Should you ever have visited a state or county fair you would have likely run across one of my favorite activities: eating.
Although being on one diet or another since the time of the Great Flood, I have had some trouble losing weight. But not for trying.
I blame my body fat stubbornness on those aforementioned state and county fairs. Sure, they have plenty of rides, con-games, agricultural displays, plus food trucks, but they also feature contests. Some of these contests involve canning tomatoes, cucumbers, Brussels sprouts, and my favorite, baked goods.
Baked goods are those things that, by nature, have their own special category encompassing cookies, cakes, and pies, along with everything in-between.
Not necessarily known for the weight-conscious among us, baked goods are those things that I have begun to view as mentally therapeutic. Of course, I could be wrong. In any event, baked goods are proudly displayed at these local and state fairs with one goal in mind. To win.
Not unlike well trained participants running the 880 in just under two-minutes, entrants in the fair foodie categories will wait in hope – with crossed fingers – that the judges will taste, then select “The Best” in all the varying categories. FYI, the best in each category is awarded the Blue Ribbon, a sign of true accomplishment.
Unbeknownst to me, there are actually ten ribbons awarded in every category, each a different color. Ranging from blue to brown, and lastly, light blue. And since you may eventually visit a friend or neighbor who proudly displays one, or more, of these ribbons in their kitchen or fireplace mantel, you can actually conduct an intelligent conversation rather than be the subject of a good ‘splainin.
Winning a Blue Ribbon indicates the epitome of trial and error, hard work, patience, experimentation, and force-feeding plenty of calories. But the average fair attendee is not privy to the behind-the-scenes goings-on. Constant baking and making lots of friends and are two components toward the much desired Blue Bragging Rights.
It seems as though this idea of winning awards was hijacked some years ago by Democrats.
Desperately trying to make a point, Dems vilified Donald J. Trump before and after he won the presidency in 2016. They dogged him by using fake dossiers, lies, contrivances, lies, world-wide disinformation campaigns, and lies, all of which led to several failed impeachment attempts.
Still, the pious Democrats doubled down because they had the backing of the legacy/mainstream media (MM), using every illegitimate trick to hobble President Trump 45.
Included in those sleazy tactics toward a total civil disruption were very public AstroTurf movements that handily incorporated the worst of the worst deprecatory language possible. Attempting to drive a solid wedge between voters, Dems bull-horned their lies of Trump being a Nazi.
For the uninitiated, a Nazi is a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, begun under the rule of Adolf Hitler, all of which led to World War II. Nazi’s rounded up millions of Jews in Germany, placed them in concentration camps, and largely used them as slaves until most were ultimately killed during this so-called Holocaust.
‘Horrific’ does not come close to describing the atrocities committed by Hitler’s Nazi Party against the Jewish people.
Hate and disgust immediately comes to sane minds when describing Nazis, Adolf Hitler, and the Holocaust, a perfect storm of mental sickness that brought much of the civilized World together for not only peace, but humanity.
Realizing that this Nazi movement was still – about 80-years later – viewed as reprehensible, the smarmy Leftist Democrats thought applying the Nazi tag to President Trump as well as his supporters was a stellar idea. Popping up on TV news and opinion shows, the same tired, hokey, gaggle of Lefty misfits were regularly spouting vile canards toward President Trump.
Those unfounded remarks were meant to hurt President Trump and the country. Realizing that if enough of the voters believed he was a Nazi, or espoused Nazi tactics, the electorate would summarily dismiss him from any and all future public office – to include civic associations.
But after a fruitful four years of President Joseph Robinette Biden opening the Southern Border, giving countless federal tax dollar gifts to illegal aliens, investigating and incarcerating Christians for exercising their religious rights, and breaking the backs of all American taxpayers to the tune of trillions of dollars, American voters had had enough.
But the rhetoric continued with the ever popular fabricated Trump Nazi references, augmented by college pukes marching while calling for the genocide of all remaining Jews, as a means of civil discourse.
What could possibly go wrong?
Since you asked, plenty.
Using similar tactics from the 1970’s until just recently, a fellow from Louisiana named David Ernest Duke ran for varying offices under a banner of the racist Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The KKK was established by Democrat Southerners following the Civil War.
Although kept alive by a smattering of misfits and malcontents, the KKK has largely become a historical footnote. Still, its mere mention created pause among Southern blacks who feared retaliation for simply being black. Duke was regularly deciding on which side of the aisle to represent.
He was a Republican, Independent, Reformer, Populist, Democrat, but ultimately an American Nazi. It’s easy to see how he could fit into virtually any conversation where questionable loyalty was concerned. He has since faded away into oblivion. Yet his name remains associated with hate and division – not ideal places to leave ones mark.
Yet this bundling of everything controversial has become the norm in politics today. The bottom line being: Nazi = Bad, Jew = Bad, White = Bad, Black = Good, Criminal = Good, Hard working = Racist.
With those terms set in stone today, Democrats have molded their careers around divisiveness all in the name of inclusion. And herein lies the famous “exception to the rule.”
With midterm elections quickly approaching, Democrats have promised to beat the Nazi-Trump war drums until we all cry “Uncle!” Tired and fabricated, the hostility through labels remains on the upswing.
Which brings us to an oyster farmer named Graham Platner. He is running to be a Senator in Maine.
“Platner has painted himself as a working class hero, running far to the left of [current Maine Governor Janet] Mills on issues from tax policy to tribal rights. He represents the younger, activist wing of the party as national Democrats weigh whether to shift to the left or the center in the wake of their defeat at the hands of President Donald Trump in 2024. Platner has never run for elected office before,” states The Maine Monitor.
The Monitor continues, “In October, his campaign was rocked by a series of controversial Reddit posts about rape, race, and the military, as well as a tattoo of a Nazi symbol. His campaign continued on as he covered the tattoo and disavowed many of his past statements on Reddit, saying many were made in the wake of post-traumatic stress from his time serving in the military.”
I’d like to wage on that bet.
So, it seems as though the Nazi tattoo that Platner suddenly covered over, is a moot point. Claiming he has now changed his thoughts, doesn’t really matter as much when a genuine Nazi Democrat is trying to oust a Republican Senator, Susan Collins.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Maxwell Alejandro Frost, and Jasmine Crockett have all proudly thrown their weight as Democrats behind Platner.
Let’s see if all those lying phonies – including Platner – will, indeed, take the much coveted Blue Ribbon for being The Best at pulling the wool over the eyes of the voters.
I’m hoping the voters are smarter than that, though.
