Foreword.

Rant after rant. Complaint after complaint. You’ve had your share of negative strokes. Especially now, when so many people, starved for tranquility, see signs of better days ahead. But you can’t blame Legacy Media and online mercenaries for continuing to dish out deception — for television programmers and advertisers still hellbent on brainwashing a nation — for online disinformation that invades your privacy. It’s what left-leaning media hacks and political ringleaders  consistently do — Trump or no Trump. It’s also what you do, foolishly, in response. You cooperate. You choose to ignore the online opportunities to “Unsubscribe.” You choose to access the Almighty Tube for hours on end. For months, really. No, for years. You willingly tune-in to the lies, hypocrisy and treachery. Why? Psychologists probing this behavior might brand you a “couch flagellant,” because you clearly choose to punish yourself, to magnify your anger by chasing the very things you hate. Definitely true, Matilda. The only excuse you can offer is something called “irresistible impulse,” an insanity plea argued in at least one celebrated murder trial. But now is no time dwell on the tyranny of the past four years, when murder frequently crossed your mind — when you chose to repeatedly condemn those in power for crimes against humanity.

The First Thirty Days

Now is the time to look ahead, to the next four years, to spread the gospels of confidence and optimism.  But, please, do so without mimicking the gloating delirium of Trump fans. Now’s the time to look calmly at the scorecard of the new administration. Undeniably, Donald Trump is the Usain Bolt of the Beltway, making him the fastest-moving patriot since Paul Revere’s horse Brown Beauty.  In the first 30 days, over 100 executive actions invaded the federal bureaucracy — the economy, health, foreign policy, energy, national security, education and immigration. Too many actions to name but a dozen that are too important not to call out:

Declare national emergency at Southern border.
End DEI at all Federal agencies.
Approve eliminating USAID.
Restructure or abolish DOE.
Abolish or restructure FEMA.
Terminate thousands of career bureaucrats.
Freeze spending.
Enact reciprocal tariffs.
Withdraw from WHO.
Withdraw from U.N. Human Rights Council
Pardon Jan 6 and pro-life activists.
Set immediate Ukraine peace talks.

Neither A Trump Advocate

Before anyone gives a fist pump, understand that speeding alongside the Trump train, six dozen lawsuits have been filed, looking for Progressive judges to derail or weaken his agenda. Anyone counting on a Trump sprint to the finish needs a reality check. Prepare for a cross-country marathon. And better keep your eyes on Congress and SCOTUS,  because neither body sanctions the Musk chainsaw. Neither one supports any weakening of Federal Government size and jurisdiction. And, frankly, to vastly understate it, neither one is a Trump advocate. But please don’t view this reality as gloom and doom. The President is not alone. And, politically, he now  is far more astute, more able to spot a Judas. Therefore, you should come along for a little fun to recommend what Donald Trump might realistically accomplish in four short years.

The Wish List

Immediately educate Americans about what you’re doing and what it means to America. Publish it. The Trump Manifesto.

Shut down mass migration from both borders and erase drugs and human trafficking.

Limit the size, scope and jurisdiction of the Federal Government by at least 30%, or the rest of this exercise doesn’t matter.

Take the national debt from 36 to 26 trillion.

Abolish half the Cabinet Departments and enjoy doing it.

Tell the DOJ to clean house and seek indictments for perjury and treason. If nothing else, execute Fauci for mass murder. And put Adam Schiff in J. Epstein’s old jail cell.

Sweep America’s Intelligence agencies to root out dark operations.

Rev the economy and raise all boats.

Slash foreign aid across the board.

Help give Putin and Zelensky a way out.

Tell Black Americans to get off the Federal plantation.

The Elusive Answer

So much for the wish list. There’s no crystal ball here. You’re on the outside looking in — no way to  predict a one-year result, much less four.  You might ask political pundits. They get paid big bucks to investigate, evaluate, correlate and eventually intimate what lies ahead. Based on their track records, however, you sooner would consult Vegas bookmakers. History doesn’t help either. What you’ve learned from the great minds of antiquity is that destructive behavior repeats itself century after century. Visibly, the 21c  has continued that dark tradition.  Why? Why must hostility win? Why has America abandoned the historic principles of governance that made Her the envy of the world? Why are America’s elected officials unable or unwilling to harness the genius of The Constitution? Why won’t they ignite its moral and ethical conscience to remedy their own behavior?  You thought If you explored these questions widely enough, analyzed deeply enough and followed ethical pathways, you were bound to produce the elusive answer. You were bound to discover a persuasive strategy that could heal the country and unify the people. So you embarked on the circuitous trail of serious scholarship, going back and forth and round and round;  and following hours, days and months, you ended up where you began. Nowhere. As in, searching for the meaning of life. Why then do you, without scholarly credentials, presume to give anyone counsel? Alan and Marilyn Bergman wrote some lyrics about it — which neatly sum up the merit and value of your critical thinking.

