Donald Trump: Norm Buster!
The president uses the White House and the Republican National Convention to send a message about his own character, beliefs and sense of purpose. He pardons former bank robber, Jon Ponder, supervises a naturalization ceremony, and then his wife, Melania, brings a message of compassion for COVID-19 victims and a call for racial unity.
Bill Whittle says Trump’s not normal, but he stands up for normal people.
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I’ve said it before here. Motto #2: “I am not normal. Normal is boring.” I am: A gamer. Have been chemical engineer. Programmed computers for a living and was a tech support person as well. Singer. (Multiple choirs, vocal ensamble, done harmony, solo acapella, etc.)Actor. ( church play years ago. People liked it. Played Satan.) And as to the naturalization cermony, back in college a friend of a friend got the test for citizenship. 5 of us took it. The 2 Democrats failed it. The 3 Republicans passed it. One just barely. Another (me) got only one wrong, and I can’t remeber what it was.
A quick, true story about a Nationalization ceremony. Several years go this month I traveled to Parris Island, SC for the graduation of my Godson (nephew) into the Marine Corp. I was quite prepared to cry that weekend. But the first tears came early. The ceremonies have several parts, with part 1 being in a large hanger and the company marching in, parents and relatives trying to figure out which is their kid, but they all look the same. Down towards the front were 11 about to be new marines, each 18 or 19 years old. But before they could graduate the next day and claim their title of US Marine, there was a task left to do. These 11 had come from Columbia, and Nicaragua, and Mexico, and Egypt. And before they could be sworn in as Marines, they first had to be sworn in as US Citizens. Yes, before they became citizens, they enlisted in the USMC.
Friends, I was a blubbering mess. Most beautiful thing I have ever seen!
The oaths I took as a soldier and a peace officer never do and never will expire for me.
USAF vet and the oath lasts a lifetime.
I too was moved by the five new citizens’ swearing-in ceremony, and I think it was genius for another reason. I don’t ever remember hearing the entire oath aloud. I was struck by its similarity to other oaths, like for military service. Defending the U.S. and its constitution and laws from enemies foreign and domestic! Swearing to serve in a military or civilian capacity when required by law! I think there was even something in it about being productive! It was pretty sweeping. I wonder how many “natural-born” citizens would take such an oath. Perhaps we ought to tie the oath to registering to vote.
Leftists hate America because they are all the things they say they hate. They cannot see the good in this country because they’re only looking at the reflections of themselves. This is why virtue signalling has become important to the point of toxicity with them, they know somewhere deep down that they’re on the wrong path and are trying to show others how good they are as a person.
As the left descend into that maelstrom of self-hate they become more and more impossible to reach. They don’t want a hand up and out of their emotional cyclone, they want to drag everyone else down into it.
I don’t know where it is but there’s got to come a breaking point eventually. I’m not advocating a course of action but I’d be willing to listen to suggestions.
Vote for TRUMP
You’re preaching to the choir but then there’s a lot of that in here and I most certainly do as much of it as anyone.
It’s possible that Trump IS the “breaking point” I mentioned. I voted for him in 2016 and I’ll vote for him again in November. Be that as it may, it still remains to be seen if he’s a breaking point or a flash in the pan. I’m thinking he’s the former, I’m hoping he’s the former, but the way things are going right now we might not know for sure until we see who stands on the podium with his hand on the Holy Bible next January.
You are right about January. Don’t know what to think about mail in voting. I’m going to vote in person and I hope others will too. Everyone take a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PRcNFaW770&feature=youtu.be
Yeah, we preach to the choir, but a few bedraggled stragglers may wander in. 🙂
Preaching to the choir is not a bad thing. Dennis Prager released a video this week where he talked about the great intrinsic value of discussion with like minded peers and how that arms and resources us to deal effectively with unlike minded people.
And every terrible and hateful thing they accuse us of doing is exactly what they are doing. I agree with you. It’s all about liberals trying so desperately to feel good about themselves and superior. They are doomed to failure, and they just get more angry and crazy.
