Throughout America's history, it seems that just the right person or persons will "parachute in" at just the right moment. They arrived just when we needed them most, and changed the course of history...
(BTW, Remember, America is consecrated in the Name of God. So I think God had/has a lot do with providing us those "right persons," but that's just me.)
There's been a whole bunch of such heroes parachute in at just the right moment over our Country's history. Those who could have turned their backs on us, but chose instead to try and help. There were too many to mention. There were 55 such heroes who stepped up and signed the Declaration of Independence, for example. And 8 of them were hung by the British. So stepping up often carried with it extreme personal danger. And for them and their assistance to the Great Country I love, I offer my sincere thanks.
But I will mention today two who've had the greatest impact on you and me of late. Two who decided to put it all on the line, their personal freedom, their wealth and their time, and maybe even their lives, to help you and me. Here are two who come to mind...
It wasn't so very long ago that we, you and me, the Taxpayers, were coughing up $76,000,000 (that's will an "M") for every ride our astronauts took to and from the International Space Station. For years.
And that check for $76 Million was written to one Vladamir Putin. The Emperor of Russia. And our enemy. Because our Space Shuttle program was timed out, and we'd not bothered to replace it.
Hey NASA, plan for the future much?
In fact, we'd discontinued our own rocket program, leaving it to other countries to sell us a ride. Like a very expensive Uber. So buying a seat for every single one of our astronauts for years and years, was getting old. And very, very expensive. And frankly embarrassing. So expensive that NASA was looking around for a solution. So adhering to the old marketing adage, "Find a hole, and fill it!," a guy who would become a very famous entrepreneur stepped up to create a solution.
Elon Musk parachuted in!
Musk came from an abusive household. His dad beat him regularly. His mom was an alcoholic. Musk left his home country of South Africa at the age of 17 with one suitcase and $500 American and caught a flight to the USA. He gravitated to those with his near-equal in intellect and soon out popped PayPal (I know, I'm a pretty good synopsizer). Which made him a multi-$millionaire. Then Solar City. Another few hundred $Million. And then Tesla. A few $Dozen Billion more. And then The Boring Company. Another few $Billion (there's a giant tunnel he dug all the way under city of Las Vegas). And Neuralink. To help paraplegics walk. And then...Ta Da! SpaceX! In which he owns the controlling interest.
Oh yeah, "Starlink" is another of Musk's creations. If you're on top of Mount Everest or deep in the Amazon Jungle today, you can now call home because of the 6,000 Starlink satellites Musk put into place. At SpaceX' sole expense. And it's right now enabling the police and fire and first responders to communicate with each other following recent hurricanes.
Millions are without cell or phone service in Western North Carolina and Central Florida. But with Starlink, they're talking. And saving lives. Without any help from, or involvement with, our feckless Gubmint. FEMA not involved. Chose not to be. And oh yeah, Musk provided the Starlink equipment for free. That's pretty remarkable stuff...
He even figured out how to make booster rockets fly back to their home base and land, ever so gently. Almost ready for the next mission. 500,000 pounds of Falcon Super Heavy Booster Rocket "caught" by the spindly arms of the 400' tall tower from which it had just launched! You might have seen it! It was stupendous! Reducing individual flight costs now from $600,000,000 to $60,000,000.
And the duration between flights using that booster from months to weeks.
Musk's SpaceX is now responsible for more than 80% of all the world's rocket launches. Even the one to rescue the astronauts left stranded by Boeing. Musk's SpaceX received $1.6 Billion dollars in funding from NASA to develop its Falcon 9 rocket system. Boeing got $4.6 Billion Dollars in funding to be SpaceX' "back-up," just in case Musk couldn't produce. To call upon in case Musk's company fails. And Musk is now doing the backing up!
Very quietly Boeing has abandoned its rocket program, taking a write off today of $250,000,000. And at a cost you and me of some $Four Billion Six Hundred Million Dollars.
And lastly, Musk paid $44 Billion Dollars for Twitter. Which was worth somewhere between $10 and $15 Billion at the time. He paid the premium, in his words, "To preserve our Freedom of Speech." And he has.
It turns out one man can have a positive impact on our society. On our individual lives. And Elon Musk is one of those men...
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America had been on a glideslope to socialism since Woodrow Wilson was elected President. More than 100 years ago. And every single Democrat President since has further aided that effort. Continually eroding our individual freedoms while enriching and empowering the "Permanent Government" in Washington, D.C.
(210,000 Gubmint employees live within the "Beltway" around D.C., BTW. And they're going to be there long after the next President and his Team leaves.)
There's been little the occasional Republican president has been able to do to stop it (Republicans have had the White House only 4 out of the past 16 years...just so you know whom to blame.).
