Author: Rick

We have been in Afganistan for 20 years and have spent close to one trillion dollars doing so, which is insane. Have we gotten return on our investment, I think not. The people in this area of the world have been fighting each other for thousands of years. What makes our so called experts think we can change tribal fighting into a constitutional government?

Bush dragged us in, Obama kept us there and Trump got us out, to end the endless wars, a campaign promise. For President Trump it was, like usual, a business decision. We are losing assets in actual physical assets and in personnel assets military soldiers. How many times did he actually go to Dover AFB to receive the soldiers who lost their lives.

The wife and I work with a army vet who was in Afganistan that helped train the Afgan army. His take on the whole situation was we couldn’t even train them to shoot a whole in the side of a barn. They were not invested in making it better, but they were getting paid. I came across an Epoch Times article just yesterday. Afganistan is made up of a bunch of tribes and the Afghan army is primarily made up of the same tribe as the Taliban. What could go wrong, everything!!

President Trump negotiated with the Taliban about the U.S. withdrawing from Afganistan by May 31st but made it clear that if any U.S. soldiers were killed all bets were off. We have had the lowest loss of life in the last year versus other years being in Afganistan. President Trump had a plan and it just had to be executed but this bumbling administration fumbled the football yet again.

Right now there anywhere from 10,000 to 40,000 Americans in Afganistan right now, trying to get out of Kabul. Our inept government had a secure AFB in Bagram with two runways in the mountains away from all of the fighting and yet they chose to use the airport in Kabul to remove our people. This airport is in downtown Kabul, how secure is it going to be. So let’s be clear our military was told to secure the airport but not to go get our fellow Americans. Secretary of Defense Lloyd told the press that we did not have the capability to go in and get Americans out! Apparently the British, French and the Italians are able to get their citizens, disgusting at best!!!

Let’s talk about the equipment left behind. 83 billion basically given as a gift to the Taliban. Do you think they will use it all in a humanitarian effort? Apache helicopters, Humvees, guns night vision goggles, ammo basically anything you would need to supply an army. The worst part is we left behind the biometric information on the Afgan fighters who could fly the planes and helicopters. You can’t tell me the Taliban won’t use this information to their advantage. They may not know how to fly this equipment but they will be able to figure out who does and force people to do their bidding.

Here is my take. First, GO GET OUR AMERICANS!! You bomb the crap out of everything and anything that stands in your way. We definitely have the capability to do this, do not under any circumstance leave one American behind! The Biden administration just showed they do not care about Americans at all, they are more focused on gaining potential voters than the security of this country. You bumbling idiots need to pull your collective heads out of your assess step up to the plate and do what is good for the American people for the first time since January 20th.

Obviously Afghanistan is in the news. Peoples lives are at stake and they did not need to be at stake. President Trump had an agreement with the Taliban for a withdrawal from Afghanistan on May 31th. The smartest guy in the room decided to push it to August 31st.

It has been a disaster from the get go, President Trump recognized this to get us out. “They” islamists have been fighting over any stretch of land in this area for 2000 years. Do you really think our intervention would change 2000 years of fighting, killing and death. My non military, non progressive attitude and supposed lack of intelligence would have not had us in this “fight” . Per usual this is about resources and who controls them. Trump said, I think, when desert storm first happened, just take all of the oil. We have spent trillions on a country that flip flops on whom ever is in charge, why do you think Afghanistan was over run in such short time. Yesterday’s Senator is today’s Taliban commander.

Hey I listen to a lot of “opinions” on a lot of topics and if one of them says we had a secure base in the mountains of Afganistan 20 minutes from Kabul. We apparently have the International Airport secure at this point, which happens to be in downtown Kabul, what could go wrong? So we gave up the high ground to a bunch of people willing to give up their lives to destroy America. Any despotic regime like this one already called this a defeat to America. Hello military you just got called out, do you have set of balls or do you need to deal with white aggression?

