I saw a clip from a recent President Joe Biden political ad where he tackles age, himself and attacks Trump, all without seemingly breaking a sweat.
Let me paraphrase President Biden who said “Yes I’m old but I’m fighting for the American people, while Donald Trump is fighting for himself.”
On the surface those words sounded great right?
Granted Biden is older than Trump and age is just a number, but fighting for us, the American people…….that is not even stretching the truth, in fact truth is lost there.
Biden’s claim that Trump is out for himself, is sorta true since he has been fighting the political establishment and more recently the injustice systems in more than one democratically controlled state in their vain attempt to keep him out of the White House after the upcoming 2024 Presidential Election in November.
President Trump is one of only 3 presidents who served without taking a salary. How much money did Biden receive illegally while serving as Obama’s Vice President? How much money has Biden received illegally while serving as President?
A better question might be, “Who is making those behind-the-scenes decisions that should be coming from President Biden? Who is running the show?
I have a word of advice for President Biden – Do not stand on your own record, it’s disgraceful and has hurt every American citizen, while catering to those who came here illegally. They are not “newcomers” as you call them, nor are they illegal migrants (people who came here illegally). It is their illegal actions of crossing into this country sparked by your policies of inclusion into our culture and our nation using handouts and free stuff instead of upholding established US Immigration Laws, rules and regulations.
I urge you to follow the example of President Lyndon B. Johnson who said, “I will not run, nor will I accept the nomination for President!”
Those words would cement you into the anals of American history forever. – RTM
Did you catch that State of the Union speech last evening? Nah by golly neither did I. But I noticed on all the major news networks and stations (except Fox News) they all say it was a good speech, just not good enough for Biden to unite the nation, only good enough to attack “My Predecessor” – 13 times without even using his name.
I recognized that sign right away.
It reminded me of the story of the elderly man and woman who had company over for dinner. Throughout the night he referred to his wife as sweetie, honeybun and dear. So taken in by his romanticism that the guest (when his wife went into the kitchen to bring out dessert) made a comment that basically there was still that flame of love burning strong in their marriage. The man leaned over to her and whispered that he talked that way because he simply couldn’t remember her name.
Fiery JB made it a point to reference himself being called too old for the job of President, and that my friends on the left, right and center – he is! – RTM
I saw a headline this morning which sent my mind reeling (browsing really) in all kind of directions because I remembered why I sometimes avoid self-checkout. This month I’ve noticed that at Walmart nearly all of the self-checkout lanes are closed, with only 2 operational and only 3 or 4 checkout lanes with cashiers are open. I wonder why? So far no explanation has been given, mainly because I’ve asked nobody.
What got my attention this morning was a headline that at the airport TSA is going to have self-service lanes. Did you get that? Are they going to have a huge sign saying “Nefarious individuals check in here”? Or is granny in her wheelchair going to have to throw herself out of her wheelchair, wave a wand over her body, pull herself back into the wheelchair and give the ALL CLEAR?
Sound crazy, what about the current TSA thought process where migrants with no credentials use this lane to proceed with only an envelope and a letter from President Joe Biden’s administration granting entry into the country, on cross country flights, bus passage or whatever other privileges that letter grants them.
Hey I have an idea. Why don’t they install kiosks at the border check points where immigrants show up WITH credentials, scan their country issued identification or driving license and within 60 seconds a complete criminal background check is conducted electronically and out pops a GREEN CARD. Anything else requires deportation and a 5 year ban on entry into the United States.
Sound crazy, not at all. It would be better than Biden’s current modified immigration policy – open border – no credentials required. Think of all the diseases, drugs, human trafficking, gangs, felons, and terrorists that have entered the US over the past 3+ years of the Biden administration.
A few years ago while I was returning to the US from overseas I had to go through CBP inspection and they found that I was carrying a plant used as a cooking spice and it was not on my declaration. They confiscated the plant, charged me a hefty fine and BLACKLISTED ME so that for the next 10 years when I returned from overseas travel and scanned my passport at the Kiosk a huge RED X appeared and each time I was taken for a second inspection. Talk about embarrassing. Everyone else received a GREEN CHECKMARK, but my RED X stood out clearly for all to see.
Now self-checkouts are fine providing the system being used doesn’t crash or go down for maintenance or worse…..think of Facebook and Instagram on Super Tuesday 2024 when they went down (off line) for more than an hour. Was that an accident or a test of some sort?
Now think about EVs when there is insufficient or no electricity to accommodate charging?
If you’ve ever gotten a scab, wound or sore that swells up under the skin, turns red and never seems to get better you know that someone has to “open it up” drain the infectious liquid matter, clean it up (medication if necessary) and then close the wound and prescribe instructions for taking care of it until it heals. In my case when growing up it was “doctor mom”.
Well America needs “doctor mom” real badly. Oh during the China Virus we had “Doctor Fauci” and today have the “Surgeon General” neither of which are medical doctors. America has a highly infectious case of “TDS” and the cure may be amputation, plain and simple.
When a doctor identifies the cause of the illness he often prescribes medication to stop the infection from spreading. He then monitors to see that it’s working as he knows it should. If not he switches tactics and may have to go into surgery mode.
According to the democratic left the disease is Trump. He’s a danger to our “Democracy” and he’s too old and stuck in the past. If you must know the disease is the “Democratic Party” what is deathly afraid of losing their power over We The People, who have been fed a line of crap about Trump and we have been forced to watch them parade Trump around publicly with their never ending “Pin the Tail on the Donkey”.
Have they completely forgotten that they ARE the donkey?
Let me remind you (and them) that slips of the tongue can often reveal the true intentions of the individual, like when Speaker Pelosi called the Capital Building the “Temple of Democracy”.
I for one have never saw it that way at all. Democracy is not a religion, nor is it to be worshipped. Democracy is how almost EVERY communist state or nation began.
We (the USA) are not a democracy; we are a Constitutional-Republic. Trump is not a threat to our Constitution or our Republic, but he is a direct threat to the Democratic way of doing things – mandate, mandate, & more mandates. Trump is a direct threat to their powerbase.
When any political party or politician puts their personal interests ahead of the nation as a whole they need to be reined in or removed from office at the ballot box. When they conspire to insure they hold all the cards (attack Trump, MAGA, Citizens and even their own party) that needs to cease.
The biggest threat to the American way of life is the Democratic plan for a national takeover which includes changing our government from a Constitutional-Republic to a Constitutional-Democracy.
We are not North Korea, Cuba, Russia or China we are the United States of America and we are one nation, under God with liberty and freedom for all, but not for long unless we continue to fight for our right to be free from democracy and democratic policies which are destroying our nation right under our noses.
I’ll leave you with one question, “What has Donald J. Trump done TO YOU personally”? – RTM
Sometimes I feel like a kindergarten teacher (although I don’t know what that feels like because I’ve never been one).
Ordinarily people learn from their and other people’s mistakes so that they won’t go thru the pain or humiliation of making those same mistakes.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case in 2024.
Have you ever watched a documentary on Wolves, Hyenas, Badgers, Gangs or Mobs?
There is always that one Alpha Male or Female that demonstrates to all members of the pack who is the boss. Never is there a successful takeover unless there is blood spilled and the leader goes down fighting. Usually the challenger is either killed or run out of town bloody and wounded. Once the Alpha meets and bonds with another of the same species they form another pack and the process begins all over again.
Why is that so hard for humans to learn? Gangs do it, by force, fear or both. They stake out their “territory” and dare anyone to cross into or try going through it. Guns, knives or AKs are enough to keep everyone in line or paying for protection.
With politics it’s a whole nother story, except all too often they’re playing the same old song. Not only that but for lack of a better way of expressing it, they accuse the other guy of doing what they, themselves are doing – and getting away with.
What happened to the days when politicians did the “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” bit for the good of the nation as a whole? They don’t need to talk to Jimmy Stewart (RIP) but simply watch the movie on DVD, Netflix or YouTube – and then adjust their focus.
