Category: Society

337 Million People In The United States…

Are Harris And Trump The Best We Got?

Republican Party candidate Donald J. Trump and Democratic Party candidate, Kamala Harris. Photo courtesy of cnn.com

We should be embarrassed!

As Election Day is upon us, I cannot fathom the idea of having to choose between Donald Trump or Kamala Harris to be our next president.

As we only have a two-party system, it seems Americans are happy to accept whatever these two parties have to offer, without question and without a challenge.

It is true that under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris regime the country has fallen into social and financial chaos. Everything is more expensive, and our national security is a disaster as a result of an “Open Borders” policy.

It is also true; under the Trump presidency the country was in great shape. We had an economic and energy revival the country has not seen in decades. But we also witness a president who was a bad judge of character, appointing people to positions who did not have the country’s best interest at heart.

Donald Trump’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic was one of the most un-American episodes in American history. It began with “14 Days” to contain the spread, and the rest is history. Donald Trump left the door open for the Biden administration to impose unconstitutional lockdowns and vaccine mandates. Millions of lives were lost and millions more were destroyed by the government.

Turned brother against brother, and family members were instructed, by the government, to turn on each other. It was a dark period in our nation’s history.

Unfortunately, today, Donald Trump continues to brag about operation Warp Speed.

So, here we are, in another one of our country’s crossroads. We are, in what appears to be, one election cycle away from becoming Venezuela under a Harris administration or survive one more election cycle under a Trump administration.

Yes, I mean when I say survive. A Trump presidency may be able to pause the inevitable, but as long as people continue to vote for the same people into Congress, nothing is going to change. The United States Congress has become a career, instead of the public service the Founding Fathers had in mind.

We are faced with the choice of electing the best of two evils. We have nobody but ourselves to blame for this political travesty. American society has become so morally weak, it has forgotten that it has the power to change the country’s trajectory.

Facebook, Tik-Tok, Instagram, X, and the likes, are the equivalent of what the Roman poet Juvenal referred to as “Bread and circuses.” Keep the population superficially appeased instead of giving them honest public service or legislation. The Romans knew how to do it, but even the Roman Empire could not stop their demise.

Why do we have to settle for garbage? That is a question that will haunt me.

Finally “Axed” The X

Elon Musk. Photo courtesy of archcide.com

Let us be honest, social media is a cesspool. Nothing but bad news, keyboard warriors, and full of people who think, for whatever reason, their views are more important than yours.

If you have a conservative view, most of your posts are shadow banned, or worse, they will suspend your account because it does not fit the sick liberal narrative imposed upon the users by the mommy’s basement dwellers in charge of monitoring content.

Yesterday, I made a comment on X, after watching a clip of a man imposing himself in a women’s bathroom, while calling those women racists because they wanted him gone. I said, “those women should kick his ass,” that is right, they should have kicked his ass to get him out of that bathroom.

Elon’s mommy’s basement dwellers deemed the comment as hateful speech and suspended my “paid for” account for 6 days.

This is not the first time Elon’s goons have suspended my account over comments they do not approve of, but it is definitely the last.

I did not pay $11.00 a month to be censored over ridiculous stuff. I can do that for free.

It is funny, they do not suspend accounts that are obviously going after children with their mentally disturbed transgender ideas, but they suspend my account for siding with a group of women who were been sexually harassed by a man in their own bathroom.

I finally had it with X. The platform is so toxic, I noticed my own views have been clouded by a bunch of people that I did not know. If I dare to challenge their views, I was the one who was wrong, regardless of if I was right.

The rift between the left and the right is such, one cannot have a normal conversation without drifting into the gutter along with them.

I decided it was time to go. I took this “suspension” to close my account and ditch the X for good.

I got tired of reading garbage day in and day out. Everybody hates each other, and because they hide behind a screen, they feel free to lob insults and lies without any sense of accountability or responsibility.

I never hid my identity. I used my real name, and my face was in my profile picture because I did not have an agenda. All I wanted was to engage with likeminded people, but in the end, all it did was make me a less trusting person.

We live in a world that is at the brink of physical destruction, and if I am going to go down, at least I am going to do it on my own terms, and not under those of a mob.

I do not want to live with hate in my heart, and platforms like X are a breeding room for hate.

Axe the X, you will feel much better afterwards.

The Unfriendly Skies

Where Are The Air Marshals?

Are there any Air Marshals on board?

On October 3, 2023, Senator Ted Cruz, ranking member of the committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, sent a letter to the TSA Administrator David Pekoske, requesting information about the Federal Air Marshal Service deployment of air marshals to the Southern border.

In this letter, Senator Cruz questioned why hundreds of air marshals have been used at the border and why they were “administering aid to illegal aliens”.

The letter goes on to highlight several incidents on flights within the past year and how the presence of air marshals could have had prevented the incidents from escalating.

It poses several interesting questions to the administrator, and I am looking forward to seeing how the administrator responds.

As a retired air marshal, I can’t stress enough how invaluable the presence of air marshals onboard an aircraft is. I know when I fly, I would feel more safe knowing that I have brothers and sisters covering my six while on vacation travel.

Air marshals are not trained to do what the Transportation Security Administration is making them do at the Southern border.

As indicated in the letter to the administrator, air marshals have been used to perform “administrative functions, conducting welfare checks, and escorting aliens to processing centers.”

Air marshals are highly skilled trained operators. The agency spends thousands of dollars training air marshals to deal with real time stressful situations.

This is your tax dollars at work, and you should demand better from your government.