Here is my take. We have somewhere to the tally of 10,000 Americans still in Afganistan. This idiotic administration is prioritizing refugees over American citizens. They are so desperate for voters, they will sacrifice Americans to a horrible fate, death by an enemy! It will be spun not to reflect on Democrats, it will be Trumps’ fault. Sorry Biden you did not have to follow Trumps’ plan, you 86ed everything else he did so you need to own this disaster. Go find Corn Pop and look at his hairy legs!!!

The evidence is mounting that the Covid-19 vaccine is not a vaccine. First let’s define a vaccine. From Webster’s Dictionary- material (as a preparation of killed or weakened virus or bacteria) used in vaccinating to induce immunity to a disease. So let’s ask the question is this shot really a vaccine.

The media is telling us cases of the “Delta” variant are up. Cases are up, yes they are, cases of what? I have not heard one thing saying how the “Delta” variant is differentiated from the original virus other than it is more contagious. What test tells you that you have Covid-19 or the “Delta” variant? I haven’t heard one person attest to said test. There is no test that specifies Covid-19 or the “Delta” variant,. It is assumed right now that your positive test is the “Delta” variant, Dr. Peter Ching Hong from the University of San Francisco.

Anyone know what RSV is? I didn’t know until yesterday. RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, a respiratory disease that occurs in mostly children because they are not exposed to the environment at large. You know were all of the viruses are, the big bad world, where you make mud pies. We have locked down all of the kids, put masks on their faces to their detriment and yet here we are ready and willing to do it again! Right now kids are going to the hospital in record numbers, out of season for RSV, usually flu season, cough, cough! The reason, kids need to build their immune system, go play, get dirty, get sick!

The CDC, Fauci and their ilk talk continually about efficacy of the shot, the efficacy of the mask, the efficacy of the lockdown. Big word let’s look at the meaning, power or capacity to produce a desired effect. The desired effect was to eliminate Sars Covid 2, has it happened? Has it been contained? Has it been slowed? Has it helped your existence on this planet? Were is the desired effect?

Here is my take. This is the seventh named coronavirus, I said this before, none of them has been eradicated like polio or the mumps. It is here and we have to deal with it, bottom line. The Spanish Flu is still around our bodies adjust. The Pfizer shot is now only 42% effective as a vaccine. The Moderna shot is 86% effective as a vaccine. So realistically we are not dealing with vaccines, according to the definition. When do we shut this down? The initial polio vaccine got shut down after 250 people got polio, they fixed it!! We have thousands dead and damn near a million people afflicted with some sort adverse reaction. Crickets abound. When will the madness stop!

I don’t know about the rest of America but I see what is happening in this country right now. We are under attack at all levels and all directions. The scary thing is that is it is coming from within our own government, agencies and citizens. The hatred for the United States of America spewing from within it’s own borders is unprecedented. It has always been here in some form, unfortunately the “silent majority” has been going about it’s business the last twenty years and now finally got the message.

Let’s go back to the early 90’s with Clinton in office. The government effectively took away any parents ability to discipline their children. They gave children the ability to call abuse on their parents hence we have no discipline anymore. The Constitution states the government shall provide for the general welfare of the public not stick it’s big ugly nose in my business.

September 11th 2001 the attacks on the Twin Towers and Flight 93. Congress enacted the Patriot Act six weeks after September 11th which in effect expanded the governments’ ability to spy on it’s own citizens. Different versions of this bill had been attempted to pass and were tossed away by Congress. If the government wants records from your doctor, your ISP, your cell phone subscriber, they have to give it and are under a gag order not to tell you. If you look into what transpired in the lead up to it’s passing, it seems to be sort of the same playbook used to pass Obamacare. Make the bill so large and give Congress no time to read it, then call for a vote by telling any member of Congress it is their fault if they don’t help America!

