How Well did These Hold Up? (Part Two)

 

More from my posts on politics since Trump’s second election.

 

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Time to Pack Your Bags

In the context of the twelve-day war:

Now, am I suggesting that the nukes are going to start flying before Friday?  No.  But Trump has made clear that there is no off switch, no off ramp, no making America great.  First, he exploded the budget, then he exploded World War Three.  This empire is going to die with the biggest bang ever, this is now perfectly clear.

 

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Quo Vadis MAGA?

Trump is the most confusing president in my lifetime (just see my last post, and compare it to several of my earlier posts).  Some people see him playing 4-D chess or call it his negotiation strategy, others just see it for chaos.

In this post, I did a reset to focus my thinking, looking through two lenses which ground me in a geopolitical landscape.  The first one:

To summarize [Mackinder’s] thesis: whoever controls the Pivot Area [basically Central Asia] controls the world.  Britain at that time, and the United States certainly since World War Two, have controlled the seas – the Lands of the Outer Crescent.  But this will be irrelevant to whoever brings under control and tames the Pivot Area.

For those in the Pivot Area, bring those in the Inner Crescent onto your side, providing a buffer along with technologies and other advantages.  For those in the Outer Crescent, create chaos in the Inner Crescent – and, while you’re at it, do what you can to create chaos in the Pivot Area.  In other words, at all costs, don’t let the Pivot Area develop by sidetracking the Pivot Area with internal and regional chaos.

The second one:

November 22, 1963: I don’t have to say nearly as much here.  Let’s just say that every President since then has got the message: play ball or you’re out.

Through these two lenses, it is clear where we are headed.  My conclusion: the best one could say for Trump is that he is working to get the US out of the empire business in the only way he could, given the deep state.  The worst one can say?  I think we are living it.

 

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Can America be MGA*?

*Made Great Again

Suppressed truth.  JFK, nine-eleven, who did Epstein work for.  These three events strike me as the most significant events for exemplifying and enabling the unrighteous condition of America today.

As long as America continues in this condition, it will never be made great again.  If there is any consistency with God (and you know that it is not possible for God to be anything other than consistent), America cannot be made great again – not in any meaning of “great” that is good.

God is showing America His back, not His face; He has removed America from His sight.  For this reason, there is only one way for America to go – that is the way of Babylon.

Healing can only come through Jesus Christ.  And, unfortunately, many of His (so-called) servants are leading the charge of corruption.

Those so-called servants?  Evangelical Christians of the warmongering persuasion.

 

Friday, September 12, 2025

A Turning Point for the USA

The day after Charlie Kirk was killed.

A 31-year-old young man, a husband, a father of two, was assassinated for talking.  This word combination can’t be real, but it is.

Christ or chaos.  We each face this choice in our personal lives, and as a society the choice is no different.  I pray we move toward Christ, but it seems we are being ever-increasingly pushed (manipulated) toward chaos.

 

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Some Clarity

Observations and thoughts about how things are going with MAGA.

Whatever the reason that Trump isn’t get most of what he said he wanted to do get done, he isn’t.  Whether he wants to but can’t, or if he doesn’t want to and never wanted to, it doesn’t make a difference.  It just proves, perhaps more powerfully than ever – given the wave of support Trump had – nothing meaningful will change based on who you vote for.

The best way to kill a movement?  Give it what it wants.  Trump, with a majority in both houses of congress; some of the best anti-war / pro-transparency people in his cabinet.  Then prove that nothing important changes; they laughingly put your impotence right in your face.

But, a reminder to not forget what has changed.  Yes, the border seems to be reasonably closed – except for more H1-B visas and more foreign college students.  And yes, we don’t hear as much openly about how terrible you are if you are a straight white male.  So, that’s something.

 

Saturday, February 7, 2026

Our Present Age

We live in a wicked land, ruled by wicked people.  God’s judgment is true.

 

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Biblical Prophecy in Action

A few days after the launch of the current phase of the war on Iran:

But what is this moment?  Well, I am terrible at writing about current events.  But is seems to me that there is a greater than zero-percent chance that Iran will outlast Israel and the United States in this war.  And if they do, there is a greater than zero-percent chance that either Israel or the United States will launch a nuke against Tehran.  Once that happens, the Middle East goes poof.

Sadly, this is aging well.

 

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Is There an Offramp?

Now, for the offramp.  Park three nuclear-weapon equipped submarines off the coast of Tel Aviv.  Tell Netanyahu to stand down, else they launch and turn Israel into glass.  Tell Tehran that this is what will happen, but they are free to keep firing until they see that Israel has stood down.

