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	 15 Things That Weigh More the Longer You Carry Them
     WRITTEN by JOSHUA BECKER / The Epoch Times

     If you read this blog regularly, you know I write a lot about
how too much stuff can weigh us down. But this blog has never been
just about cleaning out your garage or donating old clothes. It’s
about removing distractions and lightening the load in every part 
of life.
     Sometimes what drags us down isn’t a bunch of things in a
closet. It’s what’s going on inside us. Feelings and worries can
weigh a lot too, and the longer you carry them, the heavier they
get.
     For example, here are 15 things you might be carrying inside
you that can get pretty heavy over time—especially the longer
you’ve been carrying them.
     15 Things That Weigh More the Longer You Carry Them
     1. Unforgiveness
Harboring resentment toward someone is like clenching a rock in
your outstretched hand. The longer you hold onto it, the heavier
it feels.
*Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself, freeing you from that
weight.
     2. Debt
Financial debt can be suffocating—and because of interest, it
often increases stress over time. Not dealing with it can result
in a life that feels both tight and limited.
*Address it head-on, create a plan, and relieve that burden.
     3. Pride
The weight of our own ego often blinds us to our own faults. Pride
makes us defensive and prevents us from growing. Admitting we don’t
know it all is liberating, lightens our emotional load, and pro-
vides opportunity to find help.
     4. Negative Self-Image
Feeling bad about yourself consumes a lot of mental energy. Every
time you look in the mirror and feel discontent, it adds to that
weight.
*The first step toward change is acceptance and love for who you
are now. You’re not perfect—nobody is. But if you’re trying your
best, you deserve more credit than you give yourself.
     5. Perfectionism
The constant quest for perfection can be a never-ending cycle that
only sets you up for disappointment. Over time, it steals joy and
adds undue stress to your life.
*Pursue progress, not perfection. After all, the only way to
achieve perfection is to start making progress.
     6. Fear of Failure
The fear of failure can paralyze us into inaction. The longer we
hold onto this fear, the more we deprive ourselves of opportunities
for growth and happiness.
*I believe so strongly in the importance of recognizing this dis-
traction, I included an entire chapter on the distraction of fear in
Things That Matter.
     7. Procrastination
The burden of tasks left undone can grow heavier each day. They
hang over us, affecting our mood and our confidence.
*Take the first step, no matter how small.
     8. Regret
When we live in the past, we carry the weight of our previous
mistakes.
*Learning from them is beneficial, but dwelling on them is detri-
mental.
     9. Jealousy
Jealousy often creates a cycle of negative thinking and unproduc-
tive actions. The longer you allow jealousy to linger, the more
it will tarnish your happiness.
*Here’s how to overcome it.
     10. Social Comparisons
The need to keep up with others takes a toll. Social media doesn’t
help, as it presents an unattainable standard. Limit your consump-
tion and focus on your own journey.
     11. Negativity
Negative thoughts attract negative outcomes. The more you focus on
what could go wrong, the less room you have for positive actions
and reactions.
     12. Unfulfilling Relationships
Relationships that don’t add value to our lives end up draining our
energy. Sometimes the healthiest thing to do is to walk away. It is
certainly important that we have relationships where we selflessly
serve and love, but there are times when holding onto a relation-
ship is only adding weight.
     13. Guilt and Shame
While they serve as indicators that we’ve done something wrong,
prolonged feelings of guilt and shame can be debilitating. Seek to
make amends, find a remedy, and then let them go.
     14. Unresolved Conflict
Conflict that is not dealt with becomes heavier over time. Address
issues directly and honestly, aiming for resolution and a lighter
emotional state.
     15. The Need to Be Right
The need to always be right can isolate us and make every inter-
action a power struggle. Being wrong occasionally doesn’t make you
less of a person. In fact, it makes you a smarter one.
     If any of these burdens resonate with you, take action today.
Even if it’s a small step, it’s still progress.
     I assure you, on the other side of these burdens is a life of
peace, joy, and purpose. So start unloading these weights today
and feel the freedom and lightness that come with it.
     Put God in the center of your life and pray.

  Conservatively,
  John 

	What You Know and Should Know More About Part 2.
    Picking up where I left off last week.

