#overreach

We need a president. Championship teams would have to stumble through self-guided White House tours without one. They still occur even though participants are endorsing Fourth Reich fascism and very unfunny sexist misogynistic alleged jokes by posing for a photo with the present office-filler while he holds up an unused version of a garment they wore while triumphing.

But some other unofficial tasks would remain best left unperformed. The incumbent has assigned himself other duties. We should encourage him not to perform them. It’s the law.

Life is better without a president. I guess we should technically elect one. But most of what we do doesn’t need the supervision of Donald Trump or any other megalomaniacal doofus who wants to rule over spacetime. It might occasionally be worthwhile to have someone confident come out and warn inferior nations not to mess with us. We’d enjoy more free time and everything else without the person who’s supposed to be a leader forcing ostensibly free people to, say, pay a fee for each transaction.

The most important factor in electing an executive is finding someone with a gentle touch who can tap the nuclear launch button threateningly without pressing it. Everything short of mushroom clouds over enemy cities should be left in the hands of everyone else. This is a country that’s supposedly about self-reliance. Too often, that self is the head of state.

The less Biden, the better. A prototypical Democrat showed why Democratic policies are to be avoided at every opportunity. I’d think Jolted Joe was a saboteur if I hadn’t spent decades listening to him try to be clever. I thought him not doing anything was the best hope for his term before it became clear his brain was comprised of Nickelodeon slime. I’m a hipster who thought so on the first day. People who pay attention don’t need Jake Tapper’s guidance.

It was very difficult to see that Biden was consulting with his Steve Austin action figure. I’d trust him more than Kamala. A president unraveling was history anyone paying attention saw as it happened. That counts out the media.

Discussing how his nuclear mental meltdown was an utter surprise shows journalists are as dim as Biden. Exhibiting every sign of dementia didn’t alarm those tasked with observing every presidential move. It’s not just an exaggeration of a doltish political adversary. Biden was born during World War II. What’s the excuse of those who didn’t pick up on Grandpa forgetting his address?

Biden was dumb before he went senile. Debating whether Democrats missed Biden’s obvious mushbrainery or if they lied like they do about their policies does not lead to a good result for them either way. But we should all be used to that.

This wasn’t just regular stupid Biden who plagued the early days of C-SPAN. The best excuse for missing the obvious daily update of an addled senior was that Biden. The last Democratic executive flaunted his idiocy publicly for half a century. And those using the lamest of excuses are the ones who agreed with his lunkheaded policies.

Keeping him in office when he couldn’t do the job seemed ideal. But Democrats will find a way to screw up everything. The marionette presidency led to staffers who tilt even further leftward than Biden if you wonder what enabled Trump again.

Opening the border and jail doors lets miscreants roam around in case you couldn’t guess. Wondering whether or not a professional politician and amateur everything else would have acted as deplorably if we had been cursed with his presidency in 1988 is an academic exercise. Biden would’ve failed any year.

Propping him up any time they needed him to make a cameo wasn’t quite presidential. A mysterious ruling committee was not what the Founders envisioned. Then again, neither was anything believed by anyone in the Biden White House.

The urge to have a president do nothing should be bipartisan. There’s an example in office. Trump’s best hope is to be saved from tariffs by judges who understand the Constitution and doesn’t want taxes imposed by fiat. Saving the economy is a byproduct. Voters could stop electing arrogant idiots who think they deserve boundless power then show the downside of cutting out the middleman.

An alleged business titan who needed to get elected to get people to obey might not dominate as the virile alpha stud he claims to be. The overcompensating shtick is so obvious that it seems like a trick. It’s been going on for almost as long as Biden was in office. Trump’s blatant acting is not going to stop his fan club branches from fawning over tax hikes.

The best president is forgettable. That is, the best president would be. America hasn’t been left alone by a trusting leader in recent memory, even factoring in how it’s all short-term now. How did this paragraph start? Freedom favorers yearn for a person only reminding everyone who’s in charge when some country is begging to get nuked. We aren’t supposed to constantly think of the executive. Iran used to have to do that, and now nobody can track who’s presently in charge.

Monday’s clinically questionable to-do list1. Bite off more than I can chew. (Because self-awareness is for Tuesday.)2. Build Rome in one day. (Surely they just lacked proper project management.)3. Poke a bear with a stick. (My core competency. My brand, really.)4. Beat a dead horse. (Actually, this feels more like a Wednesday activity. Let’s circle back.)5. Skate on thin ice. (Less “I do this”…

okay with all that outta the way

Overhaul and Overreach (@sasster) are friends and I drew his first introduction to Daeyva when she was Garach's new hire.

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Chase let me give their new guy a 20-something year old bodyguard and a sweet tooth :)

Your government wants to ensure you don’t get comfy.  The constant urge to get on your case is just another helpful service provided by an entity that wants you ready for life’s jolts.  Keeping citizens alert is obviously the goal of politicians who don’t help in any other way.  This sure is good training.

