When I began driving in 1972, I learned from my Father. He explained the rules-of-the-road from obeying the speed limit to not camping-out in the left lane without passing. He taught me how to parallel park and to safely merge onto highways, as well. He also would regularly remind me to check the rear view mirror.
That last one involving the rear view mirror was the one that boggled my mind. Why would I care what was behind me; it was the stuff in front of me that seemed to be important. My Dad felt otherwise.
All these decades later I’ve come to realize he was right once again. Aside from checking the mirrors to ensure you’re not obstructing a police or fire vehicle, or that an airplane was desperately attempting an emergency landing, I still felt it was silly to analyze what was history on the road.
Yet here we are with another epiphany applying lessons in life’s fluidity.
It seems as though checking the rear view mirror in life is just as valuable - perhaps more so – than only looking ahead. Allow me to explain.
The year was 2016. A businessman named Donald Trump ran for the office of the President of the United States. He ran against a seasoned professional freeloader named Hillary Clinton who desperately wanted to put another meaningless notch in her belt.
She proudly worked on the Richard Nixon impeachment committee in 1973. That very public stepping stone led her to a lucrative law position in Arkansas where she met and married an equally sleazy politician, William Jefferson Clinton – at which point she changed her name from Rodham to Clinton.
With little in the way of political experience in her rear view mirror, Ms. Clinton checked the pulse of Leftist America for issues and direction. She realized that women were anxious to kill babies, which helped Clinton gravitate toward legalizing abortion. And she found a winner in that message.
Making a name for herself, Clinton rode the wave of popularity being elected a Senator from New York, First Lady, Secretary of State, and eventually a candidate for president. And she accomplished all this on an awfully thin rèsumé – one lacking genuine political experience other than marriage to a sleazy philanderer.
Very few people looking strictly through the windshield were able to see Trump become the 45th President of the United States. But looking back at that election we now realize the shenanigans going on in the political world.
Fake dossiers, lies, doctored photographs, misinformation of social media, slanted news from the mainstream media (MSM), disingenuous politicians, corrupt government employees, along with unwarranted federal investigations, all helped generate a question of impropriety in weak minded Americans.
Suddenly there were more fabricated stories about illegal immigrants being held in cages and drinking toilet water, tax breaks for the wealthy, a failing environment, and possibilities of wars with Russia, China, plus North Korea.
Those Lefties didn’t rest for a minute. Looking back, their attacks on Trump and his administration were only bolstering support from “Average Joe” Americans. His slogan, Make America Great Again – MAGA – gained in popularity, exponentially.
In an earnest effort to stop this meteoric rise, the MSM who detested President Trump’s name-calling resorted to, well, name-calling.
Resurrecting the distasteful, emotion-evoking moniker, “Nazi,” virtually everyone without a conscience or sense of history quickly glommed onto the word, largely without knowledge of the word and what it represents.
An acronym for National Socialist German Workers’ Party, the word Nazi has become associated with heinous acts of murder and oppression as those generated by World War II Germany. By the way, an estimated 6,000,000 Jews were rounded up and murdered by Nazis; not a word casually inserted into a daily conversation.
However, in 2017 – immediately following Mr. Trump’s inauguration – that word was tossed about more than practically any other.
Americans regularly heard that Trump was a Nazi, he was turning America into Nazi Germany, and so on, perpetuated throughout his four-year term, and abruptly ended upon the election of Joe Biden. Simply amazing.
Using new tactics centering around class warfare, Biden has been employing his Department of Justice, Department of Interior, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy, among others, to exact punishment upon American MAGA voters and Trump supporters.
Applying laws written specifically for the Civil War to silence and penalize Rebel Civil War participants, a public display of corruption mixed with revenge has been regularly applied to anyone and anything Right of center.
In a concerted effort to become the Anti-Trump, Biden, on his first day in office, ran out of ink signing Executive Orders undoing everything President Trump had enacted.
Literally opening the gates to the United States for illegal immigration on Day One, Biden and his simpleton henchman Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, have insisted “the border is closed.”
Of course it wasn’t, and still isn’t closed, but for Mayorkas, lying with a straight face to Congress as well as the American public seems to come naturally. Keep in mind that an estimated 11,000,000 illegal aliens crossed our Southern border I three years.
Now, that same administration is busy wringing. We are quickly approaching another presidential election, and Biden sycophants are scurrying to do damage control. Again evoking names such as bigot, refugee, Nazi, and asylum, Donald Trump and his supporters are once again wearing targets on their backs.
Hastily ending our 20-year military occupation in Afghanistan for political points, Biden screwed both Afghanistan and our armed forces to argue he was smarter and more attuned than Trump.
Bragging how he pulled our troops from a Middle East country, Biden proudly bragged that “that other guy,” to whom he alluded was President Trump, should’ve made this sloppy international SNAFU himself. This bone-headed move lost America billions of dollars in arms, as well as countless Afghanis who willingly helped American troops as translators and guides.
But then a corrupt country named Ukraine, whose country abuts Russia, was invaded by Vladimir Putin in February 2022. Ukraine President Volodymyr “Show Me the Money” Zelenskyy begged Plugs Biden for money and arms to fight the Russian Army’s efforts to annex Ukraine back into Russia’s fold.
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| Volodymyr "Show Me the Money" Zelenskyy showing how big the stacks of money he expects from his buddy Joe Biden should be |
Eager to appear strong, Biden quickly gave billions of dollars to Zelenskyy, a mistake opening the spigot of endless cash to a country that became critical to an attempted impeachment of Donald Trump. Oddly enough, Hunter Biden, Joe’s son, mysteriously worked for Ukraine’s Burisma, a corrupt energy company. Hunter and his buddies were allegedly paid $1,000,000 per year, according to The Committee on Oversight and Accountability.
Let’s not forget other influence peddling schemes between the Biden’s and Romania, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Not insignificant amounts of money that totaled well into the tens-of-millions of dollars are now in question. President Biden commented these were “all lies.” Of course they were. Wink, wink.
President Zelenskyy just left the White House begging for more money – money America doesn’t have because of the 11,000,000 illegal aliens who are gobbling-up their “free” benefits, the new 30,000 IRS employees, the hunt for more American military ammunition, college loan pay-offs, electric vehicle recharging stations, “investments (read: giveaways)” in green technologies, ad campaigns to make Americans vegetarians, and the $16,000,000,000 to railroads.
It appears as though Zelenskyy will have to go home with only $200,000,000, per CBS News. Alas.
With the 2024 Presidential Election quickly arriving it’s clear we rely on facts from yesteryear rather than suppositions of the future.
President Trump has a proud legacy on which he will likely run, damn the smarmy Attorney General, State Attorneys, District Attorneys, and other prosecutors with axes to grind.
As you can see, there’s a lot in the rear view mirror that can be used to hopefully prevent one from making the same mistakes time-after-time to the detriment of society and your personal well-being.
Check that rear view mirror often.
