I am the Real Truckmaster:
1. I am a born-again Christian (a sinner saved by the grace of God).
2 I am a retired US Army Transportation Sergeant First Class (E-7), my last position of assignment was as the "Truckmaster" of the US Army Transportation Motor Pool in Yokohama Japan (1989-90).
3. I am an amateur military historian.
4. I am a Thailand Veteran of the Vietnam War.
5. I detest "Politics as Usual".
6. I'm pro-life (Abortion is murder) and there is no justification or excuse for it.
7. I believe that we must place the security and welfare of America First!
Clarification of Real Truckmaster Blogs
For those who follow my blog posts on RTM blogs let me clarify and clear up some confusion.
I write highlighting the inconsistencies and hypocrisy of the far-left's war on anything Trump.
There are too many willing to argue without merit and I would be remiss attempting to argue against their ignorance, they have way too much experience.
My writings are my personal opinion intended to be educational in nature, a bit humorous, satirical, while being informative providing food for thought, which is sorely lacking today. For those who find my posts offensive, I am truly sorry, you have the right NOT to read them as have many before you. I will not attempt to change your mind politically, but provide the opportunity to show something you may wish to consider, thereby illuminating prejudice and misinformation! - I am the Real Truckmaster!
When President Trump fired the FBI director and replaced him with Director Wray from within the FBI I predicted that how he performed would tell whether Trump had made the right choice or not.
Take the collective actions of the FBI over the course of the past 5 years and the “ah ha” moment came when Director Wray went before a congressional investigative committee and stated under oath that on July 13th, 2024 President Trump had not been really shot, but cut from a glass fragment.
Why has it taken so long to expose the obvious corruption of key law enforcement agencies that have congressional responsibility to protect select public figures? And why have no significant “heads” rolled in the aftermath by President Biden?
There is an obvious coverup that must be explored further and congress should dig much deeper to find answers.
We’ve heard promises of full transparency but actions speak louder than words. The iron hand of Justice must prevail before the “HLS Titanic” settles into the deep sea of regret.
When has common sense been discarded for meaningless conjecture? – RTM
There are times when things just don’t go the way you planned. It’s natural to figure out another way. Quite often that way may not work out either. So what are you supposed to do?
A persistent man will find another way while a defeated man will simply give up. When lives are at stake there is no giving up.
It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention.
The recent events with American astronauts is a perfect example of a major glitch that necessitates alternative measures to ensure the safety of those astronauts while determining the best way forward that will bring them back safely.
It was reported that NASA employees felt humiliated because another spacecraft was chosen to rescue the astronauts.
I say what happened to brainstorming for other viable options? There should be no petty bickering. Have we not learned from past mistakes that resulted in tragedy?
My brother John was next to the youngest of four boys. John joined the army in 1971 shortly after the death of his infant daughter. John was an infantryman and served one year in Korea at Camp Casey along the DMZ, before finishing his time on active duty at Fort Carson. I visited John at Fort Carson, in 1974 shortly before his honorable discharge (ETS), as I was headed to an assignment in the Panama Canal Zone at that time. After John returned to Boise, ended up getting married a couple of times and had more children and lived a few houses away from mom and dad. John worked for the city of Boise at the water treatment plant near the airport and Gowen Field and kept a watchful eye on the folks.
It was around June 1997 when I received a frantic phone call from John who was concerned about my having a full physical exam. I told John not to worry because I was in pretty good health and didn’t have high blood pressure or any medical issues.
John informed me that he had been diagnosed with melanoma cancer and although he was beginning treatment the cancer was very aggressive. Over the next couple of months I made a few trips back home to check up on him, and our folks and our other two brothers. John had been treated at a local hospital and by July or early August they sent John home with a morphine drip. John knew the end was near and wanted to die at home with family around him.
I made one last trip to see John. It was a fast trip that weekend in August and I talked to John about his condition and asked what he wanted from God. John said he was ready for whatever God decided and on August 28th, 1997 John went to be with the Lord. It was both a sad and a happy time for our family in that John’s body had been wracked in constant pain so although we were sad to let him go, we were happy that he left that pain filled body behind.
The viewing and memorial service was a tribute to John’s character and a witness of his faith in Jesus Christ. The funeral home was packed and the standing room was filled with family and friends. It seemed pretty remarkable for someone who said he never affected anyone.
Fast forward to August 28th, 1998 as I sat at my computer, sipping a cup of coffee I suffered a heart attack. It felt like someone was pressing a brick on my chest and I had turned completely pale. My wife sensing something was wrong drove me to Peterson AFB (2 miles away) and at the USAF clinic they began checking my blood pressure, asking lots of questions and feeding me nitroglycerin tablets. I saw my wife’s doctor and told him I was worried about my wife who had a history of high blood pressure.
What really got my attention was when one doctor called 911 and said over the phone they had what looked like a 90 year old male suffering a heart attack. I mean my birthday was coming up in 3 days and I was going to be 49 years old (if I made it). The doctor was calling for a civilian ambulance to transport me to a local hospital for immediate surgery and the surgeon was standing by.
All the way to the hospital they kept feeding me nitroglycerin tablets and nothing was happening, I feared I might explode.
They did an x-ray of my chest and heart to determine that I had 1 main artery with a 99% blockage. The blockage was cleared and a stint put in to keep the artery from collapsing. I was kept in the hospital for 2 nights. My parents came from Idaho and stayed a few days to make sure they weren’t going to lose another son so soon.
Here we are on August 28th, 2024, mom and dad are buried next to John just outside the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise and it is one of the first stops when going north to visit my two remaining brothers in Ola.
For a politician being labeled a pariah can be a death knoll. For a Kennedy being called the Pariah of Camelot is but a call to action to stand up for his core values even if it means having family, friends or so called political “allies” turn their backs, push him aside, to be excommunicated or disowned by his betters, his family and by his political party has become a strength that has driven RFK, Jr. first to become an Independent candidate for the presidency in 2024, and then moving elsewhere receiving acceptance and value from his most unlikely foe turned ally – Donald Trump who has offered RFK, Jr. a role in the Trump transition team.
This unlikely political union has to be driving them absolutely mad because the possibility that many RFK, Jr. voters may make the switch over to become Trump voters after seeing how corrupt the Democratic Party really is in broad daylight as they attempt to ridicule and demean him.
This I can tell you that RFK, Jr. has some driving values which he is not willing to give up even after suspending his presidential campaign and throwing his full support behind Trump. For them agreeing to disagree on a number of issues has not prevented them from joining forces for the betterment of Americans across our nation. History will show the value of this political alignment.
What was thought to be lemons is now being turned into lemonade.
I’m sure that both JFK and RFK would be proud of how RFK, Jr. has taken the bull by the horns and refuses to be bullied by this new Progressive Democratic Party establishment.
After returning home from a trip to the local VA Clinic I arrived home and while preparing to open the front door I heard the sound of school kids. The sound was something I never expected but greatly appreciated hearing:
I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic for which it stands
One nation under God
With liberty and justice for all
I look toward my flagpole and see Old Glory waving in the breeze just above the POW/MIA flag and for a moment the world is a better place thanks to the teachers, staff and the children of school district 49’s Evans Elementary School. – RTM
As we approach the November 5th 2024 Presidential Election it would seem that the train has literally run off its tracks. Vice President Harris is ditching her main ride = AF 2 for a tour bus across Georgia. Her campaign strategy is simple = get elected before giving her official policy statement. It drives the right leaning media crazy while the left leaning media surrogates put out bits and pieces of “what she said then isn’t where she stands now” statements. In the meantime keep on flashing those pearly whites and wave, wave, wave.
On the other hand former President Trump is holding Harris fully accountable for her actions as vice president under Biden where a bad decision by them led to 13 Americans dead, and hundreds, if not thousands of Afghanistan allies and their families were left stranded in the hands of the Taliban in 2021. Harris’ public policies say she is against basically everything that Trump is for.
Both candidates know the importance of a secure border, one has insured it remains open, the other promises to shut the door on day one. One candidate believes that abortion is wrong, but a federal mandate is not the answer because that responsibility is and should be in the hands of state governments; the other believes abortion is health care for women’s choices. The Constitution guarantees the right to life and the bible tells us “thou shalt not kill” but those seem to be suggestions that can be bent for personal preferences.
