Mary, Mary Quite Contrary - Congressional Harpies And The Smarmy Mix Of Race, Gender, And Ethnicity

Kamala Harris was the ideal candidate for the progressive era - the perfect storm of being a woman, the daughter of a black man and an Indian mother - and she flogged that trifecta to death.  The American public was having none of it however, and rejected this shrill, garbling, entitled harridan. 

Harris was the new uppity woman, confident of her privileged position of being a thrice victimized patriot.  Of course her black father was an economics professor in majority white universities, and didn't have to act white because he subscribed to all the ethical and moral prescriptions of American success.  

Her Indian mother was not a lettuce picker, a leaf-blower, or an enchilada street vendor but a proper, well-educated Hindu well assimilated into white Christian society.  So her cries of victimhood were seen as hysterical posturing - a political hack trading on her trifecta but without a reasonable, coherent thought in her head. 

 

Defeat is not something that a politician like Kamala Harris can consider, and so she keeps teasing the American electorate about a possible second run for President in 2028.  She is unbowed, uncontrite, and unaware that she is perhaps the least able, the least desirable, and the least attractive candidate in the Democratic field ever.  'I am a woman for the ages'. she said in a speech to the Ohio Progressive Union in Chillicothe. 

She banged on for what seemed hours speaking in tongues, barely decipherable but with intensity and passion. Hearing her speak was like watching a sound and light show, a carnival of clowns and mountebanks, banging each other with toy hammers, doing somersaults, and squeezing Clarabell the Clown horns.  Sturm und Drang, sound and fury signifying absolutely nothing.  

If there were more of a cipher on the political stage, it would have to be Dimwit Danny, the guy who opened and closed the shutters at Kamala's big events, chosen for his mental diversity. 

'Daniel is one of my closest advisors', said Kamala in an MSNBC interview.  Not in the traditional, political advisory role, of course, but 'the voice of the people, the forgotten, the dismissed, the undervalued'.  When Danny was cornered, microphones in his face and pushed to answer how he advised the former Vice-President, he responded simply, 'I bring light and air into the room'. 

Kamala was last seen with AOC - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the woman whom Senator John Kennedy (R-La) said is the reason there are instructions on a shampoo bottle, or who in a hilarious viral send-up, says 'Great news! My IQ test came back negative!' 

She is a clone of Harris - an entitled woman of color, a Puerto Rican running on rice and beans, East Harlem tenement soul, the glory of La Raza and promises that La Lucha Continua. 

She shows her teeth like a barnyard dog, but has no bite to go with the bark.  She reads from prepared scripts which attack the Cabinet members who must testify before her committee, but then fumbles and squiggles when they refuse to be cowed by her bullying and retort with facts and figures. 

'We are soulmates', she said when she and Kamala appeared together in Philadelphia.  'Soul sistahs', she said, doing a chicken-neck and a gang sign and smiling up at Harris.  'Bonded in bond with gold trim', the Democratic ticket for president in 2028, just the dyad America needs, a vacant duo, a cackling twosome of intellectual wannabees. 

These women have the national stage because of their infamy (Harris) or because of a cafe-au-lait cuteness (AOC), but the other members of the cabal - Tlaib, Omar, and Pressley - are pretenders to progressive leadership.  

The queen of the harem is Ilhan Omar, a Somali elected in a Muslim-prevalent district in Minnesota, likely a player in the multi-billion dollar Somali-sponsored fraud in that state, a tireless succubus, as airy and vacant as her political sisters, and a cipher.  

The Palestinian bulldog Tlaib, Hamas shill and Islamic hegemonist, and Pressley, a good, solid ghetto mama fill out The Squad, that clucking hen party of Democratic women out for 'social justice and the consignment of Donald Trump to hell'

'Quite a woman!' (真是个了不起的女人) said Xi Jinping, President of China, basking in the international spotlight just having hosted Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in the Imperial Palace, referring to AOC brought to his attention by a senior aide to prepare his boss for the Trump visit. 

Trump said, 'Indeed she is', and both world leaders had a great laugh over the idiocy of the woman and the utter impossibility of the likes of her ever showing up in China. 'But what can I do?'. 

Of course if in the unlikely event someone like AOC were ever to turn up in Beijing, she would immediately be clapped in irons and sent to some remote gulag.  'I have my ways'. Xi replied to Trump through an interpreter. 

In a congratulatory call to Donald Trump after his 2024 election - despite the war in Ukraine - Putin shared with the American president his satisfaction at his victory.  'Where do these women come from?' (Откуда эти женщины), he said, referring to Kamala Harris, and the two adversaries apparently had a good laugh.  'I have gulags for them', Putin said to which Trump replied, 'I wish'. 

