Substack speaks to you!

It’s now an option for every American to read the thoughts of the US Secretary of State rather than getting politically-spun snippets about public policy from CNN News in thimble form 😵‍💫

Marco Rubio on SUBSTACK 🥳🥰😺

A New State Department to Meet the Challenges of a New Era

SUBSTACK is uncensored 🤓

Of all the online platforms that Marco Rubio could have chosen, it was SUBSTACK. Reputations matter.

Competing platform owners chose to comply with Biden-era orders to stop the spread of misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories and anything that seemed like official narrative bashing. The risk of being cancelled by Twitter, Facebook, or any other popular social media platform was too high for most users who self-censored to avoid attention by fact-checkers and other speech police.

I began MY LIFE LENS in January 2022 immediately after Facebook issued its fourth warning to me with a 30-day imposed vacation. I wish to thank Facebook for giving me a break from their Big Brother policies and encouraging me to find Substack. With about 400 opinion and information essays posted in the last 40 months, it had made my inner muse very happy🤗

Comments from Marco.

Marco Rubio’s linked essay contains some bold statements and juicy revelations which I share with you:

Today America confronts a new era of great power competition and the rise of a multipolar order with a State Department that stifles creativity, lacks accountability, and occasionally veers into outright hostility to American interests. The Department has long struggled to perform basic diplomatic functions, even as both its size and cost to the American taxpayer has ballooned over the past fifteen years. The problem is not a lack of money, or even dedicated talent, but rather a system where everything takes too much time, costs too much money, involves too many individuals, and all too often ends up failing the American people

Bureaucracies are what bureaucracies do 😟

Bureaus and offices fight to be included on the approval chains for the most mundane of memos, only then to reach agreement on drafts that are bloated in length while stripped of all meaning. Motivated and creative State Department employees see their ideas watered down by turf battles until they give up, disillusioned, while the inboxes of senior officials are inundated with hundreds of requests for approval. While the talented and loyal are driven into indifference, radical ideologues and bureaucratic infighters have learned to play on this exhaustion to push through their own agendas that are often at odds with those of the President and undermine the interests of the United States.

Will action and concrete results follow these words?

I am initiating a broad reorganization of the Department to address the steady growth of bureaucracy, duplication of functions, and capture by special interests that have crippled American Foreign Policy.

We will drain the bloated, bureaucratic swamp, empowering the Department from the ground up.

DOGE Canada ❓

Have you heard Pierre Poilievre, Mark Carney, or Jagmeet Singh say anything about a DOGE-like mandate for Canada?

Marco Rubio is certainly singing from the DOGE hymn book in his first Substack, but where are the voices of our wannabe Prime Ministers on this important topic?

Yes, Pierre Poilievre is the only one of those three who recognizes the need to sweep the floors of the federal government to clear away rubble that was deposited by Justin Trudeau, his Liberal house guests and all of the government officials who contributed to the buildup of all the regulatory litter in the institutions they commanded.

Time for a clean sweep‼️

Let’s all clean up and take out the trash on April 28.

Let’s put in place custodians of our public house who we can trust to keep a clean and orderly environment.

I still prefer a Conservative Minority government with a sufficient number of PPC MPs to provide a Majority that favours Libertarian-Conservative values and principles.

For a decade, Canadians have experienced the extract opposite thanks to an unholy Liberal-NDP pact.

The result was repeatedly fear-invoking and not particularly pretty fiscally, socially or economically.

The good, the bad, and the ugly.

The good:

The Conservatives and PPC (and Libertarian) want to restore Canada’s democracy to one of greater Individual Freedom, Personal Responsibility, mutual Respect, and Fairness under unbiased laws and reduced regulations.

EXPECT lower taxes, balanced budgets, more entrepreneurial opportunities and jobs, increased productivity and a rising level of prosperity for all Canadians.

EXPECT less dependency on governments and an increase in Canadian sovereignty for decision-making without the meddling of unelected, unaccountable and uninvited global institutions like the UN.

The bad:

The Liberals, with the help of Jagmeet Singh, have ushered in an era of social and economic decline in Canada.

EXPECT Continued obedience to the dictates for a Green Agenda promoted by the UN and informed by the Paris Climate Agreement and Reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have mandated many unsustainable and unwarranted policies and institutional expansions are enormous public expense.

EXPECT Canadians to be subservient in future pandemics to the commands of globalist leaders in the Work Health Organization.

EXPECT a growing debt crisis under Mark Carney. He proved his prolific spending chops when he advised Trudeau and Freeland in preparing the national annual Budget over the past five years.

Cheque-book Carney has recently announced another $130 billion in debt financing. He is secure in the knowledge that Canada’s taxpayers and their children will have NO CHOICE but to pay off our already unsustainable public debt levels.

There is only one word to describe the Liberals, their Trudeau legacy and Cheque-book Carney : 😱 UNSUSTAINABLE 😱

The Ugly.

Even when dressed in their finery, the leaders of the New Democratic Party, the Green Party, and the Communist Party of Canada are noticeably different from the ‘good’ and and event the ‘bad’ alternatives. They are “special interest” political parties that push only those policies and agendas that serve their ideological communities of followers.

EXPECT: The NDP to remain beholden to the special interests of powerful organized labour groups.

EXPECT: The Greens to remain wed to the Climate Change Crisis Theory and the many NGOs and globalist institutions that quietly fund and direct their actions from the shadows.

EXPECT: The Communist Party to support any policy than favours extreme Socialism and Fascism over capitalism. They will campaign for public ownership of all means of production, and continue to oppose every individual’s right to own and manage property for their own benefit.

Rhetoric and Your Life Lens.

Every political party does their best to package their policies to attract votes. Their words and promises are gussied up to be appealing to as many voters as possible. The old “lipstick on a pig” image comes to mind.

Every voter is different.

Men generally respond to political rhetoric in ways that are quite different than women for obvious reasons.

Victims of discrimination in its many modern forms are susceptible to election promises that serve their unique priorities. They rarely ask who will pay for those promises if implemented.

Tax victims, those productive men and women who pay the most, quietly grumble in the background believing that there is not enough of them to push the needle towards greater freedom and prosperity through lower taxes and less-stifling regulations.

I am not a victim.

I will be voting for ‘the good”.

The good would be “the best” if its leaders would copy Marco Rubio’s example and use Substack to communicate directly with voters like me.

While I admire the long form podcast appearances in which both Pierre Poilivre and Maxime Bernier have appeared, I would also welcome some thoughtful and nuanced posts on Substack by our aspiring leaders.