Friday, September 16, 2022

Where Are We Headed?

This is the question that haunts me.  My wife is a true Trump believer.  She is more than willing to overlook his many character flaws and monstrous ego because his policies make sense and our country was in far better shape then than it is now.  She gets extremely irate when discussing the irresponsible legislation and regulation that has flowed from this Democrat Administration of our government.  She literally hates our useful idiot President and all of the liberal advocates that he has loaded into our government…people who are actually running our country.  She is convinced that the Democrats literally stole the last election through improper/illegal voting schemes and refuses to accept that the current Administration is legitimate.  She is certain that most people…or at least a sufficient number to change the partisan status of our government…are fed up with this liberal madness like she is and they will vote to remove them from office.  She is normally a relatively calm person, but discussing politics with her sends her into a minor frenzy where she refuses to accept the realities of where we are and simply wants to focus on where we should be.  

 

I live on a farm and most of my neighbors are farmers.  At least two of my neighbors are life-long Democrats.  I work with them in the hayfields.  We gather up stray cattle when they cross the fence.  If their tractor breaks down, they can use my tractor.  They go to church every Sunday and I would trust them with my children.  They are good people.  In my heart…I know the beliefs and principles that dictate their lives.  And yet…even though the Biden Administration and the legislation passed by the Democrat Congress over the last one and three-quarter years is anathema to everything that rules their lives and behavior…there is no doubt in my mind that they will pull the Democrat lever in the next election.  I tell my wife… “They don’t watch or read the news like you and I; they do not realize the extent of damage wrought by the Democrats in WDC” …but she is convinced otherwise.   She thinks that somehow, after spending a lifetime of voting Democrat, they have experienced an epiphany and will now vote Republican.  I ask her… “Where is this epiphany?”  They get in their truck every day.  They go to work.  They work the farm and the cattle.  They eat and sleep.  Their lives are not centered around FOX News or NEWSMAX or the Wall Street Journal.  They might occasionally watch network news, CNN, or MSNBC.  They are content to live and let live, regardless of how screwed up our nation might be.  Until things get so bad that the damage attributable to the Democrats and their liberal bent reaches down to our community and smacks them in the face, they will not change their voting habits

 

How many others are out there like them?  How many Democrats and Independents are oblivious to the harm and hurt that is flowing and will inevitably continue to flow from a Democrat Administration like we currently have?  Despite my hope and frustration…despite the undeniable truth of her judgment about our President and Congress…I have serious doubts if there is a sufficient number of Democrats and Independents out there who will vote Republican.  Hell...the Republicans haven’t even been turning out to vote Republican. She rails about the big steal and how the Democrats cheated in the last election.  She says she that that most folks realize this happened and they will not allow it to happen again.  I ask her… “How do your accusations, whether real or not, affect the reality of where we are?”  I tell her… “The Democrats are in power.  The Democrats control our government.  More importantly…What have the Republicans done that will keep the Democrats from cheating once again come November?  And to the essential point, you are quite possibly in the minority of Americans.”  That last one really shakes me.  Sometime over the last year, it has dawned on me, for the first time in my life…maybe most folks are not like me.  Maybe they don’t adhere to my principles and morals.  Maybe “I” am the one that is out of touch, out of step, and standing in the way of progress? My comfort level of feeling “normal and average” has been fundamentally challenged.  I know one thing for certain…. The Democrats do not give a damn about how she and I feel.  In their eyes, we are deplorables, homophobes, racists, and threats to democracy.

 

In 1964, Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote it and Dusty Springfield sang it… “Wishing and hoping, and singing and praying, planning and dreaming…” will not get it done.  If things are going to change, voters will have to vote Republican in sufficient numbers to wrest control of Congress from the Democrats.  In a couple of years, they will have to vote for a Republican as President.  Are there some idiot Republicans out there running for Senator or Representative?  Of course, there are!  Will the Republican nominee for President be a flawed individual like Donald Trump or someone else?  It could very well be!  But the cold, harsh reality is that politics is a numbers game.  The number in the Senate is 51.  The number in the House is 218.  The number for President is 1.  If you want to change our nation.  If you want to change our government.  If you want to change our cultural and societal mores.  If you want to change our lives…then you had better vote Republican.  We will get the government we deserve.

 

Joe Biden is perhaps the most clueless human that has ever sucked air.  Surrounded by a liberal group of advocates, radicals, and millennials, he lives in a tiny bubble where he only hears orchestrated comments and instructions.  His reality is formed on the basis of this input.  That input is designed to manipulate his actions and rhetoric.  No one challenges what he says or corrects his misstatements.  If this governing group of liberals happen to be successful in the implementation of their agenda (which they are), they are ebullient about the state of affairs in America.  Their reality is defined by what they wish it be…by how they choose to frame it.  They are sufficiently removed and insulated from the real world so as to foster a carnival atmosphere of nirvana that is grossly disconnected from the country outside of WDC.  They embrace their misconceptions.  They evoke their misconceptions.  They do not accept challenges, or those who offer challenges, to their misconceptions.  They refuse to discuss their misconceptions in detail and substance.  They willfully spout deception and blatant dishonesty to support their misconceptions.  Their misconceptions have bizarrely become their reality.  A postcard moment representing this phenomenon is the recent White House garden party featuring Democrat leadership, various Democrat supporters, and long-time liberal songwriter and singer James Taylor.

