Sane Liberals Take on Some of Trump's Executive Orders

Because of recent events, particularly of course the election and inauguation of Trump, I'm back to appreciating Bret and Heather of Dark Horse Podcast, which isn't so much the case when they are into their biological evolutaionary focus.  They are refresingly articulate and sane on the cultural and politial issues of the day, and I paritcularly enoyed the latest pocast 261, in which they give their reactions to some of Trump's executive orders.

 ThI will note, however, that once again Bret defends his view of MAGA as being better if you leave off the final A since he belevies that we can't say America was ever great when some people didn't get to benefit from that greatness, or to put it another way, it wasn't great for these other people.  Blacks and Native Americans.  And again I have to object tht ameria is great completely irresxpective of any people group or individual experienc3we within init and if we don't always keep that in mind we miss the whole point of what America is and why it was known to be the great force for good in the world up until the left took over a few decades ago anyway, and in a certain sense even in spit ofof their efforts to destroy it.

Tht said, I like their take on the executive orders and on Trump's position to be perhaps the best President we've ever had which many on the right alwaready think anyway.  Bret points out that Trump has a real affinity for the ordinary American citizen, seems to really care about us all and ants our good opinion far more than the good opinion of anyone in power.  He's quite right about that.  It was Trump who went to North Caronilna and talked to the people displaced by hurricane Helene, while Biden and Harrise were off doing other things.  it was tTrump who got Musk to bring in his starlink system to provide communication for the people there that had been lost because of the hurricantne.  And trump just yesterday visited North Caronlina gain to find out that nothing had been done to improve their istuation, always on the ground talking to the people themselves who are suffering from loss.  It's the same with his visit to MacDonald's to make and serve friesto the people driving through.  The Left is absolutely deaf to the real Trump and why he appeals to ordinary people even as a separate thing from his policies which are also attracive to the ordinary citizen.    So I'm glad bret recognizes that.

I also agree with his idea that instead of renaming the Gulf of Mexico th Gulf of America it should be renamed the Gulf of the Americas.  I like thta a lot.  I was uncomfortable with his renaming the Gulf at all.  There's just no need that I can see.  It isn't harming us in any way to be called the Gulf of Mexico, it's just a geographic designantion.    Oh well.  Anyway I'd really like to see Trump change his mind and take Bret's suggestion and rename it again.

In general I hate the renaming of anything.  It's hard on our poor heads to hve to remember that the new name refers to the same place we knew iunder the old name.  that goes for all the renaming of foreign places such as Beijing for Peking an Mumbai for Bombay.  It's like they just create a whole new world in which it's hard to locate anything we once3 had at least some idea was in a certain place and had a certain character.  Mumbai just sounds like it must be some other city than bombay.  Same iwith Beijing.  the people who do this renaming have no feeling at all for human experience.  unch of conceited bureaucrats.

\\Anyway, there is such a thing as a sane liberal.  Unfortunately it's a liberal who has gone to the trouble to investigate the issues, and since most of them don't, but just go on following the same path laid out by the same leftist day after day there aren't many sane liberals yet.  Oh but God did answer prayers that I for one sent up for more liberals to come over to vote for trump, so there are quite a few , enough for that purpose anyway.  Still, we need a lot more.  

e GOAT? The 261st Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying