USA Officially a Banana Republic

Regarding my earlier comments about the coming military cleansing, note the following article which gives some details of the new Navy aims as to "the intersectionality of race, gender, blah, blah, blah." 

I thought military personnel were required to swear "to uphold and protect the constitution of the United States." Foolish me. 

The left is making the military an affirmative-action force, which will eventually be used to control Americans, while degrading its ability to perform its true purpose i.e. defend the USA.


The new Red Army/Navy

An important story which shows how the New York Times and others lied about the death of the policeman who died during the "invasion" of the Capitol Building. The claim that he died from being struck with a fire extinguisher by a Trump supporter was complete fiction. This and other stories which came out during the hysteria immediately after the incident are being shown as propaganda. 


New York Times-We Lied. What else did you expect?

amgreatness.com/2021/02/15/the-vast-bipartisan-pretense-of-trumps-demise/

The first signs of the disintegration of the Democratic fairyland came this week with the self-destruction of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the likely recall election of California Governor Gavin Newsom, the shambles of the Lincoln Project, the ludicrous departure of Biden press aide T.J. Ducklo, as the financial derring-do of Hunter Biden continues to be a matter of high interest.


Conrad Black on recent events and Donald J Trump.

An excellent piece by Black. I suggest anyone who stops by R&T read the article. 

Agreed. Too much personality. Not enough platform. His [expletive deleted] daughter and son-in-law were probably the worst political advisors in history. Not that Trump probably is amenable to advice. I don’t know.

“Lock her up” or “We’ll build a wall and get the Mexicans to pay for it” is the political rhetoric of a demagogue, not a platform.

I’m not Jeb Bush, Jonah Goldberg, Paul Ryan, or Mitt Romney. It would actually be okay with me if Trump had called Nancy Pelosi a “cunt” and then backed it up with well-reasoned arguments for how and why her kind is destroying the country.

I’m not a Decorum Conservative. I don’t think the gravest sin of a conservative is to upset the Communists. Jesus H. Christ. That I even have to say this. But this is how the assholes such as Romney operate.

However, along with the dash and flash a person needs a solid ideological underpinning and the ability to communicate it. With Trump, I think we saw the right (even the principled right) fall into the same sort of mass-mind thoughtlessness as with the Left. Party Uber Alles. Or Man Uber Alles.

We saw the right go mad for the politics of fashion and fad. This may sound weird, but I have intimate experience with Trump-like characters whose mouth is often their own worst enemy. Both my older brother and I would often look at each other and say, “Yeah, this guy’s a lot like dad.”

Having an exalted and impulsive ego is not following in the footsteps of Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, etc. He needed to up his game and he just never could do it. And now we have Biden.



Absolutely. As one somewhat dubious source said (and it was probably one of the liberal articles on Apple News), “People didn’t like a president saying things that would have gotten them fired.” I can see that point of view, at least for some.



I couldn’t agree more. Although he read some grand prepared speeches from time to time, I never got the feeling that they were what he really believed. As one unfriendly source said, Trump made his career from marketing his name….basically putting “Trump” in large letters on a building, showering a refurb with some money, and then moving on. And if things went wrong, he’d throw lawyers at the problem. We saw that “throw lawyers at the problem” at the end. And it was a hash.

To me, he was and always will be a con man who just happened to make some good moves for reasons I can’t imagine. No, he didn’t hate his country the way Obama does. That probably accounts for a lot of the positives. But it makes my head hurt trying to understand this guy.

Still, I’d vote him back into office in a heartbeat if the choice was between him and Romney, or someone of that ilk.

I think this old horse is getting too old for another run. But if keeps himself in good shape, who knows? But the presidency takes a lot out of a person. If he made another run, he really needs a solid team to advise him. Kung, Artler, Nelson, and Associates could make a lot of money doing so. And, really, we’re just the kind of people he needs to listen to.

And that is why his support is still so high among his followers. He has feet of clay but there is no doubt that they are American feet. Everything else is commentary. I do believe he will be the kingmaker for 24 and right now there are two who impress me as having common sense, Kristi Noem and Ron DeSantis. Both as governors rejected the models cast before them from the CDC and took political risk to keep their states operating and reopened ASAP. If either of these two gets the blessing from Mar Lago, or perhaps both. How about Kristi Noem as president and DeSantis as VP? The recent attack on both of these people by media mean that they have done the same analysis and come to the same conclusion. Most of all the turtle has to go.

I think the most important lesson Trump has taught some in the GOPee is that you don't have to win everything but if you don't fight for it you never win. Trump will be a valuable asset in finding candidates who want to win, do what they are sent to DC to do-------and go home. We have a chance, perhaps the last time, to stop the onrush of the American Communist to tyranny. There will be violence, do not kid yourself the leftists, unlike RINOs, will not surrender willingly just to have a seat at the table. 

