As a three-time Trump voter, I have spent these six months of his presidency being critical of his unconstitutional actions. I expected it all along, of course, because practically all presidents, members of Congress and the judicial branch violate it in ways few citizens realize. But unfortunately, he has exceeded my expectations. He needs and must be subject to criticism, and happily he has been getting it with his blasting of Iran and passage of the “Big, Beautiful Bill.”
This was as expected from the Left, but more importantly it is now coming from his most principled supporters, who are usually characterized as “hard-line conservatives.” For myself, I prefer being called a “hard-line constitutionalist.” Like the term “liberal,” the term “conservative” has lost its meaning, and the definition varies from hour to hour, and from topic to topic.
Trump’s BBB is loaded with things that strict constitutionalists would applaud. However, like all omnibus bills, much of it does the opposite. The cry “Unconstitutional!” is used by both parties when it suits their purpose, even while they themselves do violence to it. Once a hard-liner compromises devotion to the Constitution, they will forever be branded with the accusation of hypocrisy.
So, now we see Elon Musk, Trump’s former ally, forming a new “America Party.” He is following in the footsteps of George Wallace in 1968, John Anderson in 1980, Ross Perot in 1992, and many others. Wallace was a states’ rights candidate with a racist reputation, Anderson a RINO who was likely acting on his own impulses and Perot was a “fiscal conservative” who may have very well been chosen by the Deep State to draw votes from the Deep Stater/CIA agent George Bush. If that sounds inconsistent, think again. Bill Clinton was anointed by the Deep State back in his teens, as was Obama. Likely Bush the First was playing along for window dressing.
A “fiscal conservative” is what Musk can be identified as. That is a code word for “pro-abortion.” It means you want a balanced budget, which would make like-minded citizens feel better, who do not realize where the true causes of the bloated bureaucracy and “national debt” lie with the private Federal Reserve Bank, which is pretty much the same thing as the “Deep State.” We can gauge Musk’s own devotion to the Constitution by seeing if he wants to rid us of “The Fed.”
Salvation does not come from Donald Trump or Elon Musk. Nor any political party. Whatever temporary corrections they can fashion, they will not stand with us when we die. They can’t. Our true future lies beyond the grave.
Fiscal conservatism draws people who are fed up with inflation, the shadow bureaucracy’s control of our country, the national debt and selected violations of the Constitution. “Selected” because, aside from Ron Paul, just about every president or would-be president since Grover Cleveland defines “constitutional” as whatever the supreme court has OK’d, or builds upon the violations of previous presidents and Congresses that have gone unchecked.
Abortion is the Great Engine of despair and lunacy. It is why we will soon have an under-population, employment and supply-chain crisis. It is one of the reasons we have had a traitorous Open Border policy.
It is why millions of psychologically harmed people roam the culture, exploding into untold avenues of homelessness, despair, violence, anger, assassinations, homosexuality, lewd transgender gyrations, bestiality, chain-link marriages, dysfunctional families, religious hop-scotching, step-fathers, step-mothers, step-children, IVF conceptions of unknown ancestry, shacking up, and jamming drugs (prescribed or not) and vaccines into ourselves within the many re-combined families.
If you don’t see the connection, then here it is: once we deny the obvious, that the unborn child is fully human, we can go pretty much anywhere with a fertile imagination. We can demonize Nazis and Communists for their mass-murdering reputations, even while we fashion a statistical body count that eclipses their own. We can decry Nazi and Communist propaganda but at the same time intentionally suppress the images and voices, the ones that desire our culture to make a self-correction.
Whatever Musk does with his new party, whatever recruits he can attract with his own money, it will ultimately fail because he cannot see the forest for the trees that get in the way.
And the government will NEVER fix this cultural mess, only religion can do that. A moral discipline has been lacking ever since contraception became acceptable a hundred years ago with Margaret Sanger. It was sold because she told us, through Planned Parenthood, that it would lead to stronger families. And it looked OK for a while, but now the bill has come due.
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Coupled with this is the need to take Christ’s words seriously about divorce-and-remarriage. Check the statistics: marriages that do not use contraception have a much lower divorce rate. If you never knew that, chalk it up to yet another case of media suppression.
