If you want something done, if you demand that problems be solved, if you are looking for solutions, look to anyone but the Republicans. A litany of failed Republican objectives and how those failures affect the country are spelled out below.
From Trump’s first administration to this current one, half-assed measures are the rule of the day. Blame the bureaucrats and the “Deep State” all you want but Trump and Co. could out all of these people to the public and that would go a long way to solving the problem. Trouble is, the Republicans neither want, nor intend, to solve our nation’s problems. The status quo works for them, even if to a lesser degree, as it does for the Radical Left. So, while they will tell Americans they wish to “right the ship”, they are as hell-bent on the destruction of our country as the Democrats so long as they increase their wealth and power. Don’t believe me? Let’s take a look at some facts that prove it.
A border wall that the Liar in Chief said would be built and Mexico would pay for it. Over 4.5 years in office and, although Trump is credited with about 460 miles of border wall, a large percentage replaced security that was already in place. Only a small portion of new wall has been built. The minute he left office, Joe Biden and the Democrats stopped all funding for the border wall. Trump and the Republicans did nothing to ensure the border wall would be completed if they lost power. Some would argue that the border is now secure, and no further action is necessary. While that may be true under the current administration, the future is not so clear as to how things will play out. Not if, but when the Democrats regain power, the border will be opened again to a criminal element who, at best, exploit our system and, at worst, wish to destroy our nation. Half-Assed.
The Hearing Protection Act and SHORT Act were deemed to be inadmissible for Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill and the Republicans just folded like a cheap tent. At the same time, the Democrat serving as Senate Parliamentarian, also ruled that the Crenshaw Amendment didn’t pass the “Byrd Rule”, but initially, Crenshaw was working to have the amendment remain in the bill. Ultimately, the Republicans caved on the HPA and SHORT Act and removed the Crenshaw language from the final bill. In a lame attempt to appease a justifiably angry gun-owning constituency who wished for the HPA and SHORT Act to be made law, the Republicans passed the bill with language that drops the tax to $0 but still leaves suppressors and other weapons under the required measures of the National Firearms Act. When the Democrats regain power, as we have already witnessed with Senator Chris Murphy introducing an amendment to H.R. 3944 to reinstate and raise the National Firearms Act excise tax to as much as $4709, this tax will be raised to where no ordinary person can afford to purchase, or transfer, an NFA item again. Republicans screwed their constituency again with another Half-Assed effort.
Speaking of stupidity in general, and politicians’ ability to excel at being highly educated morons, why is it necessary to have 3 federal agencies tasked with overlapping responsibilities? I thought our wonderful DOGE was created, by Trump, to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in our federal government. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Drug Enforcement Agency, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are all federal domestic law enforcement agencies. Some would say they are more akin to the Gestapo, Stasi, or KGB and, in some instances, wouldn’t be wrong. Until 1972, the BATF(E) was a part of the IRS, another (l)awful criminal enterprise. Nothing more than a tax collection agency, now blossomed into a military force, allowed to abuse the nation’s citizens with a virtual license to kill. The BATF was the initial agency involved in a botched raid on a religious compound that ended in the massacre, by federal and state agents, in Waco, Tx. in 1993. While ordinary citizens are required to register and pay a tax to protect their hearing, the BATFE just received $5 million in taxpayer funds to purchase new suppressors due to “health & safety” concerns. Lee Williams sums it up very well in this article. These quasi-military agencies should be eliminated or, at the very least, drastically reduced and combined under the FBI banner. Republicans, as well as Democrats, have turned our nation into a highly restrictive, authoritarian country where freedom is virtually non-existent. Their attempts at reforming these out of control, excessively bloated disaster agencies is another example of a Half-Assed effort.
Back to the pedophiles and the attempt, by Trump, to make it all go away. Trump refuses to realize that it isn’t about Epstein. Epstein didn’t operate in a vacuum any more than drug dealers operate without customers. You have to have a demand to be a successful supplier. There was a client list, no doubt about it. Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t wealthy beyond most Americans’ wildest dreams because of his legal enterprises. Epstein was providing a service to clients with the ability to buy children for their pleasure. When Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were caught these pedophiles didn’t suddenly become aware of their criminal activity and stop abusing underage children but, like drug addicts, they just found a new dealer and continued feeding their addiction. They will continue to abuse children until they are stopped. Republicans conducting hearings and investigations into alleged wrongdoing without any consequences for criminal activities is an expensive waste of time. Indictments, trials, convictions and sentences in accordance with the law is the only way this government will ever regain any credibility and be afforded the opportunity to regain the trust of America’s citizenry. Republicans’ attempted half measures are merely Half-Assed.
…more to come