When the conversation was leaked to the press, the Left was up in arms, their convictions about Trump confirmed.  He was an autocrat in waiting, a Russian sympathizer, a racist bigot, and a misogynist ape.  The President, nonplussed as always, replied, 'Well, who wouldn't be happy if that harpy weren't around?

There is a move in Congress to pass a law forbidding any foreign-born citizen to run for political office and to remove those that squeezed in under more tolerant Democratic administrations; and when asked, Trump said he thought it a good thing, although he added 'I would really like to send that idiot Ilhan back to Somalia, to the shithole country where she belongs'.  

This caterwauling, pissy, uppity crew is American exceptionalism writ large - not a caricature, but an example of democracy gone badly awry. If this is what America has to offer to the world, then Putin and Xi have nothing to worry about. 

Trump unfortunately cannot slam them into some South Dakota Indian reservation, but he and his colleagues can show them up for the demagogues they are.  The American people already wise to their shenanigans will not put up with much more. 

'Good riddance to bad rubbish', the President said. 

The Remaking Of America - The Middlebrow, Impossibly American Revolution Of Donald Trump

America was founded on Enlightenment principles - logic, wisdom, the pursuit of happiness, faith in God, individualism, and the rule of law.  Rousseau and Locke were the mentors of Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and Franklin.  America was to be a country in which individual enterprise would be the way to prosperity, but only if practiced within a respect for community, polity, and commonwealth. 

America has had its ups and downs over centuries and these principles have been tested as the country developed from a small, rural, agricultural state to a world industrial power.  Contrary to the Founding Fathers' vision, government grew exponentially and became more than just a caretaker of Constitutional law but an intervener in civic and personal affairs.  

Despite the Civil War which broke the nation apart, it retained a certain moral ethos and a respect for foundational principles.  Jefferson and Hamilton argued over  electoral authority - Jefferson, a populist, believed in the rule of the majority; Hamilton a federalist, concerned about mob rule insisted on an intermediary body of wisemen who would mitigate the naturally selfish and self-interested demands of the majority.  It was a system which respected the rights of the individual to vote his conscience, but which restrained the natural human tendency to favor the near-at-hand. 

Over the decades, this system - wise and reasonable in principle - failed in practice.  The Senate, supposedly a body comprised of men of good judgment, patriotism, and national interest, devolved into the same caterwauling, parochialism as the House of Representatives.  'Government for the people, of the people, and by the people', spoken by Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address, renewed Americans' belief in participatory, inclusive government; but in the years following Lincoln, this principle became distorted, eroded, and nearly forgotten. 

Government became the prime mover, the interventionist higher power, and the be-all and end-all of constitutional authority.  Fueled by radical Republicanism during Reconstruction, government was a Big Brother who would put the Union back together but only succeeded in driving it further apart.  The punitive sanctions imposed on the South only created resentment, hatred, and a commitment to reestablish slavery. 

 

Government never retreated.  It could not stand by while the giants of industry - Rockefeller, Carnegie, Mellon, J.P. Morgan, and Vanderbilt - built an unimaginable machine of productivity and prosperity.  Government, seeing itself becoming marginalized, supernumerary in the great private sector expansion of the times, felt obliged to put the reins on capitalist expansionism, and in so doing expanded its influence and power. 

Years later FDR and his New Deal further expanded the reach and influence of government.  Roosevelt effectively created the welfare state and institutionalized progressive liberalism.  Although postwar enterprise enabled the private sector to recover ground and become once again the center of American economic might, the following years of the Sixties and beyond reversed the trend and returned the country to government-led monopoly. 

The Biden Administration was perhaps the worst, most exaggerated, most distorted government in history, for it took governmentalism to an extreme degree.  Capitalism was to be limited, restricted, and ultimately dismantled in a long overdue period of social reform.  The individual would be subsumed within the ethos and control of the state which arrogated to itself unabridged power. 

Not only did progressives hope to create a country where all enterprise was filtered through government authority and tested against a received code of behavior, they introduced outlandish, absurd policies and programs that defied logic and history.  Their DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusivity - program which distorted the American belief in equal opportunity and value and in so doing divided the country along racial, ethnic, and gender lines instead of reinforcing unity and universal adherence to a common ethos. 

It was a disaster of monumental proportions.  It was George Orwell, Big Brother, Animal Farm and 1984 all over again. 'Four legs good, two legs bad', shouted the usurpers, the new authoritarian dictators; and the Biden claques did the same thing.  'Heterosexuality bad, homosexuality good...white bad, black good...women good, men bad', they claimed and went about reconfiguring government to accommodate these twisted ideas. 

 

Government was no longer JFK's the best and the brightest, but the most colorful, alternately gendered, small, plus-sized, and defiantly progressive one.  

Then, to the surprise of most observers, Donald Trump won the presidency of the United States, beating an entitled woman who ran on nothing but her sex.  'It is time for a woman to run this country', said Hillary Clinton, 'and this woman will'. 

