Okay, now God is testing me. Because there are too many stories in the news for just one man to possibly cover. And even though I have the strength of 10 men, there is – tragically – only one of me.
So today I have to postpone talking about many hilarious stories.
Stories such as Rob “Meathead” Reiner checking himself into a “facility” to try to cope with his post-election, TDS-induced blues. (Which I am not making up.)
Or the story of one of the assistants to Alvin Bragg – the slimy New York DA who divides his time between trying to jail Trump for crimes against humanity and making sure that as many dangerous illegals flood the streets of NYC as possible – gets mugged by… wait for it… a many-times-deported illegal! (Also not making this up.)
Or the story of a Chicago Democrat who has tracked down the biggest disaster in his crumbling city: racist traffic cameras. (Not made up.)
Or the story of the dimwits on the View being so unhinged that they had to read 5 legal corrections about slanderous comments they’d made – in just one week! (You can’t make that up.)
Or the story about the TDS-suffering actress (Rachel Zegler) who has been struggling to turn Disney’s big-budget “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” into “Woke Snow Brown and One Little Person plus Six Normal-Sized People.” Disney spent the last year re-shooting after disastrous preliminary screenings and Zegler’s equally disastrously off-putting woke comments, only to have Zegler unleash another post-election tirade to the effect of, “I hate our potential audience, and hope none of them come to see this film!” (Disney wishes that one was made up.)
I hope to be able to come back and revisit some of these stories in all of their hilarious detail. But today I’d like to focus on another story: the gratifyingly quick roll-out of Trump’s picks for key posts in his administration.
Of course the Democrat leadership and the MSM talking heads – but I repeat myself – are trashing most of them, and vowing to oppose their confirmation. Which will have the same effect as stamping their little feet and holding their breath, except for being less entertaining.
If you have lefty friends who start railing about Trump’s picks, ask them this question: “How many of Biden’s political picks can you even name?” Sure, they’ll probably remember Que Mala. (Did you know that she was raised in the middle class, and contrary to public opinion, did NOT fall out of a coconut tree?) But after that, not so much.
To the extent that they recall anyone, it will usually be due to some scandal. For example, who was that bald freak with the super-red lipstick and all of the stolen ladies’ luggage? Or the military guy with the weird “dress-like-a-dog” fetish? Ooh, or that dude who dressed like a homely woman going to the worst-ever costume party as Captain Kangaroo?
When your lefty friend can’t name any Biden choices, humor them by naming those people, and then ask how impressive they’ve been. For example, the Transportation Secretary is Mayor Pete. He has no background in transportation at all, no degree in any related field, but during his confirmation he talked about how he’s always liked trains. Seriously.
The real reason he was hired was because he was in the primaries, and he’s gay. So the obvious thing to do was to give the gay guy who likes choo choo trains a cabinet position. And then look the other way when he takes maternity leave to rest up and recover from the enormous physical strain of not giving birth to the baby that he didn’t conceive, carry or deliver. Because spoiler alert, even the most effeminate of dudes can’t have babies.
Oh, and also, nevermind about that deadly train wreck in Ohio that he dropped the ball on.
Go down the list. Merrick Garland is a corrupt, partisan hack, and would easily be the worst attorney general in the last 40 years, if Obama hadn’t picked Eric “Steadman the Wingman” Holder and Loretta Lynch, thus making a competitive medal-stand for the “Worst AG” finals.
Secretary of Defense is Lloyd Austin, who was in office during Biden’s unbelievably botched flight from Afghanistan, and who disappeared for several weeks to get surgery without telling anyone.
Secretary of State is Antony Blinken, who has never met a foreign conflict he can’t make worse, including giving aid and comfort to Hamas and constantly trying to bully Israel. And so on.
Meanwhile, Trump picks RFK Jr. to lead HHS, and the left loses their Schiff. I recently read Maureen Callahan’s new book on the Kennedys and their treatment of women, so no Kennedy is great in my book. But RFK has been very involved in health and nutrition issues, was right about the dangers of big pharma and Fauci’s vax mandates, and is not the anti-vax loon the Dems are claiming he is.
Still, the lefties are howling, “He’s not even a doctor, and has no formal medical training at all!” I was just about to predict that next they’ll be banging their well-worn credentialism drum, boasting about how all recent Democrat presidents picked only docs who went to prestigious Ivy-League med schools.
