There were two things the Left settled on after last night’s senile rant by Pudding Brain:
- He’s SOOOOO vigorous!
- He shouldn’t have called Laken Riley’s killer an illegal.
Point one was, of course, pre-set; they were going to say that no matter. It was a chorus clearly scripted. It mostly drew chortles.
The second point was just as universal but came out a little later as the Left absorbed the performance. Biden mangled the poor girl’s name in his scripted attempt to defuse the issue and that did generate a lot of negative comment but the “don’t call them illegals” thing is more telling. The Laken Riley issue is highlighting the broader issue of border security and the Democrats want it gone. That is why they are demanding we stop saying “illegal” when referring to illegal immigrants. They don’t want the American people thinking in those terms, because that terminology cuts against them.
Call them Dreamers or Newcomers or Migrants or any other positive-to-innocuous term you can think of, but don’t call them illegal! They don’t want the outrage of the American people getting focused here. I don’t think it’ll work; the cat, as they say, is out of the bag – and anyone with a daughter or granddaughter sees Laken Riley. It could have been ours on the slab in a morgue…and set there because Biden’s people maliciously opened the border and cruelly refuse to close it. It does sometimes work like that – things can be horrible and everyone knows it is but there is no focus…until something happens that provides the focus. Riley’s murder has done that – she really just was a nice, young girl starting out her life and a miserable excuse for a human being killed her for no reason. And it wouldn’t have happened if illegals weren’t here.
One thing that especially disgusts me: pro illegal people saying, “illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes”. This is obviously untrue drivel but even if it is true, does that matter? For heaven’s sake, Riley would be alive if the illegal wasn’t there. If that was the only crime an illegal committed this year, it would still be an outrage. An entirely preventable death. It is like people just don’t care about other human beings dying – except when its fictional Palestinian deaths, of course. Anyways, I’m not about to take moral lectures from people just back from the “shout your abortion” rally.
Among the diseased mental droppings last night was a program to have the US military build a pier in Gaza to ship supplies in. Among the history of dumb ideas, this one is right up there. First off, all we’d be doing is providing supplies to Hamas, thus prolonging the war. Second, it puts a wedge between the USA and Israel and thus encourages Hamas to resist in the hope that the USA will eventually pressure Israel to leave Hamas alive. Third, and worst, there is zero chance Hamas won’t take a shot at us. If a Hamas militant is any way within range of US troops, he will open fire. He can’t do otherwise; we are the enemy to Hamas. They hate us; and it is likely a tie between hating us and hating Jews. This means there is a very good chance that one or more American will be killed by Hamas in our effort to supply Hamas.
And all of this because Team Biden wants to shore up support among pro-Hamas Muslims in Michigan. Americans are to die in an effort to secure some electoral votes. Disgusting doesn’t begin to cover it.
Side note: the father of one of the Marine’s killed in Biden’s botched Afghan withdrawal heckled Pudding Brain last night. He was arrested. A gold star father; arrested for saying words. That is Biden’s America.
Meanwhile, Islamists continue to attack defenseless Christians in Africa and our government doesn’t give a damn. Never let the vile people running our government claim any mantle of morality.
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The local guy who does the drive-time talk show after Bongino led off his show this afternoon with a great line. He said his biggest takeaway from the SOTU was that you don’t want to play a drinking game during a Biden SOTU.
ROFL
On the other hand, it’s probably the only thing that might make it bearable
Identity politics has put Democrats into some very weird political positions. Being more upset over using the term illegal as opposed to the brutal murder of Laken Riley is just one example and here’s another …. Biden is criticizing Trump for meeting with democratically elected, and NATO member Viktor Orban of Hungary
Biden hammers Trump for meeting with Hungary’s Orbán
So what upsets Biden so much? Well Orban is white, and a nationalist, and is popular in his country for being very strict on all immigration, particularly illegal immigration. Hungary has a zero tolerance policy towards illegal immigration and because of that, Biden thinks he is a threat to democracy. Zelensky on the other hand has shut down all political opposition and closed churches, but he of course is saving democracy … and if these two examples don’t get your attention, nothing will.
