Good thought piece. I believe, like some others, that you greatly misunderstand the nature of the divide and the associated passions. This divide and the inflamed passions are not simply a natural phenomenon emerging out of the social milieu. The divide and the passions have been created intentionally, with a purpose. (And not by Trump,) Trump has shined a light on those who would foment evil and slavery in this world. The howl you hear is simply the Deceiver protesting the light.
The screeching and squawking hurts my ears and gives me headaches if it's watched too much. Seldom watch the News more than once per day...The charms of the farm provide too many pleasures to focus on that promotes survival from what's coming. THAT is the place to spend time.
Have no clue about the reason people are sending this ad. The farm provides and we know how to live 'Off-Grid' if necessary. Unlike most people; we were taught survival skills and the old ways when growing-up. Haven't used them in adulthood until the last three years. Took a bit to recall everything and it's much harder work; exhausting actually. But, we've accomplished much and are ready for whatever comes as much as possible.
Don't need this kind of resource...Wise to leave it for others less fortunate and skilled to have the option.
Oh my, well let’s start with Covid because that’s obvious. It was evil and they treated us as slaves who had no rights to our own bodies. We were shut down, shut up and shut out of our lives. It had Nothing to do with a respiratory virus. It was a world wide plan to cull our numbers, and get us ready for global restrictions. Then, let’s look at economics. We had a prosperous country, although highly in debt, and now that debt is more then we can ever repay. That’s economic indentured servitude. And look at the moral evil that is being flaunted and endorsed every single day. Men aren’t really men, women aren’t really women, marriage is fluid , gender is fluid, children serve as a cash cow to change your gender and change again with poisonous drugs and poisonous speech. Pedophilia is normalized by an administration that celebrates the broken and declares it whole. We are in a good deal of trouble and only Almighty God can get us out of it.
In Taming the Wolf: Peace through Faith and in Peace Be With You: Peacemaking and the Theology of Benedict XVI the topics of evil and loss of free will are covered in some detail.
If you are a peacemaker, the topic of evil is one that should be studied in some detail.
Well said. And as for your original post, President Trump could have correctly identified a rose as red, and for sure, it would have been disputed. So sad our country.
Your fears are certainly unfounded! President Trump is the ONLY person in this race who can turn this once-fine Country around and get it back on track! He did it once...with a 1 ton anvil on his back...and he WILL do it again. My hope is the he chooses Vivek Ramaswamy as his VP. Vivek is a brilliant man w/multiple PhDs who is articulate and he unabashedly states that he’s an America First candidate. Like Trump, Vivek is a billionaire “outsider” who is funding his own campaign....making him a preferable candidate bcuz he is beholden to NO ONE...JUST LIKE TRUMP!! Trump could bring him on as a VP in the hope that he will run for President in 2028!
Yes I like Vivek as well. I see him as secretary of Health and Human Services which, despite its “home economics” sounding name, is the department causing tremendous ruin to our country at the border, directing DARPA and administering debilitating and deadly injections on the population.
Know anyone born before 1989 suffering from autism? I don’t.
The numbers escalated abruptly starting with those born in the early 80s. Steve Kirsch did his survey for parents with autistic children 40 and under which is exactly right. Whole classes of autistic children were created for those born in 83 and 84 that hadn't been needed before. So yes, I know plenty by name and replied to the survey. Do not dismiss our children or our long years of research and seeking answers with an inappropriate cut off date.
The reason I chose 1989 is my understanding that that was when the required childhood vaccination schedule increased dramatically. It could have very well been years earlier. I am not dismissing your research, to the contrary I applaud your research. I subscribe to Steve Kirsch as well.
I also like Vivek very much but think that now is not his time to be VP. Tim Scott would probably be the best choice because he’s a very likeable minority candidate who would generate knew enthusiasm from another voting block. Vivek should have a major role in the next administration and I also like HHS.
I believe your "Fear" may be unfounded. Trump is the target of the left and the deep state and has been from the moment of the escalator ride simply because he cannot be bought by special interests and they know it. He is the ONLY candidate among Republicans who has and will stand up to anti-American globalists because he is not beholden to anyone but the PEOPLE! He will win in 2024 if he picks the right VP candidate and the mechanisms which prevent massive voter fraud are dismantled....ballot harvesting, drop boxes, illegals voting, shutting down polls in middle of night to bring in truckloads of ballots, massive numbers of unrequested mail-in ballots being sent to everyone who has ever been on the voter rolls and NO VOTER ID REQUIRED.
Trump is the greatest President of my lifetime. His rallies bring people together. Ten thousand people at a Trump Rally in Tulsa Oklahoma, double that amount in Dallas Texas. My own family owns a shopping center and we have a Trump Store in our Shopping Center. Love Trump and Love our Country. We live in the greatest nation in the world and I am grateful and proud to be an American 🇺🇸
Hitler drew big crowds of proud Germans who then tried to exterminate everyone who disagreed with them. Will Trump quell such passions? Our nation has been ruled by the rich for the rich from the beginning, will Trump challenge the idea that because your rich your smarter than everyone else and thus should rule? Look where that has taken us. Hamilton turned over our nation's power to international capital because people are ignorant about money.
He is also rude, crude, and disrespectful. He inflames passions. He better be as skilled as his supporters think that he is, because John is exactly right that we all need to overcome these passions.
