Christmas & New Year Thoughts
As a writer I’m interested in words, the tools we use to convey our thoughts to others. We also nuance our communications with body language, tone and inflection of voice. The way you say, “Good morning,” matters.
The Merriam-Webster word of the year is polarization (division). I hear this term, especially from Democrats, who maintain that if everyone just agreed with them there would not be any division. In fact, Biden spent $267 million of government money (our money) suppressing what he considered “misinformation and disinformation.”
The new political word is “Cheney’d.” It derives by converting former Congressman Liz Cheney’s name to a verb. To “Cheney” an incumbent is to run a candidate against an incumbent during the primary season because the pol (politician) has not been responsive to the will of their voters. The lesson for politicians as “Donald comes to town” is the Christmas songhYou better watch out…
Christmas is around the corner and I remember childhood anticipation. My brothers and I would survey and shake the presents under the tree to choose one gift to open before Christmas morning.
I received my big Christmas gift early this year, but it was never under the tree. The intervention of Providence in Butler, Pennsylvania, and the reelection of President Trump was THE Christmas gift for me. Now, I wish for President Trump’s appointments to be approved, so government reform can begin.
As I began this week’s essay, Daniel Penny was declared not guilty in the death of the mugger threatening people on the NYC subway. Apparently, there are sane people in Gotham, many of whom have been threatened on the subway and understood that Penny was a Good Samaritan, not a murderer. The media talking heads have been saying justice was done. But was it? The disgusting district attorney of NY, Alvin Bragg, should never have brought charges against Penny. But Bragg should never have brought charges against President Trump either.
In the early 90s I took my daughter to NY City for a Dad/daughter weekend. We supped at a fancy French restaurant in SoHo and saw Madame Butterfly at the Met. And after doing touristy things, I wanted her to see The Cloisters antiquities museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art located at the “top” of Manhattan. So, we jumped on the A train and rode it north through Manhattan and Harlem. Alarmingly, a disheveled and obviously disturbed man entered our train car and began moving through the car, swaying back and forth, and repeatedly shouting, “I ain’t gonna kill nobody.” Everyone in our car was threatened, but fortunately, nothing happened. We were lucky, but Penny and others were not.
It may be Christmas, but we are in the midst of a cultural, political and national revolution. Lawfare has been exposed and leftist lawyers like Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith have been outed as Democrat operatives. And now Washington and world leaders see President Trump as America’s political leader, though Biden retains executive power for another dangerous six weeks.
Democrats continue blaming each other for the downfall of Biden and Harris. There is plenty of blame to go around, including Democrat pols like Pelosi, Schumer and their media propagandists. Big donors are furious because they were lied to and Democrat voters are in shock. I could go on, but I won’t because I don’t care. They all deserve the lumps of coal they’re receiving this Christmas. And the fallout will only worsen in 2025. My schadenfreude is still tingling.
It may be too early for New Year’s predictions, but everyone is wondering what will happen now that “Daddy is coming home.” (Sixty years ago, my mother threatened her rowdy Ferguson boys with the same four words.) I swore off prognostications, however I’ll offer some things to watch for in 2025.
The overthrow of Assad, the murderous dictator of Syria, is an opportunity to counter Iranian and Russian interests in the Middle East. The downside is that the Isis-like rebel factions are supported by Turkey’s Erdogan and have been labeled as terrorist groups by our “very reliable” government agencies. What could go wrong?
Since Russia has reportedly approximately 600,000 killed and wounded in the Ukrainian war, perhaps Putin will move to settle the war as a face-saving and pragmatic move. Ukraine’s Zelensky also seems ready to trade land for a NATO protection guarantee. Ukraine is much smaller than Russia and cannot win this war of attrition having lost 400,000 soldiers killed and wounded, and no telling how many civilians.
I look forward to a renewal of the Abraham Accords now that Hamas has been defeated and Hezbollah is on the ropes. And the foreign student “river to the sea” agitators on college campuses better watch out because their welcome may be revoked by Tom Homan, Trump’s pick for director of ICE.
It is a certainty that a wall across the southern border will be built. Mass deportations will happen, targeting imported criminals and gangs, drug cartels and those who have broken our laws. Legal immigrants will still be welcome in America.
People will continue to flee blue states because of disastrous Democrat policies. As a result, Democrat Congressional representation, money and power are threatened. The Democrat’s strategy was to allow waves of immigrants as their “demographic destiny” plan. It has failed because legal Hispanic voters flocked to Trump’s “big tent” coalition.
Many are anticipating a “golden age” as America again becomes energy-independent through drilling and fracking as well as deregulation. Like so many other positive trends, the national average price of gasoline is already falling in anticipation of a Trump presidency. Expect DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) to address government bloat and wasteful spending. And the FBI will be reformed by Kash Patel while Pete Hegseth tackles reforms in the Pentagon.
It is said, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” The legacy media betrayed the 2nd Amendment and became a propaganda cudgel of the government. Citizens were unjustly prosecuted and locked up (J6 political prisoners). Free speech (writing) on the internet and in the town square was suppressed. A free people cannot allow this. The November 5, 2024, election was a referendum and a mandate for change. Expect it in 2025 … no, demand it!
