The Greatest President I Never Liked

Would you like to hear a poorly kept secret? I do not like President Trump.

Never have.

He has always struck me as a narcissistic blowhard in love with the sound of his own voice.  (Didn’t we just get rid of our previous president with those same issues?)  Anyway, it made me unwilling to trust Trump, especially after seeing the sophomoric way he conducted himself through the Republican campaign towards his fellow candidates in 2016. 

It left me with a conundrum.  I wasn’t willing to vote for the arrogant bully who seemed to be running for president just to erect another edifice to his ego.  At the same time, I CERTAINLY wasn’t going to vote for the congenital liar and constitutionally-adverse crook in the Mao pant-suits.  The only tax-payer federal building Hillary deserved to be in was one where she could wear government-provided orange pant suits; not the White House.

I decided to vote for Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party for president in 2016 accordingly.  (I know… I know… it was a throw away vote, but my conscience could not let me vote for either of the two major party candidates.)

Then something happened over the course of the next four years of Trump’s presidency.  Yes, his cringe-worthy tweets and his often-unstatesmanlike behavior were over the top and absolutely unpalatable, to say the least.  However, President Trump’s executive instincts in governing the greatest nation in the history of humankind were uncannily on target.  He really was determined to drain the swamp of its partisan denizens of both parties.  He wasn’t about to let the establishment tell him differently.

Over the course of his Presidency, he really did make America great again in so many fundamentally important ways.

First, he sought to protect our country from nations that were prone to terrorism against us when their “immigrants and travelers” could not be vetted.  He took the Obama administration’s list of countries and expanded it appropriately.  This, of course, was met with cries of xenophobia and Islamophobia by the left and their sycophantic Democrat institutionalized media. (or “Dim” for short.)

Trump began appointing well-qualified and constitutionally-minded jurists to the federal courts who would adjudicate cases according to the law and the constitution instead of legislating from the bench.  He even appointed what appears to be three solid constitutionalists to the Supreme Court.  This may be the only bulwark left to protect the nation from the coming leftist tidal wave.  Of course, “Big Guy” Biden has insinuated that he will pack the Supreme Court to nullify any right of center (constitutional) rulings that may disseminate from that bench.  (He didn’t think we citizens deserved to know for sure though during his campaign.)

Trump also drew down American troops and got us out of conflicts throughout the world stage, all the while protecting our national security interests. 

He got us out of the execrable Iran nuclear deal that paid off the State Department’s leading sponsor of state terrorism that allowed Iran to continue to pursue nuclear technology “for peaceful means”.  Obama sent millions of dollars to the Shia terrorist state actors and Trump sent a guided missile to take out Iranian general Soleimani, whom was responsible for executing much of the terrorism against the United States and the west.  On cue, the left denounced the killing of this evil terrorist by Trump.

Trump was the first president to actually hold China accountable for the trade practices, intellectual theft, and monetary manipulation done by this dangerous regime.  In doing so Trump brought back myriads of jobs, particularly in the manufacturing sector.  Jobs that President Obama told us were gone forever.

Of course, Obama also told us that a sub-two percent growth in yearly GDP was the new normal and it was not possible for him to improve upon his worst economic “recovery” in U.S. history.  And Obama did not lie.  He indeed could not improve that.  Trump could though.  And he did.  He brought record economic growth, reduction in unnecessary and burdensome regulations, and historic lows in unemployment for Americans.  Americans of color saw some of the greatest improvements in job opportunities and economic growth.  Where Obama gauged success by how many millions of people were partaking of government subsidies and hand-outs, President Trump redefined success by helping millions of people find the dignity of being self-sufficient and no longer slaves to the federal government.

He oversaw record stock market gains, and then recovery after COVID-19 came to town.  This helped scores of millions of middle-class families with their retirement plans as business boomed.

Trump’s energy policies made America energy independent for the first time in my life time that I recall.  Gasoline and energy prices came down dramatically, thus helping the poorest in our country the most.  His policies also created myriads of good-paying jobs as well.

President Trump also sought to secure our borders from illegal aliens seeking to enter our country.  He begged congress to help revamp our immigration laws to adapt to new realities, but all to no avail.  In the meantime, he built a wall along the southern border in order to ensure that would-be immigrants to the United States did so through legal means.  This, of course, is racist too to the leftists that wanted to further increase their voting blocs.  Ironically the only wall that President Big Guy is building is around the capitol to protect himself during his inauguration.

The irony is Trump wants to build a wall to protect Americans and Biden builds a wall to protect himself FROM Americans.

Trump also did what every administration of either party has failed to do.  He has overseen peace blossom in the Middle East with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan all normalizing relations with Israel.  There are at least a half a dozen more majority-Muslim nations that are similarly looking to do so in the near future. 

