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A Sense Of Urgency
The first few days of the second Trump administration might seem historic, but that is only because they are. There is much to be said and written about the specific actions taken. They do not just hint at an active and transformative administration. They set a standard and an expectation as well as a pace which could begin a true reversal of a 100-year erosion. It could be an administration that will not fundamentally transform America but build on the basic fundamentals given us in the Constitution and our traditions. It has the promise of halting what has been a deliberate transformation away from those traditions and that fundamental document.
Trump’s broad, sweeping executive actions are addressing a wide range of issues. Some will require additional action by Congress. Others will survive simply because Congress has long since abandoned its responsibilities. Some will be court-tested, as they should be. Birthright citizenship comes to mind. The current application of it was certainly not what the Reconstruction Congress had in mind when they enacted the 14th Amendment. And the way in which we now apply it is not just senseless but self-destructive. The Supreme Court has never held that children of illegal immigrants were entitled to citizenship. It is long past time for the Court to answer this practice.
But to my rather unsophisticated mind, perhaps the most important element shown by Trumpian actions is that the core issue we are facing is cultural, and there has to be a determined urgency in all we do to reclaim the very nature of the republic. We have been up to the very last inch before the abyss, and it is not the time for the timid incrementalism that establishment types have fooled themselves into endorsing for so long.
You will, I hope, forgive me if I slip back to coaching examples. Not being as worldly as the average swamp creature, I have to stay within my own common-man experiences. Among the most important things a head coach does when coming to a new job is set the tone immediately. If it is a traditionally losing program, it is critical. Although it is an overused term, there is such a thing as a team culture. And in many cases, it needs fixing.
You do not establish a culture without modeling it. The issues judged to be most important in that “transition” must be met head-on and with clarity. Of course, there are always those who do not wisely determine the most vital issues. Others may ignore them. Those most effective at this “transitioning” realize the culture is not just important but it is their responsibility.
The two most successful NFL coaches over the last twenty years or so both came to the teams they are most identified with after being fired from another. In fact, the Pro Football Hall of Fame has 18 members who were induced primarily as coaches (by my count, regardless of suspect math skills). Twelve of them were fired at least once. And that doesn’t count three others who are sure locks to be there one day. One once (so far), another twice, and yet another three times.
What they all brought with them to their new teams was a careful and clear evaluation of their past coaching stops. They also understood that the changes they make must start the second they walk through the door.
With nations, as with football teams, the more serious the conditions, the more important it is to show an urgent but calmly determined (yes, there is such a thing) and focused pace. Those things which are acceptable and those things which are not, those things which pave the path for the overall team success and those things which undermine it are all wrapped in culture.
Culture is value-based. It has nothing to do with race or sex or location. When those values at the core of a culture become instinctive, the society will function best for all.
The fundamental American culture (The American Character) is liberty-based. Its moral code is rooted in the Judeo/Christian tradition. That liberty culture requires a government that reflects individual achievement, responsibility, accountability and virtue.
One of the aspects of Trump’s rise in politics has been a population that recognized in him the same sense of dread they felt at the crumbling of the American identity; an identity that had been the basis for our incredible path to becoming the freest society in history. They felt a true sense of urgency, not just from what they saw but because those who had promised a change of direction in the past had proven to be unserious about it. They saw in Trump the urgency that they felt themselves. A culture was not just being lost, it was being abandoned and those in charge of protecting it were just watching.
If the presidential actions of late seem sweeping, it is because they must be. The sense of urgency that accompanies them is only chaotic to those who prefer the collective ruin of our culture. The rest of us can see a focused purpose and a realization that a return to our intended national nature is not just long overdue but immediately necessary for our grandchildren to enjoy the Liberty intended for them.
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No waiting. Never play defense.
All gas. No brakes. Project 2025 demands it!
Project Trump is way more radical than snoozer Project 2025.
Truth!
What is project 25?😁
George Halas never got fired. George Halas owned the team.
This seems pertinent, if confirmed: Panama will not renew its “Memorandum” with China concerning the Canal.
https://x.com/alexbward/status/1886177420069269656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1886177420069269656%7Ctwgr%5Ed4c9ffa58588587672094aa081918b86c303ee30%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbonchie%2F2025%2F02%2F02%2Ftrump-administration-lays-down-the-law-over-panama-canal-n2185118
It helps to be on good terms with the owner, just ask anyone who has worked for the Cowboys
Put the vineyard into production to supply the wedding at Cana.
As far as your expertise goes, Ole … I always thought I knew a thing or two about the West, but I couldn’t hold a candle to you.
Yes, I for one am in favor of our new monarch ruling by executive action and appropriating to himself powers of dubious constitutionality or ones that properly belong to Congress. Agreed, conservatives did once criticize Obama for the same behavior, but thankfully we in the new Republican party have ditched all that old-fashioned nonsense about separation of powers, checks and balances, and respect for the law. Just think: if we hadn’t done so, the courageous patriots of Jan. 6 (not “violent, police-beating insurrectionists on a mission to murder Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence,” as some would have it) might still be imprisoned. Freedom!
Dropping giant turds in undeserving post by respected/respectable members. So classy.
Aw, do you need a hug from your Mommy, Yarob?
The traditional RINO approach after an election win would be to look upon the devastation, perversion and corruption in place and then merely cut and trim the planned rate of increate 5% here and 10% there to take place in some distant fiscal year and declare victory. Thank God, that is not what we are seeing.
The executive branch had been weaponized into an ideological praetorian guard. Spending (e.g. USAID) proceeds without oversight and sometimes with intent of feeding domestic political operatives, cronies and grifters. The courts in NYC and DC committed procedural and substantive atrocities as part of an open perversion of justice to commit lawfare. The MSM no longer even pretends to deliver balanced factual reporting. The sheer destructive irrationality of DEI, the rise of antisemitism, suicidal urban governance on crime, homelessness and on top of it all a cynical plan to literally dissolve the American electorate with open borders…
But the REAL issue (if you are terribly clever and enlightened) is whether Donald Trump may have overstepped his constitutional authority in undoing this broad disaster as soon as possible.
The supposed lovers of the rule of law in the DC courthouse are refusing to acknowledge the DOJ’s rightful absolute authority to drop prosecutions of J6’ers prosecuted under an absurd application of Sarbanes-Oxley rejected by SCOTUS. People who cheered and demanded more censorship in social media, the end of free speech on campus, the use of SWAT teams to arrest unarmed pastors in front of their families, lauded the attempted Mueller Insurrection Conspiracy’s use of a campaign dirty trick to undo the 2016 election or cripple the elected administration, while also looking past the abuses and turf-building power grabs of the CFPB, EPA et al. are suddenly possessed of deep reverence for checks and balances and scrupulous adherence to procedure somewhat reminiscent of the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg suddenly enamored of due process and the centrality of human rights.
Obama never took on the bureaucracy (even when he originally conceded that Lois Lerner’s unlawful hindrance of issuing non-profit statue to non-leftist groups was out of bounds) because it was all his to command. The expansion of agency powers and directed abuse of conservatives was a feature not a bug. To offer some silly equivalence of conservative criticism of Obama’s abuse of expanded executive power to (enlightened and clever) criticism of Trump’s alleged abuse in curtailing it is self-owning tripe.
The notion that a habit of self-congratulating snark while the country was headed into the crapper establishes some kind of intellectual credential to pass highly selective judgment on the current revolution misses the point that the political, social and economic effluvia of an entire ethos created by self-congratulatory snarky twits is why Trump became a necessary and appropriate corrective. That self-congratulatory twits tend to find this outcome offensive is a bonus.
YEP!
So it says. We’ll see if it’s just buying time.
I wonder if China could then demand immediate repayment for all investments/expenditures made?
I stand in awe of your pointed eloquence. ‘Effluvia’, ‘ethos’ — words seldom seen in learned discourse these days. Insulting a person (who shall be unnamed, but is known to all here) without resorting to vulgarity is the height of intelligence. One does wonder, though — does the unnamed person know they’ve been insulted?
Glad to see you coming around, Yarob.
Sweeping reforms are never accomplished incrementally.
As opposed to reforms that actually reform.