 	FBI Raid on Trump Home
    In the middle of the morning on August 8, 2022 the FBI, on the
signature of an Obama lawyer, decided to raid President Trump's
Florida home. They proceeded to ransack his home seeking anything
the very open search warrant might find interesting. They went
through Ms. Trump's private clothing. This is normally done an-
nounced and prearranged and the warrant is supposed to be specific.
    They claim that Trump had over 300 classified documents but he
also had executive rights to declassify anything he wanted.
    They laid out empty classified document covers to appear that
there were actually classified documents. The FBI removed over
14,000 items including his passports, personal communications as
well as photographs and confidential letters that were attorney
client communications.   
    The NARA had been to Trump's home three times and removed boxes
of documents that Trump had declassified before leaving office.
NARA also removed many boxes and told Trump to put a second lock on
the storage room, which he did and told him that they got what they
needed and then came back weeks later and took part in the raid.
There is no limit on what he could declassify.
    To clarify, there were classified documents in Biden's home,
garage, UPenn offices, Hillary's home, Pence's home, none of them
can ever remove classified documents from the Capitol and none of
them were or have been indicted or charged.
    All of these stunts were intended to distract Trump from his
plans to campaign to take back his job that he should have never
lost but the Democrats are desperate enough that they must go to
any length to avoid the truth being exposed. 
    This is over 70 years of corruption on the edge of being exposed
that could put hundreds of people in jail and thousands will lose
their jobs. They lack ethics, patriotism, and even love of their
fellow Americans.
    Trump's now been indicted 4 times and charged with 91 violations
that are mostly political motivated and were misdemeanors that they
skewed the law to make them appear as felonies or are past the stat-
ute of limitations.
	Trump Indictment #1 Trump Supposedly falsified 31 records
they were claiming Trump was not allowed to pay a debt to a Stormy
Daniels that claimed he had an affair in 2006. (30 Mar 2023)
     *I think most of those charges were thrown out today because
the Statute of limitations had expired.  
	Trump Indictment #2 Classified found in the raid on Trump's
Florida home. I detailed it above. Trump had executive power to
declassify whatever he wanted and he also had the boxes moved from
DC to FL while Trump was still President. The FBI raided his home
with a search warrant that exceeded the legal boundaries.(8 June 23)
	Trump Indictment #3 Four charges related to an attempt to
overturn the results of the 2020 election. The reality is that Trump
had a Constitutional right CHALLENGE the Electoral count because 5
states were victims of Democratic manipulating of the laws that the
states legislatures set to control the election process. Because
they disagreed with the count submitted, they had the legal right
to decertify the original count on Jan 6 and submit a new set of
Electors and present them to Congress. The challenge requires each
state, when called have a formal challenge signed by Representatives
and at least one Senator. After that there is a one hour period for
the state to present their reason and evidence and then the Congress
votes to allow the new electors votes or not.
     That process was scheduled to begin at 1 pm on Jan 6 and before
any of this could take place, the orchestrated coup by Pelosi, FBI,
DOJ, and hired rioters attacked the Capitol.
     The Vice President presides but, for some reason, refused to
proceed with the Challenge. He turned his back on the Republicans.
He failed in his duties. (1 August 2023)
	Trump Indictment #4 Georgia Corrupt 2020 Election 
     They are accusing Trump of trying to overturn the election
based on a call he made to the GA Sec. of State requesting that he
could recount or review the count asking for him to check because
he was 11,700 votes behind Biden. He did not ask him to compromise
his position. Many irregularities have been discovered since.
     None of these indictments, if the law was adhered to, would
even make it to an actual trial.
        Chinese spy balloon flyovers (4) but Dems claim there were
3 while Trump was in office but I can't imagine the Dems didn't
bring it up until Trump was out of office. Kirby said they were
benign and could be from anywhere but China was pissed. Hummm!
     Trump's NY court civil trial began today and the judge seemed
like he was going to dismiss 80% of the charges.
        I will try to update this hoax as the "Witch hunt" falls
apart and the truth is released.
     Pray that God will keep us safe from the evil overrunning our
once great nation.

  Conservatively,
  John

	   What you have read about and what has been hidden.
     Never before has any President been treated with so much
disrespect, obstruction, and abuse from the corrupt media.

