Meltdown In Progress

Anyway, Trump gets inaugurated on Friday. I would like to say that it wasn't even twenty-four hours before the left lost their collective mind, but that would be a lie: The left lost their collectivist mind a lot earlier than that. Trump is just the catalyst for the latest round, and even that started before the inauguration.

Heck, it started before the election was even complete.

Saturday marked the "Million Woman March, in which significantly less than a million vaginally-clad morons took to the streets of Washington D.C. Oh, there were protests around the world, about how horrible things are, and Trump, and womens' rights, and Trump, and just about everything but Trump. And Trump. 

It didn't seem to make a dent that, if things were bad on Saturday, it wasn't because of anything Trump had done: It was the policies of THEIR loser, who had just left office.

On the other hand, Trump appears to be willing to stand by enough of his campaign promises that even some Never Trumpers on the right are starting to realize he meant what he said. 

Plus, he made James Effin' Mad Dog Mattis Secretary of Defense, which made a whole heck of a lot of present and former military very, very happy. MAd Dog is kind of a legend amongst military aficionados: The kind of guy you'd take a bullet for, rather than the kind that gets an "accidental" friendly-fire round in the back. Good Choice.

Framing The Debate

So, unlike a lot of people I am not going to make a traditional new years post. I'm already awesome, so my resolution was to hold the course and continuing my incredibleness in to the new year. Yes my girlfriend thinks I am arrogant, she is right, but apparently I am worth dealing with my ego.

No, what I am going to do is to discuss the political discourse itself. One of the things that is particularly baffling to me even though I have studied and have a thorough understanding of it is the way the framework for discussing politics has, over time, evolved. I'm kind of a contrarian, and definitely anti-authoritarian, so I love to push back against the crowd.

Salon Proves The Wittiest Thing They Have Is a Name.

Salon's twitter account is a goldmine of stupidity the likes of which is hard to replicate. I'm being serious about that, I tried to write something so insipid that it would fall below the standards for them. Then they released this...

Three Strikes, She's Out!

So, the electoral college certified Trumps win with their vote, now Hillary clinton has lost the general election, the recount, and this vote. She has definitely struck out swinging in 2016. Actually, she lost five electoral college votes in this last attempt to perform an end run on the election process and seize power leaving the Democrats with nothing to do but bite and claw at eachother as they try to place the blame everywhere but where it belongs.

Paul Krugman is a Tool. Also, Water is Wet.

So that slanderous simpering sack of socialism known as Paul Krugman recently tweeted that Trump might want another 9/11 to happen. No, I'm really not joking, look for yourself. I'm not going to dedicate extra pixels to showing his hate filled idiocy, I just want to ask how it came to this, where one of the major political parties in this country used such a venomous little worm as their mouth piece.

Shooting the Gap

So, a month after being elected Trump has met with some criticism. Either he is giving away positions as a reward to people loyal to him, or taking too long, or not taking enough time. I don’t really read too far in to any of those complaints, most of it sounds too much like the media looking for a debacle where none is to be had.

One surprising pick to help Make America Great Again however has been met with possibly even more surprising acceptance. I am talking, of course, about General James “Mad Dog” Mattis. The man is a living legend who is respected by the left and the right, here at home and abroad.

It comes from the life the man has lead, and lets him shoot the gap (it might be the last thing he hasn’t shot) between so many different concerns. Mattis has been described as “The Warrior Monk” For his long service to our nation and his habit of bringing his library of military history, comprising some seven thousand titles, with him from post to post.

Working with General David Patraeus he quite literally wrote the book on fighting a counterinsurgency operation for the Army and the Marines, and commanded Special Forces operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

I could go on, really, but if I did that people might suspect me of being part of the Marine Cult of Mattis. I’m not, I was Army. Through all the forty four years of Mattis’ service though, he has not only covered himself in glory but acted as a fine representative of our nation to foreign leaders both military and civilian.

There really is no question about the man’s qualification, and if he lands the position it stands a good chance of fixing a crisis of morale that our troops have suffered under the feckless leadership of the current administration.

My only question is, what if this is just set up for a Mad Dog 2020 presidential Run

Trump Then and Now

I've heard a lot of things about how Trump "used to say one thing and now says another". Then I someone linked to this very interesting video showing that he's actually been saying the same things since the early 1980s. Even though he isn't a "true" politician, like any politician it's just about impossible to know if they mean what they say and say what they mean. But, like I said, this video is pretty interesting, showing very old interviews and such. I didn't make it, but I will still apologize for the music. It's a little annoying. Also, the very last part is his announcement speech at Trump Tower (added most likely for contrast). If you've already heard it and his many speeches this year, you can skip all that pretty much.

Anyway, here it is: