Trump And Other Things

Quick hits on recent events:

• Love him or hate him, you’ve got to marvel at the mental toughness of Donald Trump. While critics emphasized him “frowning” in his mugshot, I saw it as defiant resolve. It was interesting to see mugshots of his other so-called co-conspirators in the Georgia case and only two smiled like it was a yearbook photo.
• Still on the subject of Trump, I side with those characterizing this as banana-republic behavior by a supposedly neutral justice department, acting in close coordination with the Biden Regime. Aside from not bringing down Trump’s plan with a bomb, missile, or whatever the current theory, there is little to separate the way Putin deals with political enemies and the way our good Democrats go about eliminating competition.
• I understand membership in the Charlie Brown fan club is diminishing rapidly. Will the last person to leave turn out the lights?
• The good news is apparently I need not fear being run down anytime soon by his uninspected truck.
• More good news, we may soon find out if the Corvette actually does run under its own power.
• Demonstrating the upside-down nature of law enforcement in this country, a New York City police officer is in trouble for throwing a cooler at an alleged drug deal participant fleeing on a moped. The cooler hit the guy and he ended up dead after crashing. The New York Post reports the dead man has at least two prior arrests, one a drug charge and the other – irony of ironies – an open assault case involving throwing a two-liter bottle of soda through a car window. The police officer is on unpaid leave.
• The elites of our Federal Reserve and their cast of sycophants are wrapping up their meeting in the resort of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, having assured us they remain vigilant on inflation. Anyone else ever wonder why these sessions have to be held in exclusive digs and never in, say, the south side of Chicago, or even Moxham?
• The cost of new cars in the United States averages just under $49,000 as of June, which may seem cheap compared to what will happen if the autoworkers get their contract wishes fulfilled. A whopping 97 percent of UAW workers voted to authorize a strike if demands are not met. Those demands include wage increases of 46 percent or so over five years and a reduction of the work week to 32 hours.
• Elon Musk, onetime hero to the far left with his electric vehicles, and now a prime target of them after coming out in favor of such radical concepts as free speech and no censorship on his social media platform, is being persecuted by the Department of Justice for, wait for it, not hiring refugees or asylum seekers to work at his SpaceX concern. Meanwhile, a quick check of the NASA web site shows the following for that governmental agency: “Other than extremely rare exceptions, you must be a U.S. citizen in order to work for NASA as a civil service employee.”