Posted On: Monday - January 27th 2025 10:52AM MST
In Topics: Trump Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
NOTE: More discussion on China was supposed to follow, today. It's not like the discussion, as per SafeNow in the comments, is just about shoddy Chinese building practices. There's a lot more on the economics and social life of China that must be said in rebuttal to those who think China is paved with gold.
However, this Trump stuff just can't wait! I hate to sound like the guy himself, but it really has been a week like "you haven't seen in the history of the world." (Almost?)
At the time ex-President George H.W. Bush died, Peak Stupidity had already been well annoyed with the constant flag half-masting business. The same drawn-out display for the death of an ex-President I noticed then, when I wrote I'd thought we'd bid Farewell to Kings (with the obligatory Rush song, of course!), is still going on for Jimmy Carter. I think a blurb in the news and some nice word of remembrance, the good and the bad, would have sufficed. A couple of years later, we wrote The Farewell to Kings didn't take*.
The US President is supposed to. be an administrator, not a King. We noted in Trump v Bai Dien and 2020s v 1980s that it's not 1980 anymore, much less 1924!. The Presidential election CAN be a life-changing even for the everyman now, not just other high-office holders and the bureaucrats.
We are as Libertarian and Constitutionophile here as
Otherwise, other than as a constraint on Trump-45, G.W. Bush, Øb☭ma, and even more so, Dark Brandon, ruled as Kings to implement the Invade-the-World/Invite-the-World/In-Hoc-to-the-World program. That whole "Stroke of the pen, law of the land, kinda cool" thing (mentioned mentioned here, and that was end-o'-last century even) is what Executive Orders are all about.
Just an example, no existential issue itself, is the continual bouts of forgiveness of student loans by Brandon, even after the SCROTUS spent the effort to rule he had no such power. "Attention you peons, I decree, if you've been a deadbeat on your loans, by the power of Brandon, you are hereby free of your financial shackles. Spend, spend, people. Enjoy your new rims. So let it be written, so let it be done!" It's like that, all the freaking time. The Founders' graves are full of vomit, as nauseating as it is to spin so fast in one's old age.
The Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Kings conveniently, described warnings to the good people of olde times about the rule of Kings. The people wanted a King though anyway, and, to quote another King (of Curmudgeonry) from a century back, they got that rule good and hard. We Americans didn't ask for rule by Kings again, but we've been getting them fast and furious.
However, something strange has happened. We've gotten a good King. Should we take this opportunity to bring up the US Constitution and chide President Trump that "no, you can't do that."? Haha, obviously not, but let me get down to the point here.
It's not just the Presidency that has been running way off the Constitutional tracks. We can go back a lot farther than that, to just under a century ago. Going back to FDR and the Congress at the time and that "Fair Deal", later the "New Deal" under the odious LBJ and THAT Congress, and from there on we can see violations of Amendment X come faster and more furious by the decade. It's too far gone. Most Americans wouldn't understand an argument against it. That the Feral Government is involved in almost every aspect of their lives is something that they were born "being OK with".
Well, OK then, if THAT'S the way it's gonna be, then the US President can be involved with every aspect of our lives. Thing is, the US President now, as of a week ago, is one Donald J. Trump, and he's on OUR side, and he's royally (get it?) pissed. Everything the Feral Gov't is involved in, via regulation, taxes, financial support, whatever, is fair game for more strokes of the pen. Yes, come to think of it, it IS kinda cool! It's been the coolest damn week in a long time!
See that graphic above off of yahoo? "Wait, what??" was my first thought. Oh, yeah, right, Federal money. The President is administrator of such monetary payments though some department or agency, so, yeah, there's no reason he can't threaten the Governor or whole government of California with the withholding of it. Sorry, Newscum, you live by the sword of the Feral Gov't, you die by the sword of the Feral Gov't.
Though we do consider what was said in that one book of the Bible, Peak Stupidity today bids Hello to Kings!
PS: Yes, as Ann Coulter, VDare writers, yours truly, etc., have noted, any and all E.O.s and deals can be negated on Day 1 of the next
This very move in my one example here is indeed a good part of a strategy for changing elections, hence, a possible future non-UniParty dominated Congress.
PPS: Maybe, just maybe, some States like California will hate the rule of this King so much that they will quit taking Feral Government money, and Federalism will make a comeback there ... Naaaaahhh!
* Heh, the post number fit nicely, as, if converted into a year AD, it was at a decade after Americans fought a war to say Farewell to Kings.
Comments:
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 8:38PM MST
PS: Do you know, Mr. Hale, that VDare had a quarterly, IIRC, glossy paper publication for a while? I think it was the lawfare that put a stop to that one early on - can't remember the details.
Mr. Smith, "Mission" was one of many good albums by the band. Many are "concept albums" to be listened to all through.
Hello again, SafeNow. "Scaring people straight", eh? There used to be a TV show of some sort like that. No, caving is not my kind of thing either. It's one thing to hike through caves that are known, but climbing through dark passageways and going underwater to get to (probably) air on the other end... no thank you!
Mr. Smith, "Mission" was one of many good albums by the band. Many are "concept albums" to be listened to all through.
Hello again, SafeNow. "Scaring people straight", eh? There used to be a TV show of some sort like that. No, caving is not my kind of thing either. It's one thing to hike through caves that are known, but climbing through dark passageways and going underwater to get to (probably) air on the other end... no thank you!
Hail
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 8:27PM MST
PS
Re: Chronicles magazine.
I am a subscriber to Chronicles. (Although am not currently receiving them due to being away.) I recommend it. A lot of the content is online. There have been a few Sailer articles, nothing special, published exclusively in print in Chronicles. As a longtime Sailer reader, I got the impression he rushed through them, like a circuit-speaker of old delivering the same speech as usual at the next town over before hopping back on the train or stage-coach to hit the next town.