There is something very wrong with white Democrats. I believe they have a 1619 pound weight pulling them down into the abyss of racial guilt and confusion. They are the weak parent … the spineless, immoral parent who twerks with their daughters and smokes blunts with their sons and claim they are enlightened … and out of that childish dynamic has come DEI, the most destructive political construct ever introduced into America. And because of DEI, we now have doors and wheels falling off of airplanes, we have unqualified DA’s attacking political opponents, we have no cash bail effectively releasing criminals back on to the streets, we have men who think they are women and destroying the dreams of young athletic women, we have pornography in elementary schools, and we have school children who don’t know how to read.
It’s all coming to a head this November. I never have liked the expression that “this is most important election of our lifetime” but honestly, this is the most important election of our lifetime. We either put an end to the progressive and childish “fundamental transformation” of America, or we succumb to it … that is the choice this November. Choose wisely.
I was a 1966 high school grad so I was smack in the middle of the dramatic changes that occurred in that decade. I was old enough, and grounded enough, to see the whole hippie thing as just a lark, but friends and cousins just a couple of years younger took it all seriously. So I have the personal perspective of seeing those shifted values and ideas now being acted out two generations later, as the 60’s rebellion against any kind of authority produced parents unable or unwilling to have boundaries for their children, who then grew up in an atmosphere in which the words “judgmental” and “opinionate” were harsh pejoratives, in which self-indulgence was not just the norm but the rule, and in which to expect anyone to act with personal responsibility was simply not just unreasonable but unforgivable. That generation, unmoored from values and core belief systems that went deeper than “if it feels good do it” produced weak-minded, emotion-directed parents who passed that onto the Millennials, those of college age (approximately) in the 80s and 90s. Their offspring were hatched right before the turn of the century and into that unthinking hive mind of knee-jerk hostility to anything defined for it as an Other, and so it goes.
We are living with the result of the seeds planted in our youth by a cunning and calculated Left, back in the mid-60s. Society gave them the perfect petri dish combo of undemanding lives of ease and plenty and the conflict of Viet Nam to be a focus of rebellion and resentment. It’s all been downhill since then for the rational and patriotic American, but an ongoing success story for the Left.
I think your litany of the shortcomings of today’s Left shows a deep and instinctive need in humanity for order and meaning. The problem is that we are looking at three generations taught from the cradle to reject the traditional sources of order and meaning, so it scrambles to invent new ones, and comes up with nonsense like DEI and the belief they have the power to control human genetics and the climate of the planet.
I don’t know if this is a solvable problem. I don’t know if there is any possible catastrophe that might shift this mass of humanity off its self-destructive path—even 9/11 had some of them saying we deserved it and praising the courage of the murderers. The single thing I can think of is a very long-term approach of taking back the educational system and going back to teaching things like civics and the true history of our nation and the world and letting that gradually provide a counter influence to the mindless emoting of today’s Left. In the meantime all we can do is develop muscles and the will to flex them, to take over the government to at least keep it on the right track in spite of the undercurrent of dysfunction from the Left and its enablers.
And it all comes back to having a VOICE—-a clear voice stating what we believe and why, what works and what doesn’t, and questioning the foundation of the opposition’s opposition. No one ever asks a relatively rational Lefty like Tulsi Gabbard to explain why she feels that Leftist governance is the best way to run the country. My guess is that her answer would come down to a very sincere defense of the ISSUES she believes in, and not the top-down Central Authority model that supports them.
Someone once said
“Hard times create strong men,
strong men create good times,
good times create weak men,
and weak men create hard times.”
Yeah, db—welcome back!
Thanks. I have been around but after a few catastrophic computer incidents in a spectacular cascade fashion it took me this long to remember my super-secret WordPress password. Now I just need to learn how to properly format again.
