Top Three Takeaways – January 6th, 2021
- Deja vu. In the words of Ronald Reagan, Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. While most veterans fully appreciate the reality that freedom is anything but free, far too many in society today take them for granted. Exhibit “A” is just how close we now are to opening the door to the potential for a genuine loss of freedom. Georgia’s Senate runoff elections have left me with a feeling of Déjà vu while watching it’s results on Election Day. Joe Biden carried the state by just under 12,000 votes. As of this entry, Jon Ossoff leads David Perdue by about 16,000 votes while Raphael Warnock has won his race with a 30,000+ vote margin. It’s the second time in two months Georgia has indicated clearly that its electorate isn’t the same as it used to be. Indeed, Georgia has flipped blue – at least for this cycle, driven by record participation among black voters. But back to the potential loss of freedom thing for a moment. Consider this quote from another great president. In the words of Abraham Lincoln, America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. That takes me to...
- “New window of hope”. That’s not a quote from one of our country’s great presidents. Instead, it’s what the communist state-run media in China had to say in a newscast regarding the incoming Biden administration. China doesn’t need to beat us on the battlefield when all they have to do is have their bought and paid for politicians running our country. Lest anyone have any doubts about the Biden ties to China, let this be a reality check. You literally have the Chinese state-run media praising Joe Biden. As always, the most pervasive form of bias is news media is omission of information, so it’s likely this is the first you’re hearing of this news. It’s the kind of news reporting which should send chills down the spine of any non-communist sympathizing American. It’s exactly the type of threat described by President Lincoln. We’re on the precise of having to hope that West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin will provide some degree of Congressional checks and balances to prevent adding Washington D.C. as a state, packing the Supreme Court with socialists, taking away 2nd Amendment rights through gun control measures which would be backed up by the packed courts. Making illegal immigrant's citizens, etc. After all, Chuck Schumer had previously said all options were on the table.
- Wake up call. In the wake of Election Day, I cited the irony of Florida going from the ultimate swing state which has served as a barometer of the country for decades, to an outlier in this election. It’s no mistake. Millions of South Floridians understand the reality of the threat to our society posed by socialism. They also know and understand when it’s on the ballot. I’ve previously said that South Floridians will one day save this country from itself because of this understanding. That time begins now. And it should begin with the taking back of the Democratic party by those who aren’t socialists and anarchists. Don’t laugh. There are overt socialists and anarchists serving in Congress today elected as Democrats. If you’re a Democrat supporting the status quo this is what you’ve gradually been supporting. You also voted to elect a President that Shi Jingping would have voted for given the opportunity. Every world superpower has fallen. If you think the United States won’t too, you’re fooling yourself if we continue to play with socialist and communist fire. And if you don’t want to take it from me, how about President’s Lincoln and Reagan?
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