All magazines, or at least almost all, have declined from what they were in the 19th and 20th centuries. There really are real ways in which developments have been negative here in the first quarter of the 21st century (now "in the books"; I remind all we are now in the second quarter of this century of ours). The way we consume ideas became much worse in many ways. The Tiktokification of reality and knowledge, the transfer of energies from writing to video (the latter a far-less-efficient medium). To the extent we do see thoughtful writing, it is under a huge sludge-pile.
The decline of magazines and all that that symbolizes is a shame. The causes are not hard to guess at.
In retrospect, the crisis which started to be felt as the decade of the 2000s closed, and which rolled through like a tornado in the 2010s, should have been resisted more strongly. Good publications should have found ways to deliberately continue on beyond the constraints of a "20th-century profit model." They should have been treated differently: like prestige projects or "endowments" dedicated to art. There is a huge maount of money slushing around and plenty of funds could have been found by wealthy backers, who, being White-Western people, would have the dignity and class to not meddle much or at all (no Asian would ever allow this; money-intervention would always be followed by total puppetization).
We're seeing this anyway now. We have been seeing it since the late 2010s in early form and now in fuller form. It should have happened 10 years earlier at very least, and maybe more like 15 or 20 years earlier already. The loss of quality to these places is hard to snap back into place.
As for Chronicles. I find there is still a substantial amount of worthwhile material in Chronicles, driven in no small part by a small form of the new-adapted model I reference there. There is a professionalism that indicates so many of the core figures at Chronicles are of a now-old generation when high-quality was the norm (including Paul Gottfried, editor; he recently turned 82!).
The role of "editor" in its highest sense is now greatly undermined by conditions, but this and many other roles are worth fighting for, a lot more than the hubaloo around TikTok and other short-video apps that cater to, and mold, peanut-sized attention-spans and concomitant peanut-sized thinking.
Re: Chronicles magazine.
I am a subscriber to Chronicles. (Although am not currently receiving them due to being away.) I recommend it. A lot of the content is online. There have been a few Sailer articles, nothing special, published exclusively in print in Chronicles. As a longtime Sailer reader, I got the impression he rushed through them, like a circuit-speaker of old delivering the same speech as usual at the next town over before hopping back on the train or stage-coach to hit the next town.
All magazines, or at least almost all, have declined from what they were in the 19th and 20th centuries. There really are real ways in which developments have been negative here in the first quarter of the 21st century (now "in the books"; I remind all we are now in the second quarter of this century of ours). The way we consume ideas became much worse in many ways. The Tiktokification of reality and knowledge, the transfer of energies from writing to video (the latter a far-less-efficient medium). To the extent we do see thoughtful writing, it is under a huge sludge-pile.
The decline of magazines and all that that symbolizes is a shame. The causes are not hard to guess at.
In retrospect, the crisis which started to be felt as the decade of the 2000s closed, and which rolled through like a tornado in the 2010s, should have been resisted more strongly. Good publications should have found ways to deliberately continue on beyond the constraints of a "20th-century profit model." They should have been treated differently: like prestige projects or "endowments" dedicated to art. There is a huge maount of money slushing around and plenty of funds could have been found by wealthy backers, who, being White-Western people, would have the dignity and class to not meddle much or at all (no Asian would ever allow this; money-intervention would always be followed by total puppetization).
We're seeing this anyway now. We have been seeing it since the late 2010s in early form and now in fuller form. It should have happened 10 years earlier at very least, and maybe more like 15 or 20 years earlier already. The loss of quality to these places is hard to snap back into place.
As for Chronicles. I find there is still a substantial amount of worthwhile material in Chronicles, driven in no small part by a small form of the new-adapted model I reference there. There is a professionalism that indicates so many of the core figures at Chronicles are of a now-old generation when high-quality was the norm (including Paul Gottfried, editor; he recently turned 82!).
The role of "editor" in its highest sense is now greatly undermined by conditions, but this and many other roles are worth fighting for, a lot more than the hubaloo around TikTok and other short-video apps that cater to, and mold, peanut-sized attention-spans and concomitant peanut-sized thinking.
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 6:04PM MST
PS: Now I see why Alex Jones HATES that Brian Stelter, Mr. Hail. Mr. Jones went on an epic rant on his show, pretty much into the entertainment arena at one point - he showed the clip to Tucker Carlson during the interview I watched. (I don't know if they did more than one.)
What a lyin' sack o' something this Stelter guy is! He's correct about who did what on TV, but he's got his slant all over everything. Oh, yeah, previous administrations did the same? Bai Dien's admin let in 2 to 3 million a year, totaling to 10-12 million from the estimates I've seen.
Then, this "journalist" says:
“President Trump is, of course, a television producer,” CNN’s Abby Phillip said on Monday’s “NewsNight,” and this is “a story he wants the entire American public to watch: ICE agents in cities near you, outfitted with military-style equipment, detaining migrants that the Trump administration labels as dangerous.”
They "labeled" them "dangerous" because they've murdered and raped or are part of violent gangs that do that and torture too.
"Trump administration officials say the X posts and TV programs are, in part, meant to deter people from coming to the United States. The highly publicized actions are also about proving Trump is following through on campaign promises.
Well, yeah, is there anything wrong with deterring an invasion? The guy wrote up top that the other administrations were deporting as many people. Is there something bad about keeping one's promises? I mean, yeah, it's new to me, but it's a good thing.
I can't stand that guy.
