President Biden, you, and your administration disgust me! I did not vote for you, but I was willing to support you as president back in January and show you respect. Even though I continue to have reservations regarding the veracity of the 2020 Elections, the transparency of the election counts, and the skullduggery witnessed, I was willing to give you a chance. Your actions in Afghanistan have sundered my cherub-like demeanor and turned the extended olive branch into a torch for your pyre!
Let me be perfectly clear, the blood of every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, who has served, is serving, or will serve in Afghanistan is on your hands for your ineffective and wholly useless policy in that country! Worse, the tears and blood of children being abused, murdered, raped, and assaulted are also on your hands. You allowed a mostly peaceful situation to become an open and festering warzone, again, and it is all your fault! You cannot blame Congress, you cannot hide behind the media, you cannot shirk accountability behind generals and pentagon officials, you are the Commander in Chief, and it is your sole responsibility to lead the armed forces of these United States.
Sure, we in the service swear an oath to the U.S. Constitution and the officers appointed over us, but the first officer we pledge obedience to is the U.S. President. You, sir, need to learn responsibility for the men and women you lead. I plan to teach you and every American who is privileged to read this article the power of the office and the responsibility of the office you hold. How will I instruct you; through the U.S. Presidents who came before you!
The power of Commander in Chief is derived from the U.S. Constitution:
“Article II Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the Commander in Chief clause, states that “[t]he President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States when called into the actual Service of the United States.”
Mr. President, you need to take two lessons from President General George Washington.
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- “But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg every gentleman may remember it in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.”
- “In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is, to be honest, and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim were generally adopted, wars would cease, and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks, and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.”
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Do you understand these two fundamental principles of being the Commander in Chief? Humility is not a weakness but an inner strength to know and do what is right in exercising your command. You were given the greatest honor possible, to lead men, and women, into battle, and you have pissed that honor away for trinkets not worth a mess of pottage!
The second principle of being the Commander in Chief is demanding honesty, first from yourself, then from others. Is the job too big for you? It’s no shame to admit you are in over your head. It is no shame to realize you need help. It is a crime to act like you have the brains and talent, lying to yourself, while the world burns like Rome and Nero fiddles! Your counselors, administration, and vice president are all crooks, scoundrels, and fools, but you have the responsibility! This is why honesty is so desperately needed and fundamentally critical.
President Jefferson provides the following principle for the Commander in Chief, and while President General George Washington embodied this principle, President Jefferson said it best:
“If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”
Are you informed about the consequences of your decisions? If so, why are you continuing to adhere to wrongheaded decisions that are destroying America, ruining Afghanistan, and allowing China to threaten her neighbors, bully her neighbors, and be the aggressor party in a prelude to war? Do you not understand that your responsibility for the consequences of your decisions is eternal, and you owe the God of this land, even Jesus Christ, accounting for how you have led during your time in office? The blood of innocent people is on your hands because you and your advisors have refused to listen, refused to act, and chosen the worst possible action when working to the detriment of everyone on this planet. You are actively failing as a president; does this not matter to you?
Inherent in the law is the following axiom:
“Ignorance of the law is not an excuse for breaking the law.”
You need to understand this principle, for failure to be learned is not an excuse, ignorance of the law is not an excuse, and ignorance of the consequences is not an excuse. You cannot blame your staff when standing before a judge and jury, nor can you evade responsibility and accountability. Honestly, the responsibility ultimately stops at your desk, the music ends, and you are left holding the bag full of whatever crap landed on your desk.
President Jefferson also provides the following axiom for a Commander in Chief, one which you have avoided your entire life, and it is time you were made to should this burden as an adult!
“A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.”
What does this mean; allow me to explain using your example. Your first, Second, and Third attempts at running for president were fraught with verbal gaffes where outright lies, bald-faced untruths, and plagiarized speech were put forth for the public as your ideas and ideals. Thus making you a liar, a thief, and the worst sort of scoundrel possible, yet, through gerrymandering and a lot of money and your Jello-like spine, you have managed to stay in office long past your maximum level of incompetence. What sort of moral society have you been promoting and living in? Do you realize you are responsible for that moral decay you have been broadcasting from your senate office? Do you know that your morals are now being stamped upon the military, and the military is going to find that your morals do not fit the honor, courage, and commitment needed to fulfill the mission? The Uniform Code of Military Justice, which you now fall under as Commander in Chief, would find you guilty and in need of severe punishment. How can a soldier, airmen, Marine, sailor, etc., go before the mast for UCMJ punishment with you as Commander in Chief and be found guilty of morals you exemplify daily? By the way, this is the same problem your buddy Obama suffered from for eight damnable years when he occupied your chair!
