Saturday, 10 May 2025 21:39 1747103947
Where are we? At just over the first hundred days things look good. The enemy is in bad shape and as some have said
when your enemy is destroying himself don't get in the way. That seems to often be attributed to Napoleon but I seem to
remember it being popularized in modern times by Haley Barbour back in the Reagan era. The colorful fellow from Louisiana
reminds me a bit of him. I notice that I do find a lot of southern politicians - conservative ones anyway - to be colorfully
entertaining while taking jabs at the Enemy. As my friend Enak has often observed to be even moderately effective humor
must contain at least a little truth. Probably one of the reasons the Enemy can't do humor - I could laugh at Saturday Night
Live when they were skewering the Bushes and even Reagan but long ago they descended into attacks with zero facts.
The Enemy - I can't account for this right off but will try as I go along - seems to be attempting suicide. It seems that the
real crazies are if not in complete control wrestling for the steering wheel. Interesting analogy and I wasn't even planning it:
"If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the
wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Strangely that reminded me of a truly weird minute or so in the stage-managed show that the January 6 "investigation" committee when some tool told a
impossibly strange story that was so... let's keep this clean. She seems a rather pathetic sort of political social climber that chose unwisely. She
wrote a book. Maybe I'll see it in
Dollar Tree
some day. She is a truly despicable character but sadly there were a few of those the first time around. Not so many in Trump 2.0.
Probably the two biggest things at this point are the economy and the removal of illegals. We don't have any reliable numbers on the self-deporters but I suspect
that in comparison to the 20-or-so million it's not much but every one helps. The official removals are probably even smaller but every one is a potential killer
of an innocent American. The trend is going against the Enemy even as the administration still 'plays by the rules' in allowing the process of judges who have
no authority whatsoever to temporarily halt some deportations. Perhaps it will eventually be necessary to simply ignore them. If John Roberts had any sense he would
do the right thing rather than become a laughingstock when Trump finally does call his bluff. Whether he is that thoroughly compromised of just that venal and weak
I have no idea but I believe that President Trump will win. I with venal and weak but I suspect that the Golden Age - or American Renaissance - will go forward in
spite of everything.
As I write this the economy - particularly the tariff issue - seems to be failing as an an attack vector. The economy is probably the most useful weapon in the midterms
and the eventual presidential election. The midterms are the most important - if the Republicans hold both houses the best hope the Enemy had for blunting the force of
Trump 2.0 is gone. I confess to having had a higher opinion of the party but perhaps it was just inertia. David Hogg and Jasmine Cockroach - Ocrazio Cortez seems eclipsed
by her for the moment - being the face of the party along with the defenders of the invaders - the worst of them no less - are not looking good. Senior bosses like
Schumer being threatened by them suggests that they don't have the coherent structure I believed they had. And that is a good thing.
The Divine Intervention we have seen - the assassination attempts - causes me to believe that resistance to Trump 2.0 is futile. The next few weeks should be interesting
as the economic effects and Israel/Gaza and Russia/Ukraine (and recently India/Pakistan) developments should tell us more. For now things are going in the right direction.
If the midterms are favorable - holding both houses and ideally increases in both but especially in the house - things will be looking very good.
Despite the predictions of dire consequences of tariffs and foreign policy the president's approval is rising and the economy stubbornly refuses to crash. Meanwhile the
craziness - I can't say it's full-throttle yet and doubt that is - suggests that the crazies are in the driver's seat. The old ones like Schumer seem to be unable to
corral them. A popular President Trump next year could conceivably flip some Democrat seats in the House and possibly one or two in the Senate. That would be nice.
It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair
prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction
and training for its mind, is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring
and against society; and that if the parent does not fulfil this obligation, the
State ought to see it fulfilled, at the charge, as far as possible, of the parent.
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy
Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
