The Long Knives Are Out

Held hostage!

TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), has reached epidemic proportions as the contagion spreads throughout the Swamp.  The never-ending drumbeat of "Impeach Now" has escalated to fever pitch as the media's echo chamber spews its hate throughout the land.  Breathless talking heads on the telly are throwing out the I-word with utter abandon.  And it's being reported that even some Republicans are seeing the light, now at last realizing that the election of Donald J. Trump to the office of President was a mistake.  Flynn, Russia, Comey, oh my!  So many scandals!  Such a bad choice!  The voters didn't know what they were doing, we're told, and we of the Impeccable Order must make things right.

Rubbish.  Pure and simple fabricated issues.  All of them.

What we have here is failure to communicate, as the Captain in Cool Hand Luke so adroitly observed. The voters of the United States have made it extremely clear that they want a change of direction in Washington, away from the tyrannical fascism laid down by the Kenyan in his eight-year reign of terror. They want a return to self governance as the founding fathers had intended. So they elected a man who was a political outsider, one who had no ties to either established party apparatus, and who was not so much an ideologue as a man who recognized what was bringing the country down as a whole.  Illegal invasion, Muslim extremism, trade imbalances, sluggish economy, joblessness, unresponsive and intrusive government and high taxes were the top concerns Americans had.  And they voted for the guy who shared their views.  The Deep State, however, failed to communicate.  They can transmit, but cannot receive.

Therein lies the problem.  The views of the electorate are inconsistent with the views of the established Impeccable Order.  Democrats and Republicans both.  The Deep State.  The Washington Swamp.  And we simply cannot have the voters running the show.  They'll just mess it up.  

The Democrats know how to properly handle members who may stray from the reservation.  They just kill them.   The Clinton Crime Family has this down to a fine art, and continue to apply this method even today.  To wit:  DNC staffer Seth Rich.  Or Justice Antonin Scalia.  Or any of the other several dozen  Clinton contacts KIA.   Even if this count is wrong by half . . .  that still leaves a pretty big stack of dead bodies.  It strains credulity to shrug this off to mere happenstance.  They were assassinated, without question.

But the Deep State itself, the Impeccable Order, can't just go out and kill the president, although that has been seriously contemplated and espoused.  But as the DNC and the MSM are inextricably intertwined, they can - and have - started the slow motion assassination of the President, simply because he wants to return the government to the people, as it was intended.  

What part of "victory" do you not understand?

And that's why the Swamp - the Impeccable Order of both political parties - has banded together to stop the Trump agenda.  Ironically, it's the Deep State that is threatened and is rebelling against this silly People's Uprising, lead by the Populist Trump.  To the Deep State, however, they think it's their government, it's their gravy train, and ain't nobody gonna come in here and mess it up.  Certainly not the populace.  And they will hold this administration hostage while they play out the game of pseudo-investigations of non-existent crimes.  A smile is as good as a wink to a blind horse.  We're being played.

And that's why the long knives have come out.  It's not subtle politics any more, it's all out war.

Low Water In The Swamp

Can you hear that?  It sounds like gurgling water.  Could it be the water level in the DC swap is being lowered?  I think so, too.  Consider the impact in the last few days of a couple of serious blows against the Deep State establishment machine, and the Kenyan's cadre of appointed traitors.  And as the left becomes apoplectic and is sent screaming and thrashing wildly about, Mr. Trump, true to his word, is continuing to drain the DC morass of the unelected, tyrannical bureaucrats who have so effectively interfered with the proper governmental processes of a democratic republic.  How so, you may ask?  Simple.  In two cases these high ranking career politicians assumed powers and authority that constitutionally they did not have.  They were exposed as such, and were rightly fired.  

Sally Yates, former Attorney General (Acting)

Last week the pitifully partisan Sally Yates was exposed as being up to her lovely neck in judicial malfeasance.  You may recall that as acting Attorney General, taking over for the Kenyan appointee Eric Holder, Ms. Yates refused to implement President Trump's lawful Executive Order.  This was the so-called Travel Ban, one which would restrict Muslim terrorists from entering the country.  Most would think that's probably a good move.  But Sally didn't think so, apparently.  This law, codified under  8 U.S.C. § 1182(f), gives broad authority to the president in immigration matters.  Most presidents have issued restrictions on who can enter the country, and the law's constitutionality is unquestioned.  Yates' job was to enforce that EO.  She did not, instead she acted as a social justice warrior, claiming that the president's EO was neither "wise nor just," and not in keeping with her personal political ideology.  Whether it was wise or just in her eyes is immaterial, it's a lawful order that must be defended and executed.  She didn't and now she's out of a job.  