Speaking of eternal consequences, and being the Commander in Chief, President Lincoln has some choice words for you to learn.
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- “In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
- “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
- “With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under GOD, it will sustain you, [or utterly reject you].”
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As you have been weighed, measured, and found wanting, I will take a moment and explain to you what these three quotes mean for the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. Firstly, watch your language. You have not done very well with this in the past. Your lies, half-truths, falsehoods, and plagiarized speech is beyond contempt, but the useless speeches you keep giving threatening to put legal and law-abiding citizens in prison for the sole crime of making a living is beyond detestable and shows a definitive lack of character.
Secondly, your words last for eternity. I remember watching you as a child and thinking, “Putz!” Then cheering when the news broke that you had chucked your campaign for president. How wonderful the Internet is for bringing back your words for your shame and discomfort, and how I enjoy watching your comments fall from your lips and condemn you for the liar and cheat you are.
Thirdly, those crimes are coming back in spades by trying to evade responsibility yesterday for being a liar and cheat, a thief, and a robber. But, you have been placed into a position of honor for which you are not comfortable, for which you have not the strength, stamina, and mental fortitude to perform the necessary duties the role commands. Who is making the decisions in the White House? Why?
Finally, we come to the absolute crux of the matter. As Commander in Chief, the honor of commanding men and women in the military comes with a corresponding responsibility. The country loves her military and trusts you to treat them appropriately. You did not do so in January and got a minor backlash. You are not doing so in Afghanistan and will catch a much higher backlash as the media watches a repeat of Saigon in Kabul as the Embassy is evacuated. Your buddy Obama has a dead Ambassador he has never answered for, which (historically) has always been a declaration of war. What do you have? An entire country laid to waste, the waste of millions of dollars in materials, millions of lives destroyed, and the wasted efforts of millions of people and multiple presidents. You have betrayed the American people’s trust, and you will be held accountable, just like your good friend Mayor Lightfoot (with stickyfingers) is being held accountable in Chicago, only many, many magnitudes worse!
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Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasian began work on the Coliseum of Rome in 69 AD. Upon completion of the Coliseum, his son Emperor Titus held 100-days and nights of festival in the Coliseum. Ostensibly to calm the masses after the civil unrest following the death of Emperor Nero, the Coliseum acted precisely as it was planned, distract the masses, while the emperor consolidated his power, undermined the Roman Senate, and set the stage for the end of the Roman Empire. Roman laws were built, originally, upon the consent of the governed until the emperors broke the law. The people rebelled, and before the squabbling senators could take control, the Roman government was subjugated to empirical rule. All historical facts, reflecting the power of the consent of the governed and a lesson upon which we can plot the future if we are brave enough to take action.
The consent of the governed is built upon the intermingled trust between people as a body electing government officers and people representing those elected as government officers. The problems have arisen because many in public office have refused to accept the government of those who elected them and have served only themselves and the monied interests buying their time. Thus, trust propensity in government has dropped to disastrous levels. Adding to the problem are the accumulated actions of previously elected officials who have set a pattern for personal wealth by tax and spend, supporting political cronies, and gerrymandering system to protect them from negative election results. The trust between people of shared values has been broken by those elected, who never shared values, who refuse to live in their home districts, and whose time and the highest bidder can purchase interests. Thus, is it any wonder that people no longer believe the lies of government are restless and agitated?
Toby Keith sings one of my favorite, in your face, you screwed up big, songs called, ironically, “
Calling on the real truckers out there, do you know anyone who would hire the President to operate a big rig? I have known some hard-up and desperate companies, but I have never met one who would hire that guy! Calling on the anthracite coal miners, would you hire this guy to be on your crew? I wouldn’t! I have worked with some low-talent individuals, people you could have sworn were not the best sperm possible in their family tree. Then there is Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and I am left to wonder how did they win the race to fertilize?
Biden is in the White House shouting Toby Keith’s chorus:
Well, Mr. President, frankly, I do not like you living in the White House! Worse, I despise the fact that your criminal children have had the charges dropped and squashed, and they are getting away with capital crimes while you run America into the ground. You made a lousy senator, a worse Vice President, and as President, you are in a dead heat with Obama for dead last. You have proven to be a liar, a cheat, a thief, a conniver, and you cannot be trusted to walk a platoon of drunk Marines into a bar, let alone run a country! So, to answer your question, I do not like you, not at all!
