My expectations for Donald Trump and his team in this second go-round were great. I’m happy to report that those expectations are being exceeded.

From sending illegal immigrants packing, to backing down Mexico and Canada on border issues by wielding the tarrif stick, to beating back China’s control of the Panama Canal, to floating ideas to expand U.S. territory to Greenland and even the Gaza Strip, Trump and his people have been a whirlwind of activity.

But the more I read, the more I have come to believe the singlest greatest dagger into the heart of the deep state was the taking over of the U.S. Agency For International Development (USAID).

Cut off the water – the funding – and the animal or plant dies.

Make no mistake, it seems USAID was quite the slush fund for all things leftist.

Sound bites enumerating the funding of various politically absurd projects, such as a DEI musical in Ireland, or a transgender opera in Colombia, had the intended shock value. Don’t forget $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbian workplaces.

But these are just the ridiculous cherries on a sundae of absurdity. There was $2 million British pounds ($2.5 millon dollars) a year to the BBC to train foreign reporters.

It gets worse. Think of $122 million in U.S. taxpayer money being funneled through USAID to Islamic terrorist organizations in Gaza, Syria and Afghanistan.

One story I read credited the Biden regime with sending $1.3 billion to groups that committed or sponsored terrorism.

The hogs feeding at this trough were not just foreigners. It’s safe to presume that some of the taxpayer money stuck to the fingers of domestic operators, too.

And this helps explain the absolute hysteria on the left over USAID being hamstrung financially.

The left screams about taking it to the streets in violent protest.

Wait a minute, violence as a reponse to the acts of duly elected representatives, isn’t that insurrection? Are the Democrats, particularly their leftist fringe, still trying to protect democracy? Or, are they coming clean finally that their goal is to destroy democracy?

Consider the case of New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, whose toothy grin and vacant stare suggest he’d be the chosen dictionary image to illustrate the word doofus.

Murphy took to a stage recently to suggest he might be hiding an illegal immigrant in a room over his garage, and dared Tom Homan and ICE to do anything about it.

It was Murphy’s Corn Pop, Uncle Bosey moment. When called on it, and informed there could be jail time for such activity, Murphy said he was just kidding

Domestic tough guys are as soft as the international variety. Call them on their BS and they fold like tents in a strong wind.

Trump is a genius, melding the strength of a Ronald Reagan and a Teddy Roosevelt. But, where Teddy professed to speak softly, while carrying a big stick, Trump speaks loudly and has the big stick, too

I recall vividly weak-kneed leftists and apologists on both sides of the political spectrum, worrying that Regan would ignite World War III by calling out the Soviets. Instead, he precipitated the fall of what he called their “evil empire.”

Trump is Reagan’s 2025 successor, willing to do the hard things to make the nation great. Meanwhile, the petty resistance types, such as Chuck Schumer, hold a beer can in one hand and an avocado in the other suggesting we should forget the whole illegal immigrant thing lest we need to pay more for beer and dip.

No, Chuck, the left has plenty of dips to amuse us, free of charge now that their funding has been axed.

You can judge the degree of their hurt by the unhinged rants at protests and on social media. They are threatening Elon Musk with physical harm should he venture onto the streets and dismissing him as someone who was not elected for his job.

This just in, constitutional and political scholars, your administrations have been run by plenty of unelected types. How about George Soros, Bill Gates, John Podesta, Rahm Emanuel, Valerie Jarrett?

Have you forgotten that Obama and Shillary, long after they held no elected offices, ran things behind the scenes?

Did you really believe Clueless Joe Biden was allowed to be around sharp objects or key policy matters while he slept away his term as president?

And, when it came time to ditch Clueless Joe, it was unelected actor George Clooney who led the charge.

These same Democratic hypocrites see no problem that Zelenskyy can’t account for $100 billion or so of U.S. aid that has flowed to his corrupt land.

And, make no mistake, if these leftists can get back in power, the money spigot will be turned on full to fund anew all these ridiculous missions.

I’m sure of that after watching some highlights (lowlights) of a recent DNC leadership event, which looked like the collection of oddballs from the Star Wars bar scene.

They lost an election based on their lack of common sense and they still can’t understand.

It is up to Trump to keep providing them remedial education on the matter. And, based on his performance so far, he will continue to do just that.

Add Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-predicting rodent, to the list of those who should be grateful for one Donald John Trump and his MAGA movement.

