UPDATE 12/29/23: It’s cheering to read about what we can expect (and wish for fervently) from a second Trump term.
I’ll have more of the same and then some, thank you.
UPDATE 12/27/23: Ben Carson is being touted as a possible running mate for Trump. Unlike the run-of-the-mill tokens being dropped without merit into high positions, this man is a competent, world-class professional who has fully earned the status he has based on his innate talent and character. His is an inspiring American success story, and there’s an unmistakable decency about him. Whether or not he becomes the candidate and (hopefully) Veep, we can predict he will be a prime target for destruction just as is Clarence Thomas or any renegade from the proscribed, Leftist political script.
The link between Trump & Carson made a lasting impression at the New Hampshire Presidential debate in 2016 when (according to TDS sufferers) the bombastic, egomaniacal, arrogant, selfish, crude, bad-mannered monster Trump showed the simple courtesy of not letting Carson go last onto the debate stage after the clueless hosts forgot to announce him.
UPDATE 12/23/23: Oh, my. How very impolite of him. So mean. But then, we wouldn’t need such a plainspoken leader if extreme circumstances didn’t demand it. Equal, opposite reactions and all that. As we’ve been applauding since 2016, it’s about time.
An American classic, Truman Capote’s A CHRISTMAS MEMORY (1966), starring the incomparable Geraldine Page. Warm, touching, achingly real, memorable, a special treat.
UPDATE 12/19/23: Among Trump’s notable achievements has been forcing principled conservative Republicans to look clear-eyed at their own Party and acknowledge the cowardice within. We were spoiled by the luminous presence of Reagan and have vainly lived in hope that his successors were equally dedicated to the same principles. In fact, RINOs have been playing passively for the other side, acting out a charade of offering an alternative to Dem/Leftist policy, politically and culturally. As Reagan’s elegant approach inspired us, Trump’s sharp-edged Pattonesque persona now challenges us to get real and stay that way. Fight and win wars decisively, demand American sovereignty and independence in all matters. Once again, be the presence of liberty and hope in this flailing world.
12/18/23: Trump and the populist MAGA movement he spearheads is the present-day incarnation of an 18th century British kindred spirit admired by Jefferson & Adams,
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolinbroke (1678-1751) was a free-wheeling firebrand and nobleman at war with the corrupt Elite Ruling Class of his time. Such ruggedly invincible prominences able to speak powerfully and fearlessly for regular decent folk are precious rarities ignored, persecuted and wasted at our own peril.
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolinbroke.
A classic of patriotic American prophecy.
UPDATE 12/7/23: It remains a source of cheer in this cheerless time that the hands-down winner of the latest GOP debate, as with all previous pointless displays, was Donald Trump. We can’t get to November fast enough.
UPDATE 11/30/23: Ayaan Hirsi Ali remains a model of moral integrity and courage.
UPDATE 11/29/23: Trump’s refusal to fold under the most punishing pressures is an act of heroism that merits our full support. The man is an unflinching phenomenon who’s giving true American patriots reason to hope for a tolerable future.
Kindred spirits, America and Israel. Imagine a world without America. Imagine a world without Israel.
UPDATE 11/23/23: A victory for freedom and social sanity anywhere is a boost for freedom and sanity everywhere. Thanks to a Dutch electorate awakening from Woke, the eternally maligned and threatened Geert Wilders seems to be on the path to becoming PM of The Netherlands, heretofore one of the most suicidally Woke nations of “multi-cultured” Europe. God (and a life forcibly spent in hiding) has allowed him to survive despite all efforts to kill him and the common sense of cultural self-preservation he espouses.
Sadly, things must get intolerable for the majority of people to wake up to what’s being done to them. At that point, fighting and risking everything is preferable to suffering in silence.
The truly courageous ones usually find themselves alone.
“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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UPDATE 11/13/23: A much-needed jolt of adrenalin came our way directly from midtown Manhattan when Trump made an unannounced surprise appearance at a Madison Square Garden rally this week featuring Tucker Carlson and Kid Rock. The Big Apple is hardly MAGA country, and there is hope when DEEP Blue NYC and those in its orbit seem to be newly awakened to what’s at stake in our elections.
UPDATE 11/15/23: The Ukraine mess and 10/7 are but two of a multitude of disasters that most likely would have never occurred had real votes been counted in November, 2020. Thus, we live in hope for next November.
