THE NEW CASH COMMENTARY FOR FEB. 13, 2025

 

                                                                      CASH MICHAELS

            HOW DO YOU STOP THIS RUNAWAY TRAIN?

                                               By Cash Michaels                                

As you begin to bless your day by reading this commentary, please permit me to raise a perplexing question for you.

America, right now, is a runaway train. How do we stop it?

We’ve got two evil billionaires (Trump and Musk) at the controls, and the train is moving at breakneck speed down the tracks to hell-knows-where (I personally suspect that Hell is, in fact, the final destination). You would think that our laws  - you know, those written declarations of societal restrictions we’re all supposed to observe and obey in order to maintain some semblance of acceptable social order - would have kicked in by now, making clear something we’ve all been told, that we are a nation where the rule of law is supreme, and no one person or entity is above it.

        You would think.

Instead, and this is the part that gets me, we actually have the men and women who are responsible for making our laws (the Republican majority in Congress) turning their heads away from the excesses we’re seeing and hearing from the evil ones, effectively destroying what little foundation that “rule of law” I referenced earlier, still has.

All because of partisan politics, and cowardly resignation.

Please underline “cowardly resignation” if you’re printing this out for the class.

To put it all more bluntly, America right now, is NOT a place to be immensely proud of, because the very essence of its existence is being corrupted right before our eyes, and very little is being done about it.

Yep, this runaway train is taking us into No Man’s Land (with Hell indeed the next stop), and no one has a ticket to get off. The only current solace we have is that our federal courts, the places where the rule of law should thrive, have started to slowly but surely step in to assert their authority to at least slow the runaway train down, but at this point, that’s all they’re good for.

Please read the terse language of U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour, a Republican Reagan appointee, about what the current president of his party is up to, and why:

"It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain."

The emboldened political runaway train engineers we’re dealing with here really could care less what the courts and/or the rule of law say, and consider themselves powerful enough to flaunt both, because they have the tools and resources to fight them, and will.

        Democrats, however, still hold out hope.

        "The pace of this assault on the Constitution in order to serve the billionaire class, it is absolutely dizzying. And so, you have to run a full-scale opposition," Sen. Chris Murphy (D- Conn.) told ABC News Sunday. "Ultimately, you’ve got to bring the American public into this conversation because we need our Republican colleagues in the House and in the Senate ultimately to put a stop to this. You cannot just rely on the court system.”

        Can you say "headed towards a constitutional crisis," boys and girls?

So, I ask you again, “How do you stop this runaway train?”

We are way past the point of blaming who, what, when, where or why, and are desperately seeking the answer to “how.”

The only possible answer I see on the horizon is the 2026 midterm elections, when Americans traditionally send a message to the president in office that either they are not pleased with the progress of his administration two years in, or they’re very pleased and re-elect those of his political party to continue to rubber stamp his agenda.

Generally it’s more the former than the latter, but I frankly can’t read Americans voters like I used to, so I don’t have the slightest idea what they will do in 2026.

I assume that most are paying attention to the dangerous ride their country is being taken on right now and want it to stop.

I assume.

But fact of the matter is I just don’t know.

Maybe the majority of voting Americans actually want their government run by lawless rich white guys who just make it up as they go along.

Maybe the majority of Americans actually could care less about the fact that this is indeed a multi-cultural society that functions best when we all take the time to learn from one another, and respect our differences and varied backgrounds.

Maybe the majority of Americans really don’t mind being lied to regularly because they’ve come to expect it from their political leaders more times than not.

Or maybe a whole lot of us are emotionally worn out and just don’t give a damn anymore, so much so that we’ll elect a convicted criminal to the highest office in the land, who then goes about falsely accusing devoted foreign aid workers of being corrupt, dedicated FBI agents of being disloyal, and other committed federal employees of being a waste.

All of this, again, from a convicted criminal, mind you.

And then, believing that no one can stop him because he has the U.S. Supreme Court, both houses of Congress (for now), the U.S. Dept. of Justice and a mandate built on lies from a majority of the American people in his back pocket, this convicted criminal-in-chief grants his billionaire white Nazi-saluting South African buddy free reign to rummage through our federal government records to literally change or destroy anything he doesn’t like.

No one elected the rich South African Nazi-saluter.

No court in the land has determined his legal authority.

No official act of Congress has granted him the right to do what he’s doing. In fact, the Republican majority in Congress is praising the white South African billionaire’s “cost cutting work” as effectively doing what they’ve always wanted to do.

What kind of country do we really want to be, America? One where we’re selfish and unfeeling? Where we just allow our leaders to snatch vital foreign aid from the poorest countries in the world because we want them to salute our flag first before they get a precious morsel to eat from us?

Are we a country where we no longer teach our children to proudly celebrate their cultural and ethnic differences despite their common bond of being Americans, insisting that they ignore why Almighty GOD made them different, and ignore the intrinsic value of their individual heritage?

Are we a country that is ready to permanently give our democracy away in exchange for a dictatorship where we have no voice, no vote, no say in the futures of our children?

        This is like watching someone robbing your house and hurting your family, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I tell you it’s a runaway train, my fellow Americans. We’re on the suckers’ ride to Hell plenty fast, and if we don’t rise up and at least take the U.S. House back in 2026, we’re going to find ourselves in an even bigger constitutional crisis that we may never, ever fully recover from.

Once again, THIS is what you voted for America! Live with it!

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