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Smoke and Mirrors

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Like it being hard to see the forest because of the trees, you might not see the mirrors because of all the smoke.

But if you squint, you’ll see the similarities between big, beautiful Los Angeles and Trump’s big, beautiful bill.  In truth, both are big, but neither is beautiful.  Actually, both are deeply entrenched in an ugly political game.

The latest smoke in LA comes from a few dozen police cars set on fire by those mostly peaceful protesters at work again.  What’s the worry?  ICE ICE baby.  The welcoming sanctuary city that also leads America in homelessness doesn’t like Trump’s desire to deport illegal aliens.

Hollywood loved Hogan’s Heroes as they carried out ops right under the Germans’ noses.   Hollywood hates the redux called Homan’s Heroes and sometimes reach as far as saying Trump is the worst German of all, Adolf Hitler.

Trump wants the National Guard and/or the Marines to protect the ICE agents and, if needed, quell the uprising.  He’d also like to see the law upheld for once and put the destructive criminals in jail.

Quickly, the “democratic leaders” from Cali assembled virtually like the Los Angeles Philharmonic, all singing the same song.  “We don’t want the National Guard to help.  Deploying the Marines is against the Constitution of sending the military against its people.  This is a threat to our very democracy.”

Eric Swallowswell, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, Karen Bass, Maxine Waters, Gavin Gruesome, and others sing the same song about bad man Trump.  Even former First Gentleman Doug Emhoff piled on.  Paul Pelosi is the only one who hasn’t brought the hammer down yet.

Credit should be given to Karen Bass for being in the city this time when it is ablaze.  Gavin is rehabbing his rep with an eye on the White House in 2028.  He only steps in when he sees a way to make political hay.

Both were happy to see Trump when Malibu was in ashes in January.  But now they don’t need the federal government’s help.

Last afternoon, Mayor Bass issued a curfew for downtown LA and threatened “to arrest bad actors who are taking advantage of the President’s chaotic escalation.” That wording is cinematic excellence.   It’s LaLa Land and bad actors, imagine that.  And, it’s Trump’s fault that we won’t let ICE do their job, so we burn down our town.

Good call on the curfew, three days late.

Remember when illegals got shipped to Martha’s Vineyard, and within 24 hours they called the National Guard and had them all removed without due process?

It was but a week ago that the Dems decided they liked Musk again after hating him and torching his cars, not their police force cars.  Before that, they loved him.

But when Musk openly opposed the big, beautiful bill, they embraced him again.   When he openly feuded with DJT they cheered.  They aren’t against spending too much whatsoever.  They’re just against Donald J. Trump.  So, politically, they oppose the big spending bill.

And they finally see a seam that could divide the country through midterms.  Always keep your eye on the prize. That’s why considerable additional funding has these malcontents protesting in Austin, Chicago, and New York.

From coast to coast, it’s not what’s right for America.  It’s what’s best for a political party’s future.

Big mess, yes.  Beautiful, no.

 

The Enemy of Your Enemy

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Not long ago, Elon Musk and his Tesla were the poster children for the environmentally friendly Democratic Party.  Then?

Then, he joined Team Trump in the middle of the night. He said he couldn’t continue to support unsound policy while adding trillions to our nation’s debt.

Hundreds of millions of dollars flowed from Musk into Republican campaigns.  Trump won.

DOGE was created.  Musk named and led it.  Billions of dollars of government waste, fraud, and abuse were uncovered daily.  Big Balls found it, Musk trumpeted it.

Suddenly, the Democratic Party hated Musk.

Some zealots keyed parked Teslas.  A few went further.   They burned down a Tesla dealership or three.  What was once good was now bad.

Democrat party leader shrills claimed Musk would put hard-working civil servants out of work.  Vital government services would be reduced or eliminated.   Surely, children would be hungry, and the elderly would be abused.  Social Security checks would be delayed.  And that wouldn’t even be the worst of it.

But, as quickly as DOGE sprinted out of the gate, it “concluded” its work last week.  Musk said it was time to return to his day job as promised months ago.  Trump held a ceremony in the White House praising Musk’s contribution.

And then?  Washington’s focused on getting Trump’s big, beautiful spending bill through Congress.

Four months in Musk has had it with the uniparty.