Truly, the family is the cell of a society. It can be torn apart with the emasculation of the Dad, who has been shunted into irrelevance. Then we will find children who cannot make an identity, other than what their movies, TV, and cell-phone images tell them. Without really understanding the cause, they are ANGRY. There is nothing they can rely upon. They can expect no inheritance, whether it be the dignity that even a poor family’s self-respect can possess, or whatever wealth the middle or upper classes have accumulated.
Salvation does not come from Donald Trump or Elon Musk. Nor any political party. Whatever temporary corrections they can fashion, they will not stand with us when we die. They can’t. Our true future lies beyond the grave.
There is nothing more certain than death. There is nothing more strict than Judgment. There is nothing more terrible than hell. There is nothing more peaceful than Heaven.
Once that Truth permeates a sufficient number of people in our culture, by the influence of religion, our temporal lives will become more bearable. And the only reason for a more bearable life in this fallen world is not to enjoy life, as an end in itself, but to prepare us for the one to come.
The views expressed here are those of the author.
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Bird, you reached a new level of absurdity. You wrote: “Abortion is the Great Engine of despair and lunacy. …
It is why millions of psychologically harmed people roam the culture, exploding into untold avenues of homelessness, despair, violence, anger, assassinations, homosexuality, lewd transgender gyrations, bestiality, chain-link marriages, dysfunctional families, religious hop-scotching, step-fathers, step-mothers, step-children, IVF conceptions of unknown ancestry, shacking up, and jamming drugs (prescribed or not) and vaccines into ourselves within the many re-combined families.” I guess the only response is to ask you to prove a link between abortion and just one of those maladies.
Looks like this column hit the root canal nerve. Good. Left Fielders are unaware of the facts that prolifers have known for decades. This is not the website for you, unless you can take the needed medicine. The Left is recognizably unhinged, and defends its turf with their best weapon: the sympathy of the Democratic Party’s propaganda arms in mainstream medicine and mainstream journalism. This website exists to let people know a different opinion. An opinion column is not a Master’s Degree white paper. To expect a long list of footnoted proofs that you want, is itself an absurdity. You have missed out on a lifetime of truth. If you believed what the AMA, NIH, PP, NEJM, said about Covid was truthful, then you will also believe their lies about abortion and mental health. I have had many post-abortion women on my radio show tell the truth about their mental sufferings, and there is a mountain of scholarship from prolife sources that will refute the lies the Left thinks is “science”.
Guess I’m not surprised you couldn’t or wouldn’t answer my simple question. You’re a religious person that questions science. That puts you at a great disadvantage in understanding the world. A scientific approach would likely dispel any connection between abortion and homosexuality or any of the other scary things you list. But to MAGAs, that’s no fun. Much more fun to insult and lie and scream naughty words at the Left.
wow! Bob. I dont always agree with you, but you definitely go it correct this time. Thank you for a great comment. Unfortunately, few will agree with you
Musk is definitely confused on any number of topics emanating from the reality of the human person, but do you think the blasting of Iran was unconstitutional, or simply worthy of criticism?
The reading of Ecclesiastes will confirm this.
“……..Perot was a “fiscal conservative” who may have very well been chosen by the Deep State to draw votes from the Deep Stater/CIA agent George Bush. If that sounds inconsistent, think again………”
I thought again. I still think you’ve lost your mind.
Elect me President. Business proposition, pure and simple. Now, see here, President Bush gets $200,000 a year – forget it! If I’m President, we get 0% growth, you don’t pay me nothing. 1% growth? Hell, a chimpanzee could run this country and make 1% growth! So you don’t pay me dime one. Got my own plane, don’t need Air Force One. State Dinners? I’ll pay it, it’s nothing to me, sand on the beach! Now, don’t worry about ol’ Ross Perot, I got $3 billion back at home.
Now, here’s the deal. Here’s what I’m trying to tell you. 3% growth in our economy, $120 billion growth in our GNP – I get a billion dollars. Now, think about it, that’s a bargain! You’re up $119 billion. I’m telling you, 2.99% growth, I don’t see a penny, not one red cent. But don’t feel sorry for me – I got $3 billion. I’m gonna be fine.