We as a nation are at the point where families are divided, neighborhoods are in shambles and entire communities are up in arms for what…….they don’t even know? I’ll give you a clue – POLITICAL MISINFORMATION in the form of CHARACTER ASSASSINATION!
Until 2015 what did you know about Donald J. Trump, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joseph R. Biden or Barack H. Obama for that matter? NADA – NOTHING – ZILCH!
How many of those folks spent a significant part of their lives wrapped up in politics?
How many were caught up in simply making a name, a brand, a business?
How many were trying to do the right thing for their family, their community or their country?
Before the internet, television or radio how did Americans learn about political candidates?
Print media – newspapers, magazines, journals or other publications. Did you know that libel, slander, lying about someone’s character could land you in jail or federal prison?
Does that even happen anymore?
Today threats to, against or about the sitting President of the United States and/or other elected officials is simply taken for granted or ignored – UNLESS – the subject is DJT, and then “no rules apply”.
How can you not miss the implied threat of Representative Nancy Pelosi who along with then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told newly elected President Trump, IN THE OVAL OFFICE & on camera “You don’t know the importance I bring to this meeting”. Did not alarm bells go off – ANYONE?
How about tearing up the SOTU speech on camera and behind President Trump’s back during a joint session of Congress? Remember that? The warning bells have been going off since January 20th. 2017 and nobody called an Audible, 911 or anything.
I took those not as idle threats, but as the beginnings of an Insurrection to take down the sitting President of the United States. Where was the Secret Service, the FBI, Homeland Security or even the CIA or the DOD?
Either someone(s) is sleeping or complicit!
I’m going to pinpoint a comment(s) by the person(s) who said on camera, in print or verbally that “we have enough legal stuff to keep Trump locked in legal courts for the next 200 years”. They are trying to do exactly that, and not only is it morally wrong, it is unlawful and un-American, to say the least.
Does that not stink of conspiracy?
Our government from the neck down to the head up needs a complete sanitization of all the anti-American rhetoric and actions of folks who should not be in government at all. Not civil service, appointed or elected – NOTHING!
Where they need is to be behind bars – in a Mexican prison, without food stamps and full loss of telephone and other privileges. They need to feel the pain they are inflicting on others.
Every government agency’s upper administrative staff needs to see what the unemployment line looks like. They need to start from scratch, below entry level and without government pensions or retirement funds to tie them over, and those IRA’s, they should be absorbed into the social security system to pay back all the funds that have been improperly used for purposes other than their intended recipients.
Congress, I mean the real Congress should stand up and say NO MORE! Name names and hold people accountable for their irresponsible actions, and punishment should be outsourced to a foreign prison where nobody knows their names or cares that they were privileged government employees – just law breakers. – RTM
The narrative from the left is and always has been liken to the words of a “Trump done me wrong song” as they continue to twang the 14th Amendment and President Donald Trump fired up his MAGA crowd to insurrect. Did you see the faces of those MAGA families as they came to the Capital Building, they were hot and dawg tired, but smiling at what they thought they had come to witness. Things are not always what they seem to be.
The Dems feels that the Supreme Court got it wrong because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment clearly says the important part: “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion”.
Maybe those never-Trumpers on the left should read the entire section of the 14th Amendment:
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
But let’s take a step back and look at the events of January 6th, 2021. It’s been noted that while President Trump was speaking on the Mall, nefarious operators were being escorted into the Capital Building by Capital Police. That reeks of pre-meditation and collusion on the part of people or persons yet to be known who were willing to take action in order to blame President Trump and his MAGA supporters who weren’t even there yet.
Take this a step further, who would better know the procedure and routine to be taken by Congress once the Electoral College ballots are to be presented than members of Congress who have done this before and to know the precise moment and exact timing to cause a ruckus to interrupt the final phase of the election process? House Speaker Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Schumer and others who have made a public showing of roasting Trump over the past 8 years with their non-stop dog and pony shows?
When a Capitol Police officer shot and killed a MAGA supporter because seeing her made him fear for his life was then paraded in front of Congress who called him a hero? – Speaker Pelosi.
