Get Well Soon, Mr President!

This is a, rather obvious, appeal to my readers to pray for the President, who has just tested positive together with the First Lady.

At the same time, I hope the President does not take this lightly. Boris Johnson kept working 24/7 after being diagnosed, and after 10 days looked like a zombie. We know the rest: intensive care for some time, and problem solved.

Like a nasty flu, Covid cannot be underestimated. It’s not the Plague, but it’s not a cold, either.

Good news in this: whilst Boris first felt unwell and then was diagnosed, both POTUS and FLOTUS were diagnosed only after a staff member was found positive. Methinks, they were both asymptomatic.

Pray for this great man.

We need him, tweets and all.

Suggestions For The Next Supreme Court Appointments

We obviously never know how an appointment for the Supreme Court will turn out in practice. However, it is fairly easy to see recent cases (Roberts, perhaps Gorsuch) of a Justice “going native” after a few years.

In my eyes, the reason for this is the societal pressure put on the Justice by the Washington establishment, coupled with the conformism, pusillanimity and general desire to be perceived as a “cool guy” of said Justice. It seems clear that coming from a conservative environment is not really a good predictor, then this environment does not test the fortitude of said Justice.

If I had Trump’s ear, I would give him some suggestions as to the (hopefully) next appointments.

First: pick a conservative judge who has been operating in a progressive environment, paying the price of social isolation in the local “magic circles”. You want someone who has already shown that he gets isolated and just does not care.

Second: pick a judge, not a professor or a politician. The accurate analysis of his judicial activity will be a better predictor than words, or abstract doctrines.

Third: avoid judges with progressive wifes. A man who married a progressive wife has already shown poor judgment in the most important choice of his life. It is extremely likely that she will put daily, additional pressure on him to conform to the ideas of the Washington establishment. We have seen, here in the UK, the devastating effect of the wrong wife on both Cameron (sodomarriage) and, very likely, Johnson (Covid). Of course, these wives are also indicators that the men were weak in the first place.

There, I think I have stated three common sense rules never or rarely mentioned in the newspaper. Let us hope that Trump is in a position to apply these, or similar, rules in the next years.