I had a piece planned for yesterday, and ran into some thought issues which required redoing — hence its non-appearance yesterday — and it was replaced with Jan Sterling, which isn’t a bad compromise, all things considered.
It would have been, I think, an interesting piece. I was going to write about music, and lyrics, and playing around with them and not only interpreting them, but changing them into another format, writing music notation, changing orchestral pieces into something which could be played by a rock band, for instance, or a single pianist. It’s something I do often, in my head. New Wife sometimes says something to me and is annoyed when I make no sign that I’ve heard her. And when I tell her I’ve been concentrating on something and she asks what, I reply that I’d been writing out the bass guitar part for, I dunno, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini perhaps, or imagining how a single keyboardist could play an entire Beethoven symphony using just two or three keyboards (piano, and couple of advanced synthesizers like those made by Nord or Roland, for example).
Then (via Insty) I read Override, and all my thoughts on music disappeared. The report had such a profound effect on me that I’ve since read it perhaps eight times (and counting), and I’ve sent the link on to a dozen friends all over the world, saying in effect, “If you want to know what’s REALLY happening here in the U.S., this is it.”
What astonishes and amazes me is the amount of preparation and planning that went into this activity, and the fact that it remained a secret for who knows how long — a year, several years, whatever — without an inkling or a leak anywhere. The proof is that when those four kids with laptops hit the Treasury system, nobody saw it coming; and I don’t think anyone, even its architects, had any idea of the outcome.
What astonishes me even more is that all those hundreds of Executive Orders signed by Trump in the past couple of weeks were, while consequential, more of a deception, a maskirovka designed to keep the Left distracted while the real business was going on in the basements of federal buildings all over D.C.
It takes a lot to knock me over and flabbergast me, but consider me knocked over and flabbergasted. And I have only one thing to say:
For the first time in many years, I can truthfully say that it’s a wonderful time to be alive here in America.
Let’s just hope we can keep it going, and change this country back into something more like what our Founding Fathers intended.
Oh, and speaking about the Founders and original principles, as if all the above were not enough, here’s another EO from POTUS:
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday “to assess any ongoing infringements” of the right to keep and bear arms.
The order also makes clear President Trump wants an assessment of the following, among other things:
The positions taken by the United States in any and all ongoing and potential litigation that affects or could affect the ability of Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights; Agencies’ classifications of firearms and ammunition; and The processing of applications to make, manufacture, transfer, or export firearms.
And “assessment” is one thing; action is another. But wait! There’s MOAR!
Within 30 days, Attorney General Pam Bondi is to “present a proposed plan of action to the President, through the Domestic Policy Advisor, to protect the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.” Thereafter AG Bondi is to finalize and implement the plan.
30 days? I think I need one of these:
…and a series of these:
Or maybe all this political turmoil and castigation of the Left is best enjoyed stone-cold sober, while I dance up and down like Flounder when the parade was ruined.
Your thoughts in Comments.
At first I thought that read like a Baldacci or Clancy novel, but I checked the names and they actually are part of Musk’s DOGE team.
I hope they are protected from Arkancide, because the Obamunists, Bidenistas and Clintoids who’ve been getting rich off all the loose money for decades aren’t going to be happy, especially when the first of them are arrested for fraud, theft, perjury and other federal felonies. This isn’t just rewriting budgets business, this is playing for keeps and is a counter coup.
My candidate for the first arrest is Samantha Powers, the leftist cunt leftover from the Uhbama Terror Administration who was running USAID graft under Biden or whomever was his puppet master. She has been a lifelong uber Leftist, and under Uhbama, she was his Special Assistant, member of the National Security Council and later UN Ambassador, where she took the side of every banana republic revolutionary group in the world and tried to spend USA blood and treasure to support them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she were found to be the Biden puppet master taking direction from Uhbama.
Same. Cept I thought of it as another Bracken novel. Yes, that all of this has been planned behind close doors for months at least. Impressive, and lends confidence in believing they will be successful.
But I won’t drop my defenses. This rotten assed criminal gov’t has disappointed me so many times in the past….
Will the second amendment stuff happen? I’ll believe that part when I can buy a suppressor across the counter for a hundred bucks or less at Academy with no paperwork other than a receipt – and the UPS guy drops off a full auto AR kit from Brownell’s on my porch. Some judge in some People’s Republic somewhere has the injunctions and restraining orders already printed up and ready to go. Oh well a guy can dream and we are closer to those days than we have been in a hundred years.