This was something that the “experts” in the U.N., our State Department, and other so-called people in the know proclaimed was impossible without first addressing the Palestinian issue.  President Trump refused to give in to the intransigent and often unreasonable demands of the Palestinians and moved forward with his plans anyway.  He supported Israel’s annexation of the Golan heights from where terrorist attacks on Israel were launched with mortar and rocket fire.  He then did what many past presidents talked about doing.  He moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital of Israel in Jerusalem.  When he ignored the tantrums from the corrupt Palestinian leadership and simply moved ahead, he showed the world how irrelevant they were to bringing about a long-awaited peace in the region.

I could continue with scores of major accomplishments achieved under President Trump’s administration.  He removed us from the job-killing and socialistic Paris Climate fiasco.  He removed obstacles and fast-tracked multiple companies coming out with Covid19 vaccines in less than a year’s time.  (Something the “experts” once again said was impossible.)  He was responsible for the First Step Act which removed inequities in sentencing laws that disproportionately affected black Americans.  He was responsible for us being a net exporter of crude oil and energy instead of an importer.  He scrapped NAFTA and renegotiated a far better trade deal with our north American partners of Canada and Mexico.  Trump got many NATO members to pick up their share of the tab as they are obligated to do in our mutual defenses.  President Trump looked at future vulnerabilities and created the new military branch of the Space Force.  And of course, President Trump cut economy-draining and job killing taxes and regulations.

The result has been a far stronger and safer America for everyone, despite all of the leftist naysayers and bad faith actors to the contrary.  Indeed, they seem to hate him all the more because of his great successes. 

I decided to judge Trump by his actions and the fruits of his labors.  He put America first.  The lies from the media, censorship and manipulation by Big Tech, and deep state socialists on the left have all conspired to unsaddle him so as to continue down their path to a “benevolent” big brother nanny state.  What could possibly go wrong here?

Yep, I still don’t like Trump, but he did indeed put America first for ALL AMERICANS.  His actions outweighed his mouth.

Too bad there are tens of millions of Americans that have bought into the big lies from the left.  Our country will suffer greatly for it in the next four years accordingly as the economy will tank and our freedoms will be infringed upon in even greater magnitude. The head of the corrupt Biden crime family will not reign long though, I suspect.  Kamala cannot wait, I am sure.  Their “leadership” will surely show us how good we did have it under the boorish Trump though.  Of that, I am certain.

In 2020 I voted for President Trump because despite his many faults, like him, I love our country too. 

Tony Perkins: Technically (Not) Speaking: The Conservative Purge Begins

Tony Perkins was kind enough to send me an email today that said exactly what I have been thinking.  Rather than reinvent the wheel when Mr. Perkins already laid out the facts so eloquently, I thought I would simply share his comments.  Enjoy.

"All they needed was an opening. And for the rich extremists at the helm of the West's social media, last Wednesday's riot gave them one. The purging of conservative expression has begun. We knew it was coming -- just as we've always known it will take every one of us to stop it.

Most Americans thought they understood censorship. They've watched it evolve and expand this last decade, scooping up more people in its nets in the name of "tolerance," "diversity," and "non-violence." But what happened this weekend was not a tweet blocked here or an account suspended there. No, this was much more ominous. What Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon did by locking out the president wasn't just a heavy-handed punishment of Donald Trump and his supporters -- it was a scorched-earth campaign against the tens of millions of people who dare to think differently than they do and the open forums that give our movement a voice.

"Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers," Parler's John Matze announced to stunned surprise on Saturday. It was the second major bombshell to drop in the new war between Big Tech and the other half of the country. After careful, behind-the-scenes coordination from Silicon Valley's chiefs, the popular alternative to Twitter was scrubbed from the Apple store, Google Play, and any other place users could download the app. "We will try our best," Matze insisted, "to move to a new provider..." But in the meantime, the message to conservatives is clear: Big Tech isn't just coming for Trump. They're coming for all of us -- and corporate America isn't far behind."

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Liberals used to be champions of free speech.  I suspect they still are today.  The leftists among them, however, are absolutely not for free speech any longer.  They are NOT for the practice and application of rights enshrined in our Constitution and in nature and from nature's God. Tolerance is only to be practiced towards people that agree with them.  Everyone else is to fall to the Orwellian cancel culture of the Left.  Everyone else is to be shamed, purged, and marginalized.  They are to be compared to the Nazis and dehumanized.  (Those of you guilty of this, you know who you are!) What they project and proclaim the Right to be guilty of (often without any proof) they are institutionalizing throughout government, social media, big tech and so on.  How can this end any way but very very badly?

 

Keep Calm and Pray

We need to pray right now.

We need to pray for God’s wisdom, direction, patience, prudence, and love.

We need to pray for peace for America.

We need to work for peace and justice for all Americans… even the left.  Especially for the left.

Storming the capitol building is wrong and is counter-productive to law, order, and our ultimate goals of freedom for all Americans.  It is counter-productive towards peace and justice.

