8-21-2020

Black Lives Matter from an Idea to a Movement

I’d like to believe that someone conceived an idea to draw attention to black lives being taken by violent criminals. It did not turn out to be an overnight success as nobody was listening or paying attention. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 must have sparked the idea that a black president would lend credibility to this idea and it might become a mighty movement bringing sweeping changes across the nation. And after his inauguration in 2009 there were opportunities for the leader of the Black Lives Matter organization in Seattle, Washington to be invited to the Oval Office in Washington DC. It must have been frustrating after 8 years of an Obama presidency and the spark had not yet ignited. There was no BLM movement, there were no BLM protests. Nobody gave it a second thought.

What was happening was black lives were still being taken by violence particularly in the inner cities of America’s major cities. Many lives were lost to gang violence, drugs and occasionally by law enforcement. In fact there was no action being taken by the administration to stop the violence.

In the underworld of violent crime things were about to change when Donald Trump was elected in 2016 and was inaugurated in 2017. Not only was violent crime surging upward, but inner city crime was taking even more lives, black lives.

I don’t have all the answers, in fact I don’t have any of the answers. But what I do know is someone was orchestrating something big, something that would bring George H.W. Bush’s Shock and Awe to the heartland of America. It had to be spectacular with unlimited funding and precisely executed. What was lacking was the catalyst.

Minneapolis, Minnesota was the epicenter and the apparent murder of a black man at the hands of a police officer became the spark. Within hours the community was outraged and began protesting in the streets the death of George Floyd. The manner in which this incident was mishandled created a stain on police officers nationwide.

That is where opportunity came knocking. The Black Lives Matter organization in Seattle, Washington sprang into action to capitalize on the situation. Shirts were made, banners created and protesters were moved into position from across the nation on buses, planes and probably trains to reinforce public sentiment during this volatile time. Not to be outdone and most likely unbeknownst to BLM a Marxist group (Antifa) hijacked this new BLM movement by inserting themselves in the mix, donning the distinctive apparel of BLM and turning it into a nationwide movement of violence, intimidation, and burning, looting and utter chaos.

What could have been deescalated rather early on was given the green light, the tacit approval by Democratic officials at city and state level and across many state lines and even given the OK by members of Congress. The idea was to create uncontrollable chaos in the streets of America so that voters would relish the idea of removing President Trump from office and keep him from being re-elected.

As with any mob violence left unchecked it swells and many innocent people are caught up in the violence and many lives, black lives are lost needlessly. As violence increases, tensions rise and any attempt to utilize National Guard forces and/or federal taskforces are met with strong resistance by the elected officials who swore to protect and defend their constituents. It then goes a step further as local officials cave in to the crazy ideas like “defund the police” and “abolish the police” where anything and everything goes, except law and order. We’ve seen governors; mayors and city council officials clearly side with the lawlessness by instructing law enforcement to stand down; calling on attorney generals to not prosecute violent offenders; and demanding federal taskforces to leave clearly not in the best interests of those living in the affected cities.

There have been “BLM murals” painted on buildings, and on city streets declaring Black Lives Matter. Even a blind man could see they matter little to those in elected positions of responsibility and when a leader of a BLM “chapter” makes a public statement that NO LIVES MATTER UNTIL BLACK LIVES MATTER FIRST they have just invalidated their entire argument. When racists in Congress proudly display their disregard for American values defined by the US Constitution, it becomes time to remove them from office at the ballot box. And just for curiosity’s sake, how can so many elected officials afford to maintain two households (one in their home state, the other in Washington), pay their staff in both locations AND become millionaires on the salary of a public servant? Asking for a friend = America!

President John F. Kennedy did NOT say to ask what your country can do for you. It’s not about entitlements, reparations or getting free stuff at government expense. The expense is born by American taxpayers & Freedom isn’t Free! – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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8-21-2020

Hypocrisy Revealed

The double standard of the democratic left has been on full display for all to see. “The Hunt for Red Trump” reminds me of the movie with Sean Connery as the Russian submarine captain trying to defect. Only this is no movie and while President Trump is fighting for the soul of the nation democrats on the left are fighting for full control of the nation and its people. This is not an overnight sensation as it has been going on for well over 21 years. Every President has had to deal with it but seem to capitulate or embrace it rather than confront the menace it has become until now.

The recent events of 2020 leave little hindsight to look back on. The continuation of the failed Russian Collusion Delusion led to the impeachment of President Trump without a crime, the criminalization of members of the President’s campaign and administration.

Throw the radicalization of domestic terrorist groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter spreading violence faster than a wildfire wreaking havoc upon America like never before. Innocent lives lost, immeasurable damage to public and private property and rather than condemning the violence politicians actually aided the violators. Many were simply catch and release in the revolving door justice system of New York politics, while the hunt for wrong doings continue with the recent arrest of Steve Bannon a former Trump campaign staffer. New York City is experiencing an increase in crime and many of the rich and famous have already left the city, moving to more hospitable cities and even moving their business enterprises with them because of the craziness of Mayor DE Blasio and Governor Cuomo’s handling of crime and the virus which have turned NYC into a disaster area.

Has the violence stopped in Portland, Oregon where Antifa and BLM openly attack police and citizens at random and at will?

Has the violence stopped in Seattle, Washington where Antifa and BLM assaulted the city center, claiming their separate nation of CHAD, later known as CHOP where police were not allowed to enter? What about vandalizing the Mayor’s residence? A mayor who basically said they were young people having fun or some such nonsense.

I haven’t even mentioned Minneapolis, Minnesota; Houston, Texas; Los Angeles and San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois or …….wait a minute let’s take a quick at Chicago.

All the defund the police hyperbole coming from places like Chicago where Mayor Lori Lightfoot (it’s only fair to use her name as she recently showed her true colors) actively promoted reducing funding for Chicago Police without dismissing her personal security detail, just yesterday made some brazen statements that tell how she really feels underneath the political mask of the Democrat Party. During what must have been a heated interview she blurted out for protesters to go back to unimportant neighborhoods and stay out of her neighborhood as she claimed she had a right to protect her home? That coming from a public official such as Chicago where innocent lives are lost due to gun violence EVERY DAY and Mayor Lightfoot has a responsibility to provide public safety to everyone in Chicago. I’d say it’s time for the mayor to step down, immediately if not sooner. It’s not so much because of what she said, but it’s shirking her responsibility and making Chicago a more violent city by failing to provide a safe environment for the people who live there.

There are many other cities with Democrat Party leadership at city and state levels who fail to provide safe cities. Baltimore, Maryland’s mayor claimed people are not leaving in droves. Aren’t droves how the cowboys used to move cattle across the prairies?  I’d say people are tired of not mattering to the politicians who claim to have their backs, but buy into the BLM insanity. This insanity could have been prevented had it not been enable by former President Barack H. Obama who invited the BLM leader into the Oval Office on more than one occasion during his eight years in office.

That brings me to my next point. If you watched the DNC Convention (I did not) you might have seen it was the most unconventional convention ever. Prerecorded speakers, juggling acts and from the basement sleepy Joe Biden and the chameleon Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party nomination to run against President Trump and Vice President Pence. What you would also have seen and heard was a who’s who of orators blaming all the issues of the nation on the current administration, even placing blame for their misadministration of justice, honor and freedom over the previous eight years of Obama/Biden. It kind of reminded me of some recent funerals where speaker after speaker came to the podium to remember the deceased while bashing the sitting President, and against tradition – by the living former Presidents. Sure glad they didn’t call upon the dead presidents to speak.

And did I mention the WuFlu, Coronavirus? How did they come up with the term Corona? Was it a couple of guys sitting around drinking Corona and they were the experts? I hope not. Seriously this virus should have been called ElectionVirus-19 because it appeared just prior to the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election and has grown steadily worse in the fear driven media. All the so called medical experts have taken the unprecedented position of discrediting a well proven drug that has worked well for over 75 years. A drug that has proven effective for the COVID-19 in early stage prevention and treatment and chosen to sideline it and bench EVERY medical doctor who has come out in support of its successful use.  Even social media has taken to silence dissenting voices by removing, blocking or suspending the accounts of those who speak out in favor of its use.

The Democratic Party’s congressional leadership in the House and Senate are committed to one thing and one thing only – that President Trump not be re-elected. The DNC convention brought all the failed party former officials who are each in their own right responsible for the condition of the nation. America has been shut down because of a virus with a 99.9% survival rate, while Wuhan, China (the epicenter of the virus) is back to normal. Let that sink in!

I will close with these words, “The reason I am standing before you as President is because President Obama and Joe Biden did a terrible job!” President Donald J. Trump – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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8-20-2020

Stacking the Deck

The term to “stack the deck” is an American idiom used in various contexts simply means to cheat or fix something to achieve ones desired outcome.

In the world of business stacking the deck is where one could take credit for the work of another to get that coveted promotion.

In gambling stacking the deck might be to add or arrange cards in order to win.

In politics stacking the deck could be called insider trading where knowledge or strategically placed contacts will give one the advantage in an election like evidence supporting opposing arguments is rejected, omitted or simply ignored.

Over the past 4 years of the Trump presidency we’ve seen “Stacking the deck” as a technique that’s commonly used in propaganda. A legitimate crisis is downplayed while opposition politics creates manufactured crisis which cannot be ignored. Arguments presenting counterevidence is slanting or one-sided assessments imply and use fear to drive voters.

Look back at the political implications that President Trump is a womanizer, sexual abuser, self-centered bigot, and racist, homophobic and hates he women. Every one of those accusations has been proven false by the very nature of his words and actions.

What has also been proven is that Trump is out of control, out of the leftist politicians control and is not one to back down when faced with threats or intimidation. When faced with massive waves of migrant convoy’s intent on crashing the US border, he closed the border. Then Trump went a step further and applied pressure on Central American governments to stop the flow of migrants headed north. This was a different tactic than the open border agenda of the Obama administration.

When faced with national disaster’s Trump went on the ground where he met and talked with American’s affected by the disaster. He instructed federal agencies to expedite relief supplies and funds directly to the areas and people in need.

When faced with civil unrest within the nation Trump unleashed federal DOJ taskforces to restore law and order to communities in which Democratic lead mayors and governors strongly resisted federal intervention, yet did nothing to stop the violence or protect the citizens in their areas.

The one strikingly clear picture Americans have seen repeated over and over has been the resistance of a democratically led congress. The failed impeachment of President Trump and the constant drone of oversight investigations that lead nowhere should be an obvious indicator that Congressional Democrats have intentionally “stacked the deck” in an effort of removing this president from office and have committed themselves to doing whatever is necessary to prevent his re-election at all costs.

There have been direct and repeated threats against the family and life of President Trump made by sitting members of congress, former officials of both the Obama and Trump administrations and most recently one by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that “he won’t be president in 2021, one way or another!”

It’s been said that doing the same thing over and over expecting different results is a sign of insanity and the Democrats have been using the same failed playbook for more than 4 years achieving the same failed results.

The 2020 Democratic debates and subsequent DNC Convention all show that common sense has not been in play in the Democratic Party for quite some time. They are clearly NOT the party of the common man, the working man or woman on the streets of America. Their interests are not the betterment of an America to be proud of, but forcing their power by the submission of voters to cast their ballots for democratic candidates or face the wrath of Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs with the power to vandalize, maim and kill with impunity anyone who stands in opposition.

The promises of the Biden/Harris ticket are to tax, tax and more taxes; gun confiscation or imprisonment; defund law enforcement; eliminate oil production in America and continue the shutdown of America until there is no more resistance.

Don’t believe me? Listen and read for yourselves the political promises made by the Biden/Harris team. Look at their track record of political accomplishments. Is lying, cheating “stacking the deck”, sexual manipulation for purely political gain the qualities you approve of and accept?

Choose:

President Trump 3 ½ years working for America, without pay and fighting a resistant Congress; while securing our border; stopping drugs and human traffickers; and addressing the international community’s failure to adequately pay for America’s protection; lowering taxes; bringing manufacturing jobs back on American soil and more.

Biden = 36 years in Congress, 8 years as Obama’s VP and 4 years of selling China’s unimportance.

Harris = 13 years in California politics in AG’s office and as AG putting many in prison for minor offenses and standing up for violators against children, the 3 ½ years in Senate – actively resisting Trump.

November 3^rd is Election Day in America. Your choice, your vote can make a difference, and will surely make a statement about you. Voting Red, Blue or not at all is a statement you will forever live with. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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8-18-2020

The USPS Course Correction

I don’t buy into the false premise hoisted by congressional democrats and others who say the Post Master General Louis DeJoy is doing President Trumps bidding in order to inhibit mail delivery of ballots in the 2020 election, thereby insuring a Republican victory. That would be attempting to influence an election and that would be wrong.

What is also attempting to influence an election is pandering fear and spreading lies about the President and/or the USPS without knowing any of the “facts” or in the case of congress actually knowing what they are spreading are not facts but outright lies. So are media headlines about “Trumps war on the USPS” threatening to withhold funding to stop mail-in ballots from getting to the polls in time?

The Constitution states that voting is a right of US citizens. Registered voters know they must exercise that right so their one and only vote can be counted. Military personnel and those who are absent from their precinct are able to request absentee ballots be sent to their current address where they can vote early and mail those ballots back to their home precinct.

Postal officials have declared that if they can manage 25M Christmas Cards during the holidays they can surely handle processing ballots for the election, as they have always done in the past. They have said there is no shortage of funding that will impact processing mail well into 2021 should additional funding not be approved until then.

One big “issue” according to congressional democrats is the removal of big blue mail collection boxes by Postal employees in certain areas. This is not seen as a cost saving measure or relocating boxes to new construction or areas sorely needing but not having these collection boxes available.

Everyone knows that the cost of postage has been going up steadily every year and it is now close to $0.50 to mail a letter, as inflation rises, so do postage rates.

Congressional democrats and their media lackeys would have you to believe that President Trump appointed the PMG to do his dirty work. How uninformed they must be to not know that the 75th Post Master General Louis DeJoy was appointed by the USPS Board of Governors in June 2020. Oops!

Mr. DeJoy has spent more than 35 years growing and managing a successful nationwide logistics company. As Chairman and CEO of New Breed Logistics, he has spent decades in collaboration with the USPS, Boeing, Verizon, Disney, United Technologies and other public and private companies to provide supply chain logistics, program management and transportation support. New Breed Logistics was a contractor for the USPS for more than 25 years, supplying logistics support for multiple processing facilities. The company received Quality Supplier Awards from the USPS on four separate occasions.

In 2014, New Breed merged with XPO Logistics and DeJoy served as CEO of XPO Logistics’ supply chain business in the Americas before his retirement in December 2015. He then served on the company’s board of directors until 2018.

As PMG, DeJoy has committed to creating a long-term, viable operating model for the Postal Service that will insure the organization can fulfill its public service mission while remaining self-sustaining.

DeJoy is a member of the Board of Trustees at Elon University in North Carolina and the Fund for American Studies in Washington, DC. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from Stetson University.

I can see why he was nominated by the USPS Board of Governors to head USPS. In my humble opinion he is exactly the right man for the job at this critical time in the USPS transformation process. For those who say he has no experience with USPS I say bullhockey.

During the Presidency of George W. Bush the Postal Service began to change with the Postal Act of 2006, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act is the first major legislative change to the Postal Service since 1971. It significantly changed how the USPS operates and conducts business. The Act provided new flexibility in competitive pricing for shipping services, enabling the Postal Service to respond to dynamic market conditions and changing customer needs for packages.