Like Trump and all too many conservatives, Phil had fallen into the web of leftist censorship and selective fact-checking, said web having been ripped asunder by Trump’s rise to power. Even the PETA types were trying to do away with Phil.

Today is Phil’s day, Groundhog Day, and he issued a prediction of six more weeks of winter weather. I must confess, I thought Phil’s handlers might have checked the encouraging long-range forecasts and nudged Phil in the direction of proclaiming spring to be just around the corner.

But, no, Phil is true to himself and despite anticipation of warmer weather and not a lot of snow in coming weeks, Phil hung himself out with a prognostication of the opposite.

The Associated Press report on Phil today, borrowing a page from its political reporting, was eager to slip in a fact-checking paragraph intimating Phil is less than accurate.

It included a link to a government site under the National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration banner, which gives Phil a 30-percent correct rate for the past 10 years. If you want to check, hurry, because a note says the site will be down for maintenance from midday Feb. 6 until 8 p.m. Feb. 8.

And so, it has come to this: Your tax dollars being spent to pay some statistical nerd to calculate the accuracy of a bit of folk lore. I guess it’s better than spending $50 million on condoms for Gaza, to be inflated with helium there and used to float bombs into Israel.

Someone please alert DOGE to the Punxsy Phil fact-checking by NOAA and have it axed immediately, if not sooner.

It strikes me that Phil might use his high-profile platform on this day to offer predictions on things other than weather. In view of recent history, it might be a lot easier and even help his accuracy as reported by AP.

Along that line, here are some things Phil might have predicted today:

Six more weeks of inane Democrat criticism of Trump appointees

Six more weeks of general left-wing media absurdity.

Six more weeks of crying leftists on social media.

Six more weeks of illegal immigrant misinformation.

Six more weeks of Biden pardon fallout.

Six more weeks of revelations of governmental misspending and abuse.

Six more weeks of tariffs

Six more weeks of dead terrorists

Six more weeks of executive orders.

Six more weeks of transgender wailings

Six more weeks of left-wing media types hitting the pavement a la Acosta, Todd and O’Donnell.

And, lastly, one more week (this season) of questionable officiating calls favoring the Kansas City (Chiefs) Swifts.

I came to be aware of the passing of an old friend Thursday, a common occurrence once one reaches my age.

Such things remind me of a Joe Paterno press conference I attended, late in the career of the late Penn State coach, during which he lamented that reaching his age meant most of your friends and family were dead.

But it is not only people who pass into history and become mere memories. It is businesses, schools, assorted goods and services, too.

I can recall 5-cent candy bars (Three Musketeers, Milky Ways and the like) .26.9-cent a gallon gasoline, .28-cent loaves of bread, massive downtown department stores such as Glosser’s and Penn Traffic, milk being delivered to homes. And on, and on, and on.

An ongoing price anachronism had been the car wash along Bridge Street. Sure, it was largely decrepit, a tin shack with multiple stalls. It had a history of violence having occurred there and many were a tad shy about venturing to the area to take advantage of the low price.

Still, when last I used it the past fall, it still was $1.50 for five minutes, give or take, to wash off one’s car.

Take it from a guy with six vehicles – two hobby Mustangs, a hobby Corvette, two SUVs and the wife’s four-door sedan – I wash cars quite often.

And so it was that Thursday, following a doctor appointment, I decided to rinse accumulated salt off the Kia Sorento.

But, having motored to the Bridge Street facility, I was shocked to see some stalls closed and others filled with assorted junk. I am pretty sure I saw a truck bed, sans truck, wedged in one stall.

Alas, poor car wash, I knew thee well. You survived COVID and life’s other indignities, but I presume you have fallen to inflation and assorted business realities.

Understand, I can wash cars at home. But, this time of year, it’s a bit silly to trot out the hoses, turn on the outside faucet, rinse a car, then reverse the process.

And I used to do a prewash at the Bridge Street facility even in warmer days, just to take advantage of the high-pressure wand. Again, the wife owns high-pressure washers, one electric and another gas powered. But, it was simpler to drive to Bridge Street, plunk six quarters in the slot, wash and go home to finish it all off with waxing and detailing.

After learning the car wash was no longer operating, I went home. I briefly pondered trying other such sites, but not having a roll of quarters, I despaired I could not foot the bill.

Here’s where being cheap – I mean frugal – comes in handy. I checked the weather forecast, saw predictions of sustained rain, and instead of putting the Kia back in its garage stall, I let it sit outside to anticipate the cleansing Friday/Saturday rainfall.

