HUD, Department of the Interior, and sadly and worrisomely, countless more.
The populist meme, “Make America Great Again,” (MAGA) is easily seen as tactically deceitful and propagandic (analogously deceitful as the empirically discredited “Right to Life” misnomer). The greatest and most valuable resource of a Nation is its people. The elimination of resources impacting citizen education and development, health, safety, and welfare (most egregiously in the arbitrary and egotistical desire to demonstrably wield power) is a toxic impediment to America’s true “Greatness,” and a metastatic danger to its endurance.
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