Yes, much of what has gone on over the past several months, and indeed, over the past year is wrong.  I understand the anger at the usurpation of rights, liberties, and our very God-given freedoms in some cities and states by many of our supposed leaders.  I understand that this is now going to get even worse with the stolen presidential and Georgia senatorial elections.

Yes, we should march, protest, and work to change these things.  PEACEFULLY!

We are not Antifa and Marxist thugs.

Yes, great evil is at hand with a Marxist world reset in mind by the left.

Yes, the sinister designs to indoctrinate our children with leftist propaganda over the generations is finally bearing a rotten fruit for the left. 

The answer to this is not to become like the very thing we loathe.  We weaken and lose our moral authority when we become like the authoritarian and fascist left.

Yes, I know our nation is in great peril and is on the very brink of a totalitarian juggernaut led by a lawless and cognitively challenged left-wing puppet that seeks to plan and control all aspects of our lives. 

President Reagan once prophetically warned us, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”

I do not know if that generation has finally come, as many Americans fear, or if this is the last far left swing of the pendulum before we return to a nation of liberty and justice for all.

Regardless, this is not the time to riot like the thugs that stormed the capitol today.

The Leftist media cabal will only use that against Americans in justifying the left’s further actions to come because of it.

Now is not the time for violence.

Now is the time to pray.

May almighty God still bless the United States of America.

Prayers for My Grandchildren

Prayers for my Grandchildren

I pray that you always find the good in people and situations first.

I pray that you understand how blessed you are to be a child of God made in His image.

I pray that you realize how blessed you are to be an American.

I pray that you understand what that means and always fight to preserve it.

I pray that you know America’s history and the goodness of her while learning from her shortcomings along the way.

I pray that you learn history, economics, and civics and always inform yourself before voting so as to preserve our liberties and constitution.

I pray that you learn the value of goals and hard work.

I pray that you don’t ever expect anyone else to do for you what you should do for yourself.

I pray that you have enough and are generous with what you have been blessed.

I pray that you realize that charity towards others is YOUR responsibility and not “the government’s job”.

I pray that you live a life of character and are an example of doing right for others.

I pray that you are lovingly corrected when you misbehave.

I pray that you learn the value of an education and also realize that this doesn’t come only from schools.

I hope you read lots of books and realize that learning is a life-long joy.

I pray that you judge a person by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.

I pray that you have the courage of standing up for your convictions and faith, especially when they are unpopular or mocked by the crowd.

I pray that you see the amazing beauty in all of God’s creation and never lose your sense of awe and wonder in it.

I pray that you are moved to often seek out the beauty of nature and work to protect it.

I pray that you wet your fishing line in a good trout stream often and think of Papa when you do.

I pray that you are often able to lay back in the grass and stare up at the milky way.

I pray that it makes you feel small and yet an invaluable part of God’s grand design.

I pray that you understand that it is capitalism, and not socialism, that has brought more people out of poverty in the world by far throughout human history.

I pray that you always respect those that put their lives in jeopardy to serve and protect others, whether those people are police officers, fire fighters, or members of our armed services.

I pray that you act with kindness towards all people, regardless of whether they are the CEO or janitor, and regardless of sex, color, religion, or creed.

I pray that you understand to look past the title of political issues and realize that the affordable care act isn’t affordable, there have been millions of children left behind, Antifa uses fascist tactics in furtherance of a destructive agenda, and much of what the mainstream media says is jaundiced by a decidedly leftist perspective.

I pray that you realize that life isn’t fair, but that doesn’t mean that you should give up playing by the rules.

I pray that when you do wrong that you are appropriately punished and learn the lesson from it.

I pray that you realize that always taking the path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked people.

I pray that you understand the sacrifices made for your freedom in this country and work to defend America yourself.

I pray not that you won’t have challenges in life, but that you will find the courage and strength to persevere past those challenges.

I pray that you will find a good person as your spouse one day and that you will wait for that person and not settle for someone less deserving of you.

I pray that you will always work hard to be worthy of your beloved.

I pray that your marriage will be a blessing with a lifetime of love between you both, and that you realize that you have to work daily to make it so.

I pray that your children will grow up strong and true in an America that honors its best ideals of the past while striving to correct its errors made along the way.

I pray that you come to understand that love is a choice made every day of your life.

I pray that you know that true love is willing and working towards the best interest of another, simply for the sake of that other person.

I pray that you learn that you can and should love all people as our Lord has commanded us, even if you do not like everyone.

I pray that you develop a close and enduring friendship with God and strive to always do His will in love.

I pray that you live your life with a deep sense of gratitude towards God in all things.

I pray that you always know how very much you are loved.

I pray in the decades to come in your life that you don’t forget your Papa.

I pray that you know how very much Papa loves you.