An exclamation issues forth, an exclamation resembling an incantation, even a prayer: “Finally!” Evils are suffered while they are sufferable, and people endure them, wailing to the heavens like an Old Testament prophet or former congressman: How long, O Lord, how long! But some of those evils of political laxity and skullduggery are finally being addressed. Then whenever a new issue froths forth vis-a-vis another White House move, the gaggle corps assumes the righteousness reserved for turkeys and starts into gobbling their pessimism. When the Trump administration, in an initial presidential move, had moved the American Embassy (and American official territory) to Jerusalem, it marked the first of many acts, and one that finally officiated America’s alliance with its greatest ally in the Mideast, or possibly the world. Finally!

☞  Unlike the Carter administration’s rejection of Israel’s assistance to free hostages taken in Iran’s first snub at the Great Satan. These were hostages captured from an official embassy— and therefore American territory. Their plan instead was a bad rescue attempt via the desert which ended in the tragic end of American dead, and proverbial egg on ignorant faces. Those were the faces that rejected Masssad’s plan for attack directly in the face of the Cockamamy.

Trump, on the other hand, not only willingly works hand-in-hand with Massad, using their trained espionage eyes, but has also tucked under his diplomatic belt the long range leverage of appeasing most of the important countries in the Middle East through the Abraham Accords. Thus banished were pussy-footing agreements Iran so easily violated. No pallets of cash delivered on a runway. Nothing done to ease Gulf states’ fear from the neighboring madness of nuclear threat. Finally comes a severely sensible response to those who chanted with ritual enthusiasm Death to America! And the depth of  their enthusiasm  showed through by continuing to nurture nuclear facilities even after a serious bombing attack. The Cockamamy was clearly intent on holding good to their collective death chant to America, and was finally silenced.

☞  And that’s only the latest event for final declaration. Until election 2024, the Panama Canal had not only been surreptitiously lost to Chinese control, but thousands of Chinese troops were found garrisoned in adjacent military annexes. Among these installations was the Ancon Hill Southern Command Intelligence Center. “From there,” a former intelligence officer told Bill Geertz [The China Threat, 2000] “we monitored and conducted intelligence operations for the Southern Hemisphere and Central America.” Albrook Air Field for regional surveillance, as well as a host of other installations were also given over to Panamanian/Chinese control. Losing those strategic posts was equivalent to Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan and losing Bagram base, with its watchful position on China. These disasters gave the impression that America was withdrawing its feelers, as though it had no further business with the world. How long, O Lord!

☞  Meanwhile, Chinese officials in Panama City by 2024 were openly planning— with Panamanian agreement— to establish an embassy right in the canal zone, presumably so they could more efficiently coordinate activities at the two ports of entry, Cristobal and Balboa. By 2000 the CIA reported shuffling of drugs and military materials, including disassembled missiles,  within the bins located in port storage areas. These were storage units which could be shuffled like the old pea pod game, but these would be pea pod units suspected of containing parts for the Dong Feng-31 medium range missile. So compact, its parts can be trucked and packed. (These perhaps missile models the Clinton admin declassified from military to commercial for Chinese consumption.) Therefore, let’s get the picture. Chinese troops occupying former American military facilities with mid-range missiles packed away in the nether Panama location, not as close as Cuba but just a hop over Mexico, looks like the good ol US of A could have easily been Dong Fenged in the ying yang. How long, O Lord!

☞  After President Carter gave the canal away, Clinton finished the job by allowing Chinese control of both ends. There were higher bids when control went over to private, but the Hutchinson Whampoa Group of Hong Kong, with direct ties to the People’s Liberation Army, made higher pay-offs. Clinton overlooked the crooked bidding for other unclassified exchanges, such as a generous campaign contribution, and God knows what else. And America had even earlier financed enlarging the canal to accommodate those city-sized tankers, so they could gain easier passage, so they could dump more tariff-paid crap into American markets! Finally, President Trump put a stop to all that nonsense with actions enforced by a simple decree that even Jimmy Carter might have understood: “America did not negotiate a treaty with China.”

☞  Finally the border is again simply a border. Finally, rightful and legal labor would be more protected. Finally, spies disguised as workers, and criminals who didn’t even think they needed a disguise, could be recognized as criminals. And finally young women out for a run don’t have to be brutally beaten and raped as they are dying. How long, O Lord!

☞  Finally, the current interpretation of the 14th Amendment anchor baby law is being challenged. However, action from the high court on that carries an odor as if bull effluvia met the effluvia of chickens in the barnyard. When those odors mix, tergiversation is in the air. But steps are in progress wherein it may finally be apparent that a baby born in the US by persons of another national jurisdiction (juris solis) does not make the issue of that parent a citizen of this country. A current argument on the supreme bench by Justice K. J. Brown might help illustrate how the left has been keeping the anchor baby myth alive. She argued that babies born in the US are subject to American law, the same as if she were caught stealing a wallet in Japan and would be subject to Japanese law. A remarkable tactic under the heading of either red herring or black dodo. Thievery and baby making are quite different. If Justice Brown herself were to deliver a baby in Japan, that would make the baby unfortunate, but not Japanese.

☞  The habit, nay, custom of other nations swindling America through trade tariffs has finally been broken. Even though resistance forces are yowling at the notion that American markets might be more fairly competitive with trade balancing tariffs, and stimulate vital domestic industries as well, their caterwauling grows.  When sleepers are suddenly awakened, they are expected to be grouchy. Of course there must be adjustments, but foreign tariff enforcers have been on a picnic. Time to call them to count. And judgment from the courts that the president does not have the power to regulate trade is puzzling; that’s one of the few powers the executive branch does have. Furthermore, there seems to be finally a growing awareness among citizens— and consumers— of our daily market rip-off. A favorite was Vietnam charging over a 90 percent tariff— as if this nation has not paid enough dues on that nation’s behalf. How long, O Lord!