It was a chance to allow Mother Nature do the rinse job for me and she has showed up to work.

Sure, it is not as efficient as the Bridge Street high-pressure hose. But Mother Nature doesn’t have a coin slot.

Abilio James Acosta (his first name is Abilio, you can look it up) has departed CNN rather than taking his tired act to a late-night slot with fewer viewers – if that’s even possible for CNN.

To the bitter end, Abilio was able to make it all about him, leaving with a tired harangue at the conclusion of his final show that was a rambling rant about standing up for truth. Abilio seems to have come to that doctrine too late to save his ratings and career.

Adios, Abilio. Don’t let the door hit you on the butt on your way out.

What’s next for Abilio? Perhaps standing on a street corner with a sign reading “Will insult conservatives for food”?

And it strikes me that a lot of these media types, particularly on the left, have names that are fertile ground for word play.

While his memory lingers, begin with Abilio James (I’m gonna) Acosta (you, Trump).

Move on to The View, where the prominent hosts, ironically, are named Whoopi, Joy and Sunny.

Yes, I know, Whoopi’s real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson, but she changed it before showing up on The View, so I’m sticking with my claim that the show’s producers have a warped sense of humor as expressed by hiring and then sending forth the likes of Whoopi, Joy and Sunny to urinate in everyone’s cereal on a daily basis.

Abstinence, Sadness and Cloudy would be truth in advertising for this trio.

Swinging over to MSNBC, we are treated to Joy (less) (I seem unable to) Reid. Calling Trump and his followers Nazis never gets old for Joy (less), but she is willing to take bold chances with her hair. Talk about shock and awe.

A fellow left-winger at MSNBC – aren’t they all – is former White House PR flak Disin-Jen-uous Psaki,

Every time I see Psaki I’m reminded of the line from the movie “Jaws,” uttered by Robert Shaw character Quint: “The thing about a shark, it’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.”

Take a good look at Disin-Jen-uous and tell me I’m wrong.

Back to CNN, Dana Bash has a fitting verb for a last name, particularly if you are conservative. But this seems to be by design.

Bash’s maiden name was Schwartz, which she was only too happy to ditch in favor of Bash, the last name of her first husband.

But here’s where it gets curious. Dana and the Bash hubby split in 2007, she remarried in 2008 and divorced again in 2012. Yet Bash remains the last name. Why? Because it fits, perhaps?

I don’t know for sure, not making it a habit to watch CNN like the majority of America, but I am sure she wasn’t hypocritical enough, as some were, to cite Pete Hegseth’s divorces as disqualifying him to be Secretary of Defense.

Glass houses and all that.

Politico, the left-wing house organ that recently was outed by former reporters for killing any Hunter Biden laptop stories, is running with a headline about “terrified” government bureaucrats.

Why are they terrified? Because they are part of the leftist rot being cut out of government operations by Donald Trump and his administration. They are terrified their “skills” of creating and enforcing DEI aren’t in demand in the private sector and so there is no soft, cushy landing spot for them.

They are terrified their role as unelected shapers of the nation is being stripped from them.

They are terrified at being exposed for what they are, do-nothing, throw-sand-in-the-gears-of-progress drones who sit in offices – more lately at home – collecting attractive pay and benefits largely for getting in the way.

Others are terrified, too. Welcome to the other side, that of conservatives who have been oppressed and persecuted for the past four years or so simply because of their political beliefs.

Cue the Bob Dylan: How does it feel? How does it feel? To be without a home? Like a complete unknown? Like a rolling stone?

Payback is a female dog, guys and gals on the left.

Of late, we hear copious amounts of whining that federal taxpayers no longer will be on the hook to spend countless millions each week to protect ex-government hacks.

Dr. Tony Fauci, the elfin creature who has bragged about growing up “Brooklyn tough,” no longer will have limos and armed guards at his service at taypayer expense. Or, as Trump suggested, he made enough money during “public service” that he can afford to hire private protection.

It is the same with others, such as neocons John Bolton and Mike Pompeo

If they opt not to hire help, or buy guns to protect themselves, it’s on them.

Leftists scream about this, neatly forgetting how one Clueless Joe Biden had Trump protected largely by a Secret Service B team of DEI hires until not one, but two, assasssination attempts prompted the public to ask for an explanation.

And then there was Clueless Joe removing Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when he slipped out of the presidential race and, gasp, endorsed Trump.

