There is a real reason to fear a threat to our Democracy.  Not the threat you have been hearing about in the news, but the one you have not heard about.  A threat that could result in a single party government here in these United States.  Proponents of a single party system would argue in favor of a “National Unity” being created.  The Soviet government once argued that multiple political parties would perpetuate a class struggle.  A one-party system of government would virtually eliminate the checks and balances we currently have in our system.  Should this happen I believe It would be wise of all Citizens to heed the words of George Santayana, who in his publication “The life of reason”, 1905 stated “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”, and later in 1948 Winston Churchill reiterated it “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”, yet here we are on the very precipice of destroying our democracy in favor of a one-party system.

Our U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based solely on the notion of what the intention of his speech on Jan 6, 2020.  Without adjudication, Donald Trump “may” not be able to appear on the National ballot.  Which in turn would require voters to write in Donald Trump on their respective ballots.  It is difficult enough to get conservative voters to the polls and I fear asking them to write in a vote may be lost on the few further splitting the party.  If the U.S. Supreme court rules in favor of removing Trump from the ballot they have violated an oath to uphold the law.  According to our judicial system, has not committed the crime of insurrection or inciting a riot and as a result of the second impeachment hearing he was acquitted of all charges.  Does an acquittal hold no sway in our legal system?

If the Democrats are allowed to manipulate the ballot entries, isn’t that tantamount to election interference?  There is a genuine fear on the left that Donald Trump most likely win the election and that frightens the party.  I have to ask the question… why?  We had Republicans in office in the past and the world didn’t end.  Is it that Donald Trump truly wants to unravel the corruption in DC?  I have long said the issues in DC transcend party lines and I still believe that.  So, what is it they fear, really.

The 65 Project was created specifically to address lawyers who pursue cases regarding potential election fraud.

Mission Statement.

Following Biden’s victory, an army of Big Lie Lawyers filed 65 lawsuits based on bogus assertions to overturn the election and give Trump a second term. While the nation’s legal institutions stood up to this attempted “coup-via-courtroom,” Trump and his “Big Lie Lawyers” have “learned lessons” from 2020 and are already working to seize control of state and local election processes and to prepare for malicious election litigation efforts.

So now, we, as a nation must take the results of any election at face value and are no longer allowed to question for fear of punishment.  These attorneys that are being attacked will be disbarred from practicing law because they took a case they believed in and the Democratic party wants to destroy them.  Destroy the notion of questioning the opposition.

If you don’t believe this is a threat to our Democracy, then I fear we, as a society based on the notion of “We the people” is lost.  It is up to each and every one of us who is eligible to vote, to cast your vote via check-box or write-in.

2024 will be an historical year.  A year that I do not look forward to.  Should the Democrats succeed in their quest to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, Democracy will be lost.

I am struggling to gather my thoughts on this. Today we live in a time, where apparently you may chose to identify as whatever you want, be who ever you want to be at that moment in time. When it suits you to be one gender versus another gender it becomes a fact because you say you are so. I find it shocking that society today allows an individual to say, “I identify as” and then impose that will on society, all the while condemning those who disagree. A Cisgender, seems to be one of the few acts of normalcy we have in society.

• CisGender
  • adjective – denoting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.

I think this new society will be fraught with future dilemma. You state it… therefore it is a fact that we must all accept. Spreading this ridiculous notion leads to chaos and ambiguity. Today I choose to drive East on the West bound lanes of traffic, ridiculous example I know, or is it. Today’s gender confusion is just the veritable tip of the iceberg. To what end do we as a society pretend to believe that an individuals gender is anything but what it is. A doctor assigning gender at birth seems to be a problem because the individual identifies as something else. Is the doctor no longer qualified to determine gender with years of biology wasted. Why would you want the care a doctor provides when they are not qualified to determine the sex of a child. Clearly, they lack sensibility.

If an individual chooses to be something other than what they are, that is a decision the individual is welcome to be. The problem arises when others choose not to agree with that. Suddenly, my opinion is invalid because I see your gender differently. How is it that we must be in agreement or we are wrong? How is it that my opinion no longer matters if it differs from yours?

I would be very much in favor of genderless public restrooms and adult locker rooms at the gym. I would NOT be in favor of gender confused children demanding they be allowed into the girls bathroom at school simply because they say that today I am a girl. Case in point… a Loudon County, Virginia teenager wearing a skirt using the girls restroom commits rape. Isolated case… or just the first in many more to come. School is difficult enough without adding forced gender identity especially if it’s your child being raped.

It’s simple people… If you have an outie your a male and if you have an innie your female. That’s how I see it and I think I am entitled to that opinion, at least for now.

Donald John Trump, the 45th president duly elected by the people of these United States.

The Conservatives, I’m sure, are astounded by the Trump win.  As astounded as the Liberals are confused.  Politics has been left with the question of what the hell just happened.

I for one, am thrilled with the notion of a “non” political person taking office.  Even though Trump won the presidency I am left with the feeling I am the minority in how I feel.  While I enjoy the notion that the “Liberal agenda” has been stalled I must ask myself to what end.

