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Treason?

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Having spent half of an Okinawan 13-month tour at Camp Courtney as the S-3/S/4 of HQ Bn, 3rd MARDIV, so I know the view Greg talks about very well, and yes the legend is true. Not just soldiers, but many civilians as well took advantage of the view to die for.

But then I digress and must at agree wholeheartedly with Greg about the POS of whom he writes. He was one of Trump’s mistakes during his first tour. He should have listened to Mattis and Dunford, but now he can make amends. Charge the POS for treason!

 

 

A General’s Consensus                                                    By: Greg Maresca

Legend said the cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Okinawa, Japan’s Camp Courtney, the headquarters of the commanding general of the Third Marine Division, was where Japanese soldiers committed harakiri rather than be taken prisoner during World War II.

You could say the view was to die for.

It was also my introduction to the palatial digs of MajGen. Steven Olmstead, as the food delivery detail I was assigned to made it obvious this wasn’t your typical stopover on mess duty.

Fast-forward to December 2018 when President Donald Trump nominated Gen. Mark Milley for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCOS), against the wishes of Secretary of Defense and former Marine Gen. James Mattis and then-JCOS chairman Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford. Milley would serve as chairman from 2019 to 2023 under Presidents Trump and Biden.

Mattis and Dunford were vindicated when in Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book, “Peril,” revealed how Milley called Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the presidential election and again on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after Trump supporters marched on the U.S. Capitol.

Milley stated, “General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable, and everything is going to be OK. We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you. General Li, you and I have known each other for five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”

This is not treason?

Sen. Marco Rubio responded in a letter to President Biden that was obviously ignored.

“I do not need to tell of you the dangers posed by senior military officers leaking classified information on U.S. military operations, but I will underscore that such subversion undermines the President’s ability to negotiate and leverage one of this nation’s instruments of national power in his interactions with foreign nations.”

In Woodward’s book: “War,” Milley declared Trump was the “most dangerous person ever” and a “fascist to the core.” Such statements violate Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by slandering the commander-in-chief.

When questioned about Woodward’s books, Milley claimed he hadn’t read any of them.

Who believes that?

Such candor defies credulity.

Perjury anyone?

Moreover, Milley made himself a part of the chain of command for January 6th and issued an order to the commander of the D.C. National Guard that he was in charge. Milley also assessed the Afghan army believing it capable to stand on their own and that Ukraine would fall in 72 hours. Milley was not shy in defending the teaching at West Point of Marxist-based Critical Race Theory, saying, “I want to understand white rage and I’m white,” at a House Armed Services Committee hearing.

Milley’s treason, disloyalty and incompetence were inexcusable.

During the last four years, accountability in the Defense Department has been MIA.

Before leaving office, President Joe Biden pardoned Milley.

Since then, Hegseth ordered the Pentagon’s inspector general to investigate Milley to determine if he “undermined the chain of command during President Trump’s first term.”

Many generals are chairborne desk jockeys concerned more with politics than with military preparedness. Milley is another in a long line of flag officers who carried water for the Military Industrial Complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about.

Like presidents, generals are not all created equal, where only a few leave a historical footprint, while most just fade away – Douglas MacArthur notwithstanding.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has revoked Milley’s security detail and suspended his security clearance while exiling his two portraits from the Pentagon.

If justice is to be served, Milley should be court martialed for treason having betrayed allegiance to the United States by giving aid and comfort to a foreign power in a state in open hostility with us.

A compromised general was pardoned by an equally compromised president.

Treason is the one exception to a presidential pardon. The act of pardoning someone who committed treason is also treason.

Milley most likely never took in the view at the general’s mess at Camp Courtney but being a DEI warrior, I am sure he is familiar with how any Asian culture would handle his situation having only himself to blame.

 

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The New USMC

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While I have pretty much remained silent about CMC Berger’s FD 2030, there has been and continues to be a plethora of verbiage about it. And as far as I have been able to ascertain none of it has been good. I reckon I considered it a long gone conclusion with the new CMC simply carrying on his predecessor’s image of the new Corps. In nine days the world is going to change, make no mistake about that; the proverbial shit will hit the fan globally, not just here in the US. Our mainstream nerds will have so much to talk about it isn’t even funny. I will start watching the news again, except it will be either CNN or that ridiculous MSNBC. I can’t wait to hear their spins.

But I digress. FD 2030 is a disaster; our Corps is not the same and there is some serious doubt that it never will again be America’s 911 Force. The divestitures were HUGE, so much so that anyone who thinks it can still respond to an urgent crisis somewhere in the world is living under a rock. Do you actually know what all was given up?

Here is an article written by Captain Dale Dye, USMC (Ret). In case you don’t know of him, once he retired he became a favorite consultant in Hollywood for any producer who wanted to show or talk about Marines. In fact, he convinced producer Oliver Stone to let him put the principal actors—including Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, and Forest Whitaker—through an immersive 30-day military-style training regimen before the filming of Platoon. He limited how much food and water they received; when the actors slept, he fired cartridge blanks to keep them awake. Dale who had a small role in the movie as Captain Harris, also wrote the novelization based on Stone’s screenplay.

Here, in his usual uncensored style, is a good recount of everything that has happened since Berger’s stroke of his pen behind closed doors.

Marine Swords Beaten into Puny Plowshares

Not likely anyone in authority will be influenced by a long-retired Mustang bitching about the state of today’s Marine Corps, but I feel compelled to lob a few grenades at Force Design 2030. That’s the radical restructuring of the Corps ordered by former Commandant General David Berger in a sleazy backroom deal that demanded all the sycophants involved sign non-disclosure agreements. Since it was announced three years ago, the revamping of Marine missions, tactics, and techniques has created a defecation deluge from opponents who believe—as I do—that the whole thing has a lot in common with a jet engine. It sucks and blows.

Before I get into the weeds here, let me say a thing or two about the general mission and offensive ethos of the United States Marine Corps. Simply stated, the Corps is—or was—always designed to be the country’s 911 force, most ready to fight when the nation is least ready. It’s meant to be the crash crew in crisis response anyplace and anytime around the world. The key asset for global combatant commanders was a Marine Corps air-ground team (MAGTF) always forward deployed—usually aboard Navy amphibs—trained, equipped, and instantly ready to handle any mission in the full range of military operations.

For some reason known only to General Berger and his clones, that wasn’t good enough for a force facing China in the Western Pacific as the perceived priority threat. Rather than tweak weapons, training, and positioning to meet that challenge as Marines typically do, they decided to throw the baby out with the bathwater and ordered a tactical shift to defense with primary focus on small teams of missile-armed Marines who would jump from island to island in efforts to damage or deter a growing Chinese blue-water fleet in the event of a shooting war in the Western Pacific. The Navy—and certainly the Army—currently has a plethora of missiles capable of sinking ships. Here’s a hint. If you want to avoid redundancy arguments, don’t try to do something another service already does and probably does it better than you can.

Not much thought—if any—was given to moving these small vulnerable Marine detachments, much less resupplying and otherwise supporting them under the ever vigilant eyes of Chinese radars, satellites, and cyber capture networks. And apparently never mind if the sovereign nations that claim the territory Marines would need to launch their ship-killer missiles want no part of a super-power fight. What if—as entirely likely—those sovereign nations deny the Marines those operational bases? I’ll wait while someone thinks that through.

Under this misbegotten concept, the US Navy has a huge vote as the provider of small, fast amphibious ships needed to move Marines. And they voted no. Not only do we have insufficient gator freighters in our current fleet, but the Navy has no apparent plans to produce the smaller inter-island transports called for under FD 2030.

Screwing around with the Marine’s central mission—locate, close with, and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver—threatens to turn the US Marine Corps into a single-mission niche outfit ready to die in place on remote islands and unready to handle crises anywhere else. It puts Marines in a defensive posture when our time-tested ethos has always been the offense, forward deployed and eager to fight any enemy. It’s that attitude that used to permeate Marine ranks and kept us supplied with avid young recruits. Seems to me given the puny recruiting numbers we’re seeing from all the other services, the Marine Corps can ill-afford to sacrifice this aspect of their gung-ho, first-to-fight reputation.