If Isreal doesn’t stand down, fire.  If Israel launches a ballistic missile that is capable of carrying a nuclear payload, fire – everything, the entire payload.

I hate this answer.  But I see no other offramp.  I see no reason that Iran will stop, as they know that they will be destroyed unless they bring an end to the madness of Israel and the United States. 

It is still the only way I see this ending somewhat peacefully.  It isn’t going to happen.

Or, maybe, the sadistic murderers will suddenly become rational.  I guess that could happen. I would be thrilled to be wrong.

That isn’t going to happen.

 

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Catastrophe or Chaos…or both.

I see no offramp in Iran – yes, maybe in the short-term, but not in the medium term.  And sooner or later, nuclear weapons are most likely involved here.  Whether it’s the US or Israel is irrelevant.

It is interesting to me how calm I remain in this circumstance. When I truly can do nothing about the geopolitical situation, all I have is Christ. Yes, that’s all I always have, but there is something about my total impotence in the face of this current evil that in a way brings me calm and peace.

 

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Trump Inflation 2.0

Which brings us to Trump Inflation 2.0.  He’s done it again, this time via the Iran war.  Since the start of the war in Iran ten weeks ago, Year-over-Year CPI went from 2.4% to 3.8%, and few see any end in sight, at least regarding oil, gas, and dependent or related products (which means pretty much everything we buy).

“I did that!”  They already have the stickers.

 

 

Thursday, June 18, 2026

MAGA Update

Well, let me start with a big “if”: if what we are reading about this MOU to end the war in Iran is accurate, or even approximate, it represents a total capitulation by Trump and the United States government.  Of course, there was no choice but to capitulate, because it would have taken total annihilation of Iran to avoid this – and total annihilation of Iran would have meant half the world’s population dies.

Well, that MOU didn’t last but a few days.

Many who voted for Trump – again, call it his working-class base – wanted the US out of foreign wars, bring the troops home, shut down the foreign military bases, get out of these international institutions like the UN, the EU, NATO, etc.

Trump is doing that.  I certainly don’t like the way he is doing it, but what if he is doing it the only way it can be done in Washington: give the neocons and all associated with wanting more war everything they want? 

So, who knows if this was by Trump’s design.  But it certainly looks like it will be one effect.  With that said, I still don’t see this empire dying without a fight.  It remains very dark before the dawn…if we survive until dawn.

Conclusion

We are a few weeks away from the mid-terms.  Nothing important will change, no matter who wins.  But the theater of politics could get much more entertaining if the democrats win.

How Well did These Hold Up?

 

A look back at posts I have written on politics since Trump won the election in 2024.  This will be part one of two, the second to be published in one week.

 

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

What’s Next?

How did he win?

It is clear that if the democrats wanted to, they could have swung a few votes in key districts to change the outcome, and the media would have said “fairest election in history.”  Not sure how the right would have reacted, but there it is.

So, why media and democrat silence?

Call it the aftermath of October 8, 2023 – the day that genocide began.  I don’t think I wrote out any thoughts on this, and I mentioned it to one or two people, but it didn’t sink in enough for me to write it out.  But it should have been obvious: the left is an unstable base for Zionist support; the right is not.  Sure, at the top of each party, the support is there.  But the base?  We have seen the answer.

In any case, republicans offer a more stable base for the support of Israel and its genocidal actions than democrats currently do.

Hence…Trump.

So far, more spot on than I even imagined.

However, let’s look on the bright side: people like Musk, Ramaswamy, RFK, Jr., Gabbard, Homan, maybe even Gaetz – in the positions for which Trump will place them.  Can you envision – in the real world, not in the world of libertarian wet-dreams – a better outcome on the national level?

A few of these lasted only days or weeks.

Can they withstand the administrative, bureaucratic, and industry pressures of trillions of dollars arrayed against them?  The fight for turf, the desire for war, the wishes of poisoning the population for profit?

They could not.

Will Musk and Vivek find the $2 trillion reduction necessary to move the country away from either insolvency or funny money.  Will Gaetz reign in the DOJ, including the FBI?  Will Homan be successful at deporting the hundreds of thousands or millions of criminals that have been welcomed in by previous administrations?

They did not.

Will Gabbard get control of eighteen spook agencies? Tamp down their dirty deeds?  Will RFK, Jr. shut down the pharmacy and food industrial complex?

Will congress even allow any of this – much of which will have to be approved by congress?

No, no, and no.