President Obama effectively took race relations in this country back 100 years with 8 years in office. I gave the man a chance, in my opinion he had the biggest opportunity to unite this country and made it worse. He started blaming the police for shootings and would take the side of the criminals. Ask yourself, if you blame the police and call them the bad guys, what would the bad guys do? Answer, attack!! Obamacare is a disaster, we didn’t get to keep our doctors, our premiums went up because those of us working were now paying the bills of those on welfare.

The media is not fair and balanced, it never has been. In my formidable years the media was the watchdog making sure the government did it’s job. It for whatever reason has always been left leaning but at some point it went full tilt leftist socialism, communist. They don’t report the news, there is no news reporting anymore, it is all opinion shows and biased. Hell I know, I am stating my opinions in this blog, but it is my blog and I am not calling it news! I give a reaction to what is happening. Media outlets are creating opinions and narratives. In their world the hosts of these shows are all knowing and all seeing. Their opinions dwarf how the public may actually feel because they sit in front of a camera. Case in point. CNN’s Don Lemon actually said on national TV that Europeans did not settle America. Apparently that is OK because Don Lemon said so!

Here is my take. In the early 1970’s President Nixon coined the term silent majority. President Trump has used that term throughout his Presidency and beyond. I don’t think the silent majority is silent anymore, I believe it is ANGRY!!! Gone are the days of conservatives just going back to work and oh well. Gone are the days of well we’ll get them next time. Just look at all of the school board meetings that are erupting, we haven’t heard that ever! Pence got booed at a conservative conference. Lindsay Graham was harassed at an airport. Election audits are happening and it is spreading. People want the truth, people want honesty and we want the government to work for us not the government.

Shortly after taking office Biden set the goal of 70% of America getting the “vaccine” by July 4th, that goal was not met. The last figure I saw was about 45% of Americans fully “vaccinated”. All of the ads on the radio, T.V. and billboards did not do it’s job. Hell we aren’t even seeing them or hearing them anymore. Enter plan “B” go door to door to get the word out, what could go wrong.

So the only door to door situation I could think of, was Paul Revere’s ride, the British are coming. A little deeper dive into some research pulled up a 1901 small pox outbreak in the Boston area. There were 1596 cases and 270 died. The local government did go door to door to vaccinate people. It was not mandatory and if you didn’t you got a $5 dollar fine. There was a legal case involved in this instance. Jacobson v. Massachusetts which has been cited a few times by the Supreme Court.

I did come across a script to be used in North Carolina for the door to door, hey get the “vaccine”. Be polite, respect social distancing. State the facts that the shot is effective and safe. I can take down any questions you have and have a medical professional contact you. Here is the number for you to call, yourself. Once you get the hang of this, make it your own, put your spin on it, just get the facts out. Tell them the owner of the building invited you in if you are confronted. Remember you are doing good work here, you are helping people and getting the message out.

The front line doctors, yes it a thing, are a group of doctors and nurses that oppose the use of the “vaccine”. Last year they came out supporting hydroxychloroquine and just like President Trump they were black balled and silenced. Banned from Twitter, Facebook and You Tube. More and more doctors and nurses keep joining that group because of the cancel culture involved in speaking out. The Epoch Times covered a nurse who quit her job and basically lost her parents because she has questions about the “vaccine”.

Here is my take. Why is there this huge push to take the shot? It is not FDA approved. It is being used by emergency use authorization. Like many things the government is involved in, could it come down to money and who gets it? If you wonder why people are hesitant all you need to do is look at Fauci. He has flipped flopped over everything during this whole process. Now we have seen emails of his that look criminal in nature. We have just about a 99% survival rate of Sars-Covid 2. Mask effectiveness has come into question. People have questions and lies have pervaded this whole process. The truth is out there and those in charge are keeping it from us. There is no trust in the Media, there is no trust in the government. The more you keep pushing the more we distrust you. The government has been tone deaf on Sars-Covid 2 from the beginning. So send your people door to door and you will find it will fall on deaf ears as well.

