Big Donald revels in the art of the impossible

It turns out that lots of stupid leftist problems can be very rapidly set straight, or at least be pointed in that direction, even if they’re stupid leftist problems that have been hanging around for years.

Losers love to lie, which is entirely understandable.

Usually it’s the only way they can win.

One of the most effective strategies of deceit deployed by our loser mates is to pretend that a given problem is simply unfixable.

Too hard. Don’t try. Move along. You know the procedure, because we see it in Australia all the time.

This tactic is frequently used by leftists and lazy left-inclined bureaucrats who don’t actually view those problems as problems at all. They’re happy to just let the badness keep rolling along, ruining things for us normals.

A prime example: Australia’s previously porous borders, which under Labor allowed many tens of thousands of illegals to arrive (and which led to the deaths of more than 1000 illegals at sea).

Labor and the Greens adored their deadly and destructive little border parties, and were aghast when the Coalition campaigned to stop them during the 2013 election race.

US President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro. Picture: Jim Watson and Yuri CORTEZ / AFP

Couldn’t be done, they claimed. And just about everyone advising 2013’s incoming Coalition government agreed.

“At the beginning,” former prime minister Tony Abbott reflected in 2023, “only one of the government’s most senior officials thought that stopping the boats was even achievable.”

But it really was achievable, and in quick time too. Bye-bye, boaties.

Post that singular success, however, successive Australian governments have largely lost the ability to correct problems created by, well, by themselves.

Pictured is the 32nd boat to be returned since Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) commenced in September 2013 and it was intercepted off the coast of Australia.

To remedy this, our governments – both current (Albanese/Labor) and impending (Dutton/Coalition) – would do well to remind themselves of 2013’s brilliant boat-stoppery and also to look abroad at the spectacular US revival being driven by President Donald Trump.

It turns out that lots of stupid leftist problems can be very rapidly set straight, or at least be pointed in that direction, even if they’re stupid leftist problems that have been hanging around for years.

Such as America’s own illegal immigration crisis, which was encouraged by the criminal Biden administration.

“Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency at our southern border. I sent active duty troops on the border to help repel the invasion,” Trump said on the weekend.

“Tom Homan is leading the charge,” the 45th and 47th president continued, referring to his
harder-than-a-cat’s-head border tsar.

“You know that. We like Tom Homan. Doing a great job. We immediately halted all illegal entry and began sending every border trespasser and violator back to the places from which they came.”

That’s great news for most, bad news for some. An alleged Haitian gang member who’d clocked up 17 criminal convictions since arriving in the US last week took angry exception to his looming removal.

“F--k Trump!” the man yelled at media after being captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Boston.

“Yo, Biden forever, bro! Thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro. I’m not going back to Haiti.”

On the plus side, this bloke is obviously a quick study of US urban vernacular. Good for him, yo. On the down side, however, as Holman told Fox News: “He’s going back to Haiti.”

Meanwhile, Trump is also moving against other invaders. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion officials – the DEI gang – have infiltrated just about every area of the US government, draining resources while contributing nothing but signalled virtue.

A man deported from US arrives at Confins International Airport in Confins, Minas Gerais state, Brazil on January 25, 2025. (Photo by Douglas MAGNO / AFP)

It’s rare that a government instruction lands with the power of poetry, but Trump’s DEI directive did it: “Each agency, department, or commission head shall take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and ‘environmental justice’ offices and positions within sixty days.”

This government isn’t just slashing and burning entire fields of diversity, equity and inclusion weeds. It’s going after them “to the maximum extent allowed by law”. Throwing “environmental justice” in there was a beautiful touch as well.

In response, some DEI entities – which exist to enforce identity politics – have actually tried to change identities. Lisa Boykin, formerly the chief diversity officer at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, reportedly underwent a sudden title switch last week.

She became a “senior executive”. But a subsequent government notice indicated that Trump’s team is wise to these moves.

“We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language,” the notice announced. “If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances.”

The identity people are now lying about identities. Losers used to win.