As air marshals continue to be deployed to the Southern border, our skies continue to be vulnerable to another 9/11 style attack.

With an open border, the government is only inviting more trouble and our transportation system is at the weakest position I have seen it since I joined the service back in 2002.

This should be of concern to any American citizen who steps on an aircraft. This is you and your family’s safety. With an open border we bring new security challenges and air marshals should be deployed where they belong: the skies.

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/services/files/1622D46F-A2E2-410F-91E5-0488C7CD96BE

The Feckless Republican Party

The Two Faces of the Republican Party Photo courtesy of genius.com

After a long wait, the Republicans in the House of Representatives finally got the majority, a razor thin, but still a majority.

It took days of dealing and whining for the Republicans to finally select the “heir apparent” to the Speakership, Kevin McCarthy. The House of Representatives made history by holding the most rounds of voting in 100 years.

This is probably the most amount of time I have dedicated to watch CSPAN in my entire life, but it was entertaining. Also, I have never seen members of Congress actually working for a change. This is probably the most they have worked since the Covid-19 shutdowns.

Let us fast forward a few weeks. Republicans in the House are preparing all kind of bills, going on Twitter and other social media platforms to brag about how much they are doing for the American people. They are also creating committees to investigate several things, from investigating the FBI, Covid-19, and the United States relationship with China.

I am sure people are cheering these investigations, but as every other investigation conducted by Republicans have shown, this will end up the same way, a lot of nothing and millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money wasted.

Who can forget when then congressman, Trey Gowdy, got humiliated on national television by Hillary Clinton while investigating the attack on the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya. Several Americans were killed, including Ambassador John Christopher Stevens.

The reality is without the Senate, the Republicans have close to zero chance of passing any meaningful legislation without getting stomped by Senator Chuck Schumer the minute it hits his desk.

This is typical of the Republicans. I cannot remember the Republicans getting anything done since Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” and later on during the Trump presidency.

Republicans should be concentrating on things they can actually do. For example, there is plenty of evidence pointing to President Biden’s alleged corruption. There is also the failure of the Biden administration in protecting the Southern border from illegal aliens.

These two along are strong enough to begin impeachment proceedings against President Biden. Sure, they do not have the Senate, and the chances of obtaining a conviction are nonexistent, but one thing it will do is expose President Biden to the American people and the failure of his administration.

It may not sound like much, but it will show the Republicans are not afraid of holding a sitting president accountable.

When President Trump was elected in 2016, the Democrats in the House wasted no time working and putting together so-called evidence to draft articles of impeachment, and by 2019, he was impeached.

The Democrats were clear about what they were going to do to President Trump, and they did it, not once, but twice in his four-year presidency.

Have you heard the Republicans even bringing the subject up? No, they continue promoting pieces of legislation that will never become law and only gets them airtime on Fox News and Hannity.

The Republicans have a little under two years to get things done and to have any chance of holding the House in 2024.

Right now, all they are doing is being histrionic because they think we are that kind of stupid. They think we are not smart enough to understand how our system of government works and they are banking on that stupidity to just get by until the next election cycle.

When it comes to the fighting spirit, I wish the Republicans were like the Democrats. The Democrats know how to win, even when in the minority.

In the meantime, we can expect from the Republicans and their leadership more of the same, the “Potomac Two Step.”

Elections Have Consequences

Look At Yourself In The Mirror And You Will Find The Answer

Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall……..Photo courtesy of bible-reflections.net

Now that the media driven big ‘Red Wave’, which I was guilty of buying into it, did not happen, we could probably learn a thing or two of the outcomes.

As I said back in 2020, politicians are not to blame for their successes or defeats at the ballot box. Politicians do what they do best, they lie, cheat, and steal in order to get elected, but it is up to you, to either believe them or reject them.

As the 2022 mid-term elections are ending, almost 7 days after the fact, the time to blame the politicians for the results is over. It is your responsibility to vote for your best interest and if you did not, shame on you.

In New York state, Governor Kathy Hochul got over 90% of the black vote, despite the fact lockdowns and crime has affected this community more so than any other in New Your City and throughout the state.

In Michigan, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, not only got reelected as governor of Michigan but she also got a Democratic Party House and Senate. This is the same woman who would not allow people to buy seed to plant while her husband was getting preferential treatment to use his boat.

In Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker got also reelected. This is the same Pritzker who while Illinois was on lockdown he took off with his family to Florida and was having a good time while people were suffering in his state.

These are a few examples on how people voted despite the facts hitting them square in the face. So how is Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, or even Donald Trump to blame for the Republican losses?

Donald Trump scuttled Dave McCormick’s chance in Pennsylvania while endorsing Dr. Oz for the U.S. Senate. Every serious political pundit knows, and agrees, McCormick had the best chances to defeat Lieutenant Governor Fetterman in the general election.

Needless to say, Dr. Oz got beaten and couldn’t even get the endorsement of the woman who made him a television star, Oprah Winfrey.

Yes, Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, did not do much for the Republicans candidates in Arizona and even funneled money to fight against another Republican candidate in Alaska in order to keep a RINO by his side.

At the end of the day, it was not McConnell, McCarthy, or Trump who got these candidates beaten, it was the voters who did not show up or clearly voted for the opposition candidate.

There is a lot of blame to go around this election cycle, but it was up to us to vote for the candidates we thought had the best ideas and plans for the country.

Until people stop blaming the establishment and start taking responsibility for whom they vote for, this will continue to happen election after election after election.

Our electoral system needs some serious reforms, but it starts with us, the voters.