What a lyin' sack o' something this Stelter guy is! He's correct about who did what on TV, but he's got his slant all over everything. Oh, yeah, previous administrations did the same? Bai Dien's admin let in 2 to 3 million a year, totaling to 10-12 million from the estimates I've seen.
Then, this "journalist" says:
“President Trump is, of course, a television producer,” CNN’s Abby Phillip said on Monday’s “NewsNight,” and this is “a story he wants the entire American public to watch: ICE agents in cities near you, outfitted with military-style equipment, detaining migrants that the Trump administration labels as dangerous.”
They "labeled" them "dangerous" because they've murdered and raped or are part of violent gangs that do that and torture too.
"Trump administration officials say the X posts and TV programs are, in part, meant to deter people from coming to the United States. The highly publicized actions are also about proving Trump is following through on campaign promises.
Well, yeah, is there anything wrong with deterring an invasion? The guy wrote up top that the other administrations were deporting as many people. Is there something bad about keeping one's promises? I mean, yeah, it's new to me, but it's a good thing.
I can't stand that guy.
SafeNow
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 5:20PM MST
PS
If treating an immigration sweep as a made-for-tv moment yields benefits, then how about a tour of a scary supermax cell as a made-for-mass-consumption moment. Spanish narration. The tour would end in the cage in which the prisoner gets to spend one hour per day, alone, as respite from the 23-hours of solitary in the cell. But wait, the tourguide’s end-end would be to report that some of the illegals here were chicken-pluckers or leafblowers; being here illegally was the extent of their crime. Would it work? Would it be TOO cruel? Would Trump have the gumption to do it?
The above supermax risk would scare the heck out of me. The only thing that I find scarier is that lately I have been watching some of these videos of people they call cavers who crawl through claustrophobic spaces underground. I think to myself, For all the money in the world I would not be able to handle this.
If treating an immigration sweep as a made-for-tv moment yields benefits, then how about a tour of a scary supermax cell as a made-for-mass-consumption moment. Spanish narration. The tour would end in the cage in which the prisoner gets to spend one hour per day, alone, as respite from the 23-hours of solitary in the cell. But wait, the tourguide’s end-end would be to report that some of the illegals here were chicken-pluckers or leafblowers; being here illegally was the extent of their crime. Would it work? Would it be TOO cruel? Would Trump have the gumption to do it?
The above supermax risk would scare the heck out of me. The only thing that I find scarier is that lately I have been watching some of these videos of people they call cavers who crawl through claustrophobic spaces underground. I think to myself, For all the money in the world I would not be able to handle this.
A Hello to Kings
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 12:18PM MST
PS: A Hello to Kings...
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Cheers! ☮️
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Cheers! ☮️
Hail
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 11:54AM MST
PS
I find this perspective, from the potato-shaped doofus Brian Stelter, to be correct:
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TRUMP'S RAIDS ARE MADE FOR TV
Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN
Tue January 28, 2025
Every president oversees deportations of undocumented migrants. But President Donald Trump is producing “deportation TV” – making sure people around the world can see his immigration policy in action.
The administration’s immigration sweeps have a made-for-TV feel, as Trump-aligned media outlets have been allowed to ride along with law enforcement agents in recent days. The actions have a made-for-the-internet feel, too, as officials share photos on social media of deportation flights and border deployments.
On Tuesday morning, for example, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted videos and photos on X from an enforcement operation in the Bronx. Speaking like a newscaster, Noem said that she was “live this AM from NYC.” In a matter of minutes, Noem’s videos were the top story on Fox News, the main pro-Trump network in the country.
“President Trump is, of course, a television producer,” CNN’s Abby Phillip said on Monday’s “NewsNight,” and this is “a story he wants the entire American public to watch: ICE agents in cities near you, outfitted with military-style equipment, detaining migrants that the Trump administration labels as dangerous.”
Trump administration officials say the X posts and TV programs are, in part, meant to deter people from coming to the United States. The highly publicized actions are also about proving Trump is following through on campaign promises.
Last week, Fox correspondent Bill Melugin was given what the network called “exclusive access” to an ICE patrol in Boston. Melugin’s report showed federal agents arresting a combative man who said, “I’m not going back to Haiti! You feel me?”
The clip generated lots of attention both on Fox and online, and Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, leveraged the moment. “He’s wrong. He’s going back to Haiti. I can tell him that,” Homan said.
Over the weekend, Trump administration officials arranged another ride-along, that time in Chicago, for the daytime TV talk show star Dr. Phil McGraw.
McGraw, who endorsed Trump during the 2024 campaign, livestreamed some immigration sweeps on his own network, Merit TV. At one point, he was recognized by one of the men being detained – a surreal scene that Fox subsequently wrote about.
(...)
The Trump administration’s approach underscores the difference between showing and telling. While past administrations have employed a wide array of immigration enforcement efforts, and have told the public about it, the Trump administration is emphasizing the “show,” recognizing what voters see and how it makes them feel is politically important.
During President Joe Biden’s years in office, right-wing media outlets emphasized immigration-related threats; “we call it Biden migrant crime,” Trump said on the campaign trail, echoing his favorite pundits on Fox.
Now, with Trump back in office, Fox’s fear factor has ratcheted down; the network’s shows are parroting the administration’s rhetoric about removing “the worst first,” meaning people with a litany of criminal convictions. (...)
A viral post on the social media site Bluesky captured the left’s prevailing sentiment on Monday: “The reality show President is creating mini ‘reality shows’ to satisfy the voyeuristic interests” of Americans, knowing that “a significant number of people get pleasure from watching others suffer.”
But over on X, where right-wing accounts dominate, the primary emotion is excitement. Accounts like @LibsOfTikTok are reposting ICE stats about arrests and expressing relief about criminals being deported.
