From the Tom Woods Letter:
Yesterday Donald Trump said he’d like to meet with Chinese and Russian leaders and work out an agreement for all of them to cut their military budgets by 50 percent.
I don’t know if that will happen or not. I do know that no president of either party has spoken like that in my lifetime (though of course Ronald Reagan made important moves toward arms control, fearing the truly dreadful possibility of an inadvertent nuclear exchange).
And here’s what I also know: at this point the left is so unreasonable (and so busy making sure nobody’s federal sinecure gets cut) that they probably can’t bring themselves to back even something they themselves have pretended to support for years, now that Trump also supports it.
I can already hear the left’s lament: won’t anyone think of defense-industry profits!
It’s so bad that Congressman Ro Khanna actually had to say:
“I support the effort to find a trilateral agreement with China and Russia to mutually draw down bloated military budgets. We should not oppose efforts to reduce military spending and work towards peace just because it is proposed by Trump.”
Again, if we were dealing with mentally well people, it would not have been necessary to say that.
Another thing happened yesterday: the swearing in of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Let me pause to note that a few weeks ago, when I also wrote about RFK, Jr., in this newsletter, I received a reply from a reader describing him as “a nut” and that under his leadership “healthcare as we know it” would “become extinct.”
I replied:
I sure hope health care as we know it becomes extinct. It is symptom management, it has yielded a declining life expectancy, chronic disease is through the roof, and the money spent is downright criminal. Anyone who doesn’t want health care as we know it to die a well-deserved death is profoundly suspect in my book. There is a reason all the most evil people, and the various vested interests, are after him.
At any rate, I thought you’d be interested in excerpts of RFK’s remarks yesterday:
We see the rise of the military industrial complex, the rise of totalitarianism, these attacks on our Constitution and this breathtaking epidemic that is disabling our people. President Trump has promised to restore the American dream in this country. A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person only has one. Sixty percent of our population has only one dream, that they get better….
President Trump has promised that he’s going to restore America’s strength. But we can’t be a strong nation if we have a citizenry. We need somebody who is willing to come in and has the spine and the guts and the strength to challenge orthodoxies, to stand in the way of vested interests, and to break institutions that have turned against our democracy.
He also addressed the controversy over USAID:
My uncle started USAID in 1961 for humanitarian purposes, to put our country on the side of the poor. It has been captured by the military-industrial complex. It has become a sinister propagator of totalitarianism and war across the globe. And very few people understand how sinister this agency really is. And President Trump saw that, and he stood up to it with a masterstroke. And we want to do the same thing with the institutions that are stealing the health of our children.
I can’t help noting that we now inhabit a world in which the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and the presumed directors of both the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, have all been guests on the Tom Woods Show.
If we’re being honest, I don’t think any of us expected that outcome.
In fact, it was Jay Bhattacharya, nominated to head the National Institutes of Health, who wrote the foreword to my book Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania.
Imagine that!
If you still don’t have it, by the way, treat yourself to the audiobook version, because you’ll hear it in my voice — which means it will have just that combination of sarcasm and contempt that the subject matter calls for:
https://www.tomwoods.com/diaryaudiobook
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