3. Regarding the appointment of Miller as Trump’s new Chief of Staff: Predictable, combative, but incompetent of the President, who, as is often the case, has a flat learning curve. Outgoing Susie Wiles was a pragmatist and a professional rather than an activist and an ideologues, and as a result was as effective keeping her loose-cannon boss focused as anyone could be. Remember how long Steve Bannon was as Chief of Staff? The important message the appointment of Miller sends is worth sending, however: there will be no pullback on the commitment to enforce our immigration laws and undo the (illegal—someone explain that to Rep. Garcia) open borders damage inflicted on U.S. society by the Biden Administration.
4. Miller is, however, articulate, quick on his feet, and in this case, from earlier in Trump’s term, dead right:
It’s stunning that the Axis news media (and anyone else) still resorts to the “we need illegals to do jobs Americans won’t do, so we should let companies exploit them rather than pay fair wages” argument. It is per se unethical.
5. It has been pointed out correctly and accurately that, in stark contrast to the weeping, screaming, protesting and hysteria on the Left after Trump’s two electoral victories, conservatives and Republicans…yes, and MAGA too…are behaving like American citizens are supposed to behave after their favored candidates and party loses in an election.
6. J.D. Vance: “But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.The reason we lost is the war. The President himself said so last night. If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost.And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.”
First of all, Vance needs to read the Constitution too: 16 Democrat-held Senate seats are going to contested in 2028, and if the Democrats continue to get crazier at the current rate, socialist-run cites do what socialist run cites are bound to do, and the idiots who voted for a Democratic Congress to “Do something!” realize that “something” means contrived and futile impeachments and lawfare, Democratic control of the Senate might be two years, not six. Second: I guess Vance thinks that if Iran wipes out Israel and has nuclear weapons to threaten the U.S., it’s still “worth it” as long as gas prices go below 3 bucks a gallon. The same people who have opposed the Iran war also want Hamas to rate its terror attack on Israel a complete success, which it will be unless the terrorist government of Gaza is destroyed. There is plenty of blame to be distributed regarding the Iran war, mostly to the President: he kept raising expectations and promising a rapid victory, and he is incapable of articulately and clearly making the case–which is strong—for ending Iran’s dangerous regime. The Iranian people also share blame: the U.S. gave them an opportunity to free themselves, and they lacked the leadership and determination to seize it.
7. Ann Althouse made an astute observation following another partisan judge shutting down one of the President’s architectural obsessions. She wrote, “Trump needs to think through what he wants to do on his way out. It’s crushingly clear that building the arch should not be one of those things. Finish the ballroom and do it well and in time to throw some dignified events before your term is up, but let the arch go. Leave it as an idea of something that could be done. If it’s really worth doing, it will happen later. If it doesn’t, it wasn’t.” Bingo. Last week on Truth Social, the President was complaining about Daylight Savings Time. Priorities. Focus.
8. More evidence of how 1) incompetent the GOP was in crafting its message to voters and 2) that the “blue wave” did not signify majority approval of Democrat policy agendas: Wisconsin voters approved a ballot measure that bans public employers from giving preferential treatment based on race or sex prevailed with 56.5 percent of the vote. I believe similar measures would pass in almost every state. But hey, why worry about institutionalize discrimination against whites and men when the really important thing is pretending that Congress can reverse inflation?