RFK Jr., with a history of assassinations in his family and threats to do the same to him, a prominent person who even then was widely expected to join the Trump administration, was cut loose by Biden in terms of protection and, of course, it had nothing to do with politics.

Leftists have this gaping blindspot on such matters.

Consider pardons. When issued by Biden, to about every miscreant politically or economically aligned with Joe, they are fine.

When given by Trump to some, including Jan. 6 defendants arrested on bogus charges and held without due justice, they are an abomination.

The left still is trotting out lies about severely assaulted and/or killed police at the hands of Jan. 6 types.

To this I respond, name some names, please. Show evidence. And please, explain how Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed protester, was shot dead and there was no punishment for the person who killed her.

Trump is stripping security clearances from the likes of John Brennan and his 50 fellow co-signers of the 2020 letter branding Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation. This just in, according to no less a source than Hunter, it was, indeed, his laptop.

Brennan is a private citizen, a huckster selling himself to cable news as an intelligence expert. The leftist sites still will seek him out, despite this classic failure, because he is on their side. But they aren’t getting a guy with insider access any longer.

Seems fair to me.

Also fair is pardoning January 6 prisoners, cutting off the security gravy train, and pruning the burecaucracy of people more loyal to their political beliefs than to the nation.

It’s called progress, people. Get used to it, there is more to come.

Censorship, wrongful persecution, punishment piled on for those lamenting such mistreatment, these all sound familiar.

But, this time it’s not the story of a sitting Biden administration weaponizing the justice system to damage political opponents. Instead, it is the haughty NFL suppressing anything that might discolor its reputation.

We refer to the case of Houston Texans running back Joe Mixon. Like some alleged Jan. 6 insurrectionists, Mixon has been penalized for something he didn’t do, then punished again for noting this.

Much of the informed football world understands the Kansas City Chiefs (Swifts) seem to get the benefit of the doubt on many things, including close officiating calls. The NFL, whose marketing is as slick as anyone’s, understands the ongoing Chiefs success, and the side benefits of having Taylor Swift as a Chiefs player’s paramour, keeps the league’s broadcasts attracting bonus eyeballs of viewers for the flood of Swift sightings.

Obviously, the league considers this a win-win situation and much more productive than those ridiculous platitudes such as “Choose Love,” “It Takes All of Us” or “Stop Hate” plastered on the back of helmets or stenciled around the edges of the field.

Clearly, the NFL has a WOKE playbook and took quite a few notes on how Biden and his friends in the FBI harassed Donald Trump and MAGA types.

Back to Mixon, his team suffered defeat at the hands of the KC Swifts in this season’s playoffs, getting the short end of those 50-50 calls.

Mixon was quoted as saying: “Everybody knows how it is playing up here. You can never leave it into the refs’ hands. The whole world sees, man.”

The NFL fined Mixon, but with a typical Keystone Kops twist, the cited reason for that $25,000 fine was a social media post not from Mixon, but by a former teammate with Cincinnati. That would be T.J. Houshmandzadeh who tweeted: “Why play the game if every 50/50 call goes with Chiefs. These officials are (trash) & bias(ed).”

Mixon took to social media, posting “I’m getting fined by the (NFL) for what someone else said. What’s next? I get fined by them for Connor McDavid cross-checking an opponent on a (NHL) game!”

The league has hit Mixon for a fine for what he did say, and it is not clear whether that is in place of, or in addition to, the first fine.

Either way, it’s an ongoing joke and few are laughing.

As background, I started watching this KC-Houston game in question, saw a phantom personal foul called against Houston early for being in the neighborhood of KC quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and turned off the broadcast not wishing to watch the inevitable garbage that would ensue.

I even wrote about this and was amazed to see how many others shared my disgust with the NFL.

As Biden and his fellow propagandists eventually found out, Americans cannot be fooled indefinitely. They know what they see, and when they see what they perceive as injustice, they speak out, then act. Fortunately, Biden and the leftist cabal could be voted out of office.

Those aggrieved by the NFL are reduced to taking their case to the court of public opinion, and/or voting with their feet and refusing to buy tickets or, more importantly, to watch this.

Surprisingly candid about this are former players and current television analysts such as J.J. Watt and Troy Aikman.

Expect them at least to get a stern lecture from their employers, at the behest of the NFL. It just might be the equivalent of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Barack Hussein Obama giving Biden an offer he couldn’t refuse to exit – too late – the presidential chase.