The economy is great according to Team Harris, while ALL Americans are affected financially in all aspects of daily life by the current Biden/Harris policies, which she has sort of promised to fix, (but not really).
Team Trump has been there, done that and knows exactly what to do, but voters don’t trust him because mainly they’ve been told not to (and remember he tweets too much).
The world seems to be headed downhill like an out of control train with nobody at the controls, but all that will change in just ten short weeks…… yeah right! – RTM
The history of the United States of America is more than 240 years old and began as the first settlers sought refuge in the New World and were introduced to the inhabitants who were already here. Land was cleared, homes were built and settlements established as people simply wanted to live and freely worship God without government interference. Many hardships were encountered, battles fought, wars won and lost, but the quest for freedom never died.
Over time the wild frontier was tamed and expansion saw towns and villages could be found from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to the north and to Mexico to the south. Slaves and workers were introduced to work the fields, build factories and cities established and states were formed as our nation grew.
There was a time when government pushed so hard and our nation became divided into an all-out Civil War. The fight wasn’t simply over slavery, but over differing interpretations of the rights and privileges held dear in the Constitution and the right of citizens to prevent government interference.
Over time statues and monuments were formed to memorialize the men and women who fought every step of the way forging ahead. As a nation we have lost our way, our moral compass. There are those who have become “offended”, and have demanded the tearing down of manmade monuments and statues while others have passed laws demanding the renaming of US military installations.
This is wrong.
History does not change because someone is offended or doesn’t like what they see or read in the history books. To recognize modern time heroes is one thing, but do so by creating new monuments or statues dedicated to their memory. It is equally wrong to erect statues or monuments to current or recently deceased lifetime politicians because of political correctness.
Tearing down and/or defacing statues or monuments is still a federal crime.
Public service is just that = Serving the Public.
Public Service is not serving self, any political party or elected office. – RTM
I was raised in a family of dirt farmers in Southwestern Idaho in the 50s’ & 60’s. We lived for a time in a converted chicken coup next to a ditch bank in Homedale. I was the oldest of my three brothers and at first I rode my little bicycle to school. Our family all worked the fields harvesting crops during the summer. My dad was a crew boss who managed and worked alongside a number of regular migrant workers. Nobody told us we were poor, but we were family and always had more than enough.
When harvesting potatoes we little guys were out front shaking the vines knocking the dirt clods and potatoes free. As we got bigger we donned the belts of the pickers and drug those burlap bags as we filled them with potatoes. When I was big enough I began steering the spud truck as dad bucked two one hundred pound bags over his head and onto the back of the truck. Mom was the driver who took us 4 boys in tow and headed to Simplot’s scales and shed to be unloaded.
We picked other crops too, strawberries, peaches, apples, corn – whatever crops were ready Mondays through Fridays. On Saturdays we went for a burger, fries and a coke at the Dew Drop Inn and over to the theater to watch a Tarzan movie or those horror movies like The Blob. We also got our 25 cent chocolate-dip cone at the Frosty Palace and sometimes ended up at the park where we climbed all over the Sherman tank. On Sundays we went to Sunday school at the Nazarene church.
We learned right from wrong and I remember the time I tried stealing a pair of leather gloves I got caught and after being punished at home I was made to go back into the store and apologize to the manager.
Life was much simpler back then.
So what happened? In society today it is common practice for someone to take something just because they can, and if they get caught it’s often not even a slap on the hand. Lying is considered normal behavior and mistreating animals is grounds for immediate punishment, but killing babies by abortion is to be seen as a woman’s right to choose or called health care.
I was never called the brightest bulb in the box but even I know that the 10 Commandments are but guidelines to follow simply because God said so. There is no amount of justification to break even one on purpose.
I know that God loves me and I can humble myself before him and ask forgiveness. I know that because I know God hears me, he has promised to forgive me. That means I simply do an about face, turn from my wicked ways and not repeat the sin I’ve been forgiven of.
It’s mindboggling that people feel they can outsmart God or do something behind his back or in the dark and nobody is the wiser. (What is done in darkness will be brought out to the light).
I’ve had people get offended when I tell them I hate stupid or have no patience for stupid people doing stupid things, I really don’t – but God does!
