P&D and The Week That Was

 Truth is the Sublime Convergence of History and Reality

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De Omnibus Dubitandum, (Everything is to be questioned!)

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By Rich Kozlovich

Observe, Orient, Decide, Act

Imprimis is the "free monthly digest of Hillsdale College and is dedicated to educating citizens", and just ran this piece,  New Thinking Needed on National Defense, pointing out the very real inadequacies in America's military.   And they're big.   I think this is a good piece as it hits on all the basics.   

I never liked Trump as a person, although I'm finding him far more acceptable as I watch his reactions to events now.  I think the assassination attempts changed him.  I also think it made him all the more determined to get things done, and he's my age, 78, and realizes time isn't on his side.

 If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.  Cardinal Richelieu

I have to say his willingness to stand and deliver against all these attacks by a corrupt legal system has totally impressed me, heterodoxy isn't for the faint of heart, it takes guts and the willingness to be virulently  hated by your enemies, and still push forward against their slings and arrows.   He has nothing to gain by being President, except to save the nation.  He clearly understood their efforts to destroy him wasn't about him, it was to be a lesson to anyone in the future who dared stand up to the vile leftist cabal that's trying to destroy the nation.  

‘Perceived foes’- The left has only impeached Trump — twice — tried to assassinate him — twice — indicted him multiple times, and came perilously close to sending him to Riker’s Island prison, but yeah, The New York Times asserts that the hostility is just “perceived.".....

So, as a leader, he's been amazing, and I don't think I fully realized how smart he is.  I'm convinced he saw his tariffs to be a solution to a great many issues, on a great many levels, including this one discussed in the Imprimis article.   He clearly understood these tariffs would drive companies back to America, factories will be built, supply chains will be altered and shortened, and the economic reality that the world's economy is the American economy is setting in with these chest pounding nitwits.

Did he see all the details? No!  No one could, but he sees the basics, it's a kind of "if you build it, they will come" attitude.  As AT&T used to say, "The system is the solution", so he put the right tools in place so the system could fix itself. 

Is there a moral imperative in trade? - Once, American manufacturers and Democrats believed there was such an imperative, but until Trump came along, both political parties had abandoned that idea..........

Over 130 nations are now scrambling to the White House looking for deals, with many foreign companies pledging trillions to build factories here in America in order to avoid tariffs.    Imagine that.  But the chair bound generals and admirals who make the decisions over purchases need to be purged, and that's always been the case.  See my Col. John Boyd article.  Boyd was a bona fide military genius, and if there ever was anyone who applied Boyd's OODA principle, Observe, Orient Decide, and Act, it's Trump. 

AOC says America wasn't meant to last, and so we must assume she's wanting to be President in order to make that happen?   But, the Democratic party just might save America yet:

..........by their own stupidity.  They have demonstrated that they have learned absolutely nothing from the 2024 election, and that might end up being the salvation of the country—if they continue along that line, and with talk of AOC and Jasmine Crockett being their future “leadership,” things do indeed look somewhat brighter for the nation.  The Democrats are apparently intending not to learn anything, but to become even more stupid...........And since then, it appears the Democrats have learned nothing from their defeat. They continue doing unbelievably stupid things that turn off masses of American people. Just a few examples:........Keep it up, Democrats. You might save the country you despise yet.

Andrea Widburg published this piece, The new conservatives, discussing one of the most important factors, and least discussed, in any society.  Demographics!  She discussed how the next generation of voters is actually very conservative, and I think she may be on to something. I’ve read where a young generation, and I don’t remember the alphabetic designation they’ve attached to them, is the most conservative generation in years, and that they’re more religious. 

I don’t know if that’s true or not, but historically generational changes can result for a host of reasons, but a lack of security as a result of failing to perform is foundation for such changes. Since the Pravda media is toast, they’re seeking out answers from other sources, but the idea they're getting their information from podcasts bothers me since there’s no time to lay foundation, and that’s the secret to understanding. Reading, especially books, allows for reflection and is the foundation for understanding.  

We’re living through serious times with totally unserious people at the helm: They’re in the White House, Buckingham Palace (although mercifully merely symbolic there), and throughout the media. The old-time TV newsmen all leaned left, but they at least had the appearance of gravitas. This current crop is drawn from the back of the classroom and the bottom of the heap. They are ridiculous, ignorant people who risibly believe that they have both wisdom and knowledge. - Andrea Widburg

As DOGE is exposing the seditious corruption of the administrative state conservatives are shocked to find it’s far worse than they thought. Also, I think all this is clearly exposing the dangers a corrupt judiciary presents to the nation, and I believe there will be a fix for this judicial overreach in the near future. I’ve tried my best to track these rogue judges and the issues involved as a source article. For those interested here’s My Judiciary Gazette, which I keep updating the information regarding the judges, and the list is substantial. 

