As someone who has been paying attention to politics since before graduating college in 1980, I have never seen so vicious and unrelenting a political attack on an opposition party member as that of the Democrats’ years-long war against Donald J Trump.
Ever since Trump came down that escalator to announce that he was running in the 2016 Presidential Election, the Democrats have attacked him like a bulldog on a steak bone, even to the point of paying people to demonstrate against him and coercing the Old and New Media to slander him with unbelievable rumors and lies.
When that didn’t work and Trump became President, riding a Red Wave from coast-to-coast, Hillary Clinton paid for a phony dossier to be made up showing a Russian Collusion which never happened, leading to the appointment of an over-the- hill Special Counsel and Congressional hearings that were nothing but an extended dog and pony show culminating in the Special Counsel’s report which exonerated Trump.
The Democrats even paid protesters to riot in the street, defacing monuments and ransacking private businesses.
The Democrats’ Trump Derangement Syndrome became so severe that after China released COVID-19 on the world, they actually blamed Trump, even though it was partially financed by the NIH during the Obama Administration!
And, who could forget their failed attempts at impeachment?
They finally came up with a plan to get rid of Trump by passing a law allowing unfettered mail-in ballots. This naked corruption led to the installation of Worst President in American History, demented old fool Joe Biden.
Now, after three years of Cultural Marxism, a broken Supply Chain, an invasion coming across our Southern Border, a horrible economy, out-of-control crime and government spending, weak foreign policy, and unbridled totalitarianism, the American people are ready to vote Biden out.
Knowing this, the Democrats decided that the only way to keep Trump from becoming President again was to use Soros-funded Prosecutors to file baseless criminal charges and lawsuits against him to be tried in front of Trump-hating Democrat Judges.
They are also going from Blue State to Blue State petitioning to have Trump removed from the primary ballots like just happened in Colorado through a ruling by their State Supreme Court, which is run by appointed Democrats.
The problem with that is that they’re basing their strategy on the 14th Amendment, which does not apply in Trump’s case and which was eviscerated by President Grant after the Civil War in order to heal the nation and allow former Confederate soldiers to be active in politics.
The reason that all the Democrats’ strategies have failed and are failing is the fact that the American people are sick and tired of their arrogant condescending nature and their unrelenting attack against a man who has done nothing but work hard for Americans while putting America first.
The American people do not want the high taxes that the Democrats love to make Americans pay in order to finance their pet projects.
Americans do not want to finance other countries’ wars, nor do they want their tax dollars going overseas to people who hate us.
Americans do not want their children and grandchildren being taught to be sexual perverts.
Americans know that the Democrat leadership and some of the Republicans are as crooked as a dog’s hind leg, and they are sick and tired of professional politicians who are in it for themselves and nobody else.
That is why all of this Political Lawfare the Democrats are waging against Donald J Trump is doomed for failure.
Well, all that and a little thing called the US Constitution and a United States Supreme Court that will uphold it.
Pride goeth before a fall as the Democrat Elite are about to find out…BIG TIME.
“A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday.
The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the Pentagon suspend efforts to dismantle and remove the monument from Arlington cemetery.
Safety fencing has been installed around the memorial, and officials anticipate completing the removal by Dec. 22, the Arlington National Cemetery said in an email. During the removal, the surrounding landscape, graves and headstones will be protected, the Arlington National Cemetery said.” (Courtesy Newsmax.com)
This was ordered by the same 2022 “independent” committee that authorized changing the names of all military bases named after Confederate Officers.
Besides the obvious fact that the Far Left Democrats are erasing history on purpose, like all Marxist Totalitarian Governments have before them, in order to keep the masses uneducated and pliant, why are the Far Left Democrats really trying to erase Southern History?
Well…
In every single presidential election, since I first voted for Future President Ronald Reagan in November of 1980, the voters of the South have proven to be the linchpin upon which all presidential candidates’ victory depended upon.
If you were able, as a Democrat or a Republican, to get the voters of the South to cast their ballots for you, you became the President of the United States of America.
The South, to this day, remains essential to winning the White House.
The Liberals in the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, alike, or the Vichy Republicans, as I call them, are all too aware of this political fact.
However, those who believe that the South, in the Year of Our Lord 2023, is still backwards, or somehow inferior to their point of view, or political ideology, have jumped at the effort to negate a period of our history in which American blood on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line was shed in combat.
