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In less than six months, the entire world has been turned upside down. There is no longer such a thing as conventional wisdom or the status quo.
The unthinkable has become the banal.
Take illegal immigration — remember the 10,000 daily illegal entries under former President Joe Biden?
Recall the only solution was supposedly “comprehensive immigration reform”–a euphemism for mass amnesties.
Now, there is no such thing as daily new illegal immigration. It simply disappeared with common-sense enforcement of existing immigration laws — and a new president.
How about the 40,000-50,000 shortfall in military recruitment?
Remember all the causes that the generals cited for their inability to enlist soldiers: generational gangs, obesity, drugs, and stiff competition with private industry?
And now?
In just six months, recruitment targets are already met; the issue is mostly moot.
Why? The new Pentagon flipped the old, canceling its racist DEI programs and assuring the rural, middle-class Americans — especially white males — that they were not systemically racist after all.
Instead, they were reinvited to enlist as the critical combat cohort who died at twice their demographic share in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How about the “end of the NATO crisis,” supposedly brought on by a bullying U.S.?
Now the vast majority of NATO members have met their pledges to spend two percent of GDP on defense, which will soon increase to 5%.
Iconic neutrals like Sweden and Finland have become frontline NATO nations, arming to the teeth. The smiling NATO Secretary-General even called Trump the “daddy” of the alliance.
What about indomitable, all-powerful, theocratic Iran, the scourge of the Middle East for nearly 50 years?
Although it had never won a war in the last half-century, its terrorist surrogates — Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis — were supposedly too dangerous to provoke.
Now?
Most of their expeditionary terrorists are neutered, and their leaders are in hiding or dead. Iran has no air force, no real navy, no air defenses, and no active nuclear weapons program.
Its safety apparently depends only on the mood of the U.S. or Israel on any given day, not to fly into its airspace and take out its missiles, nuclear sites, generals, or theocrats at will.
What happened to the supposedly inevitable recession, hyperinflation, stock market collapse, unemployment spikes, and global trade war that last spring economists assured us would hit by summer?
Job growth is strong, and April’s inflation rate is the lowest in four years. GDP is still steady. The stock market hit a record high. Trade partners are renegotiating their surpluses with the U.S.
It turns out that staying in the U.S. consumer market is the top priority of our trading partners. It seems their preexisting and mostly undisclosed profits were large enough to afford reasonable U.S. symmetrical tariffs.
For now, news of tax cuts, deregulation, “drill baby, drill” energy policies displacing Green New Deal strangulation, and $8-10 trillion in potential foreign investment has encouraged — rather than deterred — business.
Then there were our marquee elite universities, whose prestige, riches, and powerful alumni made them answerable to no one.
And now, after the executive and congressional crackdown on their decades of hubris?
Supposedly brilliant university presidents have resigned in shame. The public has caught on to their grant surcharge gouging.
Campuses have backed off their arrogant defiance of the Supreme Court’s civil rights rulings.
They are panicked about the public exposure of their systemic antisemitism.
They are scrambling to explain away their institutionalized ideological bias and their tawdry profit-making schemes and mass recruitment of wealthy foreign students from illiberal regimes.
So, the mighty Ivy League powerhouses are now humbling themselves to cut a deal to save their financial hides and hopefully return to their proper mission of disinterested education.
What happened to the trans juggernaut of sex as a social construct and its bookend gospel that biological men could dominate women’s sports?
People woke up. They were no longer afraid to state that sex is binary and biologically determined. And biological men who dominate women’s sports are bullies, not heroes.
Where are the millionaire scamming architects of BLM now? Where is the “DEI now, tomorrow, and forever” conventional wisdom?
Where are Professor Ibram X. Kendi and his $30,000 Zoom lessons on how to fight racism by being racist?
They have all been exposed as the race hustlers they always were. Their creed that it is OK for supposed victims to be racist victimizers themselves was exposed as an absurd con.
So, what flipped everything?
We were living in an “emperor has no clothes” make-believe world for the last few years. The people knew establishment narratives were absurd, and our supposed experts were even more ridiculous.
But few — until now — had the guts to scream “the emperor is naked” to dispel the fantasies.
When they finally did, reality returned.
All true but I don’t want to see President Trump naked.
Well you’re in luck because 1) he’s not into running around mean & b) he’s not an emperor
Lets send all those illegal aliens/Future Democrat Voters and Supporters to the United Nations to live
Continue to apply pressure on the Leftist until they longer exist.
AMEN!! Keep the pressure on these bogus lunatics until they STFU & GTFO. If we can drive Rosie & Ellen out, surely we can etvtherestvtofoliwtdm.
The World “WOKE” up? ISWYDT prof!!!
Heh.
“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other – until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country’s official ideology.” – Ayn Rand
Whoa! “The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.”
Now that’s deep dude. What it like to live your life by quotes you find on a box of cereal?
Even when you post a pertinent quotation you get downvoted. You should work on understanding why that is.
THX has his share of sycophants. Sometimes they show up and sometimes they don’t. Not my problem.
How should I work on it. Should sit on a lotus flower and contemplate? Perhaps you should mind your own business.
Even when you post a pertinent quotation you get negative reactions. You should work on understanding why that is, and the reason isn’t that other people are flawed in some way. It’s your own behavior.
Ooooo my behavior. Let me take a moment to think about it.
OK, moment’s over. Don’t care what you think.
Could say the same about any number of quotations from Orwell, Huxley, etc. You may dislike this guy for whatever reason…. but the quote is pertinent and insightful.
Is this John Stewart the failed comedian.
The list of changes is quite interesting. It reveals that the “intellectual” elite concept is just an advertising campaign. The entrenched rulers suck at the tit of government grants in a similar manner to any other business. The system is based on regurgitating the approved meme. I never really understood how reading Herodotus or a periodic table in Boston was superior to reading it in Miami. Academia is just verbosity that is financially rewarded.
True, yet the naysayers are screaming louder than ever over the voices shouting “the emperor has no clothes.”
Everyday is a new episode.
All true and beautiful to see. Yes, God has done amazing things through President Trump and hopefully will continue for a while yet, but, we know the ‘rats’ have simply returned to their holes in the ground to resurface again when the time is right. (Probably much sooner than later).
I also find it fascinating that although President Trump is the ONLY World leader who acknowledges and thanks God on behalf of all Americans, commentors on these sites never do.
That is why I am taking this opportunity to thank the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for this ‘period’ of sanity and the return of some Justice that He has brought to America through this awesome man, President Trump.
Jesus is Lord and He is about to return, not as a babe in a manger, but as the King of King’s and Lord of Lord’s. He is coming back as a warrior to clean up the evil mess this Christ rejecting world has made, and it won’t be pretty. And then, finally, “every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord” !!
And He will be their Judge or their King. Their choice and your choice.
Rev. Roy………………<
AMEN, brother.
Jesus and His true followers win in the end.
Trump has done wonders for America, and it’s great we’ve come this far back from the insanity the left had us in, but the battle is by no means over. Our hope is in Christ, and this only the beginning of birth pangs.
May people find Him now.
Great article by VDH, as usual.
“The only history that’s new is the history you haven’t learned yet.” Harry Truman
Why stop now, go all the way. It’s time to change the system from the elite ruling through fear, money and conditioning to a society governed with reason, common sense and wisdom.
Thanks for that article, ” The world woke up ” I can say hand on heart it was to your President, may he continue,
he was a gift from God.