The real goal

by Archie Thomas & Merry Schrumpf, Corvallis

America is not a serious country in the view of the world. DOGE federal cost cutting, the reconciliation budget, and the federal work force reductions have no defined goals. The actual goal and result is authoritarian control and the resulting corruption. Every administrative action involves three elements: an emergency, an executive order and transactional graft. Political theater is staged in a gold gilded oval office complete with seated boot licking department head lackeys; served up regurgitation by the national press corps to the public like fodder through a cow resulting in a product best suited as fertilizer. This sh*t storm of public theater serves to obscure and distract from the long term harm to essential public services, your job or retirement security, public schools, universities, economic markets, tax collection and/or tax equity and world trade, to name just a few concerns. All this as authoritarian one man rule rapes our nation.

The emperor has no clothes, the Congress no clue and the American people to date think they are watching the last rerun of the “Apprentice” or the soap opera “Days of Our Lives.” Support by silence and cowardice of Senators Steve Daines, Tim Sheehy, Representatives Ryan Zinke and Troy Downing is not a Montana value. The wheels of the justice branch are turning against the regime slower than molasses on a cold day in hell.  

What can be done? 

Call or email your objections to your representatives and senators daily or as often as you can emotionally stomach. Attend the NO KINGS day rally in Hamilton at Main street and Highway 93, June 14, 9:30-11 a.m. Everyone’s attendance with good humor is needed and welcome to protest against this national comedy of errors.