I’ll share my outline. Because I’m not in the mood to write anything.

Some of you have noticed that I haven’t been posting much recently. I'm thankful for the emails and messages I’ve received from so many caring friends. I've not left Ricochet. I’ve just been in a bit of a funk. A bit depressed and stressed out. Work stuff and the like. I’m sure I’ll work out of it but I’ve been a bit down recently.

This leads to apathy and laziness. I’ll get an idea for a post, or a series of ideas, and I’ll think, “Nah. I’ll just watch a ballgame. Heck with it.” Sometimes I’ll even lay out some ideas for a post, but then decide that I don’t have the energy to organize them into a coherent essay.

For anyone curious what one of my essays looks like before I flesh them out into something that builds a series of ideas into a coherent message, I’ll paste below my latest aborted post. I just listed some ideas yesterday, but then decided that I didn’t feel like writing. So here are my basic ideas, in no particular order. I’d be interested in your views on these topics:

• The Democrat/Leftist anti-war ideology of “Security Through Vulnerability” doesn’t work. We just became a lot more secure by making ourselves a lot less vulnerable.
• The “Iran Problem” was viewed as complex. It apparently was not.
• Xi and Putin are likely to be passive for the rest of Trump’s term. Because they’re not stupid. Taiwan and Eastern Europe are likely sleeping better at night these days.
• I don’t know what Trump’s ideology is. I’m not sure if Trump believes in anything other than doing whatever helps America at that time. And then when things change, doing whatever helps America at THAT time. Perhaps that’s it. Perhaps that’s enough.
• When Trump bombed Iran’s nuclear sites, my first thought was, “TDS requires Democrats to criticize whatever Trump does, but it will be awkward for leftists to support Iran’s genocidal ambitions.” But then I realized that Democrats used American taxpayers’ money to help pay for those nuclear sites, thanks to Obama’s cash shipment. So we just paid to destroy weapon systems that we paid to build. Those who view America’s two political parties as very similar might ponder that irony a bit…
• Anyone who looks at Israel and then looks at Iran and then isn’t sure who to support – that person has serious emotional problems. OK, fine, neither is perfect. But my goodness – at least one of them is trying to be…
• The greatest threat to America is obviously not Iran. It’s the Democrat Party. But Trump may have won a significant battle against both, in just a few weeks’ time. That’s very, VERY impressive. He deserves credit. Even if all he was doing was whatever he thought was best for America at the time.
• Critics predicted oil prices would quadruple or worse, but they haven’t really changed.
• Trump does and says a lot of things that seem to me to be odd or even stupid. But it’s amazing how often things work out well when he is allowed to get things done. I’m steadily becoming more tolerant of his idiosyncrasies. I’m being forced to consider the possibility that maybe his hunches are often correct, despite my doubts. For somebody with my ego, that’s hard to admit. But maybe Trump has better judgment than I do. Lordy. Did I just type that? But I can’t argue with the results.
• This month was a major setback for Iran, Putin, Xi, the Democrat Party, and other anti-American forces. The next few years don’t look good for them, either. I give thanks for Donald Trump.
• Amazing. I never thought I'd say that.