MICHAEL WALSH: Stimulus Bill Stimulates Congress’s Lust for Power.

They call it the “Great Reset,” an opportunistic power grab by the international oligarchy to finally destroy the nation-state in the name of global governance, whose motto, like the Left’s, is “by any means necessary,” which very much includes both COVID-19 and “global warming” in their tactical philosophy. As Matthew 7:16 says, “By their fruits shall ye know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”

So it is with the thorn-and-thistle-strewn 5,593-page “stimulus” bill, which includes $10 million for “gender programs” in Pakistan and a whole section on “horseracing integrity and safety.” Their contempt for you is a bitter mockery of the Founders’ aspirations to republican democracy, pearls before swine except the “pearls” are faux and the swine are you. Trump should veto it immediately.

This is what comes of a country that purports to be “of laws, not men,” but is in fact a nation of lawyers, not men. Rather, America was first imagined and then created by European intellectuals, artists, statesmen—patriots with both taste and rifles. Men came first, then the laws that they made—not the other way around. That we are “a nation of laws, not men” is one of the stupidest clichés around, as is the idea that America is a “notional” country to which anyone can belong upon a pledge—however dishonestly made—to uphold the Constitution.

On the contrary, the United States of America was founded on the principles of the English and Scottish Enlightenment—settled not colonized (unlike the Spanish possessions in the New World)—with an eye to creating something never before seen in the history of the world: A self-governing land, ruled by neither by pompadoured potentates nor periwigged black robes but by the citizenry.

In other words, we are not subjects of a “notional” nation, but one with a direct, easily provable Anglo-European inheritance. A free country created by free men, who over the course of two and a half centuries have established laws to serve their vision of freedom and liberty within the framework of a Constitution written by dead white male property owners who put their lives on the line for the good of all.

When those laws or the “interpretations” thereof constrain freedom and liberty upon which the country was founded, they can and should be ignored and abolished.

What would the Founders have said to Covid? To panic? To fear? During a yellow fever pandemic, Americans moved our capital from Philadelphia to the new shining city on a hill, Washington. During the darkest hours of the War of 1812, President James Madison and, later, his wife, Dolley, fled a burning White House, taking with her copies of Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of George Washington and the Declaration of Independence. Can we do any less?

Now our elected representatives machinate against us. The Supreme Court, led by the moral and intellectual weakling John Roberts (a Bush appointee, of course), reject the plain language of the Constitution in order to preserve its “institutional legitimacy”—never mind the plain language of Article Three, which even a lawyer ought to be able to comprehend, but willfully won’t.

As Michael writes, “In short, they laugh in our faces and ask us to beg for more. And then they leave $600 on the dresser for us to shut up and go away. There’s a word for people who take that deal. Are you one of them?”

Apparently, President Trump isn’t: Trump Blasts Democrats for ‘Wasteful’ COVID Bill, Calls Out Its Most Ridiculous Spending, Threatens Veto.