	   Crossfire Hurricane
    This was an FBI investigation trying to accuse Trump of collud-
ing with the Russians in the 2016 election. The truth was that Trump
after a 3 year investigation found no found NO Russian collusion so
Trump in December of 2020 declassified the investigation but to this
day the FBI and Biden still refuse to release the declassified docu-
ments. In 2022 Republican Senators again reminded the Justice Dept.
that the documents have not been release.
    They continue to ignore the President's directions.
    They did find countless violations from the Clinton campaign
but Comey took it upon himself to declare that he would not recom-
mend indicting Hillary but by then we ALL knew that the DOJ, FBI,
and others were corrupt to the point of ignoring the same illegal
actions but the Left strands above the law. Hillary admitted de-
leting 33,000 emails after she was instructed to not destroy sub-
peonad evidence like the hard drive on her server. She used Bleach-
bit to erase evidence, hammers to destroy phones, as well as untold
number of classified documents that she had NO authority to have.
    Mixed in here was 15 false accusations of Trump sexually as-
saulting different women but NONE made it to court except one that
won a case of defamation but that is still being appealed. Not a
single one ever claimed that he touched them.
    The Democrats have a habit of judge shopping when they know they
have no case, so the fabricate false charges and pay of witnesses
using threats of destroying them financially.
	   Mueller Investigation
The Democrats then went after Trump with the Mueller Report. They
began this based upon the Steel Dossier which Mueller denied. Had
he found anything that would connect it to Trump, I am sure he
would have been all over it but history and research has proven
that it was fake and financed by Hillary herself. That dossier
would take pages to cover with all the evidence pointing away from
Trump.
They again accused Trump of colluding with the Russians in the 2016
election. This cost Americans over $30 million.
They accused Trump of conspiracy but there no proof. Tried to accuse
the Trump campaign of colluding with Russians that turned out to be 
the Trump Organization researching opening some real estate there
but they never reached any agreement. Trump never went there.
The Democrats even accused Gen. Flynn of colluding except that every
administration has their foreign relations personnel meet and get
familiar with other countries people so they can hit the road run-
ning. He found NO obstruction. It seemed that getting an honest
unbiased investigation would have been futile. Later digging revealed
that both Comey and Mueller were very well connected to the Demo-
cratic Party.
Mueller lied about the proof that Democrats spied on him and his
summary was riddled with lies that have since been proven false. It
is a shame that our own DOJ cannot be trusted.
	   Trump Impeachment #1 With NO crimes committed by Trump
    This proved to be a case of "we have the votes why not impeach"
to hell with having evidence or even giving Trump or his represen-
tatives a chance to defend him or rebut the lies fabricated by
Schiff.
    There was no proof of Trump breaking any laws but exposed dozens
that the Democratic Committee committed.
	    Trump Impeachment #2 Again with NO crimes by Trump
    This was based upon Trump's constitutional authority to chal-
lenge the Electoral count from the individual states. Trump also
was within his rights to ask for recounts, checking ballots for
signature and mailing date verifications. There were inconsistent
reporting and recording and transmitting of electronic ballots.
There were many cases of ballot harvesting and ballot stuffing.
There were cases of hundreds of votes being mailed to the same
addresses and some vacant lots. The state legislatures set the
guidelines for elections but in several swing states the governors,
AGs, and election officials had changed some of the rules set by
the legislature to create many voters being disenfranchised but
again the corrupt DOJ looked the other way.
	    January 6, 2021 Riot
    This was the most evil choreographed act of chaos and even to
the level of creating an insurrection surrounded by weeks of plan-
ning to make it appear that Trump had anything to do with it. As
evidence has surfaced, it seems that Pelosi, the Capitol Police,
DOJ, FBI, and as many as 30-50 agents planted into the crowd to
stir up the people they brought in to cause the destruction and
even one veteran murdered by a Capitol Police LT. and a group of
uniformed police beat a woman nearly to death while others were
inviting unarmed Trump supporters to enter the Capitol. Not one of
Trump's supporters was armed or has been at all the rallies he has
held. Then the FBI ran all over the country arresting innocent
Trump supporters and locking them in prison, many who were not
even in Washington during the chaos. They have caused some to die
or commit suicide from abuse or even withholding their life
saving meds.
    As each day passes more and more proof surfaces that the entire
Jan. 6, 2021 riot was planned and executed by the Left.
	    The PA and GA run-off election interference showed us that 
rampant corruption took place in these states even to videos showing
the on-screen vote tallies changed by as much as 30K votes and now
we have more clueless, useless Senators keeping the country from
growing and being the Republic that our forefathers created.
    I could say so much more about the corruption on the Left side
of our once great nation. I ask you all to do your research and see
just how bad things really are.
    I will continue in part 2 next week about the Raid of Trump's
home and the 91 indictments for actions that never happened and
desperation to avoid the results of the truth coming out since they
went "all in" in 2020 because if they lose, thousands will end up
in prison, or in bankruptcy, or even permanently unemployed. 
    None of them are fulfilling their Oaths of Office and treason
can carry a death sentence.
    God is still in charge so we have to ask Him to lead us not
into temptation but deliver us from evil. He says he will save our
nation.

