Trump Wins, Again
My hope is that in 10 years, my grandchildren can read about the 12-day war. Read how the man who did not want to be president became president and brought peace to the middle-east.
President Trump played better than anyone could have expected. And it started on the 20th of January.
When Trump took office in 2016, he was a businessman. He knew that even if it was a hostile takeover, you kept the top people. Everybody wanted things to work. They might hate your guts, but they wanted things to work so they could continue to take home a paycheck.
The government is not like that. Trump was sabotaged before he even took office. People he trusted shouldn’t have been trusted. People he wanted in his team were forced out. The swamp creatures latched on, the media tried to destroy him.
In some ways, losing to Biden is one of the best things that has ever happened to this country. Trump 2.0 is so much better.
Trump started this term as if he were a Democrat. He fired everybody who wasn’t on his team. He is still working on that. And it worked.
He got people in as directors and at cabinet level that believe in him and believe in his vision.
There were no leaks about the bombing attack. None.
D.C. has been a cauldron of leaked secrets since I was a child. Most of those leaks served Democrat interest.
After the attack, there was a leak. A highly placed source, or a person with access to high-level intel, leaked part of a BDA. They seemed to have omitted the part where it was a preliminary BDA with low confidence.
A day later, Trump declared a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. When both parties tried to “empty their tubes” he slapped them both down.
As I write this, there does not seem to be any more exchanges between the two major parties.
In The Supreme Court
Trump keeps winning cases that get to the Court. Sotomayor, Brown, and Kegan keep writing dissents.
It is important to note that the agenda-driven justices have not yet written a single thing about the merits of the cases that are being brought to The Court. It is all about waiting.
As far as I can tell, everyone who is not a sheeple knows that the Trump Administration is going to win these cases.
The leftists don’t care. For them, it is the cost to the Trump Administration and delay, delay, delay.
If these cases were to proceed through the courts as the leftist want, Trump will be out of office before they are resolved.
Consider Duncan, which was filed in 2016. The case went through the District Court, through the merits panel of the Ninth Circuit, through the en banc Ninth Circuit, through a motion for writ of certiorari, was granted certiorari, the Ninth Circuit’s opinion was vacated, the case was remanded to the Ninth, which remanded it to the district court, where another full finding of facts, post-Bruen, won, was appealed to the Ninth, was taken by the original en banc panel, against Ninth Circuit policies, the district opinion was vacated and remanded for final disposition, and is now seeking certiorari for the second time before the Supreme Court.
Nine years! I could easily see rogue inferior courts dragging out cases for years and years.
Regardless of the agenda-driven justices, the Supreme Court has handed out win after win to the Trump Administration.
Truck Sounds
Wednesday, I drove the truck 50 miles or so. It had this really weird sound.
That sound was silence.
It turns out that there really was a second bearing going bad, or which had gone bad.
Because my dude is cool, I was able to observe the work done on my truck. Watching the mechanic use the same methods that I was questioning was nice. On the other hand, watching him do some things just blew my mind.
Even when the metal does not rust, two metal parts in close contact will stick. The axle on the passenger side of the truck was seriously stuck to the hub. It took some heavy work with a 5 lb sledge and a punch to break the axle free.
Jess picked up the air chisel, put a punch in it, walked over to the axle and triggered the air chisel. That axel backed out almost instantly.
Doh, I have that tool. Never even occurred to me to use it.
The cost of the hub for the driver’s side was $10 more than I would have paid at the local shop. With his profit built in, having him (shop owner) source the hub didn’t really cost extra.
It turns out that the job I wasn’t willing to do, replacing the bad flex brake line in the left rear, was a simple job of unscrewing the hose from the two hard lines and replacing it.
I saw that and was irritated that I didn’t do that work myself. Easy, right?
That was, until I saw, as part of the miscellaneous shop items, two new lengths of hard line. Jess had to replace the hard line after they failed while replacing the flex line.
The truck is good for a few thousand more miles.
Stock Market
On the first two days the stock market was open after the start of the 12-day war, my accounts dipped, hard. It was extremely scary.
So I dropped another chunk of money into the market to make some purchases.
As of last night, the market has recovered everything from that dip and a bit more. I expect to see it go up again today.
Woodworking
I’ve started making my workbench. Instead of pulling out the chop saw, I set up a pair of saw horses and used hand tools. I don’t think I’ve ever made cleaner cuts by hand. After 58 years of using handsaws, I might actually have learned how to do it.
One end of the bench has been glued and screwed, and I’m working on the half lap braces. This is my first half lap.
It is finished, the fit is good, as long as I don’t want the other end to touch the opposite leg. I’ll have to refine the joint tomorrow.
Tools
I haven’t been able to find one of my marking gauges. The one I did find didn’t work for me.
The nice option was the 3/4 wide chisel I pulled off the wall. It was properly protected by a cap. It was properly sharpened and worked perfectly.
The other side of this was finding out that I seem to have let somebody borrow the 1″ chisel. How do I know? Because there are chips in the cutting edge. It looks more like a saw blade than a chisel.
It is going to take a bit of work on the grinder to get that edge back. Thank goodness for slow speed 320 grit diamond wheels. Without a grinder, it would take hours to recover that edge.
Oh, those bench chisels are the cheap box store chisels, they are Marple’s.
I now have a “working” No.4 Stanley. I have one of unknown condition of the same general size, and one that seems to be junk. It is nice to have the tools I need.
Question of The Week
How concerned were you that we were about to get stuck in another war?
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