Waiting for January 20
Everyone is waiting for January 20th, when Trump takes office again.
Those who voted against Trump are waiting with dread, terror, or resignation.
Those who voted for Trump are waiting with eager anticipation and hope.
And I get the impression that the waiting isn’t limited to those in the US, and that most of the world is relieved that Trump will be in charge soon rather than the addled Biden and his faceless handlers.
Trump’s task will not be easy, however; not at all. I wrote of uncontained actual fires in California earlier today – well, there are a lot of uncontained metaphorical fires all over the world and in this country that will need his attention.
In the mean time, Biden is doing his best to destroy the US and hamstring Trump. Of course this bleeds over to international area.
It is going to be a rough ride. It appears that Trump is much better prepared than last time. Let’s hope. He has assembled an impressive team overall.
The Democrats will be a problem. Schumer has already exposed his backside, what with prayer vigils on 1/6 for all who were allegedly killed in 2021, except of course Ashli Babbitt. Warren is beating her war drums loudly, and hopefully ineffectively. Then there was Jeffries with his diatribe. Can I say Ass on this site? The Congressional GOP better be united. If not this could be their last opportunity for a very long time.
But, the real danger is in the ‘deep state’. That will be a brutal, guerilla style fight on a daily basis. Trump’s appointees better be ruthless and persistent.
God Bless, President Trump and all who join him in the fight for America.
Trump’s 100% ahead of the game this time—when compared to the disaster last time.
As I have written here before, I am concerned about Trump’s physical safety, and hope that he has a very robust private security operation guarding him, and that he is not relying on a Secret Service which has proven itself to be, at best, incompetent and/or at worst, apparently actively hostile to him and to his agenda.
I really hope that Dan Bongino is offered, and accepts, the position as head of the Secret Service.
The Deep State, full of tenured Democratic bureaucrats who by laws of the late 1800s cannot be fired, has control and will remain in control unless the DOGE approach to cancel, close down entire agencies and Administrations can be enacted. Do not count on that happening, since the Congress must, I believe, vote to make it happen when Trump, as President,becomes our national savior.
P.S.—If I were Trump I wouldn’t rely on the Capitol police either.
Speaking of the SoCal fires, someone thought it was a good idea to have Rickety Old Joe on scene, even though he appears to be in rigor mortis (possibly slightly beyond).
Closing down entire departments are agencies may require acts of Congress, but Trump may be able to downsize and defund them dramatically.
Trump’s 24 Cabinet Level picks — pictured with a brief biography and a note about issues — from Epoch Times.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/infographic-a-whos-who-of-all-trumps-cabinet-level-nominees-5786277?
I downloaded a copy to save for future reference.
I agree with Oldflyer. It ain’t going to be easy.
And Snow on Pine is right to be concerned about Trump’s well-being. The hatred is ever present, and yuge.
I will do everything in my power to support Trump and his agenda. All of us need to speak up, advocate, vote, and back what he’s doing in any way we can. The future is depending on it and us.
Trump wasn’t elected to erase foreign borders or start new wars . He was elected to secure ours. He needs to drop it about Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal and even the Gulf of Mexico.
He needs to stand up for the rights of Nations States against the globalist, the Islamist and the Chinese.
It seems he fancies himself Teddy Roosevelt.
It seems he fancies himself Teddy Roosevelt.
Jon baker:
Funny you should mention it…
–“Donald Trump Thinks He’s a Modern Teddy Roosevelt. I Hope He’s Right in 2024”
https://jeremyhelligar.medium.com/donald-trump-thinks-hes-the-new-teddy-roosevelt-i-hope-he-s-right-ea02463f9e31
Jon Baker:
Trump is right about Greenland, the Panama Canal, and renaming the Gulf.
Denmark is a low-population nation full of socialists. It has no ownership right to Greenland. None. Past US passivity is not the path of the future. MAGA !
US built the Panama Canal, and in a Jimmy Carter-like moment, gave it away. Some American workers died in the Canal’s creation; the whole world reaps the benefits.
Renaming the Gulf of Mexico is entirely logical, but a small point that will give Schmucky Schumer fits.US Gulf coastline length is in the same league as Mexico’s.