Why have these Far Left Democrat Politicians tried so hard to shift the focus of the nation away from the incompetency and mental deterioration of President Joe Biden and created a cancel culture reminiscent of the Russian Revolution and the history-destroying Middle Eastern Rampage of ISIS?
Simple: Political Expediency.
By marginalizing the South as a part of this effort, the Far Left Democrats, from Joe Biden and The Squad on down the line, are hoping to diminish and possibly negate the leverage that Southern States have in molding the Political Landscape of America.
Even after the last 6 years of the Democrats’ continuous attacks on President Trump, “MAGA” Conservatives” and the American way of life, America is still a Center-Right Nation.
Through their efforts in the National Education System to indoctrinate American Children into despising what America has always stood for, these politicians and their minions hoped to swing the Political Pendulum toward their side of the Political Aisle and to create a “Democratic Socialist” (i.e., Marxist) country.
They know that, if somehow, they can place the Southern States in a “bad light” and at a Political Disadvantage, that perhaps our voice in the political affairs of this nation, will not carry as much weight.
Plus, between you and me and the water cooler, Liberals in the Northern and Western States remain ticked off that both American and International Businesses are still relocating to the South, where the climate is friendlier, the Unions have not made the cost of doing business unprofitable, and, where Old-Fashioned American Work Ethic still exists.
Just sayin’.
These Southern Americans, whom the virtue-signaling Far Left and Vichy Republicans seek to dishonor and hide away, like Bill Clinton’s little black book, were flawed men, as well.
However, the Federal Government recognizes them as United States of America Veterans.
”Every soldier’s grave made during our unfortunate civil war [sic] is a tribute to American valor… And the time has now come… when in the spirit of fraternity we should share in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers… and if it needed further justification it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in the year just passed by the sons and grandsons of those heroic dead.” …President William McKinley, 14 December 1898.
This Confederate memorial and the names of the Military Bases, like the statues which the Far Left have already removed from sight, MUST be left alone, to serve as a reminder of mistakes made, by NORTH and South, and as a reminder that, like a family often does, we fight among ourselves, but our true strength lies in forgiveness, compassion. courage, and integrity.
Four character traits that both the Far Left Democratic Party and Modern American Liberals in general seemingly have forsaken in their quest to restore power to their minority political ideology.
Character traits which they had better suck up and find soon because those Americans whom they have been treating like “useful idiots” and an automatic voting base are growing increasingly tired of being fed empty promises by a party propping up a demented old fool.
Every now and then, there comes a story that is so delicate that it is difficult to write about, and yet something has to be said about it. So, if you’ll bear with me, gentle readers, I will try to describe the hottest story that has hit the news in recent days.
A Senate Democrat Staffer has shown up nude in a video in a chat room with another man performing a homosexual sex act on all fours in the Senate Hearing Room.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t the main Democrat Elite talking point for prosecuting Americans who entered the Capitol Building during the so-called “insurrection” on January 6th, 2021 that has put people in jail, been the fact that the Capitol Building is a “political sanctuary” and according to the Democrats, a “sacred” place?
If those who went into the Capitol Building on that day, after being let in the building by the Capitol Police and strolling around, are subject to be put in jail, what should happen to these rambunctious fellows?
The gross, sinful, and downright animalistic behavior by the poor excuses for human beings in the Senate Hearing Room is a great metaphor for today’s Democratic Party.
Today’s Democratic Party eschews Traditional American Faith and Values while embracing and championing perversion, decadence, and disrespect.
They are also horrible hypocrites who believe themselves to be holier and more intelligent than the rest of us Americans. In fact, as shown by the Biden Crime Family and the Clintons, they believe themselves to be above the law.
It will be interesting to see what happens to this Democratic Senate Staffer and his partners in perversion who desecrated the Senate hearing room.
If things go like they have been, nothing will happen to them. Because you see, we are currently living in an America which has two different legal systems, one for average Americans and one for the Democrat Elite.
It will also be interesting to see what happens as a spotlight is placed on the behind-the- scenes (pardon the unintentional pun) behavior of those who dwell in the bubble of Capitol Hill.