Not only that after four years of the destructive, divisive, and corrosive Biden Administration, Donald Trump beat another entitled woman this time one who added race to the mix.  'It is time for a black woman to lead this country', Kamala Harris said, 'and I am the black woman to do it'.  

The American public was fed up with the bullying, pandering, hectoring, and intimidation of progressives who condemned them universally - racist, misogynist, homophobic to the core, Harris said, 'but I will right the ship and show Americans a new direction'. 

 

In the endorsement of Donald Trump Americans rejected such anti-American sentiments and the arrogance of political poseurs and elected a President the likes of which the country had never seen.  A big, outsized, personality; an outspoken, rude, profane, but brutally honest politician, he not only proposed a new conservative agenda but intended to reshape American political and social culture.  His first four years were remarkable for their unabashed, unique, and revolutionary governance and in his second, current term he intends to finish the job. 

Trump is the first real American president.  He is middlebrow, unabashedly fond of glitz, glamour, arm candy, yachts, and mansions.  He is a man of Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the mean streets of New York without a drop of Kennedy's Camelot, a White House of Pablo Casals, Robert Frost, and the elegance of haute couture.  He is without a scintilla of Bush I's patrician heritage, Kennebunkport, old English reserve, Chippendale and Townsend, Copley and Remington. 

Trump is brashly Wild West.  He is a gunslinger, a fan of OK corral resolution to disputes, a territorial Westward expansionist, a man who not only believes in the principle of individual enterprise, effort, and influence but embodies it.  His razing of USAID and his march down Independence Avenue not only challenged the bureaucratic rule of Washington but began to eliminate it. 

 

His geopolitical moves against Venezuela, Gaza, and Iran restored American unilateral military options.  His loosening of private industry to drill for energy and rare earths have restored American energy independence and positioned it well for the AI future.  His rejection of the hyperbole of climate change and the transparent designs behind the hoopla to increase the size and influence of government have stopped the progressive tide; and his rollback of the most absurd gender-shifting ideas of progressivism has restored the central, irremediable ethos of America. 

It is for all of these reasons that the Left so hates him - a visceral, absolute, reflexive, universal hatred.  Anything and everything the President does is wrong, objectionable, and anti-democratic.  His turpitude, aggressive totalitarian ambitions, and his total disregard for the poor, the marginalized, and the disadvantaged make him a neo-Hitler, a man as devoid of moral direction as Stalin; a Pol Pot, a horrific example of human nature in the extreme.  Plus the fact, he is so bourgeois 

Invade Cuba, Why Not? - Donald Trump And The New Geopolitical Reality

Cuba has been a royal pain in the ass since Fidel Castro took over in 1959.  The Bay of Pigs, John Kennedy's ill-planned, amateurish invasion of the island made the US a laughing stock, hardened the Communist regime's resolve, and made Cuba the center of American regional geopolitics from then on. 

The Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 when Kennedy demanded that the Soviet Union remove the missiles it had deployed in Cuba and aimed at the United States nearly precipitated a nuclear war, and from that time on until the fall of the Soviet Union Cuba was the focus of American and Russian attention. 

Cuba's economy relied on Russian support - food, oil, hardware, technical support - and it was more than ever an important player in the American-Soviet rivalry. 

After 1991 when Russian support dwindled to nothing and the Castro regime was forced to rely on its own resources, the country fell into even greater economic crisis.  The American embargo to force the Communist regime to capitulate did little to shake the foundations of the regime and only added to Cubans' misery. 

The Mariel Boat Lift was Castro's answer to America's plea for freedom of movement and expression, and he emptied his prisons and sent hundreds of hardened criminals the US's way.  Miami which had thrived with refugees which came to Florida immediately after the Cuban Revolution and the rise of Castro, was inundated with these undesirables; but the US had always had the policy of 'If they're Cuban, we'll take them'. 

Since then Cuba has limped along, somehow surviving.  The United States under Barack Obama loosened the embargo rules and permitted some Americans to travel to the island, hoping that some kind of accommodation might be achieved; but no dice.  The regime after Fidel's death was no less hard and fast in its authoritarianism and no less hostile to the United States. 

The Soviets and the Russians are long gone. The only hardline Communist country is North Korea and its support of Cuba is desultory at best, so Cuba is no real threat to the United States.  Leave it alone and let it collapse under its own weight might be the best option; but America cannot do that just as the North could not leave the South alone in America's civil war period. The South's slavery, challenge to free labor, and its open hostility simply could not stand, and when the South attacked Fort Sumter, it was the casus belli the North had always wanted. 

Many economists have concluded that the Southern agrarian, slave-based economy would have collapsed on its own. It had no industry to speak of, no shipbuilding or shipping, and relied on British transport for its cotton. The North was rapidly industrializing, growing powerful and influential, and the South could not possibly have lasted much longer. 