In a shocking turn of events, the Democrats are blaming the Republicans for wanting to defund the police. I guess they think we have short term memory loss. Jen Psaki referred the press to Biden’s 1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that Republicans did not pass. She said there were monies earmarked for struggling cities that needed police help. Well come to find out in that infrastructure bill the police are not mentioned at all. A complete and utter lie!!

Let’s do a little review. Minneapolis May 25,2020. George Floyd died while in custody of the police. The mayor Democrat. City council largely Democrat, they voted unanimously to defund the police and don’t forget Minneapolis burned for a couple of weeks. June 20,2020 Seattle, Washington, remember the CHAZ/CHOP. This also in response of George Floyd’s death. Six blocks of Seattle was occupied by BLM an Antifa wanting to defund the police. Jenny Durkan the Democrat Mayor called it the summer of love, yet two people were shot and killed in the zone of love. The city council is mostly Democrat. June 12, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia. Rayshard Brooks was shot by a police officer and killed near a Wendy’s, which was burned to the ground in the riots/ protests. Atlanta was already ahead of the curve of defunding the police and moving money into other agencies. New York City cut $ 1 billion from the police. Philadelphia cut $ 33 million, Washington D.C. cut $15 million, Baltimore cut $22 million and Los Angeles cut $ 50 million from the police budget.

So who would be the high profile folks in Congress and above that called for defunding the police? Only one way to find out, research! Joe Biden said he supported reallocating police resources during his campaign. Kamala Harris said “I applaud Eric Garrcetti” for defunding the Los Angeles police. Biden’s Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh proposed a budget to divert funding from law enforcement. Rep. Val Demings  called the Minneapolis City Council “very thoughtful” for voting to dismantle the police. Rep. Maxine Waters told protestors to get ” more confrontational” with the police. Rep. Ilhan Omar called for dismantling  the Minneapolis Police Department. House Majority Whip James Clyburn compared  federal law enforcement to the Nazi Gestapo. He later ignored looting and arson in D.C., the only violence he saw in D.C. was from police. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  stood by her calls to reallocate funds away from police while saying the crime surge is just “hysteria.” Rep. Ayanna Pressley said she still supports defunding the police. So the one and only question you need to ask at this point is what is the party affiliation of all these folks, you only need one guess, Democrat. Let me write it again DEMOCRAT!

Here is my take. This is the same game the Democrats play year after year. They think we are that stupid. Whatever is damaging to their party suddenly becomes the detriment to the other party just by talking about it all the time repeatedly over and over. The media will run all of these clips and talk about them repeatedly as well. Suddenly when the “polls” come out and we asked America, Republicans are responsible for whatever weekly disaster facing us. To put the cherry on top, the people running the polls pretty much only ask Democrats who will follow the party leadership lock, stock and barrel. Once you know and understand the game they play, you can’t ever not see the game play by the Democrats. Serve yourself and your family, do your own research.

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So Biden has been in office 122 days and from my estimation things have gone to sh*t very quickly! The Constitution states: to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings to ourselves and our posterity.

To establish justice. We still have Sars Covid 2 looming overhead. Fauci’s emails have become public and if you read them, it is my thinking that Fauci and his agency helped create the virus and then conspired to conceal it from the public. The Chinese let it out. Fauci in 2017 directly said at Georgetown University that this administration “WILL” not may face a pandemic. Look it up! Where is the justice, the administration has not limited his engagements to the public. Seems business as usual.

To ensure domestic tranquility. The phrase “insure domestic tranquility” was our founders’ commitment to preserve civil peace so that everyone could live their lives without fear of social strife. Yet domestic tranquility literally means “peace at home” – not just in our streets, but in our homes. So President Trump offered help to Portland and Minneapolis during the Floyd riots, they declined, not his authority. The Biden administration being Democrat you would think the democrat run cities I just mentioned would welcome the help now, not the case. Let it burn apparently!

