A Patriot's Polemic

More than fifty years since this fantastic milestone with American hero Mae Jemison, scum and well meaning idiots & ignoramuses are still race baiting to divide us as nation.

Regardless of who wins the election, never forget race baiting or stay silent when it occurs. The educated who practice it are traitors to the Republic. Those proliferating the infamous 'fine people on both sides' lie chief among them.

If you want to be governed and eventually ruled by race baiting liars and cowards (I repeat myself) then stay silent when they practice their treacherous craft.

I encourage everone who loves their country to openly & loudly confront the traitorous bastards, and cure the ignorance of others who restate such garbage unwittingly.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mae-Jemison

Mae Jemison | Biography & Facts Mae Jemison, American physician and the first African American woman to become an astronaut. In 1992 she spent more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour. After completing her NASA mission, she formed the Jemison Group to develop and market advanced technologies.

Democrats & Leftists:

Want to chat with credibility on SCOTUS?

You first apologize for Borking in a manner I will believe. Every single incident of it. Then I'll think about giving a damn what you think about judicial nominations and processes surrounding them. Never until.

That will be one HELL of an apology. I doubt you'll make it.

I was going to write about mail in voting for my next piece, but the passing away of a Supreme Court Justice and the surrounding turmoil have made me defer that for a bit.

The actions of the political left in the wake of her death is as one might expect – despicable and dishonest. I believe their intense hatred and rage of late are because for decades they have been used to a press that enables them to pass on their ipse dixit arguments as legitimate. The emergence of FOX News enraged them more than talk radio. Adding to their ire over multiple different viewpoints in the media is President Trump’s refusal to sit back and let them attack him with half-truths and dishonesty. He is the first conservative President since Reagan to go head to head with the media, and he has shamed them repeatedly and accurately far better than Reagan ever did. The combination of these has driven them insane, it seems.

Onto the topic du jour – the Supreme Court.

Justice Ginsberg’s death is quite sad – I feel sorry for her friends and family. She did some great things in her life, and contrary to what most people believe she was a very nuanced jurist at times and not always a hard leaning liberal – although she often was extremely left and her opinions and dissents definitely reflect that. Regardless, there was a stunning intellect and spirit inside of her that should inspire all of us. I pray for her soul and that her friends and family find peace.

The absolute stupidity from the left regarding a potential Trump SCOTUS nomination has been as stunning as it is vapid. If you’re at all familiar with our second President, John Adams, I think his warnings and musings on the dangers of Faction are very salient in today’s environment. I’ve never seen our country more divided.

Leftists right now are screaming about Mitch McConnell promising to vote on a replacement for Ginsburg. They’re doing so after Ginsburg, Obama, and Biden all three spoke and wrote about the President having the right to nominate a SCOTUS Justice during an election year as Mitch McConnell held up Garland’s nomination. Now, they want McConnell to do exactly the opposite of what they wanted in 2016.

Hypocrisy incarnate? Yes. On both sides. McConnell is a hypocrite – a hypocrite who is acting within legal and procedural boundaries to further the interests of his political Party. The leftists are hypocrites for wanting the opposite for Trump’s pending nominee as they did for Garland.

Leftist actions on judicial nominations disgust me, and I opine they steal from and sabotage our Republic. They steal from us by filling the discourse with nonsense via Borking. When you impede intelligent discourse within a Republic, you sabotage its lifeblood.

Everybody knows about Borking, but fewer people remember Miguel Estrada – an Appellate Court nominee by George Bush. Estrada’s nomination was held up for over a year (as opposed to 200 days for Garland) for moronic reasons – partly because he is Latino as per a leaked internal Senate memorandum. Joe Biden was a Senator when that occurred. A media worthy of this nation would ask him why he didn’t call out his fellow Senators on such racism, and how he might prove he was not one of the racists using Mr. Estrada’s race as a reason to impede his confirmation.

If it is OK for Democrats to hold up a judicial nominee by a Republican President for over a year without a vote, why is it NOT ok for Republicans to hold up a judicial nominee for 200 days? Especially when the Republicans did not do it for despicable racist reasons? The fact is that BOTH parties have used procedure in a legal manner to further their interest – and that is irrefutable.

The Democrats’ reactions to McConnell doing so today further proves that they are crybabies who can put it out but not take it – and unworthy of governing the greatest nation on Earth.

A fellow recently wrote an article in The Atlantic about President Trump having contempt for the military in all sorts of different ways – all anonymously sourced. Much to their discredit, some of the media has taken this anonymously sourced article and turned it into something worthy of inclusion in the national news in lieu of actually practicing the art of journalism and seeking to report verifiable facts. Several friends of mine who lean left have re-posted the article, some with contempt or the President, some with indignation, and some with utter disbelief. I read the article because they are friends, and will not grace The Atlantic with my eyeballs again because I opine they have used dishonesty to dance on veterans’ graves for political gain.