I have to say I agreed with your first post as well as this one. The country is so divided I don’t know that anyone will be able to pull it together. As I have been saying for some time, we are not the United States but the divided states. We need God back in this country. Until that happens, I don’t see things changing. The government has become corrupt and it has happened over many years and just continues to worsen. America had better wake up.
The purpose you serve here is to create a 'SAFE SPACE' for people to THINK...Is it not? It is always peculiar to ascertain the outcome of our words to be perceived with such diverse range; not to mention plethora responses.
Personally, loved the piece and had no particular negative notions while ready or mulling it over afterward while currying my horse after the ride. I find your words tantalizing and always challenging as your view paints a completely different notion towards life. At this stage of the Campaign Game; it seems wise to maintain an open mind.
The PRIORITY for this next election is NOT TO BE BASED UPON SELFISHNESS; but upon the person best suited for our Constitution/Republic and LEGAL CITIZENS and NOT associated with the Central Banker Family Cartel with the International Mafia seemingly saturating EVERYTHING. This doesn't allow me to vote for many people now presented as candidates.
The seeds of discontent and animosity have been manipulated and inflamed by the statists. Yet at the same time shocking abhorrent and evil actions have been committed by the same WEF crowd.
I have watched Trump when President treat the black community with great respect, and open public dialogue in meetings, completely telecast to the world. ( Biden is on camera as little as possible, let alone facing contentious issues)
Trump had great respect from many nations, was rewriting global trade and inspiring rational nationalism globally. ( The primary reason the WEF crowd had to remove him) “The “walk away” movement was very pro Trump.
I am not certain how to get along with Tyranny. As one President said, “ I can’t spare the man, he fight.”
I did not interpret your orginal post as an attack on Trump, if fact I believe you are a Trump supporter, rather you expressed your thoughts on some of Trump weaknesses and insight on how Trump may improve. I did comment to your first post that I think the divide in socieity may not be Trump's fault, and gave a couple of examples. The truth is somewhere in the middle. My thought on Trump is he will deliver far more good than bad; but he could improve his communication style. With Trump you get what you see, which for me is a breath of fresh air. No leader or human being is perfect and will get everything right, this is just reality.
The true challenge Trump, as a GOP nominee, will face, is the rampant voter fraud above anything else. It has already robbed him, and us, of one term and will surely do so again unless we get serious about voter ID, observers, eliminating mail-in ballots and harvesting, and getting rid of Dominion machines.
As for the civil war, at this juncture, I'm not so sure it would be a bad thing.
I voted for Trump twice and was so happy with the policies he implemented. However,
I never appreciated his nasty comments and willingness to jump into the fray with others. His personal attacks on staff whom he felt had betrayed him was over the top. I didn’t respect his manner while appreciating what he was accomplishing for Americans. I feel he was totally undermined by the Democrats and the Deep State. That he accomplished what he did is amazing. Because he never followed the status quo he had to be stopped by any means necessary by those who feared him.
"It seems to me that we Americans have become addicted to passionate feelings about public affairs. The greatest sin of the mainstream media is that it is constantly stoking the flames of tribalism and hatred of the opposing faction" - well said!
Reminds me of Eric Hoffer's "The Passionate State of Mind and other Aphorisms."
Thank you both for your extremely thought-provoking & informative reads! Happy weekend to you!
Trump the Candidate has little control over the management of public passion due to deep pocketed globalists and their Leftist minions undermining Trump’s narrative at every turn.
Trump the President could have tremendous influence over public passion, as he pulls America out of its steep decline (economic, moral, social), even the Leftists might put down their arms and participate in the prosperity that would follow.
“In the larger sense, I suggest that the people of this country start thinking about how to prevent a civil war from erupting. I sense there are agents who are working very hard to foment one.”
I agree that we have been deliberately led onto the path to civil war. One of Obama’s primary goals was to re-ignite the flames of racism. The obvious goal of the open border policies of the past and current Democrat administrations is to allow an invasion against the American culture.
Sadly—and the thought terrifies me—I believe it’s too late to avoid a civil war. I’m coming to believe Trump’s bombastic style is the intentional false public image he has donned to educate us and ready us to defend ourselves.
Trump is Not a Divider ! Biden is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. Trump kids are damn near perfect Biden kids snort cocaine in the Whitehouse.
I can think of no other explanation for why Trump behaves as he sometimes does. I think he’s a very intelligent man who thoroughly thinks through all his moves before making them. He’s seen the great evil moving in the world for a long time. We laugh at the Woke, but we were sleeping too, believing the false narrative of global news and politics for decades. He woke conservatives up. I think he’s doing the opposite of this article’s premise. If we manage our passions, we’re continuing to play the same game the RINOs have played for years, and look where that has led us. That is what the great evil wants and expects us to do.