I had the same problem with my own super-secret password for WordPress and it took a while to figure it out. I finally created a Word folder with an obscure title similar to in random obscurity (but not) “drill brushes”. My obscure title is something I can remember because it’s funny to and obscure to anyone else, and I update it as needed. It also does not contain a single keyword one might think of if one were to suddenly decide it was really really important to get into my super secret files.
Arrgghhh! I got a new pump for my pool. It is run off an app on my phone, which calls for a password. To turn the pump up or down! And then there are the passwords for my three automatic cat feeders and my membership at the Y, etc. It’s beyond ridiculous.
Hey, DB, long time no see. Hope all is well with you. I got an email from an ammo site the other day, and one of the featured items was .44 mag. I thought of you.
Well, I have to tell you that Henry came out with a carbine version of the BigBoy so I just had to go see and get one. It, unfortunately, happened on the same day as my pre-scheduled deep sea fishing trip. Whoops, overboard and I never got to even sight it in.
Are you serious! You took a rifle on a fishing trip? What were you fishing for–halibut? (Not a joke: I am told that once those big fish are brough to the surface they have to be shot to make it safe to bring them onboard.) That’s about the most heartbreaking story I have heard!
I have a gun story, better than losing a new Henry. I bought a brand new Remington to have an original Remington before the company changed hands. I never took it out of the box, and slipped the box under my bed in Wyoming. Then I bought a new Mossberg 20 gauge, ditto. Just wasn’t into shooting at the time. Then over a period of a few months I started to get the feeling that someone was going into my house in Wyoming when I was not there. My spare key (for emergencies) had somehow gotten “lost”. I had let a family stay in a house on the property and was realizing that the wife/mother was weird. I finally got a locksmith out (not easy in the back of beyond) and got the locks changed.
When I was packing to move to Florida for my first winter here I thought I would take a long gun and take advantage of the spare time I expected to have. I reached under the bed and pulled out the rifle. Odd—-it had been the first gun to go in, so should have been the last to come out. I should have pulled out the shotgun. Looking, I could see another gun way to the other side of the bed, so I pulled it out—-and it was a gun I had never seen before. It was an older carbine in pristine shape, the bluing a little worn but obviously well maintained, and it was in a half scabbard, like a saddle scabbard, which was elaborately tooled and dyed. In other words, nothing I would forget seeing or owning or putting under my bed.
The weird family was long gone by then, and I had zero proof of any intrusions into the house, so I filed a report with the sheriff and forgot about it. A friend with an FFL told me I got the better part of the deal as the carbine is worth more than the shotgun. But it was an odd experience. I think she had been messing around, slipped her rifle under the bed when she took the shotgun out to mess with it, and then I changed the locks and she couldn’t get back in to switch them back.
It’s a much better story than losing a new rifle you never even got to shoot.
Out here in the West ( and maybe other places) we have a rodent called a packrat. They are compulsive collectors. When a packrat is carrying a prized possession and encounters another, it decides whether or not to trade in the first toy. Sometimes they trade. There is a fascinating book about a woman whose husband was the engineer at a gold mine in the Rockies in the 1800s and her life in a log cabin so drafty she had to glue newspapers on the walls to keep the snow out. Anyway, she kept ‘losing” things—-one of two earrings would be missing but there would be a nut in its place. This went on till one spring when she dug into a wall and found a trove of shiny things the packrat had hoarded—but not stolen, because he traded for every one.
We all laughed about the size of my own packrat, trading a rifle for a shotgun.
Amazona, you wouldn’t believe the number of guns that are lost on fishing trips. Right, DB? I have a friend who lost a dozen on one trip.
You know what? It didn’t take me but two seconds to understand that.
One trip I “lost” my entire gun safe and all the contents. Real bummer in case one of the alphabet agencies ever ask.
Probably should have removed the wheels from the safe before taking it on deck. Oh well, just learn from your mistakes.
