MAGAmas for the Americas

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• To improve the TRUE economy, which is output of useful products & services, we need to shift people from low to negative productivity jobs in government to high productivity jobs in the private sector.


• Are the government employees parasites?


• With around only 6% of all federal employees actually attending work in person I would say so.

Senator Mike Lee on X: Throughout Anglo-American history, we’ve seen a major upheaval every 75-90 years. It’s almost like clockwork! 

Each pivot in American history has been kickstarted by events in just three critical years. By my reckoning, those years were 1776, 1861, and 1937. These aren’t just random years; they’re game-changers.

• 1776 was a pivotal year.


• Next pivotal year is 1858, the Southern states seceding from the Union, they were going to lose political clout in the US Senate.


• Wickard v Filburn 


• Roscoe Filburn, a farmer, sued Claude Wickard, the Secretary of Agriculture, when he was penalized for violating the statute. Filburn argued that the amount of wheat that he produced in excess of the quota was for his personal use (e.g., feeding his own animals), not commerce (e.g., selling it on the market), and therefore could not be constitutionally regulated. 


• The Court upheld the law, explaining that Congress could use its Commerce Power to regulate such activity because, even if Filburn’s actions had only a minimal impact on commerce, the aggregated effect of an individual farmer’s wheat-growing exerted a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce. In terms of the Constitution, this holding offered a broad reading of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause.


• It is nice to see people actually talking about all of this again.


• Some are hearing stuff like this for the first time.

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1. In a meeting today with Elon & Vivek referred to the fact that, because unelected bureaucrats now make most federal law & control much of our economy, we’ve been stripped of the benefits of a constitutional republic.


2. As Vivek noted, the need for Americans to demand accountability from their own government is precisely why we fought—and mercifully won—the American Revolution. That got me thinking ….


3. Throughout Anglo-American history, we’ve seen a major upheaval every 75-90 years. It’s almost like clockwork! 


4. Each pivot in American history has been kickstarted by events in just three critical years. By my reckinging, those years were 1776, 1861, and 1937. These aren’t just random years; they’re game-changers. 


5. In 1776, we declared our independence from a large, distant government that recognized no limits on its authority and refused to hold itself accountable to the American people. Sound familiar?


6. In 1861, the American Civil War began, hastening the end of a tragic chapter of our history when many Americans “owned” other Americans as property—as slaves—with the approval and protection of government.


7. In 1937, progressives in all three branches of the U.S. government—with one final push from the Supreme Court—dangerously eroded the Constitution’s twin structural protections: the “vertical” protection we call federalism and the “horizontal” protection known as separation-of-powers, all to facilitate FDR’s quest to centralize power in the federal government in response to the Great Depression.


8. In the nearly 88 years since the Supreme Court opened this era on April 12, 1937—the day the Court re-defined Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce so broadly that nothing remained of federalism, and indirectly set in motion Congress’s now-common habit of delegating lawmaking power to unelected bureaucrats—Americans have lost much of their power to control their own destiny to people in Washington, D.C.


9. We’re about to have another one of those years, one that could initiate the reversal of the immense harm that has been unleashed on the American people—by their own government, no less—ever since April 12, 1937.


10. Brace yourselves because 2025 is shaping up to be the next big, pivotal year—only the fourth in our 248-year history as a country. We’re on the cusp of setting in motion a new, brighter era for America.


11. This next era MUST be about reinstating the Constitution’s core, structural protections—both the vertical protection of federalism and the horizontal separation-of-powers.


12. Congress needs to step up aggressively. It’s time to open this next chapter where WE, the American people, take back control from unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who’ve been running our government like it’s their personal sandbox, treating us like their toys—or, better said—their subjects.


13. These bureaucrats churn out nearly 100,000 pages of regulations every year. Regulations that NOT ONE ELECTED LAWMAKER votes to enact into law!