From today’s Badlands News Briefs
Ron Paul responds to Elon Musk’s invitation to join Trump administration
Former Texas Representative Ron Paul, a long-time advocate for limited government and free-market principles, could potentially play a role in a future Trump administration.
Paul, known for his criticism of federal policies such as the Federal Reserve, mass surveillance, and the military-industrial complex, has expressed openness to the idea. Responding to Tesla CEO Elon Musk on social media platform X, Paul said he would be “happy to talk” with Musk about joining a potential Department of Government Efficiency.
Musk recently posted that he would welcome Paul’s involvement in the department, which he humorously referred to as the “Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE),” alluding to the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.
Musk’s interest in a governmental role has become increasingly visible, with the CEO explicitly stating his willingness to serve in a Trump-led administration if the opportunity arises. Following Musk’s post, Trump hinted at appointing him to an advisory or official role if elected president.
Paul’s legacy in politics includes founding the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education (FREE) in 1976 and serving as the first chairman of Citizens for a Sound Economy. Often cited as the “intellectual godfather” of the Tea Party movement, Paul’s influence extends across fiscal conservatism and anti-interventionist policies.
If appointed, the combination of Paul’s libertarian principles and Musk’s tech-driven approach could bring an unconventional dynamic to government operations under a Trump presidency. — The Express Tribune
Our Take:
It’s all coming together…
This development is a very big deal. It represents the merger of what I consider the origins of the Tea Party movement with the MAGA platform.
The Tea Party movement had no centralized doctrine or figurehead, like MAGA had with Donald Trump. Some say it was named after the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when American colonists snuck aboard British ships and threw East India Company (EIC) tea into the Boston Harbor, after the British Parliament placed tariffs on all non-EIC tea.
(The reason being that the EIC was facing bankruptcy, due to overwhelming corruption and malfeasance in its ranks, and had an enormous surplus of tea that was reaching its shelf life—one of the many side-effects of corruption and mismanagement. This apathy towards commerce is what led to the EIC abandoning its commercial licenses altogether in 1833 and focusing exclusively on raising private armies and overthrowing governments in the far east, until it mutated into what we now call “British Intelligence” in 1873. That entity was responsible for later creating MI6, the Muslim Brotherhood, the CIA, Five Eyes, Mossad, and Operation Gladio, among other things.)
Others claim that the TEA Party stands for “Taxed Enough Already.” In any event, the consensus is that the movement was intended to be a tax revolt against an ever-expanding government, in the wake of the Patriot Act and growing national security apparatus.
Ron Paul was a major figure in this movement in 2008—before it was even called “The Tea Party movement.” That moniker came a few years later, after the Koch Brothers and other grifting parasites in “conservative” politics co-opted the momentum, and astro-turfed their own malevolence into it, which metastasized into a venomous poison that coagulated in the veins of the movement, leading to widespread “black-pilling” and defection among the grass-roots participants after they witnessed a series of discouraging developments by the treasonous entity known as the Republican Party.
Here is a 2010 headline from The Atlantic acknowledging Ron Paul’s role in the spiritual origins of the movement.
The “Tea Party Caucus,” as it became known, flourished during the Obama administration, as Americans became desperate to stop the spread of socialism in America. However, under the Tea Party’s stewardship, Congress agreed to an ever-expanding list of expenditures that led to a national debt that is now well over $34 Trillion. The Tea Party Republicans became a laughing stock, known for their “strongly worded letters” that never led to anything of consequence, and nominated John Boehner and Paul Ryan to be Speakers of the House. Under their failed leadership, we also saw Mitt Romney become the 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate.
I imagine that it was these betrayals that kept Ron Paul identifying as a libertarian, and not a Republican. (Because the Republicans have proven themselves to be such vile scumbags, and extremely abusive toward their constituents.)
The fact that Ron Paul is being brought into the new Trump Administration, while those vile scumbags in the Old Guard GOP are being boxed out, brings a tear and a smile to the face of many true conservatives; Because a cornerstone of Ron Paul’s legacy has always been the call to abolish the Federal Reserve, and end the income tax—a concept that President Trump has been regularly mentioning lately.
I cannot wait to see how Ron Paul will be unleashed. I hope they give him a cord and let him flip over some tables. Maybe whip a few central bankers. (One can dream.)
