You See How That Works?

It was mere moments after taking the helm that our 47th President began spewing forth Executive Orders.  

Dozens of them.  So many the "Legacy Media" were overwhelmed.  They couldn't keep up.  By design.

And in addition to a bevy of E.O.'s, Trump also began firing off insults and accusations and demands and wishes and requirements with his mouth.  Like, insulting Canada's P.M. by calling him our 51st State governor.  And suggesting, strongly, that Canada would be far better off being one of our states.  

It would have lower taxes, Trump said.  And lower costs for energy.  And better defense, and a whole lot of other stuff.  Pissing off Trudeau and embarrassing him in front of the world.  Throwing him off kilter before the negotiations even began.  

Trump explained to Trudeau, and the world, all the ways Canada has been screwing us, the U. S. Taxpayer.  To the tune of more than $200 Billion Dollars a Year.  Trump had taken the measure of the man and proceeded to go for the figurative jugular.  Remember, Canada taxes the crap out of us on bourbon, and cars, and lumber, and milk, and paper, and grain, and so many other commodities.

We can't even sell milk across the border to Canada, fergoddsake!  They won't let us!  

He did the same to Meheeeeko.  Demanding they stop their cartels or we would.  Stop permitting Fentanyl from crossing the River, Trump demanded.  And illegal aliens.  Trump threatened 25 - 50% tariffs on cars and tequila and fruit and a bunch of other stuff, in an effort to equalize the cross-border taxation between them and us. 

Annual income from tariffs currently favors Meheeeeko to the tune of more than $288 Billion Dollars a Year.    

He did the same to the European Union, issuing 200% tariffs on Champagne and wine and cars and a bunch of other stuff.  Which could benefit our wineries and distilleries greatly.  BMW just issued a statement telling the world they'll be moving the production of U. S.-bound cars to the U. S.  Another victory.  A victory the "Legacy Media" won't tell you about.

You see how that works?

Except we wouldn't introduce those tariffs if Europe and Canada and Meheeeko would lower theirs.  To our rates.  Reciprocal.  Or none at all.  Same for both parties.       

Trump also demanded an end to the Russia - Ukraine War.  Something our previous "occupant" of the Oval Office never did.  Or even tried to do.  Of course, it might have helped if Mr. Biden had come to work...

He first had to determine if Putin wanted peace, he said.  Preliminary negotiations said he did (whether he did or not).  He then called upon Ukraine to see if they also wished a cessation to hostilities.  After a childish blow-up in the White House, Zelenskyy said he did.  Bi-lateral peace talks may now take place.  With the U. S. as the mediator.  The Honest Broker.  Something we couldn't have been if we'd appeared to be on Ukraine's side from the outset. 

You see how that works?

Just think:  We've given Ukraine more than $125 Billion Dollars so it can fight Russia.  As our proxy.  And more than 100,000 soldiers have died in the process.  Wouldn't it be better to stop the killing?  Trump thinks so.  And only Trump can get them both to the table.  

You see how that works? 

We're watching those peace talks begin to unfold.  Zelenskyy finally said "yes."  Putin's said a "qualified "yes."  Those qualifications need to be addressed and worked out.  Else, Russia will be declared the impediment to peace, an international pariah.  And the U. S., and its allies, will unleash every tariff and tax and all the economic warfare on them available to us.  Including forcing our allies to cease the purchasing of Russian oil.  And making ours available for purchase.  Which we can do.  And which would bring them to their knees.  And to the negotiating table, within weeks.

You see how that works?

Oh yeah, and he threatened to invade Greenland and take back the Panama Canal.  We don't really need to invade Greenland.  And he doesn't want to invade Greenland.  We just need to take defensive control of it.  In response, it just called a snap election and their version of our Republicans were elected.  I predict our troops will have that defensive control of Greenland without having to annex it.  And our doing so would be much cheaper.  

And "invading" the Panama Canal won't prove necessary, either.  Blackrock Corp. is now in the process of buying the port controls from the two companies that own both its Pacific and the Atlantic ends (both members of the CCP).  Which Panama sold as a result of Trump bluster.  So the U. S. will have "control" of the Canal, but without having to buy it.  Or invade it.

You see how that works?  

It astounds me that so few of the folks I speak with on a daily basis fail to understand that Trump's bluster is nothing but a negotiating tactic.  You ask for far more than you expect to receive.  You ask for the moon, then go from there.  Or even demand the moon if you've got the advantage, and the other side capitulates for someting less than the moon.  But far more than they would have given had each side started at the 50 yard-line.  Carrots and sticks.  Teddy Roosevelt knew it.  Donald J. Trump knows it.  And he's putting it on display.  

