A short pour

 Today’s post will be mercifully brief; it’s about things the current administration has done OK.  First, they finally called “Bullshit” on Red China and actually backed it up with meaningful sanctions.  The ensuing trade war of tariffs and other trade inhibitions was basically a draw, but the results seem to have gotten both sides’ attention.

Second, they finally called “Bullshit” on the unsubtle anti-American bias in the United Nations’ social and economics agencies.  We had made a habit of paying most of the bills and getting the back of the hand in return (much to the delight of the world’s nattering left wing).  When the World Health Organization (who) sided with Red China’s “Move along, nothing to see here folks,” attitude toward a mysterious flu-like outbreak last Fall, the administration went big on sanctioning who. About time.  Let the whole damned sponging, America-hostile superstructure of the UN’s socioeconomic bureaucracy take note and look at where the money comes from.  

Third, they got plural covid-19 vaccines through research, development, and clearance in less time than it might usually take to clear a new technical report.  Credit where it is due; the multiple-channels-of-research strategy, a strategy counter to every bureaucratic principle, worked.  Keeping appropriate scrutiny and pressure for results on the regulatory process worked, albeit at some cost to the world’s confidence in the process.  Be interesting to see where the credit takers will be seen if something goes seriously wrong at scale.  I don’t think will happen, but somebody should be taking names now.

If you have other examples, put them in the comments and we’ll take a look at other things that might have gone right.