Who Has Your Back?

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The ultimate act of friendship, teamwork, of love is having somebody else's back. So, who has your back?

Jesus had all our backs. He allowed himself to be arrested, tortured, and killed in a slow, painful way to absolve us of our sins, and to pave the way for our salvation. He knew he was betrayed and could see the future that awaited him that fateful day that we now celebrate as Good Friday. His vision was so clear, so accurate, and so thorough that in the Garden he sweated in a manner that the book of Luke chapter 22, verse 44 describes as "like great drops of blood falling to the ground" in anticipation. Yet he did it anyway, without hesitation. He had, and has, your back.

The mindset that has been restored to our military, the warrior ethos, has unleashed an attitude that finally matches our technology, together forming a lethal fighting force that is the greatest in the history of the world.  Our brave war fighters write a check up to and including their lives to defend our nation, its ideals, its interests, and its people. Their sacrifice is epic, both in terms in the active-duty personnel but their families as well. Our military families are the close support for our amazing service personnel and they deserve our appreciation, love, and gratitude as well.  Our military has our back.

The same goes for our law enforcement and first responders. The stress they deal with, the danger they encounter, the heroic acts they perform daily... their compensation hardly matches their performance and contribution to society. They are our heroes and they have your back, or as they say, your "six."

How about our politicians? Do they have your back?

Let's start at the top, with President Trump, and the Executive branch. Trump traded a Hollywood, fairy tale lifestyle in his retirement years to swim in the absolute cesspool of politics at the national level. He has been slandered, libeled, investigated, backstabbed, wrongly convicted; he even took a bullet for We the People, because he loves America and is- to use a very trite and overused phrase regarding charity and service- giving back at the highest possible level. Because of that he was able to build a bi-partisan coalition of voters and win 2 presidential elections, and in my opinion which is backed up with facts, a third election was stolen. He never backed down and never backed up. He does what he thinks is right without regard for the opposition, which includes the corrupt media. His service and sacrifice is historic, as is his presidency. He absolutely has our collective backs.

Trump has some cabinet members who are absolute superstars, too. Marco Rubio, Scott Bessent, Pete Hegseth, and Lee Zelden, just to name a few; but these cabinet members knew exactly what they were signing up for and did it anyway, serving with distinction, driving the America First agenda, making our nation better, and creating a lasting legacy of service and excellence. Those cabinet members have your back, too.

Let's go down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol and the Legislative branch. Does House Speaker Mike Johnson have your back? Given the tissue thin majority he has managed, which is like herding cats on crack, and the fact that he has stood behind President Trump and actually advanced bills codifying large portions of the president's agenda, I'd say he has your back. He has exceeded all expectations I had for him as Speaker of the House and has turned into a superstar in the Republican party, a party that has precious few superstars but still more than the democrats. Johnson doesn't get anywhere the recognition and plaudits he deserves, but in my opinion, he has done an excellent job and he has your back.

Let's move across the building to the other side of the Capitol to the Senate Chambers, starting with Majority Leader John Thune. Thune has shown no ability or desire to advance the President's agenda, while often being at odds with the president and the will of the people. In fact, while he keeps the senate away pressing the flesh and fundraising, he has arranged to hold periodic pro forma sessions, often lasting just a couple of minutes, to keep the senate in session in order to deny Trump recess appointments. It is corrupt and isn't as scrutinized nearly as harshly as it should be.

The lack of recess appointments is damaging on many levels. Because the president is Trump, democrats will jam all of his appointments, make them face the full committee hearings, full floor debate time, a full floor vote, and not advance them with sweeping voice votes the way every other president not named Trump has enjoyed. Anything to disrupt and injure Trump, right?

Thune knows all this and lets it happen anyway. He knows this is hamstringing the President. He knows that the government- as inefficient as it is- doesn't operate as efficiently without those positions filled. He knows it benefits the democrats with their base both from an energy and fundraising standpoint. He knows it is toxic politically to his own party, damaging to the President who is from his own party, yet he persists. Neither he nor the democrats are interested in putting the people first, ensuring the government is adequately staffed and the jobs they created, are filled. They know that it isn't the best thing for the people, yet they persist to hamstring Trump.

Thune and the RINO establishment have steadfastly hidden behind the filibuster/cloture rule in the senate to avoid passing Trump's agenda, the agenda that the American people voted for, the agenda that has in many cases bi-partisan support exceeding 70% of the American people. Not for the good of the people, but for the good of the powerful.

The filibuster/cloture rule is not law, it isn't in the constitution, it was never passed through both houses and signed by the president. It has, however, withstood legal challenge as late as 2012, despite the fact that the constitution seems to imply that a majority can pass laws and the cloture rule allows the minority to block the passage of laws. The lower courts deferred to the senate to govern themselves and the Supreme Court refused to hear the challenges.

Democrats tried to change the rules in 2022 to eliminate the filibuster/cloture rule, but were thwarted by the GOP and democrat senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin. Manchin has since retired and that seat flipped to a republican. The angry democrat base destroyed Sinema's political career and she didn't seek re-election. They won't be there to stop the democrats if and when they retake the senate majority.