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Homan on Monday night about treating the immigration sweeps as “a made-for-TV moment.”
“We’re sending a message,” Homan said. “It’s not OK to be in this country illegally. It is not OK to enter this country illegally. It is a crime. And there’s going to be consequences.”
__________________
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/01/28/media/trumps-made-for-tv-raids/index.html
I find this perspective, from the potato-shaped doofus Brian Stelter, to be correct:
_______________
TRUMP'S RAIDS ARE MADE FOR TV
Analysis by Brian Stelter, CNN
Tue January 28, 2025
Every president oversees deportations of undocumented migrants. But President Donald Trump is producing “deportation TV” – making sure people around the world can see his immigration policy in action.
The administration’s immigration sweeps have a made-for-TV feel, as Trump-aligned media outlets have been allowed to ride along with law enforcement agents in recent days. The actions have a made-for-the-internet feel, too, as officials share photos on social media of deportation flights and border deployments.
On Tuesday morning, for example, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted videos and photos on X from an enforcement operation in the Bronx. Speaking like a newscaster, Noem said that she was “live this AM from NYC.” In a matter of minutes, Noem’s videos were the top story on Fox News, the main pro-Trump network in the country.
“President Trump is, of course, a television producer,” CNN’s Abby Phillip said on Monday’s “NewsNight,” and this is “a story he wants the entire American public to watch: ICE agents in cities near you, outfitted with military-style equipment, detaining migrants that the Trump administration labels as dangerous.”
Trump administration officials say the X posts and TV programs are, in part, meant to deter people from coming to the United States. The highly publicized actions are also about proving Trump is following through on campaign promises.
Last week, Fox correspondent Bill Melugin was given what the network called “exclusive access” to an ICE patrol in Boston. Melugin’s report showed federal agents arresting a combative man who said, “I’m not going back to Haiti! You feel me?”
The clip generated lots of attention both on Fox and online, and Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, leveraged the moment. “He’s wrong. He’s going back to Haiti. I can tell him that,” Homan said.
Over the weekend, Trump administration officials arranged another ride-along, that time in Chicago, for the daytime TV talk show star Dr. Phil McGraw.
McGraw, who endorsed Trump during the 2024 campaign, livestreamed some immigration sweeps on his own network, Merit TV. At one point, he was recognized by one of the men being detained – a surreal scene that Fox subsequently wrote about.
(...)
The Trump administration’s approach underscores the difference between showing and telling. While past administrations have employed a wide array of immigration enforcement efforts, and have told the public about it, the Trump administration is emphasizing the “show,” recognizing what voters see and how it makes them feel is politically important.
During President Joe Biden’s years in office, right-wing media outlets emphasized immigration-related threats; “we call it Biden migrant crime,” Trump said on the campaign trail, echoing his favorite pundits on Fox.
Now, with Trump back in office, Fox’s fear factor has ratcheted down; the network’s shows are parroting the administration’s rhetoric about removing “the worst first,” meaning people with a litany of criminal convictions. (...)
A viral post on the social media site Bluesky captured the left’s prevailing sentiment on Monday: “The reality show President is creating mini ‘reality shows’ to satisfy the voyeuristic interests” of Americans, knowing that “a significant number of people get pleasure from watching others suffer.”
But over on X, where right-wing accounts dominate, the primary emotion is excitement. Accounts like @LibsOfTikTok are reposting ICE stats about arrests and expressing relief about criminals being deported.
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Homan on Monday night about treating the immigration sweeps as “a made-for-TV moment.”
“We’re sending a message,” Homan said. “It’s not OK to be in this country illegally. It is not OK to enter this country illegally. It is a crime. And there’s going to be consequences.”
__________________
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/01/28/media/trumps-made-for-tv-raids/index.html
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 11:37AM MST
PS: "... little *bit* juvenile", well "... a lot ..."
Anyway, thanks for the heads-up to that article and the site itself. I'd known it's around - Mr. Sailer's book has a number of chapters that taken from old Chronicles articles of his, and now I read that John Derbyshire will write there. (Or, he'll write there more. I wasn't sure what he meant.)
Anyway, thanks for the heads-up to that article and the site itself. I'd known it's around - Mr. Sailer's book has a number of chapters that taken from old Chronicles articles of his, and now I read that John Derbyshire will write there. (Or, he'll write there more. I wasn't sure what he meant.)
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 11:35AM MST
PS: I read that Chronicles article, Mr. Hail. This Matt Boose might be pretty young, as he comes across a little big juvenile.
"... typical Conservative loser's attitude..." Get bent. We've seen a whole lot more than Mr. Boose has, apparently. Lots of what is happening now should have happened 8 years ago. That's what we expected. We didn't expect to #LOSE so badly back then, but after being burned, we were not at all sure that Trump had learned a thing.
"When he burst onto the political scene in 2015, Trump famously pledged that he would make America win so much that we would get tired of winning. Four years ago, it was difficult to believe Trump’s words could resonate again." Yeah, because he was full of BS most of the time. Promises were NOT kept.
If he'd won 4 years ago, it might have gone differently from what we see now. It may have been the same-old same-old. I read this same from Instapundit Glenn Reynolds in his latest NY Post article, but there's yet another post I want to write.
"He returns to power with more goodwill than he has ever had, with a public ready to turn the page on woke leftism, and a loyal team willing to execute his mandate." It's that loyal team part, not swamp creatures, that is making the difference. We could see the stupidity last time, and we told him. (Trump did admit this in his Joe Rogan interview.)
