"These Are The Times That Try Men's Souls" - Thomas Paine. Wisdom From A Founder
This post title was originally titled "Happy 2025".
I was going to focus solely on how the new year is a good time to take stock of your life. To assess your personal relationships and see if you are giving them your best. To clarify your objectives. To see how you have progressed with them. If you need to modify them. What are your dreams and aspirations? How much effort will they require? What are your personal demons and how will you defeat them?
Say a prayer for the injured and the families of those murdered in New Orleans this morning by this man
From a local source I was told BARRIERS THAT WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS TERROR ATTACK WERE NOT OPERATIONAL! ENOUGH NONSENSE!
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
―Thomas Paine,”The Crisis”, Dec. 23, 1776
Reflecting on a national level as an American, we have had arguably the most disastrous four years in American history under the Obama/Biden administration. Among the outrages, a full-blown invasion of our country by at least 20 million people, an event unique in all of history. An FBI and Department of Justice more focused on infiltrating Traditional Catholics because the hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, named them as a terror group. Targeting and persecuting to this day, peaceful Jan. 6 2021 protesters, then obviously looking for potential terror threats in major U.S. cities on the notoriously dangerous New Years Eve!
The Obama/Biden administration brought us this outrage:
We dodged this disastrous nightmare on Nov. 5, 2024:
Yet the battle is only begun:
A plot is being hatched by Democratic strategists to deny Donald Trump his reelection. The plan was laid out Thursday in an op-ed in The Hill, revealing Democrats aren’t the protectors of democracy they claim to be.
When Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to certify the 2024 election results, a handful of rogue members will urge rejection of the votes cast by the electors for Mr. Trump. These lawmakers will argue he is an insurrectionist ineligible to serve under the 14th Amendment.
“The Hill”’s deceptively edited passage from the 14th Amendment:
No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” This disability can be removed by a two-thirds vote in each House.
The actual unedited quote of the 14th Amendment:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State,
The specifics of the deception:
The 14th Amendment does not include the President or Vice President! Only their electors!
The President and Vice President are not officers of the United States.
Most notable, Donald Trump has not been convicted in any court of insurrection.
Be wary of what might occur on Jan. 6!
Congratulations! You are here for another year! More importantly, what will you do with it?
I wish all of you and your families, health, wealth and success in the new year in your personal life. However, we still have a job as Americans to save and preserve the country and freedom given to us in blood and treasure by those who came before us.
Do them proud.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
Between today (January 1, 2025) and February 9 we will learn whether the traitor Obama managed to get enough radical Islamists into the USA to destroy New Orleans.
Great reference to Thomas Paine...