UPDATE 5/31/24: Short of actually killing him (thus far, God forbid), internal American evil forces easily visible behind a transparent mask of legal legitimacy have conspired to use every means of destroying Trump. Of course, they will make every effort to lock him away, and in so doing, send the message to EVERY American, including those blind fools applauding his persecution, that their American rights are hereby revoked. If anyone can overcome this travesty, he’s the man sent by God and Fate for the job. If not, we are finished as a nation of laws and true, blind justice.
The real verdict will be pronounced in November. Will America be found guilty of slow, painful, assured suicide at Democrat/Leftist hands…or will she continue to be humanity’s best hope for the good life?
UPDATE 5/27/24: From my oldest and best friend: her optimistic look into the future is posted here with the fervent hope she proves to be Sally Soothsayer, seeress without peer, prophetess of American restoration.
“I suppose you saw the video of The Bronx gathering. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. When Reagan said, ‘I paid for this microphone, Mr. Breen,’ it was the moment when everyone knew he was going to be president–the perfect words and just what was needed. I felt the same way about the Trump appearance in the Bronx. It changes everything and foretells Trumps victory. The forces arrayed against him are turning him into a hero.”
She is not alone in seeing the Bronx rally as something extraordinary and a game changer.
If I can survive here, I’ll survive anywhere! But it’s up to all of America, not NY, NY.
MEMORIAL DAY, 2024
UPDATE 5/24/24: Who could foresee the extent to which America’s Deep State Enemies Within would go to destroy all trace of political opposition? If Trump comes out of these Herculean Labors legally unbound, we will be witness to a miracle. The man’s unruffled demeanor is a marvel and inspiration, a good-natured wag on a pogo stick bouncing cheerfully in & out of a global court room packed with malignant little kangas to stage wildly successful rallies even in venues assumed to be enemy territory like the deep Blue Bronx.
UPDATE 5/17/24: Are we on the verge of seeing a decisive end to BrandonWorld? If one is to go by hopeful conservatives in the media and, most of all, the American People clamoring in massive numbers for a Trump restoration, we should be quite optimistic. The harsh reality of stolen elections and a determined, well-organized campaign to destroy both MAGA and the man in court tempers things a bit, but hope springs eternal.
UPDATE 5/10/24: There’s nothing Trump’s detractors (from both Parties) won’t do to humiliate, bankrupt and thoroughly destroy him and those for whom he speaks and acts, Optimists like Alan Dershowitz opine that Stormy D’s Swiss cheese testimony may undermine at least the NY inquisition being waged against him. Perhaps, by some miracle helped along by the best legal minds available, he’ll likewise ride through ALL the phony indictments into the second Trump term America desperately needs.
UPDATE 5/3/24: Small, simple gestures can have profound symbolic significance. Such a gesture is the raising of an American flag in defiance of those who hate America and all the incalculable good she has represented for 250 years. There will always be the unforgettable image of Iwo Jima from those grim but better days when the worst of the bad guys were Over There to be fought, not in our own midst actively allied with the enemies of good, healthy life everywhere.
Equally deserving of our gratitude and respect are those this week who, in the same spirit, have been moved to replant the American flag where it has been forcibly removed and desecrated on college campuses. Special HATS OFF! this week to the fraternity boys (make that MEN) at UNC (University of North Carolina)….
…and to members of the NYC police department at both Columbia and CCNY. This gives us reason to believe that essential America still lives and prevails wherever that Star Spangled Banner yet waves.
UPDATE 5/1/24: The video of Tom Klingenstein below remains as much or more timely now than it was in 2020. This year’s Presidential choices, representing diametrically opposed ways of life, will be a turning point in our lives. Sadly, there are those who believe four years of BrandonWorld haven’t proven the speaker correct, that this regime is one huge lie and an unquestioned assault on life & liberty worldwide.
UPDATE 5/4/24: Trump has released a campaign ad in support of those students at UNC who raised the American flag in defiance of the pro-Hamas/Palestine cabal overrunning the campus. Likewise, those students wisely know who is genuinely in their (and America’s) corner.
UPDATE 4/29/24: Don Donald below, a middle finger to those TDS-addled fools who in the same pitiful ignorance call Netanyahu and the strong, defense-conscious country he leads “warmongers.”
UPDATE 4/29/24: If we are to come out of all this in one piece, there has to be a pause, a reckoning, full consideration by rational folk of both Parties that the Trump inquisition is a threat to anyone daring to exercise free speech and express dissent on either a small or YUUUUGE scale.
UPDATE 4/25/24: There is SOMETHING about Donald Trump which sends some to the nearest fainting couch while others find him irresistible. Take for instance his gracious response to dithering, disloyal Bill Barr’s prodigal return to the MAGA fold. Considering the harrowing consequences of allowing Election 2020 to be stolen and condemning the country to the last 4 years of the BrandonWorld wrecking ball, The Donald has let Bill off easy.
UPDATE 4/17/24: Short of simply crossing our collective fingers and closing our eyes until November, we’re compelled to keep abreast of the lawfare assault on our only alternative to the Party of unchecked border invasion, universal lockdowns, fake climate “crises,” gender spectra, exploding urban crime, betrayal of Israel among the host of suicidal absurdities we’re expected to accept as gospel.
UPDATE 4/15/24: God willing, this man is correct in predicting a second term for Trump who, unlike the brain-fried Great Pretender, will speak and act for the American people, diametrically contrary to what the WEF and their DC cousins are dictating for us.
UPDATE 4/10/24: Detailing the current, multi-pronged attack from the Left on America as we’ve known and loved her, we are reminded of just how much is at stake. Hard to believe, but we too can go down like all the seemingly indestructible great cultures of the past.
God willing, he and we will be looking back on this and shaking our heads, mightily relieved that BrandonWorld is over.
UPDATE 4/5/24: We are faced with frightening poll numbers strongly suggesting that a sizeable percentage of the American electorate believe cheating to avert a restored Trump presidency is justifiable. Only when these delusional fools suffer firsthand the full negative consequences of their Dem Party’s suicidal policies can there be a major turn-around. At that hopeful juncture, hard truth and rationality, not poisonous Woke ideology, must once again take absolute precedence in the lives of those currently voting themselves and the rest of us into serfdom.
We were warned by our forefathers, Washington preeminent among them, of how such commonly held bad judgment and worse choices would lead to our demise. God willing, a miracle rivaling the very founding of our country is at hand.
UPDATE 4/4/24: For Biden, destroying energy independence, threatening the most mundane necessities of daily existence, was literally the first order of business. For Trump, reversing it will almost certainly be his first step on the road back to Making America Great Again.
UPDATE 3/30/24: Although a Christian observance, Easter and the backdrop of eternally rejuvenating springtime provides much needed hope and inspiration to people of all faiths. Forces of light vs forces of darkness, the dramatic human story never changes.
From 2013, a musical repost that still movingly expresses this special moment of the year:
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A Victorian musical masterpiece as simple, dramatic and moving as its majestic 2000 year old source. This particular performance is all the more touching for the sincere catch in Stanford Olsen’s fine tenor voice as this great Easter hymn approaches its climactic, heart-clutching moment:
“And once again the scene was changed,
New earth there seemed to be.
I saw the Holy City beside the tideless sea.
The light of God was on its streets, the gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter, and no one was denied!
No need of moon or stars by night,
Or sun to shine by day:
It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away!
It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away!”
Yet another beautiful rendition of “The Holy City” by the great American tenor Richard Crooks.
Easter morning, 2013, as if on cue, the first daffodils open…
If a larger lesson for all faiths is to be drawn from an observance of Easter, it is contained in these words of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this [collectivist tyranny] has happened.” Echoes William Penn: “”Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”
Dogs and Daffodils, Easter, 2024
UPDATE 3/27/24: This American patriot and sterling role model is the sort of everyman who should have been the first Black President, not the composite Trojan horse creation manufactured by those powerful forces intent on America’s “transformative” demise. Obama continues to be an instrument of evil demanding full exposure and assignment to history’s ash heap while this paragon of normalcy and those like him must be our political future if we are to have any decent future at all.
3/27/24: It will be nothing short of a miracle if Donald can get past the seemingly insurmountable obstacles desperately thrown in his way. Again, the metaphor of equal, opposite reactions is apt: a fiery force for good has brought out the worst and most ruthless in the power-mad totalitarians and the insensate masses blindly following them. God willing, he will prevail, and America, and the rest of the civilized world depending upon her, can be saved from perpetual darkness.
3/27/24: How does he do it? Answer: it is not in his characterological makeup to give up, ever.
LET ‘ER RIP!
UPDATE 3/21/24: One draws comfort and hope from what restored MAGA might look like. And one must contemplate what happens if they manage to magically produce…oh, maybe 40% more votes than ever cast before and effect the Big Steal once again. Despair comes to mind, but so does the American Spirit, the same force that buoyed Churchill in that darkest hour 80 years back. We pick our fights, and we must continue to pick the fighters most capable of leading us. Humans do their utmost, and God does the rest. Let it be.
