All the Secrets of the Universe and Some Really Important Stuff Too!
Before battle was joined they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun with the mass of arrows. Dianeces, so the story goes, was so dismissive of the Persian numbers that he calmly replied, “All to the good, my friend from Trachis. If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight.”
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ἡράκλειτος, Herakleitos; c. 535 BC – 475 BC)
I was out of pocket today. AWOL, off the reservation, footloose and fancy free. I was communing, consorting and other wise hobnobbing with my fellow wizards. We went to this car show in a very ritzy town. The cars were parked up and down two sides of the street in this town. Hundreds of them. It had a lot of extremely expensive cars. Ferraris, Jaguars, Lamborghinis, Porsches, Bentleys and even less familiar luxury cars. There were also some antique cars from the 30’s like Packards and some very cool old Fords. And some high-performance cars from the 60’s; Stingrays and such. I walked for hours and took a million pictures.
Then we got back to our host’s home and his gracious wife feasted us on an Italian meal. It was one delicacy after another ending off with some delicious pastries. And in between we talked politics. There were two camps of thought. One group said that DeSantis should be president. The other said we need Trump. I’m a big fan of DeSantis’s but I was in the second camp. One of the attendants mirrored my thinking. He said we need Trump because he motivates the Deplorables. And he knows how to avoid being played by the Left. He also pummels the Establishment Republicans when they get in the way.
The DeSantis camp basically are afraid that Trump will lose by scaring off moderates. I clarified by saying they’re afraid he’ll scare off women. I contended that Trump irks women. And one of the wives who was present confirmed this assertion. She said, “That’s right, he irks me and I think he irks a lot of women.”
And that’s a basic truth about Donald Trump. He irks women. He irks some other people too but the fact that he irks women is diagnostic. Trump irks women because he says rude things, mean things, cruel things. But many of the cruel things he says are true. As a rule, women are more social than men. They pay more attention to the impact on other people’s emotions of the things they say. Women are more polite, more diplomatic. They are the opposite of Donald Trump. Trump says things to get a reaction. Insulting his enemies and even his “allies” that aren’t aligned with his goals is a minute-to-minute calculation. He is always saying “mean things” on Twitter.
But we need that. Badly. I tried to make the point that we need Trump to win in 2024. We also need DeSantis to be his Vice President, almost his Co-President. And I think Trump actually needs DeSantis more than DeSantis needs him. We need someone who can drain the swamp. Donald Trump tried in 2017 – 2021 and completely failed. Maybe Pence was part of the reason for that failure. Maybe this time DeSantis can be the surgeon Trump needs to lobotomize the Deep State.
At least that’s my read on what is needed. Trump knows the policies he wants but he needs someone who can translate that agenda into an assault on the insurrectionist agencies of the Executive Branch in order to make those policies happen.
Was I able to change any minds? I don’t know but I made my case and I could see some of the reasons why Trump has so many detractors on the Right. Americans, and American women especially are polite, friendly people. They don’t want to be attacked, especially not by friends. But what it is time to do is to point out to these people that sometimes the truth is cruel and hurts some people. And that the truth is its own defense. Ignoring or denying the truth because it is ugly, hurtful or cruel isn’t going to make it go away.
The Democrats won’t be able to ignore or deny the truth of what they have done to this country. And just because it is Donald Trump who will be pointing these things out in his own inimitable and caustic way won’t allow them to ignore what is being said. It’s just too ugly for politeness to bandage over.
In 2024 Trump will be the bitter medicine for those who voted for Biden in 2020. I don’t know if there’s any sugar that can make it easier to swallow. And I don’t care.
Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)
I finally figured out how to sell stuff at Fine Arts America and I’ve added the link to that button at top that says “Stuff to Buy.”
All this stuff is a pain in the neck but I guess it’s the first step to becoming fabulously wealthy.
Here’s a copy of the link if you’d like to go to my page there and heckle me.
https://fineartamerica.com/art/pho+tog?searchType=artistname
Joe Biden is openly mocked by half the country and viewed with panic by the Left. The idea that circumstances have spun out of his control have sent large swaths of his coalition in search of someone better to save them. Hispanics, Asians, even Millennials see the crumbling of normalcy and economic stability all around them. Add in the truly frightening levels of urban crime and you might assume that this can’t go on for long. But if you assume that I think you might be wrong.
I think this mess will go on the way it’s going for a good long time. There isn’t a mechanism for fixing it. Dementia Joe was installed in January 2021 and he’ll be there (barring a slip in the bath tub or other disqualifying event) until January 2025. That’s a hell of a long time. So, it’s worth thinking about what will be going on in America in the meantime.
The situation we’re in is sufficiently dire that it provides an opportunity for a smart man to take advantage of the situation and use one of the states as a staging ground for a new thing. I think that’s what DeSantis is trying to do in Florida. Being the governor of a big state is a pretty powerful office. There are resources and with a friendly legislature he can have a big influence on the lives of the people living under his administration.
He can attempt to nullify or at least mitigate some of the harmful policies and initiatives that the feds sponsor and support. For instance, last year Texas had an energy crisis because their power grid was modified to rely on solar and wind energy for an illogical percentage of the total electrical capacity. And all of this was driven by some federal directive that involved funding to increase green energy. A smart leader would make it a policy of his administration to reject any federal interference that can be shown to damage the interests of the people of his state, no matter how large the bribe that is attached to the bad policy.
And there are even larger things that can be done. He can attract industry to his state by use of the tax laws that will encourage a company to hire employees in that state. By the same token he can also make sure that the employees are Americans. Cracking down on companies that employ illegal immigrants should be one of the highest priorities of anyone who is thinking of replacing Joe Biden in 2025.
Another thing that will make his state a better place is minimizing the number of people on the welfare rolls. Dependency of all kinds, drug addiction, joblessness and all other forms of dysfunction should be addressed by the laws and also from the bully pulpit. In this spirit what DeSantis is doing when attacking this child grooming and transgender madness is extremely smart. Parents are the most important constituency because they have the most invested in a stable society. They will respond to someone trying to help their kids survive the madness that the Democrats foster.
So, what I see Ron DeSantis doing tells me he wants to make the clearest contrast in people’s minds between the disaster being unleashed by the Biden regime and the positive and constructive things happening under his administration in Florida. By 2024 he wants people to equate his track record with what the whole country needs going forward. I think it’s a good plan. They always talk about the states being laboratories for experiments that can be transferred to the national level. DeSantis is on the right track.
To my mind, short of a revolution, this is the best that can be expected while we wait for the clock to run out on the awful era of Biden in Washington.
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)