In order to twist itself around this maypole of new war fighting concepts, General Berger cooked the books in what he called “divest to invest” which basically amounts to robbing Peter to pay Paul as my Dad used to call false-economy measures. That little bookkeeping maneuver made some $16 billion available which the new model planners spent on long-range missile batteries, drones, and other high-tech goodies to equip what are now proudly called Marine Littoral Regiments. Fine if all future fights are in littoral areas of the world but history begs us not to bank on that.

Most stunning in an outfit that focuses on the combat power of basic infantry, FD 2030 orders a reduction of three full battalions from the point of the Marine Corps bayonet, or a loss of 14 percent of combat strength. If that wasn’t dumb enough in formations that face inevitable casualties in ground combat, the end-strength for a Marine infantry battalion has been reduced by 200 Marines across the board which translates to a loss of 4,200 frontline war fighters. Marine Corps Reserves won’t be there to fill in the gaps. The reserves lost two full infantry battalions under the FD 2030 axe.

None of this seemed to bother force designers all that much as they also eliminated all—that’s correct all—Marine Corps tanks. So much for lessons learned in Ukraine or the Middle East. Supporters say if the Marines need tanks in a future fight, the US Army will provide them. That’s unlikely to be any kind of high priority for an Army outfit that might well be engaged in its own fight. And even if they were willing to cough up a platoon or two of Abrams, it would likely be at the end of a lengthy and complicated pipeline. Marines need tanks at hand, not in some remote Army motor pool.

Which brings me kicking and screaming to the matter of fire support for what’s left of Marine Corps maneuver battalions in the next fight. God help the grunt commander who needs quick and accurate artillery fire support, a reliable staple of infantry combat in modern times. He might not get it as FD 2030 cut a full 16 battalions of cannon artillery for a firepower reduction of a whopping 76 percent. Savings were spent to stand up 14 rocket artillery battalions which is OK if you’re shooting over the horizon at Chinese ships, but not worth a damn to a grunt outfit pinned down and in need of rapid steel on target at close ranges in crappy weather. We will hopefully live to regret this emasculation of versatile, reliable tube artillery. If you have any doubts about the utility of cannons and howitzers on the modern battlefield, let me direct your attention to the Ukraine where artillery on both sides is proving to be a deciding factor.

Another dumb-ass divestiture under FD 2030 came in Marine Corps aviation. One of the most brilliant assets of forward-deployed Marine units is that they come to the fight carrying their own air support. Both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aviation was quickly available to a MAGTF commander who could call it up and then down on an enemy without having to ask the Air Force or compete with other battlefield priorities. Not so simple these days.

FD 2030 cut almost 30 percent of tactical and logistical aviation support. Offensive aviation cuts included at least two of seven light attack helicopter squadrons which will be sorely missed by grunts on the ground who always appreciate the quickly available support of helicopter gunships. Also eliminated were three of the current 17 Osprey tilt-rotor squadrons and three of eight heavy-lift helicopter units. With the Corps struggling to field a reliable sea-shore connector—the new Amphibious Combat Vehicle is still not approved for deployment—now seems like a hell of a time to be cutting aviation logistic and transportation support.

I could go on here about the elimination of engineer support units such as bridging and breeching units that are always a valuable and versatile piece of the battlefield toolbox, but my morale might not survive it. What’s keeping me afloat as an old but loyal believer in the spirit and inherent value of the Corps, is the controversy at very high and influential levels that surrounds the changes mandated by FD 2030. Wiser heads than mine are arguing for a return to sanity. It may take some long and bloody time to correct our course, but I believe we will do just that.

In the end active-duty Marines, veterans, fans, and friends of the Corps will demand it. As General Brute Krulak wisely said back in 1957, “America does not need a Marine Corps. It wants one.” And the one it wants is not the one that’s being shaped by Force Design 2030.

