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The “We’re there no graves in Egypt?” Republicans

Posted: April 9, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, politics
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fyi I’m going to be completely offline the next few days so comments won’t get approved before Monday.

I know we live in a time where we are used to instant information and instant action but the reaction of some conservatives over the last few days are making me doubt the sanity of some.

It’s sort of like when a Baseball team wins twenty in a row. It’s a great time and it’s a lot of fun but if after winning 20 in a row you get upset because you don’t repeated win twenty in a row.

Trump has been winning big for a long time in this first 100 days. No president has ever done so much in so little time.

But persuading people who have been ripping you off for decades to make a deal, and to GET a deal in writing that doesn’t happen instantly.

Trump announced his tariffs a few days ago, stocks reacted poorly and people panicked and let the same media who had buffaloed them for years drive them like fools. When Trump stuck to his guns they panicked more BUT not as much as those countries who rapidly figured out that Trump wasn’t bluffing.

The calls poured in dozens of countries anxious to make a deal, with the primary exception of China who immediately retaliated and the EU who claimed retaliation to happen in a week.

Now I don’t have the business experience that Donald Trump has but even I know that it takes more than a day to finalize a deal between two nations and commit it to paper. How many days do you think it takes to do so with 75 or 80 nations. Say 90 days?

The left and the media starting spinning this as Trump caving. When it was obvious that he hadn’t and even worse the stock market soared beyond all it had lost and then some suddenly it was insider trading.

I expect this from the left media and if you don’t expect from the people who lied to you about Biden’s condition for four years you’re a fool.

But if you’re a member of the GOP who has seen the last two and a half months of almost continual success did you really have any business freaking out during this weekend or beyond?

The reaction of conservatives reminds me of the twelve tribe of Israel during the Exodus from Egypt.

Over and over again after they had been delivered from danger they would start their cry: “We’re there no graves in Egypt that you led us out to get slain or starved, or die of thirst etc etc etc.”

When I hear conservatives whine about Trump not being dignified enough, or not winning fast enough, or not continuing an uninterrupted winning streak they sound like those who had seen miracles over and over again and now act if they are entitled to them.

Now there are many who make their living Hitting Trump and getting clicks from it and those folks are going to play the panic for all it’s worth.

But if you’re not one of them, please don’t become one of those “We’re there no graves in Egypt” Republicans?

Keep your head and let the people who spend their lives doing and building things do what they do best.

Remember it’s like the Tom Brady years here in New England. Just because Brady made it look easy to get to the Superbowl year after year didn’t mean it was. He’s just good.

Just because Trump has made it look easy doesn’t mean it is.

The 1776 Revival on the House Floor or Trump Wins Again

Posted: February 25, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, politics
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For the last 35 days we have seen an almost unbroken streak of victories for the Trump administration with only slight temporary setbacks in the courts that are likely to become solid wins as well.

Tonight on the House floor Trump just got his biggest win by a single vote and if you want to know how he managed it think of this key moment from the movie/play 1776

In the drama Ben Franklin calls for a poll of the Pennsylvania delegation with Ben Franklin voting for independence and John Dickerson voting nay and the final decision being up to James Wilson who decides he doesn’t want to become “The man who prevented American independence.” and thus votes Yea! (Historically Franklin arranged for two delegates from PA to miss the vote thus giving him the majority needed to carry the state for independence but I digress…)

Something much like this happened in DC on Tuesday.

As I noted Donald Trump has been on a huge winning streak and his actions continue to poll incredibly well among the general population with well over 50% backing him and among GOP voters the number is in the high 90’s.

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1894424037129904413

The text

Why GOP members will be hesitant to fight Trump: “Republican [voters] love Donald Trump the way Grimace loves Ronald McDonald”… Trump’s net approval with the GOP is even higher than it was during his 1st term. Also, GOP voters trust Trump over Congressional GOP: 58%-22%.

Click the link to see the CNN video.

Bottom line Trump is REALLY popular so once Thomas Masse of KY noted he would be a “No” no matter what that meant that every single other holdout had the potential to become THE member of the GOP responsible not only for Trump’s first defeat of his term, but be the man or woman who gave the Democrats a lifeline when they are drowning.

In short their political career would be over.

That is the position that Trump and Johnson put them in and nobody proved willing to jump off that bridge.

So Trump gets another win. and the GOP agenda goes on.

I’m not sick of winning yet.

The “Untouchables” Administration Botched Raids, Apples off the Tree Everybody Knows Where the Booze is and Death Threats vs Doge

Posted: February 3, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, Blame Trump, politics
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The Untouchables 1987
  • Malone: If you walk through this door now, you’re walking into a world of trouble. And there’s no turning back. You understand?
  • Ness: Yes I do.
The Untouchables 1987

If I have to think about what this administration reminds me of the most I have to say it’s the movie The Untouchables (1987) Starring Kevin Costner as Elliot Ness, Sean Connery as officer Jim Malone and Robert Di Niro as Al Capone.

I think this is a good analogy because what’s basically happened to the US is that the Chicago way came in with Obama with Chicago corruption and Trump came in the first time and did what he could but was stymied by the deep state which benefited from the corruption. This is reminiscent of the first failed liquor raid when Elliot Ness is made a fool of.

