Who’s Driving the Bus?

Who’s driving the bus?

Not this guy.

Anybody who’s ever had a toddler knows this walk. It’s really sad he’s got the nuclear football under his control, but I guess that’s what Mr. 81 Million Votes deserves since he, like, you know….got 81 million votes.

So with a couple of months left before he officially gets kicked out of the White House, I think about who is driving the bus? Are “they” going to keep up the charade that Biden still has marbles? Are they going to delegate anything to Harris, who lost by a landslide, wasted a billion with a B on an election that saw a blowout by 100 electoral votes and even a popular vote loss, and get beaten in every swing state on the map?

Of course not. Even though since last summer she sort of appeared to be the presumptive leader of the country as vice president and the Democratic Party’s nominee while a flaccid Joe Biden sat on a beach chair in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Harris acted like she was the only one with faculties in the Executive Mansion. As most clear-thinking people voted, they saw Harris-Walz as simply a pair of incompetent boobs in a cheap brassiere.

We know that somebody else is running the country. It certainly hasn’t been Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. I think conventional wisdom believes it to be a cabal made up of the Obamas, Senate Majority Leader (for now) Chuck Schumer (D-NY), former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett…and whomever else they have surrounded themselves with. Speculation maybe, but who else in Washington has as much power as they do? The lobbies? 

Who are the traditional lobbies? Oil? Auto industry? Those guys have seen their influence wane as the green monster has picked up steam. Big Pharma? Big Tech? Probably, since they have been caught serving the interests of the progressives in government. Defense manufacturers? Yeah, maybe them too. We all know what Eisenhower said about them. 

These groups are all influencers. They have always had a lot of power, but I don’t know that they’ve ever had their power harnessed and directed like we’ve seen in the past four years. Pharma wanted to sell injections, and progressives were happy to legislate, propagandize, and shun all who opposed. Big Tech is full of 20 and 30-somethings who are all on the Woke Wagon, so there was no problem with getting censorship and actual disinformation disseminated. 

But who ever thought the military itself would actually go woke? If there was ever an institution that depended on meritocracy, it would have to be the U.S. Military. Traditionally conservative and aware that lowering standards and basing promotions on superficial qualities got people killed and degraded their mission capability, it’s hard to imagine that they were actually flipped into giving a crap what the LGBTs thought. But they did. 

I have a friend who was a medical doctor working at Ft. Knox as a contractor for the Army. During the Obama years he told me that discussions in staff meetings were beginning to center around bringing Army surgeons up to snuff with sex change operations. Not just in awareness, but capability. That means shifting skills from battlefield surgery to chopping off…stuff. Now that sounds pretty crazy, but look where we ended up a few years later. And my friend said the attitude in the meeting was basically, “You Will Get On Board.” This was bad enough, but he’d said, “You know, when you go through the entire hormone therapy to surgery therapy regimen, you’re not able to perform your Soldier Therapy for most of your hitch.” 

Trump put a stop to this during his first tenure, but of course it came roaring back in 2021. All of this crap has to start rolling down from the top of some hill somewhere. And the military leadership takes its direction from the civilian leadership, so…

Unless someone 100 years from now writes a transparent and documented history of America during this time period we’re all living in now, we might never know who was driving this bus into the ditch. Through the grace of common sense bestowed on most people by our Creator, we may actually see that bus drive out of the same ditch and progress on a straight path again.

Voters have rejected Woke by an historic margin. We changed drivers. I guess now we see the results.