The Devil You Know
The old saw “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know” confronts America today. Two flawed candidates vie for the Presidency but only one is known.?
Donald Trump is a celebrity from his Apprentice days and decades of media exposure. He is a vortex of media obsession and, therefore, a devil we know. Womanizing adulterer; crass, entitled billionaire. Someone so easy to hate the term Trump Derangement Syndrome took hold. Offenses spew from his mouth like lava that force the self-proclaimed woke right out of their minds.?
The media pick apart his every word and deed like crows on roadkill. For instance, reporters elevated our lives recently by revealing his affair with a Playboy model ended when he called her mother an “old hag.” The beauty had provided him sex for money - but the beast insulted her mother - prompting a hush money farewell kiss. Righteous indignation can be found even in the darkest places.?
Most Americans are willing to tolerate a devil’s personal failings and move on to examine his record. Luckily, Mr. Trump’s America First policies left a clear record. He crossed the 38th Parallel into North Korea to meet a fiendish dictator and missiles stopped flying near Japan. He added 500 miles of steel and concrete barrier along our southern border, and adopted innovative policies to limit abuse of our asylum laws. This set record low illegal migrant encounters. Nominal inflation. Tax cuts. 401Ks growing. Inflation under 2 percent. Tariffs on China.?
The brute even re-negotiated trade agreements with Canada and Mexico that had emaciated our once enviable manufacturing base. Energy independence. Abraham Accords bringing Middle East nations together. No wars started and NATO was flush with cash. Military was strong. A more balanced Supreme Court leaning slightly toward strict adherence to our Constitution. In short, the apparent Prince of Darkness brought stability and prosperity.
That’s only part of the story. Chaos marred Trump’s reign. Planned chaos. The death of George Floyd set off months of riots, killings, attacks on police precincts, federal buildings, churches and even an attempt to invade the White House. Marauders in black ski masks ran amuck committing arson and inciting terror. Democrat politicians responded to the flaming disorder generated by godless Marxists and anarchists by defunding the police and raising bail for their seething minions. Rioters were released to re-offend. None of this was created by the devil we know.?
The death blow to Trump's reign was an invisible pathogen unleashed on the world by the Chinese Communist Party. In the twitch of an eye Antifa rioting stopped, replaced by eerie silence. People hid in their homes as ignorance and fear cast a morbid shadow. The laughter of children vaporized. Streets deserted, businesses shuttered. America and the world plunged into a state of mass hypochondria where everyone became Howard Hughes. Millions died amid the confusion and lies, but a wealthy few became even?richer as our civil rights were trampled to dust. The devil we know let this happen.?
Trump paid for it at the stuffed ballot boxes as election rules changed with COVID as a pretext. Millions of mail in ballots - the most unreliable and fraud prone method of voting - went out. Pandemics have consequences.?
In walked the devil we don’t know.
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Joseph R. Biden. A serial liar, plagiarist and grifter known for sniffing children in public and self-aggrandizing at every turn. It’s almost impossible to know him because he claims to have been raised in the Black church, or surrounded by Puerto Ricans, Jews or any group he happens to be yelling at. He indiscriminately reads everything from a teleprompter, revealing a lack of basic mental coherence. The most recent embarrassment came when he was supposed to lead union members in a rousing chant of “Four more years” but read aloud the word “pause.”
When Mr. Biden isn’t falling up a flight of stairs or off a bicycle he shuffles stiffly and seems incapable of carrying any size stick. He was once filmed struggling to move a flimsy beach chair. An adult in a bunny rabbit costume had to physically show him where to go during a White House Easter event. Our adversaries must’ve trembled - with laughter. Let’s hope a member of the press doesn’t ask Mr. Biden whose invisible hand he has been trying to shake for the better part of three years. All hell might break loose.
Watching his vacant stare in those tense moments when he stops mid-sentence it becomes clear: Biden is unknowable. There is either nobody home or he’s lost in the multiple versions of himself fabricated over a lifetime in politics. No one fears him. His defense secretary didn’t bother to mention he would be missing in action while undergoing prostate surgery. The Pentagon just unveiled its disrespect for Diablo Joe by shooting down the claim his uncle was devoured by cannibals after a military plane crash in New Guinea.??
Biden is controlled by a cloaked, malevolent, unaccountable power that is actually running our country. Is it the unelected bureaucracy? The Obamas? The CIA or CCP? Perhaps a globalist cabal? Beelzebub? Whatever this thing is, it hates American citizens. It aims to render us poor, sick and defenseless. It’s critical we find out soon because … November.?
Sadly, it's a core mission of the press to ferret out truth in such precarious times. It should set off media alarms when the President of the United States says he is “not supposed to take questions” or he will “get in trouble” for something he let slip. Swamp-based news hounds should be gathering phone records and visitor logs from not only the White House but Biden’s homes in Delaware. In addition, they should be pressing sources to reveal who possesses Joe Biden. But hold on, we have some breaking news: Stormy Daniels Testifies in Hush Money Trial!??
When a ghost government rules, accountability vanishes. Look at our southern border. Monsters who choke on their hatred for us, swallow it and call it dessert are among those who took Biden’s invitation to enter our nation illegally. Yet who has lost a job over the open border or the rapes, murders and fentanyl poisonings that have resulted from it? Has anyone been demoted over the failed economy, the military debacle of our withdrawal from Afghanistan, the poisoning of East Palestine, Ohio? Horrendous outcomes ushered in through Biden seem endless. To date no one has paid for the lies perpetrated by our public health bureaucracy that led to more than a million Americans dying during the COVID pandemic. China got away with biological terror. Diabolically brilliant.
A word about China. Before the CCP fueled the Biden family inferno with millions and gifted him with a pandemic that assured his election, they established Hell on Earth. These soul crushing ghouls built a feculent, all seeing, all knowing supreme power hell bent on world domination.?
Surveilling their subjects with cameras like rats in a scientific study, tracking their spending and online activities, and policing the marketplace of ideas with a virtual billy club they wiped out any semblance of freedom. We are not far behind.
Back to Trump vs. Biden. One day we may not have to decide between two devils. We may have simpler choices to make such as whether to buy an electric car or lease one. Or maybe pick between dining on live crickets or the freeze dried variety. But if you hope for an accountable government, a decent quality of life or a modicum of freedom, choose the devil you
CEO at Free Press Foundation
6 个月Well said Mr. Guart! Trump is transparent which fuels his organic populism. But his geatest contributions to public discourse is his constant reminder: "Fake news." His decade-long reality-TV adventure in politics has helped reveal to the all the magnitude of the lies Americans have been fed. That said, how much do we really know about the "beast"? One of several abandoned tenets of American journalism is the discipline of verification: https://freepressfoundation.org/american-journalism
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6 个月Bravo!