"The “blackpillers” who doubted Trump have been chastened and those who remained loyal and steady are having the last laugh." They're not being chastened. They're probably pretty happy right now. Being loyal is one thing. Thinking we're headed to the next Golden Age is quite another. I voted 3 times for the guy, went to a rally in Summer '16, almost went to Washington, FS, and all that. That's loyal. It doesn't mean I haven't called him a dumbass, bigmouth, and blowhard in the meantime. I even wrote letters to Lara!
"... typical Conservative loser's attitude..." Get bent. We've seen a whole lot more than Mr. Boose has, apparently. Lots of what is happening now should have happened 8 years ago. That's what we expected. We didn't expect to #LOSE so badly back then, but after being burned, we were not at all sure that Trump had learned a thing.
"When he burst onto the political scene in 2015, Trump famously pledged that he would make America win so much that we would get tired of winning. Four years ago, it was difficult to believe Trump’s words could resonate again." Yeah, because he was full of BS most of the time. Promises were NOT kept.
If he'd won 4 years ago, it might have gone differently from what we see now. It may have been the same-old same-old. I read this same from Instapundit Glenn Reynolds in his latest NY Post article, but there's yet another post I want to write.
"He returns to power with more goodwill than he has ever had, with a public ready to turn the page on woke leftism, and a loyal team willing to execute his mandate." It's that loyal team part, not swamp creatures, that is making the difference. We could see the stupidity last time, and we told him. (Trump did admit this in his Joe Rogan interview.)
"The “blackpillers” who doubted Trump have been chastened and those who remained loyal and steady are having the last laugh." They're not being chastened. They're probably pretty happy right now. Being loyal is one thing. Thinking we're headed to the next Golden Age is quite another. I voted 3 times for the guy, went to a rally in Summer '16, almost went to Washington, FS, and all that. That's loyal. It doesn't mean I haven't called him a dumbass, bigmouth, and blowhard in the meantime. I even wrote letters to Lara!
Hail
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 8:22AM MST
PS
The below some excerpts from:
"Trump Shows Conservatives How to Win Again"
Chronicles Magazine
by Matt Boos, January 28, 2025
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Trump has humbled critics across the political spectrum, including right-wing pessimists who have long dismissed him following the failures of his first term. It’s true that Trump’s first term had its disappointments, but Trump was also operating in an unfamiliar and inhospitable climate. The left and, even more, the GOP establishment needed to be beaten into submission.
The Donald started his second term with a blitzkrieg of executive actions on mass immigration, DEI, and other sacred cows of progressivism. He took direct aim at the federal anti-discrimination regime packaged as “civil rights” by President Lyndon Johnson and used by the left to inject the narrative of systemic discrimination into the public sphere. (...)
The “blackpillers” who doubted Trump have been chastened and those who remained loyal and steady are having the last laugh.
This spectacular change in historical trajectory would not have been possible without Trump and his uncompromising confidence. If Trump had a typical conservative’s loser attitude he would have quit a long time ago. There is much work to be done, but a return to sanity appears within reach at last. Perhaps, with Trump as their guide, conservatives can finally allow themselves to win.
____________________
The below some excerpts from:
"Trump Shows Conservatives How to Win Again"
Chronicles Magazine
by Matt Boos, January 28, 2025
____________________
Trump has humbled critics across the political spectrum, including right-wing pessimists who have long dismissed him following the failures of his first term. It’s true that Trump’s first term had its disappointments, but Trump was also operating in an unfamiliar and inhospitable climate. The left and, even more, the GOP establishment needed to be beaten into submission.
The Donald started his second term with a blitzkrieg of executive actions on mass immigration, DEI, and other sacred cows of progressivism. He took direct aim at the federal anti-discrimination regime packaged as “civil rights” by President Lyndon Johnson and used by the left to inject the narrative of systemic discrimination into the public sphere. (...)
The “blackpillers” who doubted Trump have been chastened and those who remained loyal and steady are having the last laugh.
This spectacular change in historical trajectory would not have been possible without Trump and his uncompromising confidence. If Trump had a typical conservative’s loser attitude he would have quit a long time ago. There is much work to be done, but a return to sanity appears within reach at last. Perhaps, with Trump as their guide, conservatives can finally allow themselves to win.
____________________
Hail
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 8:14AM MST
PS
I think I'll be able to join the optimism only if I see several things sustained over a period of months, at least:
Sustained numbers of deportations overall; plus many credible reports of self-deportations (apparently the Trump peoepl'es PR-blitz plan); AND many forcible deportations of law-abiding people. It's too easy to round up criminals and dump them back on Colombia and Brazil. Do they have the courage to deport inoffensive illegals? But even those things are still not enough for me: All the above, PLUS announcement of strict limits on H1b and other such visas, and a few other policies of similar spirit.
But the real thing needed is vision. I am a skeptic that the main-line of the Trump governing coalition (whatever it is, exactly; a one-man movement is inherently suspicious to me). The vision needed would be this:
An announcement of a National Demographic Policy; in effect, a White North America Policy. (It wouldn't be named that, of course.)
For those squeamish about that previous paragraph, let me ask a simple and direct question:
What is the purpose of the deportations?
I think I'll be able to join the optimism only if I see several things sustained over a period of months, at least:
Sustained numbers of deportations overall; plus many credible reports of self-deportations (apparently the Trump peoepl'es PR-blitz plan); AND many forcible deportations of law-abiding people. It's too easy to round up criminals and dump them back on Colombia and Brazil. Do they have the courage to deport inoffensive illegals? But even those things are still not enough for me: All the above, PLUS announcement of strict limits on H1b and other such visas, and a few other policies of similar spirit.
