Friends, Democrats remain aghast at President Trump's nominees for high-level cabinet positions, but, as the incoming minority in the Senate, they won't have the capacity to stop a single one. It's looking increasingly likely that Pete Hegseth might be confirmed as Secretary of Defense, and, if the bare knuckles campaign against him flops, what are the chances that at least four Republican Senators will muster the courage to sabotage any of Trump's other picks? Answer: not high. That bodes well for those who desire profound change inside the Beltway. I'm reassured, because above all conservatives need Trump to be bold and determined during the next four years. In his first term, Trump was bullied far too easily and far too often by the media and the political establishment. This time we need him to be comfortable in his own skin.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/15/politics/trump-cabinet-playbook-analysis/index.html
https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-be-trumps-hhs-secretary?tid=1734376776099
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I wonder what Russian "propaganda" on Ukraine Tulsi Gabbard is held to have credited . If it was Russia simply stating that it will not tolerate Nato in Ukraine or Ukraine in Nato, its the truth.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you Dr Waddy. In hindsight 2016's term resulted in Trump being bullied maybe more from the establishment than even the MSM.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, if I'm being honest, at that time I kept saying "Please. Stop being so obnoxious and brash. Tone it down for God's sake! Be more Presidential".
Well, he's sorta done that, and now we're all like MARRS... "Pump up the Volume"!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Right now antiamerica can't win for losing. We could not have asked more of this year , which at its start offered us many dreadful possibilities.
ReplyDeleteNow we must be resolved to take full advantage of the promising position we find ourselves in what with the staggering blow we have actually dealt those who would force "fundamental transformation" on our country, which does not need such patronizing largesse. We must drive tanks through the loopholes the far left has left open for us; we never relent until we have destroyed their ability to destroy us!
The unstinting effort to achieve this redemption of our country from a still powerful incipient domestic totalitarian force needs an exemplar and leader. Luckily we have one in DJT. He embarked in 2015 on what seemed a quixotic quest pursued by an ostentatious dillettante - the very Presidency itself. He had no direct experience of elective politics and office. In what was in itself an astonishing achievement he beat "entitled "Hillary, a lifelong politician with nothing but contempt for the "unwashed", the deplorables.
Yes his first term was a hard row to hoe, which is entirely understandable for a high businessman emplaced in a world with norms and practices many of which were new to him. Still, he brought about a monumental, historic and now lasting change in restoring lawfulness to a Scotus which would have descended into complete far left thralldom had Hillary acquired the power to appoint three Justices. That alone, I think, highly credits his first term, his "rookie year".
After his losing reelection in 2020 he and his family were subjected to a vicious, unprecedented onslaught of personal calumny and gross misuse of our legal system meant to ensure that he, who by his mere existence manifested in the far left insane hatred and attendant dread that he might return to power, was to them an unbearable threat.
A lesser personality might well have wilted. But he has , despite all enervating danger, courageously worked his return to the Presidency. He brings with him this time an incalculable wealth of the wisdom derived by the wise and resilient from bitter experience. And antiamerica's oppression of him has no doubt built in him a terrible conviction that the forces who have wronged him so (and by extension the America which has placed such trust in him)will not be suffered to escape a reckoning for it .
DJT has proven himself a formidable leader and he will bring that very much experientially enhanced strength into a new term which may well prove him to be one of the American Presidential greats. Who would have thought it of him 10 years ago.? But here it is!
Dr. Waddy and Richie et al from Jack: DJT is still a bull in the rhetorical China shop. And we treasure him ever the more for it. For one thing ,it drives the far left to distraction and in their consuming emotional chaos they surrender to primitive impulses. They were so blithe to discard all conventions in their salad days but they cannot bear to have it done to them. Many of the counterproductive manifestations of Trump Derangement Syndrome are products of this profound mental and emotional upheaval which his resilience and his unthinkable return to power despite their very best efforts to destroy him have perversely manifested.