“President Joe Biden’s approval rating has reached a new low and former President Donald Trump has taken the lead over the incumbent in the hypothetical 2024 presidential race, according to the latest poll by The Wall Street Journal.
This is the first time Trump has led Biden in the poll as the incumbent’s approval rating has reached a new low in the poll at 37% (and a record-high 61% disapproval). Trump has a 4-point edge outside the margin of error (47%-43%) among registered voters in the head-to-head matchup.
The poll also debunks the narratives that third-party and independent candidates might help Biden against Trump. Trump’s lead expands to 6 points (37%-31%) when five other candidates are added to the poll.” (Courtesy Newsmax.com)
As recent polls clearly show, American voters are not impressed by the performance of the President whom they supposedly elected in 2020.
How could they be?
Starting with day one, when he shut down American oil production and began pushing expensive impractical electric cars in an effort to appease all of the Climate Change Whackjobs, Biden’s tenure as President has proven disastrous for our country.
His administration’s efforts to label his failed economic strategy as Bidenomics has not fooled the American people at all. They are more worried about being able to pay their bills and buy groceries that they can’t afford anymore.
Americans have maxed out their credit cards simply trying to live their lives from day to day.
Meanwhile, 5,000 illegal immigrants are crossing our border every single day and are receiving money to live on. Our money.
And, in order to try to keep everyone’s minds off of the horrors of his economic strategy, Biden and the Democrat Elite have purposely continued to try to divide us by race and economic status.
Meanwhile, his failed Foreign Policy has Biden making Neville Chamberlain look like Winston Churchill.
With his disastrous pull-out in Afghanistan, his payments to our enemies in Iran, his money laundering in Ukraine, his naive championing of a two-state solution in Israel which would reward the Radical Islamic Terrorists of Hamas, and his sucking up to China, Biden appears well on the way to lighting the match which will set the entire world aflame.
Make no mistake. The Democrat Elite are not surprised in the least by Biden’s poll numbers.
They knew that he was incompetent when they installed him.
They thought that they could BS the American public and snow them with free money and outlandish promises.
Unfortunately for them, they underestimated the memories of average Americans.
As everything started to go to hell in a handbasket under Joe Biden, Americans remembered fondly that things were better during the Trump Presidency and that his economic programs’ success as well as his foreign policy, which kept us out of wars were well on the way to making America great again.
The Democrat Elite’s quest for ultimate political power has led America to this moment, and all the Political Lawfare being waged against Donald J trump will not stop the truth from continuing to come out.
One by one, the Democrat Main Stream Media propaganda-created clouds are parting, and sunlight is shining on all of the Democrat Elite’s political shenanigans, including the treasonous extravagant activities of the Biden Crime Family.
Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday night on nine counts involving Income Taxes, including three felony counts. Special Counsel David Weiss has actually done something.
My question is why is this happening now?
Is it because the House Oversight Committee has gotten so close to finally nailing the Democrat Elite’s installed President Joe Biden and the Biden Crime family?
Or, is it because the Democrat Elite have seen Biden’s Popularity Poll numbers, and they have decided it is time to figuratively throw Joe Biden out of Air Force One?
Perhaps it is both.
Ever since Joe Biden was named as Barack Hussein Obama’s Vice-President, everybody knew that Joe Biden was just another professional politician out for himself, and that he was a dimwitted pervert who swam naked in front of a female Secret Service agent and took showers with his daughter.
Well, it turns out that he was all that and a whole lot more.
The Biden Crime Family used his position as Vice-President to get paid quite handsomely from both our allies and enemies overseas in a pay-for-play scandal that makes the Clinton Foundation look like a bunch of amateurs.
This indictment leaves President Joe Biden in quite a political pickle. If he tries to intervene on his son’s behalf and somehow gets the charges dismissed while trying to railroad leading Republican candidate Donald J Trump into jail through the means of Political Lawfare, then the entire country will see exactly what a lying Dog-faced Pony Soldier he is.
This may present the Democrats an opportunity to get Joe Biden out of the White House.
Personally, I don’t care if Biden leaves office because of his rapidly advancing dementia and feebleness or if they finally impeach him and nail his hide to the wall.
This country can not stand another year of his ineptitude and crookedness. Not to mention the fact that he is considered the Neville Chamberlain of U.S. Presidents by all of our enemies.