As a kid, the USSR loomed as an ever-present force that could at anytime wipe America off the map with a pre-emptive nuclear strike. Of course, America would retaliate with nuclear weapons, and this would create MAD or “mutually assured destruction.” People understood MAD was bad, but the communists among us were more insidious about portraying communism. The news media showed bread lines, soap lines, and the bitter pictures of enslavement under communism. Thus, socialism was the way to go, and the communists were selling socialism as the better way to government.
Envy has been one of the seven deadliest sins for a reason; it breeds violence and discontent. Webster shines a light on envy describing it this way, “A feeling of discontent and resentment aroused by and in conjunction with desire for the possessions or qualities of another.” Fear is disgust and envy paired for the weak to overcome the powerful. The disease of envy includes admiration, jealousy, discontent, disbelief, lies, and a host of emotions that overwhelm a person’s mind to the point where they become irrational and hostile. Another resource claims envy (from Latin invidia) is an emotion that occurs when a person lacks another’s superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desire it or wishes that the other lacked it. Aristotle defined envy as pain at the sight of another’s good fortune, stirred by “those who have what we ought to have.”
There is a reason why envy is a deadly sin in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, mentioned in all the ancient books as a problem, and continues to infect people who refuse to learn. Unbridled emotions are captivity, not freedom! There is danger in the extremes of everything. Envy is in the extremes and imitates a minimal issue to capture the mind and control the person. Consider this, capitalism is the best, and envious people implement socialism to chain capitalism while rooting for communism to come in a takeover, thinking they will be better off and the “rich will finally pay their fair share.” Reality is always disappointing for envious people, and the result will be that everyone detests them when their plans come to fruition.
Plasticized words make the most trouble. Unfortunately, public education in America does not appear to care; public educators are some of the worst abusers of words, disconnecting words from meanings to achieve an agenda, which is practicing mental terrorism. Poerksen (1995) discusses this phenomenon in some detail, and the need to be more cognizant of the problem is a small part of the solution. For example, Poerksen (1995) brings up the term ‘strategy’; the context might not be clear. Without specifying the intention and meaning, the audience becomes lost quickly but lost with confidence and lost doing what they understand.
Military commanders are taught there are two great sins in planning operations; one is waiting, and predictability and the other is indifference. Today, business leaders are instructed well by academics about the problems with waiting to make a decision, failing to act, and the costs of blown opportunities from taking too long to make a decision. But few have ever considered the costs of indifference. I intend to close this gap in education, using some recent examples and some history to reflect why indifference is a corrosive acid on the souls of men.
Let’s take Robert Solomon’s position that emotions are a choice, a judgment, and a social event. Indifference is not distinguishable from other emotions and remains a choice, a judgment, or a social event. Except one is not left trying to distinguish between indifference as emotion and indifference as lacking interest or caring. More to the point, if indifference was simply an emotion to choose, then indifference is apathy, and apathy is another emotion on the path to ruination.
Solomon makes a classic point in tying indifference to defensive mechanisms used in choosing emotional interactions for social situations. Indifference can reflect envy, resentment, hate, disdain, and the “opposite” of these emotions: love and respect—indifference embodying the individual’s psyche through emotional choices. When angry, frustrated, or time-pressured, how many times has the words “I don’t care” slipped out as the position when at another time the decision would not have been indifferent? Is the defensive aspect clear?
Public examples of indifference abound; one of the most obvious was the Beer Summit. President Obama’s indifference to police officers during the Henry Louis Gates arrest debacle in July 2009 reflected poorly in a socially political aspect for all his faults and all his other decisions. Thus the “
President Trump was criticized for caring too much about war zones and problems outside the United States, while the infrastructure crumbled and the poor suffered. President Obama was criticized for his refusals to enforce “Red Lines” being crossed with impunity and where internationally illegal weapons of mass destruction were employed. Which one was a reflection of indifference? Why? I am not getting into political discussions here; the topic is indifference, and recognizing indifference and the consequence from indifferent actions remains crucial to improving decision-making. Both presidents inherited situations where American Troops were in harm’s way, and these troop conditions rightly took priority in decision-making short and long-term. Yet, which president was indifferent? Why? Does indifference change solely because of political leanings? Why?