The rest of us can only hope that at long last the NFL, like Biden, has overplayed its hand and the public won’t accept it.

To rework a line from the movie “When Harry Met Sally,” I DON’T want to have they’re having. What they’re drinking. What they’re mainlining.

They in this case are the delusional politicians, their leftist acolytes in the LameStream media, and all the other mostly moronic types who are on President Trump regarding everything and anything.

For those who have not watched the movie referenced above, the Sally character loudly fakes an orgasm in a crowded restaurant, just to prove a point to her male escort, and a woman seated nearby then orders what she’s having.

It’s hard not to think of this sort of overdone histrionics as the leftist crowd gets the vapors over feds actually enforcing the law on immigration, pardons being issued, having Trump put forth people for his cabinet who are willing to call out the ills of our time, or basically anything else Trump does or says.

Any time I see a clip from cabinet prospects being grilled, mostly by assorted screwball leftists regarding ridiculous minutia, or baseless accusations, I want to vomit.

We are left with two possible explanations. Either these interrogators are so vacuous, so totally devoid of intelligent thought, that they actually believe the half-truths and talking points they are advancing, or else they are flat-out spreading lies and disinformation.

There are no other rational explanations.

And then there are the media types, similarly stuck on small details and playing gotcha when the big picture is the important aspect as we try to halt the nation’s decline.

It’s evident these people all got their talking points from the same source. You can forgive the Democrat politicians, they are acting in the brain-dead lockstep their party demands. They dream that some day they might advance to trading stocks as well as Nancy Pelosi, if only they can bite their tongues and toe the line long enough.

But what about the media? If only for reasons of self-interest, they should be getting the message that their far-left agenda, praising all things WOKE and ridiculing traditional American values, has them out of step with their desired audiences.

The nation’s voters repudiated this mentality in the most recent election. The response of left-wing media has been to double down.

And their ratings plummet into the zone of irrelevance, leaving leftist outposts such as CNN and NBC to contemplate layoffs and shifting their unrepentant progressive “talent” into obscure time slots, the better to hide them from the public.

If you’ve been paying attention, you no doubt have heard Trump’s leftist critics flay him for his lack of progress on campaign promises. He has, after all, been in office a few days now, they seem to say, neatly exhibiting amnesia over Clueless Joe Biden spending four years doing little, other than to stoke the fires of inflation, throw monkey wrenches into the machines of public and private enterprise, and then add even more nonsensical dictates as he was being shown the door.

All that was acceptable. But Trump, damn it, has been in office about 72 hours as I write this and he has yet to end wars, cure cancer, wipe out hunger and poverty and lift the entire population into middle-class or above affluence.

These laments come from some media types who do one show a week, from politicians who think working maybe 150 days a year is a brutal workload, from bureaucrats whining about being told to start coming to the office again to work.

It was bitter irony recently when some of those government employees were floating the idea of four days, 32 hours, henceforth constituting a work week. When you’re working from home and I’m sure spending a lot of time leaning on the oars (I know some people, not necessarily government employees, who have done this), do you really need to have such a reduction in hours worked?

Or, put another way, will you start wearing a mask when you check to confirm your direct-deposit pay? That’s what thieves do.

The saving grace of all this is that, so far, I believe the unhinged rants by leftists in politics and the media are being largely ignored by the masses.

Keep the faith, people. It can’t all be accomplished yesterday. But Trump and his administration have hit the ground running and I am optimistic they have a mindset to continue their pace.

The schadenfreude of watching these hapless leftists disappearing even further into irrelevance is priceless.

An African-American man is being slurred by politicians and the media. I won’t allow this to stand.

The poor soul in question has been called out for an act of joy that has been interpreted by petty nitpickers as a gesture of hate — a Nazi salute.

His detractors, falling back on their Nazi dogwhistle tactics, seek to destroy this person’s reputation simply because he jumps around on stage at times and flails his arms wildly. It was exactly one of those occasions that prompted this attack.

Have they no compassion? The man suffers from autism spectrum disorder, commonly called Asperger’s Syndrome. Think of the movie “Rain Man.”

Would these people put the Dustin Hoffman character on trial for eccentric behavior such as immediately being able to tally the number of toothpicks spilled from a box in a diner? By the way, it was 246.

More to the point, would we as a populace tolerate such discrimination?

To ignore the mental irregularity germane to this case and then to focus on any action to which it contributes is judgmental and not what America should be about.

