The Corruption of College Sports and American Society

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Former UVA Basketball Coach Tony Bennett

“Tony Bennett, the renowned University of Virginia men’s basketball coach, announced his retirement on October 18, 2024, after 15 incredible seasons. During his emotional farewell press conference, Bennett candidly shared the reasons behind his decision, citing the changing landscape of college athletics, particularly with the introduction of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals and the transfer portal.

“I looked at myself and realized I’m no longer the best coach to lead this program in this current environment,” Bennett said, his voice filled with emotion. “If you’re gonna do it, you’ve gotta be all-in. If you do it half-hearted, it’s not fair to the university and those young men.” He expressed concerns about the health of college athletics, feeling that the game is not in a healthy spot.” (Courtesy Meta A1)

I’ll tell you a secret that some of my friends don’t even know. I’m no great coach like Coach Bennett, but my record as a basketball coach is 24-5. I coached a fourth grade team to their Saturday morning League Championship and I coached my church team to a park commission League Championship .

I’ve always loved basketball.

Basketball once was not a game of individuals. It was a team sport. You won and lost as a team.

No matter how good a shooter you might have on your team, sooner or later, they’re going to have a bad night.

If the only talent you had on your team was that one guy, you were out of luck. Even the great Michael Jordan came to realize that he needed supporting players beside him.

I guess I became such a big basketball fan because my student coach in 9th grade was the late great Larry Finch of Memphis State University, who went to the final game of the NCAA tournament against the great Bill Walton and the UCLA Bruins. Larry was a wonderful guy who became my friend that year. Later on, after graduating from the University of Memphis, while working at the local cable company, I was walking through the front lobby when I heard someone call my name. It was Coach Finch. He wanted to know everything I had been up to. He was a great man.

I’ve always been a college basketball fan because loyalty means a great deal to me.

I think that is what made college sports so great.

Collegiate athletes were loyal to their universities, not to whoever would pay them to play for them.

However, as the AAU got to be more commercial with sports agents hitting up on the guys and the coaches to wear certain shoes and giving them promises of a great future ahead, the college game also became more and more corrupt until now it is just a minor league for the NBA.

This is not what James Naismith meant for it to be when he put up that peach basket.

It’s funny how things become corrupt over time if those who are in charge don’t have a strong backbone. Or, they have a strong faith that compels them to do what is right.

I guess what is happening in college sports is a symptom of what has happened to our American culture and society as a whole.

There have been Americans who have moved away from what is good, just, and true.

Things such as a good work ethic, respect, loyalty, and patriotism are not considered strong character traits anymore by those who consider themselves arbiters of what is best in American society.

There needs to be a return to these values in America. Otherwise, we will be tossed in  the dustbin of history.

Kudos to Coach Bennett for what he said.

I wish there were more like him.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Analyzing the Campaigns: The Company They Keep

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When children are growing up, they are told by their parents that they are judged by the company they keep. 

Presidential Candidates should be no different.

During the 2024 Presidential Campaign, we have watched the two presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and former president Donald J Trump, reach out to two very different voting groups.

Current Vice-President Kamala Harris  hobnobs among the rich and famous, using Hollywood stars to plead to American voters to vote for her.

This is probably one of the worst strategies I’ve ever seen in a depressed economy such as ours.

The American people, average Americans who are working hard just to try to make ends meet under by Bidenomics, could care less what the Hollywood Elite thinks.

In fact, judging from the actions of people like P Diddy and others, it’s a toss-up question as to whether they think or not.

But, I digress…

Hollywood is its own society, with its own culture, just as Washington DC lives in a bubble, so do those who believe themselves to be stars.

The Harris Campaign has presented themselves as imperious by hobnobbing with this bogus aristocracy.

Former President and current Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J Trump has focused his campaign on the working men and women of America.

He has been everywhere, campaigning relentlessly to show the American people that he cares about them and wants to make things better.

I’m not saying that he’s perfect.

There was only one Perfect Man, and he hung from a cross seeking His Father’s forgiveness of our sins.

Trump and his campaign staff mounted a spot on campaign strategy of going to the American people where they are.