Yet the North was anxious to pull the trigger.  A combination of abolitionists, free labor advocates, and Northern nationalists combined to insist on full-scale war.  The South shall never rise again after we are through with it, they said.  

And so it is with Cuba.  The Communist regime simply cannot last much longer, so why not just let it fester and come to its own logical conclusion?  Because it's there, that's why.  Time to get rid of it once and for all, pay it back for all its insolence, obduracy, and drumbeat of Hate America!

Trump is on a roll.  Venezuela was a piece of cake, a few special forces with air cover and the dictator, Maduro, was history; the oil fields were ours, and another pissy, uncontrite socialist regime over and done with.  Hamas and Iran have proved harder nuts to crack, but the American President has shown chutzpah and cojones in a defiantly militant posture.  

It has been almost fifty years since the ayatollahs have changed the country into an oppressed gulag, have sown terror throughout the Middle East, have built a nuclear arsenal and declared that it would eventually annihilate Israel and kill all Jews, and again it was about time to get rid of it. 

This is not to say that Donald Trump is the Wild West gunslinging cowboy he is made out to be.  He is just playing the Machiavellian geopolitical game that America's arch-rivals Russia and China have been playing for years.  China wants complete Han control of the Uighur regions of its west, the re-integration of Tibet into China, and the final assimilation of Taiwan.  

There is nothing new in that either from a geopolitical or natural perspective.  China has never been bothered by American-style moral exceptionalism, has always been an imperialist society, and has never once given American concerns about freedom, liberty, and cultural identity a second thought; and human nature is never satisfied with what it has. 

President Putin of Russia has made no bones about his respect for his country's imperial past. Czarist Russia was a social, cultural, political, and military leader; and it is time to restore those very ambitions and values to the new Russia. 

President Erdogan of Turkey has similar sentiments about the Ottoman Empire, a time of Turkish world domination under Islamic rule.  It is time for modern Turkey to return to those same hegemonic, imperial roots. 

Trump is simply joining Putin, Xi, and Erdogan in their geopolitical outlook.  Spheres of influence, whether Ukraine, Taiwan, Venezuela, or Cuba - and by extension the Middle East. Trump's first strike posture is completely within this new geopolitical zeitgeist.  He is simply abandoning one-world idealism and returning to hardline nationalism.  The world is not a happy picnic ground. 

The US under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon claimed Southeast Asia as America's; and they initiated a war with Ho Chi Minh, a nationalist patriot, because of his Communist intentions.  The Domino Theory was prevalent - if Vietnam falls, then so will Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and God knows what else. It was time to nip that probability in the bud, and so the US began an unwinnable war. 

It was only after such a humiliating defeat that America pulled in its horns, rethought foreign policy and geopolitics.  McNamara, LBJ's Defense Secretary went to Vietnam many years after the Vietnamese victory and begged forgiveness.  We shouldn't have done what we did, he said to deaf ears and then went on to become President of the World Bank and changed its ethos and policy structure to favor 'poverty reduction', a kind of international mea culpa for Vietnam.

However, the seeds of regional dominance were still in America's garden basket, and Ronald Reagan undertook a small-scale support of rightist forces in Nicaragua and El Salvador - our sphere of interest - and subsequent American Presidents had their moments - taking out Qaddafi in Libya and Noriega in Panama, but nothing major until Afghanistan and Iraq.  

'Mission Accomplished' said George W Bush after the fall of Saddam Hussein, but of course nothing was accomplished.  Both resurgent Islamic militias in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan eventually regained power. 

The only difference now is that Donald Trump is no longer using exceptionalist cover for his actions.  There is no need to justify taking over a country because of democracy.  It is enough to say that we simply want it, that it is in our national interest.  It is bald aggressiveness, aligned quite nicely with Russia and China.  In fact it is a triumvirate of equal-minded adversaries.  That is what is new. 

The American Left of course cries foul.  Trump is an imperialist dictator who has abandoned any sense of justice, compassion, understanding, and peace.  He is a blundering, arrogant, authoritarian pig who has no moral inhibitions. 

Yet how short the memory of these critics.  America has always been like this.  Thomas Jefferson the architect of Manifest Destiny, the philosophy which stated that America was destined to be one country from sea to sea, was unapologetic about American expansionism, the clearing of brush, titling land, and moving the Indians as far west of the Mississippi River as possible. 

So, no tears.  The Cuban regime has threatened to send explosive-carrying drones to Florida and bomb key targets.  This would be the casus belli Donald Trump hopes for.  Just one pathetic little Latino drone coming our way would be enough for a massive invasion of the island, and getting rid of the hated Castros once and for all. 

It might not happen, but then again it very well might.  Trump is on a roll, so why not?