I was fortunate enough to meet Dale while I was at Marine Barracks, NAS, Lemoore CA. It was during an attempt to have Brian Dennehy as our guest for a birthday ball. Quite an impressive guy to represent our Corps to Hollywood.

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Legacy?

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Well, Carter is gone, and my flag is still two-blocked as it will remain. But do not despair my friends, we have a new legend to replace Jimmy, at least for a while. Joe Biden is the worst example of someone allegedly “serving” his country. Ha! The only person this ass ever served for his many political years was himself. I can’t remember when or even if, he was ever on the same side of an issue as I was regardless of its importance. And now he is so out of it that anyone who needs a favor probably has full access to the Oval Office to state their case and have old Joe issue a proclamation. What a disgrace. I wonder what it would cost me to have him  fire the Commandant of the Marine Corps today before he leaves office?

Here is another barn burner from my favorite author. Thanks Greg.

Lame Duck Legacy                                                              By: Greg Maresca

If there is such a thing as a sentimental moment at a political convention, President Joe Biden attempted such a ruse at the Democratic National Convention back in August when he recited from the Gene Scheer song, “American Anthem.” “The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day,” said Biden. “What shall our legacy be?”

Fatefully, Biden stumbled awkwardly over the word “legacy” in waning attempt at crafting his own legacy. In retrospect, it was the perfect swan song for Bidenism that commenced 55 years ago in 1970.

Legitimacy of legacy lies in truth, and nothing else. There are no shortcuts.

Where to begin: The overrun southern border that has welcomed an estimated 21 million illegally, historic record inflation, out-of-control crime, wars in Gaza and Ukraine, the meteoric rise of China, an ever-exploding national debt, the COVID-19 vaccine debacle, the weaponization of the Justice Department, Hunter Biden’s pardon for federal tax and gun charges that the president said would never happen and a nation more at odds with itself since the Civil War.

Biden is a wandering and incoherent medically confirmed non-compos mentis elderly man with a “get-off-my-grass” aged fragility exhibiting the steadfast spitefulness of Alzheimer’s.

When the Easter Bunny had to show Biden where the exit was after a White House Easter egg hunt America needed nothing more. However, it kept coming. Biden’s descent into dementia put the finishing touches on decades of a blundering, self-aggrandizement political career. The whole charade finally crashed during the presidential debate in June, underscoring how Biden was holding a job way over his head. Arguably, it is the greatest of political scandals.

The thousands of pardons issued are highly suspected including the recent Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients – George Soros and Hillary Clinton, really?

With the death of former President Jimmy Carter, it is Biden who is our worst living President – another legacy splinter that ushered in Trump’s second presidential term.

Barack Obama disclosed years before that we should “never underestimate Biden’s ability to f**k things up,” and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, declared Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

Biden’s political agenda was about power and self-enrichment and never about America. It’s Obama politics 101. Biden’s cognitive decline preceded his 2020 candidacy, and the entire Democrat contingent knew and so did anyone paying attention with the media being complicit.

Legacy, like its brother legend, is often distorted and overrated. Statues are torn down, and headstones are knocked over. After a generation or two, no one remembers or cares. Name an Academy Award, Nobel Prize or Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient from a decade ago. Rather, they are a trivia question – if they are lucky.

The innate, yet fallen human condition wants to achieve something of significance that outlives us other than a weathering tombstone with our name etched upon it. Some will pay a high price to do so even if it means selling out to evil.

The octogenarian Biden is spending his final days in the Oval Office telling war stories, while his staff works to spite the incoming Trump administration by banning oil and gas drilling in federal waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans using a decades old law that will make it difficult to reverse.

Enter the modern myth maker” the presidential library. Biden’s version will be constructed in Delaware – not Scranton. In honor of such an occasion, it will be a basement venue with the elevator incapable of reaching the first floor. Walt Disney World’s Hall of Presidents revised their Biden animatronic with Joe sleeping in a beach chair. Meanwhile, McDonald’s will feature a Biden burger that is Fluffernutter on burnt toast minus the beef.