Whether it be a college football game or a barber shop in the Bronx, Trump has been there.

While Harris has only done interviews with people who fawned over her ( except for Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier, which backed spectacularly), Trump has done interviews with everybody, whether it is a hostile situation or not, and has done very well.

The fact that we are seeing an upturn here at the 9th hour in terms of the polls for Donald J Trump show that the American people do not want another four years of an aristocracy in the White House.

The Democrats have separated themselves from the American people, trying to turn our country by means of illegal immigrants into something that it was never meant to be.

Trump, through his words and actions, has shown Americans that he cares about them and about our country.

In 17 days, Americans will make the most important decision they have ever made: whether to continue this March to Marxism or to restore our Constitutional Republic.

Which will you choose?

Until He Comes,

KJ

The Fading Away of Kamala Harris

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In the 2020 Presidential Election, the Democrat Elite attempted a campaign strategy that no one had ever tried before

They purposely kept their candidate away from the public eye and away from crowds as much as they could while using the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic as an excuse.

When Joe Biden did speak, it was to small crowds or literally from his basement.

This strategy, along with some political shenanigans that have never been seen before, which we all know happened, served to get former Vice-President Joe Biden elected as our 46th President.

Thus began a long National Nightmare of four years of Far Left governance and tone-deaf incompetence, which has seemed like an eternity.

The Democrats were so pleased with themselves that they decided to allow Joe Biden to run again, giving him the nomination at their National Convention, even though it had become obvious to the entire world that the “old gray pervert ain’t what he used to be” to paraphrase an old song.

So, even though he could barely walk and talk, and had to be assisted with someone at his elbow at all times, the Democrat Elite allowed him to enter into a Presidential Debate with the Republican candidate former President Donald J Trump.

Biden failed miserably, coming off looking like the demented old fool which he is.

After that debacle, pressure was placed on him to not run again.

Eventually, he relented and the Democrat Elite appointed Kamala Harris as their new Presidential Candidate, not even running the primaries over again so that the people whom they are supposed to be representing would have a chance to vote their choice into the position of presidential candidate.

The Democrat Elite actually thought that they could implement the same political strategy that won them the last election.

They forbade Kamala Harris from doing interviews unless they were with Democratic partisans.

They also kept her away from doing press conferences or anything during which she might have to speak extemporaneously.

The Democrats’ plan was rolling along until they came upon a speed bump.

Americans were getting wise to the fact that Kamala was not all that in a bag of chips causing former president Trump to start gathering momentum and gain in the polls.

So, the Democrats decided to let her start doing interviews, mostly with Democrat partisans.

However, they relented and decided that because Fox News had such a big audience that they would allow her to appear on Special Report with Bret Baier.

“YUGE” mistake.

Baier asked her the questions that the partisans failed to ask.

Questions on the topics that voters want to know her opinion about, such as the wide open Southern border.

Instead of answering the questions, Kamala tried changing the subject to attacks on Donald Trump,  bringing up his name over 20 times in a 21 minute interview.

Brett Baer tried not to allow her to filibuster, and he did a good job.

Whether his intent was to expose her as being in way over her head or not, it happened.

And, that’s a good thing.

Kamala Harris should not have been anointed the Democratic Presidential Candidate by the Elite.

She’s not even competent enough to attend the Al Smith Charity Dinner and crack jokes and be sociable.

What worked once did not work again.

The difference between the two candidates was the fact that Biden did has a history in Washington DC and Kamala’s political history was like the difference between s swimming in the deep end of the pool and  wading in a kiddie pool.

Kamala Harris is not equipped to be the president of the United States of america. She’s not trustworthy. She’s not intelligent. And, the only one she cares about is Kamala Harris. Thank you, Bret Baier, for doing your job.

Now, it is up to the American voters to do theirs.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Columbus Day, “Indigenous People’s Day,” and the Hypocrisy of the Far Left

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Tomorrow is Columbus Day, a traditional American holiday dedicated to honoring Christopher Columbus.