This is an interesting take on Biden’s speech. I can’t say I agree that it alleviated fears that he is suffering from cognitive decline, but the latter part of the comment seems on target. And the two—cognitive decline and panic at failure to maintain a dictatorship—-are not mutually exclusive
I’m inclined to agree more with the next sentence in this article, which, while being accurate, also seems to contradict the comment about alleviating fears of cognitive decline:
This is an interesting perspective on the benefit of gridlock in Washington. It’s worth it, I think, to post most of the article.
Totally OT but, word fanatic here—-the term “all of THE sudden”. I’ve only seen that a couple of times, lately, and thought it was a typo. Now I am wondering if there are places where this iteration is common, instead of the “all of A sudden” I am familiar with. I’m aware of a lot of what are probably regional differences in usage, and I always notice them.
There is the form I am familiar with—“I got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach”—changed to “I got a pit in my stomach”. (Which makes no sense to me.) From “I’m out of pocket for my insurance deductible every year” (meaning that money is taken out of my pocket, so to speak) it is in some places used as “I’m on vacation so I will be out of pocket for two weeks” (used to describe being unavailable). There is the common “on accident” instead of “by accident’.
Just noticing quirks like that and wondering about them.
There are a few that have always bothered me but the one that always comes to mind is “wrong place, wrong time” which makes no sense to me because “wrong place, right time” or “right place, wrong time” is what makes sense to me.
How about “I could care less”?
I have several friends and family members who dislike Trump, and I’ve frequently been asked, is there ANYTHING you dislike about Trump? To which my reply has always been, “yes – he spent too much.”
Funny, but I have been able to answer with several examples, none of which have the slightest effect on his ability to be a good president. They tend to focus on personality and style, and as someone who rejects Identity Politics I don’t really care about them. But when talking to someone who really dislikes him I have to acknowledge them even while explaining that they are irrelevant to his qualifications to lead the country.
Getting a little nervous about flying on United these days. In one week the airline had (1) an engine fire, with reports that the plane “went into a nosedive”—possibly a maneuver to try to put out the fire, but still terrifying: (2) a tire falling off the landing gear on takeoff: (3) veering off the runway in Houston, and (4) a hydraulic failure causing an emergency landing. That’s in one week, and only what was reported.
That’s after finding loose door plugs/bolts back in January.
It’s fine to joke about these all being the kinds of things expected when the hiring process shifts to DEI, but that doesn’t make flying on the airline any less nerve-wracking. It does give me a chance to revisit one of my rants about semi-literacy’s affect on us.
The example I have given, regarding ignorance of homonyms (reign/rein as a common example) is that of not knowing the difference between “discreet” and “discrete”. A scenario I offered was that of an instruction manual at a nuclear facility stating that two components must be discretely placed, and someone thinking this meant they shouldn’t attract attention so putting them next to each other but behind a potted plant. That kind of failure could be a big kaboom failure, but a smaller version could result in conflicting signals on railroad tracks, or wiring in airplanes being cross-wired, or any of a million other examples of the need for absolute understanding of what has to be done and how to do it, based to a great extent on understanding the language in the first place.
I have to wonder if the people put in charge of maintenance are literate enough to read and understand the written instructions they are given. And if they aren’t, why are they hired? Are they able or willing to override culturally negative interpretations of things like attention to detail and high job performance and focus on precision and competence? And—a biggie—are those in management able to effectively supervise and correct and even discipline workers if the workers fall into “protected’ status due to skin color, ethnicity and/or various gender or sexual orientation categories?
I’m seriously thinking of putting new tires on my ten-year-old Taurus and just heading north in a few weeks. The accepted theory that flying is safer than driving is starting to sound a little questionable.
I won’t fly anywhere – just don’t trust the system. And it is a big and growing problem.
It first came to my attention a few years back when the Germans launched a new destroyer and once they got it in the water they found that it had a permanent list. They were eventually able to correct this and adjust the design so later production didn’t have the problem but think about it: These are Germans! The over-engineers of the world! The triple check everything people. They went from drawing board to water and nobody spotted what should have been easy to spot: the ship you’re building won’t work.