But the real thing needed is vision. I am a skeptic that the main-line of the Trump governing coalition (whatever it is, exactly; a one-man movement is inherently suspicious to me). The vision needed would be this:
An announcement of a National Demographic Policy; in effect, a White North America Policy. (It wouldn't be named that, of course.)
For those squeamish about that previous paragraph, let me ask a simple and direct question:
What is the purpose of the deportations?
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 7:35AM MST
PS: That is indeed he problem with the Federal King. He's got advisors, as I suppose most Kings have always had. He doesn't have to listen to them, though. So far, we can give him shit, without being treated like Bartholomew Cubbins, at least, so we got that ...
About DHS, yes, I was the 1st one to hate the whole idea of it, and it's daughter, the TSA, 23 years ago. You're right that now's not the time. CBP, ICE, etc. only got put under DHS's umbrella a few years ago. It could be taken out and DHS disbanded, but I'm dreaming. As with eVerify, not a Libertarian's idea of a good time, now's not the time to fight that battle.
About DHS, yes, I was the 1st one to hate the whole idea of it, and it's daughter, the TSA, 23 years ago. You're right that now's not the time. CBP, ICE, etc. only got put under DHS's umbrella a few years ago. It could be taken out and DHS disbanded, but I'm dreaming. As with eVerify, not a Libertarian's idea of a good time, now's not the time to fight that battle.
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 7:31AM MST
PS: One thing with your comparison to Bai Dien, Mr. Hail, is that the huge influx (2-3 million yearly) has already been cut WAY down, and the plan with the soldiers (for now) on the border is to keep it at very close to 0. Still, there remains the accumulated number and offspring thereof (the latter explaining why the Bug-out Baby loophole must be closed). Then, yes, if you keep LEE-GULL numbers any higher than a few 10's of thousands per year, maybe 100,000, we're not coming ahead.
One wonders if Trump understands even, how many of the legal immigrants are non-White (what 98%?). He's not a numbers guy. Steven Miller, if he hasn't tried already, has got to show him pictures of all Indian computer employees, the massive neighborhoods, a chunk of the State of New Jersey (Trump oughta be familiar) and places all over the country - rambling treeless acres and acres full of ticky-tacky boxes, as the song went. Being a real estate guy, maybe that would get to Trump.
You've got to get creative to get through to the guy. Just saying 400,000 likely means nothing to him, the same as if you'd said 40,000.
One wonders if Trump understands even, how many of the legal immigrants are non-White (what 98%?). He's not a numbers guy. Steven Miller, if he hasn't tried already, has got to show him pictures of all Indian computer employees, the massive neighborhoods, a chunk of the State of New Jersey (Trump oughta be familiar) and places all over the country - rambling treeless acres and acres full of ticky-tacky boxes, as the song went. Being a real estate guy, maybe that would get to Trump.
You've got to get creative to get through to the guy. Just saying 400,000 likely means nothing to him, the same as if you'd said 40,000.
Hail
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 7:04AM MST
PS
I see many signs they are working at keeping the momentum going.
Today the new Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, has shown up at the latest deportation location for a kind of glamor-shoot of herself overseeing some more deportations.
A lot of all this seems like someone directing a movie. And the lack of hysteria from the Left is an interesting part of the script. There almost is no more "anti-Trump resistance"; or its so weak and ineffective as to be scripted that way by a movie-writer, to let the protagonist keep going.
(By the way, on the "DHS" role in the deportations. What happened to dissolving the formerly-non-existent DHS (Department of Homeland Security)? Called for by principled elements of both Left and Right at various times throughout the 2010s and even into the early 2020s. But now it'll be said it can't be abolished because it's necessary to deport illegals.)
I see many signs they are working at keeping the momentum going.
Today the new Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, has shown up at the latest deportation location for a kind of glamor-shoot of herself overseeing some more deportations.
A lot of all this seems like someone directing a movie. And the lack of hysteria from the Left is an interesting part of the script. There almost is no more "anti-Trump resistance"; or its so weak and ineffective as to be scripted that way by a movie-writer, to let the protagonist keep going.
(By the way, on the "DHS" role in the deportations. What happened to dissolving the formerly-non-existent DHS (Department of Homeland Security)? Called for by principled elements of both Left and Right at various times throughout the 2010s and even into the early 2020s. But now it'll be said it can't be abolished because it's necessary to deport illegals.)
Hail
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 6:56AM MST
PS
Here is the other problem with the Federal King model:
What if the Homan Deportations rate increases to 3x its current (annualized) rate (as reported); and rises to 750,000/annum of current-illegals deported?
What if, in the meantime, the Musk/Vivek H1b plan goes through and the same orange-haired Federal King increases such visas to 250,000/annum with a known multiplier of chain-migrants of 3x, for a total of 750,000 new LEEE-GULLL people mainly from South Asia?
Here is the other problem with the Federal King model:
What if the Homan Deportations rate increases to 3x its current (annualized) rate (as reported); and rises to 750,000/annum of current-illegals deported?
What if, in the meantime, the Musk/Vivek H1b plan goes through and the same orange-haired Federal King increases such visas to 250,000/annum with a known multiplier of chain-migrants of 3x, for a total of 750,000 new LEEE-GULLL people mainly from South Asia?
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 6:52AM MST
PS: Leaving the large amount still of legal immigration aside for this comment, which MUST be dealt with, as you say, I really think Trump is serious about keeping this going. He must get upset about Americans like me thinking he's incapable based on the lack of progress during his last term. He wants to be a winner. Will he think we LUV him because he deported the 1/2 million violent ones? We'll see I guess. I don't think Steven Miller, Steve Bannon, and Tom Homan will be satisfied with that - they need to keep pressing the issues, giving Trump the numbers, like "39 million to go".