UPDATE 11/9/23: I had the honor last night of appearing on the same dais with David A. Christian at a Veterans Day tribute in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This combat veteran and outspoken, eloquent patriot is now 75 years old, successful personally and professionally, his life and subsequent mission a great American story. In the first 15 minutes of the video below, he discusses the betrayal of the American people by the U.S. Government, veterans in particular. After sacrificing thousands of young American lives in Vietnam, suddenly our wise, trusted elders called a “time-out.” Afghanistan, anyone? And now, “leaders” of the same ilk are counseling freshly assaulted Israel to “make peace?”
Many thoughts are aroused by this man’s narrative, not the least of which is that here is a natural leader of the finest character who should have been in the vanguard of American politics. He did run for the Senate in Pennsylvania and lost at the primary stage. There is no justice when one of the worst, most corrupt humans ever to blight American soil named John Kerry has been a Senator, almost became POTUS and now spends his time jetting about the globe to confer with other equally empty, power-hungry frauds to control all humanity under the guise of fighting a non-existent “climate emergency.”
Christian’s testimony, imploring America not to make the same disastrous decisions that darkened the 60s and 70s, has fallen on deaf ears. Yet somehow, we must muddle through the present, continue to tell the truth however brutal and hope for the best down the line.
UPDATE 11/9/23: Home Depot co-founder and philanthropist Bernie Marcus lays out the only choice we have.
UPDATE 11/2/23: Predictably, Mike Johnson is now Target #1 for the MAGA-haters, characterized as the most dangerous (that’s Liz Cheney of course), fanatical (the usual religion-hating crowd) man in America. In reality, he is a model of self-possession and personal integrity, and his enviable grace under pressure marks him out for even greater things that being merely Speaker of the House.
A great conservative talent blessedly brought to the fore and a strong, hopeful hunch this is very big, very good news for our future.
UPDATE 10/25/23: Startling and delightful to hear news of Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) unanimously being chosen by the Repubs as the new House Speaker. As said last year in admiration and with strong intuition in the reposted entries below from 5/17/22 (grilling an abortion advocate), 8/25/22 and 12/1/22, this is a very special personality. Now we are blessed to have him center stage alongside Trump, refreshingly strong leaders to restore sanity to government. The usual skeptics among the wobbly and self-righteous Repubs are already out and about, bewailing his inexperience and comparing him with no little contempt to Mike Pence, one particularly short-sighted ignoramus ascribing his election to desperation.
Whatever faults either the Left or Right may claim, Johnson will be pilloried. Like Trump and Reagan, he is guilty of not being a run-of-the-mill DC player but first and foremost a talented, thinking, principled human being and citizen reminiscent of the ordinary, honest men of practical, worldly experience who founded America. Such are the people who should be handed power, not the usual empty career politicians effortlessly talking out both sides of their mouths on an hourly basis. Now he is third in line to the Presidency and, one is buoyed by the real possibility that he may very well be POTUS one day.
REPOSTED from 8/25/22: This Congressman from Louisiana, Mike Johnson, bears watching, This is a public servant addressing the real, pressing problems of the day. Here on illegal immigration below questioning a double-talking, gibberish-spouting Immigration Czar Mayorkas regarding the Brandon administration’s wide open border policy. Likewise, his grilling of a brain-dead abortion advocate (see video 6/30/22).
REPOSTED from 12/1/22: Philosopher/pundit Jordan Peterson and Congressman Mike Johnson are two of today’s most worthwhile voices, one a crystal-clear socio-political thinker, the other a politician who thinks. What they have in common is a full awareness of our world and total dedication to conserving the best in it. [P.S. Peterson has brilliantly avoided being shouted down in public like other outspoken conservatives by delivering his live lectures at 8 am which is hours before most shrieky wastrels of Woke bother to wake up. The man has a rational response to everything.]
There is some confusion about Mike Johnson’s “adopted son” Michael who is Black. The younger of Johnson’s two biological sons is also named Michael. The story is that this much older boy was a wayward, 14 year old kid fostered by Johnson and his wife early in their marriage.
Watch the video interview below from 1:10 to 3:00 to get the full story (including other photos) of the young man, now 40, married and a stable father of four.
This is also the interview containing Johnson’s mistaken conclusions about George Floyd’s death only days after it occurred in 2020. He is not alone among countless millions (including myself) who first saw the viral image of Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck, drawing erroneous conclusions without subsequent revelations of the audio recording of the arrest plus the autopsy report containing the real causes of Floyd’s death. By coincidence, this is precisely the point of a post this week (10/22/23) under Mass Psychosis.
UPDATE 10/12/23: It has been difficult to write (or think) about anything other than the Gaza pogrom and ensuing Israeli War. With this wanton, unambiguous attack on the civilized world we’ve come face-to-face with the danger confronting us all. Those calling for compromise with or “understanding” for unalloyed evil are signing everyone’s death warrant. This darkness comes in 1001 shades, ranging from suppression of free speech in America to the uncontrolled savagery of the Israeli holocaust that just occurred. There will only be peace through strength, and not just bombing one another out of existence. There must be some permanent, forceful presence of deterrence, unshakeable will mixed with commonsense that gives the enemy long term pause. Ergo Trump. Who else is temperamentally willing and able to follow thru on this seemingly impossible mission?
UPDATE 10/11/23: Stephen Miller sums up where we have come since Trump was removed from the Presidency. If America and the world has any sense, he will be allowed to resume the only effective leadership we’ve been offered since Reagan.
In the perverse fashion of our times, giving credence and support to the POTUS most supportive of Israel is now painted as a call for an American Reich. This gigantic lie grows bigger in violent, equal-opposite reaction to real solutions put into effect as they were during Trump’s administration. His revolutionary presence remains THE greatest threat to the DC/Deep State establishment and tyranny around the globe.
UPDATE 10/4/23: Really noticed only last week and hailed as a hopeful, strong new voice in DC, Victoria Spartz is (understandably) disgusted with her spineless GOP colleagues and is threatening now to quit.
Perhaps the shakeup removing RINO McCarthy from Party leadership and replacing him with a committed, principled Repub like Scalise or Jordan may give her reason to reconsider.
UPDATE 10/2/23: RFK, Jr. running as an Independent could be just the monkey wrench in the UniParty works to lure the partially sensible away from the BrandonWorld sewer and return the White House to America’s best interests.
UPDATE 10/1/23: An Australian journalist writes about a certain vulgarian running for high office:
“Suppose [an Aussie pol] became somewhat foul-mouthed; became insulting of his opponents on Twitter (X); revealed a womanizing past; ate Big Macs; lied about his weight; and took on a rather grandiose view of himself. Yet, at the same time if he promised, and not idly, to take us off the road to perdition and onto the road of saving Western civilisation; of rediscovering and preserving traditional Australian values; of ditching net zero. I don’t know if he’d get [another Australian pol’s] vote but he’d certainly get mine.”
So much for those vaporous critics dismissing Trump for his lack of that enviable refinement so characterizing THEIR chosen candidate.
UPDATE 9/27/23: Tulsi Gabbard makes the irrefutable case for Trump and against the forces determined to destroy him.
“The political prosecution of Trump is an obvious attempt by Biden/Dem elite to drain Trump’s attention and resources. Their actions expose their utter contempt for democracy and the rule of law—and makes laughable all of their verbiage about ‘protecting democracies around the world.'”
UPDATE 9/26/23:
Do a good deed, a mitvah.
UPDATE 9/24/23: In Ukrainian-born Congresswoman Victoria Spartz(R-IN), we discover a stunningly welcome new voice.
UPDATE 9/29/23: The Republican debates are not producing an alternative to Trump. The Never Trumpers and Big Money control freaks may be fishing for the un-Trump, but sensible voters are sticking with him. Queries political adult Newt Gingrich, “Do you want to see Joe Biden re-elected or do you want to help Donald Trump?”
For anyone genuinely interested in turning back the dark forces overtaking us, Trump is the only choice.
UPDATE 9/20/23: Taking account of Trump’s negatives, he is still the best bet if individual freedom underpinned by the law remains the goal. The alternative is a host of “ideal” outcomes dictated by totalitarian Wokesters, all nullifying individual freedom.
UPDATE 9/13/23: Most who write about current politics, particularly the average, non-professional, concerned citizen/blogger, have few illusions about changing the ominous course of events. Nonetheless, it provides a healthy antidote to the silence being forced on each of us nowadays in even the most casual social situations, So we write and hope the truth somehow opens one more pair of blind eyes/deaf ears and the closed mind behind them. If nothing else, it makes our own forbidden thoughts audible to an indifferent universe.
With the recent embarrassing joke of speech given by Joe Biden at the recent G20 conference in Vietnam, thought this would be how a sane, coherent President acts.
This is Ronald Reagan delivering a speech in 1987. Keep in mind, he was shot 6 years earlier. pic.twitter.com/KCoWIMYoI0
— Veterans Taking Back (@VeteranTakeBack) September 10, 2023
UPDATE 9/4/23: A rare sighting of optimistic news is more than welcome, and what’s better than someone successfully carrying out a good idea to the benefit of thousands, perhaps eventually, by example, of millions? In this case, a Black man named John Singletary running for office in North Charleston SC is determined to take the money out of the hands of those DC Dems and their local operatives vested in exploiting and perpetuating the urban misery of poor Blacks and seriously redirecting it to their benefit.
The issue nowadays isn’t so much that news is often bad, but that there is so much active resistance to good people actively doing good deeds.
UPDATE 8/28/23: If these are not the worst of times, neither are they the best of times.
https://youtu.be/LKEEawWci7g?si=dfLL2R36xXl881sv
UPDATE 9/1/23L:There is an appeal and healthy inspiration to be drawn from a rural life. Some, probably confirmed urbanites, say it’s all just sentimentality and a romantic escape into unreality. Those of us living the rural life say otherwise and can vouch for the blessings of quiet, beautiful, natural surroundings, especially in circumstances like the Covid lockdowns. Is it any wonder there has been a dramatic, mass urban exodus in tandem with a boom in rural real estate sales?
UPDATE 8/31/23: Enthusiasm for Ramaswamy is understandable for someone so young, energetic and saying all [almost, think Israel] the right things. However, serious suspicions and red flags are sprouting up to give one pause. Admittedly, Donald Trump originally had a past that cast serious doubts on his conservative creds, but his record as POTUS and unshakeable resistance to those out to destroy him and all he represents to millions make him eminently believable. Only time can tell whether Ramaswamy passes that test.
UPDATE 8/22/23: Are we to remain Americans as we have identified ourselves since 1776 or are we doomed to extinction?
A corrupted legal system weaponized to persecute the current regime’s most powerful opponent and the ongoing existence of a J6 Gulag made up of his most vocal supporters make it alarmingly clear that we are living in the early stages of totalitarian, UniParty dictatorship. It all looks like nothing so much as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia and their subsequent imitators in the phase before the real mass terror of concentration camps and Cultural Revolutions began. What else could be the logical next step after destroying all political opposition?
Admittedly, this is about as dark a view as possible, but one has to consider what actually is taking place before our eyes. The hopes of real Americans lie almost solely in a legitimate election, and even there, word has it the regime is already planning Covid 2.0 to effect another stolen election via mass mail-in voting, no doubt extended for days, even weeks if necessary to get the desired numbers and electoral votes. They did it before, and they’ll do it again.
It’s hard to be cheerful, given the circumstances of the last 3 years and fanatic resistance to turning things around to the genuine benefit of Americans. Minus Trump, is there anyone else of sufficient mettle to lead the way back?
Babylon Bee reports that the Deplorable Subject of The Mug Shot has come off looking so heroically attractive that a fourth indictment has been handed down. May vengeance be his in the form of a second term of truly making American great again…and keeping her that way. Let his detractors rot in their impotent envy.
UPDATE 8/22/23: Rapidly replacing De Santis as the crown prince of MAGAdom, Ramaswamy is already creating controversy within conservative ranks issuing a statement about cutting aid to Israel within five years.
On the face of it, this places him in the camp of the Israel haters on the Left. Some supportive of Israel and familiar with the intricacies and flaws of our greatest and most productive ally disagree. And then there’s his peculiar, rather useless obsession with 9/11 conspiracy theories at odds with what most of us have taken away from that day.
His debate performance was good as predicted, and his presence dominant. Ultimately, all that matters is what he actually does, given the opportunity to serve in political office.
UPDATE 8/16/23: Ramaswamy’s 10 commandments provide more than adequate reason to vote for Trump and plan seriously on a political future for this forceful, young, new voice of MAGA.
1. God is real.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border is no border.
6. Parents determine the education of their children.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.
Further to Vivek’s credit and common sense: he isn’t attacking Trump when baited to do so by Trump-hating journalists. He knows who’s leading the charge, and he is smart to look into the future for an alliance with his only real comrade-in-arms currently running for POTUS.
UPDATE 8/14/23: The powerful, silent undertow of MAGA is making itself felt in those quarters most fearful of it. There is still a chance to save the country, and no one is more capable or qualified to lead that fight in this pivotal moment than Trump. This is not an effete gentleman’s altercation but a real life-and-death struggle for what 250 years of true freedom lovers have defined as America.
UPDATE 8/7/23: Suppress free speech, and all is lost. Awaken the brainwashed, intimidated general public to this, and suddenly the insurmountable problems of the present become solvable. Time will tell whether American eyes will open again to their own advantage or remain blinded to enslavement by their own government.
UPDATE 8/2/23: Vivek Ramaswamy’s candidacy is now more than a symbolic gesture. Under the circumstances of the best candidate being under full siege, Ramaswamy must now be taken seriously.
UPDATE 7/23/23: Unlike Holland and most of its European neighbors, Italy seems to be recovering its sanity. Electing leadership that is putting a halt on unchecked immigration and banning men from female beauty contests is cause for hope.
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UPDATE 7/22/23: Few things express the unique brilliance of America better than the Great American Songbook that first sprouted and reached full blossom, unsurprisingly, in the Great American (20th) Century. It was all thanks to the creative talents of Cole Porter, George & Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren, Dorothy Fields, Harold Arlen, Lerner & Loewe, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby (to name just the most celebrated cream of that rich crop). Tony Bennett, gone this week at age 96, deserves to be recalled in their illustrious company as the last of that golden age’s great song interpreters.
Sadly, the opening lyrics of his signature tune tell the tale of decline; even the greatest of people and things in this life have their time and inevitably fade:
“The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly gay;
The glory that was Rome is of another day.”
So it is with both San Francisco and popular American song AND, perhaps, even America herself. How lucky for some of us to come of age when this music and that once-magical city were the commonplace fresh air we breathed and crystal clear water we drank. In those days, the whole world was only too glad to follow us, trying in vain to keep up.
Someone once wrote that a civilization can be judged by the music it produces. This speaks glowingly of the last century, dismally of the present and near future. God willing, subsequent generations somehow will wake up and embrace the glories, musical and otherwise, of the past, the essence of the American Spirit that will forever offer a blueprint and set the standard for human greatness.
Amen.
UPDATE 7/16/23: From this perch, recovering MAGA (and ideally its creator and strongest presence El Donaldo) is the ultimate wish for the country fulfilled. However, there are others vying for the chance to “move on” from The Donald. Judging from the forum staged by Tucker Carlson with the most prominent prospects, Vivek comes off best. The rest lack the vision and fire…or, like Haley and Pence, are part of the problem that Trump heroically started to expose and solve. See RINOS for reference.
Words brought to real life by accomplished deeds matter. So Trump remains the best hope for an American renaissance at the moment.
UPDATE 7/8/23: Despite the endless stream of bad news, we continue to enjoy free exchange of information and access to serious, clear thinkers with the ideas that will win this war. Jordan Peterson has emerged as one of our generals possessing the backbone of Patton and weaponized with the common sense that makes the world work.
UPDATE 6/30/23: The six reputedly conservative Supreme Court justices were apparently feeling brave as a group this week, voting in sync against the female trio of Affirmative Action Leftists on a trio of key cases.
Justice Gorsuch has nicely taken apart Justice Sotomayor’s hare-brained opinion that a graphic designer in Colorado should be forced to take on gay wedding clients against her will. Since when in a free society is an individual not allowed to say, “No, thanks. Please take your business elsewhere”?
In response to the Court’s Affirmative Action decision, the two Black Justices on the Court issued diametrically opposed statements that clearly illuminate the debate. While (Democrat) Jackson speaks for Obama’s relentless infusion of race and permanent division into American life, (Republican) Thomas reiterates (Republican) MLK’s dream of a color-blind society, giving preference to individuals based on their competence and character, not on their race or sex. Predictably, attaining equality both legal and actual, then moving on is not enough for those like Jackson whom (Republican) Booker T. Washington described in “Up From Slavery” more than a century ago:
Completing the good news is the Court decision striking down Biden’s proposed across-the-board Student Loan Forgiveness. Even quoting Pelosi, the Court has reminded Joe it’s not in his or any President’s power to promise such things to voters he hopes to bribe.
In junking the latter two giveaway schemes hatched to buy votes for the Dem Party, the Court may have just reduced both the current and projected federal deficits. Win/Win! And in answer to those on the Left, America HAS by necessity become a colorblind society, despite the best efforts of those social termites of the race grievance industry from Obama on down. Allow us to bring up the established wisdom of getting the best pilot to fly the plane, not necessarily a Black, female or one-legged one?