I like “North American Gulf”.
Not sorry to disagree with you!
I wish I were a better person. But the time coming up to the twentieth includes a number of people being really, really upset. And I don’t mind at all.
Question is going to be, as has been alluded to, whether Trump can get done what he wants over, through, or around entrenched bureaucracies who can, among other things, simply sit on the paperwork.
At least they got the guy with the machete.
I am praying for the country, that we may be a more virtuous people and turn back to God. That our enemies, both foreign and domestic, be defeated and brought to justice!
Also praying for the patriots, including President Trump and his team, and governors Abbott and DeSantis. And for the political prisoners, especially Derek Chauvin, the Georgia Three, and the J6 people; may they recieve speedy justice!
Yes, I am relieved, but with all the tasks Trump has to tackle, what about these new craziness about Greenland, Panama, Canada?
This is just unnecessary and disturbing trolling, at best.
Cicero’s position is what justifies resentment against the USA in the world.
@ Paolo > “This is just unnecessary and disturbing trolling, at best.”
I don’t presume to read the President’s mind here, but sometimes Trump floats an idea that he has no real intention of pursuing to deflect attention from more serious matters.
He’s also making the point that America will not continue to be the whipping-boy for countries & international cabals that have made a specialty of biting the hand that gives them generous foreign aid & protection.
And putting these extreme proposals on the table generates a discussion that lets him see where various government leaders and populations stand on related issues, which generates useful information for negotiating the conditions of what he really wants to get done.
Of course, some of those ideas generate resentment, but that’s a side-effect explained by Salena Zito’s observation from 2016:
Trump’s opponents take him literally, but not seriously.
His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
Any party that responds out of resentment instead of focusing on the actual costs and benefits of a proposal is going to miss negotiating their best deal by moving out from the starting point.
I actually don’t see a lot of waiting for January 20th. Trump is orange, large, and in charge.
Obama had to trot out behind his ludicrously fake “Office of the President-Elect” podium to beg for attention in 2008, though I remember some Democrats publicly fantasizing that W would resign so he could take over early (how was, IIRC, never quite specified)
Biden tried the same attention getting in 2020, and now he (or his handlers) apparently are doing everything they can to sabotage Trump before they leave.
From comments @ Kim’s:
“They kept the PVV out of the cabinet in the Netherlands for a decade. When they failed they injected a number of massive poison pills to make it impossible for them to govern successfully.
– install far left people in every permanent position everywhere
– destroy the national budget, so the new government had to implement massive budget cuts
– right before the elections make large scale commitments to the EU and other foreign bodies, destroying national sovereignty
And now the new cabinet is of course getting blamed far and white for the results of all of that.”
AesopFan:
Well, Joe Klein… Nevertheless! Joe’s been reading Saleno Zito too and Joe makes some good sense here:
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I’ll not fall for the bait. I watched Trump’s press conference. I will take him seriously, but not literally. He’s negotiating. He’s sending messages. And I don’t think the messages are all that terrible. He is haggling for better rates for American ships in the Canal (and perhaps a MAGA project of widening that too-skinny thing). He’s sending a larger message to the Chinese: we’re watching every move you make, especially in the western hemisphere. He is haggling with Denmark: Greenland wants independence, at least a majority of its minuscule (57,000) population does and we’re a more plausible big brother than you. He is poking Canada, provocatively, for better trade deals and more defense spending. He is sending us a message, too: I’m Back and More Vehement Than Ever. All of which conveys three things: confidence, the appearance of strength and a certain crafty craziness.
https://josephklein.substack.com/p/the-gulf-of-trumpico
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Klein had his Morning Joe program on MSNBC, but he was never a disciple of woke. His main claim to fame was his time with the Clintons. At one time he espoused “radical centrism.”
So he’s hardly a convert to Trump, but I suspect he’s pragmatically happy to see Trump forcing the Democrats back towards the center.
My main problem with taking on Canada or Greenland as the 51st state is how would we fit 51 stars on the flag.
