Bad Boy Trump

 

Bad Boy Trump

 Former President Donald Trump is being cast as the villainous “bad boy” of American politics who dared to contest the results of a dubious presidential election.  His loud, “in your face” New York personality is being used to characterize and define his “unfitness” to be president again.

 Starting on the escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, Donald Trump has been persecuted mercilessly by his left-wing enemies. He continues to be persecuted for supposed infractions that democrats have walked away from with impunity.  The media continues to pillorize him, and even the conservative Murdoch based media have turned against him.  Candidates backed by Trump in the mid-term election have generally fared poorly.  Trump is currently politically a persona non-grata.

 With Trump announcing another run for the presidency in 2024, with multiple New York State and U.S. government charges against him, and with a “special prosecutor”, (or inquisitor}, just appointed by Merrick Garland, it should be an interesting election season, to say the least.  We’ll be lucky if the republican party doesn’t disintegrate.

 Forgotten or glossed over, now, and in both the 2020 and 2022 elections are the statistics from Trump’s previous tenure, the 1.5% inflation; the $1.80 per gallon gasoline price; the stable southern border; the relatively low crime rates; the Abrahamic Middle East accords; the stable foreign relations (with no wars); Covid vaccines in 9 months; and myriad other accomplishments.  What’s remembered is his big mouth; his halting response to the Covid pandemic; and, of course, January 6^th, blown all out of proportion by the hatred of his leftist enemies.

 I personally never liked Trump all that much during my twenty plus years working in New York City.  His ostentatious nature and personal foibles turned me off.  I disliked the “Trump” signs all over “my city”.  I did not follow his career closely, and I did not watch his reality shows.  I became more positive about Trump after his accomplishments as president became apparent.   

 Trump’s popular appeal was evident from the start of his political career.  He did not cast himself as the rather spoiled and mercurial New York playboy, but instead as the anti-establishment champion of the “little guy”.  He flew in the face of the 12 or 13 primary candidates on that stage in 2015, and cut them to pieces with his biting, unwashed, proletarian rhetoric, applying satirical nicknames to many of them.

 Trump’s defeat of Hillary Clinton literally drove the democrats to tears, and established an illegal fifth column in the DOJ and FBI to bring him down.  Republicans had a majority in both houses of congress for the first two years of Trump’s presidency.  That they did not accomplish very much can probably be attributed to Trump’s political inexperience, as well as to the wasted machinations of the Russia Collusion investigation.

 The democrats came to congressional power in 2018, and the next two years were wasted by Nancy Pelosi and her minions mounting two impeachments against Trump for issues that ultimately will prove trivial.  Trump and the republicans presumably lost in 2020, and the democrats spent trillions of dollars, under the cover of Covid relief.  By their mismanagement, the democrats threw the country into inflation, high crime, open borders and general chaos.

 SCOTUS revoking federal Roe vs Wade, and a massive democrat propaganda campaign to “save democracy” in 2022, resulted in a democrat-controlled senate and a marginally republican controlled house.  “Gridlock” seems to be the prediction for the next two years, but republican control of the house means that Hunter’s laptop and the Biden crime family may finally be exposed.  The “big guy”, Joe Biden could be impeached for corruption.  Again, an empty gesture, since the senate will never convict him.

 And, into this mix, comes Trump, once again.  He has been cast as the “bad boy” of politics before, and prevailed.  One cannot forget his controversial personality and personal foibles.  But one should also not forget the considerable accomplishments during his administration. Were it not for the Covid pandemic ruining the economy and Trump’s presidency, we would have a completely different world.  Low inflation, low crime, energy independence, a stable southern border, no Ukrainian war, respect from world nations, - and many other benefits of a strong presidency, rather than the weak, mewling Joe Biden and his sophomoric handlers.

 Trump’s run for the presidency in 2024 may split and ruin the republican party.  All I can say, is if we allow this to happen, we deserve it.  Trump may be controversial, but he is a strong leader with a business background.  Other than the internal machinations of the republican party and the political scene, there is another fundamental question that this country must answer.

 Are we to remember Locke’s and Burke’s principles of liberty and freedom that formed our country and kept it alive and great in the face of fascism, communism and other corrosive philosophies, or are we to succumb to the movements seeking to destroy us?  Are we to continue to adopt identity politics and “wokeness”, the racist and socialist teachings of Critical Race Theory, and the far left communist/socialist philosophies hiding behind “social justice” and “environmentalism”?

 This is hoping that American values and common sense has not been completely over-shadowed in our young people and minorities by the leftist indoctrination infesting our schools and colleges, and being further embellished by our dishonest left-wing media.  And also hoping that there is enough of middle America left outside of the Acela, West Coast, and democrat run inner cities, to revive and sustain our founding values.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 21, 2022

Vaccinations

 

Vaccinations

 I braved the Dallas 30 degree cold this morning to get shot up at my local CVS pharmacy.  I got the  0.3 ml PFIZER 12YR+ COVID-19 BIVALENT Covid vaccine in the left arm, the 0.7 ml FLUZONE HIGH-DOSE QUAD 2022-23 flu vaccine in the right arm.  If my reaction is about the same as the previous shots in March of 2022, I should have a slightly sore left arm from the Covid shot, and not much more.