Dear doctor Pete: Meaning that with all do respect, I was one of those commenters that made my points and objections with respect to your jokester assessment of the former President as I appreciated your own professional medical oversight prowess. However, Dr. McCullough, your contention about former President Trump had an overtone of disrespect that could only be attained by seven years of 90% media bias propaganda intended to create TDS. This, we now know was derived from the uniparty under the Democrat banner that apparently have no problem doing end arounds the Constitutional Republic. They adopted totalitarian methods of silencing via censor and disappearing dissent. Pretty harsh stuff losing a career of 15-20 years in medicine with family living week to week, just to maintain body sovereignty and finding that by protecting one’s family one’s family must suffer. This is not about dueling opinions or political prose. You should know that, so why even give those afflicted with TDS any concern at all, unless you yourself have “long” TDS that is unsettled. We conservative investigators who can’t help but believe in and respect the actual science of why and what then know this was all intentional to effectively be the driving engine of the great reset because of the obvious collaboration with WEF stake holders with their hooks in CCP/Black Rock/ Pfizer ilk money and their lapdogs at WHO, CDC, and NIH to name a few. Their sponsored pundits have time and time again been proven liars and censors like their installed figurehead, a factual life time plagiarizer and sociopathic liar. As a professional I assume those who plagiarize are contemptible to you? Let’s level the playing field once, just once. Until then doctor, those who realized from the beginning that all the conspiracy theories would come true do not want to hear from or about why some dislike Ogres’ tweets that were painted and tainted by bias media. If you are going to accept credit for standing up against the feigning, hair on fire, morally superior liberal Marxist useful idiots’ who supported the criminal attacks on President Trump then give credit to he who stood with you on truth, even if he succumbed to the real time pressure, lest he be charged directly with every supposed death from Covid real or fabricated. Trump made the decision to trust the established institutions of WHO, CDC, NIH and the little man and woman collaborators. We feel your pain. But perhaps it was you in the room who should have been more assertive even if you had to in an undignified manner stand on the conference table to make your point, since you were invited as a trusted expert as well. Allow this combat veteran to opine a bit of advice. Having suffered the slings and arrows from deceit yourself, you have a right to be upset that the Commander in Chief did not completely take your advice given real time circumstances but you should realize we are still under attack and know not to nitpick the Commander in Chief with the world on his shoulders, lest you risk being thrown out of the foxhole you are in.
I understood what you were saying, John. I am trying to be very fair with my opinion of Trump, what he's done well, and not, and what his position and attributes are.
In your theme, you stated early-on that your opinion, and the position you took as you wrote your opinion in this particular essay, would help in convincing the reader of the truthfulness about Trump. You made and suppoted your argument that healing our nation's divide, and our passions against each other, was the most important challenge that our next President will need to face.
Here where I differ, and I am certain that I'm correct. "Healing our peoples' divide" is not, and will not be, our nation's "MOST important" challenge in January 2025.
I am forced to take you literally in your essay. You wrote "the MOST important" challenge. As a writer you are keenly aware, and no doubt accept, the importance in writing non-fiction of choosing the best, most accurate words that will clearly convey your point.
Since words are everything to a writer, and indeed, you can write well, I do hold you to your use of the word "BEST."
Now that I have gotten that out of the way, unlike you, I am certain that our next President's MOST important challenge is to keep us alive and as healthy as possible. Keeping us from dying, or having serious injuries from future WEF and WHO mandates to vaccinate, mask, quarantine us away from our familes in facilities, shut down our businesses, take our land and businesses for a pittance, and hunt us down and jail us if we don't comply.
Therefore, Trump's first, MOST important, challenge is to protect our lives. You can't heal division within us if we aren't alive. After that, yes, we certainly will benefit greatly from getting along.
620,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War between 1861-1865, which remains the greatest calamity that has ever befallen this nation. It would be naive to think that civil war could never again happen in this country. If it happens (and I hope that it never will) it will be, in no small part, a result of politicians inflaming public passions and factions.
Now come on, John I never SAID that a civil war wouldn't happen. It might.
But, the MOST crucial thing for the next President to be will be quick and easy, and will to save people from the dangers of the WHO and the WEF by Executive Order, and two letters, that we immediately withdraw (two days to draft and DHL overnight.) Then, an Executive Order that no vaccines will ever be mandated, and that all vaccines in the future must be properly tested for at least ten years, and to definitely convince an appropriate panel that the vaccines are indeed safe and effective.
You can't fix division among people if they're already dead.
I agree that "it would be extremely important that this country not devolve into civil war."
First, I agree with you that it is always extremely important that we not devolve into civil war.
Second, I think I know where John is going with his article statements. I promise you, that being a writer, he definitely chose that partucular word with great intent. To writers, it makes a great difference. An an attorney, I have engaged in writing professionally for 42 years.
I understand your opinion that I am nitpicking, however, if we're speaking and advocating for or against a Presidential candidate, and about civil wars, it is important to be precise -- and that is the word to describe me, not the word "nitpicking."
Nitpicking means one is arguing about something somewhat unimportant, like a husband and wife argument like this: "You did, too, say you wanted me to bring home green ice cream. I did, I got pistachio!"
"No, you are so wrong. I said get SHERBET--LIME SHERBET!
Now, THAT'S nitpicking over something not worth an argument--a dessert.
Here, it is very important to use PRECISE words in making our positions clear on things such as civil wars and our next President, because we are dealing with VERY important subject matter.
Now, Trump has to be President before he can take actions. So, too, would RFK Jr. Once President, Trump can issue and effectuate the two Executive Orders I mentioned regarding Big Pharma's vaccines, and our exiting the WHO, on days one and two of his Presidency.
Two days and it's done. No more mandated vaccines, lockdowns, no Emergencies announced by the WHO for CLIMATE LOCKDOWNS, etc. Yes, if we stay in the WHO, after May 2024, they can lock us down, and they will, as they alone can announce that the world is now subject to a CLIMATE EMERGENCY.
So, I asked myself, "Why would my advocating how important it is that our President take (only) TWO DAYS to prohibit pharma vaccine mandates and get us out of the WHO, bother John so much for him to take time to retort back to me, when, out of 200 comments, he replies only to perhaps five or six?"
My answer has to do with the fact that John wants RFK Jr., not Trump as President. Well, so what, you might ask? Well, RFK Jr. was asked by J.J. Couey at a video rountable a couple of weeks ago, if he would exit the WHO as President, and JJ added that many, many people want to know. RFK Jr. replied that he did not like the WHO's proposed Treaty (not to be confused with the WHO Regulations), but that many poor people all over the world are helped by the WHO. (Importantly to RFK, Jr., the WHO advocates and protects CLIMATE CHANGE actions, as well. - my comment). JFK hem hawed and wouldn't commit in the video interview to exiting the WHO.
Now, RFK Jr. makes no bones about it that he completely believes in and supports CLIMATE CHANGE. I had suspected RFK Jr. would not agree to exit the WHO, for this and a couple other reasons, despite the fact that when the next President takes office, the WHO can, unilaterally, force all its members into vaccine mandates, quarantines, business lockdowns, mask, testing, and prohibit traveling. The WHO doesn't need the TREATY that RFK Jr. said he doesn't like, in order to cause us great suffering. They can do that as of May 2024 by, instead, using their AMENDED REGULATIONS, of which they are in the process of "negotiating," as we speak.
So, back to John. If he states that, "Yes, our next President would be doing well spending the first two days in office to exit the USA out of the WHO, (btw, we are currently paying about $800 million per year,, more than three-fourths of all the WHO membership money, to be a member of the WHO), and prohibiting any pharma vaccines mandates", then that puts the pressure and expectation on JFK Jr. to do those simple, quick, two-day Executive Orders. He'll probably be ok, eventually, with an EO prohibiting vaccines mandates, however he DOES NOT WANT TO EXIT THE WHO. Why else would he put off doing those important EOs first thing?
If people like John can help convince any Trumpers who might be a little disgruntled with Trump, that we must be scared, fearful, and terrified, and we must "heal the divide" first and foremost or face Civil War that very next day, they probably believe that people will then think, "Well, who is fomenting this divide? If it keeps us out of a Civil War, should we abandon Trump and support the good-natured, handsome, almost perfectly speaking, calm, JFK Jr., even though he will never be able to ever back down from that he has been convinced of, and worked against, --CLIMATE CHANGE-- ever since he was a child measuring the height of water rising and lowering in a lake near his teenage home?" (one of the stories he told us of his teen-aged years?" - my comment.)
Thanks. New information for me about RFK jr-- not willing to dump the WHO. Concerning.
Regardless, I am figuring his chances of becoming president are minimal, at best. He is mostly unknown and if he runs against Biden or other Dem. Candidate will only distract from their anointed one(Newsom? if Biden is out?). If he continues to run as a third party candidate he could nicely distract mostly the Dem. vote to reduce the Democrat's ability to take the whole election like Ross Perot did for the Republicans.
I still don't think Mr Leake planned this article to accomplish the goals you have in mind; fodder for a new article perhaps.
Neither of us will know for sure his intention, I agree, but my concern is about Trump people who might ead it and other articles, then vote Independent, thereby take votes away from Trump.
But, this is a pretty conservative group and I am doubtful too many will vote independent. My opinion only, but barring huge election rigging by the Dem's, I believe nearly ANY conservative candidate will win if Biden is still around to run.
Jennifer you make all good points and agree. I would bet John agrees for the most part too. However, it appears you are nitpicking on a single word. The fact is it would be EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that this country not devolve into civil war for the very reasons he points out-- all the death and destruction and economic collapse. Who is to say it is "MOST" or almost MOST?! . . . and, who is to say, that Trump or any other new, "correct" thinking president would be dragging his feet to do the very things you suggest?
Just because John's essay topic and solution do not fall in line with your own pet peave about the last 3 yrs of hell, does not mean he is off the mark.
I think my reply to you has been removed, but I'm not sure about that. Darn, I spent a long time writing back to you. Sure, he may not be off the mark; I wrote my opinion. BTW I see nitpicking, for ex. as when a wife and husband argue about something rather inconsequential, for example, because he brought home, say, pistachio ice cream but she asked him for lime sherbet.
Good thought piece. I believe, like some others, that you greatly misunderstand the nature of the divide and the associated passions. This divide and the inflamed passions are not simply a natural phenomenon emerging out of the social milieu. The divide and the passions have been created intentionally, with a purpose. (And not by Trump,) Trump has shined a light on those who would foment evil and slavery in this world. The howl you hear is simply the Deceiver protesting the light.
My God...How they do HOWL...Worse than the poem.
The screeching and squawking hurts my ears and gives me headaches if it's watched too much. Seldom watch the News more than once per day...The charms of the farm provide too many pleasures to focus on that promotes survival from what's coming. THAT is the place to spend time.
Have no clue about the reason people are sending this ad. The farm provides and we know how to live 'Off-Grid' if necessary. Unlike most people; we were taught survival skills and the old ways when growing-up. Haven't used them in adulthood until the last three years. Took a bit to recall everything and it's much harder work; exhausting actually. But, we've accomplished much and are ready for whatever comes as much as possible.
Don't need this kind of resource...Wise to leave it for others less fortunate and skilled to have the option.