UPDATE 3/11/24: The montage below will arouse only blind loathing among those who are passionately intent on destroying Trump and the MAGA wave of American spirit. We are “fascists,” “deplorables,” “Christian nationalists,” “Nazis,” “haters,” “racists,” “homophobes,” transphobes,” xenophobes,” and whatever else is sub-human and evil. In actuality, we are guilty only of feeling blessed to be Americans and to have a rare, fearless politician who speaks and fights indefatigably for us.
UPDATE: There are makers, and there are takers. What better illustration could there be than an Elon Musk who lives for creativity (and the opportunity for all to exercise it freely) and an Elizabeth Warren who lives entirely to shake down and steal from the Elon Musks of the world on behalf of the petty and envious? One more basic old story of good vs. evil.
UPDATE 3/2/24: Trump somehow doesn’t seem to age, look tired or beaten, and his fire on the stump remains at full burn. Yearning for a respite from what seems to be a tidal wave engulfing America and all she has stood for since her founding, are we due for a miracle? Stay tuned in, stay hopeful.
UPDATE 3/1/24: The fact that shrieking, Jew-hating hecklers harassed attendees at the 92nd St. Y in Manhattan, before and after Bari Weiss’ outstanding speech on FREEDOM, tells the whole worrisome tale of where we are.
UPDATE 2/23/24: “Christian Nationalism” is the currently invoked bogeyman of the Left, the first line of accusation against pro-Americans, realists holding fast to the ideas and concepts that make healthy, free life thrive. Minus these ideas and concepts, we are reduced to savagery and, in the inevitable chaos that ensues, totalitarian dictatorship.
UPDATE 2/20/24: American spirit is a universal gift animating all humans who thrive on freedom. The dark side of this ultimate goodness is evil which is most visibly demonstrated by individuals and whole political regimes that define themselves by their hatred of freedom. Putin is just the latest in at least a century-long line of Russian tyrants. His latest foray into unabashed evil is his murder of courageous dissident Alexei Navalny. Bari Weiss, of the adnirable Free Press, has paid eloquent tribute to him and recently interviewed celebrated refusenik Natan Sharansky in Israel only a month back. Navalny’s letters to Sharansky are now available.
“…a passage from one of Sharansky’s fellow dissidents and Navalny’s political ancestors: Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In his 1976 book Warning to the West, he wrote this: ‘Human nature is full of riddles. One of those riddles is: How is it that the people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body, while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste for it, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?’
Navalny was in the darkest pit. And yet he remained free. May his example live for all time. God knows we need it in ours.
Last month in Israel I was honored to interview Natan Sharansky live in Tel Aviv. Watch our conversation here:
UPDATE 2/19/24: Our great American forefathers, targets of those who would erase mention and memory of them, continue to speak to us from two and a half centuries back.
UPDATE 2/19/24: Considering how his life began, he should have been a high-level race hustler like Claudine Gay at best or, at worst, a dead rap street artist. Instead Roland Fryer is an eminent Black economist. There’s room up there alongside Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas and the swelling ranks of distinguished American Blacks whose success is a giant gut punch to those perpetuating their racism of “low expectations.”
UPDATE 2/20/24: The Democrat Party’s full message to the American people has devolved to a quick, easy slogan: GET TRUMP! Let’s call it “assassination by lawfare.”
UPDATE 2/12/24: It’s always timely contemplating perhaps our greatest President, there when the nation seemed destined to fall apart. Now a universal guiding beacon for the ages in the inevitable times of division and seemingly insoluble strife.
UPDATE 2/17/24: From a viral email. Excellent, uplifting advice for those unpleasant moments when confronted with TDS sufferers. It’s not Who; it’s What.
We all will have the same opportunity to vote . Perhaps one of the most important opportunities we have ever had or will have. Read this and think: “not who we are voting for but rather—what are we voting for”. The choice is ours. Don’t protest by staying at home and not voting. After all—voting is your ticket to complain.
That moment when someone says, “I can’t believe you would vote for Trump.”
I simply reply, “I’m not voting for Trump.”
I’m voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech.
I’m voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.
I’m voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s) to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
I’m voting for the continued growth of my retirement 401K and the stock market
I’m voting for a return of our troops from foreign countries and the end to America’s involvement in foreign conflicts.
I’m voting for the Electoral College and for the Republic in which we live.
I’m voting for the Police to be respected once again and to ensure Law & Order.
I’m voting for the continued appointment of Federal Judges who respect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
I’m voting for our jobs to remain in America and not be outsourced all over again to China, Mexico and other foreign countries.
