Picking up the post–election pieces – planning for 2024

11/10/2020

Trump's overriding achievement as President was his ability to merely survive in office despite a systematized and relentless assault against him from day one. An organized coven comprising a Democrat Congress, the mainstream media, the academy, and Hollywood were united in carpet-bombing the Trump White House from even before he took up residence. Anyone with slightly thinner skin would have thrown in the towel or simply crashed and burned under the relentless, conspiratorial attack that began in a post-election Obama White House and continued through an endless Mueller probe that yielded naught, followed by a disgraceful Kavanaugh vetting circus, and then by a spurious impeachment orgy.

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One can count on a duck's fingers the number of people who actually voted for Joe Biden. Of the 75,215,340 Americans who cast a Biden ballot, the overwhelming majority were voting against Trump rather than for Obama's vice president.

Among women, there may have been a greater number whose pro-Biden vote was actually a vote for Kamala Harris. The California senator is certainly a more compelling, if for many of us compellingly offensive, candidate. But Biden? An utterly underachieving career pol, who ranked near the bottom of his class in a bottom-ranked law school, and with precious little to show for nearly a half century in national politics.

As well, it can be said that a majority of the 70,812,367 Americans who are known to have voted for Trump many, if not most, were not voting for Donald J. Trump, the man, but rather for what he accomplished during four beleaguered years in the White House.

The irony, of course, is that the Russia-based accusations that targeted Trump were clearly inspired by the very actions in which Democrats were then complicit in real time; from a discredited Russian source behind the disgraceful Steele Dossier, to Biden's "well sonofabitch" ability to quash a Ukrainian corruption investigation into a corporation stuffing $50K/month into his narcotics-addled son's billfold, to the mysterious $3 million payoff by a female Putin associate in Moscow, again to Biden's beamish boy.

True, Donald Trump was hardly Central Casting's natural choice for POTUS. He is provincial, crass, narcissistic, inarticulate, and very gifted in the art of putting his foot into his own mouth. And yet, and yet, he has garnered a remarkable catalog of achievements for which he can justifiably take credit - a list that both qualitatively and quantitatively puts all of his recent predecessors to shame.

For openers - and this covers the gamut of his accomplishments in office - Donald Trump took his campaign promises seriously and set out to keep them. This alone shows what a fool he really is. Who ever heard of a president actually holding himself accountable for keeping campaign promises? Didn't anyone ever tell him that campaign promises are absolved upon taking the oath of office, which is the Kol Nidre of national politics; the granting of a clean slate rendering any and all preceding oaths null and void? What further proof was needed of his rank amateurism?

In short order, Trump not only kept promises, but kept one that had been solemnly made, and ritualistically broken, by Clinton, George W Bush, and Obama; namely to move the US embassy to Jerusalem thereby recognizing it as Israel's capital. While the stentorian echoes from a brainless head of hair named John Kerry still ricocheted off the walls of Washington, predicting dire consequences to any such action, a naïve, and under-informed Donald Trump simply went ahead and did it. The horrifying repercussions? The inevitable region-wide blood bath? Gornisht. Nada. The sun rose and set the next day as if nothing had happened.

Of course the various mutually-homicidal terrorist organizations that ride roughshod over a hapless Palestinian populace threw a predictable temper tantrum. The vaunted Palestinian Authority - in the 14th year of a four-year term - punished America by withdrawing its recognition of the US, and refusing to receive from Israel the vitally needed tax revenues that accrued to its account. Talk of biting one's nose to spite one's face.

But the devastating repercussions from the embassy move to Jerusalem hardly stopped there. Barely two years later the impossible happened - that is impossible according to the sages of the Obama State Department - as, in short order, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan agreed to peace and harmony with Israel. Slightly less forthcoming, but no less enthusiastic, the Saudis granted Israeli aircraft flying rights over Mecca and Medina thereby making India, China, Japan, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand some six hours closer to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Another terrible Trump decision that flew in the face of more authoritative opinions, was the radical reduction of US troop exposure to Islamic conflagrations. At the same time the US military vaporized ISIS and terminated, first, Abdul Baqr al Baghdadi, the chief butcher of ISIS, and subsequently Qassem Suleimani, the chief butcher of Iran. Repercussions? Yet again, ZERO.

