Do You Believe This?

This pretty well describes my point of view now, too. Further, Trump has repeatedly lost focus by being pulled too many directions at once, thereby not achieving real success in any one area of concern. This has almost certainly been by design, to stymie any chance at real progress, but he keeps falling for it, if he isn’t actively involved in it for the purpose of just putting on a show (and that remains a possibility).

Meanwhile, areas where he had slam dunk capability to take action (as with arresting CEOs, landlords and others harboring illegals under existing federal law, and similarly healthcare industry big shots for collusion and racketeering, which would break the back of the medical monopoly system that is economically killing us) have gone completely unutilized, instead favoring largely ineffectual and symbolic half measures that don’t solve the problem but pick at the edges enough to claim “hey, we’re trying”.

He also has had a number of high profile cabinet level appointees who came in with great fanfare, but now are bumbling along not really showing us much of anything (Bondi, Patel, Bongino). And then there are all the leftist Judges who haven’t been dealt with and continue to screw up the works. This is the same pattern of “spinning wheels in the mud” and defacto failure that marred his first term, and I fully expected a repeat of it in his second, so none of this really surprises me. It is, however,frustrating in the extreme to see opportunities squandered, and the lack of follow through because there is always a new big crisis to distract everyone from the last. And now they seem to come mere days apart, wave upon wave, ensuring no foothold can ever be established, and that the public at large can never keep it’s eye on the ball (which is intentional manipulation of the narrative).

This is the “look, squirrel” method of keeping everyone off balance and chasing a new problem with enough frequency that they fail to notice none of the previous crises have ever been resolved. Consider that in about two weeks time, we’ve had the DOVE/Musk fallout, the “big beautiful bill” that utterly failed to impose any semblance of fiscal restraint, riots in LA, use of NG and Marines to “quell” said riots (but not really) that itself created a brief constitutional crisis and another trip to court, “no kings” (a.k.a. no cogent thought among geriatric boomer leftists), attendant wrangling over deportations (which ostensibly caused the riots and no kings idiocy) and now a freshly escalated mess in the Middle East.

Oh, and Ukraine is still getting money and weapons from the US for no good reason (it won’t change the outcome) while Russia goes on kicking the crap out it (and recognizing Russian victory is now a mere formality, and has been for a least a few months already, yet this inevitable outcome keeps being stalled by Western powers who don’t want to acknowledge it). COVID shot injuries and deaths continue to go officially unrecognized and un(der) reported. The economy is still moribund in real terms for ordinary people who are struggling mightily to pay much inflated prices for so many goods and services like insurance premiums, which are up ~60%+ YOY in many cases. But what we really need to focus on is a pissing match between Iran and Israel, right?