Trump Inaugurates a New Era; America Awakes From Its Coma
Trump Inaugurates a New Era:
Breathtaking: There’s no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of Donald Trump’s second inaugural address.
President Trump is back with all the confidence of a man delivered from death for a purpose.
Voters save his political life and legacy, too, by reelecting him in the face of every accusation and criminal charge against him.
Trump has been given a second chance—by God and the country alike—and his address left no doubt he intends to use it to transform America.
“The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun,” he promised.
Other presidents have struck optimistic notes, but Trump also laid out an agenda bolder than anything since the New Deal.
John F. Kennedy pledged to take America to the moon—Trump says we will “plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.”
The president backed down from nothing he vowed on the campaign trail or in the weeks since his reelection.
He described the immigration crisis in the language supporters and opponents alike have come to expect, but probably no one guessed he’d invoke 1798 legislation regarding “alien enemies” as authority for a new push against foreign gangs and criminal groups operating in our country.
And cartels ferrying drugs and human beings across our borders will now officially be designated as terrorist organizations.
Trump reiterated his belief that Panama has not lived up to its obligations to America concerning the canal, overcharging our ships for passage and giving China too much influence over the critical strategic waterway.
Yet “fire and fury” wasn’t the theme of Trump’s address—quite the contrary: “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,” he said.
Trump’s plans for the military include expunging “radical political theories” and “social experiments” imposed on service members, and he intends to reinstate, with back pay, anyone expelled for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Our armed forces will be free to focus on their sole mission: defeating America’s enemies,” he announced, along with an aim of rebuilding and strengthening the military.
Yet diplomacy received equal emphasis:
We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.
The speech had terrific turns of phrase reflecting the turnarounds in policy and results of Trump’s promises:
“Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” he said, heralding the creation of an “External Revenue Service” to collect tariff revenue.
Can Trump achieve all this with the House of Representatives barely under Republican control?
For that matter, will the GOP Senate give Trump the backing to follow through on what he sees as his popular mandate? —>READ MORE HERE
America Awakes From Its Coma
Have you noticed during this transition, from the Nov. 5 election to the inauguration of Jan. 20, there’s been a whole change of mentality from the trivial to the existential? We can’t quite believe that. Mika and Joe Scarborough made a religious journey, as it is, to Mar-a-Lago.
Snoop Dogg once cut a film about shooting Donald Trump. Now he has endorsed him. And that is true all over the media. They just fired the head of MSNBC. Now we also learn these disclosures. Why now? Why now? Why did we suddenly learn from The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times that Joe Biden had had cognitive decline all these years, in which to point that out was blasphemy?
Remember Peter Daszak? He was in EcoHealth. He was the one who engaged in forbidden gain-of-function viral research. He was getting money from the NIH [National Institutes of Health], transferring it to the Wuhan laboratory. But, even to say that was considered heresy. And now all of a sudden, we hear we were right all along. All of you were.
That there was gain-of-function research. That we did have a role in the Wuhan lab. And guess what? Peter Daszak is barred now for five years from receiving one dime of federal health care. How about the FBI? They stonewalled, stonewalled, stonewalled. All of a sudden—suddenly, out of the head of Zeus—they tell us they’re going to abandon, abolish, get rid of their diversity, equity, and inclusion department.
And finally, Christopher Wray, in his last address to us, says, well, there are cabals of Chinese espionage activists and they’re in sensitive places. We have to be careful. Why didn’t he tell us that two years ago? Why all of a sudden is Mr. [Justin] Trudeau stepping down? Why did the Assad dynasty collapse? Why does Hamas want to negotiate?
It’s eerie. We’ve never seen anything like it. Why did Joe Biden suddenly abdicate? He’s kind of abdicated from power. Donald Trump is the de facto—and he has been for weeks—president. We’ve never seen anything like it. The obvious answer is, the king is dead. Long live the king. People gravitate toward power, especially when power is expressed by winning the popular vote, the Electoral College, having control of the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and having issues that all polled over 55% to 60%. It was a mandate. And everybody wants to be on the winning side, in the sense, you root for your football team when it’s 10 and zero, and you don’t go to the stadium when it’s zero and 10. —>READ MORE HERE
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