The Interminable Terrible Transition of Power

America leads the world in one thing...the longest transition of power.

It seems like it was years ago that Donald Trump and his merry men won the election of 2024. It has been an impossibly long time since November 5th, and it remains a long way from finishing. This morning, I woke up to another 2.5 Billion dollars of printed money being shoved overseas to a proxy puppet of the United States. How kind of them to do that. Our dollar wasn’t abused enough.

All last week, we saw the TechBro wing of the new MAGA world get into their own problems with the base as they advocated for the reverse version of NAFTA in their H1-B Visas, and the middle of America screamed, that once again, it was they who would pay the price for this more erudite version of cheap labor.

As the great Mark Steyn put it in his column today, “As you'll have noticed, the world's most uniquely unique peaceful transition of power turned suddenly violent over Christmas with various of America's super-brainy Indians beating up on each other: Nikki Haley, the Boeing board's token Sikh, lit up Hindu monotheist Vivek Ramaswamy's tweet like Air Canada overhead baggage in objection to Vivek's remarks on US ‘mediocrity.’ The offending Ramaswamy tweet was in response to MAGA objections to Trump's appointment of Madras techie and open-borders fanatic Sriram Krishnan as his AI advisor. This was a very 2025 brouhaha: while you knuckle-draggers down in flyover country were arguing about sub-minimum-wage Hispanics turning down the sheets at Motel Six, the Hindu billionaires have been busy taking over the country.”

In an ongoing defense of the Ramaswamy/Musk position on cheap brainiacs, Elon Musk worked his way towards the parody version of himself as he squared off with notorious MAGA parody Laura Loomer. For the record, I am actually on Loomer’s side on this one…a rarity in my world, but she was calling out the damage that resides in these “free trade - cheap labor” schemes. When Musk decided to use his own power on X to demonetize her account and remove her blue check of verification, it looked like the same temper tantrum the left had thrown for years over speech that isn’t convenient or liked. He looked rather small against a character who does everything within her capacity to appear small and petty. That’s quite a feat.

The whole dust-up was an exercise in futility and pent-up frustration because, practically speaking, no policy that is floated has any chance of being enacted until sometime in January of 3066 after the “peaceful transition of power” is over via the hands of World War 3. The frustrations are there because, in lame duck season, you can’t hunt for ducks. It’s awful and far too long for any good to happen. The transition is so long that many of the main leaders of the election victory had time for a vacation. This timeline of power shifting makes it so that they can’t even take the job before they need time off. It’s a ridiculous process that illustrates how dysfunctional Washington really is.

The transition was designed for a horse and carriage world and remains in the internet age. When people had to ride from California to Washington, D.C., by horse or on foot, it made sense that several months had to pass in order to get all the constitutional requirements completed. They shifted it up from March in the ‘30s but have not addressed it since. We have airplanes, instant communication capabilities, and efficient roadways all across the fruited plain. Even if someone wanted to ride their bicycle from Sacramento, CA, to the Swamp as a virtue signal for the planet, it would only take 13 days, according to Apple Maps, and that’s even with a high wind warning today.

The fact of the matter is that so many of the troubles we are seeing within the coalition that has been built are because of this dastardly timeline. When you have no authority to change the world you were summoned to change, you spend time in discussions and arguments with no legislative or executive consequence. The Senate can drag Tulsi and RFK Jr. through all the halls long enough to get the right soundbites to submarine their nominations. The swamp is using this horrendous timeline to sabotage and undermine the second term of President Trump before it ever begins. The infighting is the only thing we can do as supporters of the coalition because the puppet in the White House continues to do all the bidding that the Blob requires of him. Meanwhile, we are relegated to the sidelines, watching the burning down of what’s left of a fledgling constitutional republic with no power to stop it.

Don’t forget that in the slowest timeline for transition in the free world, the representatives in the House will start their re-election campaign on Thursday, the 23rd of January, and the whole thing will grind to a halt faster than anyone anticipates. This transition period is a culprit of the highest magnitude for the dysfunction of the system. It is a breeding ground for so much of the corruption that undermines the voter’s wishes in every case. California and all the other mail-in, phone-it-in, truck-it-in “voting” states can still “count” or find the votes it needs until mid-May if necessary. The military-industrial complex can spend more money on more wars, with more lives of the American knuckle draggers from the heartland wasted on misadventures by below-average bureaucrats. The intelligence agencies can put all the tricks and traps in place to thwart any peace negotiations or cessation of foreign coups. The months between election night and inauguration day are the best tool in the toolbox for the swamp creatures. And we, the people, are stuck hunting for lame ducks with no gun, no bullets, and a dog scared of the noise.

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It needs fixing immediately, but the state knows as long as they have us fighting with each other, they can head back inside the castle and pop champagne because they are safe behind the walls of the citadel. As with all reforms in Washington, this one won’t be touched because it’s too amorphous for anyone to realize it is the fuel for the fire of discontent. We have to refocus our efforts on who causes the problems and then, after the transfer of power happens, work hard to fight for the American people. The sad truth is that the choice that the people made in November needs the blessing of the very thing it intends to destroy. That won’t come without a lot of politics and struggle. If the people don’t want another bad “labor deal” for the Keyboard wizards from India, we should use our voices to express that none of this looks like “America First,” and we should use our energy when lame duck season is over. Every battle we choose to live out now before the political blessing by the Blob, the more power they subtract from the coalition. In this upside-down transition of power, any reform requires them to sign off. That will take shrewd behavior now for a hopeful victory later.