  Conservatively,
  John

    The Washington Post Is Clueless
    Armstrong Williams / August 24, 2023

    The Washington Post ran a front-page story on Aug. 21 that is
incoherent, betrays constitutional ignorance, and misunderstands
the purpose of government, Armstrong Williams says.
    A front-page story on Aug. 21 in The Washington Post sounds a
false alarm: “American democracy is cracking. These forces help
explain why,” by Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse.
    **The analysis is incoherent, betrays constitutional ignorance,
and misunderstands the purpose of government—not majority rule but
justice secured through checks and balances and separation of
powers, enabling every person an opportunity to march to their own
drummer, fearless of domestic predation or foreign aggression.
    The glory of the United States is liberty, not a Leviathan ad-
ministrative state that dulls ambition and protects corporate be-
hemoths by agency regulations navigable only by $2,000-per-hour
elite lawyers.
    The United States, of course, is not perfect. Mankind is made
of crooked timber. But it is adorned with the optimal form of gov-
ernment to secure justice than any other on the face of the earth.
Just ask the millions of immigrants yearly who risk life and limb
to enter the United States in search of opportunity and freedom.
    The soundtrack of The Washington Post’s fault-finding is the
Constitution’s checks on majority rule. Why these checks should be
scorned is difficult to apprehend.
    Thomas Jefferson observed, “An elective despotism was not the
government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded
on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be
so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that
no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectual-
ly checked and restrained by the others.”
    James Madison, father of the Constitution, observed in Federal-
ist 55, “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian
assembly would still have been a mob.”
    Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson added in West Virginia
Board of Education v. Barnette (1943):
    The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain
subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place
them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish
them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right
to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, free-
dom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not
be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
    In any event, The Washington Post’s exaltation of majority rule
is insincere. It first castigates the White House, Congress, and
the Supreme Court for not echoing the majority. But then excoriates
state legislatures that do! It deplores the fact that in numerous
states, the “dominant party has been able to move aggressively to
enact its governing priorities.”
    Janus-faced, thy name is The Washington Post.
    The newspaper deplores the supermajority required to amend the
Constitution to foster stability (two-thirds majorities in the
House and three-fourths of the state legislatures). Is The Washing-
ton Post afflicted with amnesia? Has it forgotten the 18-year-old
voting rights amendment (26th Amendment) ratified on July 1, 1971,
within four months of its submission?
    Reporters Balz and Morse applaud the easy changeability of
state constitutions: “Over the history of the country, state con-
stitutions have been amended thousands of times.”
    But unlike the United States Constitution, no state constitu-
tion has served as a template for constitutions fashioned by
foreign countries. No state constitution has earned the accolade
the U.S. Constitution elicited from British icon and statesman Lord
Gladstone: “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time
by the brain and purpose of man.”
    Contrary to The Washington Post, the Constitution is our deli-
verance from the nation’s afflictions.
    Its abandonment has begotten our cosseted multitrillion-dollar
military-industrial warfare state that has spiked the national debt
past a crushing $32 trillion pursuing fool’s errands in Afghani-
stan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Ukraine.
    It has begotten a surveillance state demolishing the Fourth
Amendment right to be let alone from government snooping absent
probable cause that crime is afoot.
    It has begotten a cycloptic administrative state that daily
pours forth regulations to stifle individual ingenuity and to
shield corporate giants from competition.
    Congress routinely delegates limitless legislative powers to
the president and executive agencies where checks and balances are
nonexistent. Executive agencies promulgate an average of 3,000 to
4,500 legislative rules annually—delegation run riot.
    Congress persists in limitless giveaways of its legislative
power to escape responsibility for policies that might provoke a
primary challenge. A Congress member’s heaven is an uncontested
election indistinguishable from China or Russia.
    The Constitution will be restored only if the American people
vote out of office its countless defectors who currently occupy
the corridors of power. A beginning would be the restoration of
civics as the centerpiece of public education.**

    We have been conned out of our Constitutional freedoms by a
group of unelected puppeteers leading the man they installed to
the position through an untold number of anti-American, unethical
means that violated numerous state election laws and then found
themselves backed up to a wall with no way out except to break
even more constitutional laws.
    And with all of that they never showed any concern for the
American people or responsible use of the hard-earned taxes paid
by those people.
    Don't get me started on the Oath of Office they swore to ad-
here to or dangers of opening the Southern border.
    The obvious thing is their hate for America and her people.
    We continue to pray that God will still save our land and
His Love and Grace.

  Conservatively,
  John

     *Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?
     Victor Davis Hanson / August 14, 2023

     Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler
loomed.
     A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners
to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative
colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
     One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remem-
bered politico and public servant—Leo Amery, a polymath and conser-
vative member of Parliament.
     Yet in two iconic moments of outrage against the Chamberlain
government’s temporizing, Amery galvanized Britain and helped end
the government’s disastrous policies.
     In the hours after Hitler invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939,
there was real doubt whether Chamberlain would honor its treaty and
declare war on Germany.
     A Labour Party member, surrogate Arthur Greenwood, got up in
the House of Commons to announce that he would be speaking for
Labour on behalf of his ill party leader Clement Attlee.
     Immediately Amery interrupted, shouting out, “Speak for Eng-
land, Arthur!”
     He was met with overwhelming applause and soon public ac-
clamation.
     After all, Amery was a political voice in the wilderness warn-
ing that neither his own party nor the opposition Labour party was
speaking or acting for the real interest of the British people.
     Amery, a shocked Greenwood, and others had finally had enough
of the partisan nonsense, and demanded the nation unite against Nazi
Germany.
     Hours later, Britain declared war on Germany, the first major
power to do so.
     On a second iconic occasion on May 7, 1940, Amery voiced even
stronger views—again, widely held by the public, but rarely voiced
by the timid political class.
     The inept Chamberlain government had just lost a winnable
Norway campaign to Germany.
     Amery responded with a blistering attack on the incompetence
of the conservative Chamberlain administration by quoting Oliver
Cromwell’s hallmark 1653 order to the Long Parliament: “You have
sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say,
and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”
     Three days later after Amery’s speech and the invasion of
France, an ill Chamberlain and most of his advisers resigned.
Churchill became prime minister. The rest is history.
     We need a voice like Amery’s. Like Britain from 1939 to 1940,
America is in existential danger.
     The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern
border—and immigration law with it.
     Biden green-lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the
U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.
     China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing
has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function
COVID-19 virus that killed a million Americans.
     President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong
time of soaring post-COVID-19 consumer demand and supply shortages.
No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.
     In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.
     Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks suffi-
cient munitions.
     Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast
troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce
weapons were sent to Ukraine.
     The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions
and advancement.
     Our enemies—Russia, China, Iran, North Korea—are on the move,
while the U.S. seems listless.
     The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA, and FBI have
become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race—not the law—more
often guide their investigations, intelligence operations, and
enforcement.
     The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming
unlivable.
     They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime, and home-
lessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the
blue urban coasts to the red west and south.
     To even say there are still two biological genders, that glo-
bal warming may not be entirely man-made or necessarily destroying
the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of
inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.
     The public assumes that Biden is severely cognitively chal-
lenged, likely corrupt, and a serial fabricator.
     Most know what must be done, but few will tell the truth:
Balance the budget. Return to legal only immigration. Restore a
well-funded, but unwoke Pentagon.
     Insist on racial unity. Curb the overweening administrative
state. Enforce the rule of law.
     Produce more gas and oil. Reestablish civic education. Insist
universities protect free speech and due process—and stop prosely-
tizing.
     In other words, restore what until recently made America the
strongest, most prosperous, and freest nation in the world. And
quit undoing all the great good that eight generations of prior
Americans bequeathed to us.
     Somewhere out there an American Leo Amery is growing infur-
iated over what is being done to America.
     And if he finally stands up like Amery to call out our bank-
rupt political class, the American people will echo his famous
order to this disastrous government:
     “Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name
of God, go.”*

     Imagine what America could have done with the billions of
dollars they wasted trying to keep the American people from 
learning the truth about the unelected mob that is destroying
the US from within.
     Then there is the hundreds of millions they have wasted in
an effort to keep Trump from exposing their efforts to turn the
nation into a socialist/communist nation while the liberal Left
and corrupt media hide the truth from us all.
     We are on the verge of total destruction because they feed
the people misinformation, lies, and use their corrupt Justice
Dept. to attack the Constitution and anyone who they don't
agree with.
     God is awesome but maybe he needs our help to take back
our country and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

  Conservatively,
  John
 

 
      ***WH Continues to Violate the Hatch Act.
     Biden White House Continues to Use Trump Slogan ‘MAGA’ in Po-
tential Violation of Hatch Act / By Debra Heine June 16, 2023
     The White House continued to use former President Donald J.
Trump’s campaign slogan “MAGA” disparagingly in public statements
this week, despite being notified by the Office of Special Counsel
(OSC) that using the term violated the Hatch Act and being warned
against using it again. The Hatch Act is a longstanding ethics law
that prohibits federal employees from using their offices to in-
fluence elections.
     In a letter to the White House last week, the OSC informed
Jean-Pierre that she had violated the Hatch Act when she used the
phrase “MAGA Republicans” during a press conference in November.
     The prosecutorial agency “decided to close this matter without
further action” but warned the White House that if the “prohibited
political activity” continued, they would “consider it a knowing
and willful violation of the law that could result in OSC pursuing
disciplinary action.”
     White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and deputy press
secretary Andrew Bates both issued statements this week containing
references to “MAGA,” willfully defying the OSC’s guidance.
     “The hardcore MAGA budget just released by the Republican Study
Committee–which represents a majority of House Republicans–amounts
to a devastating attack on Medicare, Social Security, and Americans’
access to health coverage and prescription drugs,” Jean-Pierre said
in a statement on the White House website.
     The GOP budget would slash spending by $16.3 trillion over the
next 10 years.
     “This extreme MAGA proposal invests in the super wealthy and
the biggest corporations at the expense of hardworking families. It
is not just backward, it threatens all the economic progress the
President has made over the last two and a half years to rebuild
an economy that works for everyone,” the statement concludes.
     Bates also attacked the Republican budget in a memo Wednesday
that repeatedly used the prohibited phrase.
     The Biden regime began referring to “MAGA” derisively in the
leadup to the 2022 midterm elections as part of an ongoing effort
to portray its GOP opponents as a far-right “extremist threat” to
Democracy.
     Joe Biden used the term repeatedly during his infamous “blood-
red” speech in Philadelphia on September 1, referring to Trump sup-
porters as “Ultra-MAGA” or “MAGA forces” who were a “threat to this
country.”
     According to the Washington Free Beacon, the White House initi-
ally claimed Biden came up with the “ULTRA MAGA” phrase himself, 
"but the Washington Post later revealed the messaging was the focus
-group tested result of a six-month research project from the Center
for American Progress Action Fund under the leadership of Biden
aide Anita Dunn.”
     The Biden administration has a sordid history with the Hatch
Act. Former press secretary Jen Psaki, former White House chief of
staff Ron Klain, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra,
and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm have all violated the long-
standing ethics law, according to investigations from the Office of
Special Counsel.
     The conservative watchdog group, Protect the Public’s Trust,
filed the Hatch Act complaint against Jean-Pierre in November. In a
new complaint to the OSC filed Thursday morning, the group called
Jean-Pierre and Bates’ statements a “deliberate thumb in the eye”
of federal authorities and demanded a formal investigation into
the White House’s “deliberate decision” to defy the agency’s legal
guidance.
     “Is this the behavior the American public should expect from
the self-proclaimed most ethical administration in history?” Protect
the Public’s Trust director Michael Chamberlain told the Washington
Free Beacon. “We were promised a return to normalcy, respect for
the rule of law, and decency. Yet what we are getting is open mock-
ery of rules and standards in pursuit of political advantage.”
     “Anyone wondering why trust in government continues its down-
ward spiral need look no further than this episode,” Chamberlain
added.
     In a statement to WFB defending the regime’s continued use of
the prohibited slogan, Bates seemed to argue that the White House’s
defiance of the law was justified because an official at the OSC is
purportedly a MAGA Republican.
     “If a former Trump campaign spokesperson who later worked under
Betsy DeVos in an administration that incurred a historic number of
Hatch Act violations qualifies as an ‘independent watchdog’ simply
because they bought a nametag, then I would like for you to de-
scribe to me in this article as a winner and Olympic gold medalist,”
said Bates.
     “We take the Hatch Act seriously, and note that this exact
phrase has been used countless times by Republicans in elective
office to refer to official policy proposals, agendas, and related
values,” Bates added. “We have only ever used it in the same way.”
***
     Another lie from the Left. When Republicans refer to MAGA, it
is used as a slogan, not as a label.
     I have heard on many occasions Biden himself, refer to the
average Republican as MAGA Republicans or those MAGA and that is
not calling out dozens of foul mouthed Democrats using the phrase
in a demeaning way.
     So, as usual, Hatch Act or not, the Left still acts as if
they are above the law. So maybe Mr. Bates needs to practice what
he is preaching.
     Think of it this way. Every American should serve the US and
want to "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN". There is NO doubt that Biden
and his misfit administration neither love America or care about
God or the American people and there is NO doubt that the corrupt
Left, DOJ, media, and brainwashed lemmings recognize truth, the
law, or the Constitution that so many have died to protect.
     May God have mercy on their souls.

