Wednesday 30 April 2025 11:10:20 PM CDT
So much happening so fast what to I talk about today? About how happy that for now at least the long dark night is at least interrupted, whether by
a sunrise on the Golden Age or the American Renaissance as my friend calls it or merely a four year reprieve? Or perhaps eight. President Reagan
was in a similar situation - stopping the bleeding and actually effecting some healing before leaving the country to George Bush. Bush 41 as some call
him was not a Ronald Reagan. He was a globalist, cabalist, one-worlder, whatever one chooses to call them. Today Secretary of State Rubio (a man I have
some to respect even more in his new role) noted that the America last policy as at an end for now. Much depends on whether the Republicans can avoid
losing either house next year - if they can the Trump effect should be considerable with even more impact than Reagan. The likely successor is a much
different man than George H. W. Bush.
I wasn't born yet and history is about as reliable as news today but the information is there if you know where to look or know people who were around
they. The Republicans didn't want Ronald Reagan but he soundly beat George H. W. Bush. There was pressure for him to name Bush as VP and it seems that
he did so to prevent a rebellion that might allow Carter to win. So it was that after spending his first term fixing the problems he inherited he had
only four years. Had George Bush been the kind of man I believe J. D. Vance to be he wouldn't have squandered everything and lost the next election to
boot. Bush was the man the weak/compromised Republicans (what we call RINOs these days) wanted but a real Democrat is preferable to leftists even when
they have a weak Republican who gives them much of what they want.
Bush still might have won except for Ross Perot. As John Anderson could have been a spoiler in 1980 most of his voters were (former) Carter supporters.
Perot took mostly Republicans and cost him the election. Whether Perot did it deliberately knowing what was likely to happen is not certain but he was
known to dislike George Bush a lot. Trying it again in 1996 again guaranteed that Clinton would win. He might have, probably would have, prevailed
against the weak Dole but Perot knew he had no chance. Without Perot it would have been a near 50/50 and Dole might well have won the with fewer
"popular votes" as other Republicans have.
President Trump won the so-called popular vote and the Electoral College. Unfortunately he has only four years but losing in 2020 and having four
years to devise a plan for his next administration. Had he won in 2020 the second term might well have been more of the first - obstruction and
sabotage (some of it by Republicans) and a likely Democrat victory in 2024. VP Vance is very smart - he has the example to follow and the strength
and - I hope - judgment to continue on the course. But first he has to be elected.
That depends on the next three years and nine or so months. Thus far things look good but much of that is the disarray into which the Democrats have
fallen. The real crazies are close to being in control and that can only be good. It the Trump policies work out and Republican sabotage can be
avoided the economy should be in good shape by the midterms. If Republicans can hold both houses it should continue to improve and so far the chances
look good despite the trend of presidents losing control in the midterms. I'm surprised there hasn't been more trouble yet but my friend Alex had a
naughty little idea:
There are likely to be some Republicans in the Epstein files. Not as many as are Democrats but possibly some who are in Congress. Holding it over
their heads might ensure good behavior. Just a thought...
Alex@MyndCryme
Hmmm... later.
Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater,
nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes
the responsibility of thinking.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
Frédéric Bastiat