We don’t know what will be the next source of infuriation.  That’s part of the surprise.  The sole certainty is that rottenness is coming.  A ruling contraption that disregards its own limits is clearly thinking of our best interests.

It’s so inconvenient for big-picture rulers to have to pretend they’re allowed to save us.  We ingrates are being saved by visionaries who aren’t bound by pedestrian restrictions.  Made-up justifications take time and energy away from mending society.

Some cranky conservatives allege the nation’s rulebook is clear about what’s allowed and more importantly what’s not.  But saviors refuse to be hindered by obstacles in their way.  Edginess makes them even more charming.  You’re supposed to feel inspired with how America’s hall monitors ignore the Constitution in order to ruin lives with overreach.

An excuse is always there if you look.  An unneeded solution simply takes envisioning what doesn’t exist.  Kindergarten taught us to be imaginative, and our self-appointed heroes never lost that conceptual joy.  Sure, it’s not quite creative to find exactly what they’re seeking when it’s certainly not there.  Liberals found an insurance mandate presumably on the document’s back.  Meanwhile, they disregard the right to self-defense on the front.

There are too many federal agencies that exceed authority to cause harm to focus on any one, which is a cunning self-defense mechanism.  To cite the annual yearbook winner of the most popular title, the Education Department doesn’t educate.  But at least there’s no justification for the feds to run neighborhood schools.  The section that’s supposed to impart civic knowledge was conjured out of nothing, and teaching children to be inventive is of utmost importance.

As a class project, look for the word “education” in the Constitution.  Public school teachers are torn between whippersnappers discovering what liberal nonsense is unjustified by rule and assigning busy work with no answer that’ll distract kids.

Demanding what laws allow the unelected horde to really run government is part of their unofficial job tasks.  Foes of efficiency claim firing bureaucrats is as unconscionable as it is unconstitutional.  Taxpayers pay useless workers to waste even more taxpayer money.  Anyone employed by a federal agency is apparently entitled to a job through the universe’s collapse.  Treating every intrusive federal battle line advancement as ground that can never be relinquished is how combatants win the war against limited power.

A diabolical country that lets corporations keep money people give them is very enticing to foreign citizens.  Anyone who wants in this monstrous Fourth Reich outpost must be allowed.  The drive to preserve us from vague fascism is of utmost urgency even though it violates the same laws of the mean nation in question.

Deporting illegals seems like a logical pursuit, what with the classification of their status.  That whole thing where they’re not allowed to be here seems relevant.  But immigrants who pursued the unofficial path are the only ones not hassled by those in power.

We’re lucky to have a tax system that perfectly embodies arbitrary rule.  Who wants to search for examples?  Coming up with a different amount every time is a sign that maybe the process isn’t entirely fair.  Deciding what’s the wrong answer is for those in charge.  You can’t figure out just how much they’re going to confiscate from you.  You can only brace to be punished for offending them.

Doing whatever they please is the right of those who run civilization from governmental offices that only appear useless.  It’s important for superheroes to conceal identities.  Treating the Constitution as a hindrance is classic.  That hoary set of restrictions doesn’t permit any of the cool stuff they want to do.  We can’t be prohibited from enacting universal bliss by old white male slaveowners.  This is where you applaud.

Conditions are tough for heroic dissenters.  It’s bad enough that everyone knows liberalism makes you poor.  But inflicting said poorness is a ceaseless challenge.  Where do they start?  They face the fundamental dilemma of either feigning what they do is allowed by America’s rulebook or simply forging ahead in defiance of the structure.  You’ll note that neither strategy involves heeding the nation’s basic tenets.  But reformers of life itself are too important to adhere to your petty standards.

Fans of illegal immigration never try to sneak into Laos.  America’s internal enemies couldn’t move to a country that gives everyone free awesome insurance.  Nah: they have to ruin ours.  Thinking every nation is the same with the only difference being born is why Democrats never immigrate to a paradise that imposes their awesome dreams.  They selflessly want to repair the place where fate deposited them.  Put “people’s” before “republic” to show the nation is really about us.

Getting ripped off makes you appreciate that life is about more than material possessions.  As for those who get more of them by force, they’re lowering inequality.  Violators of our nation’s principles play a zero-sum game way where everyone loses.  Those who violate the law with everything they believe are naturally lax about crime.  There’s no defense aside from them wanting to do it.  Tell it to the judge.

Government fans do care about the phony violations they install.  That’s why aggravation enthusiasts enjoy shrieking when those who obey laws tire of getting bossed around by quasi-legal agencies.  Citizens cannot be allowed to realize that things are not only okay without constant federal intervention into their lives but actually improve.

As 2025 draws to a close, Donald Trump’s return to the White House has produced a foreign policy that defies easy categorization. The president who campaigned against endless wars and promised an “America First” doctrine has instead pursued what can only be described as selective interventionism wrapped in the rhetoric of restraint—a curious amalgam of realpolitik, transactional dealmaking and…