Provide for the common defense. You would think this would be straight forward, not this administration. Shut down the border wall construction, day one. Basically give the world an open invitation to run thru our borders. Lift restrictions on a Russian to Germany pipeline, that pipeline is good, the Keystone pipeline is bad, got it!! Lift sanctions on Iranian terrorists, you know, they chant death to America, that’s ok they are our friends. Re-enter the Iran nuclear deal, what could go wrong with that, Iran only published a fabricated Congress building blowing up at their hands.

Promote the general welfare and secure the blessings to ourselves and our posterity. So tell me how is gas at $3.15 a gallon helping the general welfare of the public at large? How is continuing extended unemployment benefits at the cost to taxpayers helping with the general welfare when there are 9 million open jobs, most ever? How is exploding inflation going to help the posterity of future generations of this country. Inflation will only erode the foundation of the country going forward. This administration is printing money which will only skyrocket inflation and send us into a recession. How does that promote the general welfare?

Here is my take. Please you 81 million strong who voted for Biden, step up and tout the benefits of all of these flawed policies. We are waiting, time is ticking!! President Trump’s speech at the GOP convention in North Carolina drew more watchers than any of Biden’s press conferences combined over the last three months! Where is the President for everyone as he claimed to be? This is not an administration, it is a farce. The United States of America is the laughing stock of the world right now. Biden even in the last couple of days has been mocked by his peers on the world stage at the G7 summit, laughed at, as he would say, come on man!!

Dr. Fauci the man who has been in charge of the infectious diseases arm of the government for some 40 years is in hot water. A FOIA request of his emails has turned up a treasure trove of information regarding him and his colleagues. This also brings to light a lot of the Sars-Covid 2 propaganda we have been thru in the last year.

The Freedom Of Information Act request dumped some 3200 emails between Fauci his co-workers, other government officials, outside sources and some network T.V. requests. I personally went thru some of the emails, no time to sit through all 3200. The ego on this guy for the job he does, what a piece of work. Someone sent him an email with links to what MSM shows he was on that day, his reply was don’t forget these other shows I was on that particular day. Another email that struck me was from a woman asking for his advice on masks or something, the response included how he was working 24/7 with no break. Well looking thru the emails he could have had a break but with all the requests to do T.V. that he accepted, know wonder he didn’t have a break!!

In 2005 his office offered up a paper that lauded the results of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as treatments for Sars types of diseases and coronaviruses. If you remember correctly President Trump also praised these drugs at the beginning of the pandemic. The media and Fauci lambasted these drugs as ineffective and un-tested. In the case of hydroxychloroquine, it is a drug used to treat malaria and has been used for 60 years. Another paper Fauci and his cronies sent out is the ineffectiveness of masks stopping the spread of airborne viruses. Now these would be the general run of the mill masks that were widely used by the public in the last year. I even wrote about the size of the virus, .125 microns and the mask will stop particles ranging from .30 microns to .50 microns. Fauci in the beginning wanted no masks, then one, then two, all lies, complete and utter lies!!

Here is my take. Dr. Fauci is a self serving fraud. A life long bureaucrat who thinks he has the answers. This man needs to be arrested and charged with treason and crimes against humanity. Money from his institute has been tracked to the Wuhan Institute for years. His lies about the origin of Sars Covid 2 are seeing the light of day. It was man made and he helped to cover it up. Crimes against humanity are certain acts that are purposely committed as part of a widespread or systematic policy, directed against civilians, in times of war or peace. In my estimation this fits the bill. The millions of lives affected by this P.O.S. are crimes against humanity. I can only hope the souls of these people haunt him the rest of his life.

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, a day set aside to remember those that sacrificed their lives in order for this country and the Constitution to survive. In my younger years I was guilty of hey another day off! As the years have peeled away from my life, Memorial Day has become more solemn and reflective.