It isn’t just that we’re not building a literate population – though that is a gigantic problem – but we’re also building a population which can’t think. Which can’t reason. Which can’t put two and two together. This is, I think, deliberate: the Ruling Class doesn’t want people to think. People who think also ask questions. Remember that a century ago to be highly educated meant not only did you know your specialty but you also knew at least a couple foreign languages, had an understanding of Latin and Greek, had been instructed in theology, philosophy and law. Even the rich guys who got a “gentleman’s C” at least knew the basics; they could converse with educated people. These days we might well produce some really good math guys…but if they don’t know how to think then no matter how good their calculations are, they will miss things.
How does one miss inserting the bolts? The holes are there. The bolts are there. Just a bit of thought tells you that this is something that needs to be done and if it isn’t done catastrophe can result. But if you don’t think; if you’re just a trained monkey and nobody directly tells you to do it…
This reminds me of one of those funny T-shirts that said “Curious Enough To Take It Apart, Skilled Enough To Put It Back Together and Clever Enough to Hide the Extra Parts When I’m Done”.
ROFL
My late husband was quirky, and although at the age of 50 his IQ tested at 148 I would not have wanted him to be assembling my airplane. We once bought a rather expensive rolling bar cart to use as a portable TV stand and it had to put together. He got it assembled, and it was lovely. Till I moved it to clean behind it and realized that when he discovered he was missing one final bolt he just epoxied the enclosed Allen wrench into the hole and called it good.
The man loved him his expoxy. I once told him that while the rest of the world was worried about acid rain he needed to be afraid of acetone rain, because if we got that half of his stuff would fall apart.
Mark, I haven’t been able to get over the mental image of that listing German. destroyer. How did they correct it? Just move half the beer to the other side?
ROFL – probably.
Still laughing!!
Me not being much of a pacificist, I’d like to prepare for these kinds of things by projecting on a screen above the heads of the speakers things like AGW IS ONLY BELIEVED BY MORONS. I would happily goad them into even more rage and then project something like YOU REALLY LOOK FUNNY WHEN YOU’RE SCREAMING followed by video of chimps having temper tantrums, children having temper tantrums and then video of the protesters themselves having their temper tantrum. Get the audience laughing and pointing at what is on the screen. That would take a lot of the fun out of being the center of attention.
While I am perfectly fine with tossing them out on their donkeys, I would also love just ridiculing them into even more hysteria first. And you know it would be the projected messages that would get the media attention, not the howling mob.
Come on, we could have fun with this! Have a prepared response with photos and text. How about HOW STUPID DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO GLUE YOURSELF TO THE ROAD? followed by AS STUPID AS A SO-CALLED CLIMATE ACTIVIST!
So stupid you would have had to learn it in college, heh.
I loved that line, too
As you know, I’m reading the Lucas Davenport series, and I see where you got the phrase, “dumber than a box of hair.” In the last one, a character came up with a new one: “dumber than a bowl of mice.” I love Sandford’s humor, sometimes dark and often off color, definitely not politically correct, but always makes me laugh, often out loud.
I think I got the “dumber than a box of hair” from cowboys, who also like “dumber than a box of hammers”. Sanford’s humor developed over the series, which is why I encouraged you to stick with it even though early on you didn’t really like Davenport. It shows up even more in the related Virgil Flowers books.
Bringing this back to politics, I have noticed that everything Davenport seems to support appears to be in line with political conservatism, yet when there is a mention of a political party the Republicans always get kind of a sneer. Sanford doesn’t get overtly political, but in books where his character’s livelihood depends on politics it has to come up, even if only in passing. I have thought, when this happens, that this is another example of Identity Politics—that if I could ask him/Lucas which political model he prefers he would describe the Constitutional model. He’s certainly not a Liberal when it comes to crime. Yet he and his characters don’t seem to like or respect Republicans.