“Christopher Columbus (l. 1451-1506 CE, also known as Cristoffa Corombo in Ligurian and Cristoforo Colombo in Italian) was a Genoese explorer (identified as Italian) who became famous in his own time as the man who discovered the New World and, since the 19th century CE, is credited with the discovery of North America, specifically the region comprising the United States.

Actually, owing to the early 16th-century CE popularity of the published letters of the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci (l. 1454-1512 CE), detailing his three voyages to the “New World” between 1497-1504 CE, the discovery of the Americas has been credited to him on world maps beginning in 1506 CE which is why the continents bear the feminine version of his name.” (Courtesy WorldHistory.org)

The last couple of decades has seen America’s Far Left Democrats attempt to proclaim tomorrow as “Indigenous People’s Day, in an attempt to focus on how horrible it is to celebrate Christopher Columbus, who enslaved Indians and who led to the pilgrims and other early settlers coming to this great land and forming this country that we call home.

There have been demonstrations by these nutjobs and pulling down statues honoring Columbus along with other important figures in our nation’s history in an attempt by these activists to show how intelligent and woke they are.

The truth of the matter is that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and Columbus was merely a man acting like a man in his own time.

It was indeed courageous for Columbus to seek to find a new world and a shipping route to Asia.

While he did not find it, he died thinking that he did.

In that, he has something in common with the deluded activists among the far left who to this day continue their actions and are supporting a fellow nutjob running for President of the United States who has no clue as to the consequences of her actions, either.

On top of their ignorance, is the hypocrisy of the whole idea of honoring indigenous people while they are bringing over illegal aliens by the millions, replacing these “indigenous people” along with the rest of us both in jobs and in the right to decide our own destiny.

The truth of the whole matter is the Far Left don’t really give a rat’s rear about American indians.

If they did, they would be traveling to the reservations, extending a helping hand in building homes or providing medicine and other help that is needed.

Instead, they flap their gums, and they tear down historical monuments.

Of course, there’s also the fact that Christopher Columbus is credited with bringing Christianity to the Western hemisphere.

This also aggravates these “highly intelligent” people to no end.

The fact is they refuse to believe that there is a Higher Power than they are.

That is why it’s so imperative that we push back against these people determined to radically change America into something that she was never meant to be.

America has enjoyed its rightful place as the greatest country on the face of the Earth for centuries.

It is not the right of these propagandized idiots to take that away from us.

That is why we must get out en masse to vote on November 5th for Donald Trump as our next President of the United States of America.

The hypocrisy of the Far Left Democrats and their unbridled madness has to end.

Our country can not survive if they are allowed to retain their political power over us.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Cringe-worthy Kamala Ad Claims That Voting for Her is the More “Manly” Choice

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“A new grassroots campaign ad went viral on Friday for attempting to argue that voting for Vice President Kamala Harris is the more manly choice this presidential election.

The ad featured actors portraying men who cite their masculine credentials, ranging from men boasting they are “man enough” to do various stereotypically male activities, to more humorous boasts like eating “carburetors for breakfast” or not being “afraid of bears,” eventually resolving with the men declaring their support for liberal women’s political causes and for the Harris campaign.

The ad, which did not come from the Harris-Walz campaign, struck many online commentators as a prime example of why Harris is struggling to appeal to men.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)

If tone-deaf cluelessness had a face…it would be today’s Far Left Democratic Party.

During the past 4 years of the Biden/ Harris Administration they have not been shy about it.

They have been champions of who used to be called transvestites and are now simply called trannies.

Men are not accepting what the Democrats are trying to push.

They don’t want transvestites in public restrooms with their wives and daughters.

They do not want them parading around in front of their children, holding “Story Times” in public libraries.

Nor do they want them competing against their daughters in athletic competition.

They have told kids as young as those in kindergarten that they are gender confused and they need to have surgery to switch their genders.

They have said that families do not have to be men and women raising children. They can be a man and a man or a woman and a woman.

Not only is this biological and cultural idiocy, it goes against God’s Word.

If same sex marriage was a biological norm , then men would be biologically fitted to conceive.

And, they are not.

Traditional families are the ones who built this country. Courageous independent was unable and women went out into a wilderness and carved what has been the greatest country on the face of the Earth out of that wilderness.

