This is the Republican strategy for democracy. Starve democracy and it will fail.

January 4, 2024
By Noah Robertson

The U.S. had no funds left (click here) to replace weapons sent to Ukraine, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a Thursday press briefing.

“We’re out of money,” he told reporters....

There is nothing that is going to satisfy any Republican to return funding to Israel and Ukraine. 

NOTHING.

This is an election strategy to hold the House border districts. If the Republicans settled the dispute with the bill that also funds Israel and Ukraine, there would be no reason for current House Representatives to remain in office.

Endangering the lives of people in Israel and Ukraine and allowing weakness to creep into democracy is nothing but a political party display of desperation to keep US House seats. There is no governance here. It is politics creating weakness in the USA and our interests.

If Ukraine is going to be required to build their own munitions, it needs to be on NATO soil as there is nothing that can be built with Russian missiles constantly barraging the country of Ukraine. In order to build munitions Ukraine needs a plant. WHERE IS THE FUNDING AND LAND?

This picture is pure politics with absolutely no regard for freedom or democracy!

There is nothing to fear at the USA southern border.

January 3, 2024

Eagle Pass, Texas - U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (click here) led about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit Wednesday to the Mexican border to demand hard-line immigration policies in exchange for backing President Joe Biden's emergency wartime funding request for Ukraine.

He expressed serious doubts about whether he would support a bipartisan compromise.

The trip to Eagle Pass, Texas, came as the Senate engages in delicate negotiations in hopes of striking a deal....

I love Joe Biden as POTUS.

He stands for everything I believe in, freedom, fairness, unions, but mostly the strength of the American Middle Class. Every month as critics are looking for the weakness in the USA economy there are more and more demands for workers. No real critic can figure it out. Why isn't the American economy collapsing? Why? Because the American Middle Class is protected, nurtured with the vision of equity and empowerment for all Americans.

Joe Biden is a great president. He reclaimed our democracy and now he needs to protect us one more time and he is willing to do it. This is a great speech.

"...everyday people...can govern themselves without a king or dictator..." 

The idea of the USA at the time of General George Washington was and is "One of the highest moral lessons ever given the world."

When will the assault on democracy end?

Pearl Harbor, September 11, 2001 and now January 6th.

The New Yorker (click here) is publishing the full report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, in partnership with Celadon Books. The edition contains a foreword by the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, which you’ll find below, and an epilogue by Representative Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee.

Our forefathers and mothers came to the USA for freedom. They wanted to live their lives in peace and with the right for free thought and expression of that thought. Who would know after all this time that free thought and peace would be an enemy to anyone?

Merrium-Webster

1: the quality or state of being free: such as

 a: the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action
 b: liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another :                           INDEPENDENCE

 c: the quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something                 onerous freedom from care
 d: unrestricted use gave him the freedom of their home
 e: EASE, FACILITY spoke the language with freedom
 f: the quality of being frank, open, or outspoken answered with freedom
 g: improper familiarity  (any inappropriate or unduly intimate or informal conduct)
 h: boldness of conception or execution

See, freedom, is a lot more than freedom of speech. Freedom is a state of being. It is the right to one's own body, movement, and any aspect of life. Freedom touches all aspects of one's life with bold intent of self-expression OR the withholding of that expression.

It is so sad to realize a segment of the American society hates freedom so much they were willing to remove the very document, the USA Constitution, that ensures and enshrines the freedom so many of our ancestors wanted and fought to institute and/or keep.

The USA Constitution is powerful. It has built a nation of people into the most secure and powerful country in the world. And the incredible aspect of the USA Constitution is that it demands peace as the pinnacle of this country's development. The idea of peace is also enshrined with the understanding of freedom, for without peace freedom is simply a word and not a method of living. Peace is necessary to fully appreciate and understand freedom.

What do you want to do with your freedom? 

George W. Bush decided painting was a freedom he loved. If there was not enough peace in his life he would not be AVAILABLE to paint and freedom of expression would be denied to him.

Showcasing (click here) President George W. Bush’s tribute to America’s servicemen and women

...But it wasn’t until Bush had a conversation with Fort Worth, Texas, painter Sedrick Huckaby that he thought to combine his interests in art and military service. “[He] suggested I paint people whom I knew but others didn’t,” writes Bush in the book’s introduction. “Instantly, I thought of painting wounded warriors I had gotten to know.”...

We all know George W. Bush had an abiding regard of the people who served our military. While the military personnel might appreciate a visit from the Commander and Chief, it was often regarded as politics and not profound respect for all that served. So, with the understanding this respect was part of the former president's idea of freedom, to express it in THE WORK of painting is a deeper understanding of his respect.

What if that expression were gone? What if it were oppressed and never even considered valuable? Would our military have a clear understanding of their standing in the American society? 

The value of freedom as granted under the USA Constitution is precious and should never be taken for granted or spat upon. 

Our country is great. There is a reason.