James B. Comey, former FBI Director

On Tuesday of this week, another surprising and delightful firing occurred.  James B. Comey, FBI Director, was also summarily terminated for many of the same reasons, that is, for assuming authority and power he does not have as FBI director.  Ironically, despite how the left screams about fascism taking over in the White House, most wanted Comey gone anyway.  They were livid that he reopened the investigations into Mz. Clinton's email scandal, just weeks before the election.  Some claim that's the reason she lost.  Most know she lost the election because she's a horrible, self serving career politician who can be bribed.  The right, on the other hand, was enraged that Comey did not bring charges against Mz. Clinton, despite the fact that she had committed serious crimes by mishandling sensitive classified information and had been exposed in email leaks.  But the proverbial straws happened when, first, Comey took upon himself authority he didn’t have, acting as a de facto prosecutor rather than as a mere investigator.  And secondly, he told the public that he undertook a thorough investigation, which he had not done, absent even empaneling a grand jury to hear charges against Mz. Clinton.  He essentially sullied the reputation of the FBI in doing so, and down the road he goes.

Federal courts hierarchy

Another gurgling sound was heard Monday as President Trump announced ten judicial nominees to the federal courts, who are not only conservatives, but strict constitutionalists as well.  This comes on the heels of his home run in appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.  Appointing constitutionalist judges to the federal bench is vitally important because in recent years the judiciary has been seeded with judges who rule on social justice, rather than on the law of the land.   That's how we get laws enacted that bypass congress.  At this moment, there are over one hundred judicial vacancies, and these ten nominees will fill some of those seats, five for the federal appeals courts, four for the federal district courts, and one for Court of Federal Claims.  These are lifetime appointments, and though approval by the Senate is required, all are expected to be properly appointed.  That will effectively return the judiciary into interpreting the law, rather than making law from the bench, as the constitution intended.  In the next four years, Trump can expect to appoint nearly 300 judges, just a few shy than the Kenyan appointed during his reign.

 

The whole point of this exercise is to de-weaponize the Justice Department and ultimately the judiciary, by removing the political hacks who, as Kenyan appointees, are in power at the FBI and the Attorney General's office, as well as federal judges elsewhere. Who will replace these disgraced players is yet to be seen, but the mood of the nation is that the electorate has had quite enough of unelected bureaucrats of all stripes and in all positions of authority.  

Trump:  Draining the swamp one day at a time.

For Democrats It Could Be Worse, And It Is

Even considering the skepticism and doubt Republican voters are experiencing regarding the apparent status quo in Washington's swamp, it could be worse.  Stunned by news that the same old same old is seemingly undefeatable, voters are left scratching their heads.  They're wondering why even vote if the democrats are going to continue to run the show, even - and especially - when they lose.  But it could be worse.  As recently pointed out in these pages, President Trump clearly needs a little more time to implement his vast voter approved plan despite the stonewalling by Democrats and RINOs.  If you're a Republican or a Libertarian, there's hope.  If you're a democrat, it could be a whole lot worse.  And it is.

Getting used to wearing orange

Consider what the Democrat Party has become.  The face of the party, Hillary Clinton, has pulled the party down to a deeper and darker place. Even after five months, the enlightened Mz. Clinton still cannot fathom how she lost a perfectly good rigged election.  While professing to take responsibility for her loss, she doesn't.  She still blames the Russians for hacking John Podesta's emails and releasing them to Wikileaks to be made public.  That excuse is fallacious.  Russia's hopes for the US election outcome would have obviously been the devil they know as opposed to the devil they don't.   Russia would rather deal with a US president who was merely corrupt, rather than a maverick with his finger on the nuclear trigger.   And not to be satisfied with just blaming Russian hackers, she also blames FBI Director James Comey for reopening the investigation into her email scandal just weeks before election day.  That dog won't hunt, either.  Comey has stated that not saying something - even at that late date - would have been an “act of concealment,” and that he was faced with two choices: speak or conceal. Concealment would have been “catastrophic.”  So our gal Hillary gets caught in dealing in classified information, and she blames the discoverer of that fact, along with the investigator of that fact.  But she never blames herself for engaging in that act. Nope, it was the Russians, Comey and the fact that she's a woman in a misogynist America that gave Trump the White House.

