February 14, 2025
Dems’ hair on fire as Trump’s Cabinet picks get to work
By Earick Ward
I think it is wholly appropriate that leftists are seeking help for their mental health maladies, but sadly not enough counselors are seemingly available to service all the derangement cases.
Case in point (among many) is the Democrat approach to Donald Trump and his Cabinet picks. Every candidate nominated has leftists’ hair on fire. Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. J.D. Vance is a threat to democracy. Pete Hegseth is a threat to democracy...and on and on.
The fear-mongering is off the charts, but let’s review the one- to three-week performance of those Cabinet members who’ve been seated.
Marco Rubio didn’t light leftists’ hair on fire but still is someone the president determined would be a solid member of his team. Rubio has negotiated an understanding with Panama to abandon China’s Belt and Road initiative and to provide the U.S. more favorable fees for passing through the canal. Marco Rubio, along with J.D. Vance, is in France, advancing the president’s agenda and worldview on A.I. Recall, Tony Blinken (of the 51 intelligence operatives’ letter) was treated disrespectfully by the Chinese on his first overseas visit. Under his tenure, America’s status in the world was greatly diminished.
On Wednesday, Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense, joined Delta Force troops in Germany for physical training. He has been well received. The military has seen (15-year) record recruitment efforts since his appointment. At the defense summit in Brussels, he notified NATO that they needed to take on an increasing role in their own defense and that it is “unrealistic” to expect Ukraine to return to its pre-2014 borders. Recall that Lloyd Austin, of 2–3 COVID mask fame, instituted radical DIE and LGBT policies throughout the military and saw recruitment drop to historic lows.
Kristi Noem, working with border czar Tom Homan, has been active in advancing the president’s commitment to securing the border and rounding up and deporting “violent criminal illegal aliens.” Crossings at the border have dropped by 97%. In charge of FEMA, Ms. Noem clawed back $59M in misappropriated funds sent to New York for housing of illegal aliens. Alejandro Mayorkas vacillated between claiming that the border was secure, as 4,000–5,000 illegal invaders per day were crossing illegally, to stating that he had no authority to act without legislation from Congress — clearly not the case.
Pam Bondi, attorney general, at the president’s direction, fired activist lawyers and those who participated in the witch hunts against Donald Trump. Today, Pam Bondi sued New York and Governor Kathy Hochul over their resistance to supporting the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Objectively, Donald Trump’s seated Cabinet picks are performing as well as, if not better than, any set of appointees in presidential history, and its only week four.
All Democrats have is to light their hair on fire over Cabinet picks yet seated and how the next one (RFK, Kash, whoever) is the final straw to break the back of democracy. Their fear, though, has merit — not as a threat to democracy (or, more appropriately, our Republic), but that these Cabinet picks will uncover the myriad schemes and possible treason committed by many in the Deep State.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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XIII
The Proud Minister
One day there came into the Garden a man in torn clothes badly bruised and cut, who said to the Lover, “In the name of the Beloved I demand your help.”
So the Lover and the Disciple let him in and dressed his wounds and prepared the best of the vegetables from the Garden for him to eat. When his wounds had been dressed and he had eaten and rested the Lover asked him how he had fallen into this plight, to which the man replied, “I was Minister of the Beloved in a city near this place, where I preached His gospel and expounded His doctrine to the people. I pointed out to them how their sins had made them wholly hateful to the Beloved and how therefore they were utterly beyond the range of His love and He would condemn them to eternal torments, whereon some fell into despair and wept bitterly but many were angry. One day the magistrates called me before them and begged me to leave the city and preach elsewhere for they said I had made many people so angry and desperate that they feared there might be a riot and they might not be able to protect me but that I might suffer some injury. I, however, very zealous for the Beloved and believing that the magistrates only feared that their own sins might be proclaimed, preached the more vehemently, denounced the magistrates and made it abundantly clear that the whole wicked city was foredoomed to eternal punishment by the just provision of the Beloved. Whereon a mob, stirred up no doubt by the corrupt and venal magistrates, fell upon me with sticks and stones, nearly killing me and driving me out of the city in the state in which I came to you.”
“My friend,” said the Lover, “this was not a good deed of yours, for besides denying the unfathomable compassion of the Beloved, you have by your obstinacy caused these people to commit a grievous sin, and this cannot be pleasing to the Beloved, that through you who profess to be His minister the people should become worse. Surely you remember that He Himself said, ‘If they persecute you in one city flee to another.’”
Therefore the man was very angry, and cursing the Lover, said, “I see that I have had a very false report of you and I do not believe that you are a servant of the Beloved at all. When I came to you so injured for the Beloved’s sake you set before me only herbs and fruits although the garden is full of birds which you could have killed to make me a worthy meal. I shall proclaim everywhere that you are no true servant of the Beloved but a mere falterer who dares not suffer in the cause of the Beloved. Be sure that you are foreordained to eternal torments who suffer nothing here.”
For the man was so blinded by his own pride that he could not perceive the scars on the hands and feet and the brows of the Lover nor how the cloth beneath the armpits of his tunic was dyed with a red dye. So he went out of the Garden cursing and shouting.
But the Lover looked sad and said, “A man like this does much harm to the cause of the Beloved, for by thus speaking falsely about the Beloved he may bring men to fear Him but none to love Him, and by love alone can any man approach the Beloved.”