Speaking of which, this presents an awkward optic for those tokens clearly hired based on their intersectional race/gender/intractable Leftism like Sonia, Ketanji, Karine, Kamala and up-and-coming DEI enthusiasts hoping to follow in those unduly privileged footsteps. Bottom line: our entire society is better off when competence and character matter, not political fashions of the day.
UPDATE 6/30/23: Who’d have predicted a Kennedy leaping to the forefront of electoral politics as a wild card, a maverick outsider? A Kennedy? An outsider? Is he so clever that he’s really a Trojan horse, a garden-variety Kennedy Dem masquerading as Trump populist? The full force of hatred and suppression he’s inspired leads one to believe he’s authentic. Whatever he might be, RFK, Jr. is adding something valuable to serious discourse in these crazy times.
The MSM thinks he’s scary enough to link him to MAGA.
UPDATE 6/22/23: Nothing is forever, including great empires and nations. God willing we baby boomers who grew up in history’s greatest nation during one of its greatest eras are granted a reprieve in our lifetimes from what we are told is inevitable decline and fall. For us, MAGA is more than a catchy political slogan, and living well as staunch Americans remains the best revenge against the naysayers.
Proof through the night that the flag is still there.
UPDATE 6/11/23: Everything starts with an idea and, thanks to the freedom to act on that idea however preposterous, the unbelievable continues to become commonplace over time.
UPDATE 6/14/23: Assume Trump is allowed to win a second term uncontested. Surely the Left will throw in the towel and decide to stop its relentless drive for absolute UniParty dominance. Not in the cards even with the best possible outcome in November, 2024. The sharks have taken their bites, tasted the blood, and there will be no sating them. Average Joe/Jane Dem will passively continue to go along with the radicals running their Party and will never actively fight for free enterprise, patriotism, individualism over collectivism. Too “Republican.” Winning the election fair and square is the best scenario, but the bloody war will rage on.
UPDATE 6/11/23: It doesn’t take genius to see the folly of choosing an “electable” GOP moderate. Think McCain and Romney. And think Ford chosen over Reagan in 1976. Don’t forget Bush I without Reagan in 1992. Small wonder those UN-electable milquetoasts and RINOs hate an unambiguous, provably electable DJT with a white-hot passion rivaling his Dem detractors. Remember that warning about “moderation in pursuit of justice?”
Barry was up against the longing for a tragically martyred JFK, not the crude, corrupt LBJ.
UPDATE 6/11/23: Trump’s continued presence on the forefront of conservative politics remains the hope of millions and a source of anxiety for those supportive of his record but legitimately scared of the rain of poisoned arrows aimed at him…and them.
UPDATE 6/10/23: When Americans and all inhabitants of the planet realize the relative worthlessness and costly waste of a “higher education” compared to the solid trades, the quality of countless lives and society in general will take a quantum leap up. In truth, it will be a healthy step back into a superior past when real skilled work was valued, not college degrees.
UPDATE 6/9/23: Mr. Bean/Black Adder has something profound to say. Ignore him at your own peril.
UPDATE 6/10/23: To those fearful of another Trump candidacy because “he’s not electable,” the simple response is, “He WAS elected, twice.” The problem is not Trump but the corruption of our entire electoral process that robbed him of a second term and put us into the present BrandonWorld hell. The doubters would be wise not to shrink from his aggressive stance on essentials and remarkable track record of success in almost all areas. Certainly mistakes were made, particularly in his choice of delegating authority to bad actors like Bill Barr and, most destructively, Fauci. Look at his record, get clear that the ambivalence experienced comes from the unconscious sense of personal danger generated by the relentless campaign to destroy him and the entire MAGA movement. Take a stand with him and, in so doing, against those forces determined to enslave us and destroy whatever remains of essential America. It was clear even before the 2020 election that he was that precious, rare historical figure standing between us and that malignant agenda that never sleeps in pursuit of tyrannical control, and he still is.
UPDATE 6/1/23: Is the American Silent Majority quietly living and upholding tradition suddenly, finally starting to roar back? The active boycott of Woke Corporate-Bud, Target, Disney, MLB-is costing said entities tens of billion$. Perhaps the message is getting through that discarding reality and decency in favor of whimsical political crazes is bad for business.
UPDATE 6/1/23: Solemn observances (that are not “holiday celebrations”) like Memorial Day take on real meaning when experienced in small ways: modest, roadside monuments, freshly decorated, quiet gravesites, flags flying in front yards, personal testimonials online, not noisy parades and Big Events.