BINGO!!!
please give examples of evil and slavery.
Oh my, well let’s start with Covid because that’s obvious. It was evil and they treated us as slaves who had no rights to our own bodies. We were shut down, shut up and shut out of our lives. It had Nothing to do with a respiratory virus. It was a world wide plan to cull our numbers, and get us ready for global restrictions. Then, let’s look at economics. We had a prosperous country, although highly in debt, and now that debt is more then we can ever repay. That’s economic indentured servitude. And look at the moral evil that is being flaunted and endorsed every single day. Men aren’t really men, women aren’t really women, marriage is fluid , gender is fluid, children serve as a cash cow to change your gender and change again with poisonous drugs and poisonous speech. Pedophilia is normalized by an administration that celebrates the broken and declares it whole. We are in a good deal of trouble and only Almighty God can get us out of it.
Thank God for your excellent answer.
In Taming the Wolf: Peace through Faith and in Peace Be With You: Peacemaking and the Theology of Benedict XVI the topics of evil and loss of free will are covered in some detail.
If you are a peacemaker, the topic of evil is one that should be studied in some detail.
Well said. And as for your original post, President Trump could have correctly identified a rose as red, and for sure, it would have been disputed. So sad our country.
I love Trump. Mar A Lago is a wonderful place and I have grown to respect and understand his politics.
Your fears are certainly unfounded! President Trump is the ONLY person in this race who can turn this once-fine Country around and get it back on track! He did it once...with a 1 ton anvil on his back...and he WILL do it again. My hope is the he chooses Vivek Ramaswamy as his VP. Vivek is a brilliant man w/multiple PhDs who is articulate and he unabashedly states that he’s an America First candidate. Like Trump, Vivek is a billionaire “outsider” who is funding his own campaign....making him a preferable candidate bcuz he is beholden to NO ONE...JUST LIKE TRUMP!! Trump could bring him on as a VP in the hope that he will run for President in 2028!
Yes I like Vivek as well. I see him as secretary of Health and Human Services which, despite its “home economics” sounding name, is the department causing tremendous ruin to our country at the border, directing DARPA and administering debilitating and deadly injections on the population.
Know anyone born before 1989 suffering from autism? I don’t.
The numbers escalated abruptly starting with those born in the early 80s. Steve Kirsch did his survey for parents with autistic children 40 and under which is exactly right. Whole classes of autistic children were created for those born in 83 and 84 that hadn't been needed before. So yes, I know plenty by name and replied to the survey. Do not dismiss our children or our long years of research and seeking answers with an inappropriate cut off date.
The reason I chose 1989 is my understanding that that was when the required childhood vaccination schedule increased dramatically. It could have very well been years earlier. I am not dismissing your research, to the contrary I applaud your research. I subscribe to Steve Kirsch as well.
No I don’t! You are right on target!
I also like Vivek very much but think that now is not his time to be VP. Tim Scott would probably be the best choice because he’s a very likeable minority candidate who would generate knew enthusiasm from another voting block. Vivek should have a major role in the next administration and I also like HHS.
But Tim Scott was very pro-jab mandate and pro lock down, so that’s a hard pass for me.
And Scott also leans a bit RINO.
He might have changed his mind by now. Few had the time to discover SubStack and alternate opinions.
Isnt Vivek a WEF guy?
No…and….HELL NO! 😁 I would NEVER support a WEF candidate. Read up on Vivek, I think you’ll find that he truly is impressive.
Noooo! Not at all!
What is WEF??
World Economic Forum. Check out their website.
Never mind... it just hit me... long CoVid fog brain!
World Economic Forum
I didn't know that about Vivek? Where could I learn more about him?
I believe your "Fear" may be unfounded. Trump is the target of the left and the deep state and has been from the moment of the escalator ride simply because he cannot be bought by special interests and they know it. He is the ONLY candidate among Republicans who has and will stand up to anti-American globalists because he is not beholden to anyone but the PEOPLE! He will win in 2024 if he picks the right VP candidate and the mechanisms which prevent massive voter fraud are dismantled....ballot harvesting, drop boxes, illegals voting, shutting down polls in middle of night to bring in truckloads of ballots, massive numbers of unrequested mail-in ballots being sent to everyone who has ever been on the voter rolls and NO VOTER ID REQUIRED.
Trump is the greatest President of my lifetime. His rallies bring people together. Ten thousand people at a Trump Rally in Tulsa Oklahoma, double that amount in Dallas Texas. My own family owns a shopping center and we have a Trump Store in our Shopping Center. Love Trump and Love our Country. We live in the greatest nation in the world and I am grateful and proud to be an American 🇺🇸
Hitler drew big crowds of proud Germans who then tried to exterminate everyone who disagreed with them. Will Trump quell such passions? Our nation has been ruled by the rich for the rich from the beginning, will Trump challenge the idea that because your rich your smarter than everyone else and thus should rule? Look where that has taken us. Hamilton turned over our nation's power to international capital because people are ignorant about money.
He is also rude, crude, and disrespectful. He inflames passions. He better be as skilled as his supporters think that he is, because John is exactly right that we all need to overcome these passions.
Who cares about rude and crude!
Omg. We got China making power moves against the USA dollar, they are in many countries and now in Cuba!!! And no one does or says anything!!!
This is all about China and people are worried about his manners? Trump is the only anti China, anti globalist candidate and is needed now!!
