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!
Do you know the difference between sheep, goats and politicians?
When God created sheep they began following their master unceremoniously but goats, that’s another thing altogether. Goats butt heads over nothing, just because they can.
Politicians on the other hand are confused to say the least. Their entire term is spent learning the ropes on how to be a good Democrat / Republican. They often did-remember why they were elected in the first place.
The two main political parties in American politics were badly named from the start. Or were they?
Democrats are hard headed, stubborn people who think they are God’s gift to America. They get an idea in their heads, convince themselves and others they are right – the only ones who can be right. Maybe the mule is a closer fit as a mascot than say a goat? Power hungry Democrats think they ARE God.
Republicans are learned people who understand the constitutional application of the bill of rights, but many times lack the intestinal fortitude necessary to persevere over the opposition. Republicans WISH they were God so they could zap those pesky Democrats into oblivion.
Voters wish both sides would simply GROW UP and act like Americans!
We spend way too much time fighting each other and the real enemy wants both sides to do each other in so they can pick up the spoils of war.
Too bad we can’t just boot them all out and start over, or can we? –
Is it human nature when listening to someone speak to think ahead of what they’re saying? I mean we do it all the time when we hear the first word or phrase and tend to chime in finishing the sentence for them. The danger in that is we most often get it wrong and show that we weren’t listening in the first place.
Back in the olden days we’d call that “Jumping The Gun” like an athlete on the track, READY – SET – and then taking off before the starting pistol has fired and that can get you disqualified. It’s not the way to win a race.
When hunters are out in the woods, field or mountains as they approach their game the first instinct is to pull back the hammer until it clicks. Without hearing that click it’s easy for the gun to go off – BANG scaring off the intended target. That’s called “Going Off Half-Cocked”.
We do that too when we hear or read a report that angers us, but we fail to validate the accuracy of that report and we do something else, we “Fly Off The Handle”. Yep you read that right, it’s we’re the fly and someone is trying to drive us off the handle of that skillet on the stove.
In each case we respond almost without thinking to a word, phrase or mental picture that “Triggers” our emotions. What we must do is to consciously ask ourselves is that really true or simply hearsay?
Maybe we should use these processes when dealing with politicians because we know that most often whenever they open their mouth – they are already disqualified.
It is legendary that our government makes a great many commitments which can never be equally enforced across the board. The Indians learned the hard way that “White man speaks with forked tongue” when they signed a peace treaty that will last as long as the river flows or as high as the mountains.
We got a taste of that all too recently “you can keep your doctor”, “give up your guns and the criminals will give their guns up too”, “2 weeks to stop the spread”, or “you can’t get the virus after you’ve gotten the shot”.
All double speak for “I’m from the government, trust me”!
I think Americans are smarter than that.
The strength of a nation depends upon the strength of its people, not to blindly allow the government free reign in their lives, but to know when the lines of civil rights, public safety and security have been breached, as well as how to stand up to defend them.
We all have an opinion on everything. So if you think you don’t have an opinion wait until you are told to sacrifice your children to the god of public safety.
Will it then hit home for you or will it be too late? –
Today many have replaced love with lust, skipped marriage and replaced the carriage with a 4 in 1 car seat convertible stroller.
After all as I was told “we got to learn to take care of a baby before we worry about marriage”.
In my book it’s about priorities. The first is love with respect and commitment to each other as a real family.
God created the first family unit with Adam and Eve, not Adam & Steve!
The real family unit should place God first then the others ahead of self and learn together how to raise up the children in the admonition of the Lord.
The way of the world says love self, take from others and you’re okay, I’m okay but don’t mess with what I want to do.
Shacking up isn’t hard to do and requires no commitment whatsoever. When things get rough the tough get going leaving kids to raise themselves without the love and support of a mom and a dad.
Any man can father a child but it takes a real man to be the dad who role models and teaches his kids to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do. –
Don Way and Joe Wilson – Khon Kaen, Thailand in 1969
7-27-2022
Boonie Biking in 1960s Thailand
This is a story I’ve told many times, but it’s worth repeating. In 1969 while stationed in Thailand and shortly after I got married to my lovely wife of almost 53 years I bought a blue Honda 125cc motorcycle from a sergeant in my platoon.
Over the course of the next 10 months I experienced a series of adventures/misadventures while riding in the Northeastern portion called Issan and around Sattahip.
Many of my rides were with Don on his 175cc Honda and Everett on his 90cc Honda.
I remember doing some crazy “don’t try this at home” stuff like riding in a local cemetery and no we didn’t go around knocking things over or tearing up the grounds, but riding there was probably not the best place to ride.
Another place was at the local Royal Thai Army firing range where we’d start at the firing positions and race to the top of the first mound of dirt where we’d stop on top before heading off to the next mount. It was on one of these days I simply forgot to stop on top of the mound and became airborne. I was scared spitless as the front tire landed slightly ahead of the rear tire. I brought the bike to a stop and had to wait while my nerves settled down and vowed never to do that again.
We’d often head out of town and follow the dirt paths that lead to some of the rice farms, where we’d ride atop the dikes separating the rice paddies. We’d often change directions and stop when we ran out of rice paddies.
As we sat there discussing where we’d just been, kids would come along offering us Pepsi’s with a straw in a bag of ice for the equivalent of 7 ½ cents. The bag was secured by a rubber band which we’d hang over and let it dangle from the mirror or we’d finish drinking it before proceeding on to a new adventure.
One ride was just Don and I riding on top of the dikes. I was in the lead and had just crossed a place where the water had pooled up as it moved from one rice paddy to another. All of a sudden I heard Don as he crossed the spot I had just covered, but then I heard a strange sound like “blub, blub, blub” I stopped and looked behind me and there was Don and his bike submerged to the handlebars and his bike was still running……for a few moments and then there was silence. I quickly ran back to help Don pull his motorcycle out of the water and onto the dike. He pulled some tools out of his tool bag and loosened the exhaust pipes, cranked the engine a couple of times to clear out any water that might remain, secure the pipes and after checking the plugs, started it and let it run until it idled smoothly again. We then continued our ride.
There were times we both took our wife along and did our figure eights and generally had a good time riding together.
Then there was the time that Don’s wife was admitted to the Air Force hospital at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base for appendicitis. Don went to see her after the operation, but hit a water buffalo that had crossed the road directly into his path. The water buffalo died on impact and Don suffered two broken collarbones and found himself in a hospital bed in the same room as his wife.
When we were returning home after visiting them my bike had a flat tire, at 50 MPH as I was passing a gasoline truck. As I laid the bike down at the edge of the pavement my wife slid off smoothly, while I and the bike went down into the ditch. I got up to check on my wife and survey the damage a Thai Police Officer riding as a guard in the gasoline truck, came running down to see if I was okay and help me push the bike back onto the roadway. It was then we saw the valve stem had been torn off the tube. Soon a songtale (small bus) came along and we loaded the bike and ourselves into the back. The nearest village had a tire shop facing the highway. The bus stopped and we unloaded the bike and pushed it over to the tire shop. At first he said he didn’t have any parts for a motorcycle tire, but ended up fusing a new valve stem to the tube, airing up the tire and we were back on our way home, after suffering a bit of road rash.
In early 1970 I was transferred to another unit south of Bangkok and when it came time to leave Issan we climbed onto our motorcycle and rode over 300 miles south and through the mountains south of Korat to the port town of Sattahip. I was an all-day ride and we got to the hotel we were ready for a long night’s sleep.
I made a couple of changes to the bike in Sattahip. First I changed exhaust pipes by fitting a Mercedes Benz tailpipe with baffles that gave it that throaty kind of groveling sound and later I changed the rear sprocket. The gear ratio was such that you couldn’t get into high gear without the engine bogging down, but 4th gear would bring the engine speed up to the red line on RPMs. It was a good selling point when I got ready to come back to the states and needed to sell it fast.
I miss riding in Thailand as it was back then, but today the traffic is a lot heavier and drivers seem to be crazier than ever before. Small motorbikes of 90cc are a way of life to many Thais today, but are a constant source of accidents, tragedy and loss of life. I’ll stick to motorized vehicles where you have a bit of steel protecting you. –
Where are the dissenting voices of reason? Have they already thrown in the towel? Maybe they’re just too afraid to stand up and be heard?
I’m not a legal beagle, a lawyer or a judge as are many elected officials in congress but I know that the Constitution of the United States of America very distinctly provided for the separation of powers between the Legislative, Executive and the Judicial Branches of government specifically for such a time as this.
Are they so set on pinning wrong-doing on President Trump that the unconstitutional J6 Committee’s actions to prove their case in spite of their lack of a smoking gun?
Keep in mind when a legislative committee conducts its self as an arm of the Executive Branch to entrap the former president it has shown its true colors.
Out of the hours, days and weeks of wasted tax dollars and misappropriation of elected officials and their staffs what have they accomplished thus far?
Nothing other than demonstrate how little they know about our Constitution or their proper role in government.
The J6 Committee is not a court of law, yet they make it a point of trying President Trump in the court of public opinion.
Show me first of all what section in the Constitution gives them any judicial power – it does not!
What “evidence” have they uncovered that validates their bodies existence? Show me what Amendment gives them any credence?
They have gone after President Trump solely to prevent him from running for office again by citing the 14th Amendment.
Where are the legal experts among this body of Congress who will stand up and say ENOUGH is ENOUGH already?
Are they so brazen to think WE THE PEOPLE are clueless to what’s going on?
President Trump had it right when he said they don’t want me, they want you but I’m standing in the way.
It’s time AMERICA to stand up to the progressive Democratic Party mob and vote every last one of them (and those weak-kneed Republicans who follow them like puppies) out of office.
In case you thought this was about Trump? Sorry but it wasn’t. In fact it’s about congressional malfeasance (again), an indictment against upstanding legal professionals and constitutionalists who haven’t the guts to stand up to the mob in congress. Nothing more, nothing less.-
Constitutionally congress punishes their own according writes the rules they write. That being said maybe congress needs to write a rule that “sitting members of congress are prohibited from running for the office of President of the United States.” That would stop all the craziness that happens every 4 years when a presidential election takes place. It would protect We the People from experiencing the fallacy of those who think that because they are in congress they are qualified to run for president.
Look at the current administration a president and a vice president who both came out of the US Senate with no idea how to administrate to duties to which they have been elected. Back in 2006 we had the same thing with a president and a vice president both coming out of the US Senate, neither had a clue about what to do for the best interests of We the People.
How many presidents in my lifetime have come out of congress?
(D) John F. Kennedy
(D) Lyndon B. Johnson
(R) Gerald Ford
(D) Barack Obama
(D) Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
If you look at the 2020 election debates a majority were sitting members of congress who thought they had what it took to beat President Donald J. Trump, but it took a concerted effort of dirty and shady dealings for the least likely to rise to the top and into office in 2021. The 2016 election cycle had an equally huge number of seated members of congress running to replace President Barack Obama and they had to beat both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
The Constitution provides that congress makes their own rules and create laws which then have to be signed into law by the President. It is unlikely that congress will self-police by enacting term limits to prevent career politicians a safe haven in DC, so it is equally unlikely they will even consider stopping the flood of presidential hopefuls UNLESS they resign their elected office upon submitting their candidacy for the top office of President of the United States.
It is a proven fact that although someone is qualified, not everyone SHOULD be president. –
What powerful words “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law”. It’s one thing to have charges pressed against someone, but when the J6 Committee (which is not even a court) or any court in the country begins on the assumption that the accused is guilty and then works to find evidence that supports their pre-determined assumption.
That is why in my opinion House Speaker Nancy Pelosi literally and figuratively “Jumped the Gun” again trying to prove wrongdoing by President Trump on January 6th 2021 even reaching 4 years prior and into the days and weeks after. But it wasn’t just President Trump they were after, no it was anyone who identified as one of his supporters or fans. They were hunted down and treated like animals because they were loyal, patriotic MAGA fans while the actual criminal elements were given a pass.
Interestingly enough (but not totally unexpected) I did a Google search for books about Trump written particularly by those who knew him best during their White House years. What popped up were books, stories and pictures all portraying the #45th POTUS in a negative, demeaning and often vulgar light. So there is more than adequate material for J6 to draw from regardless of whether true or not.
In an actual court case neither attorney reveals his cards or openly states their endgame, until the time is right. So why do congressional lawyers play court and need a television audience to state their endgame before hearing one shred of incriminating “evidence”? Any judge worth his salt would dismiss the case and throw the lawyers in jail to teach them a lesson.
I saw a liberal news outlet’s headline stating “More Trump supporters are leaving Trump”. After reading it there was no need to go into the details of that actual report as we continue to stand behind Trump as we did on day one. We’re not going nowhere!
So here’s the deal so long as those items are out there I will continue to write about the facts as I’ve seen or know have come from reliable newsworthy sources, which leave out all the mainstream media outlets, internet tabloids or blogs slanted so far to the left that they tend to fall all over themselves.
If you’re one of those #dumptrumpers, #nevertrumpers, #everythingtrumptouchesdies or #trumpisbad kind of people willing to read my writings with an open mind so as to learn something new and worthwhile I suggest you simply save yourself some time and go elsewhere for your misinformation fix.
Also if you think that the number or volume of comments means nobody is reading my blogs and I’m starving for attention, you’re wrong. I don’t write to get comments good, bad or indifferent.
I write because it’s the right thing to do and it’s therapeutic to my inner most being. –
Those who follow my blog posts know that I am uncompromising in my belief that all men are created equal by our creator – God. Until you have read and understand the rule of law’s founding document The Constitution of the United States of America there is no way to justify giving up or giving away even one of the rights guaranteed by it.
What is hard for some to believe is that contrary to what has been said, published or broadcast over radio, television or the internet and social media the best president in my lifetime has been the forty-fifth – President Donald J. Trump. Trump had the idea that what made America the greatest nation on earth could also Make America Great Again and he had the intestinal fortitude and perseverance to make it happen.
Over the past 5+ years I have written in great detail about this political outsider taking the nation’s political parties to task. Not only did he identify specific political issues of great national importance, he rightly addressed those issues to the government entity responsible – the Congress of the United States, with congressional solutions or options that when taken seriously could have changed the landscape of the entire nation. What Trump got in return was resistance.
Almost immediately the resistance came in the form of democratic legislators boycotting the presidential inauguration, followed by disrespecting the newly elected office holder, his family and members of his administration. Then came the “disgruntled former” and current White House employees releasing their “dirt” on the president and a series of dirty dealings taken out of the Alinsky playbook by the Democratic Party and its operatives in the media and those sitting in congressionally elected offices, like sexual allegations, leaked audio recordings, smears and lies to tarnish the Trump family name and dishonor first candidate, then president-elect and finally the sitting President of the United States. Every presidential appointment and national security and foreign affairs decision made by Trump was second guessed and even unofficial “ambassadors” sent out to hold private meetings with foreign governments who were told not to worry as he wouldn’t remain president for long. Those were treasonous acts sanctioned resistant factions of our own government behind the back of the Trump administration.
What the nation was experiencing was an attempted and extended coup that remained bloodless until January 6th, 2021 when Ashley Babbitt was shot and killed inside the nation’s Capital Building by a Capital Police Officer. There was no investigation only labeling the shooting justified.
The continued J6 Congressional Hearings seem to be asking guided questions to bring a false narrative to its predetermined conclusion of wrong doing by President Trump and his MAGA supporters. This too is an act of resistance and defiance by select members of congress in their attempt to prevent another Trump landslide victory should he choose to run again.
On J6 did President Trump give a fiery speech that riled up his fan base to the extent they unlawfully and forcibly entered the nation’s Capital Building to cause damage and/or steal property?
Who did the Capital Police escort into the building as the first MAGA crowd made it to the Capital Building? Have they been identified, imprisoned or charged?
Why did the Capital Police openly invite the MAGA crowd into a portion of the Capital Building? What did the MAGA crowd see and/or do upon entering the Capital Building?
Why have MAGA crowd attendees on J6 been hunted down, imprisoned and what charges have been filed?
More importantly who is behind the activities of J6 and what are they trying to hide? –
When watching a boxing match are the opponents seen as aggressors or as acting aggressively? I’ve seen boxers come out swinging wildly hoping to land a knockout punch or at least score a TKO. The opponent often stands there taking a beating or spars fending off those wild punches until the bell rings. Whether it’s ten rounds or two, the aim is to be the last one standing.
The rules of boxing generally state no hitting below the belt or after the bell has rung. Each boxer has their own corner where they are rehydrated, their wounds are tended to and they are ready to take or administer a beating in the next round. Its winner takes all and the trophy is belt of the champion.
What many don’t know or don’t care is that during his high school years Donald J. Trump was a pretty good boxer. I’m sure he made mistakes but learned a great deal about himself and others in the process.
In the business world Trump took risks that he hoped would pay off. Many did, while others did not and he had to pick himself up and try again. When it came to raising his kids in the business world he made sure they started at the bottom with a good teacher. He wanted his children to know the business from the ground up, as his father had taught him.
In politics what changed was not Trump’s business savvy, but he became keenly aware of the cutthroat nature of politics. As he sought the Oval Office he was set upon by all sort of political traps meant to sink his ship before it had even sailed. Trump resorted to the aggressive tactics of his boxing years by striking back hard and fast and pressing in for the kill shot.
After becoming elected as President of the United States his aggressiveness became a great asset. Trump said what he meant and meant what he said, but went even further to bring it into fruition. He really believed America had been short changed by our own politicians who then sold Americans a bill of goods that undercut the foreign affairs of our nation and jeopardized our national security. His vision was that America could become great once more and respected among the nations of the world.
Trump knew that immigration was important to national security and he urged Congress to take the steps necessary to correct flaws in US immigration laws.
Trump also knew that world leaders had to know that he wasn’t bluffing during his world tour as President. While leaders of other nations took notice of Trump’s leadership style abroad, American politicians in Congress made disparaging and disrespectful public statements to undermine the Trump presidency.
As a great show of disrespect, often crossing the lines of treason, elected officials conducted back-door talks telling enemy state representatives not to pay attention to Trump as he wouldn’t stay president for long. Then as if to emphasize their point Trump became the only president to be impeached twice over trumped up and baseless charges.
In spite of the obstacles thrown in his way, Trump negotiated the Abraham Accords peace agreement for Middle Eastern nations with Israel; moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem; conducted talks with North Korean and Russian presidents while battling for the political soul of America. On more than one occasion Trump said they’re not after me, but I’m standing in their way from getting to you – American citizens.
Even after the events of the election in November 2020, the inauguration of Biden the hounds of the Progressive Democratic Party continue to see Trump as a major threat for the presidential election of 2024. Trump is one last spark to be extinguished for the total transformation of America into a socialist democratic state. Freedom is not free, but an idea fought to retain by every patriotic American over the past 250+ years.
You say Trump is the aggressor, I say Trump has always acted aggressively to combat the politics that have ruined America’s system of politics and our election process. –
What was the purpose of the J6 Committee? Is it to investigate and bring out the truth about the events of J6? I think not and placing RNTers on the Committee and in a leadership role did not to insure the “investigation” was bipartisan so what was and is the purpose of the J6 Committee?
We have seen the Committee sanction the active hunting down Americans because they support President Trump, and had gone to hear his speech in DC on J6 and walked down to the Capital Building to have eyes on the validating of the Electoral College votes contested by Trump. We have also seen the CSPAN televised goings on no different than the circus atmosphere of the Trump impeachments. We are told that the Committee is connecting the dots from Trump’s fiery speech to what happened at the Capital.
What we are not told is who placed the suspicious backpack outside the Capital the night of J5, messed around the DNC headquarters also the night of J5. Neither are we told about how Antifa’s domestic terrorists were funded, transported or housed and then escorted inside the Capital prior to the MAGA crowd arriving after Trump’s speech. Have any of them been hunted down, apprehended and arrested without bail or counsel or still being held in a DC jail? Nor have we heard of a certain religious facility near the Capital Building that is an active conduit for domestic terrorism in Washington DC.
Based on what “evidence” has the Committee easily drawn a straight line while ignoring facts which do not lend to the credibility of an impartial “investigation”?
These are facts:
J6 was to be another act of a preplanned and poorly executed Coup that began on Jan 20, 2017.
J6 was intended to divert attention away from the EC tabulation of contested EC ballots which were then hastily and improperly validated.
J6 was when unarmed Ashley Babbitt posing no threat was murdered by a DCPD lieutenant who was then hailed as a hero by House Speaker Pelosi and others.
The J6 Committee has sought to insure MAGA supporters who went to DC for the Trump rally have been identified, hunted down, and imprisoned for exercising their constitutional right to peaceful assembly, while Antifa members who destroyed property in the Capital and elsewhere have never been identified, charged or imprisoned.
The J6 Committee has become the judicial arm of the Progressive Democratic Party in America.
I don’t care if you love or hate President Trump, facts are facts.
The 2020 election was severely compromised.
Individual rights of Americans were violated.
This bloody coup was to insure Trump’s last days in office were in fact his last days in office.
The election process is broken.
The office of the President of the United States is forever tarnished. –
The Real Truckmaster 