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmill of your mind.

You should be Muslim.  The answer to America’s future?

“It is written.”

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You promised yourself not to bite on all the hype in the early days of the Trump administration. You supported him for 10 years, basically because he was the real deal, not a phony who hid his true self. To some degree, Matilda, everyone’s a phony. Hiding behind a mask at times seems necessary. So, as a phony, you spare feelings. Avoid handing out criticism. Bow to greed. And, of course, chase acceptance and popularity when it serves your self interest. But not Donald who relishes a well-placed insult — who invites the judgment of celebs — who squanders wealth to single-handedly defeat the modern day Hydra immersed in the  D.C. swamp — who snubs popularity only to find it following him. And, now going on four weeks, he has begun to attempt the dismantling of the Deep State, Marxist infrastructure that for years has expunged the Oath of Office and smothered the U.S. Constitution. The poster child agency of that infrastructure is USAID, a huge front for a massive criminal organization that launders money across the globe. Just about anyone living could predict the reaction to the boot of USAID. just imagine 2000 2-year-olds simultaneously having a temper tantrum because Mommy won’t give them their favorite toy. The Left Freak-Out is not the worst of this story. Because you have to aim your fury at the one branch of the U.S. Government that created USAID. If you don’t know it, shame on you. You refer to the People’s House — the House of Representatives — which authorizes the spending of money. The House funded USAID.  For 64 nefarious years!

“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.”

The House is entirely to blame for high crimes, for the fiscal atrocity that has America drowning in debt and all the suffering that goes with it. The Senate is close behind. For decades, many lawmakers fought the good fight but even they are complicit. They held a seat. Today, the GOP holds the House, many so-called conservatives among them. They are complicit. Your Democrat House member Manning was complicit. Your Senator Tillis is complicit. Speaker Johnson is complicit. Meanwhile, many GOP members have the hypocrisy to attempt reeling in Donald for his aggression.

If his aggression aims at quickly and dramatically reducing the size of government and the national debt, he will redeem his first term when his debt soared like a SpaceX rocket. Biden came along and bailed Trump out by taking Donald’s 22 trillion to 36 trillion. Together, the two were competitive dictators, both claiming they had no choice dealing with an ineffectual Congress and weak Supreme Court. But face it squarely — all three branches of government  are in hefty violation of The Constitution. It’s not good; it’s criminal negligence; and sad to say can’t get better. With all its technological advances, 21st Century America has regressed culturally, ethically and morally. You suggest that those values will remain out of reach without God and without the transfer of power from Washington to State governments.

Trump is on point. But reducing the size of agencies is like administering political ibuprofen. Agencies must be dissolved. There are 438 of them spending your money. The executive departments (the Cabinet) are led by the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs. All should get the axe except Defense, Homeland Security, Interior, State, Treasury and Veteran Affairs. You will rate Trump by which disappear.

And when it comes to meddling in foreign governments, you will judge him on using his power to force the relocation of nearly two million Palestinians from Gaza to other Middle East locations. In 1947, the U.S.and Great Britain were responsible as WWII powers to establish Israel through a United Nations resolution. Palestinians were displaced by fiat. That action created a state of utter hate that lasts until this day. You don’t doubt that Gaza is no place to live but that should be a choice of Palestinians, not a foreign power. And does Trump plan a military takeover and occupation? And if so, what happens to Gaza? The likely answer is that it eventually becomes part of an expanded Israel. Bingo. Most Americans won’t care about sowing more seeds of hate — that’s what powerful countries always do. In your view, in this Trump’s stock drops on the world stage.

On this February day, nothing really changes in America, No matter what Trump does at home or abroad, four years from now someone else can undo. There is only one way to restore the crumbling Constitution and its revered ethical foundation — engage Article V. You have heard it here till you’re bored sick. Regardless, Trump can’t drain the swamp without constitutional help. But he apparently won’t endorse the Convention of States. And in that you must fault him  as much as you cherish him for his courage, sacrifice, persistence and love of country.

Donald made a lot of mistakes the first time. Massive debt. Faulty key appointments.. Lack of voting oversight. Naivety. This time he has moved swiftly and (hopefully) surrounded himself with loyal troops.  You think the news media should  moderate their Trump directed zeal and hyperbole. This race ain’t a sprint. And remember, Donald, the GOP doesn’t love you. You’re like Queen Victoria’s John Brown. She was the only one in the castle who liked him.

On the qui vive.