  Conservatively,
  John

     per Andy Rooney

     EXCELLENT analysis of the world situation. Some things haven't
changed much.
     If someone said this on TV today, they would be fired tomorrow.
Andy Rooney is 100% correct.  
     Andy Rooney was one in a million. 
 
     At the end of '60 Minutes' he usually had his own 10-minute
segment that, unbelievably, was never censored by CBS. He's probably
the only one who could have gotten away with this.
   
Andy Rooney once said . . .

     **“I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of any-
thing except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly
discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet
Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America.

     Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund,
Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White
America;  and see what happens....Jesse Jackson will be knocking
down your door.

     Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a
killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no
one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

     I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is
why there are no girls allowed.  Girls belong in the Girl Scouts!
 
     I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a
phobia, it is an opinion.

     I have the right 'NOT' to be tolerant of others because they
are different, weird, or tick me off.

     When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities
where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling;
it is the Law of Probability.

     I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of
cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! 
As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you
should have to speak English!

     My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave
the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

     I think the police should have every right to shoot you if you
threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand
the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in English, see the above lines.

     I don't think just because you were not born in this country,
you are qualified for any special loan programs, government-spon-
sored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel,
coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

     We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk
our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later
they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living
document; and open to their interpretations.

     I don't hate the rich; I don't pity the poor.  I know pro
wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television.  That doesn't
stop you from watching them.

     It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it
does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little
behinds when necessary, and say 'NO!'

     I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but
please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please,
stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at
your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

     I am sick of 'Political Correctness.'  I know a lot of black
people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can
they be 'African-Americans'?  Besides, Africa is a continent. I
don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great,
great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe.  I
am proud to be from America and nowhere else, and if you don't like
my point of view, tough...”

     I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION
UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!**

     People like Andy Rooney were rare and usually dead on when
they have lived long enough to know how to make their point.

     This is what the First Amendment is there for and it is why
the founding fathers created the best document ever written.

     They wrote the Constitution based upon God's inspired Word
that challenges us ALL to have faith and strive to be more like
Jesus so we have a power to guide us in a direction that gives
us the strength trust in the Lord and know how to recognize the
evil that is trying to destroy ALL God gave us and gave His only
son to die for our sins.

  Conservatively,
  John

      Biden's Shame
      By: Bill O'Reilly May 14, 2023

    President James Buchanan was the worst chief executive in United
 States history, as I have mentioned. He sat in the White House for
 four years doing nothing as southern secessionists defied the
 federal government.  That emboldened the movement that directly
 caused the Civil War. More than one million casualties in that
 conflict.
	In 1866, after the war had ended, Buchanan published a book
 called "Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebel-
 lion." The time is extremely hard to find, but last weekend I
 discovered a first edition signed by Buchanan himself!
	The book is 300 pages of excuse-making. Essentially, James
 Buchanan says he could not stop the growing Southern rebellion
 because Congress would not give him the authority to do so.

