Fires Everywhere

Daily Ramble: Fires Everywhere

I keep coming back to analogies when I think about Trump. The simplest? A kid playing with matches. The question is, is he just a foolish kid with a new toy, or an experienced arsonist starting little fires on purpose to keep us distracted?

Whether accidental or deliberate, there are too many fires to do anything but run around putting them out. Take the DOJ. We hear of resignations — principled people saying, “Enough. We won’t be part of your crimes. We took an oath.” Sounds noble. But in reality, it’s functioning more like a stay of execution for Trump.

As more lawsuits pile up against him and his executive orders, everything in the courts gets delayed. The DOJ says it lacks the lawyers to handle the cases, so courts grant more time. And that extra time is a gift to Trump: he keeps ignoring injunctions, moving his agenda forward. By the time he’s forced to stop, either no one cares anymore or he’s already achieved what he wanted.

Today’s ramble is sparked by Trump’s federalizing of Washington, D.C. Is this just a crime-fighting measure? Or is it the first step toward martial law, holding onto power by claiming the country “needs” him — or by removing the barriers altogether? Make no mistake: he does not want to leave office. Who spends $200 million on a ballroom nobody wants unless they plan on sticking around to use it?

And this isn’t a one-track operation. Trump can multitask chaos. He’s in a panic as the Epstein mess keeps unraveling — a mess he helped create. Maxwell is suddenly being moved to a minimum-security prison after allegedly threatening Trump. Gossip says she’ll get work-release privileges. Why? Because Trump wants her silent. She must have documentation he hasn’t found yet; otherwise, she’d have “committed suicide” by now.

The danger here is losing focus. This isn’t just about Trump and Epstein. Or Trump and the DOJ. Or Trump and martial law. It’s about the endgame — and what we can do to prevent it. In our earlier editorial “Okay, He’s Been Impeached, Now What?” we explored the idea of power passing to a bunch of nobodies. Not comforting.

Would removing Trump solve the problem? Or is it better to strip him of power but leave him in place? Honestly, I don’t know. What’s clear is that he’s surrounded himself with spineless loyalists — spineless because otherwise they’d be a threat to him.

That leaves us with a bigger question: if we ever clean this mess up, who fills the vacuum? Replacing all the Trump loyalists means nothing if we don’t have sane, competent leadership ready to step in. I call myself “purple” — a moderate — and even in my own family, we don’t have an answer that satisfies us. The Woke movement is as dangerous as the MAGA movement.

So, who do we start grooming to bring sanity back? Maybe it’s time for you — the Magnificent Seven who actually follow these posts — to start weighing in. Leave comments. Start discussions. And let’s try to do it without hate. The country’s going to need that.