Having this happen on Day I of Trump II pretty much proves what all the naysayers have contended about him and his followers, right?

Garbage. Deplorables. Nazis.

Discrimination against African-Americans and the disabled is an unfortunate thread of our national tapestry.

Do you recall when critics of then-candidate John Fetterman were outed as ableists for thinking his stroke and subsequent incoherent campaign debate performance (sound familiar?) rendered him incapble of serving in the Senate?

Of course Fetterman was able. He was/is a Democrat, after all, the party that pledged allegiance to mentally limited president Joe Biden for most of his four years in office.

And, sure, some Democrats are getting nervous about Fetterman because he is willing to talk to Republicans – horrors – and even vote for common-sense legislation they might propose.

Bottom line, he beat the attempted discrimination and I’m hoping the African-American to whom I refer, Elon Musk, can do the same.

But I do wonder where are the usual suspects who rush to defend any African-American under attack?

ACLU? Rev. Al Sharpton?

OK, so they’ve been burned in the past leaping on the racial discrimination bus only to have the likes of Jussie Smollett, Crystal Mangum (Duke Lacrosse) and Tawana Brawley turn out to be race hucksters running hoaxes.

I’m confident the Musk salute is an innocent twitch having more to do with his mental situation than an allegiance to Hitler. We have the video, and supporting footage of people ranging from Kamala Harris, to the Village People, to any child looking to be called upon by a teacher in class, performing similar salutes.

I’d hate to think this was happening simply because Musk is African-American.

I’m just glad that, despite his disability, Musk has been able to find gainful employment and, fortunately for him, the boss isn’t going to fire him on the strength of false accusations.

I awoke uncustomarily early Tuesday. It must have been a result of the dull roar of Democrats, particularly their far-left wing, whining in the wake of Donald Trump becoming president again and Trump acting from Day One to undo four years of carnage visited on this nation by Clueless Joe and Cackling Kamala.

To quote one of the left’s own, Barack Hussein Obama, “Elections have consequences.”

Barry was all full of himself early in 2009, having won the presidency and been inaugurated. He is reported to have lectured Congressional Republicans with this bon mot about elections and their fallout, adding at the time, “I won.”

Nancy Pelosi, not yet the completely amazing stock trader she since has become, doubled down on that as speaker of the House, also in 2009, telling the Republicans in the House minority who had little to no input regarding a stimulus bill, “Yes, we wrote the bill. Yes, we won the election.”

Democrats lost their House majority in 2010 mid-term elections and Pelosi showed typical Democrat hypocrisy by lamenting then that elections “shouldn’t matter as much as they do.”

Now, Democrats have lost the presidency, Senate and allowed Republicans to maintain control of the House. That’s elections have consequences in triplicate!

Here’s a little primer for Democrats and their sycophants in the LameStream media, including leftist house organs CNN and PBS, the better for them to understand that elections do, indeed, have consequences.

Democrats are just fine with Clueless Joe pardoning thousands, including many family members, in his waning days off office. This would include son, Hunter, the man Clueless Joe had denied on numerous occasions that he would pardon.

Yet, as the clock ticked, Daddy Joe was there once again to bail out failed son Hunter. An attempt to justify the reversal used the same, labored excuse, that The Big Guy feared a weaponized justice system persecuting his flawed son.

If this sounds like psychological projection – Clueless Joe envisioning Trump acting toward his family as Clueless Joe has toward Trump and his kin – it’s fairly obvious to be the case.

Meanwhile, Trump on the campaign trail had promised pardons for many of the so-called Jan. 6 insurrectionists, who were jailed for having the termerity to question the 2020 election. Yes, some over-reached by entering the U.S. Capitol, possibly with urging by FBI instigators in the crowd, but their treatment has been extreme, with considerable overcharging and failure to have speedy due process.

Trump on Monday noted that leftist protesters can burn down cities and take over sections of same, with little to no legal consequences. Yet, the Jan. 6 people were guilty until proven innocent and given the most draconian sentencing

Because of this, Trump promised pardons and he delivered. Elections have consequences.

Note, Democrats, he didn’t lie about it in advance as Clueless Joe did, then try to slip it past the populace. You must be so proud of Joe, trying to hide his latest flood of pardons for his family with a release of the information even as Trump was being sworn in as president.