 Unfortunately, the Covid shots have become politicized.  If we remember, and as forgotten by many, President Trump beat on the Pharma industry to develop Covid vaccines in the unheard of time of nine months, which Big Pharma did.  Then Joe Biden stole the credit for this, just like some say he stole the election.  In the meantime, the anti-Trumpers prior to the 2020 election tried to indoctrinate the country not to take the “Trump vaccines”, notwithstanding the science behind the vaccines.

 So the country ended up divided from this propaganda, and some people died from Covid because they would not take the vaccine.  In the meantime, Biden and his minions and handlers eventually imposed totalitarian draconian measures insisting that everyone in the country be vaccinated.

 Well of course there was resistance, despite the beneficial medical benefits and science of the mRNA and other later vaccines. Statistically insignificant, but very real, side effects contributed to the confusion.  For example, my sister experienced severe nose bleeds after both Moderna mRNA shots.  Many people, like myself and extended family back East, got mild cases of Covid in spite of the shots.

 Now, Covid is on the wane in most places, because it seems that one way or another, humanity seems to have achieved herd immunity, or close to it.

 Personally, I’m reasonably healthy, but I’m old.  Because of age, it was pretty evident that I had a Covid target on my back.  I researched the vaccines early on, trying to keep the political rhetoric out of it.  I concluded that the scientific and medical aspects of the vaccines were valid, and I proceeded to get the shots as soon as I could, including every booster available.  I still contracted probably the Omicron version of Covid from a wheezing 350 lb guy sitting next to me on a plane, but it was really mild, and I probably would not be writing this if I did not have the Covid vaccines.  So much for political brouhaha about Covid.

 Concerning the flu shot, I’ve always gotten them, and have had very little flu.  Some people are against them.  I’m not.  I believe in the science and medicine, not the rhetoric and bs.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 19, 2022

Knives Out!

 

Knives Out!

 Now that President Trump has announced that he will run for president again in 2024, he is once again being attacked from all sides.  Even the editors of the conservative National Review comment with a hearty “No!” to his candidacy.  A quick survey of media coverage about Trump’s announcement shows it to be generally negative, even among traditionally conservative media.  The coverage of Fox, Breitbart and the Boston Herald was neutral.

 Media coverage of Trump’s announcement generally acknowledges the accomplishments of his administration, (low inflation, a strong economy, energy independence, low crime rates, a valid southern border).  What the media reviles him for is his narcissistic and mercurial personality, his role in the January 6^th demonstration and his past refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.

 The same old points are being made about Trump as in 2015 onwards.  One is that his unstable personality will lead us into a war.  Apparently forgotten is how close to a world war we are right now because of Biden’s mewling weakness and inappropriate comments.  Many feel that Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if Trump were president.  Instead, we are close to nuclear disaster because of Biden’s and his minions’ stupidity in foreign policy.

 As evidenced many times in the past, Trump thrives on adversity and conflict, and is a rough and tumble political fighter, (sometimes to extremes).  His is a populist movement that really does not fit conventional political patterns or analysis.  That’s why all of the knives out and current negative commentary against Trump sort of falls on deaf ears.  Populist movements have a life of their own as evidenced by Trump in 2016 and by other famous populist leaders.

 The question in this country is = are there enough voters who still have traditional American values, or has enough of the country been indoctrinated by our schools and left-wing media in “woke” extremism to counter any “America First” Trumpism?

 Trump’s early announcement that he will run for president in 2024 gives him enough time to consolidate his forces with massive rallies and hoopla.  As a presidential candidate, it also protects him somewhat from DOJ and New York State charges against him.

 Trump is Trump, and knowing that, it is also pretty obvious that he will either go all the way to win the presidency in 2024, or bring the republican party down in flames with him.  It’s doubtful that he will back another candidate like DeSantis or Abbott or Haley for the good of the party, and not for the good of Trump.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 15, 2022

Our Misinformed Electorate

 

Our Misinformed Electorate

 One has to ask, just what is wrong with the electorate of this country, that they continue to elect the democrats who are responsible for ruining our country over the past two years during the Biden administration.

 The only explanation is that half the country would elect a slug if it had a “D” after it.  No matter our inflation and high gas and grocery prices.  No matter the crime wave in our cities.  No matter the “walk across” southern border.  No matter the destruction of our morals, history and heritage.  No matter the social falsehoods being fed to our schoolkids.  No matter our being a laughing stock in our foreign affairs.  No matter the Fentanyl killing our kids.  No matter the leftist BLM and Antifa riots of 2020 which resulted in 18 deaths and some $2 billion in damages. No matter the autocratic Covid lockdowns.  Issues simply don’t matter.  The “D” does.

 A particularly egregious example of voting for the “D”, no matter what, is electing Fetterman to the senate in Pennsylvania. The man can’t formulate a sentence, lives with his parents and walks around in a “hoodie”, and he’s elected to the senate.  That’s as close to a slug as you can get.