No pro-lifers need apply

So as the Democrat Party goes down in flames with the crooked and exposed Hillary, who stands to lead the progressives?  The best and brightest, of course.  Take Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez for example.  (The last time I saw a mouth full of teeth like his was on a moray eel under a reef in the Cayman Islands.)  Speaking at the communist-inspired May Day celebration, Perez told the crowd that the Democrat party recognized and welcomed illegal aliens, further asserting that the Democratic party and the immigrant community share the same values, centered around diversity.  Immigrant community?  Yep, that'll sure win the hearts and minds of the ignored white middle class in America. Not to mention elections.  But hey, the Dems can count on that illegal vote to make up for alienating all those real and legal Americans.  Or so goes the thinking at the highest levels of the DNC.  At least they had the foresight to not nominate Keith Ellison, a radical Muslim from Minnesota, to the post.  They do have standards, after all.

As the disgraced party leaders Clintons, Weiners, Braziles and Wasserman-Schultz all exit stage left, stepping carefully over the dead bodies that always seem to surround democrats, the party rolls out its new crop of leaders, sliding ever further to the radical left.  As they vainly try to be all inclusive with Black, Hispanic and Muslim leadership, they are deliberately alienating the white American middle class in the process.  

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does.

Sorry. Not Sorry

What is the fascination with human homogeneity that drives the social justice warrior mentality?  What must the enlightened ones think who insist that we all must be the same in word, thought and deed?  One struggles to find a logical rationale for such a belief.  It seems that it is a religion in of itself; that is, a belief system with little or no basis in fact.  Let's explore the phenomenon.

It would seem to anyone who has a nodding acquaintance with anthropology, historically speaking, of course, will understand that mankind, in general, is essentially tribal.  Whether by "tribal" we mean race, ethnicity or community, it is a natural fact that we humans best enjoy association with folks who look, think and behave as ourselves.  That is not to deny that we, as tribal humans, dislike or are "phobic" around those who are not like us, it's just that similarities attract.  Take Arabs and Jews, for example.  That conflict is three millennia old and continues today.  So why then, must we all conform to whatever the shrill and vocal left determines is politically correct?  Forcibly categorizing people into an unnatural homogenized group is nonsense.  We are not only different according to our individual race, ethnicity or community, but individually unique, as well.  Separate, but alike.  And that's not contradictory.  But to the left, diversity means homogeneity.  And homogeneity isn't something for which to strive.

Let's take for example this recent example of erasing any and all history that is considered politically incorrect.  Well, not so recent as erasing - and/or revising - history been going on for centuries.  But recently the City of New Orleans has decided it's politically expedient to remove all statues relating to Confederate heroes.  Why?  Simply because some Northern limousine liberals and a handful of black activists were offended.  By what?  By history.  The Confederate States of America was a sovereign nation, and New Orleans was a part of that nation.  Louisianans, both black and white, volunteered and fought for that cause.    Why should that offend anybody?  One could argue that the "offense" has been manufactured so that there will always be a racial divide in America.  Horrors!  The 1860 War of Northern Aggression was fought over many things, slavery being only one of many issues in contention at the time. And if one were to concentrate on slavery as a sole issue, which has been successfully accomplished by fourteen decades of revisionist history, one would readily stipulate that the American experiment of self government was one of the most free systems that has ever existed.  Consider the historical entirety of slavery, and the USA and CSA  aren't even among the honorable mentions.  Consider Rome.  As a nation-state, it enslaved the entire known world of white, brown and black skinned peoples.  As did the Greeks and Macedonians before them.  Japan has a sordid history of enslaving what is now Korea.  Africans kill and enslave their own people even to this very day.  The Muslim world is no better.  Slavery in the Ottoman Empire was a legal and significant part of the its economy and society.  Selling slaves was good business.  And one of the worst examples of cultural annihilation can be found in Spain's ruthless conquering of and enslaving the indigenous brown skinned peoples of South and Central America.  By comparison, America's hands - both north and south - are blood free.