The Democrat party and their media allies perpetuated a colossal fraud against America at the expense of national tranquility and security. They actively censored and criticized anyone that questioned Biden’s obvious cognitive impairments. And those constitutionally disposed to right the ship of state failed – the 25th Amendment be damned – is nothing short of treason.

This ongoing charade of woke democrats, leftists, and their enabling media should be more than enough to bury them all, but many remain incredulous.

After Obama and now Biden, who can blame them?

I wonder who’s idea it was to sell pieces of the border wall? Can you believe they had the audacity to do that. Have any of you bought a piece? LOL

Current Events

Agenda 2030

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THIS IS A MUST SEE VIDEO. . . . .YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS AND PASS IT ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. If you don’t watch any other video or report concerning our border crisis you MUST watch this one. I wonder how many of our elected officials have watched it? I’ve sent it to all three of mine including my Governor! I strongly encourage you to do the same. This is serious!!

Sorry, but you will have to copy and paste in your browser – it is safe!

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/HUklrX2dVk4

Agenda 2030, which I had not heard anything about, (I do not watch national news, maybe it hs been on there, but I doubt it) is a well planned, well executed, military style operation to destroy America as we know it today. If our politicians don’t get off their asses, we are doomed.  My question to my elected congressmen is how much money are we giving to the organizations mentioned in the video, as well as to Panama? Organizations such as Red Cross, Drs. Without borders, UNICEF, UN General Assembly, OIM, Hias, UNCR, NRC, and many more are hard at work creating a global community, which means the USA will be nonexistent.

Please comment and don’t hold back on your feelings about this.

Originally posted 2023-10-30 16:48:33.

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A MUST READ!

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I receive a plethora of daily emails from everyone reference Trump and DeSantis, which I sometimes read and delete; however, I recv’d one yesterday from a gentleman who posts on the blog periodically. I read it twice. It’s long so you need a few free minutes to take it all in. It is a very well documented and written. It’s all fact, not fiction, or BS, but only one  opinion – his at the end. If you are having doubts as for whom you would voter in the primary, or the general election itself, read this article first before you decide. He gives credit where it’s due and criticism where it is deserved. Enjoy and learn.

His email said,

Hi Colonel:                                                                                                                                  I appreciated the article that you posted today regarding the military and Ron DeSantis. I live in Iowa, the first caucus State, and have written an analysis of my thinking regarding the choice of Trump or DeSantis. That analysis is attached to this email, in case you are interested. I’m hoping my thinking will affect some of my conservative friends.

Best wishes and many thanks for your blog,                                                        Bob 

Trump or De Santis-for whom shall we vote?

Donald Trump

Simply stated, the Republican Presidential nominee for 2024 will be either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. No matter how much I like or dislike either of these guys, the reality is that, unless one of them is elected President in 2024, a Democrat will be President for four more years; and, it does not matter which Democrat as they are all horrible.

Therefore, the question is: should we nominate Trump of DeSantis? Let’s consider each of them.

Prior to his running for President and while he was initially seeking the Republican Presidential nomination, I was not a Donald Trump fan. He struck me as egotistical, vulgar, uncouth, and unprincipled.

When Tiger Woods’ wife discovered his serial infidelity, Trump’s sage advice was for Tiger to tell his wife that he could not be the husband and father that she and their children needed, and therefore he should spend the balance of his life playing golf and being a playboy. This is the advice and worldview of a fourteen-year old boy, not a mature, responsible man. It was not surprising to me that Trump was working on his third marriage.

His feud with Rosie O’Donnell was also off-putting, not that I took her side, but rather because his name-calling and abusive behavior was obnoxious and unnecessary.

Finally, during the primaries, I found his mean, personal, dishonest attacks against his Republican opponents to be disgusting. Referring to Ted Cruz, a decent and honest man, as ‘lying Ted’ or Marco Rubio as ‘little Marco’ made Trump look like a little man who was trying to make himself look bigger by cutting down others.

