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In the world of Substack where I have no idea what I am doing, I am finding consistency to be my best friend.
President Trump called the woman pictured below a “loser” for being captured. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DOGE ordered her service history to be deleted from the Department of Defense archives because she was “DEI” and “woke.”
Ruby Bradley was serving as an Amy nurse in the Philippines when she was taken prisoner just weeks after t…
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
Ronald Reagan choose to give his first speech after being nominated by the Republicans for president in 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. It was a racist dog whistle about states rights.
It worked!!
The dogs came running to slobber all over Reagan and turn him into an "American Patriot" for:
1. Lying about "fiscal responsibility" but actually leaving the US with 3.1 Trillion dollars of added debt over his 8 years (>5 Trillion in today's dollars), the first Presdent since WW II, at the time, to INCREASE the debt of the USA. (look at any graph). Jimmy Carter had left a "mere" 1.1 Trillion dollar debt having continued to pay down WW II/Vietnam debt like all other Presidents sin…
Via the GE Luncheon circuit with the Pseudo Cowboy act. perfected on "20 Mule Team" literally selling soap for Boraxo.