George Washington and the Continental Army crossing the Delaware River into Trenton to surprise the British during winter. The battle of Antietam during the Civil War, one of the bloodiest ever. The battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War also very bloody. The massive trenches dug that would entrench both sides during World War I. The battle of the Bulge in World War II. The battles in and around the 38th parallel during the Korean War. The soldiers who were evacuating people from Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. The Marines who lost their lives in Beirut in 1982. Desert Storm. Desert Shield. Benghazi. The list is endless of those who fought to protect this country.

These days of me, me, me lots of people don’t have a clue of these points in time I listed. I did not need a goggle search to know of these events. They are ingrained in my brain from history classes in school or from the news, when it reported the news. The massive loss of life to push back tyranny in many forms, from socialists to communists is staggering. The likes of AOC saying January 6th was equivalent to war shows how little people know or understand the meaning of what war actually is and what the meaning of Memorial Day means.

Here is my take. As Edmund Burke said, “those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” History needs to be taught, the evil things of war need to be taught. The failings of socialism and communism need to be taught. There are roughly 100 million deaths related to socialism and communism. These two failed ideologies are at our doorstep and our leaders are opening the door and walking right through it with open arms to embrace Marx, Stalin and Mao. We need a history reminder right now! Tomorrow I salute those brave men and women who gave their lives that gave me a history lesson not soon forgot. God bless them all.

Thanks to Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, it seems the pressure to re-open states fully is becoming too much to bear for some of the tyrannical governors out in the United States. Here in Ohio DeWine has taken to outright bribery to get folks to get the “vaccine”. About a month ago there was a get your shot day at the stadium where the Cincinnati Bengals play right smack dab in downtown Cincinnati and nobody showed up. Now dig-dong is offering $1 million a week for 5 weeks for those who get the “vaccine”.

The CDC lifted the mask mandate for those with the “vaccine”. The left is freaking out because they want the “vaccine” passports to recognize who is and who isn’t “vaccinated”. We have to trust that the public does the right thing, has been a rally cry for the passports. Some states have already banned “vaccine” passports. It took only a day and a half here in Cincinnati for the biggest supermarket chain, Kroger, to fold on it’s own mask mandate. All of it’s competitors dumped the mask mandate for the “vaccinated”.

The media is going out of it’s way to talk about the “vaccinated” and “unvaccinated”. CNN had their “man on the street” segment in Times Square, they talked about how everyone in the crew was “vaccinated” for at least 3 or 4 minutes before they got to any interview of the regular folk. The parents were “vaccinated” and the kids were not, parents no masks kids had masks on. “Well as you know kids under a certain age are not eligible for the “vaccine” was the reporters comment to the parents and camera. The parents then lamented on how their kids couldn’t take the masks off for fear of catching Sars-Covid 2.

Here is my take. If our elected leaders would see what was going on in the actual public arena, these mandates would have dropped weeks ago. The public in general has dropped the mask about three weeks ago. If the cases Sars-Covid2 keep dropping and there are less and less masks being worn, wouldn’t the opposite happen? Shouldn’t cases have jumped because of the “unvaccinated”, after all aren’t the “unvaccinated” the scourge of the planet right now. Come on Governor DeWine had to bribe people to get “vaccinated” because people that wanted the shot got it already. The numbers of people getting the shot had dropped dramatically since it’s inception. To bring this home, what is the definition of a vaccine. From Webster’s Dictionary- A preparation of a killed or weakened virus or bacteria used in vaccinating to induce immunity to a disease. Fauci is talking of booster shots for Sars-Covid 2 in the future, but isn’t this a vaccine? I had a shot for the mumps, I had a shot for polio, I have never needed a booster shot to suppress these viruses. They still are out there, like the flu, you can’t kill them. The flu can mutate which is why there is a flu shot out there every year. They guess what strain will rear it’s ugly head and that is the flu shot that is presented to the masses every year. The Media and government is presenting the Sars-Covid 2 shot as a vaccine, it is not in the true sense. It is, in the end, a manipulation of the word vaccine, not approved by the FDA. Welcome to the petri dish known as the planet Earth.