As China quietly takes over the world, Democrats are obsessed with Russia and Putin which perhaps should tell us something.
He inflames passions in those who care about our country as he cares about America. Passions emerge when our country is facing its demise.
When push comes to shove you’ll beg to have Trump in your fox hole.
I have to say I agreed with your first post as well as this one. The country is so divided I don’t know that anyone will be able to pull it together. As I have been saying for some time, we are not the United States but the divided states. We need God back in this country. Until that happens, I don’t see things changing. The government has become corrupt and it has happened over many years and just continues to worsen. America had better wake up.
The purpose you serve here is to create a 'SAFE SPACE' for people to THINK...Is it not? It is always peculiar to ascertain the outcome of our words to be perceived with such diverse range; not to mention plethora responses.
Personally, loved the piece and had no particular negative notions while ready or mulling it over afterward while currying my horse after the ride. I find your words tantalizing and always challenging as your view paints a completely different notion towards life. At this stage of the Campaign Game; it seems wise to maintain an open mind.
The PRIORITY for this next election is NOT TO BE BASED UPON SELFISHNESS; but upon the person best suited for our Constitution/Republic and LEGAL CITIZENS and NOT associated with the Central Banker Family Cartel with the International Mafia seemingly saturating EVERYTHING. This doesn't allow me to vote for many people now presented as candidates.
The seeds of discontent and animosity have been manipulated and inflamed by the statists. Yet at the same time shocking abhorrent and evil actions have been committed by the same WEF crowd.
I have watched Trump when President treat the black community with great respect, and open public dialogue in meetings, completely telecast to the world. ( Biden is on camera as little as possible, let alone facing contentious issues)
Trump had great respect from many nations, was rewriting global trade and inspiring rational nationalism globally. ( The primary reason the WEF crowd had to remove him) “The “walk away” movement was very pro Trump.
I am not certain how to get along with Tyranny. As one President said, “ I can’t spare the man, he fight.”
I did not interpret your orginal post as an attack on Trump, if fact I believe you are a Trump supporter, rather you expressed your thoughts on some of Trump weaknesses and insight on how Trump may improve. I did comment to your first post that I think the divide in socieity may not be Trump's fault, and gave a couple of examples. The truth is somewhere in the middle. My thought on Trump is he will deliver far more good than bad; but he could improve his communication style. With Trump you get what you see, which for me is a breath of fresh air. No leader or human being is perfect and will get everything right, this is just reality.
The true challenge Trump, as a GOP nominee, will face, is the rampant voter fraud above anything else. It has already robbed him, and us, of one term and will surely do so again unless we get serious about voter ID, observers, eliminating mail-in ballots and harvesting, and getting rid of Dominion machines.
As for the civil war, at this juncture, I'm not so sure it would be a bad thing.
Abhorrent as the thought of civil war is, my feeling is that the left would last about 3 days.
I voted for Trump twice and was so happy with the policies he implemented. However,
I never appreciated his nasty comments and willingness to jump into the fray with others. His personal attacks on staff whom he felt had betrayed him was over the top. I didn’t respect his manner while appreciating what he was accomplishing for Americans. I feel he was totally undermined by the Democrats and the Deep State. That he accomplished what he did is amazing. Because he never followed the status quo he had to be stopped by any means necessary by those who feared him.
That’s sort of like saying...I know the doctor cured cancer but I just didn’t like his bedside manner.
Nothing wrong with that!
It’s exactly like that!!!!!!!
Absolutely love your writing and agree.
"It seems to me that we Americans have become addicted to passionate feelings about public affairs. The greatest sin of the mainstream media is that it is constantly stoking the flames of tribalism and hatred of the opposing faction" - well said!
Reminds me of Eric Hoffer's "The Passionate State of Mind and other Aphorisms."
Thank you both for your extremely thought-provoking & informative reads! Happy weekend to you!
Trump the Candidate has little control over the management of public passion due to deep pocketed globalists and their Leftist minions undermining Trump’s narrative at every turn.
Trump the President could have tremendous influence over public passion, as he pulls America out of its steep decline (economic, moral, social), even the Leftists might put down their arms and participate in the prosperity that would follow.
I found your analyses of former President Trump's temperament and
personality to be right on Target. A great analysis and strong warning for us
folks to get a bridle and slow down.
Loved the amazing quote from James Madison - our founding fathers
certainly saw the danger in explosive politics.
BN
“In the larger sense, I suggest that the people of this country start thinking about how to prevent a civil war from erupting. I sense there are agents who are working very hard to foment one.”
I agree that we have been deliberately led onto the path to civil war. One of Obama’s primary goals was to re-ignite the flames of racism. The obvious goal of the open border policies of the past and current Democrat administrations is to allow an invasion against the American culture.
Sadly—and the thought terrifies me—I believe it’s too late to avoid a civil war. I’m coming to believe Trump’s bombastic style is the intentional false public image he has donned to educate us and ready us to defend ourselves.
Trump is Not a Divider ! Biden is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. Trump kids are damn near perfect Biden kids snort cocaine in the Whitehouse.
Interesting thought. You might be right about that.