Ness is defeated and lost until he teams up with the Malone (Connery) the street smart detective who tells him that you can’t take prisoners if you’re going to fight Capone.

This is the Trump that has Elon Musk on his side the great technology and business guru who has teamed up with him.

Now the latest news is that Musk has gone after USAID and that he’s brought in a bunch of teenage computer genius’. Why? Because these kids are not dependent on the deep state or reached a point where they would be tempted to leach off the government. Or as Connery said just before this clip: “If you’re afraid of getting a rotten apple, don’t go to the barrel. Get it off the tree.”

And that sounds an awful lot like this:

https://twitter.com/cdrsalamander/status/1886461258938863860

For this Musk is unapologetic:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1886458513771377099

“Time to confess: Media reports saying that @DOGE has some of world’s best software engineers are in fact true.”

And like Capone the left is threatening violence against these Untouchables

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1886453186250125702

” “”Hunt them down” Leftists on @bluesky and other social media sites are mobilizing threats of violence against the @DOGE team staff and their families as revenge against @elonmusk and the Trump administration.” “

And the discovery of Billions in waste is pretty much the liqueur raid:

Apparently everybody knew that USAID was a slush fund for pols and lefty NGO’s but nobody was willing to take on the Deep State.

Till now.

Trump as Decatur And Columbia as Algiers or FAFO

Posted: January 27, 2025 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, politics
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1st Romana: Stop! I have new evidence.
4th Doctor: Too late. I’ve just been executed.

Doctor Who The Stones of Blood 1978

A little US History.

Two hundred and twenty years ago Thomas Jefferson sent a flotilla under Edward Prebble to teach the Barbary Pirates that imprisoning and enslaving Americans was not acceptable. Despite successes by him and his officers such as Stephen Decatur Prebble was eventually recalled and a half a dozen years later the US found itself engaged in a war with Great Britain, a war where American Warships embarrassed the most powerful navel power in the world repeatedly both in single ship actions and in fleet actions.

By the time the war was over the British Navy had instructed their warships not to engage American vessels alone (This didn’t help as the USS Constitution took a pair of British warships the  HMS Cyane and HMS Levant before the news of peace came through.) and the US navy emboldened by their victories was busy building capital ships and frigates and decided that having stood strong against the greatest empire the world had seen they were no longer going to kowtow to the Barbary States.

So for a second time Captain Decatur was sent to the Mediterranean Sea this time with the largest and most powerful US fleet ever assembled to make terms.

He took two Algerian warships in battle killing the captain of their fleet and sailed into Algiers. When the Bey tried to bluff him he revealed the capture of their ships and the death of the Algerian admiral and as soon as it was clear that he was ready to take their entire fleet the Dey was suddenly amenable to leaving American ships and citizens alone without requiring a bribe.

Having accomplished this he sailed next to Tunis and Tripoli and by the time he was done all three Barbary Pirate states had signed treaties declaring that they would no longer be attacking American ships and holding Americans for ransom.

A few weeks later Captain William Bainbridge, whose fleet had been delayed showed up at all three of those ports making sure that the Algerians, Tunisians and Tripolians understood that messing with the United States was a bad idea.

The size of the fleets made a difference in these decision but the thing that really sold the deal was Decatur taking their flagship and killing their admiral at the start making it clear to the Bey in the words of today, that if he fucked around he would find out.

I could not help but thing of this when Columbia discovered that Trump wasn’t kidding around.

You see two military planes were sent with Columbian criminals on them being deported. The Columbian president refused to let them land and made a rather public statement about how he wasn’t going to take them.

Minutes later Trump answered on truth social announcing a 25% Tariffs and all kinds of restrictions on the Columbian government to take effect immediately promising to make the 25% 50% if things didn’t change and then continued to play his game of golf.

Before he had finished the course Columbia had a public statement offering government plains to take his citizens back. The reversal was so fast that they left/media was still hitting Trump for the moves and bemoaning the price increases on coffee and flowers this would lead to after the Columbians had already folded.

Then Trump posted this:

The Columbian leader put out a macho face saving rant but the diplomats quickly came back into line:

Shortly after Petro published his diatribe, Bogotá announced it would accept the flights. United States officials subsequently announced they would not immediately impose retaliatory measures.

“The Government of Colombia has agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed in a statement on Sunday night.

“The visa sanctions issued by the State Department, and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection, will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned,” she added.

The more I think of this the more I believe Trump should send Petro a thank you card he couldn’t have asked for a better result

If you are going to convince people you are serious you need to set an example. Petro’s pushback and subsequent surrender has put the word out that Trump means it.

And if people think a man who came within a 1/2 of an inch of being shot is going to be intimidated by tin pot leftists or lefty media members and editors have another think coming.

And his courage is going to embolden others who were previously timid in the face of the deep state.

I suspect Trump knows who Decatur is but wasn’t trying to be Decatur, he was just being Trump moving forward for the sake of America.

Trump has taken up Decatur’s mantle and he’s running with it, let our enemies, foreign and domestic beware.

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