Now after January 6th what was President Trump charged and convicted of? Leading an insurrection or rebellion – No? He was accused of inciting the insurrection, but charged with “going against the will of Congress” or some such nonsense.
As a matter of record, President Trump had the constitutional right to challenge every single Electoral College Ballot, and Congress had the responsibility of carrying out challenging any and every EC Ballot that may have seemed improper or questionable.
When did the ruckus in the Capital begin, at the precise moment the swing state EC Ballots were entering the House Chamber and by that time the crowd of MAGA supporters who were encouraged by President Trump to watch the EC Ballot certification process for themselves were themselves being let into the lower level of the Capital Building by Capital Police.
Now I have not heard or read what each member of the Supreme Court said or wrote concerning the 14th Amendment argument against President Trump, but with a unanimous 9 – 0 ruling it stands to reason that each Supreme Court Justice understood the importance of allowing this travesty of trying to remove Trump from individual state ballots to continue moving forward. I agree with The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision completely, and I abhor those who are now trying to intimidate Justice Clarence Thomas into retiring or resigning, even before this decision was reached. I also agree with what President Trump said after the decision was made public, that in this country we do not weaponized the DOJ to go after ones political opponent.
It is not Congress or the Courts who have the final say on who is elected to office. That choice and responsibility remains firmly in the hands of the people, the citizens who cast their ballots early or in person, in accordance to established voter registration procedures.
Today is the day to render YOUR VOTE. Make your voice be heard or forever hold your tongue, keyboard, pencil, or pen and paper.
In response to the media saying that Trump played the court system like a fiddle, maybe the Dems on the left should try playing a new and different tune. – RTM
When the kids were little there were magazine ads for a book that would put your child’s name into the story. It was not a great seller, but it was a way of trying to engage the child to read. With computers, cell phones and the internet I’m not seeing that anymore.
This got me to thinking about the bible. Have you read those old bible stories? Do they come alive when you read them? Can you imagine yourself there, participating or watching from the shadows?
I remember reading the bible from Genesis to Revelations (cover to cover) the very first time and it only took a few short weeks. What I remember was reading about David and his coat of many colors being cast into the pit, sold as a slave and showing up as a ruler (second only to Farrow). When there was famine across the land his brothers came in anticipation to get food for their families, not expecting nor knowing that it was Joseph who controlled the storage of grain. They showed great fear when Joseph demanded they bring their younger brother to him. Yet when revealed it was a great time to know that Joseph showed no anger or wanted retribution for the wrong they had done him because it was God’s plan all along.
The same can be said of Jesus’ short 3-year ministry on this earth and as they took custody of him and paraded him before the rules of their time, I could see that it was MY hands that nailed Jesus to the cross; It was MY spear that was thrust into his side; It was MY sin that placed him on that cross, it was his love for me that kept him there. Yet it was for ME that Jesus died. As he breathed his last breath it was ME a sinner who was on his mind.
You see you can simply read words on a page or you can place yourself deep into the story line by making it personal.
The same can be said of world events or modern day water shed moments.
Where were you on November 22nd, 1963?
Where were you on September 11th, 2001?
Where were you on September 11th, 2012?
Where were you when COVID was unleashed on the world in 2020?
Where were you on January 6th, 2021?
Where were you on August 9th, 2022?
Where were you on October 6th, 2023?
Where are you on Primary Voting (Super Tuesday)?
One man or woman can make a difference. Will You?
Instead of just reading or watching a news story or cataclysmic event, try placing you into the situation, circumstance or event?
My grade school aged (at the time) daughter once asked me what did Abraham Lincoln say about slavery? I asked are you talking about the Emancipation Proclamation. I’ll never forget when she said, “No daddy, what did he tell you?” – RTM
From the Constitution of the United States of America
Be it known that I am no legal scholar or an attorney at law, simply a citizen of the United States of America who is tired of elected officials or the news media who speculate on what is going to happen should President Joe Biden be deemed unable to execute his duties as President. There are “theories” of someone outside the federal government or an elected state executive (Governor) being named as President.
In that respect I am no conspiracy theorist, but a Constitutionalist who believes that when the founding fathers, who wrote, debated and signed with their lives, livelihood and sacred honor to draft the Constitution of the United States of America as our nation’s Rule of Law knew what we were going to be facing should certain events transpire.
As a nation we are at a unique point in our nation’s history and our nation’s future. In Joe Biden we clearly have a President who has shown clear signs of cognitive decline since being inaugurated on January 20, 2021. He often is unable to articulate sentences, remember that he is President, or where he is and at times must be physically led off the stage.
It is clear that someone else is “pulling the strings” of presidential power, yet nobody has come forward to take appropriate constitutional action to end this charade. According to the media there is talk about Congress bringing in an outside party politician to confirm as president should someone pull the 25th Amendment “trigger”. As scary as it seems the Constitution is very clear as to the line of succession to the presidency:
Amendment XXV (1967)
Section 1.In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Make no mistake Congress does not have the power to decide which laws or Constitutional Amendments to honor or circumvent, but Congress does have the power to change laws, which are then signed into law by the President.
It is WE THE PEOPLE, the Citizens of the United States who are constitutionally mandated as VOTERS to elect politicians running for government offices and to decide at the ballot boxes across the nation which elected officials to retain or remove from office when they decide to go outside the law. And yes voting is a right of citizenship. Non-citizens do not vote!
Nobody is above the law! Not Democrats, Republicans, Independents or political party favorites!
It is not a person or political party, but the Constitution of the United States that shall be protected!
Become an informed Citizen, obtain a copy of the Constitution of the United States of America, read it and don’t let media or political hype influence you to accept the morally wrong or unconstitutional decisions or actions of anyone “foreign or domestic” who threaten the very fabric of our society.
If one man (or woman) can make a difference – will you be that one? – RTM
Excerpts from the Constitution of the United States of America
Article II
Section 1
“In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected.”
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” (emphasis mine)
Section 3
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information on the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Article IV
Section 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Article VI
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
AMENDMENTS
Amendment I (1791) Amendment II (1791)
Amendment III (1791) Amendment IV (1791)
Amendment V (1791) Amendment VI (1791)
Amendment VII (1791) Amendment VIII (1791)
Amendment IX (1791) Amendment X (1791)
Amendment XI (1795/1798) Amendment XII (1804)
Amendment XIII (1865) Amendment XIV (1868)
Amendment XV (1870) Amendment XVI (1913)
Amendment XVII (1913) Amendment XVIII (1919)
Amendment XIX (1920) Amendment XX (1933)
Amendment XXI (1933) Amendment XXII (1951)
Amendment XXIII (1961) Amendment XXIV (1964)
Amendment XXV (1967) Amendment XXVI (1971)
Amendment XXVII (1992)
Amendment I (1791)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II (1791)
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III (1791)
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV (1791)
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V (1791)
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI (1791)
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Amendment VII (1791)
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII (1791)
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX (1791)
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X (1791)
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Amendment XI (1795/1798)
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
Amendment XII (1804)
The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;—The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;—The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President—The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Amendment XIII (1865)
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Amendment XIV (1868)
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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 XVI (1913)
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Amendment XVII (1913)
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.
This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Amendment XVIII (1919)
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
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 XX (1933)
Section 1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Section 2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
Section 3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
Section 6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
Amendment XXI (1933)
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Amendment XXII (1951)
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President, when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.
Amendment XXIII (1961)
Section 1. The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:
A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment.
Section 2. The 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 XXV (1967)
Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
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.
Amendment XXVII (1992)
No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
I’m still trying to stay away from all the political stuff on cable television, but while treading the mill at my local gym I can’t help but watch the screen as Fox News and CNN are separated by 2 other television screens, but focusing on the most important politicians in the news – President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump 7 former Governor Nikki Haley.