You see how that works?

A lawyer friend of mine taught me years ago that a successful deal is one where both sides are mildly unhappy.  Where neither side feels like they got all they wanted.  Where both sides are allowed to take away a "victory," even if it's only pyrrhic.

For those of you who've been trained to hate Trump, to detest the ground upon which he walks; who cannot stand the sound of his voice,* who wish he'd be hit by a comet, just take this one piece of advice from your hoary old friend, The Chuckmeister:

Stop listening to him.  Stop watching the negotiating process.  Stop following his every word.  Turn off the Telly, get some "Books on Tape," buy a fishing pole and head to the lake.  Check back in in 6 months to see how things are going.  I'm betting EGBOK.  That means, 

"Everything's Gonna' Be Okay."  

*     I confess, neither can I.

On Predicting the Future.

If I could go back in time and predict the future, I wouldn't have done anything as lame as asking for winning Lotto numbers.  

Nope, I'd have conjured up something mucho more exciting.  And enjoyable to watch.  In fact, the only time in my life I've wished to be able to predict the future was back in 2020 - 21...

That was when the Powers That Be decided to shut down our Gubmint.  And all the bidnezzes.  And all the churches.  Because you just might contract the evil Chinese Wuhan Coronavirus.*  Or give it to somebody else.

But they left liquor stores and casinos open.  For some strange reason...

Everyone was required to go home, shut and lock the doors behind them, close all the windows, pull down the shades, and wait for somebody to rescue you.  No going out unless an absolute necessity.  Like just before you starve to death.

Two things happened as a result of that Guburnmental Proclamation.  Number One:  Uber had previously been fighting with Yellow Cab, trying to snake riders from them at the local airports.  COVID-19 helped them find an exit from that dummmass strategy as they morphed into "Uber-Eats."  They would now happily bring you a $10.00 hamburger and fries for only $25.00.  

I wish I'd been able to predict that little transformation.  I'd have bought a sh*t load of Uber stock and never had to work again.

Number Two:  I'd have shorted Gillette.  I'd have bet its stock would tank.  Because everybody was sent home and didn't have to go back to the office.  So they could sit in front of their computer in their jammies.  Eating bon bons.  And drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon.  While watching Jerry Springer reruns.  

And not having to go to the office for our menfolk meant they didn't have to look presentable.  No more need to shave.  That terrible, awful, nasty process we must undergo.  So the growing of beards became a thing.  For the first time since the 19th Century.** 

(Was there a pandemic back then?) 

No shaving meant Gillette's sales would drop.  And so would their stock.  No more shaving meant no more buying razor blades.  So Shorting Gillette would mean I'd be making a windfall for every time their stock took a hit.  I'd have been jumping up and down with glee. 

Just look at the next guy with a beard you see and know deep down, that guy is lame.  He's lazy.  He's too uncaring about his appearance to actually want to shave his face.***  Don't trust your daughters or your money with these bozos.  

So going back in time a bit, and being able to predict the future, would have meant I'd be making a fortune on Uber going up, and making another fortune as Gillette was going down.  I wouldn't have needed winning Lotto numbers to join the ranks of those who don't pay their "fair share."   

*      BTW, Florida gave the Feds the finger by refusing to close down.  Instead, it stayed open and flourished.  Because Freedom-Loving 'Muricans moved there in droves.  NOTE to Blue States:  You can keep on shedding population by continuing with your idiotic policies and procedures...

**     NOTE:  I had a Zapata moustache for 27 years.  It looked great, but only because I spent about 30 minutes every morning trimming it and styling it and plucking little hairs from where they didn't belong.  It was a lot of work.  A LOT of work!  An accident with an errant razor while under the influence of something or other one day resulted in a chunk being cut off.  So I was forced to mow the rest.  And that, as they say, was that.   

***   Except for wannabe' lumberjacks.  And observant Jews.  And Hindu holy-types.  And J. D. Vance, our current V.P.  He grew a beard to try and look old enough to buy alcohol...

At Any Given Moment...

At any given moment up to 3% of our population is preparing to commit a crime, is in the process of committing a crime, or has just committed a crime.  And you could be the victim.

Please engrave that truism on the inside of your forehead.  So you can't avoid seeing it.  And so you can prepare to defend yourself at any given moment.

Oh, BTW, that particular bit of information comes to you from the National Association of Psychologists.  Just so you know.

