…You’ll Fall for Anything”. Thus goes the quote from Alexander Hamilton. I am not sure what Hamilton had in mind when he said this; some say he meant it to encourage a moral compass and a path of conviction. I would like to apply it to a recent political phenomenon. We have all known people in our lives that have no principles, exhibit no core beliefs, and tend to go wherever the wind blows them. These same groups of people are typically the ones who seldom choose to make the hard decisions when situations demand such…but are always the first in line to bitch and moan when the decisions that are made begin to be implemented. Surrendering to this type of defeatist mindset is what the Democrat Party and their cohorts have resorted to when dealing with Donald Trump. Their favorite road these days is the “path of least resistance”.
Another
aspect of hollow and disloyal
political opposition is when one party hunts and pursues an opportunity…any opportunity…to stand up and shout “Gotcha”…or to snidely snicker and say “I told you so” at every drop of the hat. You know what I am talking about here…the
type of personality that spends most its existence looking foolish, inept, and impotent.
Yet when that perfect storm arrives and
they bask in the moment of making a correct prediction or choice…they prance
around like it is perfectly normal for them to be omnipotent, wise beyond
description, and sooo much better
than everyone else. They act like this
one success story is business as usual, when it is as rare as bipartisan
legislation.
You
often see this type of behavior in sports…mostly at the professional
level. It rears its ridiculous head when
a linebacker makes a good, clean, routine tackle…but it happens to occur eight
yards past the line of scrimmage. Yeah,
you made a great tackle…but why are you styling and posterizing when you gave up an eight yard gain? Openly celebrating normal, expected, or even subpar
performance is not a great leadership quality; nor is it a great character
trait. What this type of “me first behavior” fosters is a lowering
of standards. It makes a mockery of truly
great performances or actions and it pushes qualitative standards towards
mediocrity.
The
recent nonsensical and looney tunes actions by the liberal and progressive
elements in our culture, society, and government are graphic examples of these
behavioral demonstrations. Unable to
satisfy themselves with attacking Donald Trump on his many legitimate flaws and poor decisions, they repeatedly persist in
going completely over the top and excessively ravage him on grounds that
effectively remove any legitimacy in their criticisms. They are like little liberal chicken littles or overly-emotional
boys who are constantly crying wolf.
Their continual and predictable irrational rhetoric erodes their
credibility and essentially makes them caricatures of their most foolish
selves. I’m talking about dark woke and the notion that filling up
their public commentary with coarse and vile cursing will somehow make them
authentic. I’m talking about making an MS13 hood who just happens to be
an illegal alien a poster child for your due process campaign. I’m talking about insisting on inserting naked male adolescents into girl’s locker rooms
and showers and then pretending that you are the party of women’s rights. I’m talking about the rank hypocrisy of a dual-justice system…one for Democrats and one
for everybody else. The Democrat Party
we are witnessing today is quite reliable; unfortunately,
it is reliably stupid.
I
am a big fan of University of Kentucky football; but that entails a high
component of long suffering, requires the ability to repeatedly cope with
crushing defeats, and fosters the eternal optimism that despite no concrete
reason to believe such…the next season will be so much better than the last
one. The UK Wildcat’s football program
has for decades enjoyed a preeminent position in the state of Kentucky. There is no professional football in
Kentucky. And while it is true that the
University of Louisville has had its moments of national success and brief
dominance over UK, the simple fact is the clear majority of state fans support
UK football over all others. University
of Kentucky football has long taken this support for granted. Oh sure, they acknowledge the fan base and
make a big show of how the program is progressing from year to year and coach
to coach; but that does not change the fact that after all this time, they
still remain a very mediocre college football program. And yet so many football fans in Kentucky
continue to support them with their loyalty, their time, and their money.
Part
of this fan-based longevity can be attributed to that rare occurrence when a
perfect storm strikes and UK football wins a game that they had no expectation
of winning. They upset a much better
team and the joy from that single victory is parlayed into many seasons of fund
raising, program promotion, and flag waving.
It is very much like the excessive celebrations of the mediocre plays I
mentioned earlier in this piece. In
September of 2024, UK defeated an Ole Miss team that was ranked no. 6
nationally and was likely headed for the College Football Playoffs. It took a perfect combination of selected
great plays, selected poor plays, arrogant attitude by a superior team, and
pure dumb luck for UK to pull off this upset.