I can think of no other explanation for why Trump behaves as he sometimes does. I think he’s a very intelligent man who thoroughly thinks through all his moves before making them. He’s seen the great evil moving in the world for a long time. We laugh at the Woke, but we were sleeping too, believing the false narrative of global news and politics for decades. He woke conservatives up. I think he’s doing the opposite of this article’s premise. If we manage our passions, we’re continuing to play the same game the RINOs have played for years, and look where that has led us. That is what the great evil wants and expects us to do.
Dear doctor Pete: Meaning that with all do respect, I was one of those commenters that made my points and objections with respect to your jokester assessment of the former President as I appreciated your own professional medical oversight prowess. However, Dr. McCullough, your contention about former President Trump had an overtone of disrespect that could only be attained by seven years of 90% media bias propaganda intended to create TDS. This, we now know was derived from the uniparty under the Democrat banner that apparently have no problem doing end arounds the Constitutional Republic. They adopted totalitarian methods of silencing via censor and disappearing dissent. Pretty harsh stuff losing a career of 15-20 years in medicine with family living week to week, just to maintain body sovereignty and finding that by protecting one’s family one’s family must suffer. This is not about dueling opinions or political prose. You should know that, so why even give those afflicted with TDS any concern at all, unless you yourself have “long” TDS that is unsettled. We conservative investigators who can’t help but believe in and respect the actual science of why and what then know this was all intentional to effectively be the driving engine of the great reset because of the obvious collaboration with WEF stake holders with their hooks in CCP/Black Rock/ Pfizer ilk money and their lapdogs at WHO, CDC, and NIH to name a few. Their sponsored pundits have time and time again been proven liars and censors like their installed figurehead, a factual life time plagiarizer and sociopathic liar. As a professional I assume those who plagiarize are contemptible to you? Let’s level the playing field once, just once. Until then doctor, those who realized from the beginning that all the conspiracy theories would come true do not want to hear from or about why some dislike Ogres’ tweets that were painted and tainted by bias media. If you are going to accept credit for standing up against the feigning, hair on fire, morally superior liberal Marxist useful idiots’ who supported the criminal attacks on President Trump then give credit to he who stood with you on truth, even if he succumbed to the real time pressure, lest he be charged directly with every supposed death from Covid real or fabricated. Trump made the decision to trust the established institutions of WHO, CDC, NIH and the little man and woman collaborators. We feel your pain. But perhaps it was you in the room who should have been more assertive even if you had to in an undignified manner stand on the conference table to make your point, since you were invited as a trusted expert as well. Allow this combat veteran to opine a bit of advice. Having suffered the slings and arrows from deceit yourself, you have a right to be upset that the Commander in Chief did not completely take your advice given real time circumstances but you should realize we are still under attack and know not to nitpick the Commander in Chief with the world on his shoulders, lest you risk being thrown out of the foxhole you are in.
Absolutely spot on. Agree 100%
I understood what you were saying, John. I am trying to be very fair with my opinion of Trump, what he's done well, and not, and what his position and attributes are.
In your theme, you stated early-on that your opinion, and the position you took as you wrote your opinion in this particular essay, would help in convincing the reader of the truthfulness about Trump. You made and suppoted your argument that healing our nation's divide, and our passions against each other, was the most important challenge that our next President will need to face.
Here where I differ, and I am certain that I'm correct. "Healing our peoples' divide" is not, and will not be, our nation's "MOST important" challenge in January 2025.
I am forced to take you literally in your essay. You wrote "the MOST important" challenge. As a writer you are keenly aware, and no doubt accept, the importance in writing non-fiction of choosing the best, most accurate words that will clearly convey your point.
Since words are everything to a writer, and indeed, you can write well, I do hold you to your use of the word "BEST."
Now that I have gotten that out of the way, unlike you, I am certain that our next President's MOST important challenge is to keep us alive and as healthy as possible. Keeping us from dying, or having serious injuries from future WEF and WHO mandates to vaccinate, mask, quarantine us away from our familes in facilities, shut down our businesses, take our land and businesses for a pittance, and hunt us down and jail us if we don't comply.
Therefore, Trump's first, MOST important, challenge is to protect our lives. You can't heal division within us if we aren't alive. After that, yes, we certainly will benefit greatly from getting along.
620,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War between 1861-1865, which remains the greatest calamity that has ever befallen this nation. It would be naive to think that civil war could never again happen in this country. If it happens (and I hope that it never will) it will be, in no small part, a result of politicians inflaming public passions and factions.
Now come on, John I never SAID that a civil war wouldn't happen. It might.
But, the MOST crucial thing for the next President to be will be quick and easy, and will to save people from the dangers of the WHO and the WEF by Executive Order, and two letters, that we immediately withdraw (two days to draft and DHL overnight.) Then, an Executive Order that no vaccines will ever be mandated, and that all vaccines in the future must be properly tested for at least ten years, and to definitely convince an appropriate panel that the vaccines are indeed safe and effective.
You can't fix division among people if they're already dead.
I agree that "it would be extremely important that this country not devolve into civil war."
First, I agree with you that it is always extremely important that we not devolve into civil war.
Second, I think I know where John is going with his article statements. I promise you, that being a writer, he definitely chose that partucular word with great intent. To writers, it makes a great difference. An an attorney, I have engaged in writing professionally for 42 years.
I understand your opinion that I am nitpicking, however, if we're speaking and advocating for or against a Presidential candidate, and about civil wars, it is important to be precise -- and that is the word to describe me, not the word "nitpicking."