 

They were not celebrating a booming and stable economy; there is none.  Annual inflation is eating away at working incomes and poses an even greater danger for the immediate future.  They were not celebrating a new-found sense of federal fiscal sanity.  Yes…the deficit is smaller. But that is a product of billions being previously spent on pandemic mitigation.  The fact is that profligate federal spending through Democrat legislation has spurred the inflation rate and is exploding the federal debt.  They were not celebrating foreign policy successes.  The clown show that is the Secretary of State’s purview is laughed at on the world stage, ridiculed by our enemies, minimized by our allies, and savored by Iran, Russia, and China.  The U.S.A. Store is not sufficiently stocked for them to give it all away at the rate they are going.  They were not celebrating immigration reform; there hasn’t been any.  Their open border policies have created a myriad of domestic problems that are effectively being highlighted by some southern Republican governors.  They really do not want to discuss immigration at this time.  They want to celebrate their public and political attempt at executing Donald Trump, but they would not like to detail exactly how that execution is taking place. They have weaponized the Department of Justice and are using the FBI as their personal gestapo.  They would just as soon not talk about their brown-shirt tactics and how they are using them to shred Constitutional rights of individuals and entities. 

 

So, what exactly were they celebrating while listening to the crooning of Sweet Baby James?  They were celebrating the success they have realized in passing budget-busting legislation that broadens the reach and authority of government.  They were celebrating directing billions of dollars to their Party’s supporters at the expense of most taxpayers.  They were celebrating the enactment of green ideas that have absolutely no supporting basis in reality.  They were celebrating their effective control of the Department of Justice and how they are using it to marginalize, demonize, and simply harass their political enemies.  They were celebrating the halcyonic high they have been on since grasping firm control of the U.S. government.  Their celebration was the perfect example of how they are effectively unaware of the real environment that exists today in America and their utter disdain for anyone or anything that is not a loyal member of their liberal Democrat cabal.  They were celebrating themselves.  Read the following news items and decide for yourself: Is this a cause for celebration?

 

I have talked a lot about the elections and the consequences thereof.  The moment of truth is rapidly approaching as we near the mid-term elections.  Polls are slanted by those who finance the polls, so they are inherently unreliable.  All each of us knows is confined to our range of conversation and interaction.  The media are a bunch of fools that are partisan, immoral, unethical, and most importantly…patently unreliable.  We cannot rely on anything they say or show to us.  We have only our own thoughts, opinions, hopes and guesstimates about how this election might turn out.  The implications of it are huge; as are many of the circumstances surrounding our last election.

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/the-desantis-factor.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/06/the-real-reason-trump-lost-in-2020/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/probe-94-of-key-2020-counties-wrongly-dumped-ballot-info

 

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2022/09/10/ticking-clock-arizona-elections-group-says-dem-hobbs-has-less-than-a-week-to-agree-to-debate-with-kari-lake-n625485

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/republicans-push-restrict-mail-in-voting-2022-elections

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/a-five-point-plan-to-secure-a-republican-majority-come-november

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/joe-bidens-secret-voter-plan

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/it-seems-clear-dems-pressured-the-fda-to-delay-the-covid-vaccine-to-hurt-trump/

 

https://freebeacon.com/elections/republican-joe-odea-thinks-he-has-the-formula-to-win-in-a-blue-state/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/after-last-night-40.php

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-democrats-filibuster-scheme

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/why-hispanics-are-leaving-the-democratic-party

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/doj-refuses-to-release-its-plan-to-implement-bidens-voting-initiative/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-if-the-democrats-win-the-midterms/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/democrats-trump-hispanics/2022/09/16/id/1087845/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ok-what-is-the-most-important-issue

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-destabilizing-a-post-nuclear-senate-could-be/

 

Clueless?  Detached from reality?  No single issue better demonstrates liberal lunacy than their green ideas…as detailed in their green new deal agenda.  Heading into a winter that has loads of threatening baggage already on board and having an actual energy implosion occurring in Europe as a result of their own green agenda, the Biden Administration and the Democrats continue to strangle the American energy sector and promote their radical, climatista agenda.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/07/welcome-to-the-green-new-deal-california/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/today-in-capital-matters-esg-and-european-energy/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/10/bidens-freeze-on-oil-leases-threatens-to-bring-europes-energy-nightmare-to-us/

 

https://the-pipeline.org/piercing-the-electric-car-fantasy/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/09/the-lefts-power-shortage/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bidens-oil-diplomacy-a-tale-of-failure-and-self-inflicted-wounds/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/tom-friedman-says-drill-baby-drill.php

 

Not only have the Democrats and the Biden Administration single-handedly created the inflation storm we are currently weathering; they insist upon feeding energy into it so it might grow and threaten even greater pain and suffering.  These people are not economists.  These people have never been held responsible for a budget.  Do you even suppose these people ever paid their own bills?  Balance a checkbook?  We have a bunch of fiscal illiterates controlling our American economy.