Anonymously sourced rumors are not news. Anonymous sources can lead to news later, such as in the case of Watergate, but are most definitely not news-worthy. Yet some of the major networks have reported on this article, devoting much of the finite space in the crucible of public discourse to anonymously sourced rumors. This troubles me in many regards, as this has become a regular thing for the news media over the past several years with increasing frequency. It is to the point that is no longer a matter of Nietzsche’s and Hegel’s thoughts on conviction being the enemy of truth, rather deliberate distortion of fact and a conscious choice by college graduates to practice propaganda in lieu of journalism.

The United States is a republic, and I firmly believe that a republic can only be an effective form of government when good ideas can be freely discussed and the best ideas are settled upon. One might say the lifeblood of a republic is its discourse, and therefore any inhibition of a free press or free speech or any dilution of the discourse or reduction in its bandwidth is not in the best interests of the republic or its citizens. Please think on this as I continue.

I’m a veteran, the son of a veteran, the brother of a veteran, the great nephew of a veteran, the nephew of a veteran, a cousin of a veteran, and a friend to many veterans. There is a special bond between veterans that exists, and if you are not a veteran you might be able to understand that existence but will never truly comprehend it. That bond is stronger still between veterans that actually served together. When I talk as a veteran and about veteran issues, I speak with a well calibrated mind.

My well calibrated mind in terms of being a veteran and caring for my fellow veterans has concluded that the article in The Atlantic is yet another attempt to manipulate the bonds that tie veterans together for political gain. I find it despicable in all regards, and disappointing that educated minds of friends and acquaintances who served in the military’s officer corps are giving anonymously sourced slander such as this an ounce of respect.

This is not the first despicable attempt to manipulate veterans and their feelings by the political left, which is unfortunate. I’m going to go over a few instances of this prominent in my own mind, and hope it provides some insight into my thinking. I’m OK with anybody disagreeing with me, and in spite of what some worthless pieces of human filth think, being ok with somebody disagreeing with you is not pejorative. It’s a part of a rich and diverse life.

The sudden rash of attempts to manipulate the bond that exists between veterans for political gain having any credibility coming from the political left is astounding unto me, given their actions in the wake of the Bush-Gore election. It is a matter of history that Democrats openly attempted to find ways to disqualify the absentee ballots of active duty military voters. It was all over the news. If you are a decent and honest person, you have to ask yourself “what changed in the interim?” and come up with a rational, defensible answer. My own conclusion is that nothing changed, and these people only care about the military or its veterans when it suits them.

My conclusion is corroborated by the actions of the political left today with regards to mail in voting. They point to Oregon, ignore the disasters in NJ and NY, and have debased themselves by creating a fake postal service crisis. The stupidity of both their narrative and the reporting on it is mind boggling. People ok with mass protests are concerned about COVID making voting unsafe and screaming for universal mail in voting? I’m not buying that bridge in Brooklyn. Because I have actually read a decent chunk of the bipartisan Jimmy Carter-James Baker report on election security that came about due to Bush-Gore, I find its conclusions on the mail-in voting and absentee ballots being absent in the current discourse a betrayal of the republic. True journalists would have ensured it were there to support a robust discussion on election security. The lack of overt and pointed questioning of mail-in ballot supporters (different from absentee) citing that study, NJ, NY, and multiple other vulnerabilities identified by the Attorney General is a disgrace to the institutions of both journalism and discourse itself. As a veteran, the absence of the Bush-Gore aftermath from the absentee and mail-in balloting narrative is indefensible to me.

Does anybody think those omitting Bush-Gore military voter suppression from the discourse surrounding mail-in balloting really cares for the military? They’re the ones embracing an anonymously sourced article in The Atlantic, a publication owned by a person who contributed more than a million dollars to Democratic candidates as per the Federal Election Commission. If somebody advocating mail-in balloting cannot discuss infrastructure required to handle mass processing of mail in votes, the Carter-Baker report’s conclusions, the NY and NJ mail in disasters, and why protests are ok but voting is dangerous, they are not interested in a discussion, rather forcing their opinions onto you. They are not people worth knowing and no friend of the republic, and definitely no friend of veterans who served it honorably. They’re the kind of scum that would openly attempt to suppress military votes, then scream about voter identification laws being racist while keeping their money in bank accounts requiring identification to withdraw funds.

The above alone makes me question The Atlantic article’s authors and proponents’ character and motives, but several other instances since the 2016 election have strengthened my contempt for them and the propagandists masquerading as journalists that pay them homage. I’ll cover three of them here for brevity’s sake.

During the 2016 election I heard that Donald Trump had insulted a Gold Star Mother. I had to hear this for myself, so I went and found the interview. After I watched it myself, I was furious – but not because he actually insulted anybody. I found nothing insulting about what the man said, and would have been perfectly ok if he had said that about my own mother (whom I love with all my heart) had I paid the ultimate sacrifice. If Trump actually said something insulting, then anybody claiming to be offended should be able to tell me the pejorative thing he said. The absolute lies and lunacy I get in response to that simple demand have been despicable. Making the accurate observation that somebody was silent during a TV appearance is not pejorative – some re**rd actually tried to tell me that it was, and was stunned I called him a liar. I’ve traveled extensively in the Middle East and had a Middle Eastern lady tell me her husband gave her permission to practice her English with me, so telling me that Trump asking if she were allowed to speak is insulting or pejorative in any manner just does not work – and I kind of like men that are contemptuous of women having to ask permission to speak, being a decent human being. The man didn’t say much else other than Mr. Khan looked like a nice guy and closed his commentary by wishing him well. If you claim the man made an insult and I can’t find it, I think you’re a liar. In this case, a liar dancing on a veteran’s grave for political gain and a worthless piece of human filth.

A few weeks after the Stephanopoulos interview that spawned the Gold Star Mother insult nonsense, Chris Matthews called USAF and Benghazi victim Sean Smith’s mother a liar on national television, saying that he did not care what she had been through, her feelings were her own. I cannot find an insult in Trump’s remarks to this day, and many friends have tried to convince me. Simply show me in literature, film, or logically how what he said was pejorative and convince me that it was insulting and I will change my mind. In contrast, Matthews explicitly insulted a Gold Star Mother and said he did not care what she had been through or felt. On national television during the Democratic Convention. This is an irrefutable fact. The folks who were claiming to be upset about Trump’s remarks on Captain Khan’s mother didn’t say a word nor did the media press them on their silence, which was deafening (that is how you use silence pejoratively, by the way). My extensive vocabulary lacks sufficient depth of derogatory superlative to adequately describe my feelings on this filth without resorting to obscenities.

Unfortunately, as The Atlantic article once again shows, they are still at it. Later still in the campaign, Trump was speaking with some veterans about PTSD and the press despicably took him out of context, claiming he had insulted service men and women suffering from PTSD. I researched what he said, and it was yet another media distortion. I have friends with PTSD and have no use for leveraging my love of them as a political weapon. It is evil and despicable, as are those who would do such. Those folks are embracing The Atlantic article and associate politically with its authors. I do not respect or care for their ilk.

More recently, veterans and the military have been used to further denigrate the President, via retired military officers who know better, to their utter shame and disgrace. The President stated that if mayors and governors did not control the riots he would step in and do it for them with the military – paraphrased, but accurate. The reaction from the Press and from retired officers who do not care for the President was amazing. Cries about the military being turned on US citizens, American cities becoming a battle-space, and all sorts of indignation rang out from multiple media outlets. Not a one of them asked the retired officers they interviewed that if the police and National Guard could not handle riots, who other than the military directed by their commander-in-chief could be called upon to restore order. Even Harvard Law School saw fit to draft a response to the President’s remarks – I read it; they’re morons who missed the point, too. The LA riots in the wake of the Rodney King trial were suppressed with the military, yet that didn’t seep into the discourse. I’m disappointed in General Mattis in particular for his remarks because he has written about the duty of silence and knew what he was doing without question. The propagandists and their leftist masters were not worried about the military, veterans, or US cities becoming battlespaces (look at the rioting they only recently condemned because it became a political necessity) – they were worried about political posturing during an election year.

Sadly, there are other incidents where leftists have shown their contempt for veterans and the military. The Atlantic article will be believed by some poor ignorant souls – I’m not among them. I have a three digit IQ and know anonymous sources for what they are. I know who funds The Atlantic and I know their political leanings. When the President at a State of the Union recognized a mother of a murder victim, those holding their beliefs loudly booed her from the House floor because the murderer was an illegal immigrant. They booed a bereaved mother on the House floor. Think about the Khan and Matthews incidents I describe above with that in mind. I think you’ll realize why I hold them in such contempt – if you’re a decent person worth knowing.

The Atlantic article and ones like it, including the media using them to fill headlines, are bad for America. They dilute the discourse with dishonesty, stupidity, gossip, and slander. I believe all Americans who love our country should vocally state their contempt for such. Love your country enough to call a worthless piece of filth a worthless piece of filth and back up your words, I say. The author of that article in The Atlantic and the media that took that up as news – they’re worthless pieces of filth. Not as low as those who made death threats against a boy because of his hat or little kids for making fun of their favorite socialist or making teddy bears for families of fallen police officers, but filth nonetheless.