I expect that we won’t get back to mail order firearms–making sure felons and those adjudicated mentally incompetent can’t legally buy guns is a long standing principle, and is grounded in the constitution.
But just being able to go in, present ID and buy them after a NICS check?
SO MUCH WINNING.
I grew up in the United States of America when it was not necessary (IDs and NICS checks) to have to prove who/what I am to some secretary who barely has the competency to understand why it’s necessary to clean her nether parts.
Papers, histories, and photos can be forged and/or changed in (gov’t) databases.
I can see no reason why guns and ammo should not be able purchased over the counter just like bows and arrows or sledgehammers – or dungarees and work shirts.
Based on some scary things I have encountered as a buyer of older homes with multiple previous owners, I believe one should be able to walk into a store, buy a gun and leave with nothing required but money, but one should have a permit/license to buy any tools or materials used for so-called home maintenance and improvement.
Yup. Isn’t it interesting that when Trump signs an order to cut bullshit in govt some scumbag deep state judge is ready to put a hold on that order. Yet I rarely
If ever read about a judge stopping anti gun anti rights laws that liberals and RINO’s put into action.
Also. Why aren’t many blue state governors and RINO’s not indicted and arrested and being prosecuted for aiding the criminal illegals who invaded our country over the last 4 years?
So Judge Bumbleburger has issued an injunction which makes it impossible for Bessent to actually see that “I can well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office..”. Since every check which goes out, do so over his signature, he *has* to see the data. But seeing the data would breach the Order.
So Bessent should tell the judge that, pending resolution, he cannot do his duty without being in contempt. As a result, NO checks can be issued in the interim. Treasury will not issue any cheques, including those to the judiciary.
Since it will take a day each for depositions of the 19 plaintiffs, and 3 weeks thereafter for briefing of the motion, the motion return date will necessarily be in early April….
I heard one report that said the Musk kids went into the Fed buildings at 2am in the morning. Before any workers showed up. I have to think that these kids and Elon had some tradecraft advice from all the special operators around Trump. God bless them !!!
They didn’t sneak in. If they’d triggered any alarms, or had anything go wrong it would have been a media mess.
Someone showed up with the keys, someone from the IT department was there to get them set up with admin/root level accounts etc. (No, they wouldn’t have “needed” it, they probably could have hacked their way in, but again possible flags would have been thrown, and it’s just *faster* to have someone set you up as a legit user).
Every Election cycle every Politian, particularly new ones, promise to end the “Waste, fraud & Abuse” in the system. Once they are in, they quickly forget about doing anything about it. Why? because now that they are part of the system, they are benefiting from it.
As a consulting engineer for a major international firm, it wasn’t until I got to the point of running one of the District Offices and began administrating and negotiating State and Federal Contracts, that I understood just how corrupt it all is. It’s not that I didn’t already know that Money and Favors are the grease for the system, the surprising part was just how little money it takes.
Having four years to prepare between the first and second terms made all the difference. We finally have a team that has a chance of changeing the system.
I read this today, given a link from an Australian “conservative” website I frequent (newcatallaxy.blog). It blew me away and gave me so much hope that my friends in the USA will be able to lift themselves out of the morass thrust upon them by the left. I am so happy for you. I sent the link to several friends whom, I know, feel similarly.
If only we had … yeah, nah … too late for us now.
… who, I know …
Every day just gets better and better as Trump reverses not only Biden’s policies but Obama’s and every corrupto-crat’s policies over the past sixty years. The news is great and the reaction from the meatheads is terrific! Let them cry a river of tears and howls of anguish.
Government spending has been out of control for decades and it’s well past time to stop that nonsense. All of this nonsense spending must stop and stop immediately.
Right now we’re seeing the howls of anguish and anger from the meatheaded left. My concern is what will be their response. Sure court cases and injunctions are to be expected but the left has a tendency to get violent.
The phrase “may you live in interesting times” is more of a curse. I’d rather some boring times where the excitement of the day is seeing four cardinals on my walk instead of three. Then again, things could be boring under a soviet regime as well and none of us want that.
Idunno.
Override reads more like fan fiction. (“…data analysts with laptops, mapping every dollar spent against real-time progress.” Laptops and real-time data feeds at a pothole filling? Come on. The budget, authorize, incur, bill, pay cycle doesn’t work like that; not in business, nor da gubmint.) And I wasn’t able to find an OVERRIDE or EKO reference within Instapundit. Search suppression? Possible. Weak Google-fu? Even more likely. I’m just afraid EKO may be creating a fictional narrative around the news. And we’ve had too much of that already in the Legacy media.
