Meanwhile our government has announced people visiting from visa waiver countries can work remotely for their employer for up to nine months under a ‘digital nomads’ scheme and speed limits are being increased on 38 roads. Hardly in the same league is it?
Trump is also ‘out there’ literally, visiting storm damaged North Carolina and fire damaged Los Angeles, talking to people, getting an idea of the situation and meeting with local officials. He has an ‘out there’ de facto running mate in Elon Musk, another who excites or incites depending on your point of view. Not that these two care much about others’ points of view: they were elected to do a job and they are getting on with it.
The man belies his age. His appetite for work and the speed at which he works, the hours he puts in for a 78-year-old is nothing short of astonishing. The sentiment of many is he has achieved more in his first week than Biden did in four years.
Take last weekend. On Saturday he visited both North Carolina and Los Angeles. The flight time from Florida where he lives to North Carolina is one hour 30 minutes and North Carolina to Los Angeles is five hours 30 minutes, so seven hours of his day was spent solely in the air. And you can bet he was working on the plane.
On Sunday he held his first post-inauguration rally in Las Vegas. There he reiterated the promise to remove tax on tips. What a vote winner. Nevada is a state that the Democrats always depended on winning for the last 20 years. Trump is the first Republican to win Nevada since 2004. Nevada is looking more like a red state going forward.
It’s no wonder that since the election his personal favourability has risen to almost 60 per cent. His presidency is polling at just over 51 per cent and he is the only president to rate higher in his second term than at any point in his first term. And the younger voters are now one of his strongest voting blocs.
There is a feeling that normality is returning to the USA: this is what they voted for and this is what they are getting. Memo to Luxon – could you please take a leaf out of this man’s playbook?
Compare this to the dissatisfaction and anger in other countries, particularly in the West. The United Kingdom is a particularly good example. People are taxed excessively to fund left-wing policies and ideology. Contrast that to Trump at his Las Vegas rally announcing he wants to do away with income taxes altogether. He says that, prior to income tax, America relied solely on tariffs for its income and it has never been as wealthy since.
Again it’s what some would call ‘out there’ thinking. But is it? Maybe, but surely we need leaders who think outside the square. Innovative thinking is what is lacking today.
Chris Trotter, talking to Sean Plunket on the Platform, said: “National just baffles me: this huge event which has occurred in the United States, this massive disruption of political force and it should be riveting the attention of conservative parties everywhere because there are lessons embedded in Trump’s victory, very important lessons, not just for the left but also for the right and it’s as if Luxon hasn’t even noticed what’s been going on.”
Damn right there are important lessons. The MAGA movement: these are people desperate to get rid of wokeness, to have a say in their children’s education, to be rid of religious persecution, to see a reduction in the cost of living, to stop the weaponisation of government and to be free of unwanted rules and regulations. In short, they want their country back
Chris Trotter’s observation re National and Luxon is an astute one and I have always admired his political assessments. Chris’s comment says a lot about Luxon’s lack of political nous, as has often been observed by Good Oilers. Take Seymour’s bill. I believe if Trump were in Luxon’s shoes that bill wouldn’t even be going to a referendum: it would be passed immediately MOST LIKELY BY AN EXECUTIVE ORDER.
Mike Hosking says, “What I like about what Trump has done so far is: none of it is surprising. He actually does what he said he is going to do. Mainstream media of course still can’t get their head around it all.” Mike applied a bit of the Trump ‘doing’ to Luxon when interviewing him last Tuesday. He cajoled him to “just get on with it”. In a three-year election cycle, that is paramount. What we need is a little less hui and a lot more doey. Compare what Trump has achieved in a week to what the coalition Government has managed in 18 months and you could be excused for thinking this country was being run by a group of pensioners in a retirement village.
Trump has signed over 200 Executive Orders and the man has hardly had time to warm his seat in the Oval Office.
IT’S CALLED LEADERSHIP.
Another good example of dealing to a leader proving difficult: the president of Colombia agreed to take back illegals from his country and then changed his mind. Trump was on the golf course at the time. While continuing with his game he slapped a 25 per cent tariff on all Colombian goods saying that it would increase to 50 per cent in a week. Almost before he got to the next hole the Colombian president changed his mind and agreed to accept the deportees and offered his presidential plane to come and get them.
This was Trump at his best, wheeling and dealing and putting America first. Other world leaders know full well who and what they are dealing with. Watch Iran and others crawl back into their hidey holes, giving credence to the fact that had Trump had been declared the winner of the 2020 election these wars would not have started. This is a man who knows he has only four years to make a difference and is acting accordingly. Memo to Christopher Luxon – you now have less than two.
Trump fights for his people and puts his country first. He is not a politician but uses the political system to secure his goals. He is one step removed from the day-to-day partisanship that infests the House and the Senate. He has defied all attempts by his political enemies to jail him and remove his name from ballots through the weaponisation of government departments and the judiciary.
The world doesn’t just need another four years of Donald J Trump: it needs at least eight of REAL LEADERSHIP.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
The man belies his age. His appetite for work and the speed at which he works, the hours he puts in for a 78-year-old is nothing short of astonishing. The sentiment of many is he has achieved more in his first week than Biden did in four years.
Take last weekend. On Saturday he visited both North Carolina and Los Angeles. The flight time from Florida where he lives to North Carolina is one hour 30 minutes and North Carolina to Los Angeles is five hours 30 minutes, so seven hours of his day was spent solely in the air. And you can bet he was working on the plane.