Yesterday, he tweeted.  “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore.  This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination.
Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”

The once in love, then haters, were in love again.  Gavin Newsom, Amy Klobacher, Eric Swalwell, Bernie Sanders, and others jumped on social media to praise Musk.

The enemy of your enemy is your friend.  Cutting spending was a bad idea.  Now, spending is a bad idea.

The reality is that the Democrats are against anything that Trump wants to get done.  It’s not about America, it’s about the party.  It’s about votes.  It’s about politics.

Meanwhile, Republican Rep Steve Scalise was dumb enough to tweet this yesterday. “Proud to lead this massive rescissions package to codify $9.4 BILLION of President Trump’s spending cuts.  This is a critical move to lock in real savings for the American people.”

Nine point four BILLION is what the country spends every eleven HOURS.

The bill “cuts the nation’s deficit by 8.4 trillion dollars over ten years,” say Republican water carriers.  They don’t say what it adds to the deficit over the same ten years.  And, therefore, they omit what that would add to the 37 trillion in debt we are already wallowing in.

Rand Paul said he’ll vote against it.  He said he’s consistently voted against spending bills that didn’t align with a balanced budget since he first walked into the Rotunda.  Trump chided Paul.  Trump’s a big spender, too.

What about a Musk/Paul ticket for 2028?

Don’t laugh.  Ok, laugh.

Musk quickly realized that you can’t drain the swamp as constructed.  Paul is a lone voice of reason, drowned out by all the scary creatures that lurk in the murky waters.

Every incumbent needs to get primaried in 2026.

Every.

 

 

 

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

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Making a movie is quite the production.   When you get to the cutting room, as it used to be called, hard decisions are made about what is in and what is out.  Then you hold your breath and hope the viewing public likes the final product.

In real life, a movie is being made by the day.  Its working title is The Remake of America.  It promised to be bold, big, beautiful, and groundbreaking.  Team Trump swept in with many new actors who knew Washington well enough to know that more of the same would be a box office flop.

They promised more tax revenue via tariffs, less spending via DOGE, and something for everyone in the big, beautiful bill.

Sure, there’s Harvard, Ukraine, trans rights or wrongs, men acting like women no more, and some groundbreaking or ball-breaking like Canada.  But, make no mistake, the main plot is tariffs, minus DOGE, plus and minus the bill, equals something.

What is something?  That’s the cliffhanger.  No one knows.  The Fed doesn’t know.  Neither does the CBO, Wall St, Main St, Congress, or the taxpayer.

But like making sausage, making a movie can be messy.  We want to see the final product, and we want the happy ending that we paid for, so to speak.

The tariffs seem like a remake of The Karate Kid.  Fifty percent is on, twenty-five percent is off.  Pause.  How about 10%?  Repeat.  Wax on, wax off, Daniel Son.  Tariffs are like, “sweep the leg!”  They hurt consumers, but aren’t they necessary?

How much is too much or not enough?  Donald keeps yelling. “Action! Cut! Action! Cut.”

DOGE began with great promise.  Will any of the hours of hard work in the morass make the final scene?  The Washington Screen Actors Guild is sure hoping not.  This type of acting threatens their pot of gold.

The star of DOGE seems tired and wants to go home.  Who can blame him?  Elon paid a lot to get on the set, put on his Superman cape, and tried to leap tall Washington buildings in a single bound.  But kryptonite lies inside every wall.  And the ones who hold the kryptonite are the ones who decide if his labor bears any fruit.

How about a big, beautiful bill?  In the Wizard of OZ, on the long journey to the Emerald City, Dorothy and Toto are joined by the Scarecrow, who wishes he had brains; the Tin Woodman, who longs for a heart; and the Cowardly Lion, who seeks courage.  There’s something for everyone, but at what cost?

Enough Senate Republicans seem determined to send the big, beautiful bill back.  They want less of the big and more of the beautiful.

Film critics see 38 trillion and counting reasons why these Senators might act this way.

When The Karate Kid joins Superman in The Wizard of Oz, following the yellow brick road isn’t that easy.

At least Donald Trump is the producer.  That’s good.  Isn’t it?

 

 

With Talent on Loan……

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Today, most everyone falls into one of two camps, regardless of the subject at hand.   Consider opinions on the early departed Rush Limbaugh.  One camp thinks he lived too long and disagreed with his daily takes with vigor.

