MAGA | The Civil Right

It has been Prudent to wait for some of the dust to clear before applying a little Prudence to the new political, economic and governmental landscape dumped so unceremoniously upon the World, U.S. included. Trump, a bit quieter but no more polished than in 2017, has returned. If he generated a big wake, rocking many boats, rafts and canoes, it has had no moderating influence on his march to and through the sea. A lot of the upset is good and long overdue. The proto-communists and outright Islamists were in power somewhat, leading up to the Biden Carbuncle on the flow of culture. Wiser heads – and hearts – have prevailed.

But, not perfectly.

Within the ranks of Trump’s new friends and fawns there are many who act and speak as though the landscape has changed so much that they expect to be able to try any manner of different ways to govern. Indeed, many seem to think that careful reflection upon new ideas is no longer needed in the presence of a “mandate” that is as ephemeral as any of Hamas’ agreements with the Israelis. Not many minds have changed about any individual’s relationship to his or her national, federal government. Allegiances that shifted for very personal, economic or victimization reasons, can shift away just as quickly. Those of us who see the transition as transformation, should step back emotionally and politically and recognize our limitations… something Trump and those closest to him, have yet to do.

We think we are at the beginning of a revolution in America’s attitudes, but, reaching the next milestone – or millstone – will compare not to ploughing ahead through molasses, but more to moving step by torturous step through taffy, as courts have already demonstrated.

Trump’s rapid and brash actions, basically telling even mild opponents that his, Trump’s, recommendation / threat is the only way to go, may make for some great “MAGA” but at some point – soon – it’s going to meet an immovable object / opponent. One can almost feel potential opponents calculating when each will show the world, before someone else does, how to buck Trump’s steamroller. It would be Prudent to win these small battles fairly quietly, perhaps with a back-channel “thank-you” to those who acquiesce. The path will be much smoother for future cooperation.

Donald… Mr. President, you have made your point… don’t get hung up on it.

“Cabinet” nominees are gaining confirmation at the rate of one or two per day, and the Senate has even worked the first weekend, something its members are barely familiar with. They should work in a restaurant. Trump has curated an eclectic group comprised of several “automatics” who have no vulnerabilities, and a number of “threats” who promise to change how business is done, both in hiring and firing and in mission and purpose, if “both” can apply to 4 promises. With Trump setting the path and pace of change, all of his nominees appear to be ready to effect change according to the Trump vision. We’ll have to see if such is the case 6 months from now.

Biden and his controllers – scoundrels nearly all – have left administrative and quasi-legal messes behind themselves as they scoot into obscurity, not least of which are military weakness and financial infirmity. Ebullience like Trump’s will crash, more than bump, into fiscal reality. In short, if two TRILLION in spending cuts are not found quickly, our economy may not have the resilience to drag Biden’s ball-and-chain across the starting line of the race to a Golden Age. Elon Musk may admit that rocketry is more certain, and rewarding, than dueling with the deep administrative state and perpetual debt. Let’s hope that every billion counts.

Our military weakness is going to hamper Trump’s dominance on the world stage. Joe Biden’s allowing of every small (and large) nation to modify our foreign policies over the past four years, leaves the U. S. and Trump, specifically, in an odd, never-before-experienced position. The bar on border control / security, and on law-enforcement generally, was pushed so low that just the act of replacing Biden and the other anal openings in his “administration” has made it seem that Trump has changed the world for the better and, worse, that he is right about everything. This is dangerous.

Suppose, God forbid, that Harris-Walz had won. The whole leftist movement would have been convinced that it was RIGHT about everything! They/It would then have doubled down on everything Americans feared. There’s an element of this reaction as Trump and Company takes over: everything that is the opposite of what Biden did is “good,” and more of it will be better. But, we really don’t have the power that attitude implies and great international damage can be done if DJT doesn’t admit to his, and the U. S.’s limitations. If he plays things carefully and somewhat… ummm, kindly, we might say, we could be approaching the position he thinks he has, now, by the end of his term. Meanwhile, we’re in a tenuous position, able to bully Colombia, and perhaps Panama and even Iran, let’s hope, but without a much more formidable military stick, few others.

Trump has a view of who, or what, the United States ought to be relative to the rest of the world. Putting him in the Whaite House affirms to him and his closest allies, that his view of the rest of American history is the right one. While far, far better than the Obama-Biden relay-race toward darkness and communism, the rightness of Trump’s view is far from confirmed. Some countries – and economies – may be malleable as the sleeping giant awakens… others, not so much. One way or another, the new space demanded by Trump’s desires will have to accommodate to the wills of 200 other nations.