IMO, the ctrl-left hasn't pushed back much because they don't know where to start as they are under a Blitzkrieg attack.
I may be way too optimistic...
IMO, the ctrl-left hasn't pushed back much because they don't know where to start as they are under a Blitzkrieg attack.
I may be way too optimistic...
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 6:46AM MST
PS: I got off track, Mr. Hail. I think it would take half a year, maybe a whole one, of a steady serious number of deportations, including well-publicized raids of workplaces where there aren't necessarily any violent criminals being taken, to get self-deportation rolling.
One thing President Trump is very good at is communicating as a salesman, deal-maker, and marketer. He needs to have his people tweet out the numbers each day, make sure to cover various areas of the country, and, no matter who may be trying to block it, don't get into that in the communications, but make it clear that this is a long-term program.
Homan does a great job dealing with the enemy press.
One thing President Trump is very good at is communicating as a salesman, deal-maker, and marketer. He needs to have his people tweet out the numbers each day, make sure to cover various areas of the country, and, no matter who may be trying to block it, don't get into that in the communications, but make it clear that this is a long-term program.
Homan does a great job dealing with the enemy press.
Moderator
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 6:42AM MST
PS: Hello, Mr. Hail. Yes, I've been thinking about the rates, but the first days and weeks are (hopefully) just ramping up of the program. We need 5 - 10 thousand a day to make a serious change. 1.5 to 3 million, well, yeah, that would still make it a 10-20 year program, but it could never go on that long (while serious border control could.)
There'll be others coming along who will say we've done more than enough, or the whole thing is Fascist and we need to end it. It could even swing back the other way - this is why it's important the programs get put into law. More that that even, because Bai Dien, Obama, etc, don't really give a damn even when there are laws in place, is to change the mindset of the population. I hope if this program is steady (after being ramped up) for a couple of years, there will be no more sob-news-stories - stuff gets old. The mindset of Americans must become "of course, they can't be here - it's ILLEGAL".
Punishing employers with jail time may do just as much good, along with threatening, as Trump did to California here, States with withholding funding, to States the give any welfare benefits to illegal aliens. Next, come the schools - no "free" schooling paid for by Americans. Next, you punish States that have laws allowing automatic "free" treatment in ERs. This could go on. Dang if it's anything like Federalism, but then, if they keep feeding from the Federal trough - it might teach some States a thing or two
There'll be others coming along who will say we've done more than enough, or the whole thing is Fascist and we need to end it. It could even swing back the other way - this is why it's important the programs get put into law. More that that even, because Bai Dien, Obama, etc, don't really give a damn even when there are laws in place, is to change the mindset of the population. I hope if this program is steady (after being ramped up) for a couple of years, there will be no more sob-news-stories - stuff gets old. The mindset of Americans must become "of course, they can't be here - it's ILLEGAL".
Punishing employers with jail time may do just as much good, along with threatening, as Trump did to California here, States with withholding funding, to States the give any welfare benefits to illegal aliens. Next, come the schools - no "free" schooling paid for by Americans. Next, you punish States that have laws allowing automatic "free" treatment in ERs. This could go on. Dang if it's anything like Federalism, but then, if they keep feeding from the Federal trough - it might teach some States a thing or two
Hail
Tuesday - January 28th 2025 5:24AM MST
PS
-- Trump vs Biden deportation rates --
It's now reported that the annualized rate for deportations in 2025, under Trump-II, based on the first seven days of the (highly publicized) Homan Deportations, may break the 250,000/year mark.
This 250,000 number is --- highly underwhelming. Another of many cases of reality and perception mismatching. The Trump people have promised the rate will increase, but it may be a usual sort of bluff from them (in part a big to induce self-deportation).
COMPARISONS with the Homan Deporation rate of 250,000/year
(1.) What is the number of LEE-GULL immigrants to be admitted? (The net effect of the H1b visa alone, including chain-migrants from H1b-recipients, could cancel out the entirety of the deportations at the current rate.)
(2.) The Biden rate for "fiscal year 2024" (Oct 1, 2023 thru Sept 30, 2024) was 271,000 deportations. That is actually higher than the current extrapolated-to-full-year Human Deportation rate!
Meanwhile, the total "stock" of current-illegals could be 25,000,000. Plus a few tens of millions more who are what I'd put into categories such as "dubious legals," "semi-illegals," and "legalized illegals." People in those categories it would be harder to deport. A truly committed regime could take many practical measures to try to make it happen, or to induce such people to leave the USA permanently without a confrontation.
The Trump-II rate so far (250,000/year extrapolated from the first week's rate) will not make much of a dent in the status-quo. I think there is a wide realization on the Left of Trump being not a true threat to the status-quo. The lack of much pushback in 2024-25 versus 2016-17 demands an explanation. I think that's it, although it's a tacit and maybe subconscious thing going on with the Left.
The realization on the Left is the man is more about "show" than a true fiery moral commitment to a re-envisioned North America, a new regime that favors White-Christian interests explicitly (as the core of his support would want).
It'd be funny if the Trump deportations are actually just business-as-usual (if the annualized rate holds) but done with sleek marketing, fist-pumping, and "fascist overtones". The caveat, of course, is that we'd have to give a few more weeks at least to make this judgement with more certainty.
Even if the absolute-numerical difference may be minimal, there is clearly a difference in "vibes". Partisans of Trump will say the marketing and PR on behalf of the Homan Deportations will induce many self-deportations and limit future potential illegal entries, so the net effect is large and the comparison with the business-as-usual Biden deportations is misleading.