The more friendly camp continues to miss his daily doses of excellence while he was here on loan from God.

Some think he sized up the Washington/Trump tango perfectly in 2016.  “Washington can’t afford for Trump to succeed.  The gig is up.  If an outsider like Trump can fix messes that they’ve promised but failed to take care of in the past thirty years, then We the People will never vote for the establishment again!”

That was his Trump 1.0 missive.  If Rush were alive today, he’d need more than half of his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair.  His words and Trump’s 2.0 actions are simpatico.

Trump and his closely aligned Team Trump are dismantling the political DC establishment and the established media with a scalpel and a sledgehammer at the same time.

Give a Democrat a fish and he will eat for a day.  Teach a Democrat to fish and he’ll create fishing licenses, tax your rod, identify the fish as endangered, and close the fishing spot for an environmental reason or a COVID season.

Should the fish swim six feet apart?  We digress.

What’s the counterpunch to Trump’s repeated uppercuts landing on the chin?  Take the opposite side of anything he attempts to do.  Castigate him.  Tell America the world is ending and soon.   Yelling loudly isn’t a strategy.

Prices weren’t coming down.  Eggs were going through the roof of the chicken coop.  How about now?  How about the price of oil at the pump?  The CPI number released yesterday was the tamest one in years.

Four weeks ago, we were told our 401ks were worth 200.5k’s and worse.  How about now?

Tariffs were last imposed in the 1920s.  You know what followed?  Run for cover.   Now, countries are coming to make a deal with the Art of the Deal maker.

RFK was a bad hire, said Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.  Sanders gets the most pharma money, and Pocahontas gets the fourth most.  Legislators on the hill like companies that make pills.  Who would possibly be against lower drug costs?  Wait and see.

And now the Qatar plane gift is bribery.  A president can’t accept that!  Plus,  it’s a security risk.  Buy American.  Support Boeing.

Fake News.

The plane is Boeing-made.  The gift goes to the military, not Trump.  The DOD will equip AF-1 with the latest security needed.

Where will Trump strike next?  We don’t know, but he will soon.  He never sleeps.  It’s almost time to impeach.

DOGE shredding the USAID seems like a long time ago.

Rush’s wisdom shredded Washington long ago.

Hopefully, it will live on forever.

 

 

100 Plus

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Over 100 days of Trump 2.0 have passed into the ether.   How has he done so far in the eyes of the voters who elected him?

Recent polls say his brief second stay on Pennsylvania Ave. has quickly alienated the faithful.  Of course, if you still believe in these paid-for polls, you probably still believe in the Easter Bunny.

It says here that it has been a dizzying flurry of a doozy of an agenda.  He, his staff, and his cabinet came out with guns a blazing on day one.  So much to accomplish, they say, with so little time until the midterms, his opposition says.

Credit where credit is due, America wanted the southern border secured.  Trump assigned Tom Homan that task.  Consider it secured.  Illegal immigration slowed from a river to a dry creek bed in a few weeks.   The mules packed their bags of dirty cash and went home.

Joe Biden should be ashamed of himself.  We digress.

Boys in girls’ sports and bathrooms found themselves unwelcome as well.  Check a much-needed and easy box.

The great media reset is well underway.  Perhaps decades from now, Americans will look back on Trump’s time in office and thank him for exposing what Rush Limbaugh told us was happening decades ago.  Honest reporting is a pillar of our republic.  His press secretary is a heck of a front person.

The left-leaning media’s cover-up of Biden’s decline is a new low.  Their recent reflections on it, finger-pointing, and book writing to get to the high ground is a lower low.   We still have a ways to go.

From here it gets stickier.   Is DOGE important?  Is fair trade (tariffs) important?  Is a big, beautiful bill tackling taxes and forward spending needed?  How about “hell yes, yes, and mostly?”  But each unto themselves is complicated.

But when you take on all three at once, can you confuse Main St and Wall St simultaneously?  How about “hell yes?”  When you know that the variables of “a” minus “b” plus “c” equals “d,” but you have no idea what the numbers behind the variables are, it’s ready, fire, aim.

Wall Street went down.  It anticipates that Main Street will follow.  Will it?  Only the cumulative effect of the tariffs, jobs lost, government streamlining, and taxes combined can tell us.  Does anyone have a Rubik’s Cube?