One of the really weird aspects of this is that we conservatives are not, as a general rule, the hateful side of this equation. I’m an old grump, I won’t deny that, but I learned a long time ago that hate will eat you up if you feed it. I try to avoid that emotion like I would a poisonous spider or snake.
The left realizes this of course, and they try to use it against us. That’s why they think calling people racists who are not racists is effective, and it is to some degree. Because it’s hurtful they use that as a prod to poke us in the direction they want us to go. And that works to some degree also …
The proof it works is that Barack Hussein Obama was elected twice. The first time because (among other causes because this is not a simple equation driven by a single factor) many people felt good about themselves in voting for a half black man with African features. The second time because you were a racist if you didn’t vote for him. Completely ignoring his inherited superficial genetic traits — He was at the very best a lackluster, mediocre ideological demagogue and did virtually nothing positive for the average American Citizen. America marched in place and did nothing more than mark time under his administration. Whatever economic recovery we experienced was in spite of not because of Obama.
Of course, now visible in 20/20 hindsight, running the two most worthless RINOs in the Republican party (John McCain and Mitt Romney) was a force multiplier for the other side.
Sorry, I digressed there for a bit. My point is that the left is far more the hateful side of the left/right dichotomy. The left is a grievance oriented group that has to invent grievances if there are none to exploit which exist of themselves. Without grievances the left collapses and because of that there will never be sufficient appeasement to satisfy their complaints. This only works if you can get people to hate other people. The whole foundation of leftist ideology is built on hate, hate is the sword they wield.
This has to eventually collapse, even when propped up on life support as in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China (which btw has abandoned the economic foundations of socialism and uses capitalism to resource the tyranny of socialistic government), and we all know this, even the left. That’s WHY China has abandoned a socialist based economy and morphed into a hybrid of capitalist revenue streams while managing to maintain the totalitarian aspects of Communism. We can see what this does to other nations and I’m sure the American left, the real left manipulating the masses, knows this all too well.
Knowing this, the American left fans the flames of hate and doesn’t care if it destroys the greatest political system ever devised by mankind and Divine Guidance. Worse yet, it’s not only that the left knows this, they openly desire the destruction of the American Republic. They want the Republic to collapse and are willing to take their chances in the subsequent power vacuum for the opportunity to rule over the ashes. Even in collapse the American continent provides vast wealth sufficient to maintain a ruling class in ultimate luxury. This is something that can only be accomplished through hate.
The left therefor is hateful, insidious, evil and an existential threat to America. The right is none of those things and that is both our greatest strength and our most profound vulnerability.
Donald Trump is a compromise using the leverage of pop culture, heretofore a primary tool of the left, against them. Donald Trump is not a conservative, he’s a moderate with some conservative ideals riding the vehicle of conservatism because it’s the only vehicle that will take him, and us, where we need to go.
I could go on a lot more about this but I see I’ve already written an essay that no one will probably read. So I’ll conclude by saying that there will come a breaking point because there must be one. There are two possible futures for the American Republic. The brighter one is that the left will eat itself and collapse while the nation moves rapidly to prosperity and security. This is dependent on the wisdom and intelligence of the American People in whom I place a great store of trust and confidence. We always seem to let things come right to the brink and then exert great efforts to fix the problem. The other future is one of collapse and the rise of an economic and political elite logistically supported by everyone else. If you don’t want to see Neo-Marxist overlords ruling over the rubble then there is only one political choice to make. Sadly, we may very well have to come to the brink, if indeed we are not there already, before things get better. I say “sadly” because it doesn’t have to be that way.
Well, I read every word and thought that every word was true and wise
Scott, you’re not the only one to get choked up at the Naturalization swearing-in ceremony…
I also saw somewhat cynical Scott Adams tear up on camera!
Your comment, “Show people, don’t tell people” was gigantic!