 

Thursday, December 26, 2024

One Way DOGE Might Work

DOGE can work if the DOD and the spook agencies want it to work. … If the DOD and spook agencies see that the only way they continue over the next fifty years is for all other aspects of government spending to be drastically reduced, well, that’s just what will happen.

It didn’t work.  My previous post asked the questions that answered themselves, but I guess I was trying to find a bit of optimism here right around Christmas.

 

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Treating the Symptom, not the Cause

What a brouhaha about H-1B visas within the MAGA movement.

Remember that one?  Vivek posted that the need for these Visas is due to an American culture that embraces mediocrity.

Now, the culture he and Elon and the tech wizards that have joined MAGA [care about] (do they really care about what working class Americans care about) is the culture of STEM, and I agree fully that this is an important culture for an industrialized, division of labor economy.

We see now why the tech wizards joined Trump.  If you don’t worship AI, you just lack a decent IQ.

 

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Are We Winning?

This was written a week into Trump’s term.  A flurry of executive orders, DOGE actions, etc., all corresponding to many of the key campaign promises that gave some hope.

Are we winning?  Or, to put it another way: have some things, at least, moved in a better direction?  I say, yes.  But it all comes down to the “how.”

We will get either an even more dictatorial president soon enough – whether on the right or on the left.  I will not consider that we are winning, either way.

But, given that I have no say in the matter, I know which evil is lessor. 

In hindsight, “the lessor” evil is the wrong lens to use.

 

Thursday, February 6, 2025

The Third American Civil War

Something was different this time.  There was little talk coming out of the Trump team between election night and his inauguration.  Sure, we heard the words: DOGE, end the wars (but not the slaughter in Gaza), nominees including RFK, Jr., Gabbard, Hegseth, Patel.  No, not saints, but a sea change from what I have seen in my lifetime.

Since inauguration?  Every day, actions are announced and changes made – almost every one of which is far better for the country than anything any president has done since…what, Andrew Jackson and shutting down the bank?

USAID.  If there is one sign that Trump is serious about taking on the Deep State and the malevolent oligarchs, what is being done here is it.  Yes, it may survive in the State Department.  But even this is more oversight and control than the current practice. 

None of that aged well.

 

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Violent, Proud Boasters

I return to the story of Trump’s first few weeks in office.  Really an unbelievable start, with a major exception being the black mark of openly espousing genocide and forced displacement.  But as Trump has done so often – even beginning eight years ago in his first run – the only difference between him and most politicians is that he says the quiet part out loud.

 

Thursday, February 20, 2025

But Why?

This in regards to the effort of exposing, in more detail than ever, the corruption to be found in the spending of the United States government.

But why?  That’s the question I keep asking myself.  Why this effort?  Why now?  Why is it happening?  Why, so relatively speaking, quietly?

For once, we have the billionaires on our side.  Not strategically, but tactically.  And if that’s all I can get (as if I have a say in the matter), I will take it.  The next 12 – 18 months will tell the tale.

The tale has been told – they weren’t even on our side tactically.  What a dumb thought.  It is clear that in the first month of Trump’s second term, I had no idea what to make of it.

 

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Bring Your Friends Close…and your enemies closer.

Well, Gabbard has completely flipped (have you seen her defend the bombings in Yemen, and her nonsensical comments about Signal-gate?), and RFK, jr., it seems, posts primarily about how antisemitism is a health crisis.  Meanwhile, Patel and others are rounding up individuals for speech, carting them off to prison, with who knows what fate, and when.

Then there is this:

This is what’s happened to American values.  The United States is supporting an apartheid state that’s engaged in genocide.  Do you need to know any more?

-          John Mearsheimer, on Judge Napolitano’s podcast

MAGA is going to be torn apart, and torn apart from within.  These issues divide very neatly the MAGA base: the Christian Zionists are, no doubt, a strong supporter of MAGA and many of these neocon actions – probably the most significant bloc of MAGA support.

That took me a little over two months.  Relative to many (Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, etc.), that was pretty early.

 

Friday, June 13, 2025

As Good a Time as Any

When Trump 2.0 began, I wrote that we would know which way we would head within 12-18 months (or I wrote something like this).  I think it is safe to say, there is no off-ramp.

A couple of months’ ago, I asked some friends: in four years, do you think we will be in worse shape than today because Trump was president?  I think the answer is a clear YES.

Whatever comes after Trump, it will be tyranny.  Trump has further opened that door for the left, if the left wins; and if the right still doesn’t get what it wants from Trump, and the right wins, they will want an absolute tyrant.

Conclusion

Of this first part.  The next section begins with Trump engaging in the Twelve Day War, so this seems a good place to end part one.