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Listen up, class. Although today’s lesson is not new, it bears repeating. Ask any parent or teacher who understands the value of repetition. Generally, this lesson concerns government. Specifically, it also concerns a member of government — one Gavin Newsom — who happens to be Governor of California, which allegedly has the 5th largest economy in the world. You need to know something about Newsom. In 1992, (he was 25), he opened a winery store in San Fransisco with the help of an investor friend — the son of tycoon J. Paul Getty. Ah, paydirt. But give him credit. His venture led to bars, restaurants, wineries and hotels. Subsequently, as a millionaire, he served as a city supervisor; but his big leap in politics came in 1995 as a volunteer for none other than Willy Brown in his run for Mayor. Who can forget Willie? Brown swiftly appointed Newsom to the Board of Supervisors and mentored his protege  who would eventually become Mayor himself. Willy was a busy, busy mentor overseeing Newsom, and interestingly enough, the 60 year-old was simultaneously “tutoring” 30 year-old Kamala Harris. Kaboom! You can skip over what Newsom did and didn’t do as Mayor of San Fransisco. It was a shit show on the city streets. Literally. To their everlasting credit, Californians tried and failed to recall Newsom as Governor for his tyrannical Covid policies — by the way, unlike the North Carolina sheep who walked lock step in obedience behind Biden lackey Roy Cooper. All of which finally brings you to Newsom and the spectacle now unfolding on the Left Coast. The Governor is accusing Donald Trump of playing politics with a natural wildfire disaster. He scolds him for not showing compassion for the suffering. Most of all,  he says Trump unfairly blames him for the tragedy. Listen up, class, this is a real life, real time, lesson. Avoiding blame, avoiding accountability, refusing to admit you failed in your job — is the sphere of cowards. The California calamity gave Newsom his chance to be a statesman, to point the finger at himself and take responsibility for his policies as boss. Forget that, Matllda. Rarely will you hear mea culpas in the halls of government. And that is today’s basic lesson. Governments are never at fault. Politicians never pay for their mistakes — not even for premeditated death and destruction. You can total all of the capital crimes in the private sector and they don’t approach the extent of government atrocity. You can line up the prison’s most vicious inmates and they are amateurs compared to criminals living the good life in the nation’s capitol. For example,  a woman is in prison for life without the possibility of parole, for conspiring to murder her husband. She didn’t shoot or stab him. She never touched him. She planned his killing and hired the killers. She was found guilty and is paying for that crime. Compare this woman to Joe Biden. With premeditation, Joe allowed murderers to cross the Southern border to rape and murder American citizens. He allowed fentanyl to cross the border and destroy thousands of lives. He allowed the sex trafficking of children. But his crime is not the worst violation. A greater sin is that no members of Congress stood in the people’s house to call him out by name and accuse him of conspiracy to commit murder. Every politician who supported the Biden border policy is complicit to murder. But Biden will not only walk free as a multi millionaire, but also will be applauded for service to his country. Up-chuck city. Trump sadly will shake his hand at the coming inauguration. In North Carolina, meanwhile, Roy Cooper is likely thinking of potential presidential politics. He will make public appearances and revel in the limelight, in the afterglow of his tenure as N.C.’s benevolent leader. And no one in Raleigh will accuse him of dictatorially shutting down N.C. during Covid. No one will censure him for not allowing life saving drugs to be distributed to people at risk. No one will accuse him of closing schools or destroying countless small businesses or mandating the Covid jab. And no one dares suggest that the massive suffering  was Cooper’s fault. But, class, that is the message of government. No one in government is at fault. Newsom is not at fault. Politicians are not at fault. The only people who are at fault are ordinary Americans who have jobs in private sector business. If you fail at your job, you are at fault; you pay the price and pick yourself up. The people who founded America created a system based on nothing less than your freedom to succeed or fail and be accountable for either outcome. Their most momentous ambition was to create a system that would never allow absolute power to reside in Washington — that would never allow the emergence of a dictator like Biden, or any political party, to commit genocide.  But it happened. Say it again. It happened. But in Newsom’s failure, there’s a lesson. You see, his incompetence only affects California. It is the people of California who reap the whirlwind when they choose defective politicians and/or policies. By contrast, when the Federal Government makes a mistake, it affects 350 million people. Socialism affects everyone. Open borders affect everyone. Government health care affects everyone. The Department of Education affects everyone. The Deep State affects everyone. This is the lesson, class. You can find it in The Constitution.

Note: Once again — Trump, D.O.G.E. and their corrective actions to wipe away the Obama/Biden Marxist infrastructure will have no permanence, regardless of success. America cannot be saved by Trump band-aids. The only way to save the Republic, as founded, is through The Constitution. The proper role of the Federal Government must be redefined constitutionally through amendments. There is no other way. The several States of America must assert their sovereignty. Failing that, America will unequivocally go the way of the socialist model. You may disagree only if you identify another legal remedy. Ed.

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