The largely liberal media has done nothing but condemn and criticize the Trump administration even before the inauguration.  Critical of his every move, his every decision.  Obama, during his final days in office did nothing to paved the way for the new administration with little or no notice of the media.  His behavior, in my opinion, is without a doubt the worst of any president in my lifetime.  Obama acted without shame for his derisive attitude towards an incoming president with little or no response from the liberal media.  Of course the media will tell you they have the facts and express their opinion of those facts.  The masses… respond positively to the derisive nature of the media.  The news this weekend was largely about Trump “over-estimating” the crowd at the inauguration.

Ok, I get it, he was wrong.  People, let it go!

The liberal masses are boycotting, picketing, and conducting themselves in a most outrageous manner with little or no repercussions.   But let’s remember… They have the right!  Never in my life have I seen a more polarizing condition as what I am witnessing today.   To what end?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 on CNN I watch David Axelrod and Chris Cuomo banter about how poorly Trump and the press secretary were behaving regarding the inauguration crowd estimates and was left with wondering why.  CNN says Trump is behaving poorly by responding to the ridicule he has received.  Yet, CNN feels they have not acted poorly in reporting and berating Trump’s handling of the affair.

It seems to me the Liberals want the public to do as they say and not as they do.

It’s ok to bash Trump, But you are a racist for bashing Obama.   You are condemned for speaking out against, arguably the worst president EVER elected.  Obama’s legacy will be one of regret for allowing him not one term but two terms.  Regret for allowing him to reduce our country to a point where failure was eminent.

So… Where do we go from here?

Obama and the Liberals had their turn.  They failed!

Trump is the new POTUS and I say… Give him the opportunity he deserves.  The same opportunity that has been granted to ALL of the Presidents before him.

No one is asking you to like Donald Trump.  What we, I, am asking is that you give him the opportunity and respect of the office he earned through a system that has remained since the birth of this nation.  The system that represents the freedom’s that some of its Citizens take for granted.  Let Donald John Trump succeed or fail on his own.  Stop bemusing his election and stand behind him for if he succeeds we all succeed.  If he fails he will be replaced.  That’s how the system works.

And for God’s sake grow up and cease your petty behavior.  You lost the election.  You chose a poor candidate to represent your party.  It happens… Deal with it!

Original article from the Wall Street Journal

The Candidates Ignore Rising Military Dangers

Obama is weakening U.S. defenses and credibility, but there’s little debate about the growing risk of war.

By 

MARK HELPRIN

April 17, 2016

In this powerful nation with founding principles and latent capacities second to none, politics have become fit for the fall of Rome, the culture is sick with self-destruction, and the rule of law is routinely perverted. Though politics, culture and law are the arch of the nation, the keystone without which they cannot hold is defense. For war transforms whole peoples and threatens their sovereignty and national existence more decisively than any other force.

You would hardly know this from the current presidential campaign. Most candidates seem unaware that the prospects of catastrophic war in the not-so-distant future are burgeoning because of a fundamental change in the international system, driven by accelerating adjustments in relative military power.

Russia, China and Iran have been racing ahead, stimulated by a disintegrating Europe that neither spends sufficiently on its defense nor defends its borders; and by an America, strategically blind in the Middle East, that failed to replenish and keep current its military under President George W. Bush, and now surrenders, apologizes, bluffs, “leads from behind,” and denigrates its military capacities and morale as President Obama either embraces enemies or opposes them only with exquisite delicacy.

As the U.S. allows its nuclear forces to stagnate and decay into de facto unilateral disarmament, Russia has been modernizing its own. The Kremlin has added systems, such as road-mobile, intercontinental ballistic missiles with independently targetable re-entry warheads, that we neither have nor envision. In the absence of “soft-power” parity with the U.S., Russia dangerously relies on a permissive nuclear doctrine and promiscuously rattles its atomic sabers. Its nuclear adventurism, naval and land force modernization, unopposed reintroduction into the Middle East, invasion and annexation in Ukraine, and the ability to recapture the Baltic states in an afternoon, are yet another impeachment of “the end of history.”

With little resistance, China incrementally annexes the South China Sea while embarked on a naval buildup inversely proportional to the smallest U.S. fleet since 1916, and further aggravated by China’s ability, once its naval technology matures, to surge production in its 106 major shipyards as opposed to America’s six. More importantly, China is expanding its nuclear forces to what extent we do not know, because the Chinese program’s infrastructure is hidden within 3,000 miles of tunnels largely opaque to U.S. intelligence. As if China were not a major rival, the Obama administration, ever infatuated with accords, has made no effort to include Beijing in a nuclear arms-control regime. Why not?

We pay Iran for allowing us to stabilize its acquisition of nuclear armaments, and discount both the North Korean threat and missile defense, the only means of opposing it. As North Korea and Iran work up to minimal nuclear capacity, this administration works down to it, thus (in a mistaken conception of nuclear sufficiency) encouraging proliferation and eventual parity among a large number of nuclear states. Nothing could be more dangerous.