I’m voting for secure borders and legal immigration
I’m voting for the Military & the Veterans who fought for this Country to give the American people their freedoms.
I’m voting for the unborn babies that have a right to live.
I’m voting for continued peace progress in the Middle East.
I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking.
I’m voting for Freedom of Religion.
I’m voting for the right to speak my opinion and not be censored.
I’m not just voting for one person, I’m voting for the future of my Country.
I’m voting for my children and my grandchildren to ensure their freedoms and their future.
What are you voting for?
UPDATE 2/14/24: The all-out legal assault on Trump is now unfolding like a political thriller with a credible suggestion that the Mar-A-Lago raid was not about illegally kept classified docs but a search for one particular file that might very well connect the dots (and the major perps) to the Russian collusion business.
On the bright side, the man has a knack for forcing his enemies into the daylight to be seen for the wicked scoundrels they are. There’s always a chance that good people’s eyes, heretofore closed, will open wide to the evil and injustice at work.
UPDATE 2/9/24: Despite living in revisionist America, 2024, memory serves some of us that our first POTUS was and remains the model for what America can and should be…and has been.
UPDATE 2/7/24: Trump, never the stuff of Boy Scout perfection, has been and remains our best hope of recovering an America that thrives on individual liberty and the wondrous prosperity and security that is derived from that freedom.
UPDATE 2/2/24: America and the rest of the world dependent upon our historic moral standing is under attack. Naturally, in desperate projection, our opponents claim we’re the bad guys. If Trump comes out victorious in November and is able to force accountability from those who war against him and those who have chosen him to represent them, it will be one of the high points of our history, an authentic triumph of good over evil. At this point, we’re scraping the bottom of the septic tank.
UPDATE 1/25/24: Greatness, things consummately American, comes in many different forms. Here is just one timeless piece of stirring, all-American musical glory. A certain brassy belter from Astoria, Queens pays an 80th birthday tribute to Irving Berlin of Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Sutton Place on the Ed Sullivan Show, May, 1968.
UPDATE 1/23/24: Common sense is breaking out on 3 continents! A newly emerging era of political rationality rivaling Reagan/Thatcher? Dare we hope the pendulum is swinging to make this year’s election 1980 again?
And don’t forget Hungarian Viktor Orban, now in his 4th term.
UPDATE 1/26/24: Even with Trump at the helm again, we face tough times, a cold winter. But one can function even in freezing climes with the right seasonal apparel, and it’s reassuring to think of an uncowed leader like DJT as a well-worn winter coat and gloves.
UPDATE 1/23/24: DeSantis has exited and the Never Trumpers are in mourning. Not to worry. Nikki is still slogging away on the dime of the irrational Trump haters. Meanwhile, tens of millions remain sold on Trump, not as a lesser of various evils, but as a proven positive.
UPDATE 1/20/24: Despite rank insanity smacking us daily in the face from all directions, many of us remain hopeful that the America we love and for which we feel boundless gratitude is fully alive and destined for some of her best years still ahead.
UPDATE 1/17/24: Without an economic system that rewards people for competence, we are witnessing growing chaos. How better to frighten people into the arms of Leftist totalitarians promising to “make the trains run on time?” God willing, 2024 will be 1980 again, a genuine populist cry, not for control, but a free social order that rewards common sense and merit, not “equity” and hollow “compassion.”
UPDATE 1/16/24: BrandonWorld and its senile namesake are currently all about “saving our democracy” from MAGA. All such drivel is driven by the fear that their strategy of flooding the country with imported New Democrat Voters On The Dole is endangered by the fundamentals of a republic, set up to represent all regions and citizens, not just those deliberately cultivated and concentrated en masse in a few key areas. No wonder BrandonWorld thinks the Electoral College should be trashed.
UPDATE 1/29/24: “Trump has convinced average Republicans he will fight hard for them, take enormous punishment for doing it and refuse to buckle to establishment pressure.”
Roughly half (hopefully more) of the country eagerly look forward to a change in command that might restore America’s faith in its own government. And the Dems and RINOs wonder why so many good people are fully behind a man who has made a career building things and doing whatever was necessary to make his businesses run at a profit. And that includes those enterprises that didn’t work, decisively junked to allow attention and resources to be focused on what did work.
UPDATE 1/3/24: Unlike the Peronistas and their Socialist ilk, Argentina’s new President Milei promises to be a breath (nay a hurricane) of fresh air to counter the universally practiced poison of the Welfare State, (not so) “free” goodies for all! One hopes his public persona is just a racy style that sells the real substance of good political policy.