Any time a debate about taxes arises, the terms progressive and regressive get thrown around like popcorn in a food fight. Whether or not those speaking, even know, or care about the definitions, implications, and repercussions are different topics and one I will not hazard a guess. My intent here is to help you know and better understand the terminology as we discuss the broader topic, sales taxes. Please note, since the early 1900s, the word progress has been twisted by tyrants, plasticized by the media, and manipulated into means one thing to one person and a different thing to a politician. Of all the terms plasticized for tyranny, progress is one of the most egregious examples. Just like the term “Buffalo-wings.”
The terms progressive and regressive are a perfect example of how emotions and language mix. Without knowing all the definitions of a word, people will choose to use the sound of the word to decide whether the word sounds harsh or pleasant. For example, progression sounds good, and regression sounds bad, but progress has roots in royalty taking a trip, and regression is a privilege or returning. Hence, one of the main themes in these articles has been and continues to be how to control your emotions to improve your decision-making, the need to read, the opportunity to learn and keep learning words to empower conversation and knowledge.
While the Tax Foundation does an admirable job pitching for “right-sizing” the tax base to make sales taxes more “equitable,” they miss the forest for the tree. Sales taxes are a silent killer and need to be regressed from American purchases at the earliest opportunity! 
On this momentous day, marking 100-days of the fraudulent president, I thought it fitting to mark the occasion by reminding everyone of freedom grabbing runaway government promoted by President Biden. As 
Examining closer the 50-executive orders issued by President Biden, we find the most egregious of these orders, 
Another interesting aspect of the president’s first 100-days is immigration. The current president’s Trump Derangement Syndrome has him reversing 10 of President Trumps Executive Orders and writing two additional immigration-related orders. The plasticization of modular language reveals the tyranny of ruling by executive order! The terms “fair,” “equitable,” “just,” “proper,” etc., all point to the president’s desire to see America devalued by illegal immigrants. Look at the rhetoric used by the president to “explain” why he has reversed, revoked, and wrecked the legal immigration process, and you will find that through Congressional inaction. With Congresses’ refusal to exert its rights, the president can do anything he wants on immigration, and Congress’s leadership just cheers!
America, we learned a lot about the “families” presenting themselves at the US Southern Border for entry into America. We learned about child prostitution, children being “attached” to two strange adults and calling it a “family.” We learned about a lot of schemes to feed the growing human trafficking problem in the United States. Yet, the media continues to call the separation of “families” unfair, and the president has proved he learned nothing but smoke and mirrors. At the same time, these children are raped, abused, disappeared, and destroyed, all through executive order instead of legislated demand! Legitimate families should be kept together, but until documentation can be obtained, separating the families for the safety of the children should be paramount! Sorting through the MS-13 plants is not uncaring; it protects America’s main streets from terrorists! But, these immigration policies, designed by President Trump, are hated by the media; so, these policies have to go. Thus, I ask again, do you feel safer in your home or not?
I was never a President Trump (R) supporter; but, I did, and do, support anyone willing to try new ideas to make America safer. I am not a supporter of holding children indefinitely in nice hotels when veterans are homeless and fully support an America FIRST agenda. But, I also firmly believe that the churches and non-profit groups of America can organize to help in a humane way better than runaway government supported by executive fiat!
America, we need legislation on immigration, NOT executive orders that change as frequently as the president! I have maintained this stance, publicly, since President Reagan signed the first orders providing paths to citizenship for illegals. The illegal immigration policies in America can be directly traced to President Roosevelt and WWII executive orders allowing foreign workers access to America’s jobs in agriculture.
If the fraudulent president has proved anything in his first 100-days, he has proved America is in trouble, DEEP Trouble, due to the executive orders, runs around the constitutional process, and the abdication of Congressional rule (legislative branch) at all levels of government. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, this president has proved that bigger government is a millstone dragging this Republic down. Finally, this president has proven you cannot “trust” the government and must watch it like a toddler running with a knife! So, CNN, and all the other corporate media outlets, you cheer the fraudulent president; but don’t you dare try to claim this is a good thing for America!
Recently, an email purportedly written or approved by Warren Buffett came through my email inbox. The email has me thinking about the perks and problems in elections, allowing politicians of all levels of government to act like “Lords and Masters” over other citizens. Agree or disagree, your call; however, I do passionately believe that America needs better politicians, and the following are my thoughts on obtaining better politicians.
Agency and freedom, liberty, and capability are interconnected principles needed for a Republic to select its politicians. Term limits unfairly reduce all these interconnected principles, and while I believe in the “Rule of Law,” the framers had good reason not to include term limits. Please note, I am not advocating for a permanent ruling class, nor am I arguing for career politicians; I urge people to think beyond the current disastrous crop of politicians and how they got there. Living in a Republic means change requires time, a lot of time, and sometimes the best politicians need more time but do not have that time due to term limits, so they rush, and in rushing, what could have been a good thing, becomes a disaster!