The democrats WILL eliminate the filibuster/cloture rule and the consequences will be dire. Imagine DC statehood, Puerto Rican statehood, an expanded Supreme Court, the complete elimination of our border laws, a wealth tax, an unrealized gains tax, codified vaccine mandates, codified digital surveillance, illegal aliens illegally voting, universal health insurance with single payer, Medicare for all, codified DEI and ESG laws, elimination of gun rights, abortion up to and even after birth, the green new deal, and a complete forfeiture of our sovereignty to the globalists.... All of that and so much more- none of it good- await if and when, and when will happen at some point, the democrats regain power.

So what are we waiting on? The republicans KNOW what's coming, yet they retain a perverse loyalty to an arcane and outdated rule. The democrats don't want to work with republicans, they want to eliminate the republicans in favor of one party rule that will destroy what generations of freedom loving Americans have built. 

Despite all that, the senate republicans refuse to eliminate the filibuster/cloture rule, pass Trump's agenda, pass laws that have overwhelmingly bi-partisan support, do the will of the people, and honor our voting results. Because of that failure to act, Trump is forced to govern largely by executive order, which is temporary unless issued by a democrat president then it is permanent as if enacted by law instead of decree. In other words, it can be reversed just as easily as it was issued, as we saw with the early days of the disastrous Biden presidency.

The senate republicans are way too comfortable having a tyranny of the minority, unless of course they are in the minority, then they are loyal, feckless opposition, instead of wielding their power that was given and entrusted to them by the American people to do the will of the people. 

So does the Republican senate, led by John Thune, have your back? Heck NO! And to even pose the question of the democrats in either chamber of congress is a waste of breath, as well all know they wish to destroy instead of build upon our wealth, freedom, and sovereignty. Just pause and imagine for a minute Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House, and you'll understand how dire the situation is and it can get a whole lot worse.

Let's slide down the street to the Supreme Court. Do they have your back?

We all have the mental picture of the blindfolded lady of justice, holding the sword,  the scales of justice which imply an ideal of impartiality, objectivity, and neutrality; justice without fear or favor, regardless of wealth, power, gender, race; decisions made purely by the law without any regard to external influence but rather with total regard to the evidence. 

That is all a pipe dream at this point in our history. The courts, from the state circuit courts to the federal circuit courts have been thoroughly politicized and are just another instrument of control. The hypocrisy in our justice system is epic. Let's compare two high profile cases we're all familiar with that have very different results.

First, let's look at the Obamacare case, where Chief Justice John Roberts ruled a fee- which is an insurance premium- was a tax, and because it was deemed a tax, could be made mandatory.  Without that tax, the whole system collapsed and Roberts knew it. However, he twisted the law to allow the fee to be treated as a tax, with no real legal basis. Purely political, and everybody knew it.

The second, the recent tariff case. Tariffs are a fee levied against foreign countries as a barrier or cost of entry into the American market. A fee charged to foreign nations for access to our market. The Supreme Court in this case ruled that the tariffs were a tax and not a fee, therefore striking down the tariffs that Trump had used as leverage to change our trade balance, and they worked. The trade imbalance has shrunk by over 25% since Trump was inaugurated.  Again, the court twisted the law to turn a fee into a tax, but with different political results, and both against our interests.

The lawfare that was allowed to be waged against Trump and the people who saw the election fraud and tried to contest it in 2020, the people who were imprisoned and put into solitary confinement over trespassing charges, the comparative leniency shown looters and arsonists during the "summer of love," the turning of a blind eye to the Clinton e-mails, illegal domestic spying, campaign finance violations, lying under oath, clear obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence.... all the things that we have seen the democrat party and deep state do over the past 10 years with impunity. The DC circuit, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of Virginia- federal courts that serve as the praetorian guard for the democrats and left, where lawfare is waged, jury nullification is a way of life, and the illusion of justice is a joke. 

The Supreme Court and by extension the federal courts definitely do NOT have your back. Part of it is congress' fault because they created and fund the inferior courts, but the fact remains, the Supreme Court does not have your back.

So we have three branches of government at the Federal level. Two of them do not have our back, yet we as patriots respect them and honor them. We obey the laws, pay our taxes, help our fellow man, invest and uplift our communities, believe in the American Dream and wish to bequeath it to our children, as our ancestors did for us. All most people want is to leave things for their children better than they had. It is human nature. But do those two federal branches in particular have the same goals for you?

John Adams said "Government is instituted for the common good…not for profit, honor or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men." Adams also described an ideal society and government as one where members act with "justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow man."

Adams and the founders wouldn't recognize the government we have today, where our elected representatives try to play god, don't follow the law, or the teachings of Jesus, who absolutely had your back.

So, on this Good Friday, let's be better men than those we elect, and strive to reach the ideals we all hold dear, and most of all, have each others' back.