Then again, the BIG BALLS crews have made significant, broad advancements in an amazingly short time…
Idunno.
Still, I WANT to believe EKO. And sunlight as a disinfectant. And Trump’s 2nd Amendment EO, indicating that he may have internalized the RTKABA’s function as a bulwark against an all-powerful tyrannical government.
I await further corroboration — hopefully.
I have the exact same thoughts.
Yeah. The potholes thing sounded a bit quick. It felt like a hopeful document about where we’ll be in some amount of time.
It occurs to me that, for all the life of the Republic till now, presidential candidates have fought furiously to merely GAIN the office and, once elected, are like the dog who chased cars through the neighborhood until he finally caught one. Then they faced “Now what do we do?” and thereby lost momentum. This is kind of science-fiction-like in that Trump’s team sat down to imagine “What if…?” Every candidate for every office (at least at the Federal level at first) will have to perform the same though experiment and preparation. It will spread through our government(s) like the wave of color from a paint brush in a Disney cartoon that totally alters a scene.
This isn’t just great for you Americans, it’s great for all of us. It will spill across borders. It gives hope to me up here in Canada.
Once a thing is done once, it is known to be doable.
Fred, we’re sincerely rooting for you guys.
Even though you’ve afflicted us with Justin Bieber and Céline Dion.
don’t forget Anne Murray too
But they also sent us Shania Twain
The hell with that, we loaned Shania to you and she’s back in Calgary Alberta ( soon to be 51!!!!!) on July 25, and old as I am I’m going.
I’ll admit Shania has gone a long way toward addressing the Titanic evils of James Cameron. However, unless we can dump the entire cast of the Super Bowl halftime show north of the border, Cantucky will still have a significant positive a-hole balance over us.
This is great and all, I’m certainly enjoying it, but when will they start arresting people?
Until we start seeing people, HIGH level people, congressmen, go to jail, all this is fake and gay.
Now that we have a new Attorney General she can find & field competent people to look over the shoulders of Musk’s DOGE army and find the evidence to arrest & prosecute the fraudsters, from the individual minions in each department, up to Congress. It may take weeks, but because the lawfare is going to start coming fast & furiously, but I really think it’s gonna happen.
I wait with crossed fingers & toes (ouch!) & popcorn.
“It would have been, I think, an interesting piece.”
Personally, I would have appreciated reading that essay; still would be, in the near (hint, hint) future.
Will do, next Saturday.
Couple of points…
Back in my corporate days I was involved in a number of hostile takeovers.
These are routinely planned months in advance and require great security.
The first guys across the threshold were always the forensic accountants and the IT specialists.
They have very specialised skills, honed over years, if skeletons were there (and they always were) these guys would sniff them out.
Second, for the geeks amongst you, go check out
https://fluxicon.com/disco/
This tool takes time and date stamped transactions (think payments) and does some truly amazing process visualisation. That’s off the shelf technology that you basically just point at a data set. No config or tuning required. There are no doubt much more sophisticated AI hybrid tools that Elon’s wonder kids use for analytics as a matter of course.
These tools and the capabilities they bring were undreamed of ten, fifteen years ago.
May I suggest a SS Security team, plus food tasters for “those four kids with laptops”, because the Evildoers play for keeps.
And I wouldn’t get too excited about Donald’s 2nd Amendment EO. Remember, it all gets filtered through Pam Bondi, who isn’t all that rah-rah-rah about the Second Amendment; she was one of the driving forces for the prosecution (some say “persecution) of George Zimmermann in the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Upon further reflection, perhaps Trump should have made Vance his “Second Amendment Czar”.
Upon further reflection, perhaps Trump should have made Vance his “Second Amendment Czar”.
I hope Pam Bondi indicts, arrests and prosecutes the blue state governors like Maura the Lesbian tuna tickler Healey and Fatboy JB Prickzter and Phil Murphy for aiding illegals immigrants and treason for violating American citizens second amendment rights.
These blue state cunt bags and even many RINO’s in some red states need to see pound me in the ass prison cells for many years.
These deep state fuckers are vile.
Trump is giving this country a much needed enema. This is FUCKING AMAZING to watch.
MAGA
Somewhere, in the great beyond of the blogosphere – Steven DenBeste smiles. Can only imagine his analysis.
Agreed. I miss that guy.