Notwithstanding his obvious personal shortcomings, it was also unclear what his political philosophy was, or if in fact he actually had one. For years he had supported both Republican and Democrat political candidates based upon his assessment of who could provide the most help to his business enterprises. There was no sign of any honorable principles in his personal, business, or political life.

After he won the Republican Presidential nomination and during the 2016 fall campaign, I referred to Trump and Hillary Clinton as ‘heart attack’ and ‘cancer’ respectively. She was ‘cancer’ insofar as she would continue to build a larger government that would continue to gradually suck the life and freedom out of our Country. He was ‘heart attack’ as one would never know if, based upon some ridiculous pretext or emotional outburst, he would launch or cause a nuclear weapon, start a war, or use his Presidential powers to destroy his real or perceived enemies.

During the campaign, Thomas Sowell, one of my favorite economists and political commentators, wrote a series of article on Donald Trump in which he documented Mr. Trump’s unfitness to be President. However, Professor Sowell was also far from being a fan of Hillary Clinton. As the election grew near, Sowell wrote an article comparing the plight of the American voter to that of an American fighter pilot in World War II whose plane had been disabled, but who yet had enough control to land the plane in the ocean or on land. If he chose the ocean, he might die from the crash’s impact, he might drown, or he might be eaten by sharks. If he chose land, he might also die from the crash’s impact or if he survived the landing, he might be captured by the Japanese, tortured, and then shot. Such was the choice between Trump and Clinton. In fact, it kind of made me envy the World War II pilot’s situation. Finally, in a column written just before the election, Sowell indicated that while he thought that Trump would be a horrible President, Clinton would be worse; and, therefore, he would be voting for Trump. I had toyed with voting for a third party candidate, however, my brother rightly pointed out that either Trump or Clinton was going to be the next President, and that with Trump there would be a wider possibility of outcomes; that is, with Clinton, you knew you would get ‘awful’ while with Trump you might get ‘awful’ but you might not.  So, in 2016 Jeanne and I both voted for Donald Trump for President. It was a good decision.

Trump’s policies as President, to my pleasant surprise, were generally quite good.

He was tenaciously pro-American as evidenced in his renegotiating trade deals, confronting China on trade policies and intellectual theft, luring businesses back to the U.S.A., and withdrawing from agreements that were disadvantageous to our Country, including the Paris Accords, and the Iranian nuclear agreement. He also insisted that our NATO allies should pay their dues and not make suckers out of the U.S.A. since we regularly paid our dues.

His foreign policy was also quite strong. Dropping a super-bomb on a Taliban camp sent a signal of strength. Similarly, when he hit a joint Russian-Syrian air base with dozens of missiles after the Syrians used chemical weapons on their own people, it was a policy of strength. When he changed the rules of engagement in Syria and Iraq allowing our troops and allies to decimate Isis, regular beheadings of Westerners that had become common during the Obama years ceased; and, Isis was essentially destroyed and become a non-factor. I really liked his policy that, rather than start wars where thousands of our young men would be killed, he would target the leaders of bellicose countries. He did this when he targeted and killed an Iranian General who had been instrumental in planning and executing the deaths of many American.

After Russia invaded Ukraine during Biden’s Presidency, a poll was taken which found that 59% of Americans believed that Russia would not have invaded if Trump were President. Actually, 100% of Americans should have believed it, since Trump had been President for four years and Putin did not invade Ukraine during that time.

His handling of North Korea was also quite effective insofar as he made it clear that he wouldn’t tolerate any military action from them (My nukes are bigger than yours and unlike yours, mine actually work), but he balanced that with a charm offensive with North Korea’s leader. This resulted in a suspension of North Korea’s missile launches in the Pacific and over other countries such as Japan.

I also fully supported his effort to stop illegal immigrants from coming to our Country at their whim. He tried very hard to build a wall at our Southern border, and had some success even though Congress consistently refused to provide funding for the wall.

The economy also performed very well during Mr. Trump’s term, at least until the COVID pandemic started. His economic policies which included lowering marginal income tax rates and eliminating costly regulations encouraged increased productivity.