And about 3% of our population is hired, trained, fielded, managed and paid to try and prevent them from committing those crimes.  And then arresting them if they're caught in the process of committing crimes.  And hunting them down if the cops have a "reasonable articulable suspicion" that a crime has been committed.  

And after all of that, another 3% or so of our population is engaged in the Court System.  The sheriffs, and the baliffs, and the judges, and the stenographers, and the jailers, and the lawyers.  The tons and tons and tons of lawyers, all engaged in arraigning, charging, prosecuting and defending those accused of crimes.  

And then, if necessary, which it almost always is, carting them off for a spell at the local Gray Bar Hotel.

The only exception to this rule is in our 558 so-called "Sanctuary States and Cities and Counties and Towns."  Places where their elected leaders have chosen to disregard the law.  To simply give our Federal Law the finger.  

Just enforcing some of the laws while ignoring others.  While still happily collecting the $Billions of Dollars in State Aid from the 51 Federal Agencies charged with distributing it.*

What America needs, and what America might now have, is an Executive who enforces the law.  All of the laws.  Not just the ones he/she/it prefers.  That's the way it's been for the last 4 years.  Liberal politics have infested Washington, D.C. like a bad case of the clap.  It will take a lot to "cure" it.  A lot of blood letting, both figurative and perhaps actual, before this Major Problem is solved.

Think about this: were we to begin enforcing our laws, and start locking up the criminals, early on before they've racked up 30 or 40 or 50 prior arrests.  We could then save a Big Chunk of that 9% of our Gross Domestic Product we're forced to spend defending ourselves from the Bad Guys.  

What do you think?

*   Let's see if that gravy train continues now that The Donald's running things.  I'm thinking some of those sanctuaries might dry up if the money does...

12 Out of the Last 16 Years.

If we look at this whole deal from 30,000 feet it's mucho easier to figure out.

While the Democrats were answering the call of the Far Left, and crafting their rancid policies accordingly, the regular folks out in the Hinterland were gagging over "Identity Politics." And "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion." And "Critical Race Theory."  And the gigantic mess that these Leftist creations are leaving behind.

I sense that much of the half of America without political power over the past four years has been cowered into submission by those who've had it.  And were wielding it like a sword.  

It seems that the cacophonous beatdown coming from the Hard Left has served to force more Conservative citizens into silence.  Where the Democrats have been vocal in their support for boys in girls' rest rooms; and releasing hardened criminals on no-cash bails; and failing to denouce the stratospheric crime rate that followed; and demanding (and applauding!) the acceptance of transgenderism and other outlandish lifestyles; and skyrocketing inflation from overspending; and the public mistreatment of Jews; and the welcome mat thrown out to illegal immigrants.  From 152 countries, so far.  Millions and millions of them.  And the more Conservative in the population, even amongst Democrats, were required to accept it.  Or face a public trouncing.  And sometimes face verbal assault, and sometimes even battery.    

We didn't.  We just stopped talking.  We kept our mouths shut while the Lefties were screaming.  They hijacked our Government.  And their acolytes hijacked the "Corporate Media," late night TV, the Unions, Hollywood, Wall Street CEO's, and 95% of our elite colleges and universities.  

Like the non-NAZI's in 1930's Germany, it seems (fewer than 30% of Germans were affiliated with the Nazi Party).  And since I was stationed there, just 20 years after the Big War, I had an opportunity to talk with many of them.  And learn just how they were conscripted against their will into unwilling acceptance. 

I'd like to remind those of my readers who never learned or have forgotten, our Government has been run (down) for 12 of the last 16 years.  During those 12 years the Democrats did their best to remake America into a socialist paradise.  And screwed us regular Americans in the process.  

Mentally, sometimes physically, and always economically and politically.  

The guy who started to "fix" it was co-opted in his previous "45" efforts 4 years ago by "Russia, Russia, Russia," and the "Muller Report." And the infamous "Laptop From Hell." And a phone call to Ukraine, resulting in one of his two impeachments.

The Democrats were either impeaching him, were preparing to impeach him, or had just finished trying to impeach him.

All efforts unsuccessful.

It's hard to fix something when you're saddled with an unwilling partner with whom you must work who does everything in its power to stop you.  This time "47" has all three branches of Government.  And he doesn't have to prepare to run for another term, "unleashing" him from political incumberances.  

That's why he's operating at flank speed to fix America.  And running roughshod over an impotent bunch of feckless fools who occupy the other half of our Legislature.  Their antics continue to both mystify and bring discredit upon their Party.  And by extension, their voters.  And us, the U.S.  Proven recently by their scandalous actions during a Joint Presentation to Congress last Tuesday evening.  And if they continue with their recalcitrance, they will lose Big Time in the next Election.  Especially if Trump continues to keep the promises he made on the campaign trail.  