“The Walt Disney Company’s recent admission of becoming too woke will “send ripple effects throughout all of corporate America,” according to Consumers’ Research executive director Will Hild.
“We saw an astonishing revelation from Disney, an admission that they’ve basically become too woke, and they know it,” Hild told FOX News Digital.
Hild explained that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires disclosures from publicly traded companies, which are referred to as 10-K forms. The form is intended to disclose both the company’s financial records and reveal any ongoing issues that may impact shareholders, but Disney’s 10-K stunned observers.
“Disney just admitted in their recent 10-K that they have become disconnected from their consumers’ viewing desires and habits. And they specifically noted some of the cultural distinctions between the movies that they’ve been making, including all this woke imagery, woke themes, and woke politics and their consumers who seem to be tired of all this and are no longer going to see their movies that are increasingly bombs at the box office,” Hild said. “
Why did Disney go “Woke” in the first place?
The embracing and advocacy of Wokeness by those who are paid handsomely to entertain us was a direct result of an isolated ignorance of average Americans’ desire to rid ourselves of those in the Halls of Power who told us repeatedly that they knew what was best for us and “who we were”, while their actual mission was to turn America into a Third-World Barrio in their quest to make us a Socialist Paradise.
The Liberal Elite always believed that our country revolves around the big metropolitan areas in the Northeast and in California. They have always looked down their noses at what they derisively call “Flyover Country”, the same area that many of us call the Heartland of America or simply “home”.
Their political viewpoint is as disingenuous as the Facebook Trolls who Washington Post Opinion Pieces as “real news”.
Just like their fellow Far Left Liberals who run the Democratic Party and the disconnected “dancing monkeys” in Tinsel Town and the Big Apple, the ones who have been running Disney for the last several years can not accept the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans living between the coasts, the ones responsible for their opulent lifestyle are sick and tired of their overbearing arrogance, and the anti-Americanism, sexual deviancy, and Liberal Intolerance which they attempt to force upon average Americans as “art”.
I don’t remember any of us average Americans asking them for their opinion as to how we should live our lives and educate our children, do you?
All their attempts at forcibly making average Americans accept Wokeness has done is to make them look like fools and to remind us of how disconnected their beliefs are from average Americans, as they reluctantly have admitted.
Perhaps, if they got their noses out of the air and actually associated with their families and former friends “back home”, instead of kissing each other’s hindquarters at the latest premiere or “social event”, perhaps they and reality would not have taken divergent paths, and they would conduct themselves and comport themselves like those who built Disney from the ground up through their dedication to entertainment and not indoctrination.
Now, these pampered ,self-righteous, oblivious Lightweights are all proponents of the “New Fascism” being practiced by the Modern Democratic (Socialist) Party.
And, they obviously saw no problem with insulting and being condescending to the average Americans who “pay their salaries” by watching the movies and television shows being produced out of Disney Studios.
“Deflection is a psychological defense mechanism, which is essentially a way of protecting oneself from experiencing uncomfortable emotions like anxiety, pain, guilt, or distress, says Aimee Daramus, PsyD, a licensed clinical psychologist.”
It feels like it’s been a long time since I just sat back and ranted about something that has gotten under my skin.
So, here we go…
Since Donald Trump ascended down that escalator to announce his candidacy for the 2016 Republican Presidential Candidate Nomination, the Democrats have done a 180 from their adoration of him while he was host of his popular television series
All the time during his first tenure as President of the United States, they fought tooth and nail against him because they felt like he was not worthy of the office. And yet, all of the things that they were accusing him of and attempting to impeach him over were all things that they had done, including manufacturing a dossier, which was nothing but a work of fiction.
When they decided that they were going to install Joe Biden as President in 2020, the Democrats passed rules that allowed widespread cheating on multiple fronts regarding mail-in voting.
You will never convince me otherwise because the Democrats elected a President who is a vegetable and is in so far over his head that the entire country is treading water.
This has led the entire country to recognize what the Democrats pulled on them….as the polls clearly show.
America is involved in wars on two fronts, one involving our greatest ally,
We have military bases which are being shelled in the Middle East.
We have a generation who does not want to work for a living
We have that same generation who is demonstrating violent anti-Semitism even to the point of interrupting a Christmas Tree Lighting.
And, we have a president who can’t find his way off a stage.