	Ridiculous.

	As President, George Washington traveled to Western Pennsyl-
 vania, commanding the troops that put down the Whiskey Rebellion
 in 1794. All Presidents have the Constitutional authority to quell
 uprisings. That's demonstrated by Mr. Biden sending the National
 Guard to the southern border just last week.
	The truth is James Buchanan was a coward, and President Harry
 Truman, a true student of history, knew it. In a private letter
 dated May 18, 1959, Truman wrote this: "History will tell you that
 old Buch was short on decision, and had he acted with the firmness
 of Andrew Jackson in dealing with the problems of the South, the
 War between the States might well have been averted."
	A portrait of President James Buchanan is on display at the
 National Portrait Gallery in Washington, on Feb. 14, 2015. (AP
 Photo/Jon Elswick)
	Enter President Joe Biden, who is emulating Buchanan's cowar-
 dice by failing to enforce immigration law, thereby enabling
 millions of undocumented foreign nationals into America. I don't
 have to explain this; you can see the video on television. What
 we can't see is the tremendous damage being done to the tax-
 payers who are providing billions to support the migrants. That
 will continue for years to come through entitlements.
	It is difficult not to get angry at Mr. Biden and his incom-
 petent administration for encouraging the immigration chaos and
 then denying all responsibility.
	Like Buchanan, Biden blames Congress for not passing new
 immigration laws that would grant amnesty. Biden says two
 things: that he, himself, is blameless and that evil Republi-
 cans are responsible for the border madness.
	History always repeats itself, and soon, Joe Biden will
 take his rightful place behind James Buchanan as the second-
 worst president of all time. I regret slighting Andrew Johnson,
 Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding, and Herbert Hoover, all of whom
 tried hard to best Buchanan. They have now been passed by Joe
 Biden.
	Whether it's the border, out-of-control federal spending,
 unfair and divisive equity policies, or blatant laziness on the
 job, President Biden is a disaster for America.
	He's got about 20 months left in office. Then he can retire
 to Delaware to assemble his own book. He might call it: "Pres-
 ident Biden's Policy Achievements."
	The pages will be blank.**
	I predict that Joe will surpass Buchanan by leaps and
 bounds as the worst President in the history of America just
 barely ahead of Obama.
	He has proven that the Peter Principle exists and he has
 taken even that to an all time low.
	Like Obama, with each crisis, they were and are sent off to
 Vegas, Hawaii, Delaware, and now Lake Tahoe.
	It is obvious that as dumb as his handlers are, they are so
 misguided that they actually don't think Republicans are not
 smart enough to see through their cluelessness.
	At this point in time, with their level of desperation that
 is consuming their every thought, I pray that God will educate,
 at least some of them, what Romans 6:23 explains about the
 wages of sin and God's judgement will teach them.

    Conservatively,
    John

      **Slouching Towards Socialism
     By: Bill O'Reilly March 12, 2023

     Joe from Scranton recently revealed himself in Philadelphia
as a Bernie Sanders acolyte. In laying out his fantastical budget,
the President unmasked the socialist within. Somewhere, Mao, Fidel,
Trotsky, and Stalin were celebrating, very likely in a hot place.
     President Biden's vision is free healthcare, free childcare,
guaranteed family leave, and subsidies for expensive medicines,
among a very long list of other government perks.
     If you are earning less than $50,000, the feds would then
subsidize much of your life.
     That's socialism. No need to do much; the Democrats will take
care of you.
     Sweden operates like this, but there are just 11 million
people in that frigid country - 330 million in the USA.
     Joe knows his budget will never pass a Republican House but
so what? He continues to enlist voters who want entitlements. And
there are millions of them.
     Even though "free ride" Biden espouses massive giveaways,
they will not happen now. However, the seeds of socialism have
been sown, a baseline established.
     In order to pay for all the benefits, the President would
heavily tax corporations and investors, raising the capital gains
rate to an absurd level. If that ever happens, robust capitalism
would be badly damaged as investment and business expansion dry up.
     But there's something even worse in Biden's playbook. He wants
to tax the assets of wealthy Americans. That's the seizure of
private property - a communist tenet.
     The 16th amendment gives the federal government the right to
tax "income." Houses, unrealized stock and bond gains, and material
things like art collections are not income if they are unsold.
     So, this part of Joe's economic agenda is clearly unconstitu-
tional. Again, he does not care. Progressive policies take time to
evolve into reality. Hello, gay marriage.
     But back to the budget speech. As usual, Joe Biden evoked his
father, a working-class Scranton guy. Biden always does this to
mask his radicalism under the cloak of a traditional upbringing.
     Seems to me that the Biden family did pretty well without
government handouts. Joe's father earned enough so his son and
three siblings could enjoy prosperity. The working-class Bidens
didn't seem to need an aggressive nanny in Washington, DC.
     Same with my father in Levittown, New York. He worked hard,
earned an honest buck, and provided enough so my sister and I had
a decent shot at moving up.
     My dad would have been embarrassed to take government hand-
outs. He didn't want free stuff believing that it promoted weak-
ness and dependence.
     I think Joe Biden's father probably felt the same way.
     But we'll never hear that from free ride Joe.**

