I watched a few video clips today. There were a few highlights. Justin Trudeau did his sad face and said he will resign his office as PM in March. Oh, boo, hoo. Very sad, too bad.
And then I saw that sideshow with a smiling Kamala next to Speaker Johnson as she read out the numbers on her Electoral College loss to Donald Trump in the November election. Yay, Kamala! You go girl! Brat Summer Kamala, woo hoo! That’s the fun way to imagine a future of winning unencumbered by pathetic present-day failure.
So that’s the four-year anniversary of J6. Well, that’s a pretty good day. I guess it could have been better. Maybe Joe Biden wandering into a jet engine or off a parapet. But it will definitely do. So that will be the last of J6 for the rest of eternity. Well, not quite. We can expect some Congressional investigations that may end up in Kash Patel’s lap to prosecute. But that’s a story for another day. Let’s just say there won’t be any more anniversaries on the news.
When I think about what the next few months will be like I’m guessing most of what we’ll see will be the Senate cabinet approval hearings. And the captured media will broadcast the likes of Adam Schiff, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer grandstanding rumors and slander against all of the Trump nominees. That’s only to be expected.
But it makes me wonder what kind of strategy is being formulated by the principals in meetings with Trump right now. After all, time is short and there’s a lot to do. Hopefully they’ve long ago assembled long lists of government employees based on either actual crime against the American people or responsibility for divisions or areas of the bureaucracy where crimes were committed.
As an example, if I were Kash Patel I’d search out the documents that declared that white men made up the most dangerous terrorist threat to the United States and get all the names associated with that decision. Then these people could be brought into the Senate and made to testify. And they would have to provide some factual basis for these pronouncements. Of course, at the end of the whole thing they’d be fired for sure. But toying with them would be fun. It would be sort of like the show trials that Stalin and his boys used to put on in Moscow. Who knows? Some of them might even name names when tempted by the hope (false of course) of saving their jobs. Maybe they’d give up Wray or Garland. But either way it would be fun.
If Trump wanted to really increase his popularity, he could go back to his reality tv roots and set up a weekly program on X or Truth Social or wherever, on which he provided a running tally of how much money he had saved the US government by firing bureaucrats. And he could highlight the show with a profile of some especially over-paid leech that also had caused some particularly egregious harm to the American public. I want to nominate Rachel Levine as the stand out for week 1. This eye sore has been a boil on the neck of this country ever since it was first announced he would be donning the skirt and wig as United States Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. And just to add insult to injury he is now an “admiral” somehow.
Trump could reuse his “You’re fired” tagline but instead of calling the show, “The Apprentice,” he could call it, “The Ejected.” Maybe he can have a graphic that shows the victim being launched from his office chair and follow a trajectory that lands somewhere novel each week. One day it could be into the ocean or maybe a shark tank, another time it could be one of those industrial scale wood chippers, the ones you can throw a whole redwood into. Now of course no one would actually be harmed but think of how much fun it would be imagining it.
Well, as you can see, I’m letting my imagination get the best of me. But that’s what it’s like before Trump takes office. Later on, the reality of the constraints that government puts on the president will sink in. But for now, it’s Rachel Levine in a trajectory headed for the moon. How sweet it is!
