Donald Trump: The Butcher of Sacred Cows

Some titles and phrases don’t generate a lot of feeling. like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, or VFW, Doesn’t that title seem unduly vague? I mean, other than the Civil War, weren’t all of our warfare “foreign” war? &nbsp,

I’m no writer, but over the previous 150 years, I’m pretty sure they all took place in other countries. Best?

” Veterans of Wars”. There: It’s simpler, saves the taxpayers some cash. ( That’s my cost-cutting contribution to DOGE. )

Different brands have clear meanings, but only after people points ‘ em out. For example, I’m very&nbsp, embarrassed to admit that it took me a very long time to learn that Biblical titles with an” El” appear — Daniel, Michael, Rachel, Samuel — were all derived from the historical name of our Heavenly Father, El. ( And conversely, names like Jezebel are derived from Baal. ) When you stop and consider it, it makes sense.

It’s like the lower” n” in the 7-Eleven sign: You often don’t see it until one openly mentions it. But once they do, it’s impossible to disregard.

( And yes, it’s true: All the letters in 7-Eleven are capitalized except the” n” at the end. Go check it out for yourself. )

Finally, there are the titles and phrases that don’t occur, but probably does. For instance, there’s a famous European expression:” Déjà vu”. It refers to the foreboding sense of familiarity ( or even repetition ) in utterly unfamiliar settings. &nbsp,

Well, I’d like to create a new word to our social vocabulary: Déjà voodoo. It’s kind of like déjà nostalgia, just it refers to quasi-religious ideas.

Déjà voodoo ( dāZHä&nbsp, ˈvo͞o&nbsp, ˈdo͞o/ ): The foreboding sense of once again discrediting a cherished article of liberal faith — i. e. the skewering ( and barbequing ) of leftwing” sacred cows” over an open fire.

President Trump hasn’t yet entered the political limelight in a fortnight (! ), yet! ), his whole cupboard and key employees still haven’t been confirmed. Yet he’s currently marching ahead, making suet of his opposition. There’s a new effectiveness to Trump II’s professional decisions, less spend, fewer missteps, and an unprecedented economy of movement.

Give him credit: Our son did his research. &nbsp, This time around, Trump understands how D. C. really works — and how it doesn’t — and the distinction is incredible.

To paraphrase Yogi Berra,” It’s déjà magic all over again”.

All those frightened cows are turning chewy.

Trump visited disaster-stricken areas like North Carolina and Los Angeles and really worked with the people instantly, breaking the Biden-Harris myth that “nothing can be done.” Just the shadow of his reputation, in Gaza, saved the British hostages. His angry, rapid-fire rate contrasted beautifully with Biden’s Roomba-like flowing. From ( finally! ) releasing the JFK documents to challenging heritage citizenship, this has been — by much — the most significant period of Trump’s president.

Best of all, he’s only getting started.

Persecution to Guantanamo Bay Ending catch-and-release. Finishing the roof. giving shelter cities federal funding. Designating Mexican cartel as unusual terrorists. requiring Canada and Mexico to send more troops to the frontier. renounces its support for the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization. Trashing the DEI’s discriminatory wastes. Canceling Biden’s COVID guidelines. Redesignating the Houthis as a terrorist business. Pardoning the Jan. 6 “rioters”.

And we didn’t even get to Greenland, the Panama Canal, or the Gulf of America!

As impressive as all of that was, it doesn’t hold a candle to the next three liberal sacred cows that were just déjà voodoo-ed this week: Trans in women’s sports, government waste ( and/or corruption ), and Palestinian statehood.

Second, children’s activities: Trump didn’t back down from his mad, radical notion that children’s activities ought to be for people. And in doing so, he claimed the cuff of popular feeling and some well-known female friends:

Thanks to every activist on the left who has fought tirelessly to end ladies’ and women’s rights. Without you, there’d be no pictures like this. photograph. twitter.com/mzR7l5k1OW— J. K. Rowling ( @jk_rowling ) February 6, 2025

The majority of Americans agreed with Trump and Rowling, despite the democratic outcry and the outrageous gnashing of teeth that some have in common with them. Millions of natural women want to compete and be judged against another biological women. The phrase” The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few” is a fundamental part of Star Trek logic.

If it makes sense to Spock, it makes sense to us.

Second, Trump unleashed the puppies of DOGE and sic-ed them on state waste. Leftwing greats like Elizabeth Warren began screaming,” No some elected Elon Musk to little”!

Which is terrible, of training. When Elizabeth Warren ran for reelection, she received roughly 2 million seats, which is why she is appointed as a team. Trump received over 77 million vote, so he gets to nominate individuals, also. It’s certainly a novel idea.

No one is fresh to appointing people to the federal government. George Washington was a master at it. All president did.

Sen. Warren is unsure of how the law operates despite having been taught at Harvard Law. ( Or proper grammar. )

The final destruction of progressive conservatism was slicing, sauteing, and shish-kabobbing of the divine cattle of Israeli sovereignty.

Trump’s offer to take over Gaza, put American on the ground, and change the area into the Riviera was jaw-dropping. It almost certainly won’t happen, which is a good thing: The American appetite for another Middle East ( mis ) adventure is nonexistent. Even if the ROI was a slam-dunk — which it completely isn’t — that’s never a cow everyone wants to eat again.

( The last time we went there, we got food poisoning. ) No desire to return to that restaurant.

However, it does signal the end of the story of Israeli sovereignty. As Lee Smith noted in his great part,” The End of ‘ Palestine'”:

Monday, President Donald Trump single-handedly collapsed the most dangerous thought of the last hundred years—Palestine. Trump stated in discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and another Jewish officials that he would evacuate Gaza from the hands of 1.7 million Palestinians. And just like that, he ended the string that had ensnared generations of globe leaders, peace activists, and Middle Eastern terror masters, who had ironically come to see the repeated failures and eerie secondary effects of the idea of a shared Arab Muslim and Jewish statehood in the same little space as evidence of its necessity.

Where do we go from here? Nothing knows. All glass balloons are overcast, the prospect is unclear.

For the first time in a very long time, results another than Israeli sovereignty are now on the board, including the imprisonment results.

Smith continued:

Here is the dramatic fact: Gazans, not just the joined members of the Hamas divisions, waged an exterminationist battle against Israel, and they lost. Except for the last 75 years, they would have been fortunate to drop just place and not have their story and language completely removed from the guide of the living.

Trump’s nice present to the Gazans so signals a return to record, but with a twist. Trump has previously sinned against them and pledged to give them new lives, better lives, jobs, new homes, and a chance to raise their families peacefully without a total and permanent war with a stronger adversary who is destined to completely overthrow them. He has done this despite the objections of other effective global players.

It’s a negotiation strategy: When the status quo takes, change the status quo. Not only will you break up a standoff and negotiate a better deal, but you also get to give your foes a good dose of bird.

goes well with divine cattle. Yum!

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