The DOGE, tariff, and bill collision gets an A for ambition, a C for clarity, and a D for divulgence.   One at a time would have been far more digestible.

The Donald told us that he’d end the Ukraine/Russia war on day one.  Maybe he meant sometime in year one.  Telling Zelenskyy enough is enough is a good step, though.

Enough is enough with the Federal appointed judges coloring way outside the lines.  An example or two is needed and might have the desired effect.

Trump calling Canada the 51st state and posturing that he wants to acquire Greenland only turns off the average low-information voter.

When his son and Steve Bannon postulate that there could be a third Trump term, it gives the left the ability to yell “threat to our democracy.”  We already have enough Chicken Littles in our country, thanks to the state of our education and the Department of Education.

We might be getting rid of said department soon.

Has Trump already gotten rid of the cushion he rode in on?

It’s not as thick as it was in January.

 

 

 

 

Perot, Trump, Ackman, and Einstein

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In 1992, a non-politician named H. Ross Perot, a very accomplished businessman, decided to run for President of the US as an Independent. Perot focused his campaign on his plan to balance the federal budget and further US economic nationalism.

In 2016, a non-politician named Donald J. Trump, a very accomplished businessman, ran for President of the US as a Republican.  Trump wanted to further US economic nationalism, too.  He called it then and now MAGA- Make America Great Again.

Perot led George Bush and Bill Clinton in the polls for a time.   Trump won.

Perot’s critics called him a hand grenade with a bad haircut.  Trump’s critics called him far worse and suggested he should find a good barber, or at least a barber.

One night Perot was on Larry King’s show and asked rhetorically, “Do you hear that giant sucking sound?  That’s all of our jobs getting moved down to Mexico because of NAFTA.”

Trump threatened tariffs in his first term for similar reasons.

They have many similarities.  The differences are twofold.  Trump got elected.  Trump acted on his threat on “Liberation Day,” imposing reciprocal tariffs on nations around the globe.

This morning that “giant sucking sound” you hear is your 401k swirling the drain.

Tariffs are taxes applied to imported goods.  The prices of those goods will go up for US consumers to offset the cost to the foreign businesses shipping them here.

Or, are they still just bargaining chips to get other countries to reduce their tariffs on our exports?  Another wealthy businessman, Bill Ackman, thinks so.  “The countries that make the first deals with Trump will get the best deals.  The countries that wait or retaliate will regret that they were not a part of the early deals, or worse,” he tweeted this AM.

The stock market is picky.  It doesn’t digest uncertainty, inflation, or potential economic slowdowns well.

Maybe “one big beautiful bill” from Congress will provide numerous and generous tax cuts to John Q Citizen to offset some of the pain.  Maybe not.

Add a dose of DOGE to attack government waste, fraud, and excess.

What do you have?  You have an equation that reads: tariffs increase revenue, tax cuts reduce revenue, and a DOGE-driven smaller gov’t reduces cost.  Got that?

The goal?  Bring production home, become less dependent on other countries for critical needs, provide domestic jobs, and increase the corporate tax base.

And the ultimate goal?  Get America back on a path to fiscal sanity.

Our 1992 debt was four trillion dollars when Perot was concerned.  Clinton won, and blue dresses aside, even had a government fiscal surplus one year.  When he left in 2000, the bill was a manageable six trillion.

Today it’s nearly 37 trillion.

And, shame on the left in Congress (and Mitch McConnell, the poster child now great grandfather for term limits) who are against anything and everything that Trump proposes.  Congress put us here to begin with.

Einstein said, “Insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results.”

We may have a new definition of insanity.  We’ll know pretty soon.

Trump’s presidency and the midterms hang in the balance.

 

MDS

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Former VP running mate of Kamala Harris and current Minnesota Governor Tim Walz joined the race to the deepest part of the wilderness yesterday.  He spoke on stage with glee, saying that when he needs a little “pick me up” during the day he takes out his phone and looks at the fall of Tesla stock.

“I’m not a vindictive person or anything but I take great pleasure in the fact that this guy’s life is going to get very, very difficult,” Walz said of Elon Musk.

Walz has entered a crowded race to nowhere.  The Democratic Party per CNN, has an all-time low of 27% approval rating.   Heavy recent contributors include Jasmine Crockett the race baiter, AOC the intellectual wanna-be, and oldie but goodie Chuck Schumer.