Regarding tax policy, doubling the standard deduction so that most taxpayers would not have to itemize and essentially eliminating the deduction for state and local taxes were brilliant economically and politically. Listening to Democrat Governors vociferously complaining that their rich citizens could no longer deduct their state income taxes on their federal income returns was quite enjoyable. Let that sink in, Democrat Governors who continuously complain that the rich are not paying their fair share of income taxes were now whining that their rich citizens were paying too much federal income tax-priceless.

However, probably the best thing that Mr. Trump did while President was to appoint three outstanding constitutional jurists to the Supreme Court which resulted in the overturning of the Court’s previous abortion rulings and the end of affirmative action.

In my view he did not perform particularly well during COVID as he gave too much power and credibility to public health hucksters; however, I cannot blame him too much for this sorry episode in American history as the whole crisis could not have been foreseen by him nor was there any good recent precedent on how to handle such a ‘pandemic.’

During his four-year tenure, he was impeached twice and was subjected to a special counsel investigation due to a claim that he had colluded with the Russians to fix the 2016 Presidential election. Both impeachments and the Russian collusion charge were laughable and were only taken seriously by feeble-minded people, mostly Democrats.

Mr. Trump’s strengths included being a strong advocate for the well-being of the United States and its citizens; being very intelligent including having a fair amount of common sense or ‘street smarts; being a problem-solver, (for example, trying to fundamentally change the nature of our relationship with North Korea); knowing, understanding, and supporting free-market capitalism.

Mr. Trump, like the rest of us has more than a few weaknesses, however, by far his greatest problem is his pride, ego, and total self-love that prevents him for taking responsibility for anything that goes wrong and enables him to claim credit for anything that goes right. This manifested itself in high rates of turnover in senior positions in his administration including Secretaries of Defense and State, Attorney General, National Security Advisor, and Chief of Staff. This is also the source of a lot of his childish name-calling.

Ron DeSantis

Ron DeSantis was elected Florida’s Governor in 2018 by a slim margin (less than 1%) over a dreadful Democrat candidate and was re-elected in 2022 by almost a 20% point margin. The people of Florida clearly like him and his policies. His statement that “Florida is where ‘woke’ goes to die” is very popular with a huge portion of the population that hates ‘wokeism’ but feels powerless to do anything to oppose it short of not drinking Bud Lite or shopping at Target.

He first gained attention during the COVID pandemic when he demonstrated that he actually had a brain and could think for himself. After reviewing the data, he rightly determined that COVID was not a mortal threat to most healthy individuals; and, therefore, he opened Florida’s businesses, churches, and schools long before most other states. He did a great job of making the vaccine widely available as soon as possible, particularly to the most vulnerable, while not penalizing anyone who chose not to get the shot. He was savagely criticized by the mainstream media for this approach as he was called Ron DeathSantis. However, he held his ground to the benefit of the State’s businesses, school children, and citizens.

He also signed parental rights legislation that included the following two provisions:

A school district may not adopt procedures or student support forms that prohibit school district personnel from notifying a parent about his or her student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being, or a change in related services or monitoring, or that encourage or have the effect of encouraging a student to withhold from a parent such information. School district personnel may not discourage or prohibit parental notification of and involvement in critical decisions affecting a student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being. This subparagraph does not prohibit a school district from adopting procedures that permit school personnel to withhold such information from a parent if a reasonably prudent person would believe that disclosure would result in abuse, abandonment, or neglect, as those terms are defined in s. 39.01.

Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.

These two provisions essentially prohibit school personnel from initiating gender transitioning for a child without the parents’ knowledge and approval; and prevent homosexual and transexual indoctrination of children between the ages of four and seven. This should be non-controversial. It isn’t. The bill resulted in the fury of hell being thrown at Governor DeSantis and the Florida Legislature. Some of the most fierce and powerful opposition came from that great family-friendly Corporation, Walt Disney. However, DeSantis stood his ground and the bill was passed and signed into law.