 One reason for such blind adherence to the left is ignorance.  Most media in the country is a propaganda tool for the democrats and simply does not cover much of the news enumerated above.  What they do cover is the January 6 mock trials, a distorted picture of the abortion question, and the propaganda that the MAGA republicans are destroying democracy.

 Another, more insidious reason for what seems to be a slavish following of the democrat party irrespective of how badly they are governing relates to what increasingly more of our electorate has been indoctrinated to in our schools and universities. They have been taught the altruistic aspects of socialism/communism, neglecting the corrosive nature of these philosophies, which has resulted in countess deaths in the past.

 One can say that “truth will out”, but truth stands increasingly less chance when it is replaced by propaganda in our educational systems which is supported by a dishonest news media which obfuscates and distorts what is actually happening in the country.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 10, 2022

Our Poor Country

 

Our Poor Country

I was born a democrat in the 1930’s.  My mother, born in Poland and grown to adulthood in Chicago, was an inveterate FDR supporter.  We all were.  FDR was our wartime leader.  His socialist tendencies got lost to most in the rhetoric of the world war.

I became a republican/libertarian/independent as soon as I could reason out the defining differences of free market capitalism and socialism/communism.  I have voted for both democrats and republicans in our elections, but mostly republicans.

I have also come to understand, that despite the low hanging fruits of altruism that socialism/communism offers to the naïve, the rest of the tree is a poisonous killer to those who try to absorb it all.  These corrosive philosophies have never worked in their true form without modification by capitalist principles.  Socialism/communism is responsible for the deaths of upwards of 30 million people in the 20^th century.

Poor old senile Joe Biden, after representing himself as a moderate voice of reason as a counter to boisterous, controversial President Trump, was co-opted by the vociferous, inexperienced, sophomoric extreme left wing of the democrats, who have imposed Marxist and Marcuseian principles to literally destroy the very fabric of our society.  With poor old Joe bumbling along, egging on the leftist extremists, and arrogantly taking credit for the destruction of America’s economy, its border, its cities and its moral values while patting himself on the back for the great job he’s doing.

To obfuscate the damage that they’ve done, the democrats have been beating the drum on abortion, January 6^th, and inconceivably, that “democracy” will be lost if republicans win the congress.  Not inflation.  Not $5.00 per gallon gasoline.  Not the rampant crime in our cities.  Not immigration and our southern border.  Not the abysmal state of our schools after Covid. Not the elevation of “gender” and “gender change” as major issues in our schools.  Not the myriad other destructive elements tearing down our morals, heritage and history.

And yet, despite paying inflation prices for fuel and food, the country remains divided.  Upwards of half of Americans will still vote for democrats in this mid-term election.  They have been indoctrinated in our schools and by our continually left-wing media that distorts and hides the true political situation from them.  Hopefully, enough American voters will see their way to the truth, and vote out the left-wing extremists who have nearly destroyed our country.

Ray Gruszecki

Election Day

November 8, 2022

Biden and the “Wokesters”

Biden and the “Wokesters”

 Not to beat a dead horse, (or a cognitively impaired Biden or Fetterman}, but I have been around for a long time, dating back to FDR during World War II. and I have to admit that I have never seen a federal government as just plain bad as this one.  Literally everything that they have touched has turned to crap.  The economy, our society, our morals, our border, our crime rate, our schools, - you name it, and Biden and his handlers have tainted it with the imprimatur of failure.

 It is almost as if this current Biden administration has adopted the principles outlined by Karl Marx and later by the Frankfurt “Critical Theory” movement of philosophy, to tear down our society as oppressors, and replace it with some sophomoric concept of “social justice”.

 The people behind and controlling Biden seem to have absorbed a distorted concept of the socialism and communism which are the underpinnings of this ruinous administration.  They apparently have been taught in our increasingly leftist schools and universities, that the altruistic aspects of these philosophies, taken out of context, are benign, rather than historically corrosive and destructive, which the overall movements of socialism and communism always are.

 And much of our gullible younger American public, indoctrinated into socialism by our schools and steeped in the democrat party propaganda of the left-wing media, just goes along with the lies that are continuously spewed by this administration.

 But even this left imbued group can’t fail to get the message when they pay $5.00 per gallon for gasoline, exorbitant prices for groceries, are forced to get jabbed multiple times and wear ineffective masks, and see their kids lose education due to incompetent teachers’ unions and practices.

 And Biden and his sophomoric handlers, rather than doing something about the chaos and strife they’ve caused, instead outright lie to our faces about how great a job they are doing.

 We can vote some of the current crop of inept members out of congress in these coming mid-term elections, and thanks to three justices appointed by President Trump, SCOTUS is slowly returning the laws of the country back to some degree of common sense.

 But the executive will stay with Biden and his crop of “wokester” incompetents, so not much will be accomplished until 2024 when we vote them out of office and install a real, legal president.

 Ray Gruszecki

November 5, 2022