The Chuckster told assembled hosts of The View yesterday “Their attitude is ‘I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me? I don’t want to pay taxes.’ They hate the government. The government is a barrier to people, a barrier to stop them from doing things. They want to destroy it,” Schumer said. “We are not letting them do it and are united.”

Coach Walz, in other words, said “I’m glad to see a steep stock price decline of an American-based manufacturer employing tens of thousands.”

That company was the poster child darling of the left for its leadership in the EV market.   They loved it so that during the Obama years the government gave, awarded, granted, or credited it 38 billion of your tax dollars.  Give green, go green.

You gave him your tax dollars.  You bought his cars.  You invested in his company.  Yet, Walz is happy that the stock value is sawed in half.

Where did it all go wrong?  Or right?  Musk decided to join Team Orange and save a country from its government that can’t stop spending more than it collects.

Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers now can commiserate with MDS-Musk Derangement Syndrome sufferers.  Can’t Fauci get a vaccine for us?

A few psychos are keying privately owned Teslas in parking lots.  Riddle us that one.  What do they think of his astronaut rescue?

So now the left wants to stop a man from stopping handouts to whom they gleefully gave handouts that they now regret.  Now, his EV is bad, but other EVs are still good.

Further, the bad handouts are still good, but a formerly good one is now bad.

You might need a playbook to follow the logic or lack of it.

If the play sounds like “We need to punt a flea flicker field goal from out of bounds to score a safety,” you are following along.

Coach Tim and his Democratic teammates drew it up all by themselves.

They need to huddle up.

 

 

 

 

 

Landman

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There are a few not subtle differences between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0.

The main one is that 1.0 listened to others due to his inexperience in government and the swamp known as D.C.  Now, 2.0 is doing it, like Frank Sinatra, his way.

Forty-seven hired his crew and didn’t settle for any leftovers or legacies.  He’s got his own from plumbers to project managers.  Send Musk in to clean out the waste, fraud, fat, and those ghosting the payroll like Tony Soprano’s boys.

The real estate developer extraordinaire is flexing his menacing mogul muscles.  He has his eye on quite a few properties.

Unless the land is raw, you tear down.  The Gaza Strip and Ukraine demolitions were already well on their way.

Gaza is waterfront, so let’s envision an enterprise district complete with resorts on the waterfront.

Ukraine needs money to defend and rebuild.  We’ll take some precious minerals in a fair exchange.  When the buyer changes his mind, you loudly walk from the deal. The bet is he’ll be back.

But, but, but what about nasty Putin?   How can you allow him to be the bully on the earth’s block?  Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.  The Art of the Deal has many layers.

We’ll need a generous amount of everything for our home remodel to go smoothly.  Maybe Greenland can help ships safe passage or at least be a refueling station in the Northern Hemisphere.  Let’s offer to buy it on the cheap.

In the Southern Hemisphere we can saber rattle about reclaiming the Panama Canal.  That’ll at least open their eyes to our needs, keep the price of the journey low, and the odds of safe passage high.

Down in the basement, our southern neighbor won’t honor what the wall we started building in 2017 was meant for.  We need illegals kept out and fentanyl too.  Pay attention to that, or we’ll slap tariffs on your imports.

Up in the attic, Canada might want to be our 51st state.  That’s unlikely at best but it gives its occupants a feeling of unrest.  Tariffs for you too unless you reduce yours.  And, fentanyl from China needs the full attention of your Canadian Mounties.

You can’t pick your neighbors, but you can pick your nose.  We digress.

Most of all, this is designed to bring America back to the top in producing its own needs.  It’s hard to Make America Great Again unless you make a lot of stuff at home again.

Oh!  How about a new front door welcome mat?  Let’s throw away the Gulf of Mexico one and replace it with the Gulf of America.

Yes, the wrecking ball is in full swing.  As mentioned before, to build up you must tear down first.

You don’t build so many “bigly” and “very beautiful” buildings in the toughest city in America without a lot of dust and a few verbal fistfights.

Billy Bob Thornton is the Landman on Paramount Plus.

Donald Trump is the Landman on planet Earth.

He lives rent free in the White House and in way too many people’s heads.

 

 

 

 

Points to Ponder

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As the sun sets on February, there are 13 points to ponder in a rapidly changing world.