And to those whiners who lament that Jan. 6 protesters harmed police officers, this has been proven to be an overblown assertion. Also proven for the record is the most egregious act on that day was the fatal shooting of unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt by a troubled DEI Capitol Police hire whose checkered record included such notable achievements as leaving his loaded service weapon unattended in a Capitol bathroom, failing a shotgun qualifying test and assorted other shortcomings.

Meanwhile, Clueless Joe has pardoned a man convicted of killing not one, but two FBI agents. This brought negative feedback from the most unlikely of sources, notable among them Chris “Don’t Call Me Fay” Wray, soon to be former FBI director.

Wray, more prone to be a bootlicker of the left and proponent of all things anti-Trump, found a sense of moral clarity in doubting the wisdom of sending such a killer of government law enforcement people back onto the streets.

Note, no Feds were killed by Jan. 6 protesters and the injury claims of some police have been found to be, shall we say, exaggerated.

As if Trump had not given the left enough fuel to feed their penchant for hypocritical whining with his flood of executive orders, CNN and PBS, among other outlets with a leftist bias, were trying to gin up a controversy by suggesting that Elon Musk had given a Nazi salute at a Trump celebration Monday.

Congressman Jerry Nadler, who never met a meal he wouldn’t eat, managed to stir his pudgy fingers into action and posted his disdain for Musk’s alleged affront on X, ironically the social media platform owned by Musk.

But the Anti-Defamation League, the nonprofit group at the forefront of fighting antisemitism, said the Musk action was NOT a Nazi salute.

Such is the level of leftist desperation with elections having consequences that they will try to gin up controversy where there is no basis.

Perhaps this explains why CNN is losing lawsuits and PBS just might have its federal largesse cut.

By the way, I’ve seen side-by-side images posted online at citizenfreepress.com of Musk’s alleged Nazi salute, and a similar right-arm-raised, palm-flat gesture by Kamala Harris.

I guess Kamala was just trying to get the bartender’s attention.

We won! And, no, I’m not tired of winning. Far from it.

Donald Trump’s return to the oval office became official earlier this afternoon and the reclamation of this country now is underway. I guess I finally can take down my Trump signs, buried as they are in snow in the front yard. I was holding out on doing this until the day’s ceremonies.

Don’t expect miracles. This will be a tough slog due to politically corrupt leftists in the bureaucracy, Democrats in both houses of Congress determined to throw sand in the gears of progress, and the various landmines the outgoing Biden regime left for Trump.

It was laughable to hear Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar speaking at the swearing in ceremony about equal justice. This on a day when once again it was raining pardons in Washington, D.C., as Clueless Joe Biden added some just-in-case, preemptive pardons to a lot of suspect people from his regime plus other members of his family.

Not that they did anything wrong mind you, unlike Hunter Biden, but just because Trump is mean and vindictive and might want a pound of flesh from these people who have made it their life’s work to persecute him.

Chief Justice John Roberts again butchered giving the presidential oath, rushing it and not having Trump put his hand on the Bible. Cue the conspiracy theorists.

Later today, Trump is expected to seek to prove the pen is mightier than the sword. That saying once applied to media standing up to corruption and abuse of power. Those days of an independent media, regrettably, are gone.

But Trump will wield his executive order pen in the attempt to reverse similar orders by Biden.

Later, once the proper legislation has made its way through Congress, Trump will sign into law those efforts to restore sanity to the nation.

Leftists in the Capitol inauguration audience, including all the prominent Democrats, seemed stapled to their seats as Trump repeatedly elicited standing ovations from the faithful.

I’m happy that the Trump message was no milquetoast attempt at reaching out to the opposition; the same opposition that has called his supporters deplorables, Nazis, racists, bigots and just plain garbage.

These people hate Trump, his followers, and their deep-seated desire to reverse the WOKE lurch of this country, the sort of descent that has produced porous borders, out-of-control crime in cities, and LA fires still consuming the city while WOKE leadership assigns blame to others.

Trump started hard in his acceptance speech, noting the dark past four years that was authored by Clueless Joe and Cackling Kamala, who were seated to his left and looked at times like they were sucking the sourest of lemons.

I would suspect that Nancy Pelosi, who didn’t make it in person, must have been throwing her walker at the nearest television because, you just know she had to be watching. Maybe she tore up a copy of the speech, for old time’s sake like when Democrats controlled Congress.

Trump promised that a golden age begins today, liberation day. I hope sulking Democrats are not able to prevent him from delivering on that promise. More to the point, as long as Republicans in Congress, and the American public remain behind Trump, I am confident he will prevail.