The big question to me is, what effect will Trump-II have on the White birth-share. A question I published on last year. In the 19th and 20th century, big evens actually meant things tangibly. In the 21st century, increasingly it looks like a matter of appearance and reality being detached. As I say, I think some realization of that is the reason for the Left's silence in the 2024-25 Trump-ascension period.
-- Trump vs Biden deportation rates --
It's now reported that the annualized rate for deportations in 2025, under Trump-II, based on the first seven days of the (highly publicized) Homan Deportations, may break the 250,000/year mark.
This 250,000 number is --- highly underwhelming. Another of many cases of reality and perception mismatching. The Trump people have promised the rate will increase, but it may be a usual sort of bluff from them (in part a big to induce self-deportation).
COMPARISONS with the Homan Deporation rate of 250,000/year
(1.) What is the number of LEE-GULL immigrants to be admitted? (The net effect of the H1b visa alone, including chain-migrants from H1b-recipients, could cancel out the entirety of the deportations at the current rate.)
(2.) The Biden rate for "fiscal year 2024" (Oct 1, 2023 thru Sept 30, 2024) was 271,000 deportations. That is actually higher than the current extrapolated-to-full-year Human Deportation rate!
Meanwhile, the total "stock" of current-illegals could be 25,000,000. Plus a few tens of millions more who are what I'd put into categories such as "dubious legals," "semi-illegals," and "legalized illegals." People in those categories it would be harder to deport. A truly committed regime could take many practical measures to try to make it happen, or to induce such people to leave the USA permanently without a confrontation.
The Trump-II rate so far (250,000/year extrapolated from the first week's rate) will not make much of a dent in the status-quo. I think there is a wide realization on the Left of Trump being not a true threat to the status-quo. The lack of much pushback in 2024-25 versus 2016-17 demands an explanation. I think that's it, although it's a tacit and maybe subconscious thing going on with the Left.
The realization on the Left is the man is more about "show" than a true fiery moral commitment to a re-envisioned North America, a new regime that favors White-Christian interests explicitly (as the core of his support would want).
It'd be funny if the Trump deportations are actually just business-as-usual (if the annualized rate holds) but done with sleek marketing, fist-pumping, and "fascist overtones". The caveat, of course, is that we'd have to give a few more weeks at least to make this judgement with more certainty.
Even if the absolute-numerical difference may be minimal, there is clearly a difference in "vibes". Partisans of Trump will say the marketing and PR on behalf of the Homan Deportations will induce many self-deportations and limit future potential illegal entries, so the net effect is large and the comparison with the business-as-usual Biden deportations is misleading.
The big question to me is, what effect will Trump-II have on the White birth-share. A question I published on last year. In the 19th and 20th century, big evens actually meant things tangibly. In the 21st century, increasingly it looks like a matter of appearance and reality being detached. As I say, I think some realization of that is the reason for the Left's silence in the 2024-25 Trump-ascension period.
Moderator
Monday - January 27th 2025 5:55PM MST
PS: Hello, SafeNow. I thought that was Nick Lowe with "You've gotta be cruel to be kind... In the right measure..." I take it The Bard didn't get it from Nick Lowe, so thanks.
Border Czar Homan come across as being cruel to be kind - did you see him talk about that sobbing actress Gomez on her viral video, all worried about "her people". Hmmm, what makes her think all illegal aliens are her people, Mexicans, that is. Some are African, some Haitian, some Chinese... man, that's kinda racist of her... Back to Homan, the talk gets me worried that they will stop at only the 1/2 million violent criminals. It's possible that that he's talking about it this way to lighten the pushback as it gets ramped up even further. There WILL be sob stories. It'll be a good thing when they are completely ignored.
I agree, Congressmen who would deign to be cruel, so as to be kind, wouldn't last but the one term. Ron Paul was an exception I suppose - must have been good people in his Texas district.
Border Czar Homan come across as being cruel to be kind - did you see him talk about that sobbing actress Gomez on her viral video, all worried about "her people". Hmmm, what makes her think all illegal aliens are her people, Mexicans, that is. Some are African, some Haitian, some Chinese... man, that's kinda racist of her... Back to Homan, the talk gets me worried that they will stop at only the 1/2 million violent criminals. It's possible that that he's talking about it this way to lighten the pushback as it gets ramped up even further. There WILL be sob stories. It'll be a good thing when they are completely ignored.
I agree, Congressmen who would deign to be cruel, so as to be kind, wouldn't last but the one term. Ron Paul was an exception I suppose - must have been good people in his Texas district.
SafeN
Monday - January 27th 2025 5:03PM MST
PS
Hamlet, speaking to his mother, explains his modus operandi: “I must be cruel, so as to be kind.” And thusly, in only nine words, the MO of our Good King Trump could be summarized and justified. Public opinion does seem to be with the epigram; so, a big Yay. But I do worry about whether the public would similarly welcome a slate of cruel-to-be-kind congressional candidates. The difference is that Congress, with its power of the purse, dispenses gimmies. And so, a Congressional candidate who follows the CTBK template would be met with voters who reject the cruelty, because it directly hits them in their wallet.
Hamlet, speaking to his mother, explains his modus operandi: “I must be cruel, so as to be kind.” And thusly, in only nine words, the MO of our Good King Trump could be summarized and justified. Public opinion does seem to be with the epigram; so, a big Yay. But I do worry about whether the public would similarly welcome a slate of cruel-to-be-kind congressional candidates. The difference is that Congress, with its power of the purse, dispenses gimmies. And so, a Congressional candidate who follows the CTBK template would be met with voters who reject the cruelty, because it directly hits them in their wallet.
Hold your fire is a great album...
Even if it a sort of transition album...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66MhWmOUCA
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