ReplyDeleteDJT is an hombre for sure and I think that may include both tactical and personally vindictive satisfaction on his part when he considers the Gordian knots into which he has tied his detractors this year (and they have no Alexander at hand except perhaps Alexandria OC). And I'm sure he has developed a far keener political sense of when it pays to back off a bit .
And for those GOP old liners for whom style coopted substance and who were willing to suffer in subjection at the hands of well spoken amoral far left radicals, lemme quote recently reexalted Bob Dylan: ". . .your old world is rapidly changing; please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand". Actually I despise that "statement" , directed as it was with exceeding presumption and ingratitude toward the Greatest Generation but perhaps the irony can serve a useful purpose. DJT has proven to America that it can and should get down and dirty with an antiamerican left which has very long since shed any compunctions about Realpolitik.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Town Hall today reprinted a NY Times article titled "Want to Understand Conservatives? Watch "Yellowstone" .
ReplyDeleteI liked Yellowstone very much.The putative ending episode was aired last Sunday. I would not go as far as to say that watching it imparts comprehensive understanding of conservatives but the show does do eloquent justice to a prime concern of we deplorable pieces of garbage in fly over country. That is: "progressives' " patronizing and reflexive disdain for our ways of life, which tend to honor traditional mores and standards which they find trite, quaint and inconvenient.
The show graphically depicted a phenomenon very familiar to longtime residents of the Mountain West and even somewhat comparable Eastern regions like the Adirondacks or the Shenandoah Valley. That is of residents of the suffocating confines of coastal megalopoli seeking relief "out in the country". Trouble is, they bring their suburban mindsets with them and expect them to be gratefully tolerated by the "natives" when they buy land or attempt to work their touchy-feely ways on people for whom their lifelong experiences have taught them a view which acknowledges the cruelty (but not depraved so) of nature along with its treasured beauty.
The resolute defiance of lifelong westerners to this invasion is one the very major themes of this program. And it embodies a more comprehensive conservative conviction, which is: "To hell with these presumptuous, effete elitists who would force their views, encompassing a forceful"fundamental transformation" of a perversely unwilling America on a Marxist model proven by history to be productive only of universal destitution and enervating dictatorship".
Yeah, so people who credit the NY Times could learn something from Yellowstone. The show does build sometimes incidental sympathy for characters theretofore automatically viewed by "the elect" as dismissable rustics (eg. Obama with his (I paraphrase)"frustrated people who cling to religion and guns " screed).
I have a good friend who has lived all her life in a remote section of mountainous North Central Pennsylvania. She said, about DJT: ("he says what I want say"). Think what you will of that observation , far lefties, but it got DJT elected and it put you on the slippery slope.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I should not have characterized all who flee urban and suburban America as presumptuous invaders. Lots of them move out here with sincere intent to live in harmony with us. But the ones who try to reestablish suburbia out here can be a real pain . Check out the Shenandoah Valley. What a congested mess that has become.
ReplyDeleteJack, quite so! A lot of "Russian misinformation" is actually just...information that Deep State hawks don't like.
ReplyDeleteRichie, that's an excellent point that Trump's tone, and his boldness and independence, are really two different things. Let's hope that, for the next four years, he SOUNDS more rational and mature, but he ACTS more aggressively and even stubbornly.
Jack, I'd say it remains to be seen what kind of "reckoning" DJT has in store for those who wronged him -- or indeed if he even cares about settling scores. It's a target-rich environment, needless to say, and it will mainly be up to Pam Bondi to decide who, if anyone, will face the wrath of the new and improved DOJ...
I agree, Jack, that one of the best things about Trump and Trumpism is that he and it draw out the lefties and entice them to...be themselves. In other words, we've learned a lot about just how contemptuous and self-satisfied the typical leftist is. Keep it up, "progressives"! Every day we get a little closer to consigning you to the dustbin of history, thanks to your own mean-spiritedness.
What an interesting perspective on "Yellowstone". I've never seen an episode, but you make me want to give it a try...
And what, pray tell, Jack, makes you think the Shenandoah Valley is a "congested mess"? Are you thinking of Route 81? That seems like an unfair test for the whole region...