For the Democrats to say different, it’s not only revisionist history but complete and utter denial of reality.

Voting for Communist Radical Kamala Harris in this upcoming presidential election does not make you a man.

Considering the special interest groups that this woman champions and her record as a prosecutor, an Assistant Attorney General, a member of congress, and a failed Vice-President, I would say it is absolutely the opposite.

Former President Barack Hussein Obama has told Black Americans that they are not a black man if they don’t vote for Kamala Harris.

Judging from the poll numbers, a lot of Black American men aren’t buying what Obama is selling.

The Democrat Elite has never learned that you can’t tell Americans what they have to do come especially when it comes to exercising their right to vote.

American men know that they were better off under former President Donald J trump. They know that they were better able to provide for their families under him. They know that they had more money in their pocket under him, and they know that they had more opportunities for employment under him.

Americans know a loser when they see one.

So do the Democrats.

That is why they are starting to panic.

Until He Comes,

KJ

America Needs Direct Answers …We’re not Going to Get Them From Kamala Harris

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As I was going into work this morning, I was listening to Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris answering questions from 60 Minutes Reporter Bill Whitaker.

The problem was that she wasn’t answering the question she was asked and to my surprise, Whitaker kept repeating his questions, trying to get a direct answer.

Of course, he failed.

Kamala has been taught by her handlers to answer in a circuitous manner, going round and round until the questioner gets tired and moves on to something else.

The problem with that is that she is really not fooling anyone who might be on the bubble in terms of trying to make a decision whether to vote for her or for former President Donald J Trump.

In fact, she is probably discouraging people from voting for her.

Kamala really doesn’t give a darn about anyone but herself.

She announced with glee that she was giving $157 million to Lebanon which will no doubt wind up in the hands of Hezbollah while Americans who were hit by Hurricane Elaine are still struggling mightily, after the loss of family, home, and everything they own.

That heartless wrnch offered $750 per person to these ravaged Americans.

And, they can only get it if they apply and are approved for its arrival 10 days later.

Americans are taking care of our own through Samaritan’s Purse and other private organizations along with our veterans who are getting in there where the government refuses to go.

We are sorely in need of leadership.

I would hate for Governor Ron DeSantis to no longer be the governor of Florida, but I would also like to see him in President Trump’s new cabinet if Trump were to win.

DeSantis told everyone that he had no time to meet with Biden, that he’s got to prepare his state and his people for Hurricane Milton, which will arrive tomorrow afternoon.

We need more leadership like this and the kind that President Trump has shown time and time again.

America can not stand another four years of the attempted radical change movement by an invasion of illegal immigrants.

It is time for passing the buck to stop.

And that will only happen if President Donald J Trump is sitting in the Oval Office.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Trump Return to Butler Draws 20,000. Do You Believe the People or the Polls?

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Did you know that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have only done 23 interviews compared to 63 interviews for former President Donald J Trump and JD Vance?

And, the debates that the Democratic Presidential and Vice-Presidential Candidates have done have always been with friends and supporters.

They never speak in specifics.

They only speak in platitudes and ideas, never actually answering the questions about policy.

The Republican Candidates are not afraid to go into enemy territory, such as CBS or ABC, where they will be called everything but a child of God.

Trump refused to go on 60 Minutes after the way Leslie Stahl treated him the last time, plus the way they edited the interview.

When the Republican candidates sit down to be interviewed, they have to be prepared to deal with past behavior and allegations in order to speak about policy and what they will do to help Americans.

The Democratic Candidates just coast on through their interviews, making up stories about working at McDonald’s or their rank in the military.

The Democratic Party strategy for trying to get a candidate elected who only had 1% support in 2020 and had to drop out of the primaries has been to treat Americans like mushrooms: Keep them in the dark and feed them crap.

While it worked for Biden in 2020 because he actually had a political record to run on, and Americans did not know the extent of his dementia.

It’s not working so well for Kamala Harris.

The past four years have been a nightmare, one that she has been a major part in creating.

Current political polls show Kamala Harris to be one or two points ahead of Trump.