Nitpicking means one is arguing about something somewhat unimportant, like a husband and wife argument like this: "You did, too, say you wanted me to bring home green ice cream. I did, I got pistachio!"
"No, you are so wrong. I said get SHERBET--LIME SHERBET!
Now, THAT'S nitpicking over something not worth an argument--a dessert.
Here, it is very important to use PRECISE words in making our positions clear on things such as civil wars and our next President, because we are dealing with VERY important subject matter.
Now, Trump has to be President before he can take actions. So, too, would RFK Jr. Once President, Trump can issue and effectuate the two Executive Orders I mentioned regarding Big Pharma's vaccines, and our exiting the WHO, on days one and two of his Presidency.
Two days and it's done. No more mandated vaccines, lockdowns, no Emergencies announced by the WHO for CLIMATE LOCKDOWNS, etc. Yes, if we stay in the WHO, after May 2024, they can lock us down, and they will, as they alone can announce that the world is now subject to a CLIMATE EMERGENCY.
So, I asked myself, "Why would my advocating how important it is that our President take (only) TWO DAYS to prohibit pharma vaccine mandates and get us out of the WHO, bother John so much for him to take time to retort back to me, when, out of 200 comments, he replies only to perhaps five or six?"
My answer has to do with the fact that John wants RFK Jr., not Trump as President. Well, so what, you might ask? Well, RFK Jr. was asked by J.J. Couey at a video rountable a couple of weeks ago, if he would exit the WHO as President, and JJ added that many, many people want to know. RFK Jr. replied that he did not like the WHO's proposed Treaty (not to be confused with the WHO Regulations), but that many poor people all over the world are helped by the WHO. (Importantly to RFK, Jr., the WHO advocates and protects CLIMATE CHANGE actions, as well. - my comment). JFK hem hawed and wouldn't commit in the video interview to exiting the WHO.
Now, RFK Jr. makes no bones about it that he completely believes in and supports CLIMATE CHANGE. I had suspected RFK Jr. would not agree to exit the WHO, for this and a couple other reasons, despite the fact that when the next President takes office, the WHO can, unilaterally, force all its members into vaccine mandates, quarantines, business lockdowns, mask, testing, and prohibit traveling. The WHO doesn't need the TREATY that RFK Jr. said he doesn't like, in order to cause us great suffering. They can do that as of May 2024 by, instead, using their AMENDED REGULATIONS, of which they are in the process of "negotiating," as we speak.
So, back to John. If he states that, "Yes, our next President would be doing well spending the first two days in office to exit the USA out of the WHO, (btw, we are currently paying about $800 million per year,, more than three-fourths of all the WHO membership money, to be a member of the WHO), and prohibiting any pharma vaccines mandates", then that puts the pressure and expectation on JFK Jr. to do those simple, quick, two-day Executive Orders. He'll probably be ok, eventually, with an EO prohibiting vaccines mandates, however he DOES NOT WANT TO EXIT THE WHO. Why else would he put off doing those important EOs first thing?
If people like John can help convince any Trumpers who might be a little disgruntled with Trump, that we must be scared, fearful, and terrified, and we must "heal the divide" first and foremost or face Civil War that very next day, they probably believe that people will then think, "Well, who is fomenting this divide? If it keeps us out of a Civil War, should we abandon Trump and support the good-natured, handsome, almost perfectly speaking, calm, JFK Jr., even though he will never be able to ever back down from that he has been convinced of, and worked against, --CLIMATE CHANGE-- ever since he was a child measuring the height of water rising and lowering in a lake near his teenage home?" (one of the stories he told us of his teen-aged years?" - my comment.)
Is John Leake that smart? Oh yeah.
Thanks. New information for me about RFK jr-- not willing to dump the WHO. Concerning.
Regardless, I am figuring his chances of becoming president are minimal, at best. He is mostly unknown and if he runs against Biden or other Dem. Candidate will only distract from their anointed one(Newsom? if Biden is out?). If he continues to run as a third party candidate he could nicely distract mostly the Dem. vote to reduce the Democrat's ability to take the whole election like Ross Perot did for the Republicans.
I still don't think Mr Leake planned this article to accomplish the goals you have in mind; fodder for a new article perhaps.
Neither of us will know for sure his intention, I agree, but my concern is about Trump people who might ead it and other articles, then vote Independent, thereby take votes away from Trump.
I hear ya'.
But, this is a pretty conservative group and I am doubtful too many will vote independent. My opinion only, but barring huge election rigging by the Dem's, I believe nearly ANY conservative candidate will win if Biden is still around to run.
Jennifer you make all good points and agree. I would bet John agrees for the most part too. However, it appears you are nitpicking on a single word. The fact is it would be EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that this country not devolve into civil war for the very reasons he points out-- all the death and destruction and economic collapse. Who is to say it is "MOST" or almost MOST?! . . . and, who is to say, that Trump or any other new, "correct" thinking president would be dragging his feet to do the very things you suggest?
Just because John's essay topic and solution do not fall in line with your own pet peave about the last 3 yrs of hell, does not mean he is off the mark.
I think my reply to you has been removed, but I'm not sure about that. Darn, I spent a long time writing back to you. Sure, he may not be off the mark; I wrote my opinion. BTW I see nitpicking, for ex. as when a wife and husband argue about something rather inconsequential, for example, because he brought home, say, pistachio ice cream but she asked him for lime sherbet.
THEN CAN THE DEMONICRATS