We thought we would never get tired of all the winning, but we had no idea. Tired? We have more energy than the freshly unleashed Permian Basin. In a mere ten days, our new president has comprehensively repudiated everything the left has tried to build over the last half-century. He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored – appropriately since the Democrats are almost as mad about us deporting their illegal alien serfs as they were about us freeing their slaves. He has destroyed the Potemkin village to save it. Donald Trump has not only gotten inside their OODA Loop – observe, orient, decide, and act – but he’s taking their loop and is running around with it like one of those old-timey kids rolling a hoop with a stick. This is amazing. This is glorious. Summon a surgeon – it’s been a little over a week and you’re supposed to call the doctor after just four hours.
He has completely routed the Democrats. Back when I was coloneling, when I went someplace new, the first thing I always wanted to know was who was in charge. That’s the guy who was making the decisions. That’s the guy I wanted to talk to. Now, let’s try a little thought experiment. Who’s in charge of the Democrats right now? Who’s the boss, the kingpin, the godfather, the Duke of New York, A-number one?
The hell if I know. And the hell if they know. Is it Barack Obama? No, according to sources, he’s focused on the female-identifying Jennifer Aniston, which is surprising for several reasons. Is it Joe Biden? No, he’s been dragged off-stage with a shepherd’s crook and is back at his Delaware compound picking fights with that squirrel who keeps giving him the stink eye. Kamala Harris? Supposedly, she’s busy getting mad at her slappy husband for blowing her election, and you at least have to give her credit for physical courage. How about Nancy Pelosi? Hey, I don’t like her, but she was a political genius once upon a time. Now, she’s super old, and she broke her hip. That dowager is down for the count. Chuck Schumer, when he’s not pretending to cheddar-up raw hamburgers, has been reduced to haplessly fulminating on X about Trump‘s nominees. And Hakeem Jeffries is as impotent as a Lincoln Project member in the presence of an adult woman.
They have no leader, which means they have no agenda. They have no coordinated response because they have nobody at the front of the symphony conducting. Trump is hitting them so fast and furious with so many things that so many people want that they don’t know what to react to, and by the time they decide on something – look, Elon Musk lifted his arm, so he must love Hitler! – Trump is already driving a stake through the heart of one of their other beloved commie initiatives.
The regime media is trying to help – hey, Trump made them hide the forbidden truth about the Tuskegee Airmen for some reason! – but this junk is just not resonating like it used to (as Larry O’Connor chronicles in his new book, “Shameless Liars: How Trump Defeated the Legacy Media and Made Them Irrelevant”). The few people still exposing themselves to that garbage don’t actually believe it. They have a real problem because Trump is doing what he promised to do. There are no surprises here. He said he was going to end DEI, and he is ending it. He said he was going to deport illegal aliens, and he is deporting them. He said he was not going to take guff from uppity Third World potentates, and Trump treated El Presidente of Columbia like Ned Beatty in “Deliverance.” I don’t know how to say “Squeal like a pig” in Spanish, but this Marxist upstart squealed about 30 minutes after Trump tweeted that he was about to flick Colombia’s economic off-switch.
Of course, the Democrats fell right into the trap. Because Trump is bad, they decided that they had to side with some foreign politician against America on the issue of whether that foreign country should take back its rapists and murderers. You don’t need a degree in political science to know that you probably don’t ever want to be the guy siding with foreigners on the issue of whether rapists and murderers should stay in America.
They’re trying to gin up outrage and no one cares. Trump is doing the things he said he would do, the things we elected him to do. It’s hard to get people upset at a politician for doing exactly what he promised to do. It’s kind of amusing that when the left spins itself up about the things he does, they end up publicizing how Trump is keeping his word. This helps Trump while it erodes the crumbling credibility of the Democrat Party to the extent it still had any credibility with people who don’t lick windows and eat paste. Thanks, regime media – you just got played.
The Trump shock and awe strategy is working better than we ever hoped it would, but it’s not exactly a genius ploy. It’s simply a matter of him using the power invested in the office to keep his promises and promote his agenda. The big change is that he is no longer constrained by the dead norms and guardrails that kept other Republicans, and even Trump 1.0, from doing what had to be done. See, there’s a consequence when you break the norms and breach the guardrails to take out someone and you don’t finish him off. They tried to frame Donald Trump and put him in jail for the rest of his life. And when that didn’t work, they set up the conditions for him to be murdered. Their allies tried to do it twice. So, Trump has a unique perspective on the proper application of these obsolete norms and guardrails because he’s personally experienced how they’ve been bulldozed out of the way by the left. It’s insane to imagine that he’s somehow going to respect them now.
We keep being told he is being too aggressive, too mean, and he’s a bully. OK, what else you got? Do they imagine Donald Trump is going to stop because his success is aesthetically displeasing to people who literally want to see him locked up forever or dead? No, that’s not going to happen. What’s going to happen? Trump is going to keep going. He’s going to keep driving on. Oh, there are plenty of spineless Republicans in the House and Senate who are getting nervous at the prospect of not failing – success is outside their comfort zone. But pain is an outstanding teacher, and they have learned something, as the narrow win by Pete Hegseth demonstrates. They have learned that Trump is serious, and so are we America First patriots. We’re going to win. We’re going to use our power ruthlessly to do what must be done. Those who fool around by getting in our way are going to find out good and hard.
No, we will never get tired of all the winning.
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