Thus, bringing us back to the need for better candidates for elections, and a need for better vetting, lower election costs, and keeping an informed electorate firmly in control over the politician elected to lead. Does anyone remember when President Clinton faced impeachment in the Senate for lying; he was genuinely scared of being defeated and kicked out of office. Yet, the governor of California, when facing an impeachment, laughed. That is where politics have fallen since, and because of President Clinton and his vile blaggard of a spouse! Why was President Clinton successful in winning the impeachment process. For two reasons, his wife is an expert in backroom dealing, bribery, and sycophancy, and the Republican Party fell apart without a clear successor that would have been superior to President Clinton.
I have yet to see a “debate” during an election; by the way, neither have you! I have seen manufactured plastic candidates, witnessed corporate media play gotcha, and I observed weak-kneed spineless people talk, but never a debate! A debate includes ideas, not emotion, logic, and reason, not hyperbole and media controllers. A debate does not include commercials! Nor does a debate include 26 or more people on a stage answering questions and interrupting each other for “points.” After a debate, I do not need a talking head “explaining” anything, which is why debates in public used to mean something in politics. A debate should never include more than three people at any one time on a debate platform, and the media are not “asking questions or arbiters of rules, nor are there stopwatches and timed speeches. A debate begins with ideas, ends with logic, and there is no place for the media to interrupt. Pick a topic, detail your ideas, and allow the public to decide.
In conclusion, I have some questions for consideration. I hope to take these questions and form future articles, but before those arrive, I want to spur conversation, and I hope to get mental juices flowing while considering these five fundamental points.
Let me reiterate, America is a Republic (if we can keep it)! A Liberty FIRST Culture knows and understands political accountability and responsibility is crucial to maintaining a free republic. Better candidates are needed to improve those who win political office. I do not know about you, but I am through with coddling the current politicians across America. They need to act for the best of all America or leave office and be held accountable! There is no third option!
The verse above from Isaiah also speaks to another point needing discussion; the work we do has consequences we cannot escape! Accountability and responsibility follow the choices we make, like shadows; accountability and responsibility are ours to accept or reject, but they never go away! For example, Speaker Pelosi spent the better part of 6-months refusing to help Americans during this governmentally fed emotional hysteria called “COVID,” but as soon as Biden/Harris won, fraudulently, the presidency, it was time to hurry up and act! Now, Speaker Pelosi has exercised her “Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)” and ramrodded another erroneous impeachment through the US House of Representatives. Aided and abetted by, if the count is correct, ¾’s of the GOP, acting as craven yellow-belly spineless entities.
Companies can give and take at their discretion to the political parties of their choice; that matters not. But, if you claim to represent the American People, duly elected, and you weaponize government to browbeat, hammer, control the electorate, you will be held accountable! Hence, I call for the voters to begin holding the newly formed 117th Congress to task for their misbehavior.
If your two supporters for your speakership were allowed to travel freely, then COVID is not as dire and dangerous as you have been preaching. What about those members who were exposed and have now tested positive because your decisions put them in the House of Representatives while contagious? May their families sue you personally for lost wages, harm, and being infected with COVID?
Take another large group who came to the capital, BLM. The guards for the House were doubled, on alert, and ready if anything happened. As House Speaker, Speaker Pelosi has the power to direct DC Police and other law enforcement agencies. Still, for a Trump Support event, magically, all the security protocols were purposefully not instituted, but after damage and a riot that left five people dead, it is suddenly time to tighten security checks and policies. Something is wrong and smells to high heaven!
Yet, you have wasted valuable time in the 117th Congress to blackball, criticize, shame, and express disdain while weaponizing the Federal Government against President Trump, his family, his associates, his administration representatives, and a host of other private citizens. Why? I cannot believe this is all TDS, especially since 
How long Speaker Pelosi? How long liberal leftists? How long will America have to be sorely vexed before charges are brought for your treason and vilification of America? How long will America be patronized by one-side of your mouths and vilified from the other side? How long will honest men and women be called terrorists for serving in America’s military arms while you enjoy the liberty of their service? My soul is sore vexed; I know millions of other people share in that sentiment. Thus, how long will you proclaim to be the head of the People’s House of elected representatives and continue to ignore, shame, and abhor the people of these the United States of America, a free people, under law, a Republic like none other in history?
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