But they did it…and that win helped to take the bitter edge off of a
2024 season record with an overall line of 4 wins and 8 losses; an SEC record
of 1 and 7. Somehow…someway…this one win was sufficient for the university to claim
progress and growth in their football program and look to the coming season
with optimism. Blind loyalty is easily
sustained with thin gruel.
The
Democrat Party is desperately looking for their Ole Miss victory. They are looking in fake news hoaxes; they
are looking in character assassinations of Trump appointees; they are looking
in cringe-worthy posturing for voter support; and they are looking for lawfare
victories in the judicial system. They
cannot resist their knee-jerk condemnations of anything Trumpian, be it
positive or negative. Trump is inside
their heads, he is living there rent-free, and they are playing on his home
field. What they need to be looking for
is first, a moderate leader who can recapture the common sense of some past Blue-Dog Democrat policy ideals and
secondly, the discretion to condemn Trump when he deserves it and yet
co-operate with him in word and deed when what he does is clearly and
practically positive.
Today’s
Democrat Party and liberal/progressives in general stand for nothing that is
substantial, reasonable, nor seriously thought-provoking. Thus, they are falling for the lunacy of its
radical members such as the crude ravings of Jasmine Crockett, the bizarre
nationwide Bernie/AOC tour, and the public infantile display of blue state
governors and progressively-rogue federal judges. Only a fool would predict any kind of
long-term political outcomes; but I feel pretty confident in saying that if this
bunch of radicals keeps looking for their Ole Miss win in these places…they are going to be sorely disappointed.
The
SEC is the Murderer’s Row of college football; it ain’t beanbag. Look…UK football fans don’t mind losing the
games we are supposed to lose; that is talent speaking. What creates the heartburn is consistently
losing the games we are supposed to win;
that is bad coaching. The Democrat Party
is experiencing both a shortage of talent and bad coaching/leadership. That is one mixed-up political recipe. But the truly pathetic aspect of the whole
deal is the occasional realization that we are being played for fools and we
simply go along with it. Hey
Democrats…does that sound familiar?
Now…onto the news.
The
Russia-Ukraine war is an historic tragedy unfolding before our eyes on a daily
basis. Trying to
strike the balance between fairness, legality, reality, and emotion is a very
high bar indeed. We can only hope and
pray for a solution soon.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/ending-the-russia-ukraine-war.php
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/north-america/how-europe-can-deter-russia
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/ukraine-war-russia/2025/04/26/id/1208405/
Joe
Biden left Donald Trump and the world a dumpster fire of foreign policy and
global conflict.
There are many areas of concern and all are important. The challenge will be prioritizing them and
tending to them all simultaneously.
I suspect this might be the end
game for this issue: https://freebeacon.com/national-security/waste-that-s-t-in-interview-with-free-beacon-fetterman-tells-trump-to-dump-iran-talks-and-destroy-tehrans-nuclear-facilities/
As
if foreign policy and global challenges weren’t enough, the Trump
Administration has a myriad of domestic issues that it is grappling with.
https://www.nationalreview.com/carnival-of-fools/its-easy-to-wing-it-until-you-actually-have-to-fly/
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/defunding-of-pbs-and-npr-is-long-overdue/
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/the-supreme-court-wades-in.php
There
is a strong and powerful contingent in this world that aggressively supports
censorship.
It is here in America, it is pervasive in Europe, it exists in England,
and there are pockets of it all across the planet. It is a movement that must be opposed.
The
Trump Administration wants to move our national education system away from DEI,
progressive/liberal social engineering, and increasing political activism. This is a battle that they must win. American education must return to its basic
purpose and essential learning principles.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/harvard-meet-bob-jones.php
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-vs-harvard-a-negotiated-solution/
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/17/will-harvard-go-full-hillsdale/
The
memory capacity of Democrats is extremely limited and they seem to think that
condition applies to all other Americans.
They are hypocrites to the max, especially when it comes to law and
order. The essential element to
constitutional law and order is equal treatment for all citizens…period. The liberal/progressive elements in our
society and culture either do not understand this or simply refuse to accept
it.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-memo-federal-agencies-supreme-court-rulings
http://jewishworldreview.com/0425/hanson042525.php
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/our-rogue-judges.php
The rumor is that this woman is
going to run a third time for Georgia governor.
Why not when it pays so well…
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/diverted.php
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/tesla-vandal-blowback.php
Four
quick hits on the way out the door; things that make you go hmmmm…
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/19/the-failure-of-the-expert-classagain/
https://jamesgmartin.center/2025/04/is-trump-destroying-science-or-saving-it/
https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/20/tariffs-an-economic-tool-and-a-reality-check/
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