As a result of the battle described above, DeSantis and Disney had and continue to have conflict. DeSantis appears to be winning since, as previously stated, he was re-elected with a margin of almost 20%, while Disney’s stock has declined in value by approximately 50% during the last two years.

He has also supported and enacted similar legislation designed to protect children from having their bodies mutilated even with parental consent as well as laws banning men from using women’s bathrooms and showers. He has also supported, helped to pass, and signed legislation that bans men from competing in women’s sports.

DeSantis has done other good things such as flying illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard so that their residents could demonstrate how loving and accepting they are toward such immigrants. Just kidding of course, the rich liberals living in Martha’s Vineyard are loving, accepting, and protective of illegal immigrants as long as they don’t have to be near them or in any way deal with them.

Recently, he signed a bill that reduced from fifteen weeks to six weeks from conception, the period in which a woman in Florida can get an abortion. While many see this as a sell-out of the prolife position, I believe it is a realistic improvement over the status-quo-ante which will save lives and move policy in the correct direction.

He also fired a county attorney who indicated that he would not enforce the abortion, parental rights, and other bills listed above.

While idiots around the country were defunding the police, DeSantis and the Florida Legislature were luring good policemen to the state; and, people in Florida, with a few exceptions in large cities, enjoy a secure low-crime environment. Florida regularly pays bonuses to their police officers and also pays signing bonuses to officers to come from other states.

He has done a lot of other good things such as quickly rebuilding Florida after a massive hurricane wreaked destruction on the State. But the bottom line is summarized in two facts: The people of Florida re-elected him with a margin of almost 20% points; and, people are now voting with their feet by moving to Florida each year by the hundreds of thousands.

So, which of these two guys should we support? As the Presidential election season approached, I was optimistic that we had two very strong potential candidates to run against Joe Biden or whatever warm body the Democrats chose to run in 2024. Currently, Mr. Trump has a significant lead among Republicans for the 2024 nomination. I believe this is because of three factors: he is better known nationally than DeSantis, his policies as President were excellent and produced more wealth and freedom for the average person, and most Republicans are disgusted with the political elites’ obsession to destroy him for relatively minor infractions while ignoring the sell-out of our country by the Democrats (see the Southern border and Biden’s selling influence, access, and secrets to the Chinese). When Trump’s home at Maro Lago was raided, my first instinct was also that we had to nominate and elect him to clean-up the vermin that is in control of our government/legal system/country.

However, since he announced that he is once again running for President, Mr. Trump has made a compelling case for voting for Ron DeSantis. At a time of crisis in our Country, when Joe Biden and the Democrats are systematically destroying our rights, freedoms, and prosperity, it should be ‘all hands on deck’ to oppose and stop them. The left is not our loyal opposition, they are our enemy and the greatest threat to the continuation of our Country as a free and prosperous nation. Ron DeSantis has been a powerful leader and voice against the insanity that is being visited upon us by Biden and the political left. When Trump began his campaign, not by attacking Joe Biden and the Democrats, but by attacking Ron DeSantis, I consider that an act of political treason. His attacks have been childish (Ron Desanctimonious), and dishonest (DeSantis wants to end Social Security, locked-down Florida during the pandemic, and wants to increase retail prices by over 20%).

Trump has made it clear that when it comes to the well-being of the Country or his political future, the latter comes first with him. With Trump, it is all about Trump, first, last, and always. It is why he never served in the military (DeSantis did), because in the military one must be willing to give one’s life for his Country; that is, put the Country before yourself. It is why he is currently married to his third wife (DeSantis is still married to his first wife); that is, because a real man, to have a successful marriage, puts his wife and children first. It is why he cannot keep staff long-term (DeSantis can and does)-see above where I list the turnover in key positions of his administration.

In summary, currently, I believe that Ron DeSantis is a better, more principled man than is Donald Trump, is just as strong as Trump, and is able and willing to put the well-being of the Country and his family before himself. Trump or DeSantis? I think it is clearly DeSantis.

Originally posted 2023-07-21 12:26:07.