I don't pretend to understand Trump's battle plan, but it may be that this guy does:
The Trump Team fooled everybody, including me. As last week’s various lawsuits sprouted restraining orders like early buds emerging all over the willow trees in springtime, most commenters expected Trump to take a necessary pause for defensive retrenchment. Surely, we all thought, it would take Trump’s anti-bureaucrats some time to clear the judicial logjam. But all of us were wrong.
A brief pause to clear past the TROs wasn’t Trump’s strategy at all. No pauses! Instead, yesterday Trump tripled down, jamming the battle tank’s accelerator into overdrive and smashing ahead in a whole different direction. His new battlefield banner unfurled yesterday afternoon in the form of one executive order plus three separate press conferences, which together sent a just-relaxing Deep State enemy racing for the bunkers with its trousers still half off.
And don't fool yourselves, muchachos: this is a fight to the death:
Some people will regard my title as hyperbole.It is not.Trump, I believe, understands he is in a fight to the death.The American establishment tried to discredit and ruin him, to imprison him, to assassinate him.They stole his 2020 reelection from him. They tried to steal his NY properties. It is not possible for Trump to have illusions about what he is up against. He is up against evil.
Trump knows that the fight is not just about him. It is about America. For decades a corrupt American establishment has been running the government for their benefit at the expense of the American people. Trump says he intends to take government out of the corrupt establishment’s hands and put it back in the hands of the people.That is the last place the establishment wants it.For them the struggle Trump began in 2015 is existential. If Trump loses, America loses, and the establishment wins. Civil liberties will disappear, especially for “racist” white people and for people who think there are only two genders. Censorship and false narratives will prevail, and we will live in a belief system constructed for us by the establishment and the whore media for whom government is a profit center.
I don’t know how many of Trump’s appointees understand that they are in a fight to the death. How strong are they?If Trump doesn’t win, their careers are over. The establishment will see to that. If the Establishment proves to be stronger, will Trump’s appointees change sides and abandon the fight?
I don’t know how many MAGA Americans understand the stakes. How many of them think that the fight ended with the election victory and now President Trump will put everything right? If this delusion prevails, the emergency extra-legal steps Trump must take if he is to prevail will lack support among his followers.The whore media will paint a picture of Trump as a tyrant.
Addendum (2/14)
Report Card on Trump's First '100' Days. He promised to hit the ground running, and he did. His accomplishments so far have been astonishing. If his propensity for hubris doesn't do him in, he's headed for Mount Rushmore. His interregnum did him a world of good. His getting nixed* in 2020 redounded to his benefit. His cabinet choices were outstanding and all have been or will be confirmed. A truly diverse and inclusive bunch in the proper senses of these terms, and no 'equity' in sight. 'Equity' is unjust and can get you killed. Individual MERIT rules as it must and by right: fight, Fight, FIGHT! that it be restored. The obstructionist crapweasel Dementocrats haven't learned their lesson yet, but they will in the end. They had better, or they are done for. They way they are going, 2025 may be their last year.
As I have recently opined, however, we do need an opposition party to insure checks and balances all up and down the line. The Dems would do just fine if they could thoroughly reform themselves by purging the hard-Left scum and getting back to basic sanity and moral decency. But that's a big 'if.'
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*An allusion to the outcome of the Kennedy-Nixon contest of 1960.
The leftists where I live are even crazier now than in 2016-2020; there is not any less evil in this world. We are just in a better position to fight it. And the American people have done a great thing; we have, though by a thin margin, rejected the Left. Italy did not do that, and they got Benito Mussolini. Germany did not reject the Left, and they got Hitler. China got Mao. Cuba got Fidel. There are other examples. But we DID reject the Left. We must, now, stay the course. Much is at stake, and much of that is beyond our own borders.
Posted by: Joe Odegaard | Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Addendum: Here is a clear indication that it is a fight to the death . . . The left even declares it; in the link below, a "Democratic" politician calls for "actual weapons" to be used against Elon Musk. And in the same article, he calls for a "fight for democracy," never mind that Trump won the popular vote. It is only democracy when they win.
If you ask people which they would rather have: freedom, or democracy; a good person will say freedom, but tyrants will say democracy.
The politician in the link expects people to be stupid enough to follow him.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/deranged-dem-congressman-calls-actual-weapons-be-used/
Posted by: Joe Odegaard | Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Joe,
I saw this Dementocrat schmuck on TV last night.
Well, we knew our political enemies would not accept vox populi.
And then they wonder why we stand for 2A.
Posted by: BV | Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 01:37 PM
Out with the professional politicians, most of them lawyers and word-slingers, and in with the builders and engineers!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/president-trump-elon-musk-how-builder-engineer-have/
Posted by: BV | Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 01:20 PM
Do not think they are joking: https://www.foxnews.com/media/drag-show-dallas-church-features-drag-pastor-who-said-i-kill-trump-supporters
Posted by: Joe Odegaard | Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM