From the sound bites on cable TV the DNC Convention is more like a New Orleans funeral. President Biden came to endorse VP Harris, and tell everyone that Trump has a problem. While the audience goes gaga over the career California prosecutor as the best thing democrats have going for them. Even Hillary refers to Harris as the gauge of how far women have come in politics. If elected Harris will become the first woman president (a spot Hillary had claimed for herself in 2006 & 2016) and when Hillary spoke of Trump’s legal woes the crowd began chanting “Lock him up, lock him up” as Hillary smiled in approval.
Not to sound morbid but this convention reeks like a funeral pyre with all the praise and honor of Harris’ past accomplishments and future endeavors on behalf of working men and women of which there are a great many qualified to hold the top elected office, but like Harris & Hillary – not everyone should especially when they place politics over public safety or national defense.
The “elephant in the room” seems to be the protestors outside the convention, emboldened by Democratic Party politics which affect every segment of Chicago from the streets to the convention and they say crime is on the decline. You wouldn’t know that by the lack of an officially stated democratic response to lawlessness or by the Convention’s theme of “Hope and Joy” or by the Convention being surrounded by at least three (3) “security” barrier walls to keep protestors outside. (Maybe Harris should let Chicago lead the charge of finishing that wall on the US/Mexico border)?
There have been four people who spoke of the effects that they “suffered” by a ban on abortion, yet nobody spoke for the aborted. Shame on you all! I submit to you that the aborted are our future, lost forever by bending a knee to the god of choice. I don’t see how anyone who calls God their father can approve of or otherwise condone abortion for any reason.
But that is not the unpardonable sin – however choosing not to believe in Jesus Christ is! America must awake from her slumber and compare everything and everyone against the Word of God. America has not a political party problem, but a sin problem.
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that everyone who believes in his only begotten son Jesus shall not perish but have eternal life.” – RTM
If throwing someone under the bus was an Olympic sport and the 2024 winner would undoubtedly be California Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi for her historic action of throwing away a 50-year friendship with President Joe Biden over politics.
You know it didn’t have to be that way.
When Barack Obama and Joe Biden left office in 2017 there was no reason for either to keep one toe in the political mess they left behind. It would have been perfectly fine for them to go out on top of their political game having been defeated by Donald Trump.
But they just couldn’t leave well enough alone.
It is my opinion that the Obama-let Democratic Party began working their “Never Trump” campaign even before January 20th 2017. We’ve all seen the spectacle of the Congressional Black Caucus’ democratic boycott of Trump’s inauguration ceremony; the leaks and rumors; the betrayals of confidentiality of presidential conversations and telephone calls; the public display of disloyalty by government officials sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against ALL ENEMIES both foreign and domestic; the two impeachments led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; the outrage over border security by members of congress; the gerrymandering of the sham 2020 election where the most unqualified basement campaign by then former VP Joe Biden and then Senator Kamala Harris took the political stage by storm beginning with the culmination of orchestrated events of January 6th 2021 followed immediately by the January 6th Committee hunting down MAGA supporters simply because they were there.
As if that wasn’t enough, the political mess created by the Biden/Harris administration (their words) have caused the deaths of American military personnel, American citizens and our allies in Afghanistan and an untold number of American citizens becoming hostages in the war on Israel and nobody in this administration has come to their rescue.
The southern border debacle has let more than 20M illegal aliens (many confirmed or suspected terrorists and criminal gang members) into the heartland of America without so much as a blink of an eye.
Literally on the eve of a presidential election President Joe Biden while going through a serious senior crisis was blackmailed by Nancy Pelosi to drop his bid for re-election because she feared not for his or the welfare of our nation, but that uncle Joe was a liability to the party that guaranteed Donald Trump victory. (This was after calling Joe Biden a “Mount Rushmore-kind” of president.)
I don’t use the term blackmailed loosely either. Nancy exerted the pressure of a 50-year friendship to the point that if Joe Biden did not make the “right” decision she would publicly expose the cover up of his declining health or worse. Nancy hoped Joe would make the right decision just as she hoped and prayed that Joe would forgive her and rekindle their friendship.
Once that decision had been made public everyone jumped on the Kamala Harris/Tim Walz bandwagon as they battle for the hearts, minds and votes of America. The 16,000+ delegates committed to Biden were pushed aside and courted to become Harris’ votes instead.
I don’t have any confidence in the DNC committee or the possibility that during the convention scheduled to begin tomorrow in Chicago (Obama’s hometown) that same committee could pull a completely new switcharoo. (I still remember back in 2006 when Obama swooped down and took the nomination from unsuspecting Hillary Clinton after she made sure Bernie was out of contention). They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but the DNC is not lightning but are and have been operating from the same old (Saul Alinsky) playbook (because it’s the only one they have and has worked in the past for them).
The only difference now is that we know who is driving the bus (& it’s not Joe Biden). – RTM
It is less than 90 days away from the November 5th Presidential Election and it comes as no surprise that Christians are being courted by prominent Christian-based evangelical organizations to cast their vote for VP Kamala Harris not because she has suddenly announced her new found faith in Jesus, but simply because she is not Donald Trump.
This is especially troubling since Harris has done nothing to warrant this new found following by evangelicals, yet Trump has done more for America, and it’s Christian base and Christians around the world than, dare I saw the past 6 presidents (including Jimmy Carter) combined.
How many American presidents have begun their overseas travels visiting Israel, the Middle East and The Vatican and stated emphatically that in America we worship God, not government?
Okay I’ll wait…….
What America president did the unthinkable (other presidents said it couldn’t be done) by moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem?
Trump emphatically stated the US support for Israel and a dire warning for those regimes who threaten to attack Israel.
What American president orchestrated the signing of the Abraham Accords between Israel and prominent Middle Eastern Nations?
What American president signed an executive order to provide for permanent funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)?
So it is only natural for major nationwide evangelical 501(c) 3 organizations to come out publically to put all of their support for a political candidate (the incumbent vice president) who has never conceived an idea to support any religious group whatsoever, right?
Although VP Harris is married to a devout Jew she has made it her public record to stand against supporting Israel.
Again why am I not surprised because in biblical times when Jesus walked on the earth and taught at the synagogues it was the religious leaders (Sadducees and Pharoses) who mocked him and called for his public execution so as to send a message to Jesus’ followers to cease and desist?
Donald Trump has never portrayed himself politically or otherwise as being God or a god. Trump has simply done what he was sent to do as president by the one true God who sent him, not to exalt himself, but to bring glory to God by stopping evil.
God never selected Donald Trump because he was a Billy Graham-type, but precisely because Trump became available when God called.
It is a testament to everyone who has witnessed the events of the past 8+ years that in doing so evil has come against Donald Trump in spades with political and character assassinations, threats of financial ruin, trumped up charges of lawbreaking with fear of imprisonment and a very real assassination attempt.
The bible tells us that the very best place to be is in the perfect will of God where nothing can stop what God has ordained until its purpose has been completed. That my friends is where Donald Trump is, in the perfect will of God – FOR HIM! So when you fall for the lies and do your best to stop Trump, just remember that you could be coming against the Creator God and HIS plan?
Donald Trump has never said “FOLLOW ME” instead of God. Trump has said JOIN ME in Making America Great Again.
From our nations creation it has been carried on the backs of strong, courageous men and women with the vision of what America could become – the United States of America.
We must not give up on that vision. It is up to you and me to educate our children and grandchildren and their grandchildren to the fact that this nation was CREATED UNDER GOD and to honor God we must honor our nation and each other in a way as to give God all glory, honor and power.
There are currently two schools of thought on what America needs to survive politically.
DNC
The first is voiced by democratic Vice President and hopeful DNC presumptive nominee Kamala Harris as she thoughtfully said at one event, “Well here we are!” and at another event “Look forward to what is ahead and forget what is behind!” and at still other events “We’re not going back!”
Topping it all off for the democrats it’s simply to “BEAT TRUMP!” as demonstrated by “I’m going to raise the minimum wage and” and then combining it with a Trump talking point and announcing it as her own “NO TAXES ON TIPS for hotel and hospitility workers” to the applause of all 500 in attendance.
So in light of all the hoopla lighting up the political forums what exactly is the current sitting Vice President Kamala Harris going to change to make our country better? Whatever it could be should be done now in the last five months of the Biden/Harris administration, right? But that won’t happen until we stop hearing from the Harris camp or other Harris campaign surrogates and hear it directly from Kamala Harris (not the other end of the horse).
GOP
The second is layed out by former President Donald Trump as listed below in the 2024 GOP Platform’s TWENTY PROMISES beginning on day one:
SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
END INFLATION, AND MAKE AMERICA AFFORDABLE AGAIN
MAKE AMERICA THE DOMINANT ENERGY PRODUCER IN THE WORLD, BY FAR!
STOP OUTSOURCING, AND TURN THE UNITED STATES INTO A MANUFACTURING SUPERPOWER
LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!
DEFEND OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR BILL OF RIGHTS, AND OUR FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS, INCLUDING FREEDOM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OF RELIGION, AND THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
PREVENT WORLD WAR THREE, RESTORE PEACE IN EUROPE AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST, AND BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY — ALL MADE IN AMERICA
END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFUL AGAIN.
STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGEST AND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
KEEP THE U.S. DOLLAR AS THE WORLD’S RESERVE CURRENCY
FIGHT FOR AND PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE
CANCEL THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANDATE AND CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS, AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP
UNITE OUR COUNTRY BY BRINGING IT TO NEW AND RECORD LEVELS OF SUCCESS
The 2024 Presidential Election is less than 90 days away and American voters must navigate through the political red tape and toxic double speak to determine whether or not their preferred candidate has their interests at heart. Examine their political records hear their positions (past and present) on important political issues and then vote. – RTM
When God created all living things he did so by instilling within them natural instincts and the will to survive whether plants, animals or humans.
From the very beginning all of man’s needs were sustained by the creator God who walked and talked to man daily in the garden. God commanded that man not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or from the tree of life or he would die, yet from all other trees man could eat. It is only with humans (mankind) that God gave the ability to choose between good or evil. It was the disobedience of Eve and Adam that set the work of evil into the hearts of men.
God gave man ten commandments to follow:
Have no other gods before me; make no idols; do not misuse the name of the Lord; remember the Sabbath and keep it holy; honor your father and mother; do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal; do not speak falsely against your neighbor; or do not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.
These are very simple commands and yet without God they are virtually impossible to follow.
In today’s enlightened state we tend to justify our sins.
We tell a white lie and say that it isn’t really lying; it’s just stretching the truth.
We jokingly misuse the name of the Lord in profane ways and offer no apology or give it a second thought.
We disobey and disrespect our fathers and/or our mothers because we don’t like what they tell us or the way they speak to us.
We kill without thinking, whether it’s taking the life of another deliberately, accidently or with abortion where we justify that it’s inconvenient or a woman’s right to choose or some other excuse.
We take what is not ours, not because we need it to survive, but because we like the way it looks on someone else or think it will look better on us, or simply because we can and we’ll get away with it anyway.
Man’s core problem is sin. We want what we want and we want it now, no matter what.
We think that the world revolves around us because we’re all that and a bag of chips. Either we are chick magnets or men are falling all over us or we think we’re the brightest light bulb in the room.
We think of ourselves as the lord of our domain, the master of our universe, the savior of our world and the envy of everyone who sees us when in reality we don’t even register on the reactor scale of life. The only constant in life is change and basically we ain’t it. We must face the fact that we leave this earth the same way we came in – with nothing.
When this life is over, without God we are nothing. When death overtakes us (and it will) we enter into eternal life either with God (because we have a relationship with him) or without God because we have chosen not to be bothered by him.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only beloved son Jesus so that anyone who chooses to believe in him shall not perish but will have eternal life.”
Have you ever watched a cat playing with a ball of string? Sooner or later the ball goes rolling across the room unwinding as it goes….
It’s unbelievable at what lengths homesteading politicians will take to hold onto their power. They will fabricate, instigate and in many cases take unconstitutional liberties in order to stymie the political process for their own selfish reasons.
In 2017 shortly after President Donald Trump was inaugurated there was a meeting where Trump/Pence met with Pelosi/Schumer in the oval office for the first time formally. The insolence in the air was so thick that you could cut it with a knife as former speaker Nancy Pelosi said to President Trump, “You don’t know the importance I bring to this meeting”
I’ve never forgotten her words.
Little did I know the events that would be put into play shortly thereafter – Russia, Russia, Russia; leaking phone calls, private conversations and disgruntled West Wing insiders of Trump White House staffers, impeachment X 2, and criticizing every word and deed of the sitting president; the 2020 election and even the events of January 6th, 2021; and beyond Trump’s term in office, up and until July 13th, 2024 and today.
Looking back it has all come clear. And in case you haven’t figured it out, speaker Nancy Pelosi went on camera just a few days ago saying that she was behind it all, and her point was to insure that Donald Trump didn’t step foot in the White House again. Now that the cat has come out of the closet it’s time to focus on the treasonous cat.
I have long suspected and said so back in 2020 that after the November 4th election all they would have to do was set up Joe Biden’s basement to look like the Oval Office and tell him he won the election and he would believe he was president.
I mean running a basement campaign like Biden did back then could barely fill 2 chairs on his own lawn with supporters to hear him speak. Yet when he showed up on November 5th 2020 with his huge banner sporting “The office of the President-Elect” and demanding that Trump concede, nobody even questioned how Biden could be president-elect when the Electoral College had to cast their votes and have them accepted by a joint session of congress on January 6th 2021.
When Trump contested the election, suddenly he was a power hungry dictator refusing to accept the results and balking at the peaceful transfer of power. Every step of his constitutional process of contesting the election was met with fierce opposition.
On January 6th the plot to stop Trump took a new turn and it was seen as Trump attempting to oust the head of state (himself), yet congress (Pelosi) charged Trump with not bending to the will of congress. In fact Pelosi called the Capital Building the “Temple of Democracy” which I took as her defending her queenship and her throne. The cost of this unlawful exercise of power cost Ashli Babbitt her life and many US Citizens their freedom as they were hunted down and imprisoned for simply being in D.C. on January 6th.
Now 3 ½ years of the Biden/Harris administration has taken quite a toll on American taxpayers, voters and citizens as Biden unleashed the power of his pen to undo what Trump had done. All the while we’ve watched as Biden has shown signs of aging both physically and mentally and we are constantly told he’s the same Joe Biden he was in congress and as vice president. Not true.
Why is it that up and until 3 weeks ago Biden was adamant that he was going to beat Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 election, but suddenly dropped out of running for re-election and the democrats say he “passed the baton” to VP Kamala Harris. I say the baton was pried out of his tight fists by force and/or threats. Since that time Joe Biden has once again gone underground (in his basement so to speak) and in his absence VP Harris is not performing her duties in the executive branch, but prancing around the nation on her “fairy godmother happy tour” spreading joy to expectant democratic audiences “look forward to what is ahead and forgetting what is behind” doesn’t give anyone a warm fuzzy about who is at the controls of the USS UNITED STATES. Her talk about “we like hard work” or “we have fun doing hard work” leads me to believe that she really has no idea of what hard work is.
What has become clearer is when former speaker Pelosi made the decision to dump Biden, someone had to convince him and that someone may very well have been Harris. Then came the meeting with all democratic governors to get them on board and who do you think set up that meeting – Governor Tim Walz (D) Minnesota.
What do you think was his reward? The man who let the rioters burn Minneapolis in 2020, teaming up with the then senator who helped bail those 2020 rioters out?
Now they are both complicit in ousting Joe Biden from the presidency (oh but he’s still president right) and I say in name only. His latest public appearance made that perfectly clear.
I say that every single person involved from Pelosi to Harris and Walz should be charged with elder abuse for the way they have paraded elderly Joe Biden around like a puppet on a string. Speaking of puppets, Kamala Harris has no idea how to be a president that can turn around policies that she was instrumental in formulating with Joe Biden.
The Harris/Walz team is a bigger threat to the nation than the combined China/Iran/Russia alliance that has taken aim at America’s heartland.
If you don’t believe me then you ask either of them to explain what their policy is for national security, immigration, the economy or foreign affairs. Tim Walz is a former military man, formerly the highest ranking member of the Minnesota Army National Guard and as governor could/would not send in this state’s National Guard to quell the riots of 2020 as the city burned for 3 days.
That’s not leadership that is cowardice! America deserves better! – RTM
Journalists have the professional responsibility to delve into a story, determine its newsworthy value and report the facts as they immerge. This morning among the top stories was that of Taylor Swift and the nefarious plot by domestic terrorists to wreak havoc, destruction and death at her concert. It seems that according to the FBI a third suspected terrorist a mere teenager was arrested. I assume the investigation is far from over since the target was a popular entertainer and her fans.
Now return our focus on July 13th, 2024 when a lone gunman climbed onto a rooftop and reportedly fired 8 shots striking former President Donald Trump grazing the right side of his head and ear before being “neutralized” by a SS sniper . The chief of the secret service said the buck stopped with her and she had no answers. In fact she refused to answer direct questions by congressional oversight committee members. Her intense and repeated questioning demanding her resignation finally succeeded, yet without definitive answers.
The new acting chief of the secret service fared no better, offered promises to get to the bottom of what happened, yet fired nobody or have even held anyone accountable except for the finger pointing back at local law enforcement. As of today we are approaching 4 weeks after the attempted assassination of President Trump and we are no further informed than we were initially. FBI director Wray said before congress that President Trump wasn’t actually shot by a bullet, but by a fragment or piece of glass (from where?)
After numerous cell phone videos have surfaced and as law enforcement body cam footage is being released we have more questions than answers.
This debacle is reminiscent of what has been released after the JFK assassination on 22 November 1963 where we still have no answers, only speculation and misinformation.
Look closely at what’s happening politically in our nation and across the globe since then, we have massive political corruption, calls for transparency by political parties far from being transparent, dealing with congressional and presidential behind the scenes actions that are questionable at best.
President Joe Biden is laying low so as not to upstage VP Harris in her bid for his job, yet she isn’t doing any real campaigning unless you call “Look forward to what is ahead and forget what is behind” which makes no sense politically or common sense wise.
Could it be that we the American people are in the lull before the political storm when the DNC convention actually names their official nominee for President and Vice President? We have nothing credible or substantive coming out of their mouths except that “We’re going to win it”!
What is “IT”? The trust of the American people; the election; or maybe Beating Trump is the prize they seek, the “IT”. It would be interesting to know how a president Harris would turn the economy around without reversing the goals and direction of our nation that she helped Biden create.
Next week at the DNC convention it is expected that a Harris/Walz ticket will appear, but what if……..they are not?
If you don’t remember anything else in this blog know how to tell when a lawyer or a politician is lying (Harris is both) – THEIR MOUTHS MOVE! – RTM
No I don’t personally know Governor Tim Walz, but I certainly know his type. Tim comes from a family of immigrants and his first job was in a factory building tanning beds.
Tim graduated from Butte High School Class of ’82.
Tim obtained his Bachelor of Science in Social Science from Chadron State College in ’89. After college Tim took a one-year teaching position with WorldTeach in China in 1989.
Tim began teaching and coaching in Alliance, Nebraska in 1990.
Tim became a geography teacher and a football coach at Mankato West High School in Mankato,
Minnesota 1994 – 2006.
Walz 24-years of honorable military service (1981 – 2005)
Private Tim Walz joined the Army National Guard at age 17 in 1981 and completed 24 years of service.
On 18 September 2001, just days after 9/11 Walz re-enlisted for 6-years in the Minnesota Army National Guard. Walz rose to the rank of master sergeant and was appointed the unit’s top enlisted soldier the Command Sergeant Major. His service obligation would have been completed as of 18 September 2007 but Sergeant Walz failed his obligation to his men, his unit and to the US Army when he failed to complete the Sergeants Majors Academy or serve the required two years after his being appointed command sergeant major.
We are led to believe that Sergeant Walz simply quit the army in 2005 retiring as a Master Sergeant to pursue his political ambitions two years prior to his enlistment ending, which led to a vacancy in unit leadership that required someone else come take his place during the unit’s 22 month tour in Iraq (2006-2007).
As the senior noncommissioned officer in the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion, Command Sergeant Major Walz was the chief advisor to the commander on the unit’s enlisted members and charged with the responsibility to ensure they are properly trained and prepared for combat duty overseas, should the need arise.
Sergeant Walz did serve a long and honorable career, with assignments in Italy during Operation Enduring Freedom; Arkansas, Texas, the Arctic Circle, New Ulm, Minnesota and elsewhere.
FALSELY REPRESENTED: It is when representative/governor Tim Walz falsely represented portions of his military service specifically saying on several occasions and on his congressional challenge coin that he is a retired command sergeant major in the Guard, (which is not true) during political speeches. Soldiers who knew and served with him have conflicting remembrances of serving with him as noted here and here.
Military positions such as Command Sergeant Major are appointed, while enlisted pay grades (CSM = E-9) are through promotion. One can be selected and wear the rank of the position without being promoted, however promotions have certain requirements to be fulfilled before the promotion is made a permanent record for retirement.
Walz Political Record
Volunteered for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign
District coordinator of Vets for Kerry
US Representative 2007 – 2019, 110th – 114th Congress, Armed Services Committee, House Committee on Veterans Affairs, raise minimum wage, for stem cell research, allow Medicare to negotiate pharmaceutical prices, supported pay-as-you-go budget rules, requiring new spending or tax changes not add to the federal deficit, voted to advance Affordable Care Act out of the House
Governor Minnesota 2019 – Present
During the summer riots and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis it was Governor Walz who did not send in the National Guard to stop the looting or protect civilians under siege and it wasn’t until 3 days later after he questioned the National Guard’s “D.E.I. training” did he send in troops (saying they were only 19 year old cooks and clerks). Had he not previously been their highest enlisted soldier before he was a politician?
Yes it was Governor Walz who supported rioters tearing down historical statues saying it was their right not to be offended in their democracy. CRAZY!
During the COVID lockdowns it was Governor Walz who locked down churches and businesses and created a SNITCH LINE for neighbors to report neighbors for breaking lockdown rules.
Presumptive Democratic VP Nominee 2024
Governor Walz is one of the never-trumpers who feel his way is the only way to fix America and claims Trump will take us back……(to what?)
Governor Walz has teamed up with VP Harris (who helped bailout 2020 rioters) and wants to radically change America from the Constitutional-Republic our nation was created to be.
I can say yes I know Tim Walz type, he is a typical democratic politician who angles himself for the best possible outcome for himself while selling his wares as the working man’s politician. There is this story of the old west and the US Government’s Indian Agent who would cut off 6” from the top of a blanket and sew it on the bottom and say it was a longer blanket.
Ronald Reagan said that the most terrifying words said by a government agent is “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Just ask the people of Gem and Washington counties in South Central Idaho what that “help” feels like. Better yet ask my younger brother Jess who was in the midst of battling the nearby fire and suddenly his electricity was turned off. That meant no power to his water, house or outlying building. In fact the nearest creek is probably ½ mile behind and BELOW his property so carrying water to fight the fire was out of the question. After a family member found a utility crew and found they had been told to turn off the power, a call to a supervisor got the power back on 15 minutes later, but by then it may have been too late to do any good.
After Jess’s family evacuated he and his daughter stayed behind in a futile attempt to save the family ranch. Late last night I received a phone call from my youngest brother Jered who lives in Ola, some 6 miles south of Jess’s 3rd Fork Road property that Jess had finally been evacuated to Jered’s place.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Jess is a broken man and mad as the dickens at the way BLM has handled this fire situation. In my opinion that blame goes all the way up to the Biden/Harris administration and the way Biden said “I cured the economy”.
If that wasn’t heartbreaking enough Ola’s volunteer firefighting crews stationed next to Jered’s place were out trying to save structures and families near the edge of the fire which has been burning since 5 August, but were stopped by BLM crews and told to stand down, it wasn’t their fire, it was BLMs fire.