To me, this is an inadvertent confirmation of my oft-repeated complaint that the Right does a horrible job of messaging, leaving it to the Left where it succeeds in planting vague impressions of Leftist superiority (or, at least Right-wing inferiority and defects) without details, and the public just absorbs that and reflects it without thought.
Sanford is certainly a very smart guy, yet when his books touch on anything political he comes across as non-analytical and somewhat politically gullible, without an actual ideology beyond a general nonspecific sense that one side is better than the other. To me, this is the most frustrating aspect of American politics as well as the most insidious and dangerous.
Ban Tik Tok. Very little good has ever come from any social media.
I liked the way Nancy handled this but she could have done better … when Stephanopolous questioned her “political choices”, Nancy should have questioned HIS political choices, because his political choice has resulted in the raping of migrant women and girls at the border every single FUCKING day. I hate this people with ever fiber of my being. Get in their face and let them know, we are their mortal enemy. They shouldn’t be afraid of Russia, they should be afraid of us.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2024/03/10/former-clinton-staffer-george-stephanopoulos-rape-shames-nancy
I disliked her response. For one thing there is or at least should be a difference between being embarrassed and being ashamed. You can find something humiliating and embarrassing but shame implies that you were complicit. Maybe as a 16-year-old you feel ashamed for being raped, but that was 30 years ago and now she should be ready to tear the balls off any man who tries to use that terrible experience to gain some kind of emotional or political traction.
She also got her message backwards. She says women hesitate to come forward when they are raped because people will often deny it, and in Carrol’s case people ARE denying it and saying it never happened, so Mace is defending Carrol.
I would have had more respect for her answer if she had gone after Stephanopoulos for trying to make her feel shame for something she had no control over, and that this was pretty bold for someone who made excuses for and defended Clinton when he was accused of rape. I didn’t like her owning the word “shame” instead of pointing out it was an effort to use the word against her. She doesn’t sound like she has dealt with her rape very well at all.
And you’re right—It would have been good for her to challenge him regarding the Democrat policies that pretty much guarantee the raping of thousands of girls and women, not to mention putting them in the position of being sold into sex slavery where they will continue to be raped.
Please read this. It’s excellent coverage of what I have been hollering for years now, but from a lawyer’s perspective. Democrats are rigidly organized and disciplined and PROactive and play the long game: Republicans REact, and bumble around bumping into each other asking “what happened?” and “what should we do?” and no “plan” lasts more than an election cycle, if that.
As author Schlichter says:
That’s an excellent read but I will point out, the new GOP leadership is just getting started and I like their mindset from what I’ve read. They plan to get organized and aggressive.
They plan to get organized and aggressive. I’ll believe it when I see it. So far I have seen NOTHING indicating a focused and organized legal challenge to the actions that allowed the election to be stolen. I haven’t seen a move to disallow false certification. I haven’t seen a move to limit the scope of authority of secretaries of state. I haven’t seen any effort to address the illegal changes to election laws right before the last election. I haven’t seen any threats, veiled or overt , to take legal action against individuals involved in voter fraud. I haven’t seen any push to tighten rules about drop boxes. I haven’t seen a move to increase Republican involvement in vote counting. I haven’t seen an effort to provide more surveillance and oversight about envelope acceptance.
I’d like to know what you have read and some more information about this “new GOP leadership”.
This was day 1, so I have hope …
Lara Trump, recently elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee, said the GOP must use “legal ballot harvesting” to stay competitive against Democrats ahead of November.
“We’ve been playing checkers, and the Democrats have been playing chess,” Trump, daughter-in-law to former President Trump, said in a recent interview with the Washington Examiner. “Unfortunately, we don’t have one day of voting, we don’t have paper ballots, we don’t have voter ID everywhere. So we have to play the hand that we’re dealt.”
She emphasized the importance of early voting and mail-in voting where possible.
“That way, we have votes banked as we head into Election Day, and we’re not playing catchup on Nov. 5 with the Democrats,” she said.