Take all those polls with a grain of salt.

In 2016, the Queen of amean Hillary Clinton was five points ahead.

As I write this post, I’m looking at vide images of yesterday’s rally that 20,000 people attended in Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the failed assassination attempt on former President Trump.

Kamala is lucky if she can fill a high school gym.

Do not pay attention to what the Democratic party minions in the corporate media are telling you.

Keep the faith.

It ain’t over till it’s over.

Until He Comes,

KJ

One Month From Election Day: Biden, Harris, Illegals, and Hurricane Helene

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“President Joe Biden held the floor for an impromptu Q&A session Friday afternoon during the White House press briefing, where he claimed Vice President Kamala Harris is “in constant contact.” His comments may not come across as music to the Harris campaign’s ears.

In the president’s surprise appearance, he remarked on the port strike, the latest jobs numbers, and briefly on Hurricane Helene. No reporters asked about the administration’s response to the storm, but one asked Biden to assess whether Harris has been deeply involved in policy.

“Well, she’s, I’m in constant contact with her. She’s aware we all, we’re singing from the same song sheet. We, she helped pass all the laws that are being employed,” said Biden.

“Now, she was a major player in everything we’ve done, including passage of legislation which we were told we could never pass. And so she’s been, and her, her staff is interlocked with mine in terms of all the things we’re doing,” Biden continued.

The president strongly linked Vice President Harris to the Biden administration’s record over the past 3 ½ years, despite the Harris campaign’s attempts to distance her from everything from “Bidenomics” to inflation to the border crisis, since Biden announced he was ending his reelection campaign, and Harris assumed the mantle of nominee.” (Courtesy FoxNews.com)

Meanwhile, as the bodies of the victims of Hurricane Helene begin to rot in the mud, in trees, and in their homes that have been washed away by the floods, DHS Secretary Mayorkas claims that they are meeting the needs of those still stranded and waiting for help in storm ravaged Florida, Georgia, and Western North Carolina.

The Biden/Harris Administration has announced that they will finally be sending $137 million to the area after over NINE DAYS have passed.

To say their response has not been immediate is an understatement.

It has been horrendous.

The Harris/Biden Administration has prioritized illegal aliens over American voters.

It has been discovered that FEMA has spent $640 million to house, feed, and provide prepaid debit cards to noncitizens who have illegally crossed our border.

That is not charity or humanitarian aid.

That is treason of the highest order.

When the government established by our Founding Fathers, who braved harsh conditions and rampant disease, not to mention Indians who didn’t want them here, cares more about those who have broken our laws than law-abiding average Americans who actually pay the taxes that financ the Biden/Harris Administration’s “charity”‘, then there is something seriously wrong going on in Washington, DC.

This is no longer just a situation where there are professional bureaucrats who are running our country under a system which is called the Washington Swamp.

This is a corrupt system that pays foreign governments and illegal aliens billions of dollars, instead of providing for American taxpayers in moments of crisis, such as Hurricane Helene.

There is no excuse for the deaf ears that the cries for help of the victims of Hurricane Helena have been greeted by for the past week.

There are military bases housing America’s Brightest and Best who have been chomping at the bit to go into action to rescue Americans.

They have been held back by orders out of Washington DC and our Democratic-controlled government.

This whole situation has been political, instead of altruistic.

President Harry S. Truman used to have a plaque on his desk, which read

“THE BUCK STOPS HERE”

All the blame for the horrendous response to the monstrous Hurricane Helene lands squarely on the shoulders of President Biden, Vice-President/Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris, and DHS Secretary Mayorkas.

The blas reaction to this disaster should preclude them from ever holding public office again.

Each and every one of them and the powers behind them are not even fit to sweep up after circus elephants.

One month from today, Americans will be deciding who will be the leader of our country for the next four years.

The Republican Presidential Candidate, former President Donald J Trump, was on the scene with help and words of assurance days before the current Administration.

I ask you to consider this:

Who actually cares about American citizens?

It certainly isn’t the presentv Administration and the Democratic Presidential Candidate.

Vote accordingly.

