Short History of the Recent Rise and Fall of the U.S.
My career job was in the international oil
industry with Caltex Petroleum which was headquartered in midtown Manhattan
until 1982, Dallas until 1999, when they moved to Singapore. I retired from Caltex in 1988 in Dallas,
before they became part of Chevron.
Officially, I am a Chevron retiree, although I worked for myself and for
JP Morgan Chase in Dallas until 2008.
During the periods that I lived and worked in New
York City I was not a big fan of Donald Trump.
I was peripherally aware of his flamboyant life style, his marriages and
his reality shows. I was more aware of
the Trump name plastered all over my city.
Also, I believe that Trump was a democrat or a political mongrel at the
time. He made the front pages of the New
York tabloids occasionally, so I couldn’t avoid knowing something about him,
but I really had no further interest back then, prior to his presidential run.
My interest picked up when Trump announced his
underdog candidacy for president on that escalator in 2015. He talked like a libertarian/conservative and
opposed Hillary’s canned tax and spend democrat party politics. He was outspoken and “in your face” during
the campaign reflecting his rough and tumble Bronx, Queens and Manhattan real
estate business background. He told it
like it was. He did not pull any
punches. He sometimes overdid it and
pissed people off. It was Trump being
Trump.
Against all odds, Trump won the presidency! He was
not a politician. He was a business
executive and reality TV host. What did
he know about running a country? So, it
took him a while to stabilize. (Some say
he never did stabilize, but that’s another story).
Trump was hounded mercilessly from the first
moments on that escalator in 2015, by the Marxist oriented leftist opposition
and their mainstream media collaborators.
And not being one to take any crap from anyone, he gave back as good as
he got, exacerbating the ongoing disputes with his enemies, who impeached him
twice for imputed infractions that the democrats flaunt regularly with
impunity.
For all of his foibles, tweets and sometimes
preposterous statements, the country’s economy thrived, a southern border was
being stabilized, as was law and order, and a sense of pride and patriotism
pervaded most of the country, at least away from the left-wing coastal cities
and hotspots that continued to berate Trump, good economy and patriotism
notwithstanding.
In foreign policy, Trump projected strength and
managed to keep enemies at bay, while convincing friends to contribute their
share for their defense. The Abrahamic
accords stabilized the Middle East for the first time in decades. North Korea stopped shooting rockets over
Japan. China and Russia acknowledged
U.S. strength and stayed relatively quiet.
Life was good, except for the drum beat of
constant anti-Trump media propaganda that painted him as racist, xenophobic and
the greatest villain of all time. Some
gullible Americans swallowed the kool-aid.
Many other Americans enjoyed the prosperous times that Trump’s
business-like policies were bringing to the country. We were energy-independent. We had a relatively stable southern border,
We had low crime rates. We were proud to
be Americans.
Then came the 2018 mid-terms, which flipped the
house and resulted in Trump’s arch enemy, Nancy Pelosi being made speaker and
managing the first impeachment of Trump in 2019 over a phone call with
Zelenskyy of Ukraine. Trump was not
convicted of the ridiculous house impeachment charge and it sort of “rolled off
his back”.
This was soon followed by the Covid-19 Corona
virus pandemic which first hit in early 2020.
With no precedents, and acting upon the medical and scientific advice of
the experts in CDC, FDA and NIH, Trump seemingly had no recourse but to lock
down the country into quarantine. This
may have saved lives, as it was hoped, but it also sent the country into
economic recession. Trump fumbled at first with the disparate advice that he
was getting. However, he immediately
started big pharma working on vaccines, which they accomplished at Trump’s
prodding in an unheard of nine months.
People dying from the pandemic was laid on Trump
by the ever antagonistic and false mainstream media. “It’s all Trump’s fault” was the continuing
mantra of big media, big tech and big entertainment. These groups all worked to
ensure that “the fix was in” for the 2020 elections, to guarantee that Trump
would not win the presidency again.
The democrats chose Joe Biden, a senile empty
vessel and party hack to run for president, and painted him as a moderate
“uncle Joe”, and as a contrast to the flamboyant Trump. Then they twisted the voting rules in the
swing states using Covid as an excuse, and withheld news that would have exposed
the Biden crime family prior to the election and ensured a Trump win.
After five years of trying, two impeachments, a
fake Russia collusion hoax, the leftists finally got him, and installed the
absolutely worst president since James Buchanan. Jimmy Carter was an awful president, but
Jimmy Carter was a nice guy. There is
nothing nice about Biden. He is an
arrogant, egotistical, incompetent hack, who started ruining the country his
first day in office, and has never stopped ruining the country.
After buying, perverting and fixing the election,
Trump’s avowed enemies, led again by arch-enemy Nancy Pelosi, impeached Trump a
second time for a speech on January 6 at the ellipse, after he protested the
aberrations and illegalities during the election, and in fact after he had left
office. Again, he was acquitted in the
senate.
In addition, these same leftist forces formed a “kangaroo
court”, a partisan committee comprised of Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked minions to
further politicize the January 6 demonstrations at the capitol, complete with
professionally produced multi-media presentations,with no adversarial testimony
permitted. Forgotten in these one-sided actions
against Trump, were Trump’s reported requests for National Guard troops to
ensure a peaceful demonstration, and his appeals to “march peacefully to the
capitol”.
To any fair-minded person, what was done by the
democrats to Donald Trump as president of this country is truly
unconscionable. They have made him into
some caricature of a racist, xenophobic bully, which with all his foibles, he
does not deserve. But unfortunately with
the constant propaganda barrage against him, and with his combative ripostes, half
the country believes the lies.
That’s not to say that President Trump was some
paragon of virtue and good behavior. He
stirred the pot with his controversial, provocative midnight tweets and off the
cuff pronouncements. He would have been better off if he had kept his mouth
shut a little more, and had been more discreet in his pronouncements. He was too egotistical and narcissistic for
that.
But for a non-politician, Trump did remarkable
things for this country before the Corona Virus required locking it down. He certainly was not perfect during the Covid
crisis, but did OK once he “got his feet”.
He was bringing the country out of the Covid recession when Joe Biden
and the extreme left-wing cheated their way to the presidency and began their
Marxist inspired ruination of the country.
Pity our poor country and the economic and social
woes foisted upon it by a buffoon of a president, and his equally incompetent and
irresponsible handlers and advisors.
Ray Gruszecki
July 11, 2022
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