Should these trends continue unaddressed, the world will see three great powers—China, Russia, the U.S.—each with a complex and shifting system of alliances in unstable areas subject to proxy wars and opportunistic territorial expansion, the beginnings of which are now apparent in Ukraine, Syria and the South China Sea. As Wilhelmine Germany was either unwilling or unable to restrain Austria from invading Serbia despite the latter’s abject submission, thus precipitating World War I, no single power will be able effectively to discipline its allies.

With rapid shifts in the correlation of forces among near equals, nations seeking protection will migrate among the blocs and arm to protect themselves, provoking their neighbors to do the same. Such conditions, absent since World War II, will be remarkably unstable, especially given the emergence of semi-medieval crazy-states armed with nuclear warheads on ICBMs.

To prevent or weather these dangers, the next Congress and administration must rearm America and insist that our allies follow suit. The American nuclear deterrent must be refreshed and augmented. China must be brought into a nuclear arms-control regime. The U.S. and its allies must take a much harder line and accept greater risks to halt proliferation, starting with our greatest failure to date, Iran.

In Europe, U.S. forces in divisional strengths must combine with similar British, French and German formations to deploy in France and Germany, like a movable piston, subject to advance or retreat governed by either the provocative or reasonable behavior of Russia. The varying rotation and basing of detachments on the periphery would work as a similar means of signal and deterrence. We send weak forces eastward now as a message, but behind them is virtually nothing of force or will.

In combination with Japan, India, Vietnam and the Philippines newly armed with long-range antiaircraft and coastal-defense missiles, an American fleet at least half-again its present size, and the F-22 tactical fighter brought back from the dead, can frustrate Chinese claims to the South China Sea. Those claims are as much a portent and even less legitimate than the Third Reich’s claim to the Sudetenland.

The U.S. 2015 base budget defense appropriation (excluding overseas contingency spending) was just less than 3%, as opposed to 5.7% in the peacetime years during the period 1940-2000. Though, embarrassingly, it would take Churchillian statesmanship to return merely to the norm, doing so would help arrest the slide toward a perilous international system such as existed before World War I. But in a presidential campaign in which most candidates and their partisans see only what is at their feet, perhaps it is too much to expect that they look toward the horizon.

Whether you are a Republican, Democrat, TEA Party, Independent, the outcome of this years election is without meaning in the traditional sense.  The country is damaged.  Perhaps damaged to the extent where extreme change is required.  Regardless, the problems in DC transcend party lines.  All too often the ignorant masses believe the Democrats have been in office too long, time to vote Republican and vice-versa.  The Republicans can’t seem to get any more accomplished with a super congress, nor can the Democrats.  We feel the brunt of their political pissing match in the countless rhetoric we are subjected to.

In my opinion.

Hillary Clinton – Wreaks of old politics and corruption.  Long past her expiration “use by” date.

Bernie Sanders – what he says sounds interesting, but not well thought out.

Donald Trump – Business man extraordinaire, but lacks tact when addressing the masses.

Marco Rubio – Huh… What does he stand for.  He tells you why NOT to vote for someone instead of why you should vote for him.

Ted Cruz – Bred politician.  Something we don’t need right now.

So… Where do we from here?

Thomas Jefferson once said that to maintain a democracy a revolution is necessary every 100 years.  Nonsense, right?

Similar to natures fury, I believe the time is ripe for a meltdown.  We have all watch fix and flip shows or “Holmes makes it right!” on television.  The common thread being that to fix the problem you must tear down the walls to see where the problems exist before you can “FIX IT”!

Mother nature strikes lightening in a forest and burns it to the ground, with the result being a lush “NEW” growth that prospers because the detritus that has choked its growth has been burned away.  The sun enters a Maunder Minimum as a way of changing weather patterns throwing our planet into a state of change where the outcome benefits the planet and not necessarily its inhabitants.

So where am I on this…

Politicians have forgotten they “Serve” the public!!!

Office of the POTUS is maximum 8 years.  Why not Congress and Senate?  

How about a presidential campaign where each politician is given $100 million to run a campaign in ALL 50 states to demonstrate the ability to manage a budget.

No more electoral college… Popular vote wins!  PERIOD!

The loser is Vice President… Forced bipartisan politics!

Vote for the worst possible candidate and let’s get this party started.  We cannot continue on our current course.  The world economy is failing and no has a solution.  The common solution in throughout history has been war.  War creates a false economy where the people can rally behind some cause.  Lets face it people with a + $19 Trillion national debt, there is no coming back.  We speak of the economic cliff we are headed for… We have already shot off that cliff in a rocket car that someone forgot to pack a parachute in.  I believe that revolution is among us even though it may not present itself as war.  Given the racial tensions that seems to have no end.  Our foreign policies have weakened over the years along with our resolve to correct the problems and face the challenges that lie ahead.

What we are facing right now WILL forever change the face of this nation.  Good or bad!

So let’s burn down this house and build a new better version… We cannot fix the problems until we expose the problems in our current political structure.

That’s my opinion… I could be wrong… But right now I don’t really care!