On Sunday he held his first post-inauguration rally in Las Vegas. There he reiterated the promise to remove tax on tips. What a vote winner. Nevada is a state that the Democrats always depended on winning for the last 20 years. Trump is the first Republican to win Nevada since 2004. Nevada is looking more like a red state going forward.
It’s no wonder that since the election his personal favourability has risen to almost 60 per cent. His presidency is polling at just over 51 per cent and he is the only president to rate higher in his second term than at any point in his first term. And the younger voters are now one of his strongest voting blocs.
There is a feeling that normality is returning to the USA: this is what they voted for and this is what they are getting. Memo to Luxon – could you please take a leaf out of this man’s playbook?
Compare this to the dissatisfaction and anger in other countries, particularly in the West. The United Kingdom is a particularly good example. People are taxed excessively to fund left-wing policies and ideology. Contrast that to Trump at his Las Vegas rally announcing he wants to do away with income taxes altogether. He says that, prior to income tax, America relied solely on tariffs for its income and it has never been as wealthy since.
Again it’s what some would call ‘out there’ thinking. But is it? Maybe, but surely we need leaders who think outside the square. Innovative thinking is what is lacking today.
Chris Trotter, talking to Sean Plunket on the Platform, said: “National just baffles me: this huge event which has occurred in the United States, this massive disruption of political force and it should be riveting the attention of conservative parties everywhere because there are lessons embedded in Trump’s victory, very important lessons, not just for the left but also for the right and it’s as if Luxon hasn’t even noticed what’s been going on.”
Damn right there are important lessons. The MAGA movement: these are people desperate to get rid of wokeness, to have a say in their children’s education, to be rid of religious persecution, to see a reduction in the cost of living, to stop the weaponisation of government and to be free of unwanted rules and regulations. In short, they want their country back
Chris Trotter’s observation re National and Luxon is an astute one and I have always admired his political assessments. Chris’s comment says a lot about Luxon’s lack of political nous, as has often been observed by Good Oilers. Take Seymour’s bill. I believe if Trump were in Luxon’s shoes that bill wouldn’t even be going to a referendum: it would be passed immediately MOST LIKELY BY AN EXECUTIVE ORDER.
Mike Hosking says, “What I like about what Trump has done so far is: none of it is surprising. He actually does what he said he is going to do. Mainstream media of course still can’t get their head around it all.” Mike applied a bit of the Trump ‘doing’ to Luxon when interviewing him last Tuesday. He cajoled him to “just get on with it”. In a three-year election cycle, that is paramount. What we need is a little less hui and a lot more doey. Compare what Trump has achieved in a week to what the coalition Government has managed in 18 months and you could be excused for thinking this country was being run by a group of pensioners in a retirement village.
Trump has signed over 200 Executive Orders and the man has hardly had time to warm his seat in the Oval Office.
IT’S CALLED LEADERSHIP.
Another good example of dealing to a leader proving difficult: the president of Colombia agreed to take back illegals from his country and then changed his mind. Trump was on the golf course at the time. While continuing with his game he slapped a 25 per cent tariff on all Colombian goods saying that it would increase to 50 per cent in a week. Almost before he got to the next hole the Colombian president changed his mind and agreed to accept the deportees and offered his presidential plane to come and get them.
This was Trump at his best, wheeling and dealing and putting America first. Other world leaders know full well who and what they are dealing with. Watch Iran and others crawl back into their hidey holes, giving credence to the fact that had Trump had been declared the winner of the 2020 election these wars would not have started. This is a man who knows he has only four years to make a difference and is acting accordingly. Memo to Christopher Luxon – you now have less than two.
Trump fights for his people and puts his country first. He is not a politician but uses the political system to secure his goals. He is one step removed from the day-to-day partisanship that infests the House and the Senate. He has defied all attempts by his political enemies to jail him and remove his name from ballots through the weaponisation of government departments and the judiciary.
The world doesn’t just need another four years of Donald J Trump: it needs at least eight of REAL LEADERSHIP.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
6 comments:
A group of pensioners in a retirement village would run this country far better than the current national led coalition or for that matter any of our recent governments!
could not agree more, Luxford is distinctive for his lack of leadership, guess his priority's are different than Trumps
On the subject of more doey and less hue and if the country was being run by a group of pensioners in a retirement village - not to mention the lack of real leadership. Can I recommend that Mr Luxon nominate himself for a Royal Air Force Senior Management Course? I did mine in the mid 1970's and recall one of my bosses saying once when I came back from leave. "Good to have you back Chief, things happen when you are here!" Management by Objective did not figure in those days and things did indeed happen.
"It's called leadership" shouts JC. Of course it is. Now remind me again how the charge of the Light Brigade turned out. I imagine they had excellent leadership too until they were lead down the wrong path. History is replete with examples of leadership leading directly to disaster. Trump is no different. This will dawn on the American people sooner rather than later.
Excellent!
Meanwhile in New Zealand our 'leaders' are missing in action.
Do we continue our slide down the slippery slope into third world 'Pacific Island' status simply because easy has become too hard.
The challenge of accepting a role in a brave new world has disappeared into the mythical mists of tribalism and appeasement.
What does our future hold?
A small country the world forgot.
Easy on pensioners in a retirement village.
Reckon I could put a group 70 years young together that could shake things up in no time.
We are not all sitting with rugs behind heaters.
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