The national debt is far worse than the 37 trillion that's on top and being reported.  When you add in the obligations to Social Security and Medicare, and they're not including the future costs of Medicaid in this analysis, Budget Group says the actual federal debt Is $158.6 trillion dollars. 

• Govt Bureaucrats Tried to Stop Trump from Canceling Illegal Aliens’ Social Security Benefits

Al Sharpton is up to his old corrupt and illegal extortion tricks.  PepsiCo agrees to meet with Al Sharpton over DEI cuts, potential boycott.  I just don't get these invertebrate executives.  This is extortion, flat and simple, and extortion is illegal.   I would tell him, Jesse Jackson, and all the other race baiting hypocrites to shove it, and if they did start a boycott, I'd sue their organizations, and them personally, for every dime them have, and I'd keep suing them.  And this would end. 

 

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. - 1911, Booker T. Washington

 

It's become clear neither Putin or Zelenskyy want that war to end, and I've concluded it wouldn't be long before Trump told them to shove it and walked away.  Well,  Secretary of State Rubio says unless Putin and Zelenskyy start taking peace seriously he's prepared to walk away.  There are times when you just turn mother's picture to the wall and leave, and I think that time is now.  

 

The Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people. -  Winston Churchill 

 

This week I've been trying to get a handle on so many of my drafts, and there's a ton of them, so in today's P&D I have 14 commentaries of my own, and 17 by others, and this video Theory of Stupidity!   

 

Normally I don't do videos as I consider most of them time wasters, since by the time I get to the end I find there's nothing I can use.  Whereas print pieces can be scanned to see if they're worth reading.  But this one is profound and will be the foundation for a piece of my own, and possibly a series as things develop, and since there are no boundaries on stupid, I'm sure there will be "developments" for future pieces. 

 

This is a time that's considered sacred to practicing Jews and Christians, and most certainly a time to reflect, ponder and evaluate reality.  So, have a good weekend, and my very best wishes to all people of good will and honest hearts.  

 

Rich 

My Commentaries

1. The Judiciary is in Serious Need of Restraint
2. Women in Combat
3. Leaks, We Have Leaks, We Have Lots and Lots of Leaks
4. Another Democrat Hill to Die On: Deportation
5. Abortion: Clarity is More Important Than Agreement
6. Quotes in Leadership
7. Avoiding Stupid is a Really Good Thing!
8. Observations From the Back Row
9. Passover and Leftist Jews: A Study in Insanity
10. P&D Geopolitics Edition: Russo/Ukrainian War, and Donald Trump, Part II
11. My Gazette, Kamala Harris
12. My Judiciary Gazette
13. 2026/2028 Elections, and ActBlue in Review
14. My Gazette, Autopen

Commentaries

1. From the Back Forty – DOGE Discovers Time Travel? Sarah Cowgill
2. Psych Out: Xi Jinping Ratcheting Up Tariff Head Games By Lisa K. Donner
3. Critically Thinking about K-12 Books By John Droz, Jr
4. Jewish Governor Gives $5M Grant to Mosque That Called Jews ‘Vilest People’ By Daniel Greenfield
5. Liberal Jewish Groups Fight for Hamas Supporters  By Daniel Greenfield
6. California Doubles Fine on White Drivers  By Daniel Greenfield
7. News and Views From Around the World By Robin Itzler
8. Tariffs Are Not a Tax By Robin Itzler
9. Democrats Welcomed Them as Future Voters By Robin Itzler
10. Trying To Figure Out How Much Of The Government Grants Goes To Left-Wing Causes And Propaganda  By Francis Menton
11. Is There Any Fraud In The Medicaid Program? Here's A Place To Start Looking By Francis Menton
12. Fiscal Fights with Friends: We Don’t Need Two Class-Warfare Political Parties By Dan Mitchell
13. Understanding the Limits of DOGE By Dan Mitchell
14. Mississippi Repeals its State Income Tax By Dan Mitchell
15. Euthanasia Excess: In Ontario, You Can Plan to Expire in 24 Hours By Joe Schaeffer
16. Running out of victims Mike Shaw
17. Red States Go Full DOGE By Corey Smith

Permanent Links

1. 45 Communist Goals to Destroy America as Listed in the 1963 Congressional Record
2. My Seven Rules of Geopolitics
3. The John Boyd Legion of Honor
5. Former White House Advisor: “Trump to Release $150 Trillion Endowment”

 No matter what anyone says, you can’t marginalize the truth!  You can suppress it, you can ignore it, you can avoid it, you can attempt to undermine it, you can attempt to subvert it, you can attempt to organize against it, you can even laugh at it, but if we have the courage and the fortitude to stand and confront the lies, irrespective of the personal costs, the truth will stand the test of time, because truth and time are on the same side.

Constant as the North Star