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We’re always living in history, of course, but there are times when we’re more aware of it than usual.
In the years after 9/11 – two terms of Bush, and then two terms of Obama – America seemed increasingly adrift. Or, if not adrift, then in the process of being transported by some ungovernable current toward a thoroughly undesirable destination.
Supposedly because of 9/11, we were fighting and funding two wars that increasingly seemed to have little or nothing to do with 9/11. Indeed, as 9/11 receded further and further into the past, and yet continued, in a way, to define America in the 21st century, more and more of us found ourselves feeling, whether or not we were willing to admit it, that – despite President Bush’s fatuous statement on the evening of September 11, 2001, that the terrorists had lost – the terrorists had, in some sense, won.
For whatever else we knew or didn’t know or were confused about, we sensed that we were living in a very different America from the one that Al-Qaeda had attacked on that late summer’s day. It was an America infected, to an extent not seen since the 1930s and then again in the 1960s and early 70s, by radical ideology; an America torn by racial divisions that we thought we’d overcome; an America that sought answers but didn’t see any sign of them in either of our major political parties, which in one election after another could seem almost indistinguishable in their platforms and priorities.
Then along came, of all people, Donald Trump.
Who could have expected that he would make all the difference? After all, he’d been around for a long time. He was a fixture of my New York childhood. Long before The Apprentice, my aunt wrote him fan letters – I think because she admired what his building projects had done to help bring a dying city back to life. (In response to her first letter, she got an autographed picture.)
Me, I never had any strong opinions about him one way or the other. When he announced for president in 2015, I thought it was a publicity stunt. He was good at publicity stunts. But as I watched him knock off one opponent after another in the GOP debates, I was increasingly impressed.
Eventually it got to the point where I realized that I’d never been so emotionally involved in a presidential race. Yes, I’d cheered Reagan’s victory over the sanctimonious Carter, whom I’d despised at first glance. I’d stood in a long line to vote for Clinton in 1992, because I despised the Bushes and because I’d believed in Clinton’s soon-to-be-broken promises to gay Americans.
But Bush (senior) v. Dukakis? Bush (junior) v. Gore? Bush (junior) v. Kerry? Honestly, how much light was there between any of these pairs of mediocrities? And however much one despised Obama, how excited could one get over the alternatives, McCain and Romney?
The advent of Trump was an eye-opener. It made me, and millions more, realize there was a possibility of a real choice. We were so accustomed to politicians who sounded alike – and who didn’t sound anything like human beings – that we responded to Trump as if to an electric shock.
He was human. He was real. He wasn’t one of the careerist hacks we’d become used to when election time came around. He was a billionaire who’d dipped his toe into these dirty waters because he saw that America was headed in the wrong direction and realized that things were getting too urgent for him not to do anything about it.
He actually spoke about problems that we, the voters, were concerned about – and that presidential candidates before him had rarely if ever touched on. In fact, by talking about certain issues he reminded us that, damn it, these were the things that mattered to us. And he made us realize that candidates before him, all of them members of the political establishment, had deliberately diverted and deceived and divided us by speaking repeatedly of non-issues – of matters that they could use to inflame us but that really had no impact whatsoever on our own everyday lives or the future of our children and of our country.
I, for one, had never felt so strongly about a politician before. (The closest I’d come was with Rudy Giuliani.) And Trump’s presidency confirmed my belief in him. When they came after him with the Russia accusations and other transparent attempts to bring him down, I knew at once that it was all nonsense. And when he purportedly lost in 2020, I didn’t buy that either.
Now he’s headed for another term, and instead of surrounding himself with cabinet picks who are predictable Deep Staters, he’s assembled a Dream Team of brilliant, fearless Americans from outside the Beltway most of whom, like him, are people who, if they were selfish, would never go near government work, but who, because they’re genuinely patriotic, are every bit as determined as he is to drain the swamp and hand the country back to its rightful owners.
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, Tom Homan, Tulsi Gabbard, Elise Stefanik, Mike Huckabee, Jay Bhattacharya: to ponder an administration consisting of names like these is to see something that looks not like a typical presidential team of recent years – composed of conventional insiders with what in Norway, where I live, are known as A4 résumés (think of the decidedly non-stellar George H.W. Bush’s stellar-looking CV) – but that looks more, dare I say it, like (dare I say it?) the Founding Fathers.
Like millions of other Trump supporters, I look forward to seeing him and his splendid, determined team take apart what needs to be taken apart and build what needs to be built. I look forward to seeing them restore to us an America that would be recognizable to their great predecessors who ratified the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. And I look forward to the day when our relatives and friends who’ve confidently parroted the villainous, insipid media rhetoric about Trump being a sexist, a racist, and a Nazi will finally be forced by the sheer weight of reality to snap out of their delusions and recognize that the man whom they despised and rejected so intensely has turned out to be one of the Republic’s great presidents – a deliverer of peace and prosperity and a champion of freedom.
