“Related to my most recent Substack essay: As Ruth Bader Ginsburg was struggling to inhale her final breaths—as she was about to pass out of this world, forever, and find out if there is an eternity for her soul in some other world, or not—as she was about to say goodbye to those she loves for the final time—as she approached the moment after which she would never again experience the little things in life that she enjoyed—what was on her mind?
Answer: Her government job.
Even though a Supreme Court judge has no role whatsoever in the Constitutional process of replacing oneself, the last thing Ginsburg did was dictate a note stating that she did not want a replacement for her government position to be selected until after the next Presidential election.
This, of course, was long after she had been begged by her Democrat friends and allies, repeatedly, to retire from the Court.
Ginsburg is the model of a progressive who is going to cling onto the levers of government power until there is no life remaining in her hands.
I think the same can be said about the current occupant of the White House.
Beginning with George Washington, there is a tradition in the United States of rare individuals who are reluctant to serve in a position of government power, who don’t really want to spend their valuable time in a government office surrounded by the power-mongers, grifters, hustlers, and cronies who are attracted to government.
When asked by the Continental Congress what he wanted as compensation for his incredible service during the Revolutionary War, George Washington’s response is legendary: He did not ask for any money, other than reimbursement for war expenses he had paid out of his own pocket. He did not ask to be President. He did not ask for any title of nobility, or any position of government power or favoritism.
He asked for something most progressive Americans today probably cannot imagine—he asked to go home and be left alone.
Among others who were reluctant to serve as President: Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Abraham Lincoln, and Calvin Coolidge.
Joe Biden is not cut from that kind of cloth. I am confident Joe Biden cannot imagine doing anything productive or creative. The only life he knows is the life of being in positions of government power so he can enrich his friends and family by doling out crony favors—all funded by taxpayers, of course, not by himself—to the highest bidders. That is why I think he will not step down. There is nothing, for him, that is higher or more important than being in government. In this way, he is like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
https://x.com/sagelistener/status/1807564544660922701?s=46&t=8N8jHMOQWpfBMATFsrTZmA
This post was on Facebook is worth the read.
“Related to my most recent Substack essay: As Ruth Bader Ginsburg was struggling to inhale her final breaths—as she was about to pass out of this world, forever, and find out if there is an eternity for her soul in some other world, or not—as she was about to say goodbye to those she loves for the final time—as she approached the moment after which she would never again experience the little things in life that she enjoyed—what was on her mind?
Answer: Her government job.
Even though a Supreme Court judge has no role whatsoever in the Constitutional process of replacing oneself, the last thing Ginsburg did was dictate a note stating that she did not want a replacement for her government position to be selected until after the next Presidential election.
This, of course, was long after she had been begged by her Democrat friends and allies, repeatedly, to retire from the Court.
Ginsburg is the model of a progressive who is going to cling onto the levers of government power until there is no life remaining in her hands.
I think the same can be said about the current occupant of the White House.
Beginning with George Washington, there is a tradition in the United States of rare individuals who are reluctant to serve in a position of government power, who don’t really want to spend their valuable time in a government office surrounded by the power-mongers, grifters, hustlers, and cronies who are attracted to government.
When asked by the Continental Congress what he wanted as compensation for his incredible service during the Revolutionary War, George Washington’s response is legendary: He did not ask for any money, other than reimbursement for war expenses he had paid out of his own pocket. He did not ask to be President. He did not ask for any title of nobility, or any position of government power or favoritism.
He asked for something most progressive Americans today probably cannot imagine—he asked to go home and be left alone.
Among others who were reluctant to serve as President: Thomas Jefferson, James Polk, Abraham Lincoln, and Calvin Coolidge.
Joe Biden is not cut from that kind of cloth. I am confident Joe Biden cannot imagine doing anything productive or creative. The only life he knows is the life of being in positions of government power so he can enrich his friends and family by doling out crony favors—all funded by taxpayers, of course, not by himself—to the highest bidders. That is why I think he will not step down. There is nothing, for him, that is higher or more important than being in government. In this way, he is like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
-Thomas Krannawitter