During the first Trump administration I did not come close to being “tired of all the winning.” Much of the time was spent learning how to govern, like a baby giraffe standing up for the first time. Paul Ryan was, well, Paul Ryan, the Senate was split and many political appointees were simply not good, either for the job or people. But that was then, this is now. With a few exceptions, Trump’s personnel choices have been stellar, with the lesser character ones avoiding the requirement of Senate confirmation or rumors that quickly fade away as more facts come to light.
The second Trump administration is demonstrating a level of competence that not only has surprised Democrats, it has eluded them too. Joe Biden didn’t get off to this good of a start, as his first weeks were spent placating his party’s radicals by undoing anything Donald Trump did – killing 10,000 blue collar and union jobs with the Keystone Pipeline, opening the border, etc. Trump reset everything inside of a week, then went further by stopping scam payments and grants to “charities” serving as fronts to left-wing activists. It’s been beautiful.
When Trump shut down USAID to go through their books, the entire left collapsed. It was like an old Mike Tyson fight where he laid someone out with the first punch. Democrats could not react, their funding was stopped and their scams were exposed. It wasn’t that suspicions had been confirmed, they were in the position of the cheating husband or wife caught in the act with someone else.
They were too stunned to protest, and too broke – USAID laundered hundreds of millions, if not billions, into global leftist activism and violence. Suddenly it was like driving a car that had all the oil drained, everything seized.
The White House then began opening up the very insulated White House Press Corps to people who are not a part of the club. While they’d lost the ability to keep a lid on inconvenient information long ago, thanks largely to Rush Limbaugh and everything he inspired, they still controlled the inner-sanctum of the White House Briefing Room and the press pool that follows a President everywhere.
Not anymore.
Jim Vandehei of Axios declared, “President Trump is setting a new precedent for tight, punitive government control over a free press -> Imagine a Democratic president renaming it the Gulf of Obama — and targeting Fox News for refusing to call it that.” There’s a big difference between vainly naming something after a Democrat and “America,” which is somehow lost on Jim. But the bigger tell is he thinks the press can dictate access to the President, not the other way around.
These critics were silent for years as Obama and Biden read a list of pre-screened names of reporters, with Biden going so far as to have a picture of the reporter (presumably so he wasn’t startled by them somehow), their question and an answer written on cards. No outrage there with that level of coordination, but the White House wants to bring in more voices and all hell breaks loose.
Washington Post owner and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos then declared a change to the opinion pages of the paper he owns, writing, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job. I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.”
His editor quit, which tells you all you need to know about what the disposition of the editorial page was before yesterday.
Liberals, like a child denied a toy they want on a trip to Target, started cancelling their subscription in droves. “Feminist” commentator Keith Olbermann, demonstrating the disposition and stability that made him a joy to work with for people everywhere he used to be employed, responded, “F*ck you, Nazi And tell your plastic girlfriend she's actually shamed herself, which none of us whoever met her thought was possible.”
Keith recently attacked an ex-girlfriend of his as an “unnecessary white anchor,” in case you ever wondered how much respect he has for the women in his life.
These people, to a person, are mentally broken. They could be your neighbor, your friend, your doctor, your trusted source of news (though I wouldn’t know how that would happen at this point), but they are damaged. They’re melting down because they are not getting their way.
Can you think of one example of anything close to this happening when Biden was elected? When Obama was? I’m not talking about people being unhappy with the results, or even people denying them, I’m talking screaming lunatics refusing to accept the reality of the situation. There are elected politicians and media personalities who will only refer to Trump by “47.” That’s unstable; that’s a temper tantrum.
Let them melt, let them freak. Enjoy it while you can. But be on guard – the lunatic arguing with the garbage can be amusing to watch from afar, but the odds are high they will turn violent toward anyone they see as taking the garbage can’s side at some point. Unstable people rarely pull up from that nosedive, they more frequently hit the side of the mountain and take as many people as they can with them.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.