So why the brown-shirt rush to erase American history?  The removal of the statues of Lee, Davis and Beauregard took place in the dark of night, with workmen literally wearing helmets, Kevlar vests, and face masks.  Does that sound like it was well supported by the city's residents?  Or does that smack of Stalinesque style tactics?  But those of us who may recall George Santayana's observation that  those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it know why.  Erase the past, and control the future, as paraphrased from George Orwell's famous observation.

It's to instill a divide between those who do not seek human homogenization and those who do.  We are all one.  Rubbish.  We're as different as cows are to horses.  Blacks have their own culture and that's fine.  Hispanics theirs as well.  Asians bring their culture, too.  And all of this is celebrated as it should be.  So why can't white, Southern WASPs have their culture and history?  There's only one reason and that's the left's hatred of centuries of Caucasian cultural accomplishment.  

I, as do millions of others, identify as a Southerner.  And April is Confederate History Month.  Some of my forbears fought for Alabama in that terrible war.   Others wore blue and fell at Gettysburg.  And one landed on these shores from the Mayflower.  This is all true.  That line - my line - which goes back far beyond that landing in 1620, all the way to the Scottish Highlands, is White, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.  WASP.  Why can't I have my heritage?  My genealogical history?  My family anthropology?  Why do a handful of liberals along with some misinformed, angry blacks get to overwrite my heritage?  Because of slavery?  Nonsense.  If that's the case, these folks need to get a history book, and get over themselves.  And I have nothing even remotely close to white guilt.

So sorry.  I'm not sorry.

One Hundred Days

What can I say?  I would have liked to have seen, like millions of other voters, more progress coming from President Trump.  And, like those other supporters, I wanted to see a brutal and final death to that obamination known as Obamacare.  That didn't happen.  Yet.  I wanted to hear the sweet sounds of heavy diesel machinery digging the foundations of the border wall, but, alas, that hasn't happened.  Yet.  And I would like to have seen the resignations of all the Kenyan's appointed vermin, and see them sent slinking out of the DC swamp and into the harsh, cleansing light of day.  But that hasn't happened,  Yet.

But I, like millions of other voters, realize that it would require divine intervention for one man to accomplish all these Herculean tasks in the first hundred days of his presidency, especially give the level and intensity of his opposition.  From all sides, I might add.  And realizing this this, I'm more than willing to cut the man some slack.  Fighting the New York Times and Chuck Schumer and Paul Ryan, et al, all at the same time, can't be easy.  So I, and millions of other supporters, will watch.  And wait.  And take copious notes.

Realistically, however, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in of itself was worth the election.  Chances are good to excellent that there will be one, and most probably two, vacancies on the Court within the next four years.  And if those nominees are as constitutionally oriented as is Justice Gorsuch, I am encouraged to believe the nation can be saved.  Hallelujah and praise be!

But most concerning of all is Trump's adherence to a big tent philosophy in his administration.  By that I mean that, while recognizing Trump is not an ideologue, he does recognize that he is where he  is - that is, that he won the election - because he promised to rid us of the entrenched political elites and their continuing mismanagement of the government.  By keeping these philosophically misaligned operatives on board, he risks having his agenda sabotaged, neutered and rendered moot.  The people won, so why should we include the losers in our policy making?  We shouldn't, of course, and these DC swampers must go.  Immediately.  In that vein, and not to put too fine a point on it, but Ivanka and Jared have exactly NO role in making administration policy.  While they're pretty and successful, and all that, it remains true that they are young, politically inexperienced and deeply rooted in their New York, liberal upbringing.  Which is exactly what the American voters voted against.  I understand nepotism to a degree, but this ain't a monarchy.  

Concerns about these issues are heard when one puts one's ear to the ground.  Others are commenting in similar ways, as well. He's got an uphill fight, and we are behind him.  Understanding Trump, it may be part of an overarching plan to quell the left simply by having them sit at the table.  That's a big and bold - and possibly dangerous - plan, but if anyone can pull it off, it's Trump.  He's told us time and again, deal making is an art form.

Let's hope that is the situation.  And that it works.