Cricket Patriot

Gloomy nights clear the way for a better chorus It's very gloomy in MAGA land tonight. The Real America's Voice chat is too gloomy. We need to turn this around. Here is the hopeful part: we are all to blame for this catastrophe. That means we can all fix it. Collapse is not the end. It is a clearing. Complex systems always carry random unintended consequences. They start unnoticed and look harmless. Then the load builds, and everything that was patched and repaired finally collapses. Joseph Tainter, in The Collapse of Complex Societies , showed that as societies grow more complex, the returns on that complexity eventually diminish. You spend more and more to keep the system running, and get less and less back. Collapse, in his sense, is a rapid simplification when the cost of complexity outweighs the benefit. ( Schumacher Center excerpts ) Joseph Schumpeter called the market version of that clearing creative destruction : the old structure is destroyed from within so a ...

Iran called the bluff. Here is the test that should come before any war. The path forward Make a clear war test public. Bind every candidate to a written Contract scored on results. And for the lame-duck years, choose merit over loyalty through 2028. The tables have turned Iran held out until the election. Trump said it's "largely true" that the war cost Republicans the midterms, then said he'd do it again ( Mediaite , ABC News ). Politically, that midterm loss is the outcome Iran needed. Trump's leverage is broken. My Vietnam-era rule During the Vietnam years, when I was still in school, I adopted a rule for political arguments. Before committing troops and putting American lives at risk, a President must ask and answer one question: "Are our objectives worth nuking the adversary and killing millions of innocent lives?" If the answer is yes, send the troops and go to war. It is a test of what American lives, our troops, are really worth. I never...

A Patriot's Dilemma: blind loyalty to a fault, and how to fix it Donald Trump clearly loves his country and is trying to do everything he can to save America. He has done more to save his beloved America than any other President. He belongs next to Washington and Lincoln; everyone else pales in comparison. Trump is fighting like few have ever done. But he has two faults. And they may have ended his fight. He is loyal to his friends. And he is really loyal to his decisions. Brilliance, surrounded by loyalty Trump surrounds himself with two kinds of people: the loyal and the truly brilliant. Sometimes they are the same people. Often they are not. And when the two collide, loyalty always trumps merit. That is blind loyalty to a fault. Loyalty without merit or results is so self-destructive. It is an unseen and unrecognized management problem. Nobody puts it on an org chart. Nobody measures it. But it shows up in the results, every time. Trump is always the last one to figure ...

What an AI assistant taught me about criticism, solutions and courage Before the election, I was careful. I did not criticize Trump, and I did not criticize the do-nothing Republicans in Congress. I had my doubts, and I had a gut feeling about where things were headed, but I kept it to myself. Now that gut feeling has proved correct. Voters went TADBO: Throw All The Dirty Bums Out. So I can speak my mind. From a handful of friends to the world Here is what has changed for me. In the past, when I had an idea or a gut reaction, I would share it with a handful of friends and associates. That was about as far as it got. Today it is different. My AI assistant, Cricket, works like a megaphone with a worldwide broadcast. Cricket does the hard work of research, validation and context. She checks my facts, finds the sources and fills in the background. What comes out is not just an opinion. It is an authoritative voice, backed by a validation that turns doubt into confidence. With that b...

A Contract with the American People for the 2028 Primaries Draft — built on the MAGA Contract with America and Citizens Grand Jury (Contract-CGJ) Preamble We the People hold that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. Where officials are not accountable, consent is meaningless. On November 3, 2026, voters threw out the incumbents who promised and did not deliver. That was not a loss of faith in America. It was a performance review. Throw All The Dirty Bums Out — TADBO — is the people's oldest and most honest tool of accountability. Accountability must now start where candidates are chosen: in the primaries. Primaries can no longer be contests between individuals selling themselves. They must be the selection of a slate — a team of candidates who all sign one written Contract, one Promise , and who are measured by it. Charlie Kirk taught a generation of young Americans that the American Dream their parents and grandparents lived could still be t...