I meant to post something on the possibilities which Trump might take over the next months and years. Having waited, the number of these possibilities has lessened as Trump has come out and declared war on Cocaine Mitch. (This was one of my options, now it is policy.)

He picked up the gauntlet

Frankly, I don't blame Trump at all. It is my belief that this option, to come back strong into the fray and fight the traitorous Tory Loyalists (RINOs) before attacking the Red Coats, (Demoncrats) was the most likely and best overall option.

Whatever Trump decided, there was going to be some risk and much blood (metaphoric) shed. That being the case, his best option is to quickly attack, purge the horses and clean out the filth in the Republican stables to get the structure in clean order before moving forward.  Cocaine Mitch, with his insane and destructive speech in the Senate gave Trump little choice.  He has forced Trump into war. This war will damage the Republicans much more than the Demoncrats, at least in the near future.  

Given that Cocaine Mitch was just re-elected, I am not sure how much damage can be done to him. I personally would hope him to be completely ruined politically and economically.  The way he has damaged the Republic with his handling of the senate trial has earned him the scorn of all Constitution-loving Americans. 

One thing that Trump and his people need to keep in mind. If they are successful in ridding the party of the parasites and Globalists, oh I repeat myself, these parasites might change party affiliation in the last few months of their tenure and vote with the Demoncrats, out of spite. If anyone needs proof of spite playing a big role in our national politics, one need only cast a glace toward the scoundrel Romney. 

How about another run with Dennis Prager and a few hand-picked others as his advisors? Never have I read anywhere that the harsh attacks by the Democrats drove Trump to the right. But this is why we have to our own thinking here as best we can. I’m sure you’re right about that.

Given the way “woke” culture is going, I would suspect in the near term that another Trump-like personage could be in the offing in the coming years. Whatever Trump’s faults (and no one is perfect), I’ve never forgotten the key point in all this: The Decorum Republicans gave us Trump.



I tend to tokenize or collect meaningful data points here and there. I know I’ve related the time, about 10 years ago now, when I was at Thanksgiving in Edmonds at my sister’s house. We were sitting around the table eating, all in good spirits. Someone (certainly not me) brought up the subject of “the homeless,” blah blah blah. I’m sure it was one of my sister’s two daughters. Anyway, I very gently (no foam, promise) pointed out that “the homeless” were not an assemblage of obvious victims, that drug abuse, alcoholism, and other effects — not “exploitative capitalism” — could explain a lot of cases.

My sister’s youngest daughter (who, at this point, had gone to college or was ready to attend soon), starting to say something, then threw down her napkin, got out of her chair, and left the room.

This was a “data point” I won’t soon forget. This is what we are dealing with, a lot of uppity females who all think they are god’s gift to compassion. “Woke” culture, to a large extent, is this desire to separate oneself from anyone who would dare prick a pin into the inflated bubble of these people’s self-regard.

I don’t blame Trump for that. His Tweets were often gratuitously reckless. But even so, the ground was already laid with these kinds of snowflakes (men and women) who have what I would consider a fascism-of-mind. It’s their feelings and self-regard über alles.

No hyperbole meant. No denigration of these people specifically intended (at the moment). I’m just laying out the facts as I understand them.

Didn’t Mitch McConnell work fairly well forwarding the Trump agenda? I would ask that if we don’t want to be a mob that we not think like one. McConnell is not Romney.

We need institutionalists, and McConnell is at least that. He and others are rightly appalled by what happened at the Capitol and Trump’s contribution to the mayhem. I will not join the team whereby anyone who doesn’t buy into Trump 100%, all the time, is an enemy of the people.

When we tied the conservative movement to this man-child, we sowed the seeds for what we are going through right now: Apologizing for a political narcissist. If he cared so damn much for the country, he wouldn’t have lied about the election being stolen (like Prager, I’m agnostic as to whether there was enough cheating to swing the election). He wouldn’t have sicced a crowd on the Capitol and his own vice president.



If the Republican Party ties itself to any one man, they are lost. They must be tied to ideas, not personalities (although a charismatic personality in terms of leadership is a must). Is there enough unrest out there to support a truly insurgent party? That’s the problem with Trump. I think he’s de-legitimized insurgency. He’s made it now much easier for McConnell, or anyone else, to just run the status quo — which as this point is a massively Big Government.

We need a leader who won’t play with people’s emotions, as I think Trump does. I think by his gratuitously bad behavior, as well as his actual milquetoast opposition to the “deep state,” he had betrayed his supporters. Given that his supporters don’t have anywhere to go, Trump will continue to have political power and influence. But I fear with Trump we’re throwing good money after bad.