Please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm a man of wealth and taste.
Oh. Forget that.
I have no wealth and no taste.
I'm just a guy from Ohio, retired, a lifelong Republican who has strong opinions.
I used to moderate the political board on a huge motorcycle-related forum ... until the owner, a Silicone Valley leftist buddy of Bill Gates, et.al., got so many complaints from the whining liberals (this was during Bush The Younger and Obama), he not only dumped me as Admin and Super Moderator, he banned me from the political forum.
Of course, I moved on and Twitter took off. Managed to get banned from Twitter too ... not once, but three times. I never threaten violence or break the rules. But I do a lot of mocking, particularly Adam Schiff, who I suspect may have had a hand in getting rid of me there. When Twitter got sold to Elon Musk, I hoped to sneak back in but unfortunately they were hip to the jive and slammed the door again.
Sigh
Despite being a lifelong Republican, I have strayed from the pack a few times. I could not and did not vote for John McCain in 2008. He wasn't sufficiently conservative for me, too interested in currying favor from the
New York Times, etc. and the way he picked and treated Sarah Palin was abominable. So I voted Libertarian. In 2012, I held my nose and voted for Romney but wasn't pleased with him either.
And then came Donald Trump. And I couldn't stand him; his arrogance, the way he derided fellow Republicans, you know ... the usual stuff. So I left the Presidential part of the ballot blank in 2016.
But there's an old saying, "You can judge a person by the enemies he makes."
And in the time between the election - since I despise Hillary Clinton, needless to say I was happy even if I didn't vote for him - and the inauguration, I saw the most absurd, insane, crazy, bizarre, twisted reactions to his election I'd ever seen. The mainstream media, an entity I despise with the intensity of a thousand suns, displayed their blatant hatred and bias every single hour of every single day and all the Deep State operatives, both Republicans and particularly Democrats, demonstrated their fear of Trump. So I figured he must be doing something right.
And he was.
As the years have gone by and we were subjected to a bioweapon attack on the United States (COVID) and the single worst president in the history of the United States (Joe Biden), and assassination attempts and the continued hyperbolic, completely dishonest press attacks, while the opposition party attempted to jail and bankrupt Trump, my admiration for him only grew.
Donald Trump is a huge, throbbing middle finger to the Deep State establishment and for that, he has my admiration. He's always been an outsider and always will be and
he doesn't care. I don't always agree with him and I sure as hell don't worship him but I do admire him greatly.
I have a degree in American history and Trump is without question one of the most important politicians in our 249 years. No question. Period.
So here I am. This is who I am, warts and all.
It's nice to find a place where we can be pretty freewheeling and express our views.
For that, I thank the site and all the members here.