This warning will not be heeded, of course.  The Democrats aren't smart enough.  They hate The Donald so much they'll burn down their own houses just to spite him.  No, my advice won't be embraced.  But I had to get it out of my craw, nonetheless...     

Democrats Hate Women!!!

Every single Democrat senator voted against the interests and the safety of American women and girls on Monday!  

Including their female senators!  That's like Israeli hostages voting for a continuation of the Gaza war!

They voted in lockstep, all 45 of them!  Against "The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2025."  It would have modified an Act passed back in 1972 which established protections of our fairer sex in sporting activities.  This new Act, which our Democrat senators voted against, all of them, would have prevented transgender men from competing against women and girls.  Women and girls who've either been hurt by such men, or well could be.  

As the father of 4 women, who all competed in high school and college sports, I cannot possibly fathom what could have so hippppmotizzzed these bozos into such a self- and female-destructive action.  

Except, perhaps, their hatred of one Prez. Donald J. Trump.  

For those of you who don't know, there are "two kinds of people" in this country.  There are those who either love Trump, or suffer him enough to vote for him because they love his policies.  

And there are those who absolutely loathe him.  They detest him with every fiber of their being.  They hate the ground he walks on.  They would like to kill him, then revive him, reanimate the bastard, so they can kill him again.  And so they would vote against their own best interests* just to spite him.

And half of America.  The female half.

They know he's for it, so they must be against it.  The same cockeyed thinking that makes them have to applaud continued wasteful, fraudulent and abuse-laden Government expenditures because Trump's trying to end it.   

They tried their best to bankrupt him.  They tried to put him in jail for the rest of his life using trumped-up (!) charges.  They illegally colluded with 3 state D.A.'s to do so.  They kept him off the campaign trail for six weeks trying to beat him.  They weaponsized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to try and put him under a jail cell.  They did their best to ruin him.  With extreme prejudice.  But he was simply unkillable.  He took everything they threw at him and grew stronger.  He even survived assasination attempts!  The American People view him as their Knight in Shining Armor.  Their Sir Gallahad.  Their David set off to battle the Giant.    

And the Giant, in this case, is every single Democrat senator.**  They should be ashamed of themselves.  If they had any shame, that is...

I always thought that Democrat politicians as a class were nice folks, just misguided.  Grew up in the wrong place so they harbor beliefs out of step with mainstream America, perhaps.  Now I'm thinking they're not such nice folks.  Now I'm thinking they just may just be a bunch of nasty, self-dealing, greedy pervaricating fools, fueled by incessant animus, looking under every rock for retribution against that guy who keeps showing up to ruin their p(P)arty.  If so, they should pack their bags.  They're not gonna' make it past the next election...

*        79% of all Americans believe that transgenders should be kept out of womens' and girls' sports.  And out of their restrooms.  And their lockerrooms.  And showers.  And they believe that those who voted against these beliefs should be run out of office.  As they were last November 5th.  And as they will be if they continue making bone-headed votes like this one...

**      The Democrat senators who deigned to present themselves at Trump's speech last night to the members of Congress was a sh*t show.  Of the first magnitude.  Trump layed out his vision for his Presidency, and the Democrats showed him a thing of two by sitting on their manicured hands.  For everything.  And showing little paddle fans like 5th graders.  A little kid's recovering from brain cancer and a hostage returning from Russia and the capture of the terrorist who killed our 13 soldiers in Afghanistan...were not enough to get these sedentary old goofballs off their seats.  Even CNN's own post-speech poll showed 69% of Americans found it to be uplifting.  Yeah, I guess they really showed Trump a thing or two!  

Free Will.

Now, I'd like to start with the fact that I have a 10 year perfect attendance pin from Sunday School.

And I've read the Bible twice.  Or, rather sort of read it, as a whole bunch of it's just down right unintelligible.  Lots of begatting in Genesis, plus some wars and angels fighting angels and Moses doing his thing and such.  But I read it anyway.  And my understanding of the Old Testament for those of you who care goes something like this:

God created everything in less than a week, and boy, was He tired!  He then took Sunday off.  Saturday off, if you're Jewish.  After that, there was that Adam and Eve thing, the interference of the Watchers, nephilim and seriphim, giants eating humans, etc.  Sort of rich with unintended consequences.

