Calling Hercules

January 20, 2021: Biden: “We have a country to ruin.”

January 20 2025: Trump: “We have a country to run.”

Already Trump is cutting government…reduced Biden’s quote by 5%!

A notice went out on social media calling for volunteers to help Drain the Swamp. Hercules turned the job down because it was too daunting. Enter enthusiastically from stage right…Team Trump. Herewith are some suggested actions that we might wish to consider.

Effective January 20 at 12:01 PM DEI should be euthanized. Then Trump should announce a goal of reducing employment in every government department and agency by at least 25%.

Department of State

Marco Rubio’s first challenge will be to remind the employees of that agency that the State in the title means the United States not the United Nations, the World Economic Forum (WEF), George Soros, Medal of Freedom laureate, or comfort pet countries of the Squad.

George Washington, in his 1796 Farewell Address, a written message to the American people, said: “Observe good faith and justice with all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all” but make no “political alliances”. i.e avoid foreign entanglements. Sadly the decisionally challenged Antony Blinken enthusiastically embraced such entanglements and, in combination with Biden’s unerring ability to be on the wrong side of every international issue, adroitly managed to destabilize the world.

The Middle East

Declare our unconditional support for the State of Israel. Reestablish Trump’s first term strategy of economically destabilizing the terrorist regime in Iran. Continue the pursuit of the Abraham Accords with every other nation in the Middle East. Support the people of Iran in their efforts to liberate the country from the despots in Tehran. Where is the Shah when we need him? This will ensure the death by fiscal suffocation of No Mas, Hezbollah, ISIS and the other peaceful Islamists tacitly supported by Obama the Terrible.

Ukraine

End the war as soon as possible. No more war materiel to Ukraine and economic sanctions against both belligerents until they locate an Appomattox Courthouse in the area. Appoint Liz Cheney to represent the US during the negotiations. That should hasten the culmination of a peace agreement.

China

All out economic warfare on the CCP. Limit imports from China, apply crippling tariffs, and ban TikTok and other social media tools affiliated with the political regime in Beijing. Make clear our unequivocal support for Taiwan. Demand a cessation of all economic and political support for the despotic regime in North Korea and support unconditionally the unification of the Korean government with the understanding that anyone named Kim Jung will be barred from participating in that government .

General Policy Matters

Exit the UN, ban all contact with the WEF, eliminate any support for the unicorn riders pushing anthropogenic climate change as a policy issue and, most importantly, export free enterprise to every third world country with a goal of passively reducing worldwide poverty by 50%.

Department of Treasury

The disappearance of Janet Yellen will immediately raise the average IQ in the entire Department. Scott Bessent should demand a balanced budget every year or, better yet, a budget that generates a surplus. Apply any surplus to the national debt. Work closely with the DOGE team to eliminate any and all wasteful spending and fraud. No more earmarks. The Department should then initiate an effort to conduct full and complete audits of every Federal department and agency. Ban the use of the word “climate” in any regulation or publication issued by the Department.

Departments of Education and Energy

The ultimate goal is the elimination of both of these counterproductive organizations. The failure of the education system in the United States has been catastrophic and the impact of that failure has been especially detrimental to our minority population. Management of schools should be returned to the state and local levels. Randi Weingarten should be dispatched on an intergalactic spacecraft although that does fly in the face of Washington’s admonition that we should cultivate peace and harmony with others. Tatooine might regard her arrival as an unprovoked act of war. Ignorance is epidemic in the US and there is no solution on the horizon. Linda McMahon has her work cut out for her.

Departments of Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security

These departments should be removed from the inbred/Ivy League political establishment in Washington and relocated closer to the communities they are empowered to serve. The first step is a mandate to retire at least 50% of all existing regulations. This migration of power will have the added benefit of acquainting the kakistocracy with the folks that are forced to live with their bureaucratic mandates. Imagine Tom Homan with an office on the Southern border taking his inimitable management style to the very source of the problem.

Department of Defense

Secretary Hegseth should demand a full accounting of all department expenses for the last ten years starting with the production of the bills of sale for all of the materiel we left on the tarmac in Afghanistan. An accounting of the payments to the aspiring dictator, Volodymyr Zelensky, and an explanation as to where the funds presently reside, would be the stuff on an SNL skit. Perhaps we will want to restrict military aid to any country that does not have a constitution similar to ours.