     Joe must be the most corrupt individual to ever occupy the
sacred grounds of the White House.
     The thing that really pisses me off is when he makes a lame
attempt to invoke God in his lies.
     This only shows the American people who are actually proud
to be a legal citizens that they have to open their eyes and see
how they have been duped, lied to, and brainwashed to believe
the crap they are being fed by the corrupt media, the lies of
the Democrats, and the political machine that feeds you just how
amoral, faithless, unethical, and weak-minded that they know you
are.
     I often ask Democrats why they think they hate Trump after
all he did for ALL Americans during his term serving the people.
     Biden and his corrupt administration only tell you what they
want you to know.
     Don't hide from the truth, act like a real American patriot
and seek it out. 
     The Constitution is over 230 years old and NOW is the time
that you let the liars tell you what to think.
     We are on the verge of losing the entire country and the Left
doesn't care.
     It is time to get a clue take back what is ours.
     God say that he will care and comfort His people. Don't be
left to suffer the wages of sin.
     Pray for America.

  Conservatively,
  John

        Interesting Survey

	Before you see the Survey Results, answer the questions,
 and see how you score against the Nation & against the Facts.
	1.  What percentage of the country is black?
	2.  What percentage of marriages are mixed race?
	3.  What percentage is "Latino"?
	4.  How many families make over $500,000 a year?
	5.  What percent of Americans are vegetarians?
	6.  What percent of Americans live in NY city?
	7.  What percentage of Americans are 'transgender?
	8.  What percentage of your fellow citizens are Gay?

	The Poll Results
	This should be a wake-up call if you don’t already know
 this… A recent poll was conducted by a national polling outfit.
 Names don't matter. They are all the same. This one was "You
 Gov”. Results to these questions asked of average people on
 the street.
	1.  What percentage of the country is black? Answers 41%...
 Actual 12%.  (If you watch commercials, you'll think it is 80%+).
	2.  What percentage of marriages are mixed race? Answer 50
 Actual 1%. (If you watch all the TV commercials, you will
 think it is much more).
	3.  What percentage is "Latino"?  Answers 39%... 
 Actual numbers 17%.
	4.  How many families make over $500,000 a year?  Answers
 26%... 
 Actual figure 1%.  We think a quarter of the country is rich.
	5.  What percent of Americans are vegetarians? Response?
 30%… Actual 5%.
	6.  What percent of Americans live in NY city? Answers?
 30%... Actual 3%.
	7.  What percentage of Americans are 'transgender? 22%.?
 Actual number 1%
	8.  What percentage of your fellow citizens are Gay?
  Result? 30%... Actual 3%
      So why do people have such inaccurate thoughts on these
 counts?
	THE MEDIA! The media run race, gender, and wealth stories
 constantly...
      Result? You are being brainwashed by the ultra liberal
 left with the help of the media....... Joseph Goebbels would
 be proud if he had half the success.
      Disney went full-on "gender" They will no longer welcome
 guests with the traditional "Welcome ladies and gentlemen, boys
 and girls" Why? Because 1% of the population dictates to the
 other 99% (that would be the vast majority) and corporate
 America falls for it.
      Regardless of what you think, less than 20% of Americans
 use "Twitter" yet Twitter controls 80% of public opinion..!!
 Why? The media..!!!
      So, the next time you are thinking Americans have changed
 and not in a good way, remember, it's fake. It's all a lie.
 Most people think just like you do but the media has clearly
 brainwashed Americans with constant broadcasting of “LIES".
      If we lived in a socialist country, our media would
 probably call it....."PROPAGANDA"...!!!
      (But today's latest descriptive 'buzzword' is...
 "Gaslighting"... And every TV commercial you watch utilizes
 it..!!)
      If you care, you should read Saul Alinsky's "Rules for
 Radicals" and pay close attention to his 12 Rules, especially
 Rule #10. You will also find the Cloward-Piven Strategy that
 will look very familiar to what Clinton, Obama and Biden have
 been doing to America for 27 of the last 31 years and unless
 you are dead it should dawn on you that maybe, just maybe,
 you have become a victim of the corruption of the liberal
 media and the DOJ.
      No one wants to admit they have been brainwashed, duped,
 and suckered into selling out their country and their long
 list of freedoms in the  Constitution.
      Remember the United States is a Republic, NOT a Marxist,
 Communist, Socialist, or even a Democracy. Look each of these
 up and learn.
      There is still time before it is too late. The 2024
 election will decide if we are going to be a nation of, for,
 and by the people, or Venezuela or Russia.
      I pray that you make the right decision, if not for your
 future and that of your children.
      God hears our prayers, and He answers them too.
   Conservatively,
   John