As the Postal Service has worked to implement the Act, modernize its business, and take advantage of new opportunities for growth, it has remained loyal to the principles established to help guide implementation of the Act. The Postal Service’s mission remains the same: to provide trusted, universal service at affordable prices.

I believe that continued change is not only inevitable but necessary for the USPS. When businesses fail it can be a combination of leadership, politics or the union and because the Postal Service is such a huge operation there has to be a time for someone has to step in and determine what went wrong and how to fix it.  The unique problem with the Postal Service is that it is a government agency with bureaucratic red tape and congressional oversight.

President Trump in 3 ½ years began reducing bureaucratic red tape almost immediately after the inauguration in 2017. So for congress to blame the President for something they have had hands on with congressional oversight is a bit much, even 83 days before a major presidential election.

The real reason for all the fuss was not for Speaker Pelosi to bring the House back in session to help Americans affected by this global pandemic, but to try one more time to place the blame of her attempt to create panic over voters not having their voices heard because it’s not safe to vote in person.

Give me a break, give me a break, just hand me a piece of that ice cream bar. The one Speaker Pelosi has stashed in the $17,000 freezer in her home in San Francisco. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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8-15-2020

Voting is a Right Not a Mandate

The Rule of Law is the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution declares in the following Amendments that “the rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude, sex, failure to pay poll tax or other tax, or age (18 years or older).”

It is the responsibility of individual citizens to register to vote in their respective districts where they live.

It is the right of registered voters to exercise their right to vote in an election.

Voters unable to vote in person may request an absentee ballot.

Registered voters may choose to vote in person or by absentee ballot.

States cannot mandate voters use mail in ballots as voting is a right to be exercised by US citizens.

Absentee ballots can be mailed to the voting precinct or hand delivered to a voting collection site.

State and local precincts have the responsibility to secure, verify eligibility and determine legality of every ballot and to accurately count all ballots received at each county voting precinct and transmit those tallies to state voting officials in a timely manner as prescribed by law.

Constitution of the United States – Amendments on Voting

Amendment XV (1870)

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XIX (1920)

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XXIV (1964)

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Amendment XXVI (1971)

Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.

Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

My 2 cents! – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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8-14-2020

In Answer to the Question of Kamala Harris Qualifications for President

During a recent press conference President Trump was asked about Kamala Harris’s Citizenship disqualifying her from the office of the Presidency, his answer was that he’d have someone look into it.

The media did what they always do with President Trump – they blasted him without FIRST doing their own due diligence. They could have taken his answer seriously, and then conducted a little bit of research to determine even though Senator Kamala Harris was in fact born in California to non US citizen parents, raised in her father’s homeland Jamaica, in Oakland and with her mother in Canada after their divorce. Senator Harris is a naturalized citizen (as were her parents before her). It has been stressed that Senator Harris is a 14th Amendment citizen and that sparked my interest. According to the Constitution of the United States the requirement of being a “natural born Citizen” is not extended to a naturalized citizen, not even the 14th Amendment has changed that.

Constitution of the United States

Article II

Section 1

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, the Supreme Court had said that African-Americans were not citizens. This amendment declared that every person born or naturalized in the U.S. was a citizen. The amendment’s “due process” clause has had enormous constitutional importance, since the Supreme Court has used it to apply most of the Bill of Rights to the states. The amendment also establishes that all citizens are entitled to “equal protection of the laws,” the provision which the Supreme Court cited in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, ruling school segregation unconstitutional.

What was surprising was that because the question was not contesting her citizenship, but her constitutional authority to assume the Vice Presidency and/or the Presidency if warranted. Democratic politicians always have a way of going where no man or woman should ever go when questioning the truth. Democrats did the same thing when Barack Obama’s citizenship was challenged. They simply attacked anyone who dared question it. In my opinion who ever in the Democratic National Committee that made the decision for Joe Biden did not fully research the constitutionality of their decision or of its intended or unintended consequences. I’m no rocket scientist but I am someone and I did look into it and even a blind man could see through their argument. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

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