  1.  MSNBC is Joyless.  Joy Reid was terminated as her show’s audience shrunk to an average of 59k viewers since 1/1.  That is about the same number of people that attend a mid-major football game.
  2. Rachael Maddow called Joy the most inspirational person at MSNBC and lamented that the layoffs there had swiped a few of her staff.  Always looking out for the little guy Maddow decided not to take a few million off of her 25 mil salary to save them.  Inspirational unto itself.
  3. There is no truth to the rumor that President Trump wants to rename Niagara Falls to McConnell Falls.
  4. The same folks freaking out about the desire to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America are the ones that renamed “abortion” to “women’s healthcare”, or “mom” to “inseminated person.”
  5. The same folks freaking out about cost saving government department layoffs wanted you fired if you refused to take a worthless jab or two or three.
  6.  Senator John Kennedy wonders why we pay terrorist organizations and certain countries to hate us when they’re perfectly capable of doing so for free.
  7.  How can this country have a gender pay gap when there is supposed to be no genders anymore?
  8.  Americans needs to use words like skedaddle, nincompoop, and tomfoolery more.
  9.  Jasmine Crockett is the new media left darling. Every time she opens her yapper, she writes midterm ads for the Republicans.
  10.  Why do we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway?
  11. There is no way everyone was kung fu fighting.  Those cats were fast as lightening?  Please.
  12.  Jake Tapper vociferously defended Joe Biden at every turn.  Now he’s coauthoring a book about Biden’s mental decline and the media’s coverup of the same.  So rich.
  13. The Epstein files are now officially scheduled for release at noon tomorrow.  It’s going to be like turning on a light in a dark room watching the cockroaches scatter.

 

 

All D, No O

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As 1980 turned to 1981, Carter was on his way out and Reagan was on his way in.

Jimmy’s welcoming gifts to Ronald were the mess that Iran was, a hostage crisis, an energy crisis, inflation, and a newly created Department of Education.

As 2024 turned to 2025, Biden was out and Trump was back in.

Joe’s welcoming gifts to Donald are the mess that Iran is, a hostage crisis, restrictions and bans on oil production, inflation, and a 44-year-old Department of Education.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

After 1980 it took the Democratic Party 12 years to recapture the White House.  And, it was helped greatly to get there by George H.W. Bush in year 10 saying loudly “Read my lips, no new taxes.”  Then he raised taxes.

Will it take the Democratic Party 12 years to recapture the White House this time?  Will they need a goof-up the size of Bush’s, a new identity, or both?

Why is a new identity needed?

The reasons are numerous.  The origin is debatable.

But it says here that it started in 2018 when the first four members of the squad were elected to Congress.  Young, eager, and diverse the four had grown to eight strong by 2022.

They came in loud and proud.  Nancy Pelosi tried to put them in their place in the Party but they’d have little to none of that.

By 2020 Joe Biden sold his soul to the far left to help get him elected.  He promised a female VP.  He promised a black female Supreme Court Justice.  He promised diversity, equity, and inclusion in his cabinet and administration.

Meritocracy was out.  Skin color and race-baiting were in.

He opened the border near and far.  He forgave student debt.  He brokered the Green New Deal.  He supported men in women’s sports.  He supported men in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.

In short, he catered to the far left.  He was run by the far left.  He was beholden to the far left.  He even told us “They want me to leave the stage now and not answer your questions.”

And, out of that was born the party of common sense.  Imagine thinking that DJT would be looked at as the leader of the Common Sense Party.

Who’s leading the Dems these days? Maxine Waters screams daily into a bullhorn.  Take Chuck Schumer, please.  Nancy’s still leaning left, but is now supported by a HurriCane.

What’s the message?  Is anyone listening?

If you’re yelling you’re losing.  And, they are yelling “bigly” as 47 might say.

The current strategy is to tie Trump’s executive orders up in court and scream “Constitutional Crisis!”

But that’s defense.  Where is and what is the offense?

Meanwhile, Trump is about to put Iran and her proxies in place.  He’s gotten some and is about to get more hostages home be it the USA or Israel.  Drill Baby Drill!  And, DOGE is descending on the Department of Education.

Somehow it feels like 1980 all over again.

It’s not over for the Dems, not at all.

It’s always the darkest before dawn.

But, it sure is dark for now.