The current design for 50 stars is:
9 rows — 6-5-6-5-6-5-6-5-6
Chat suggests for 51 stars:
6 rows — 9-8-9-8-9-8
Not bad, though I’d prefer the number of rows to be closer to the number of stars in a row.
But wait, what about 52 stars?
Chat suggests for 52 stars:
8 rows — 7-6-7-6-7-6-7-6
That’s better. The number of rows is closer to the number of stars per row, giving it better balance in the square blue field, technically called the canton.
I guess we’ll have to take Greenland and Canada!
I don’t want Canada. One California is more than enough. But I think Trump is going in the right direction with Greenland and the Panama Canal. I think both of those are about improving our strategic position vis-a-vis China.
I saw a news report that Mexico has totally disbanded the mass of ‘migrants’ that were heading toward our former border. I also saw that Mexico is cracking down hard, or at least making some effort, against the Cartels. The President of Mexico is posturing her anti-Trump credentials; but her actions tell a somewhat different tale.
Did Trump’s message to Trudeau and Canada have an effect? We know that Trudeau was unpopular before Trump, but there was no hint that I am aware of that he was on the verge of resigning.
Suddenly, we hear that Greenlanders, all fifty some odd thousand of them, are not happy with Danish control.
Trump is delivering messages, and some of the recipients understand them.
I have given up trying to understand everything that he says, and decided to just wait to see the results.
Hello.
While I find it a bit disreputable to toot my own horn, the Greenland matter is of a bit of peripheral interest to me as I was (I say again, tiresomely) recently in Denmark. As Cicero mentions, Denmark does seem to be a rather socialist country (the young fellow working night shift at one of the hotels at which I stayed admitted as much), but it seems to me to be a rather nice place overall and the socialism, such as it is, apparently works for them.
Underpopulated? I don’t know about that. Given the nature of what I’ve so far seen of the terrain there, six million doesn’t feel particularly sparse. About one-fifth of those being in Copenhagen does make for a bit of an imbalance, to be sure, but that need not be such a deal-breaker, as Copenhagen is a very nice city.
It was there that I ran across an exhibit in one small wing of the national museum about Denmark’s historical colonies, including Greenland. Not as saturated with self-criticism as it might have been (and certainly would have been had the curation been entrusted to some of the academic types that we could all think of). I would hardly call myself informed at all on the subject of the relationship between Danes and Greenlanders, but I really don’t know how Greenland as a state would work. As a territory, maybe, but even that would seem a long shot to me.
Now as to Canada:
* First of all, it would of course not be one state, but ten or twelve, as it would be ridiculous to have one state suddenly introduced that’s larger than all of the other fifty. Besides, the Quebecers wouldn’t stand for such a disrespect as to be wrapped into one big undifferentiated lump with the Anglos up there, after all they’ve been through. Maybe Quebec could be an independent country at last! Hey, it’s an option.
* Secondly, the other day I took a look at some article in USA Today or the AP, I forget the source and it doesn’t matter now, speculating about one non-obvious reason that DJT is so apparently interested in Canada, Panama, etc. all of a sudden. The article made it sound as if it’s because of Climate Change!!!, but it’s not completely silly to say so, as it did point out that with the changes in distribution of Arctic sea ice, the transit of significant transcontinental shipping through the Northwest Passage becomes conceivable. Consequent to that is the potential for Russian and Chinese surface vessels to sail north of Canadian territory in volume. That is a point of concern.
* A thing that’s been on my mind lately has been the fact that Canada has much more territory than it can realistically defend, when push comes to shove. If the Arctic ice breaks up or redistributes sufficiently for China to, for example, quietly drop a rapid-reaction force into the Yukon all quiet-like, what can our poor Canuck friends realistically do about it? They’ll need our help. And it will be in our interest to help them, lest the Great White North become a big giant open gateway to points further south….
* And all this is leaving aside any question of the mineral resources up there to be thought of. Who is there who doesn’t think Beijing would jump at the chance to help itself to them if it thought it could do so painlessly?
* If all of the above didn’t suffice, think of how great it would be to have the entirety of the Great Lakes in our hands alone for the first time!
To conclude, I am of the view that Canada simply must be annexed.
[And yes, on-topic! Take that, Marcus Cato!]