☞  Still waiting in the bull pen, however, would be finalizing the action which began President Trump’s second term with much fanfare: Draining the Swamp. Although the intention was basically to lighten the enormous load of bureaucratic waste, it was unfortunately bogged down with superfluous attention to small jobs and lots of circus, and fizzled dramatically with two titans, Trump and Musk, butting heads. Yet completely draining the swamp of subversive refuse is foremost. It may never happen, but if so, it will finally be smoother sailing in government. We can dream how it would finally happen.

☞  The one true government, which outlasts any president or cabinet, is the bureaucracy. The hold on power within that vast warren of hallways and office buildings are the ramps to upper level issues. In her tome of a book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt records in minute detail the manner in which totalitarian governments hold to their power, and especially how a key element of control lies in keeping its bureaucracies in check. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, dictators abhor a working bureaucracy. Therefore, dictators hamstring the bureaucracy as soon as they attain control.

☞ Nazis offer prime example. After they came into power, the old Weimar government was retained, but powerless. On top of if were layered the SS, Panzers, the Gestapo, and uncountable lesser divisions. Each rubbed against the other. So no one other than the Fuhrer himself had any direct control. No one order from any office was sacrosanct. No bad order, or even a badly timed good order, was safe from a bullet in the head. And the Soviets practiced a similar technique.

The operating principle of totalitarian control is disorder within the bureaucracy, whereas in a democratic structure individual offices, or even individuals themselves, gain power in numbers actually defying leadership. [Arendt]

☞ To help see the contrast within the American federal bureaucracy, take for example Lois Lerner’s version of “defying leadership.” Heading the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, Lerner decided on her own, as well as spurred on through back channels of secret e-mails with Barack Obama (Hitler by proxy), that Tea Party organizations and Obama critics should lose their tax-exempt status. [Judicial Watch, 2015] When brought before Congress to explain herself, she did not produce evidence that would explain how her actions “demonstrated a genuine interest in her specific job.” Lerner did as any gangster would do, and pleaded the Fifth. She retired presumably with full pension.

The fanaticism of the elite cadres, absolutely essential for the functioning of the movement, abolishes systematically all genuine interest in specific jobs and produces a mentality which sees every conceivable action as an instrument for something entirely different. And this mentality is not confined to the elite but gradually pervades the entire population, the most intimate details of whose life and motives depend upon political decisions— that is, upon causes and ulterior motives which have nothing to do with performance. [Arendt]

☞ And Lerner’s chicanery came up for investigation at the same time that Hilary Clinton’s basement e-mail scam was working its underground industry. According to Judicial Watch of the same issue [Nov 2015] was an estimate of 48 million smackeroons up for grabs while she was dealing with business interests to exploit Libya when that deal so dramatically blew up in her face. But it is rumored that she managed to recoup and sell some uranium interests to the Russians.

☞ The James Comey FBI ran simultaneously with the Hillary Show.  According to one retired agent, hiring practices were altered so that recently hired young Turks from the right university or similar background were promoted over seniority. This not only caused older FBI agents, and likely straighter ones, to retire in disgust. It also put the right knights on the chess board— ones serving causes and ulterior motives which have nothing to do with performance. For visualization, one need only picture the smirking Peter Strozyk and his squeeze, Lisa Page, two folks with causes and ulterior motives in an attempt to block an investigation exposing their own conspiracy. How long, O Lord!

☞ While the current White House is busy plugging up internal holes through a still-working Doge, congress does what it usually does. Nothing. It did not, for example, hold Alejandro Majorcas in contempt as he blatantly prevaricated before congressional committees, testifying incessantly that the border was secure. He repeated that horrendously ugly lie while split-screen TV showed column after column of alien invaders marching unhindered across the border. For so blatantly spitting contemptuously in the eye of congress, a man with a head resembling a pimple should have been popped. But nothing so far, as heard here at the Trying Times bunker, has happened to the former pimple Head of Homeland Security.

☞ This feckless nature of congress underlines how the bureaucracy, the one true government, has gained and grown its power against any check. In the brief catalogue of rogues above, the penetration is obvious. IRS, heads of State, FBI– just a snapshot of offices occupied and controlled by individuals with “causes and ulterior motives which have nothing to do with performance,” not to mention the courts. Judging by “performance” of office holders such as former CIA Director John Brennan who campaigned for the last avowed communist presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders who honeymooned in Moscow, cause and ulterior motives are well documented. But how many underlings to Lerner and Clinton and Brennan and Sanders are to be counted along with the legal system bureaucracy? The founders did not expect “paper pushers,” who were practically non-existent at the time, to assume the role they now do. Madison and Adams, however, were very much conscious of the danger within against keeping a democracy alive.

☞ So what’s to be done to rein in finally a serious danger eating on the insides of these borders? With masses of service employees all gaga over Marx and Mao, will the antidote to bureaucracy described by Hanna Arendt come to pass? Will a dictator be enlisted to the cause of defanging the bureaucracy? We might hope otherwise. Sights may yet be set to rein in the one true government away from “causes and ulterior motives which have nothing to do with performance.” Get them back to pushing papers or the equivalent. Punching keyboards and the like are important enough without interferences from “causes and ulterior motives which have nothing to do with performance.”

☞ So after an impressive array of counter punches to finalize the nation’s ills abroad, the presiding executive might finally land a big one over subversive baloney here at home. It’s called Washington, D.C., home of the Potomac sewer. How long, O Lord!

JoCo, 2026