Until He Comes,

KJ

Trump Greeted With Cheers and “USA! USA!” Chants at Alabama Vs. Georgia Game

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Well, gosh. If you listen to the political pundits on CNN, MSNBC, and the Alphabet Networks, this crowd should not be cheering former President Donald J Trump.

And yet, they are.

Why is that?

You see, Gentle Readers, Trump has always been a “people person”.

That is the reason that, when he was still a contributor to Fox News, he would speak to everyone in the building, from the maintenance crew, on up the ladder.

As Sam Walton, the Founder of Walmart, knew, you don’t inspire people by acting imperious and above it all.

“Mr. Sam”, until his health would no longer allow him to do so, would travel to Walmart Stores in his old pickup truck, with a tie and a baseball cap on, visiting the employees, in order to find out how his stores were doing.

He knew that the only way to be successful and to stay in touch with the public, was to be out among them, and speak to them honestly and directly, as one would speak to a friend.

Just as President Trump did when he went on a “Thank You” Tour after being elected in 2016 and his present use of Social Media Platforms like his own “Truth Social” to speak directly to the American People.

The Political Establishment, of both parties, lost that concept a long time ago.

With the Biden/Harris Presidency being a total disaster of epic proportions, and Americans suffering under the ravages of an Administration being run by a bunch of Far Left Fruitcakes who are trying to keep us under their thumb through unconstitutional totalitarianism like the closure of oil pipelines and trying to force us into buying unaffordable electric cars, Americans have realized how good they had it under the leadership of the 45th President.

If the Democrat Elite’s lightweight puppet of a Presidential Candidate, current Vice-President Kamala Harris, would have shown up at the game, she would have been booed out of there like Vice-Presidential Candidate Tim Walz was at the Michigan vs. Minnesota game.

However, I  doubt that she would attend a college football game.

Judging from the pictures circulating on social media, you would be more likely to see her at a P Diddy Party.

Just sayin’ …

Until He Comes,

KJ

“Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” Kamala Visits Southern Border… For 30 Minutes

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One of the first things that the Biden/Harris Administration did when they took office was to stop the building of the Border Wall.

If Kamala and Joe were that concerned about illegal immigration they would have continued building a wall to keep those who would destroy our country from coming across our Southern Border.

Make no mistake.

Everything that has happened so far concerning all of the illegal aliens who have come into our country while trying to maintain the culture of their own and those who have committed additional crimes like those listed above, were purposely allowed to break into our country by Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the Democrat Elite in order to change the culture of our country and to gain more political power.

They do not care how many American citizens have been killed, assaulted, or robbed.

Their only goal is not the safety of those whom they are supposed to be serving.

Their goal is to increase their own personal power and wealth.

Marxism, and make no mistake, this is the end goal of today’s Democratic Party, relies on the ignorance of the masses.

Karl Marx himself said so.

An ignorant proletariat is easier to control.

As long as there are Americans who are informed and who see what’s happening to the country who speak out and vote accordingly, the Democrats cannot attain the totalitarian government that they are striving to put in place.

That is why they attack free speech and are hesitant to debate the issues and are more likely to shout down their opponents while labeling them Christian Nationalists or some other misnomer.

Boys & girls, what is happening to our country is akin to Munchausen by proxy.

If you do not know what that is, that is when a caretaker of the elderly or ill person harms them intentionally while taking credit for taking care of them.

The longer that they can make them suffer, the more attention they can get.

That is what these professional politicians living in their bubble in Washington DC are doing to the American people.

They are intentionally trying to make us just another country, in which citizens are no longer individuals but part of a new Marxist proletariat subservient to the central government.

If Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and the Democrat Elite had wanted to control illegal immigration, they would not have taken down the wall in the first place and they would have done something meaningful about it in the past almost 4 years, all the American citizens who have been killed, assaulted, or robbed would not have experienced that.

And, neither would have their families for a left mourning the deaths of those killed by illegal aliens who should not have been in this country in the first place.

Anyone who falls for what Kamala Harris is selling is either woefully ignorant or purposely obtuse for political purposes.

I’m not crazy.

Just fed up.

Until He Comes,

KJ