As hard as it may seem, it is impossible to be too stupid for God.
God loves you just the way he created you and no you are not a mistake. Ask God to forgive you, place all your trust in him and ask God to become your Lord and Savior. Do it today. Do it now. – RTM
There is one constant in a MAGA rally – President Donald Trump. Over the years his message hasn’t changed very much and this is where the public get to see “Trump the entertainer” in action, adlibbing and going off on a seemingly endless rant against his political opponents and those who threaten the welfare of our nation.
There is the tender side to Trump highlighted during the RNC Convention where the public saw and heard from Trump family members talking about Dad and Grandpa. It touched the very soul of our nation.
And there is the fighter side of Trump that was clearly visible during the Butler, PA rally when a 22-year old would be assassin fired at Trump from a rooftop, striking him on the right side of his head, just above his ear. Flying projectiles killed one rally goer and injured two more before a secret service sniper ended the carnage with a single one in a million shot.
America saw the humanly rational side of Trump when he sat down for a live conversation with Elon Musk. It was a side that the public rarely if almost never saw before.
And we all saw the logical side of Trump after the secret coup that turned President Biden into a lame duck president just five months before the 2024 Presidential Election, when CA (D) former house speaker Nancy Pelosi and others exerted enormous pressure to get Biden to withdraw from his bid for reelection for the good of the Democratic Party and back Vice President Harris’s run for the presidency.
President Trump called it like it was a coup. It was orchestrated to remove the Biden liability so that an even worse Harris liability could take advantage of confused democratic voters in what is supposed to be a slam dunk over Trump. Democrats and even Republican talking heads say that Trump must change his tactics and not attack his opponent personally but to stay on script (message) attacking her record.
I beg to differ, as vice president – Kamala Harris owns the failed record of Joe Biden as well as her failure as the appointed border czar (Biden used the same term “Czar” that his former boss Barack Obama used during his presidency) and by extension Obama’s failures as president).
The media blitz given the re-branding of Kamala Harris focused on her failed prosecutorial career, while totally ignoring her failures as vice president. To date there have been no policy announcements, simply empty promises like raising taxes on corporations, raising the minimum wage for “hospitility” workers, knowing the importance of securing the border (California has a border wall) and promising to be the president of ALL Americans (except Trump, Kennedy, MAGA or GOP).
That leaves no positive record as vice president, is thats what Trump is supposed to talk about?
America is seeing the forward thinking side of Trump during his Arizona Rally when former Democrat, turned Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who ended his campaign and threw his full support for Trump was introduced as an ally to join forces as a coalition to end corruption in various government agencies as well as to release the still secret records of the JFK assassination.
It should be obvious that the Democratic Party put all they had into hyping up the DNC Convention in Chicago with nothing but lies to raise already low expectations while providing nothing of substance for voters of any party, except a host of big names and big money to talk trash about Donald Trump.
Americans deserve better, much, much better. – RTM
What is my takeaway from the DNC Convention in Chicago?
The entire affair was simply a lot of adulation about nothing. There were no tangible tidbits that sparked hope and joy. While we waited for something we could sink our teeth into America got nothing.
In fact America got hoodwinked (google it).
Among all the glamour and glitz in the way of entertainment, entertainers, famous names and faces, former presidents and first ladies and the democratic elites and the super rich tooting the same tune-
The Harris/Walz ticket is for ALL Americans (unless you are Trump, MAGA or GOP).
Democrats are the party for Democracy and freedom.
Look around, under Biden/Harris the economy is great, the border is secure, the world is at peace (except for pesky Israel not submitting to constant threats and pressured to end the suffering in Gaza that is being caused by Hamas).
Is that about it?
No, but in America there are those Americans standing in the way of “familial genocide”, but “We trust women” for reproductive health that is intentionally killing for any reason our nation’s future generations.
According to democratic nominee Kamala Harris she is “charting a new path forward for America”.
That’s concerning to me because the path America is currently on is not healthy for anyone, and Harris is responsible and contributed directly to it. So when all the glitter is gone, and the trappings go away America is left with not only unfilled empty promises but under a Harris administration America will feel the pain, and like never before.
The Real Truckmaster 