Now the community of Ola is one where neighbors help neighbors and everyone knows everyone. They have been collecting water and other supplies to help the fire fighters who are supposed to be helping them save their farms and ranches. Most of those who brought supplies from places like Emmett and Horseshoe Bend and even Boise are unaware of the fact that the BLM crews have set up camp and are effectively sheltering in place – DOING NOTHING!
Yesterday’s BLM news release “Prompts evacuation of Washington and Gem counties due to the Paddock Fire located 20 miles north of Emmett that has grown to more than 118,000 acres of burning grass and brush, caused by lightning and remains uncontained.”
I wonder why?
According to the report “a Type 3 incident Management Team from Nevada has been ordered TEAM THREE from Nevada and has assumed command of the incident today 8 August.”
So that’s it, problem solved now that the Idaho BLM team has done all they were ordered to do – NOTHING, the big boys of TEAM THREE will save the day.
Contact: Fire Information Officer Bureau of Land Management – Phone (208) 384-3378
Media contact: Chad Cline (208) 384-3444 or ccline@blm.gov
I normally shy away from watching political talking heads telling us “what they really meant” versus listening and watching what they actually said. On one channel the headline was something along the line that Trump and Vance paint the Harris Walz democratic ticket as dangerously left. I say let their record show where they stand on the issues that are important to all Americans.
Watching JD Vance live this morning a number of questions were race-baiting type questions in order to get Vance to defend Trump’s statement about Harris’ ethnic heritage during the recent NABJ. Vance didn’t hesitate or evade the questions but called out the “reporters” for simply repeating the left’s talking points instead of doing their own due diligence. Vance went on to say the neither he nor Trump care about voting for someone based on racial or ethnic criteria but should be based on merit.
A question about Walz criticizing Vance for going to an ivy league college and Vance responded saying he worked his way through college and was proud of being the first one in his family to do so.
Vance then brought up Walz’s weapons banning claim where he favored banning weapons he carried in war and Vance said he was a marine and when sent to Iraq he went, but asked Walz what war he was in since he joined the National Guard at 17 and worked his way up to Command Sergeant Major but quit and left his battalion when it was alerted to deploy to Iraq and they left without him. Walz retired as a Master Sergeant 2 years before his service commitment was over to run for congress.
So maybe it was a bad decision or poor choice of words for Walz’ support for banning weapons because they are used in war, and as a 24-year US Army National Guard veteran he should have known better phraseology “banning weapons soldiers use in war” is an attempt to overturn the constitutional right to own and carry arms (hunting rifles and/or other guns ).
It would have helped if Vance had researched in more detail into Walz’s military service record since Walz had been deployed to Europe during Operation Enduring Freedom, but I saw nothing noted about Walz having served in combat or in a combat zone. Walz had a 24-year career with the Army National Guard but abruptly retired to run for congress at a time when his unit was alerted for deployment to Iraq. As the senior enlisted member of his battalion it is unconscionable for the Command Sergeant Major to abandon his assigned post and position for politics and to avoid potential combat.
Thus far I have yet to hear from team Harris about their policy on immigration, foreign affairs, or the economy, or anything else for that matter. Harris said this race isn’t about beating Trump, yet that seems to be her only focus. Walz said “we’re not going back” and that “Trump will #@! take us back”.
He must have been talking about Trump taking America back to safety, security and prosperity because team Harris is definitely headed in the opposite direction, say back to the summer of 2020 when Governor Walz refused to activate the Minnesota National Guard “they’re only a bunch of 19 year old cooks and clerks” of which he was their commander and chief.
Instead Walz ran for congress AND WAS ELECTED by the very same people he left behind in the riots of 2020. We mustn’t forget that Harris set up funding to get the rioters bailed out of jail without being charged for their lawless crimes.
We certainly don’t want to go back to 2020, but we don’t want to head in the direction team Harris is aimlessly leading her campaign. Instead of pie in the sky talking, why is she not telling American voters what she aims to do TOO AMERICA?
This being said it is incumbent to focus on policy, policy, policy instead of attacking the character of ones political opponent (that is a key democratic fall back position) – Let the records show!
JD Vance gave very specific goals that team Trump will do on day one – for starters close the border, begin deportations beginning with the very worst of the worst illegal migrants and change the course of our nation putting America back on track for success. – RTM
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