Now, this here’s a business proposition. Now, see, 4% growth, you pay me $20 billion. The way I see it, you’re ahead $140 billion, see? Now, this ain’t no golden parachute, this isn’t the President GM giving himself a big bonus when the company’s losing money sending jobs to Mexico. I get my money if and when you get yours.
Now, 5% growth, I get $50 billion. Everybody’s happy, see? See, that’s it, it’s all right there just laid out on the table, you can take it or leave it, I don’t care. I’m gonna do fine, I got $3 billion sitting in the bank.
Have another drink, Ross.
The first Presidential election I was old enough to vote in was in 1980. I wasn’t that fond of Jimmy Carter, and I REALLY didn’t like Ronald Reagan. I remember thinking that if I voted for Carter and Reagan won, I would have thrown away my vote. Or if I voted for Reagan and CARTER won, I would have thrown away my vote. On the other hand, I liked what I was hearing from John Anderson, who ran as an Independent, so I decided to throw away my vote on him. And as it turned out, he got near 7 percent of the popular vote. He seemed like a really reasonable guy. In any case, there’s no was a “third party” is going to succeed in the United States, mainly because the entrenched two-party establishment, state by state, has stacked the deck against anyone except Democrats and Republicans.
Definition: Faith
A staunch belief absent any supporting evidence.
Heaven, hell, judgement, Jesus, Completely made up by some jew long ago. Drop the voodoo level nonsense and life becomes less cloudy.
…and that muck about abortion is crazy talk. I get it, killing a fetus is a tough subject to enjoy however, eliminating Ms. Sanger’s solution means there would be a monstrous volume of societal trash foisted upon the next generation by selfish religious nutbars within the current generation. Ask yourself; how many kids have you adopted? That’s correct Bob, the number is zero. When that is the case you’re not part of the solution you’re just another complainer. And we’re to infer that your use of the word “temporal” means you know something of a future that again you cannot know anything about. The inside of your head is chock full of fairy tales, scary tales, and conspiracy theories. It is shameful that you share them as known data points. Life is not meant to be lived based on fictional dreck and that includes Norse mythology, Indigenous People’s sky spirits as well as biblical pap.
Wakey wake, Bob. Coffee’s on.
Voo-doo nonsense? Men can become women and women can become men? The unborn child is not fully human? Go visit a different website, but perhaps you are paid to troll this one?
Bird. Can you explain men that lived to be over 800 years old during biblical times? Birth without intercourse? Snakes that talk? Angels and demons? An answer to just one of those questions would help out a lot of readers.
No Sir. I’m not paid to troll any site. I spent decades as a believer and it was only after careful study that I realized the value of faith. I’ve since chosen to be objective about anything I choose to inform others of and by comparison I am a voice of reason. Of the ten thousand or more religions in the world you are an atheist to all but one. They’re all crazy gibberish but for the one you’ve adopted, likely by force of parents when you were impressionable enough that stories of Santa, Easter Bunnies, the Tooth Fairy, Hanuman the Monkey God and the Devil were all plausible concepts. Were you to step back and view your beliefs objectively they’d instantly fail to pass any test and would rapidly fall into the category of crazy talk. Mohamed went to heaven on a winged horse and Jesus woke up after three days spent as a decomposing corpse? Lazarus? How old was Moses again? …and his wife did what? An Ark? Dominion over all (except any virus, bug or bacteria). Concepts like heaven and hell made sense when nearly the entire populace everywhere was illiterate and Catholicism opted to keep the great unwashed hoard civil with stories of eternal damnation or eternal reward. That works best in one of two scenarios; the audience must be medieval or prior with no understanding of earthquakes, wind, storm activity, biology, volcanic action, waves, planetary movements and science of any kind or, the audience needs to be incapable of making an informed choice on their own.
For those of us that are capable it’s repulsive to see mythology spattered around as fact particularly when there’s zero chance that any of it’s been vetted, ever. In almost every instance there’s an income connection of some kind. Contributions, tithes, support, donations, etc. Call it what you will but it’s fairy tales and scary tales for money.
