“It makes me mad when people say I ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who goes running to go fight in another fight, away from the first fight.” Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
November 1, 2023, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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People say Joe Biden is stupid. They say he’s corrupt. And that he doesn’t care, and always runs from a fight.
It sounds cruel, but that's what people say. And actually, as stupid, corrupt and weak as he my be, Joe has managed to do what no other president has done: Reduce America to a shameful shadow of itself.
Even though Joe is no great shakes, either as a father or president, he has set a dangerous example. And kids follow examples.
It’s the reason we have college “kids” who support terrorists.
Of course, Joe had help in doing what he’d doing, starting with Obama.
Guided by the values of the Founding Fathers, voters proudly elected Barack Obama. Unfortunately, he was elected because of the color of his skin, not the content of his character.
And it was downhill from there.
Narcissistic and cunning, Obama used the Deep State to spy on Donald Trump.
Trump was the fly in the Left’s ointment. After Trump won, Democrats were determined that he never be allowed to run for president ever again.
Manipulating elections became the answer. And any person or candidate who challenged an election, or even knew Trump, was targeted.
The persecution has gone on for years. But if you take a look at history and the policies of U.S. enemies, you’ll find that the U.S. is starting to look like China. Like Russia.
How in heck…?
David M. Herszenhorn’s new book, The Dissident can give some insight.
The book traces the career of Alexi Navalny.
Navalvy is an opposition leader, challenging the corrupt politics of Russia and the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.
In this role, Navalny has been persecuted, poisoned, jailed, and prevented from holding public office.
It is impossible for Putin to tolerate a man like Navalny. So it follows, that he has to be destroyed and controlled. By whatever means, arrest, trial, and jail.
In the book description, it is stated, “The Dissident introduces readers to modern Russia’s greatest agitator, a man willing to sacrifice his freedom, and even his own life, to build a decent, democratic country he wants to live in and hopes to pass onto his children.”
In 2020, Navalny went for a swim, and while he swam, his clothing was poisoned by a nerve-agent, an attempt on his life that he blames on the Kremlin.
He was in a coma for months. Afterwards he had to relearn how to speak and walk.
Navalny stayed in a coma, in Germany, from August 2020 until January 2021. It was implied by the authorities in Russia that he should not return, but he did.
And upon his return, he was arrested for violating the terms of probation for a prior fraud conviction.
It made no sense. But tactics like these never do.
Thousands took to the streets in Moscow to demand his release. More than 4,000 were arrested.
In an effort by authorities to block protests, courts jailed Navalny’s associates.
Prosecutors demanded social media platforms block calls to join the protests.
And the Interior Ministry warned that protesters could be charged with taking part in “mass riots, which carries a prison sentence of up to eight years.”
“Jail one person to intimidate millions,” Navalny wryly observed.
This man is too dangerous to Putin. He’s too dangerous to speak, to be allowed to be free. Too dangerous to hold public office.
Navalny has been referred to as “A man who is the second most important political figure in Russia, even when behind bars.”
Does all of this sound familiar? Yeah. It’s too bad, but it does.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.