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“We need to be doing legal ballot harvesting – something that has never been done by the RNC, but I can promise you will be a huge part of what we’re planning to do,” Lara Trump told the Examiner. “And then come Election Day, and you’ll see that, I think, it’s not just about having poll watchers. It’s about having trained poll watchers and lawyers at locations around the country as necessary. And these are people who will be trained and able to physically count how many ballots are coming in. And how many ballots are going out.”
During my “lost time” I have very opinionated views which in a lot of ways I am glad that were not posted. I, like many others, am a stickler for language and meaning; however any post I might have made would have pushed that boundary. If I was appointed “King” for single day I would violate every belief I have in the Constitution to correct this ship we call America..
I could and would start with there is no such people as Palestinians through the complete destruction of history (Marx would be proud) lately but my history does not begin in 2020.
I would be willing to present to Mark a complete thread to take the slings an arrows as long as he can correct my email address before I change it again.
The world as we know it has gone insane but I still believe we can save it.
I’m not sure a lot of it is wroth saving. I think you’ll see a migration over the next few years of people who can afford to leave oppressive states run almost exclusively by Democrats and move o states that are still free or mostly free. If the majority of people who do so are Liberals and simply take their liberal values with them and turn red states blue, then eventually we’ll be shooting each other in the street, because there is a certain portion of the population that simply won’t put up with Leftist nonsense.
States can make their own rules about voting, so maybe red states could make a law that no one can vote in a state or local election who has not lived in the state for at least ten years. That might be enough time to flush out the Leftist mind poison the refugees will be bringing with them.
I were queen for a day (real queen, not symbolic monarch like in the UK) I could turn the country around without even denting the Constitution. I would still be left with a bunch of Leftist teachers and a Congress too spineless to pass laws against political indoctrination in schools, but I could clean out a lot of dead wood in one marathon signing of Executive Orders and military realignments.
Of course, long before my day began I would have put together a muscular army of strong, determined and above all trustworthy advisors and assistants. I would have assigned different areas of research so I would be armed with extensive knowledge about the actual legal charters of each federal agency, for example, so I could with the stroke of a pen reduce every bloated agency down to its original intended purpose and rescind every single rule or regulation or other act taken outside those boundaries. I would know which agency heads I could fire and which I would be stuck with, and the latter would be told to pack their bags for imminent moves to Fargo or Nashville or Anchorage, resulting in a lot of self-imposed weeding out of deadwood.
My new Attorney General, even though not yet confirmed, would show up on his or her Day One armed with indictments for every intelligence official who has violated the law regarding exposure or discussion of any sensitive or restricted information, starting with Hillary and Vindman if the statutes of limitation allow. There would also be indictments of every single federal official who committed perjury, conspired to undermine presidential authority, etc. These indictments could be ratified upon formal confirmation of the AG but in the meantime create a lot of unhappiness. My new DOJ would be full of committed, focused and above all strong defenders of the law, all eager to take on a corrupt Establishment. That would include judges, so every Leftist judge who tries to use his or her position to harm the Right or advance a Leftist agenda would be at the very least aggressively challenged and forced to defend rulings.
My new DOJ would also indict and prosecute every government official who has encouraged illegal immigration, harbored illegal aliens, tried to find jobs for them, provided them with government funds and in general been complicit in conspiracies to break federal immigration laws. These indictments could be delivered on the same day, all over the country.
My Border Patrol would be instructed to refuse entry to every single person arriving at the border without legal documentation. Every one of them.
My newly appointed Secretary of State, though not yet confirmed, would announce a foreign policy that does not acknowledge the legitimacy of nations never formally established or in history, and a national policy of confronting terrorism wherever it exists.
Within a week, bills to eliminate the departments of education and energy would be sent to Congress, along with a bill making the oath of office binding so that any violation would result in loss of the position and its benefits. That would do a lot to bring judges into line, as well as governors and mayors.