Mormon underwear? You get your own planet? Priests can’t have a wife despite the ravages their natural and other inclinations have beset upon children (and of them a curiously disproportionate number indicating a homosexual interest). Ever seen a clothes line in what some call the holy land? You see a woman’s costume on that clothes line you’ll notice it has a strategically placed hole in it. Why does the Lord have so much interest in such things? Circumcision is necessary because some long dead jew knew better about what humanity needed than nature did? Why is it that Americans seem fine w/ circumcision of males but when the equally unusual practice of circumcising females is discussed somehow that Muslim practice is a comparative horror?
Now, surely you’re not just a complainer w/ zero strategic effort and you’re well aware that societal detritus rely disproportionately on Ms. Sanger’s services. Crack babies, fetal alcohol syndrome, infant drug dependency, retardation or simple genetic disfavor all are real. Tell us again, how many stranger’s children have you adopted, Bob?
And BTW, I never said anything about whatever trans nonsense you’ve injected into your response. You’ve confused me w/ someone else as I am the opposite and believe that you are whatever you were at birth and will remain so. Anything else is surgical makeup in an effort to make a homosexual attraction seem mainstream and legit.
I don’t put limits on God.
There’s no divine intervention. Ask yourself… if the historical record confirms that humans have been on earth for at least 100k years and by some benchmarks up to 250k years, how is it that God would have watched us all kill, maim, rape and conquer our fellow man for at least 98,000 years before deciding he’d seen enough, roughly 2,000 years ago?
Bad news, Bob; He didn’t. No immaculate conception, no angels and demons, no burning bushes with a message, no Daniel in the lion’s den, etc. It is ok to have beliefs however, proselytizing to others as fact things that cannot be true and then deciding that God has no limits sounds better than ‘yeah, that’s preposterous. I shouldn’t have said that” is disingenuous at best and that’s being generous.
When Bird says he doesn’t put limits on God, it means that he believes in magic, supernatural monkey business, impossibilities, contradictions.
How he and all religionists square that with the scientific method that they use 95% of day is curious.
Fun group. Death will reveal who’s right. Think that through a bit. The degrading of the sanctity of life has been a major downfall of our culture. No fault divorce, another travesty. The mantra of Christianity is Love. even if some fail, many don’t. The influence of that mantra has impact, positive impact. The Church needs to own its place in cultural decline. ALL Christian churches. If you bristle at that, your likely a big part of the problem.
There’s no such thing as sanctity of life. Thank that through a bit.
If you don’t understand that there’s no such thing you’re definitely part of the problem.
Note that there’s also no looming moral collapse. Things are better now than they ever have been at any point throughout history and if that seems suspect consider defining for yourself what moral collapse looks like. I’ll help you.
– You’re on a long walk outside of town when you encounter smoldering countryside and thousands of villagers on pikes, many of whom were shish kabob’d with a pike and apparently while still alive. Is that better or worse than a few f*gs dancing around and hoping to prey upon your son or daughter at homo library storybook hour?
– You assess the political climate and notice that your political leader has an odd to pronounce name, 1000 wives and concubines beyond number. Is that better or worse than the Big Beautiful Bill?
– You slipped in time and find yourself in born in 1878 Russia. Your father’s name is Besarion Jughashvili. He failed in business as a shoe repairman and is now a raging drunk that wails the living dog snot out of your mom constantly. Your three brothers and sisters each die in infancy and you grow up to be a civic leader largely known for having killed 60 million christians. Contrast that against a more modern person from Anchorage living in a climate where the mayor’s flag forces all around to acknowledge that though anal sex may have been the leading disease vector and cause of death among young men age 25-44 in the 80’s, she celebrates those committed to the brown eye and expects everyone promote and enjoy same.
– In the culture of the German Weimar Republic it was not unusual to encounter a Hebrew gentleman hoping to rent you his underage daughter in the shadow of the worlds first transexual clinic as ran by Magnus Hirschfeld, who since 1897 had run the world’s first homosexual organization. Drugs, crime, public homosexual congress and any form of debauchery was rampant. Would that have been a more or less moral culture than that of our current era?
Modern culture is not worse than that of our forebears. Not even close. Crack a history book.