So God appoints Noah to build an ark and he gets to work.  God brings on The Flood (with a capital "F"), it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.  And you know the rest.  Everyone but Noah and his crew are erased.  Or, perhaps everyone in Noah's neck of the woods is erased.  

Perhaps it was "only" that little piece of dirt separating Europe from Asia Minor called the Bosporus Strait.  Enabling the Mediteranean Sea to pour into the Black Sea.  At the rate of 100 Niagara Falls a day.  Drowning everything in sight.

Either or.  You decide. 

But then God thought He might have overreacted a tad.  It seems He had brought forth The Flood because he'd sent his Watchers down here to manage the Earth.  And the Watchers got all up and personal with human women, which they found desirable (so do I!).  Which resulted in the birth of a whole bunch of Nephalim.  These were hybrid giants who were good at being blacksmiths, and making weapons, and building big stone structures.  Like all those stone temples in Italy and Greece and Turkey.  Like the Parthenon and the Temple of Balbek.  But when they started eating humans, God said that was enough.  So he flooded the Earth to eliminate them. 

That was the reason.  Didn't know that, didja? 

He thereafter stopped micromanaging and gave us Free Will to go and do as we wished.  Good or bad.  Our choice.  He was going to then observe from a distance and let the chips fall where they may.  After all, it's tough to start populating the Earth (or a small chunk of the Earth) all over again.  But the Bible tells us He did.

He said go out there and make babies.  And they did.

So now, with Free Will, we get to do well and make God pleased, or screw up and make God mad.*  And you DO NOT want that!  At least I don't.  And I'm coming around the Club House turn, so to speak, with the Finish Line in sight, so to speak, so I'm being Extra Careful how I conduct myself.  As I'm about to get my just reward.

Or so the Bible says.

So the next time anyone asks why God permits a bus full of little children to go off a cliff, or folks in a plane to get their lives cut short, you won't have to ask, "Why does God permit that to happen?"  

Because now you'll know.

*    Assuming you believe in God.    

Peace and Tranquility...

Half of Americans had yet to be born when peace and tranquility reigned supreme in our land.

That was before the cell phone and the Internet were invented.

Oh yeah, and "Progressivism" had not, like the camel, gotten its nausiating nose under our collective tent.

Did you know that Facebook was incorporated in 2004?  Making it to the Party somewhat earlier than Twitter, which arrived in 2006?  Google?  1998.  It was among the earliest to jump on the Internet bandwagon.  Which didn't become available to us, the 'Murican people, until about 1983.     

Facebook and Twitter (now "X") were the earliest "disrupters."  The earliest to scream for us to give them our time.  Demanding that we turn them on and stare at them for 18 hours a day.  And fall into water fountains and off curbs and into trees while our faces are planted firmly on their malignant screens.  Providing the perfect platform for us to send pictures of our lunches and our cats to our friends and neighbors.  

Oh yeah, and surf porn sites while at work.

It was a time before video games.  Before "World of Warcraft."  Before our kids could avoid quiet study in their rooms at night by figutatively stealing cars alongside "Gone in 60 Seconds."

This was a time, 1984, 40+ years ago, before half of America was born.  I had the first car phone in Orange County, Taxifornia in 1984.  Hard wired into my Supra.  I could make calls at my peril, as the cost was a whopping $1.25 a minute.  Back when $1.25 would get you a Big Mac.  People learned to talk like a Telegram so as to save money.  "Everything went great, I'll get Suzie, be home by 7, luv you."  Click...

This was a time back when we owned our time.  We had yet to embrace the  "digital life" by then.  We talked with one another, and discussed the day's issues, and planned for the future.  We all got together around the table for dinner each day.  Now?  Everyone lives in their phones.

I recall writing several years ago that "social media" would be the death of America.  Or at least American values.  Now we have a platform 140 million of our citizens go to daily.  It's called TikTok.  And it's owned by the Chinese Communist Party.  Who won't let Chinese children use it.  

TikTok was designed to corrupt our kids.  We know that.  They become bulimic or anorexic due to body conciousness.  Racism is promoted openly.  Abortion is normalized.  And promoted by this media platform.  It is corrosive.  So disruptive is TikTok that it must be shut down if not sold to an American company by sometime this month.  We'll see if that actually happens.  There's an open offer on the table of $1.6 Billion Dollars.  With a "B."  I have the feeling there's a lot more money on the line than that, and a lot of politicians on the payroll.  

Could be a fistfight on Capitol Hill. 

If I had young kids there's no way I'd allow them to have anything more than a phone without Internet capability.  They can call if in trouble.  Otherwise, they must be protected from all that our social media portends...