So, what are the people who installed this vegetable as the President of the United States of America doing about this?
They are attempting to pass totalitarian laws and legislation designed to get us to do exactly what they want us to do.
And, when we call them out on all of this, do they take ownership of it?
NO!
They blame Donald J Trump!
Why?
For the same reason that they are engaged in Political Lawfare against him with purely political indictments and frivolous lawsuits:
They are trying to put him in jail and/or bankrupt him so that he won’t become President in 2024 and put America back on the right course, instead of continuing the fascist totalitarian course that we are presently suffering through.
The flaw in their plan is that, just like Fascist Marxist Totalitarian “leaders” before them, they underestimated the “Proletariat”
Average American are waking up to what’s happening around them.
Filling up their cars costs more, going to the grocery store to buy their items costs a lot more, and this government is trying to program their children to believe the very opposite of what they believe in.
They know that things were better under Trump, and they also know that this country is going to hell in a handbasket under Biden.
The bottom line is that the Democrats’ strategy to refer to Trump as Hitler is not working.
Americans know who the politicians are that are acting like hitler.
Like U.S. President’s before him, Joe Biden issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation this past week.
And, like his mentor, former President Barack Hussein Obama, he purposefully left off any mention of The One Whom we should be giving thanks to.
John M. Grondelski, writing for CatholicWorldReport.com, asks a very pertinent question and makes a keen observation.
“Why does the President’s political party adhere to an “inclusivity” that undemocratically wants Americans to divest themselves of their religious identity and heritage, as the price for admission to the public square (or at least the “right” Georgetown salons)? That this question needs to be asked of the second Catholic in the White House is concerning. That more Catholics are not asking it out loud is even more so.”
Of course, I have my own thoughts about Biden’s purposeful omission…
For what now seems like an eternity, those on the Far Left Democrat side of the Political Aisle have focused their attention on “radically changing” America.
They soon realized that they simply could not do it through popular culture and educational indoctrination, inundating America’s children with both overt and subliminal imaging designed to countermand the Traditional American Values that they were being raised with, in normal American Households, out here in “Flyover Country”, otherwise known as America’s Heartland…or “the Red States”.
Far Left Democrats soon figured out that the way to program Americans into believing that “all paths lead to God” and that cradle-to-grave Nanny-State Government were the new American Standards for living our daily lives, was to turn Christian American Houses of Worship away from being instructors of the Word of God and a sanctuary in which to worship Our Creator, to, instead, being purveyors of the joys of Popular Culture. Wednesday Night Bible Studies were soon replaced by Yoga Classes and Encounter Groups. Religious Leaders were soon quoting philosophy, instead of the Bible in their Sunday Morning Sermons.
And, instead of taking a stand against those things of the world which were directly opposed to what is found in God’s Word, these “new, enlightened” churches started standing up for the “right” of a woman to have her baby prematurely yanked out of her womb with a set of tongs, standing up for the right of Adam to “marry” Steve, when the Bible states that marriage is between a man and a woman, and standing up for the equality of all faiths, when the Son of God firmly states, in John 14:6, that I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
America remains a nation whose population consists of a majority who proclaim Jesus Christ as their Personal Savior and who believe in God.
However, church attendance is way down.
Being filled with human beings, churches have made a lot of mistakes, However, they have also done a lot of good in the name of the Lord.
Churches today have to walk a fine line.
The spiritual battle, the influence of American Popular Culture and those seeking the Will of God in their lives, takes all the strength…and prayer that Christians can muster.
Far Left Democrats seem to have great difficulty comprehending the role that Our Creator, the God of Abraham, played and plays in this Grand Experiment, known as the United States of America.
Why have Democrats ratcheted up their anti-Christian vitriol and negativity since January 21, 2009?
Why are they so focused on removing America’s Christian Heritage?
Well, as is usually my wont, I have been doing some “reckoning” about this.
It seems to this ol’ Southern Boy, living here in the Heartland, that America’s Christian Heritage and the very real fact of His influence in building and shaping America’s growth into the greatest country on the face of God’s Green Earth, not only stifles and interferes with Modern Liberals’ “anything goes”, “share the wealth”, “hive-mind”, “man is his own god” Political Ideology, but the reality of God’s very existence, somewhere deep in their miserable, bitter psyches, scares the mess out of them.
