{"id":31895,"date":"2025-01-13T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=31895"},"modified":"2025-01-12T21:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:43:01","slug":"how-will-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/how-will-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will We Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, we\u2019ve had a lot of fun.\u00a0 Since November 5th<\/sup> most people on our side have had a real holiday from grief.\u00a0 We got to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas buoyed by the knowledge that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have been relegated to the ash heap of history.\u00a0 What a wonderful phrase that is.\u00a0 What an image.\u00a0 There\u2019s this enormous pile of cinders and burnt garbage and jumbled among these things are Joe Biden and Kamala Harris laying there covered with debris and looking extremely sad and confused.\u00a0 So evocative of a better world!<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s best not to forget that this victory is just the beginning of a very long and difficult struggle to wrest control of the federal government from the horde of awful bureaucrats that make everything about our government expensive, inefficient and destructive.\u00a0 It will be up to Trump\u2019s cabinet to force a monkey wrench into the gears of government and wreck it.\u00a0 And the question remains; will they do it?<\/p>\n

I get the impression that Kash Patel really means to do just that.\u00a0 And the fact that he was a prosecutor leads me to believe that he might have a good idea how to accomplish his goal of disemboweling the FBI.\u00a0 I think of his tenure as the test case.\u00a0 How long will it take for him to get going on the job?\u00a0 And how long will it take before someone like me can tell that it\u2019s working?\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing I\u2019ll be able to tell if he\u2019s having the desired effect if the New York Times and NPR are screaming that he\u2019s destroying the FBI.<\/p>\n

Maybe a bigger fish to fry is the purview of the Secretary of Defense.\u00a0 Assuming Pete Hegseth is approved by the Senate he\u2019s going to have an enormous job clearing out all the woke generals and other officers that Biden and Obama plunked down in the military.\u00a0 But almost as important will be his implementation of Trump\u2019s plan to end the Ukraine war.\u00a0 I assume it\u2019s going to be necessary for Hegseth to micromanage the defense department personnel to prevent them from continuing to supply the Ukrainians with endless weapons and money to keep the killing going until the last Ukrainian is dead.\u00a0 He\u2019s going to have to replace the existing supply chain personnel with people loyal to himself.\u00a0 That\u2019s going to take some doing.\u00a0 There\u2019s an enormous amount of money that gets distributed from the billions that go to Ukraine.\u00a0 Shutting off that spigot is going to anger hordes of people and it might even trigger violence.\u00a0 Hegseth will have his hands full.\u00a0 I guess I\u2019ll know that Hegseth is succeeding if the number of Ukrainians being killed falls drastically.\u00a0 Probably the best indicator will be peace negotiations breaking out between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n

And finally Trump himself has a big part to play.\u00a0 He has to get involved in the negotiations on the budget.\u00a0 What I\u2019m secretly craving is to hear that he\u2019s managed to slip into the budget the elimination of the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.\u00a0 If this could be eliminated it would put an enormous hole in the funding for PBS and NPR.\u00a0 The elimination of those two toxic waste sites would in one fell swoop elevate the public discourse in this country immensely.\u00a0 Think of it.\u00a0 I might never see Jonathan Capehart\u2019s homely face ever again.\u00a0 For that alone I would consider Donald Trump\u2019s second term in the White House a thunderous success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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