It took the Fraternal Order of Police over 24 hours to condemn the commutation or pardoning of rioters who attacked the police, but they have now done it.

Many Republicans have refused to support their release, either through outright disagreement or through simply giving “not my department” answers, and many of them had previously said that those who were violent should serve out their sentences, and they now live on as hypocrites.

Even Vice President Vance (hereafter sometimes known as Vice President Obvious) said it was “obvious” that you don’t release violent criminals.

But the foul deed has been done, and we will see where it leads.

But there was another pardon issued by the president yesterday. Ross William Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road underground,  dark web drug marketplace, serving a life sentence in prison. Little publicity about this one. But Google it. Look him up.

It’s the Golden Age of America.

There was no surprise at another departure yesterday. Vivek Ramaswamy, just about four days after I realized how easy it really was to spell his name, is returning to Ohio to think about a losing race for governor. This is not surprising for at least two reasons. In his short campaign for the presidential nomination, we all realized he was about the last person you would want to be your companion on an isolated desert island. And, because Elon M. clearly couldn’t abide sharing the spotlight with him. So Elon has DOGE to himself.

By the way, I do not understand DOGE. Has it now been created by Executive Order? Can an EO create a government agency just like that? Does it have a budget? Are people (these mysterious agents apparently cropping up across the country) being paid by us? Does it take a bureaucracy to destroy a bureaucracy? So many questions, but I don’t hear them being asked.

Elon is, as we know, the richest person on Earth, and maybe one of the oddest. To me, his main goal seems to be to become the first trillionaire, and Trump is his vehicle to get there.

But what does Trump get out of his association with all of these billionaires? Is it glory? Is he the kid from the other side of the tracks who has something to prove to himself? Does he expect their money to rub off on him?

Probably, there is some of all of this in his thinking. But I think there is something else. I am thinking that Trump believes that only billionaires are able to do anything. His life has been to put his name on big buildings that change skylines. This is something that takes someone with both money and vision. That is how he views himself and that is how he views the billionaires he is surrounding himself with. They are the “masters of the universe”, and they are the only ones who can wear that title. Thus, if he wants to get anything done, to lead America into its Golden Age, he thinks he can only do it with the help of billionaires.

And, of course, just like Vladimir Putin learned, there is a side benefit of working with billionaires – they can make you a few, or more than a few, billions on the way.

And the billionaires win, too, because they will get enormous support and faorite son treatment from the government.

So this explains how Trump chooses his friends. And it explains how the extension of the Trump tax cuts and other benefits make sense. And it explains how the government bureaucracy, clearly composed of people who are not billionaires, can not be relied upon, and must be replaced to the greatest extent possible.

But billionaires, of course, can not just be allowed to run amok. That would bring billionaire anarchy. You need a Great Leader to guide them and force their energies in a unified direction. And, like Kim Jung Un, Donald Trump is that leader.

And the rest of us – those of us who are not billionaires – we are just worker bees. He just needs to keep us to provide the manpower needed to bring the vision of the billionaires into reality. Those of us who build, those of us who provide intellectual assistance, and those of us who stand guard, ready to fight and protect.

The end. You will note that I did not use the words “oligarch”, or “fascist” in this article. You should also note that I could have.

Or as Woody G might say: “This land is his land, this land is their land, from the Gulf of America, to the State of Greenland. From north of Mackinaw to the canal of Panama, this land is made for Don and E.”