Will Trump end the war in Ukraine?… or in Israel? Can he strike a deal with Denmark and Greenland to protect North America from encroachments across the Arctic by Russia and China? We’ll see as he dispatches his bright minds to the hot-spots we’ve inherited. What is likely useless and needlessly irritating is poking fun at Canada.

There is a “new sheriff” in town, but the miscreants will adapt. God save us.

We’ve all heard of the “Supreme Court.” Historically, it has had 9 justices, one of whom designated upon presidential nomination, as “Chief Justice.” When the Constitution was ratified in 1789, the Court was defined with 6 justices, with John Jay as Chief. The fifth Chief Justice was John Marshall, who also held that position for the longest tenure: 34 years. Until 1869, the court’s size varied from 5 to 10 justices; at that point Congress set it at 9 justices and it has remained that until today.

The politicization of the court became an obvious problem under Franklin D. Roosevelt, a so-called “transformative” president, which mainly meant that he pushed policies that the Constitution had not anticipated, extra-Constitutional policies, we might call them. As the Supreme Court ruled against his socialist efforts, Roosevelt attempted to “pack” the Supreme Court, intending at one point to expand it to 15 justices… of whom enough would agree with Roosevelt’s political ideas.

“Packing” the court got shot down by a wise Senate in 1935, but it has always been technically “legal” constitutionally. How much safer we’d be today if there were an amendment that set the number of Justices at 9, safely limiting how destructive any one president could be. Harry Blackmun showed how destructive a Justice could be by inventing a “penumbra” of shadowy rights emanating from the Fourteenth Amendment and perceived “right to privacy.” It’s not known whether even Blackmun grasped how cleverly the definition of “life” could be distorted so as to convince 62 Million mothers that their unborn child is anything but.

Would he cheer or frown to find that not even womanhood can be defined in our enlightened age?

Coming home from work the other day – the day the “leaked” opinion draft indicating that Roe v. Wade could be overturned was all the RAGE – there were, in just one intersection of our not so very large town, about 250 pro-abortion hot-heads shouting at traffic, waving signs like, “My Body – My choice,” “Keep Abortion Legal,” “Bans Off My Body” and easily 50 other messages. Prudence observed that every single one of those protesting had never been aborted!

Abortion is definitely not one of those actions that can be done over, nor can the experience be related to others who have had one. What? You say that a woman can certainly discuss an abortion with another womens’ rights exerciser? Well, that’s true enough, but the abortion didn’t happen to her, did it? The person who actually experienced the abortion has been, pretty much, silenced forever. No one on this side of the veil can listen to how the abortee describes an abortion. The person in whom the abortion took place has only a circumstantial description of what happened: her brain wasn’t suctioned out of her skull so she can still speak and breath and stuff.

Of course, it is statements like that that bring down the hatred of the pro-abortion zealots who denounce the hatred being expressed, the lack of compassion for the abortion facilitator / mother, the outright… ummm, well, racism, or worse, religious beliefs Prudence is trying to impose on others! Ohh, the horror. Anyone making such a statement is trying to make an unfortunate “birthing person” feel badly about aborting the whatever it is she is carrying inside her. Aha! You called her “she.” You’re transphobic, too! You, you… you MAGA person!

Back in my town’s intersection there was a lot of anger and upset including many young men as well as women (Prudence can tell them apart). Have they any concept of what they are protesting? Is it safe to suspect that none has READ Justice Alito’s draft opinion? Or are they fired up because of the possibility that some authority-figure might have said “No!” to something they want?

What is more unfortunate is that “protests” in the Washington, D. C. area have devolved to the level of targeting the residences of Supreme Court Justices. “Protests” is in quotes because they are sliding toward riots, and Prudence can tell them apart. The now almost-expected wrong reaction from the “White House” is a failure to condemn this step towards personal, possibly physical intimidation of JUSTICES for performing the Constitutional tasks that reach the Court through legal, appellate processes. We are witnessing a creeping sickness that Prudence never expected to see.

The so-called “Biden Administration,” in thrall to a global communist utopia, utilizes the Constitution as a road-map of what to do the opposite of. The treachery and treason of the entire cabal is so monstrous as to defy belief, even as we watch it unfold. It has sunk to its lowest level yet when the “President” refuses to condemn the worst behavior of his fellow travelers… he does condemn patriotism, however. What a s-(euphemism for “turd”).

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