President Biden has recently visited the Texas border and promptly (as expected) blamed the GOP for the border crisis, and Climate Change. I looked at the brave CBP agents who appeared to have been forced to stand behind the president who has tied their hands behind their back in order to keep the border open.
President Trump also visited the Texas border and said something to the effect that it is the worst border crisis because of Biden.
Governor Nikki Haley has ads playing saying that these two old men are simply stuck on the past and she alone is the younger blood needed to lead from the White House (my words not hers). After losing in her home state, she said that she was an accountant and knows that she only garnered 40% of her states votes, but she isn’t quitting because she doesn’t believe that Trump can beat Biden in the election. Can anyone spell OSTRICH? (me either).
I have always said look at their track records, what have they done for themselves outside of politics, inside politics and for our country? Have their policies helped or hurt? What have they done internationally? Helped or Hurt?
When they open their mouth do they help or hurt our country?
I’m for the one who has a proven track record of helping our country’s economy, internationally stated our nation’s resolve in standing by Israel and advocating leaving NATO because it’s bad financially for our country and us as American taxpayers. I’m for the one who tells us there are better days ahead because he really believes it. He calls things like they are and cuts to the chase – stop doing it. I’m for the one the Dems are trying to keep out of the White House with all these frivolous law suits while he keeps marching forward, determined to make good on his promises.
How are Americans expected to trust someone who speaks out of both sides of his face, catering to the politically correct and absolutely despicable insane minority while punishing the majority with mandates that destroy our nation?
What about someone so focused on how she is the answer to America’s problems, as she torches everyone in her path. I couldn’t trust her any further than I could throw her, so I will simply ignore her and her rhetoric.
We’ve seen how sneaky democratic politicians can be, so watch out for the DNC to pull what appears to be a rabbit out of the hat trick and switch things up at the last minute trying to prevent losing the White House.
The Dems have even gone so far as to accuse Senator Tim Scott of being a member of the KKK. It would be funny since Senator Scott is African-American and thus not qualified to belong to the KKK. However Senator Scott is an outspoken supporter of President Trump and thus fair game for slandering, name calling and false accusations, pretty much what they have been doing to President Trump for the past 8 years.
Remember when they said Trump supporters are dropping Trump like a hot potato? They lied! – RTM
In case you’ve been hibernating in a cave somewhere – our faith in God is under attack.
The events of 9/11 struck accord and brought forth a resurgence in our faith in God and patriotism in abundance.
America was under attack and nothing would ever be the same again.
What followed was a wave of ungodliness like we’ve never seen in America. Not only had God been declared dead in our homeland but the assault on freedom of religion was shifting into high gear.
The political landscape shifted as Barack Obama assumed the presidency and being white, Christen, and a veteran were declared a threat to national security.
As America prepared for the obviously “third Obama term” by proxy Christians across the nation and around the world sought the heart of God in prayer to have mercy and intervene in American politics.
As the nation awoke after the 2016 election Donald Trump prepared to assume the presidency and begin rebuilding America to its former glory days.
But evil was not going to give up and an intervention in the form of the China Virus came in 2020 to sweep the planet with fear of the coronavirus.
The assault of evil did not stop or ease up and in 2021 the unthinkable happened when Joe Biden assumed the presidency making “Obama’s third term” by proxy a stark reality.
All bets were off, Americans wanted anybody but Trump and Biden certainly was that anybody.
Every policy decision seemed aimed at taking America back to a third world status. Open borders have flooded our cities and streets with unvetted migrants, crime, disease, drugs and fear. The economies of our nation and of the world suffer as never before.
Yet the fear is not “what will the Biden presidency do next?”, no it’s back at the anybody but Trump stage again.
Have we forgotten that Almighty God has it all under his control? Do we not remember that “No weapon formed against us can stand” against God’s will and plan?
Christians prayed and God answered. We didn’t like God’s answer and he gave us what we wanted.
We must pray as Jesus said, “Our Father who art in Heaven hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
It’s not about us or Trump – it is all about Jesus and his desire that ALL be saved.
Don’t you think it’s about time we submit our will for His will? – RTM
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