On this Thanksgiving, I’m extraordinarily grateful for the prospect of that glorious redemption.
Bidens last Thanksgiving in the Oval Office
And speaking of Biden’s potential pardons……did he even bother to pardon a Turkey?
Pardon the Turkey but Hunter Biden should Face the Music
Couldn’t agree more, Mr Bawer. Happy Thanksgiving!
Yes. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
You haven’t said anything at all about the fact that the Deep State is right now trying to get the US into a nuclear war with Russia and that would destroy the American economy and thus destroy Trump.
Because Trump has a plan to arrest the corrupt FBI and CIA agents who are the Deep State’s allies.
Those people prefer to die in a nuclear destruction instead of spending 20 years in jail.
From a cultural point of view today a multitude of Evangelicals are leaving Christianity.It is called ”deconstruction”. No less than 75% of all Evangelicals between 18-29.
The most influential ex-Evangelical youtube channel is by a Canadian. His channel is called Paulogia. They point out the Bible has real errors. Like Ezekiel 26 to 29 where it is said TYRE would be utterly destroyed. But the 13 year siege of Tyre by Nebuchadnezar failed. Then Ezekiel admits he was wrong and says Nebuchadnezar would conquer EGYPT. He invaded it but failed.
However the deconstructed never ever mention the astonishing scientific evidence that the Shroud of Turin is authentic. That was a red flag for me. They tell us with convincing documentary evidence that it seems Jesus was never put in a cave but rather under ground.For them the EMPTY TOMB (body missing in a cave) was invented. However the Shroud of Turin proves it was in a cave. They can’t argue against it so they ignore it.
For an unbiased analysis check out Dr John Campbell.He is famous for his videos proving the anticovid vaccine is a fraud and dangerous.He analyzed the evidence about the shroud here,watched by 723,000 in 4 weeks:
“Those people prefer to die in a nuclear destruction instead of spending 20 years in jail.”
That’s where you’re wrong. They plan to survive a nuclear war in what’s called a DUMB (Deep Underground Military Base) and there are dozens of them scattered around the US. The military started building them in the mid 1950s after the advent of nuclear weapons. Only top military and government officials have access to them for the purpose of Continuity Of Government (aka, COG.)
The plan is that someone will have to restart the government once the conflict is over. and the radiation has fallen to tolerable levels. Unfortunately, we the American people do not factor in their overall COG plans in any significant way (the government has its priorities that come first.). We the people are just statistical data (i.e., 3 people dead is a tragedy. Hundreds dead is a statistic.)
Out of a population of 350+ million people, 300 million (give or take a few million) people dead, statistically speaking, is an acceptable loss and in fact has certain desired advantages.
Well, they will inherit a burned out world where food cannot be grown and their gourmet treats and. designer garments and jewelry are no longer produced. All the things they enjoy will be gone.
So, if that is their plan and Putin or Kim Jing Un is stupid enough to kill himself killing us (Which I doubt) let them fry of radiation and never see the light of day. Sounds like almost as good an outcome as the one `Mussolini received.
But, Id much prefer to `Mussolini them now before they nuke the. world.
“they will inherit a burned out world where food cannot be grown….” That’s not true at all. Science is far more advanced than what your comment implies.
Growing flora requires a particular spectrum of light. Any well stocked hardware store sells grow lamps, i.e., incandescent light bulbs, that emits the spectrum of light necessary for plant photosynthesis. Such incandescent bulbs can even be bought from Amazon.
The rest is a matter of getting the soil pH, nutrient mix and soil bacteria just right which is a well understood science and can be relatively easy to do. The only other issue is finding uncontaminated soil free of dangerous radioactive decay particles. Such soil can be found at high latitudes or near the poles and on remote islands.
Where is the food lighting, the e- power coming from?
Nuclear war would result in a shut-down of the energy grid. (EMP anyone?)
There would not be any winners.
COG would be irrelevant….
I agree. Kill those motherfucuckers now.
On board with Trump the moment he came down the escalator, I still am. He is the “progressive slayer”,
Now all Trump and his cabinet have to do is survive the next 4 years, implement policy and pass it along to the next MAGA crew.
Trump was the first time I voted for a president since GW Bush the first time around. I didn’t vote for him a 2nd time and left the republican in the middle of his 1st term out of disgust and contempt for RINOs and neocons and registered as an independent.
I didn’t vote for RINO McCain and there was no way in hell was I ever going to vote for Romney, a liberal democrat who republicans naively allowed to run as their presidential candidate. I wasn’t stupid or ignorant nor do I have any loyalty, then and now, to a party.