Let's see ... what else did the great bumbler accomplish in the world's most intractable region? Ah, yes. He pulled America out of the JCPOA, Barack Obama's legacy diplomatic coup - whereby the country that had not stopped singing "Death to America" since 1979 received a ten-year schedule for clinching its very own nuclear bomb. America's first Black president then outdid himself by providing the mullahs with a head start of some $150 billion, much of it in cold hard cash.

Trump, fool that he is, shredded that agreement and put Teheran on a starvation diet that has rendered it virtually toothless and operationally castrated. Fortunately, Kamala Harris has announced that a Biden/Harris White House will undo the damage caused by Trump's blunders, and will once again pander to the mullahs at the expense of America's regional allies (as well as restore the PLO's cash flow and ballroom rights in Washington DC.)

Elsewhere in the litany of Trumpian bunglings is the rejiggering of NAFTA, a notoriously flawed trade agreement between the United States and its neighbors to the north and south. NAFTA had gifted the US with the blessing of wholesale expatriation of US automotive plants to Mexico, and the staggering erasure of good old American jobs. Then along came Trump who triggered the repatriation of factories to Detroit and jobs back to the US. This resulted in record-low US unemployment, especially among Blacks and other minorities. Simply inexcusable. Truly a grade-A shanda.

And then there is the horrible way Trump treated America's European allies. First he withdrew from a Paris climate accord that would - so what else is new - have America paying for the participation of some 35 third world countries. And then, Lord knows where he garnered the hutzpah, he threatens Germany, yes almighty GERMANY, with repercussions should the trade imbalance with the US not rebalance itself more favorably. As if that were not enough, he demanded that Europe start ponying up its fair share of the cost of defending itself. In other words, Uncle Sam - i.e the US taxpayer - would no longer play sugar daddy to that 70 year-old anachronism called NATO.

Back home, of course, Trump naively put a full stop to the endless tsunami of illegal aliens cascading across the Mexican border. Like the total idiot he is, he decided enough is enough, what with 11 million illegals already north of the Rio Grande (yes, one out of every thirty people residing in the US).

So, yes, it is time for jubilation. Trump, it seems, has lost the election by a squeak (and perhaps a squeak aided and abetted by a bit of Democrat hanky panky). But surely Trump's defeat is a great victory. A victory for Iran. A victory for Germany. A victory for China. A victory for the PLO. And a victory for millions of Honduran, Salvadoran, Guatamalan and Mexican 'asylum' seekers.

As well, Trump's defeat is a blessing for millions of Americans who once fared quite well on welfare and single-parent house-holding, and suddenly found themselves gainfully employed thanks to the amateurish canoodling of Donald J. Trump. A great sigh of relief can now be heard across the land as "our days are renewed as in the days of yore". I can already hear the printing presses in overdrive as they crank out millions of renewed food stamps.

As for the benighted 70,812,367 of us who, last week, voted for Trump, we have only two choices now. We can pull out our baseballs bats, spend our parents' money on Kevlar protective gear, masks and pepper spray, and start marauding through urban streets, clobbering innocent bystanders, smashing store windows, helping ourselves to Nike sneakers and Tommy Hilfiger garments, burning government buildings, and using our newly requisitioned iPhone 12s to shoot videos of cops murdering innocent hoodlums.

Or, we can start planning for 2024. Because, realistically speaking, Joe Biden will by then be, if not dead then certainly brain dead. And Kamala Harris is hardly presidential material. After all, shacking up with the very married and much, much, MUCH older and corrupt Willie Brown in order get both her legs up in politics can only take her so far (I hope).

It is not too soon for serious Americans to start planning for November 2024. There is some terrific talent waiting patiently in the wings. I, for one, would relish a Nikki Haley/Mike Pompeo ticket. But you may have a better idea. Regardless, by 2024 the White House will be ripe for the re-taking. It's not too soon to start. And there's no need for phony investigations, groundless impeachments, and urban riots.

(Author Unknown)