So, a guy back in the 1800s gets married and is taking his new bride back to his farm on a one-horse carriage. The horse is acting, well, horsey, and on a corner trots through fast enough that the carriage tilts, lifts one wheel and almost turns over.
Angered, the man stops the carriage, climbs down, grabs the horse’s bridle and looks into its eyes.
“That’s one,” he says sternly, then gets back into the vehicle and they start off again. A mile or so further along the horse goes under a low branch. The man and woman have to duck and the carriage’s top is damaged. Once again, the man stops, gets out and grabs the horse’s bridle.“That’s two,” he says in a louder voice, staring longer at the horse and shaking the bridle. He gets back into the carriage and off they go again.
As they approach the farm’s gate on the dirt road, the horse heads directly toward a large mud puddle instead of going around it. Muddy water splashes over the man, woman, and the wagon. Infuriated, the man jumps out, pulls a gun from his coat and stands in front of the horse.
“THAT’S THREE!” He says, pointing the pistol right between the horse’s eyes and pulling the trigger. The horse drops dead in the road, right between the reins.
Was it right? Don’t know. Was it legal? No idea. Was it constitutional? Beats me.
Still furious, the man goes around the carriage and starts pulling the woman’s suitcases from the back, preparing to walk the rest of the way.
His new bride is horrified, having never seen this side of him. She steps down, stands in front of the man and gives him a real talking-to. How could you, that is so cruel, I had no idea that you—all those things.
When she finally stops, the man looks at her, puts down the luggage and points a finger at her chest, saying calmly:
“That’s one.”
That wasn’t meant to be funny. I only mention it to explain Donald Trump’s actions in blowing up a boat full of drugs and smugglers yesterday.
President Trump has reached three.
Was it right? Don’t know. Was it legal? No idea. Was it constitutional? Beats me.
What is obvious is that Mr. Trump had watched this country go downhill for fifty years while politicians have outgassed about fixing everything: crime, drugs, illegal immigration, homelessness, war—it’s a near-infinite list.
Yet things only got worse. So ten years ago Mister Trump announced he was running for president to really fix those problems. For his efforts, he was lied about, set up, indicted, sued and shot. He survived it all, but it changed his whole attitude about Making America Great Again. It is now a rush job.
Trump’s first term was number one, with the media lies, Russiagate, aides who undermined him. While he was out of office and Democrats were doing everything they could to keep him out, well, that was number two.
Now we are at three. Trump knows regular politicians—egocentrics who get into politics for power, fame and bribes—have no plans to change anything. They hope the gravy train will zoom right past the station and keep traveling.
Trump doesn’t have long to fix things and he’s aware that, if his team loses in 2028 the Democrats will finish a brutal takeover of the country, so he’s resorting to direct action. He’s telling smugglers: break a law, get blown up.
So politicians and the Deep State are calling him Hitler. If there were a nastier word, they’d use it.
It’s not just drugs, though Trump no doubt thinks foreigners killing almost a hundred thousand Americans a year merits a big effort to stop it. He’s changing the rules for illegal immigration. Now it’s enter the U-S illegally and you end up in U-ganda. Alligator Alcatraz is now the GOOD alternative.
Trump is now willing to try almost anything to get this country back on track. He’s arranged for the federal government to get ten percent of one of its biggest tech companies, Nvidia. He’s sent troops into the District of Columbia to bring down the outrageous crime rate and is now talking about =doing it in Chicago, L.A. and New Orleans. DOGE is uncovering evidence of vast corruption involving politicians and left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs). One substantive report says the government handed Chelsea Clinton $80 million that she then spent on an $11 million wedding and a huge New York condo.
So politicians and the Deep State are calling him Hitler. If there were a nastier word, they’d use it.
Is Donald Trump Hitler redux? Is he authoritarian? I don’t know. I do know he’d rather NOT be, but politicians from both parties have fought him with a crazy intensity. Although he won the 2024 vote, he believes (and I agree) that there was so much voter and election fraud that his congressional majority is substantially less than it should be.
This could have been done very politely, with Congress passing new laws to cut drug smuggling, the illegal invasion, inflation, deficit spending, everything—but the Deep State decided to fight back.
Which means that a., they do think they’re more important than the people we elect, and b., whatever we’ve found out about their illegality is only a small fraction of what they’ve actually done.
It’s going to get ugly, or should I say, uglier. Democrats are threatening civil war over it and there’s an actual chance (not large) they’ll get it. After all, they started the last one.
You can now expect almost anything out of Donald Trump—anything that will get this country back to normal, the way he sees it. The next couple of years are going to be a bumpy ride in the Carriage of State, so hang on.
Donald Trump has reached three.
An absolutely spot-on metaphor by René Marrou about DJT and the newlywed carriage driver having had enough with his horse! I've known this joke - or fable, which is it? - for years now, but this is the perhaps THE best application of it in real life I've seen.
Are Trump's actions legal?... like René, I dunno. Don't care. What's more, I don't blame Donald Trump. I blame the folks who started all this, well, bovine feces. And that pile of dung has been around a long, long time. That's why DC is in such turmoil. It very much harkens ethicist Rushworth Kidder's mantra:
WHERE ETHICS FAIL, THE LAW RUSHES IN TO FILL THE GAP.
The ethics of DC has failed for decades. And that infestation has filtered down and metastasized to the even state and local levels, too. It's darn near ubiquitous. Yet, as the leadership goes, so go the masses. Meaning: it's not surprising that ethics have failed across the board.
Almost 70 yrs ago, President Dwight D Eisenhower warned us of at least one key source of nefarious shenanigans: "Beware the industrial military complex," he said. As both a President and a general (ahem, THE most powerful general in the European Theater of WWII), Ike knew both the political side of the evil influence as well as the military-industrial side.
Yet, there are gads more than just that industry. There are miscreants and malcontents of all kinds of political and corporate stripes who are intent on abusing the purse of the nation for personal gain. Trump's actions - ahem, the "law" in Kidder's thinking - are a mere snippet compared to the volumes of misdeeds by this haughty riffraff. His behavior is nothing more than the proverbial flea on a elephant's butt.
So, carry on, DJT! I've seen enough of him to know that his heart is in the right place, and I'll take that essence of leadership over any other smooth-talking politico or pundit. At this point, we need to ensure that the succession plan of DJT's no-nonsense approach is fully entrenched and impenetrable. JD Vance seems to have the juevos to do the job for the next eight years; I'm good with that. He represents not just a military background but blue-collar origins, as well. It would be good for such "salt of the earth" origins to be at the helm of the most powerful country in history. Plus, JD is pretty darn smart. After that, I wouldn't mind Tulsi Gabbard taking the top spot for another eight years. Her military career is notable, too. Like JD, Tulsi is plenty smart and savvy, and her clear-minded thinking and presence is more than evident. She's a winner, period.
Yup, that's some 20 years straight of no-nonsense leadership. And we're gonna need it. Why?... our Founders knew as they built the exquisite foundation of our nation. The tendencies to go awry are plenty; we must forever remain vigilant. Kidder knew it, too. And if you get down to it, so does the Bible. It's about doing the right things at the right time for the right reasons. DC has forgotten that.
And maybe, just maybe if we do it right we won't have to pull-out that third bullet for the horse that brought us there.
The Sage of South Texas has nailed it again!