“THE NATIONAL DAY OF MOURNING!” TheRedNation.org, based here in Albuquerque, was successful in changing Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day and I predicted their next mission was changing Thanksgiving and now it’s gaining ground with a protest at Plymouth Rock today. They now support HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH, BLM… they ARE The Enemy Within and COMMUNISTS by their own admission in their Mission Statement. (I know them. Recruitment at UNM. Hardcore radicals!
Go to the link to see who this group is. They deleted their mission statement, but I found a portion of it on my pages. This is one paragraph out of two pages (I know I put many paragraphs here several times but where to find it now that they don’t put it on their page:
“REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM:
Third General Assembly formally adopts revolutionary socialism and liberation as the primary political ideology of The Red Nation. While incomplete, the purpose of this proposal is to articulate the basic principles of revolutionary socialism and Marxism and its connection to Indigenous socialism and communism.”
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“Indigenous.” What a load of shit. It’s not like any of us believe that about those invaders.
We thank The Lord this ThanksGiving 2024 for this .
Democrats will lay traps every second of everyday ,24/7/365×4 . Trump needs a team to police the FraudOcrats every move .
And so will the establishment RINOs. They loathe and despise Trump just as much as the democrats if not more. In fact, RINOs will lead the way in covertly undermining Trump and thwarting his plans at every fortuitous opportunity with the full support and backing of democrats.
Count on it. It’s already begun.
The beauty, majesty and magnificence of America and the American people. Having allowed ourselves to long be bent in the direction of authoritarian rule by a group of permanent, controlling malcontents, we the people were witnesses to Trump’s first term in office. We saw him keep the promises he made to all Americans, and the lies, lies, lies from those frothing at the mouth with hatred to destroy him.
The endless perversions of the we-hate-everything leftists, DEI, and their no longer disguised desires for the complete “transformation” of America into a communist-Marxist hellhole met with the deeply held values of most Americans unwilling to tolerate their determined destruction of our country.
We watched as federal offices became weapons of law-fare, destroying innocent people for their unwillingness to accept these illegal encroachments, and egregious violations of our inalienable rights and Constitution.
Today, we give thanks to G-d Almighty, to ALL people of patriotism and hope, to a very special man, Donald Trump, our President elect, for withstanding everything done to destroy him and his strength, courage, love and commitment to America and her people!!
Trump won.
The Turkey 🦃 lost.
But not before Willie Brown stuffed her.
Montel Williams added the gravy!!
I had the enormous good fortune to meet Donald Trump in 2015 and chat with him. I didn’t have any opinion of him nor had I watched his TV show but as. NYer I knew him from the skyline and celebrity pages of local papers. But i have never cared much about celebrities. I simply said “hello “ to him because I was in a restaurant in a club he owned and there he was.
I am in a position to know what I am talking about. At a glance, I understood that this was a brilliant man. He was kindly, down to earth. friendly and nothing like what I thought a multi billionaire would be like. It was impossible not to like him. He looked youthful and was fit and slim back then. He talked to me because he obviously loves people and just loves to connect. I took note that he was rather handsome and had the most beautiful porcelain skin (later the ‘orange man’ misnomer and orange FOX TV filters would amaze and annoy me). I wrote to my family and told them that I had met Trump and he was my new BFF. Ha!
As soon as he announced for president, I supported him as a real, warm, and brilliant person our country needed.
What a strange ride it has been since then!
Happy thanksgiving! .Thankful to have president elect Trump!
Did you know that Trump’s uncle, Dr. John G. Trump, was a world renown physicist/electrical engineer and a professor at MIT?
Shortly after Nikola Tesla (arguably the greatest inventor in human history) died, the US government brought in Dr. Trump to examine Tesla’s research papers and notebooks. Most of it ended up with the NRO and later, with DARPA and decades later, is still classified above top secret.
Ha ha Haw! 🙂 ………..
Couldn’t believe Obama ascended to the presidency saying he is ashamed to be an American. This very
un-American foundational campaign statement in 2008 made me feel that a foreign agent hostile to the United States was about to infiltrate the White House and bring down America. That is what happened. Sporting an arrogant, impenetrable veneer, he fabricated a culture of divisiveness in the land of e pluribus unum and in God we trust. Most incomprehensible is the mind job he and his proxies have done on millions of citizens, stoking fear, violence, hatred and a whole lot of cognitive dissonance.
Trump is the guy who is proud to be an American. He truly knows thankfulness after experiencing God’s grace in Butler, Pa. Everything flows from that. God bless America.
2015. I retired. I moved to Scottsdale and worked at a Home Depot there. (a great retiree job!)
One of my customers, she was from NY, told me Trump knows how to get things done.
She was correct.
Career pol Old Joe had fifty years to make a name for himself. Oh Yes he did. But not for any political or positive, accomplishments. Ask the waitress he, and Sen Ed K. and Dodd assaulted. …and all the moms and daughters he hair sniffed and grabbed…. I’d of knocked that creep out if he touched my daughter. USSS may have tackled me. But the video of his filth would be there forever….