But I doubt our Founding Fathers could have imagined that we'd elect an aging reprobate, under investigation for graft and corruption, who trips going UP the stairs, and could barely read a TelePrompTer. And mumbled when he did.
Or a Vice President schooled in the very worst aspects of uber Left-Wing San Francisco, scorched-Earth, soak the rich politics. And then chosen - in a coup - to replace the guy who got 14,000,000 votes, without her ever having received a single one. Not in the Primaries, not ever.
A woman who is anti-police, anti-business, anti-gun, anti-Border Patrol, anti-gas and oil, and anti-Israel. And because the Democrat Party couldn't hide their mumbling President until past this coming Election like they did in 2020, they were forced to annoint her as their chosen, "cough, cough," leader.
And then a builder $Billionaire named Donald J. Trump parachuted in. To try and "Make America Great Again."
Donald J. Trump came down that golden escalator back in 2015 having turned his back on the Democrat Party. A Party he'd backed with his votes and his money for more than 40 years. He was a two-time recipient of the NAACP's Man of the Year Award, BTW. An 8-time recipient of the "Builder of the Year Award." A 3-time recipient of "Man of the Year Award" from Bnai Brith, NYC's largest Jewish organization. Those are Black and Jewish organizations, BTW, which should counter some of those "racism" accustions. Oh yeah, he used to have a Black girlfriend and his daughter's married to a Jew...
A man who'd changed the skyline of New York all by himself. A man who owns a winery, and started an airline, and owned a major-league football team, and currently owns a suite of famous golf courses around the world. And 5-Star hotels on six continents. A man who flits around on his own private $100 Million Dollar airplane. This man decided he didn't like the glideslope America was on. So he risked his fortune and his legacy and what little time he had left on you and I. The American People. And we voted him in. Can you remember that day?
On Inauguration Day, 2017, Donald J. Trump gave his acceptance speech. There were no Democrats in the audience. They'd all gone to a bar or something, literally turning their backs on the incoming President's first day in office. And the New York Times called for his impechment on that very same day. Just because. "Why wait,?" they said...
Trump has been impeached by the Democrats 3 times. Unsuccessfully. He's been slandered and libeled on a daily basis for 9 years. N.Y. State's loudmouth racist Laeticia James ran for Attorney General on the promise she'd arrest and jail him. For whatever. Just because.] she didn't like him. And she did.
He's been charged with four felonies, but only after having declared himself for President. He's been convicted of two bogus crimes, and one paperwork mistake his lawyer made that's cost him more than $550,000,000. So far. The single largest civil fines ever leveled against a single person in our Country's history.
And the Supreme Court just said as much. And will likely overturn both the fines and the convictions...
The "Lawfare" against him was designed to bankrup him, or jail him, or both. To hamstring him while trying to run his campaign. It's only served to make him more popular with the American people. They've seen what's happened and they know he's being crucified. He's been the victim of 3 attempted assasinations, including an ongoing threat on his life from Iran. A State Sponsor of Terrorism. Word has it his fortune has been more than halved by his efforts on our behalf. He's lost $Billions since he became our Standard Bearer. He's additionally been forced to spend more than $50,000,000 on legal fees! $Fifty Million Dollars! His whole family has been the subject of an ongoing effort by our "Corporate Media" to have him - and them - eliminated.
With extreme prejudice.
It seems that if the Democrats can't convince you they're right, they'll just go ahead and try and kill you.
Whether you like Trump or not; whether you buy Trump's brand of politics or not; whether you think Trump's a bloated gasbag blustering orange philandering misogynistic racist money-grubbing fool, or not; whether you want Trump to be your next President or not, you must admit he's the only man in America risking everything he's got to try and stop us from becoming Canada. Or England. Or maybe France. Or maybe Venezuela...
You can vote come November 5th for the candidate of your choice. But maybe you might consider who's invested the most to try and win that vote. You could vote for Harris, whose thin resume and minimal accomplishments are oft repeated. I won't do so again here.
All I can say is if she wins I may have to have my eardrums removed.
Or you could vote for a guy who built the skyline of New York City, helped to turn the Supreme Court Conservative; helped return the vote over abortion to our states, where it belongs; passed the single biggest tax break for individual families in American history; has managed to suffer through an entire year of Lawfare by O'Biden's Justice Department, which no other human could have withstood; has been fined more than any other American in history; works for us for free; and is forced to vanquish our "Corporate Media" and our "Social Media" to become victorious, for us.
Like him or not, he's sort of our appointed soldier, our
"Sir Galahad," our "Rooster Cogburn," fighting our battles no matter the personal cost or risk.
And Elon's voting for him, too!
These two men parachuted in, just in time, in my estimation, to try and put our Ship of State back on the Right Track. When no one else either could, or would. And now it's up to you. Good luck. We'll know what kind of an "America" we have on the morning of November 6th...