So I looked it up. And let me ask you: of the last 6 HHS heads appointed by Democrat presidents, how many of them do you think got their medical degrees from one of those top schools?
Would you believe zero? In fact, would you believe that they earned zero medical degrees among them, at ANY school?
That’s right. Jimmy Carter appointed 2 lawyers for that post. Clinton picked Donna Shalala (a poli-sci PhD); Obama chose Kathleen Sebelius (BA and MA in non-medical fields) and Sylvia Burwell (2 BAs in non-medical fields). And Biden (RIP) appointed Xavier Becerra, a lawyer who doesn’t know a rectal thermometer from a regular one.
So the Dems can zip it on RFK Jr., even though they won’t.
As they won’t about the rest of Trump’s picks, who are generally very strong, and capable of bringing much-needed changes to their various posts.
However, I do think that Trump has made at least one lousy pick so far (not counting Gaetz), and that’s his choice of Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Labor Secretary. I saw that CO linked to a story about her yesterday, which tells me that most of you know the basics about her background.
For the record, I’m not against private sector unions. But I agree with FDR and the influential early union bosses who didn’t think there should be public sector unions, since by definition they bargain with their own allies against the taxpayers. (E.g. Chicago unions put Chicago mayors in office, getting sweetheart deals from the mayors who are then indebted to them, and they stick taxpayers with the bill.)
You don’t have to look very closely to know that DeRemer is not on the conservative side. She’s one of only 3 House Republicans to vote for the PRO Act, a Big Labor bill that originated in California (strike 1) and pushed to get rid of secret ballot votes in union elections (strike 2), in favor of so-called “card-check” procedures that allow corrupt union bosses to intimidate their members into voting their way (strike 3).
She’s also a big favorite of one of the worst people in the country, teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten, who cheered Trump’s pick of DeRemer. You don’t have to be Socrates to understand that when your worst enemies are celebrating one of your choices, that was a bad choice.
On the other hand, there’s no reason to over-react. If DeRemer were to get confirmed, and she tried to pull any underhanded tricks to undermine Trump’s agenda at the behest of Weingarten or her minions, I’m confident that Trump would fire her in a minute.
But why put yourself in that position in the first place?
Regular readers know that I was a DeSantis guy – and still admire him and think he’d make a great president – but that I’ve voted for Trump three times, and I’m ecstatic that he won, and can’t wait until January. His overall picks are great, and I’ve never looked forward to a presidential term like I’m looking forward to this one!
That being said, I’m a conservative, and wherever MAGA overlaps with conservatism, I’m super-duper-ultra-MAGA. Where it doesn’t, Trump is still my guy, but I’ll support efforts to get him to steer his course back toward conservatism.
Having said that, I’d like to pose an uncomfortable thesis to CO nation about DeRemer: If you had looked at her background last week, you’d say that she was a deep-state, RINO corrupticrat in the pockets of the sleazy, student-neglecting teachers’ unions. And you’d be right.
But after Trump has picked her, and you hear me cogently point out her Weingarten-y-ness, are you tempted to get your back up and call me a RINO (which is blasphemy, as Dr. Allan Lichtman could tell you!), and deny that she’s a bad pick?
I think we need to aggressively support Trump against the bad-faith attacks of the Left. But when he’s wrong about something, we need to be able to say that and debate it, without triggering internecine battles that make us look like the Democrats who are tearing themselves apart right now.
Okay, rather than end on that down note, I’d like to give Trump his due as an amazing troller; his McDonalds and garbage truck stunts were great, and a perfect counter-move to Kamala’s inauthentic and over-cautious timidity.
I hope he continues trolling the left right up until inauguration day. In fact, I’d love to see him get up to take the oath of office, but at the last minute tell the crowd that instead of putting his hand on the King James Bible, he’d like to be sworn in with his personal copy of Project 2025, which he will begin implementing immediately afterward.
And then do the goofy Trump dance when Imhotep Pelosi loses her dentures and Chuck Schumer has a heart attack.
I’d also like to see him follow Sherry Meyers’ advice and announce a surprise cabinet pick: Grandma Squanto Warren to head up the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
#wemustneverstopmockingher
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 