An observation: people outside of the Beltway political establishment who look at the graves in Arlington and wonder if they’d have had the stones to potentially pay the ultimate sacrifice, are people who are behaving as any genuine person would.
While the media & political...
While the media & political...
...insiders get to work spinning this show of *actual* humanity as an anti-soldier character flaw, you have every right to ignore their faux-patriotic bluster.
Political outsiders who ponder such enormities, it turns out, are less likely to send our sons and daughters into...
Political outsiders who ponder such enormities, it turns out, are less likely to send our sons and daughters into...
...far-flung lands to fight for nebulous principles in forever wars — often with ROEs so restrictive that killing the enemy they’re pointed toward leads to murder trials spurred on by the political insiders who supported war, but who likewise wish to use soldiers as props to...
...appease their anti-war base.
It is precisely because I never served that I’ve come to revere those who paid the ultimate price — and to question the wisdom and motives of those who ordered them into harm’s way.
So when I hear that eg, @DonaldJTrumpJr or @realDonaldTrump...
It is precisely because I never served that I’ve come to revere those who paid the ultimate price — and to question the wisdom and motives of those who ordered them into harm’s way.
So when I hear that eg, @DonaldJTrumpJr or @realDonaldTrump...
...look at the graves of the fallen and experience genuine human emotions, I’m not at all upset.
Just the opposite, in fact. It shows me that they understand human complexity and are willing to examine their own feelings, so as to have a deeper and more substantive idea of...
Just the opposite, in fact. It shows me that they understand human complexity and are willing to examine their own feelings, so as to have a deeper and more substantive idea of...
...the gravity of the decisions Presidents are charged with.
The Hollywood left spent years after Vietnam making movies depicting grunts as unlucky suckers foisted into a war they didn’t understand.
This became the cultural backdrop for contextualizing...
The Hollywood left spent years after Vietnam making movies depicting grunts as unlucky suckers foisted into a war they didn’t understand.
This became the cultural backdrop for contextualizing...
...that “police action” in public perception and history.
It begot a particular narrative that informed politics for decades.
Today, fighting communists “over there” seems like a futile gesture in retrospect — but only because, as we’re seeing now — we have been largely ...
It begot a particular narrative that informed politics for decades.
Today, fighting communists “over there” seems like a futile gesture in retrospect — but only because, as we’re seeing now — we have been largely ...
... impotent in fighting them *here*, at home, where they’ve insinuated themselves into every important cultural, social, and political institution in our country.
So no, I’m not going to disparage Trump or others who honestly examine the consequences of sending young people...
So no, I’m not going to disparage Trump or others who honestly examine the consequences of sending young people...
...off to die, only to recognize that the real enemy lies within. Trump is fighting a leftist Pravda media; institutionalized Critical Race Theory & the bogus “history” created in the Marxist fever dreams of otherwise entirely unimpressive “academics”; a permanent bureaucratic...
...establishment that, quite literally, sees the presidency as a honorary title while presuming themselves to dictate State Dept, DOJ, and military policy.
Trump has upset that order. He’s insisted that the voters who elected him have their voices heard — and the policies...
Trump has upset that order. He’s insisted that the voters who elected him have their voices heard — and the policies...
...*they* support put in place.
Trump doesn’t hide behind platitudes and faux-patriotism of the kind people like Jeff Goldberg and his cabal of anonymous insiders pretend a President must embrace.
Trump is not a politician. And we are all better off for it.
— all, that is..
Trump doesn’t hide behind platitudes and faux-patriotism of the kind people like Jeff Goldberg and his cabal of anonymous insiders pretend a President must embrace.
Trump is not a politician. And we are all better off for it.
— all, that is..
...save for status-quo loving insiders who get rich as public servants while allowing Marxism to fester, grow, and then work its way through institutions and then the streets, with the aim being to gut the middle class, the small business owner, and the individual himself...
The destruction of the middle class creates more people dependent on government. It creates a country of the very wealthy and very powerful who have full control over the newly dependent and newly poor.
Cloward-Piven laid this all out.
Regardless of party affiliation, one...
Cloward-Piven laid this all out.
Regardless of party affiliation, one...
...thing is true: the insider establishment — the Swamp and those who feed off it — doesn’t care about you individually.
They care about themselves and their own power and influence.
Trump is the bull in the china shop who, with the perspective of an outsider, has seen ...
They care about themselves and their own power and influence.
Trump is the bull in the china shop who, with the perspective of an outsider, has seen ...
...what many of us who held our noses for McCain or Romney, etc., have long understood: voting for any career pol will bring little change.
We are their perverse play things.
For all his brusqueness, Trump — though a showman — is surprisingly real.
I didn’t vote for him...
We are their perverse play things.
For all his brusqueness, Trump — though a showman — is surprisingly real.
I didn’t vote for him...
...in 2016. I wrote in Ted Cruz — whom I still think would have made a great president.
But he was unlikely to win.
In 2020, I’m proudly voting for Trump. He’s the reality that has upset the DC matrix. He’s exposed that pixelated underbelly of the status-quo — which is ...
But he was unlikely to win.
In 2020, I’m proudly voting for Trump. He’s the reality that has upset the DC matrix. He’s exposed that pixelated underbelly of the status-quo — which is ...
... meant to pleasure the entrenched power brokers, not ordinary Americans.
Recognize this before it’s too late.
Take the red pill.
Recognize this before it’s too late.
Take the red pill.