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/you-cant-fight-inflation-by-reducing-output/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=second

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/student-loan-forgiveness-as-class-warfare.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/today-in-capital-matters-ocean-shipping/

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/13/brace-for-recession-as-the-fed-spikes-interest-rates-and-inflation-soars/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/joe-bidens-beyond-tone-deaf-inflation-party

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/joe-biden-spikes-the-football-again/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/inflation-reduction-update/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/kjp-on-the-ira.php

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-sleeper-news-in-bidens-student-debt-plan/

 

The entire U.S. government is the playground of the Democrats and Joe Biden.  They use it in that fashion and they treat it with no regard for the integrity and independence it SHOULD BE adhering to.  Their blatant abuse of the Department of Justice in pursuit of Trump and their own personal agenda items is a damning indictment of their political ruthlessness and disregard for honest and open government.

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/08/bidens-maga-republican-screed-gives-gatekeepers-the-greenlight-to-purge-political-foes/

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/after-using-fbi-to-suppress-sons-crimes-and-raid-political-rivals-home-biden-warns-democracy-in-danger     Warning: Satire

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/08/for-the-deep-state-trump-was-never-president/

 

https://reason.com/2022/09/14/bidens-sneaky-censors/

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/bidens-personal-gestapo.php

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/14/the-fbi-paid-for-russian-disinformation-to-frame-trump-and-7-other-takeaways-from-durhams-latest-court-filing/

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/15/exclusive-doc-indicates-special-counsel-failing-to-bring-collusion-hoaxers-to-justice/

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-republicans-john-durham-human-source

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/judge-appoints-trump-pick-special-master

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-fbi-agent-who-played-key-role-in-crossfire-hurricane-scrutinized-over-alleged-russia-ties-report

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-fbi-agents-pushed-to-find-a-crime-that-supports-bidens-claims-about-gop-extremism

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/16/trump-scores-two-huge-victories-in-fight-for-special-master/

 

Eastern Europe is in turmoil.  China is in bed with Russia.  Iran is threatening everyone on the planet.  South Korea and China continue to eye their neighbors with envy.  And the most powerful nation in the world, the most capable stabilizing force for peace in this world, is led by a senile old fool who is controlled by a bunch of college-grade foreign policy experts.  What can we expect from this bunch of geniuses? 

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/critical-days/?utm_source=blog-landing&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=continue-reading

 

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/ukraines-incredible-success-turns-the-tables-on-russia-kharkiv-kherson/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bipartisan-opposition-to-a-new-iran-deal-continues-to-grow/

 

The introduction of literal pornography into our schools is an outrage; but we should not be shocked.  It is the expected progression of the liberal activists who have not only seized control of our American education system, but have acted through that control to indoctrinate our nation’s youth with their agenda.  Our schools…EVERY aspect of our schools…are in crisis.  Parents have a short window to act if they are to save future generations from bizarre and outrageous training and instruction. 

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/adding-insult-to-learning-loss/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/democratic-kansas-governor-makes-no-apologies-for-school-lockdowns-after-teachers-union-endorsements/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/private-school-grad-katie-hobbs-releases-anti-school-choice-plan

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/here-comes-a-blockbuster-discrimination-case/

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/transparent-discrimination/

 

Consider the difference between the America we knew during the pre-covid years of President Donald Trump and the America we know today.  Consider the policies and agendas of the Republicans and the Democrats.  They all like to talk the talk, but do they walk the walk?  Which Party provides the best future for you and your family?  Which Party best respects the blueprint that is established for the government of this country by the Constitution?  Listen to leaders of each Party and pay attention to the actions of these leaders.  Americans still have a choice.

 

https://jewishworldreview.com/0922/hanson090822.php

 

https://lawliberty.org/descending-into-tyranny/?utm_source=LAL+Updates&utm_campaign=fb192baa75-LAL+Updates&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_53ee3e1605-fb192baa75-72412681

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/09/democrats-arent-divisive-theyre-desperate/

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/sitting-congressman-says-u-s-constitution-is-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-explodes-during-hearing-after-republican-congressmans-questions-leads-to-witness-yelling

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/when-is-a-protest-a-stunt.php

 

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/whos-extreme-2.php

 

https://amgreatness.com/2022/09/10/the-true-soul-of-america/

 

In closing, why not link to a lovely lady and a lovely song that was previously referenced in this post.  Be well and may God be with you…and the leaders of this planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAdTsAKvVTU

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