{"id":32133,"date":"2025-02-04T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=32133"},"modified":"2025-02-03T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T02:39:52","slug":"fear-and-pain-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/fear-and-pain-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Pain.\u00a0 Good."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was an hour late for work clearing the stupid snow this morning.\u00a0 Well, because of the snow and because I\u2019m overly optimistic when it comes to estimating snow removal time.\u00a0 Or maybe I\u2019m too lazy to get up that early.\u00a0 But it all got done and the world didn\u2019t end and so I can move along with my day and week.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Trump ordered sanctions against Canada, Mexico and China.\u00a0 Today Canada and Mexico came to terms by agreeing to Trump\u2019s border security requirements and got a reprieve of a month on the tariffs to prove their good faith.\u00a0 And Panama has agreed not to extend China\u2019s management of the canal.<\/p>\n<p>And today I listened to Marco Rubio declaring USAID a rogue agency that will now be brought to heel for ignoring orders to account for who it has been giving money to.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marco Rubio Accuses USAID Of Being &#039;Completely Uncooperative&#039; With Other Parts Of Government\" width=\"783\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dufhuOS-qJM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Could this be \u201cLittle Marco\u201d sounding more like Donald Trump, or at least an ally of Donald Trump and America?\u00a0 Has the world gone topsy-turvy?\u00a0 Or is it just that no one has ever stood his ground against the bureaucrats, influence peddlers and sycophants that infest Washington and waste our money by the imperial ton.\u00a0 Seeing the progress of Trump\u2019s seemingly endless initiatives I can\u2019t help but think that this is the first man to stand up to the bureaucracy. \u00a0Ever!\u00a0 And it occurs to me that all those impossible things we heard about; defying the FBI and the CIA, and finding out what actually gets done with the defense budget, and reining in the EPA; all of these unattainable goals can be had for the cost of doing the hard work to find out what the bureaucrats actually do all day, and using presidential power to hold them accountable.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading the ZMan\u2019s post today comparing Trump to Isaac Asimov\u2019s character the Mule in his classic science fiction series Foundation.\u00a0 The Mule was an outlier because his mutant psychic talent was not predicted by Hari Seldon\u2019s \u201cpsychohistory.\u201d\u00a0 And so, he blew up all of the best laid plans of the Foundation.\u00a0 ZMan thinks that Trump is the destructor laying waste to the managerial state (aka the Deep State).\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t disagree with that analogy.\u00a0 But maybe he\u2019ll be more than that.\u00a0 Maybe he\u2019ll be like the child who wasn\u2019t afraid to say that the emperor has no clothes.\u00a0 And imagine if that lesson gets learned by not only JD Vance but even Marco Rubio.\u00a0 Now, of course, most of these Republican Senators and Congressmen are crooks and they want the payoffs from the defense and pharma lobbyists.\u00a0 But even if it\u2019s only a handful of honest men, Trump has let the American people in on the secret and anyone who wants to inherit his mantle will have to call out the corruption, waste and inefficiency of the bureaucracy and get us our money back from the crooks that infest Washington.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m starting to get hopeful that Trump is going to take a chainsaw to the budget.\u00a0 And he has several incentives.\u00a0 Reducing government excesses will lower the debt, rein in inflation and lower taxes.\u00a0 But it will also starve his enemies of funds with which to attack him.\u00a0 They won\u2019t be able to hand out millions of dollars to left-wing crazies.\u00a0 And the NGOs are where most of Trump\u2019s enemies work when the Democrats are out of the White House.\u00a0 Losing their cozy perches and lucrative salaries will frighten them out of their wits.\u00a0 And that is exactly when they\u2019ll be least likely to cause trouble.\u00a0 They\u2019ll be forced to scramble to find a new source of income and they\u2019ll lose the microphones they typically have to organize trouble for conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t want to sound like a Pollyana.\u00a0 It\u2019s not as if the Left no longer controls most of the institutions; the schools, the universities, the Media, Hollywood, the book publishers and most of Silicon Valley.\u00a0 But Trump has show us that controlling the White House can be 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