Oh, Please
Reload, You Big Dummy
In Texas, when someone does something really dumb, we liken the action and resulting damage to poor weapon safety habits. Shooting oneself in the foot, for example. (Usually happens when an itchy finger hits the trigger before the weapon clears the holster.) We urge such a person to avoid the temptation to reload. Patience, little buckaroo. We may mention during that Learning Moment that, when one finds a single tire flat, it is not too very smart to shoot the other three out of commission. Anger management, grasshopper.
Team Trump reached far and fast when slamming shut one of the federal funding faucets. It was heartening to observe the immediate and strong wail of angry outrage from every state and municipal ox gored by the measure. It was instructive to learn how quickly and completely the King’s Crew could pull its policy finger off the hot burner of citizen activism.
The empty (but highly attractive and effective) promise to reduce the cost of a carton of eggs or a gallon of gas is negotiable. Delay can be excused and failure overlooked.
But, cut off the operational income of subsidiary administrations?
Bad logistics. Worse optics.
In the fog of war, it is hard to keep one’s bearing and balance. Yet this much imprints itself on memory—you did not just survive.
You prevailed.
The return of power to We the People who lost Election 2024 has begun. Know and hold this early tactical overreach to be a slight but precious turning of the authoritarian tide. Nurture the spontaneous citizen response with tender regard.
Heads up.
Hearts strong.
Resolve unwavering.
Use your person and your purse every day in every legal way to delay, deny, and defeat Project 2025.