In addition Hegseth should minimize the risk of the Pentagon becoming the American version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa by reducing the number of Flag Officers to the same level as existed at the end of WW II. A top heavy military is not necessarily an effective military

The Federal Bureau of Investigation

Kash Patel will need to enlist the aid of people with strong stomachs when he starts to descend into the cesspool that the FBI has become. Patel has suggested, to immediate caterwauling from the Left, that the FBI headquarters should be emptied and the occupants thereof dispatched to regional offices where they could practice the fine art of fighting crime…for a change. He added salt to that open wound by floating the idea that the empty building could be turned into a museum of the Deep State. Sadly it would be too small to do justice to the project as it only has 2.1 million square feet.

All FBI whistleblowers who were reprimanded, demoted or fired for raising questions about the abuses by the Bureau should be reinstated forthwith. Any FBI agent or asset who participated in the protest on Capitol Hill on January 6 or who took part of the classified document orchestrated raid on Mar-a-lago should be criminally prosecuted.

Department of Justice

The departure of Meritless Garland is a great first step in putting the Justice back in the Justice Department. He made the Mitchell boys…A. Palmer and John…look like pillars of integrity. Pam Bondi might want to start with a refresher course on the Constitution for all US Attorneys…at least those that survive the initial culling process. That process will focus on those who abused the legal process by failing to prosecute any officials who supported the bogus Steele Dossier, used the FISA Courts to persecute members of the first Trump administration and turned a blind eye to the fraud and interference that marked the election process in 2020. They could start with the 51 miscreants who signed the letter suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop was other than authentic. Those who ignored the media censorship, conducted in many cases with the active encouragement of the Biden administration, and suppressed any investigation of the rampant voter fraud in the 2020 election should be removed from office. Any US Attorney who actively engaged in political prosecutions involving January 6,, 2021, peaceful protests at abortion clinics by grandmothers and the COVID coverup should be fired immediately. The remaining eleven US Attorneys should be allowed to stay on in the Department.

There should also be a full investigation of the corruption that seems to follow in the wake of every member of the Biden family.

Health and Human Services

Robert Kennedy should immediately commence an in depth investigation of the conduct of Anthony Fauci before, during and after the Covid crisis. What did he know and when did he stop knowing it? The origin of the virus, mandatory masking knowing it was ineffective, social distancing, the forcing of the untested, risky and, ultimately, ineffective vaccines and the protection he provided for his buddies at Big Pharma all require a thorough review. It would be nice to know how many unnecessary deaths resulted from his suppression of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. It would also be useful to know how much money Fauci pocketed for his shenanigans. Then perhaps our now more effective Department of Justice can take appropriate legal action against “Science” himself.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Tom Homan has drawn the short straw. Whatever he does with immigration will trigger faux outrage on the left. Step 1: Finish the border wall and reduce the flow of undocumented immigrants to a trickle. Step 2: Close the “anchor baby” loophole and make it clear that automatic citizenship requires that at least one parent be a US citizen at the time of the birth of a child. Step 3: Enforce every past and future immigration detainer with immediate deportation. Step 4: End all Federal subsidies to all immigrants who do not enter the country legally. Step 5: Deport immediately every person who entered the country illegally who has been convicted of a crime in the US. Step 6: Implement a plan to return all immigrants who did not follow the legal process for entry into the country. Step 7: Impose a $25 per hour surcharge for each employee hired in the US who has not entered the country legally. Step 8: Impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico to the United States until such time as they close their Northern border.

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

Messrs. Ramaswamy and Musk should initiate a scorched earth assessment of all Federal spending, waste and fraud that appears in the Federal budget. Failure to fully comply with any request from the DOGE team should result in termination of employment. Congressional hearings should be held every day which has the added benefit of keeping Congress distracted from other legislative mischief.

The next two years should be our best hope to renew the American dream and restore the government of the people, by the people, for the people and ensure that that government shall not perish from the earth.

Ex Celsior