1-27-25
Monologue:
Say What You Say
Triple Dipper:
1. Confirmations!
2. Deportation Machinations
3. Save Our Kids
Guests
Resources
1. Confirmations!
https://www.thehill.com/homenews/senate/5106167-kristi-noem-dhs-secretary/amp/
2. Deportation Machination
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/01/26/trump-building-walls-to-fill-gaps-on-new-mexico-border/
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/24/trump-dhs-to-remove-paroled-migrants/
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/01/25/trump-shuts-down-federal-labor-smuggling-program/
https://wokespy.com/illegals-back-in-mexico-i-dont-recommend-to-cross/
3. Save Our Kids!
https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-alejandro-mayorkas-missing-children-trafficking-responsibility-2004975
Rightside Way Monologue
Something big happened over the weekend….something that I believe sent
shockwaves around the world…..You may have seen it….it was a shot across the
bow, the proverbial rattling of the cage…..but if you get down to it, what
happened really wasn’t that hard……basically, the world found out that if you fool
around with Trump you will find out fast that he says what he means and means
what he says…..the President of Colombia just learned that the hard way…..
He should’ve known better when the world saw that Trump had Andrew
Jackson’s portrait rehung in the Oval Office…..Andrew Jackson, the strong and
deliberate leader…..known for taking hard stands and doing hard things and
overcoming adversity and opposing his enemies…..Andrew Jackson, who famously
once said, “I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.”…..Andrew
Jackson who’s men called him Old Hickory because of his stalwart willingness to
suffer right along with his troop in battle, and even spend his own money to make
sure they had what they needed……Andrew Jackson who told the boys from
Tennessee to stand firm, and hold fire until they could see the whites of their eyes
and won the Battle of New Orleans…..Well, apparently Donald J. Trump identifies
with Andrew Jackson…..and the President of Colombia decided to fool around and
find out…..
Let me start though by reminding ya’ll of something that I told you once
before….you see, I married a sassy woman…..it’s true….my team overseas often
referred to my sweet demure southern wife as “the Sergeant Major” because she
was the only one who could say things to me that needed to be said
sometimes….more than once Sgt. Borden would look at me in Baghdad and ask,
“Sir, am I going to have to call the Sergeant Major?”…..I would laugh, but he was
also serious…..in one of those examples of this I have to tell you about a phrase
that we use in our house because of her……
one of my favorites that has come about in recent years that is said all too often,
and yet not enough, by my sweet sassy wife…..she’ll correct me on something, or
tell me my favorite old shirt doesn’t look right, or that I actually have to shave for
church, or that I need to stop working late and when I look at her like I’m about to
say something back she’ll just point a finger at me and emphatically state, “I say
what I say”……like that’s the end of it….just like that, “I say what I say”……no reply
warranted, nor desired…..the final word has been spoken…..I can try to argue that
she can’t just say-what-she-says-me like that until I’ve had my own say which
usually gets me a second round of “I say what I say” but with a smile that is totally
disarming…… yes, I did in fact marry a sassy woman…..and I wouldn’t have it any
other way to be honest……
but the “I say what I say” is a phrase that we might use in our family but how
often do we see that in real life?....... we don’t always get folks who are willing to
say what they say and stand by it……sometimes that can be a matter of
deception….maybe they say one thing and do another with intent to
deceive……and this is not to mean that you might not have to develop your
position as more facts arise, or when you gain a better understanding…..that’s
different. That’s wisdom and humility……I’m talking about those times when you
know that you know that you know that your position is correct….a matter of fact,
a matter of principle, a bedrock of belief……and you say what you say with that
same confidence…..but the opposing side doesn’t like it….and too often we see
that confidence erode on the spot as the opposition begins their pounce…… I
know that sometimes it’s simply a matter of having a fear of standing their
ground……literally, they say what they say but can they say it twice?.....say what
you say….but when questioned can you hold your own? Can you stand by your
views, your beliefs, when the going gets tough? When cancel culture comes
knocking (and believe me it will) can you say what you say no matter what they
say?
But this past weekend was an example of “I say what I say” on the international
level…..if you haven’t already heard the story let me just lay it out for you…..what
we know is that the Department of Homeland Security has already begun
rounding up illegal criminals by conducting targeted raids all over the
nation….sanctuary cities are having a come-apart because Tom Homan keeps
showing up with warrants and doing what he said he would do…..and the
deportation flights have already begun….planes are departing US airfields as fast
as they can fuel them up and over the weekend two plane loads of Colombian
illegal immigrant criminals lifted off to return their passenger cargo to their
country of origin…..and somewhere in mid-flight the socialist el Presidente of
Colombia decided he would not accept them….Colombian President Gustavo
Petro decided he wasn’t going to take his own criminals back so he denied the
planes access to Colombian air space……okay….well, Trump said what he said and
apparently he meant it…..in a statement issued immediately and without
hesitation President Trump called out Presidente Petro and announced that the
US would be placing a 25% tariff on all Colombian exports to the US….and if the
policy didn’t change within one week the tariffs would be increased to
50%.....listen, Colombia is the US’s 3 rd largest trade partner in Latin America with a
trade balance in excess of $33 billion annually…..everything from coffee, nuts,
petroleum products and banana’s…..not only that, he shut down all visa
applications from Colombia and threatened to expel their diplomatic staff from
the US……within an hour the President of Colombia caved…..oh, at first he tried to
bow up and claim that he would enact his own tariffs but that went away like
smoke in the wind…..he caved, because he knew that Trump said what he said
and he meant it…..in fact, Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed it all in a
statement from the Department of State…..flights of illegal immigrant criminals
are now heading to Colombia again and in fact, the President of Colombia has
offered to use his own aircraft to assist…..and President Trump issued a follow up
statement saying that he has put the tariff order this is the foreign policy
equivalent to a complete beat down…..a shut out…..a no hitter…..
But here’s the thing…..this event went far beyond just our relations with
Colombia….the world took notice…..every nation that is about to receive a
planeload of their own criminals returned to their borders just sat up in their
chairs and took note that if they want to keep their good relations and trade
agreements and have diplomatic relations with the US that they had better take
them back…..period….end of story…..but I anticipate that it went further than
that…..the world at large, even our allies, just saw Trump make an immediate
decisive act, issue an immediate proclamation, call out another world leader, put
American interests first, and win……gone are the days of appeasement and
apologies…..gone are the days of putting a lid on the White House for afternoon
naps and long weekends at the beach……gone are the days of finger pointing and
giving away the farm so that we can claim some kind of rapprochement that does
nothing but sound squishy in the end……no more of that……America is back…..we
will not be bullies, but we will also not be bullied…..and I for one am glad…..
We needed that person who is battle born and heavy tested – someone who is
willing to lean into the wind, set their face like flint, and dare to oppose enemies
while also mentoring those that they lead……. Someone who, like Andrew
Jackson, can say, “I was born for the storm and a calm does not suit me.”…..
Basically, Donald Trump just looked at the world, pointed his finger, and said, “I
say what I say”
And that’s a wrap for the Rightside Way