Why else would they be trying so hard to fight against the influence of Someone Whom they really don’t believe in?
I see them every single day on the television, on the Internet, on Facebook Political Pages, posting stupid meme (a picture with words on it) after stupid meme, attempting to make fun of The Great I Am and those of us who have given our lives to Him.
They are so hateful and filled with such bitterness that it is difficult to engage them in “conversation”.
Perhaps, somewhere in their back of their minds, all of these Far Left Democrats realize that they are fighting a losing battle.
Christianity continues to thrive in America despite their best efforts.
For, as Justice Scalia stated so eloquently, “God has been very good to us.”
America was built upon a Solid Rock.
To ignore our nation’s faith-based foundation and heritage is to live in purposeful ignorance.
As President Ronald Reagan said, “If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”
And, as Hebrews 13:8 tells us, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Regardless of the political machinations of Far LeftDemocrats, God will have the final word as to our country’s future.
In August of 2021, President Joe Biden pulled American Troops out of Afghanistan, leading to the deaths of 13 US Marines and the abandonment of American citizens and Afghani interpreters and allies, while handing the country over to the Radical Islamic Terrorists known as the Taliban.
On October 14, 2022, politico.com reported that “Now, an investigation by the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Republican staff has found that 800 Americans were helped out of Afghanistan, indicating that the Biden administration either undercounted the number of Americans who wanted to depart the country or saw an uptick in the number of citizens willing to leave.”
“President Biden said on Friday that he was unsure when any American hostages being held by Hamas terrorists would be released after none was included in the group freed on the first day of the group’s cease-fire with Israel.”
“We don’t know when that will occur, but we’re going to expect it to occur,” Biden said while addressing the release of hostages from his vacation in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
“We don’t know what the list of all the hostages are and when they will be released, but we know the numbers that are going to be released, So, it’s my hope and expectation it will be soon,” he added.
He went on to say that he didn’t know the condition of the Americans still in captivity or whether they were still alive.”
That is strange and very troubling because according to wsj.com,
“Biden was heavily involved in the agreement that came together after weeks of tense negotiations among the U.S., Qatar and Egypt and was approved by the Israeli cabinet following long deliberations. He called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than a dozen times, including this week, and was also personally in touch with other leaders as the talks progressed.”
This is twice that Biden has left Americans at the mercy of Radical Islamic Terrorists.
I realize that, at this point in his battle against dementia, Biden is just an empty vessel who can not speak without first receiving instructions through his earwig.
However, shouldn’t some little sliver of neurons lift in his cranium have fired off, telling him what it looks like for a US President to leave American citizens in the hands of our enemies while other countries’ citizens are set free?
I haven’t seen a move this stupid since “Tommy’s parents left him at home to be baby-sat by “Wicked Uncle Ernie” (look it up, kids).
I realize that Biden will not be impeached as long as there are spineless RINOs in the House of Representatives and “China” Mitch McConnell remains the Senate Minority Leader.
However, if there was EVER a president that needs to be booted out of the front door of the White House, it is Sleepy Joe Biden.
How callous can the Democrats who are handling him and advising him be?
Their arrogance and their distancing themselves from us “Deplorables” has erased whatever Patriotism and Common Sense they ever had.
I can only imagine what our Founding Fathers would have done to this irresponsible, anti-American bunch of cowards.
May God protect those Americans whom Biden and Company have left behind.
Simply saying the words to myself brings back a flood of precious memories…memories of Thanksgivings past, as a child, surrounded by aunts, uncles, cousins, my sisters, and my Mother and Daddy…smells of sage dressing and oven-roasted turkey…followed by the feeling of having an over-stuffed stomach…all topped by the sounds of laughter and the sight of my aunts and uncles, all members of America’s Greatest Generation, being led in a penny-ante poker game after the Thanksgiving meal by my Daddy, the finest man I have ever known…all of them enjoying each other’s company as they reveled in the wonderful completeness of being a family.
Regardless of what the White House Staff posted yesterday, it is not about sharing a bunch of Talking Points about what a “great” job Dementia-riddled octogenarian Joe Biden is doing as President.
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American Holiday…as unique as the nation which celebrates it.
In 1621, a small group of Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared a feast celebrating the autumn harvest. This is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.
However, Thanksgiving is much more than this.
Thanksgiving is a day when Americans thank their Creator for the blessings they have received during the year, while holding hope and expectation in their hearts for the blessings yet to come.
The Father of Our Country expressed his thankfulness concerning God and America, when he announced this holiday in 1789:
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor – and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be – That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks – for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation – for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war –for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed – for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions – to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually – to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed – to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord – To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us – and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789. – United States President George Washington.
On November 15, 1985, in the first year of his second term, President Ronald Reagan issued the following proclamation…
Although the time and date of the first American thanksgiving observance may be uncertain, there is no question but that this treasured custom derives from our Judeo-Christian heritage. “Unto Three, O God, do we give thanks,” the Psalmist sang, praising God not only for the “wondrous works” of His creation, but for loving guidance and deliverance from dangers.
A band of settlers arriving in Maine in 1607 held a service of thanks for their safe journey, and twelve years later settlers in Virginia set aside a day of thanksgiving for their survival. In 1621 Governor William Bradford created the most famous of all such observances at Plymouth Colony when a bounteous harvest prompted him to proclaim a special day “to render thanksgiving to the Almighty God for all His blessings.” The Spaniards in California and the Dutch in New Amsterdam also held services to give public thanks to God.
In 1777, during our War of Independence, the Continental Congress set aside a day for thanksgiving and praise for our victory at the battle of Saratoga. It was the first time all the colonies took part in such an event on the same day. The following year, upon news that France was coming to our aid, George Washington at Valley Forge prescribed a special day of thanksgiving. Later, as our first President, he responded to a Congressional petition by declaring Thursday, November 26, 1789, the first Thanksgiving Day of the United States of America.
Although there were many state and national thanksgiving days proclaimed in the ensuing years, it was the tireless crusade of one woman, Sarah Josepha Hale, that finally led to the establishment of this beautiful feast as an annual nationwide observance. Her editorials so touched the heart of Abraham Lincoln that in 1863 – even in the midst of the civil War – he enjoined his countrymen to be mindful of their many blessings, cautioning them not to forget “the source from which they come,” that they are “the gracious gifts of the Most High God…” Who ought to be thanked “with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.”
It is in that spirit that I now invite all Americans to take part again in this beautiful tradition with its roots deep in our history and deeper still in our hearts. We manifest our gratitude to God for the many blessings he has showered upon our land and upon its people.
In this season of Thanksgiving we are grateful for our abundant harvests and the productivity of our industries; for the discoveries of our laboratories; for the researches of our scientists and scholars; for the achievements of our artists, musicians, writers, clergy, teachers, physicians, businessmen, engineers, public servants, farmers, mechanics, artisans, and workers of every sort whose honest toil of mind and body in a free land rewards them and their families and enriches our entire Nation.
Let us thank God for our families, friends, and neighbors, and for the joy of this very festival we celebrate in His name. Let every house of worship in the land and every home and every heart be filled with the spirit of gratitude and praise and love on this Thanksgiving Day.
On this Thanksgiving Day 2023, I’m thankful for Americans who are still making a difference: “Average Americans” who still love God and country and stand on principle with their feet planted on a Solid Rock, and not on shifting sands.
The “Average American”, the 9 to 5′er, working himself into the grave to try to provide for his family.
It was this same “Average American”, who fired the shot heard around the world and began the War for American Independence, who stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II, who waded through rice paddies in Vietnam, and who swallowed sand in Desert Storm and Desert Shield.
The same “Average American” who, as a New York City Policeman or Fireman, ran up the stairs of the World Trade Center on 9/11/01, instead of running down them.
The same “Average American”, who simply wants things to be easier in this life for his children and grandchildren, than he had it.
It is this same “Average American”, who takes family and friends in, when they are in the midst of a life-altering tragedy.
The same “Average American”, who volunteers on a soup line or at a Senior Citizens Home, or, who begins a successful business in his basement.
They are the reason we remain, in spite of all that has befallen us as a nation, the Greatest Country on the Face of the Earth, despite those who are presently trying to to “radically change” our Constitutional Republic” and take away our right as Americans to live and raise our children and grandchildren as we see fit.
And, the One who gave us this country and endowed us with certain “inalienable rights” is the Rock upon which America was built.
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