All of our TV screens are awash with self-interest and aggrandizement as we watch this desperate grasp for the aphrodisiac of power play out before our very eyes starting with Joe Biden who is attempting to cling to power with fingernails while the ‘grim reaper’ is dragging him by the ankles toward the nursing home and eventually the grave.
But it is not just the current president. Perhaps more accurately, it is Jill who insists he stay in the race because she is enjoying being president along with Hunter. But all of Capitol Hill is caught up in only one thing, “How does all of this affect them individually in their own positions of power?” If they stand to lose by him remaining in the race, they are against him but if they think there is a possibility that their positions down ballot are better protected by him in the race, they will back him even if he has had a stroke and has passed away. If they could pull it off, they would prop him up in a chair and run him for office again. Senator Joseph Kennedy said it. “You will find no wisdom in the Congress”. They’re all just interested in how Biden’s situation affects them.
Why do men like Biden put their own selfish self-interest (or pleasing their wives dictates) ahead of their country?
On TV this morning, I saw an advertisement for the very worthy organization Tunnel to Towers Foundation (seeking worthy donations for those who have lost an arm or a leg or all their limbs in combat). Every one of these soldiers deserves a salute for putting his life on the line for all of us and for putting his nation ahead of himself. We salute this noble heroic soldier!!! To Biden we take the same hand used to salute, close the fingers, and give the thumbs down! He puts himself first; his own selfish quest to hang on to the aphrodisiac of power – never mind the damage caused to our national reputation around the world.
What he insists upon doing makes no common sense. Let’s take the pilot of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet who has riding behind him in the plane all those passengers, men and women, children and babies. He wasn’t assigned to pilot a Boeing 747 right out of flight school. He started with a small airplane in which he learned, and was promoted up the ranks until eventually he found himself at the controls of the biggest plane. If he becomes aware of cognitive decline in himself (something that only he and his wife know about to begin with), does he keep flying for the status and feeling of power of it all? Or do he and his wife decide amongst themselves at their kitchen table that it’s time to take early retirement and travel and see the grandkids like they have always looked forward to anyway. Prayerfully, for the sake of you and I who might be flying, he does the right thing. Prayerfully, for the sake of the nation, this current president (oldest in the history of the nation) in marked cognitive decline (merely the look in his eyes says there is nobody home), will muster the same selfless commitment of just one wounded combat veteran, take a victory lap and bow out. He is making a fool of himself and a fool of the nation for all the world to see. He is a SECURITY RISK TO THE NATION!
The world is watching and those nations of the world who wish us ill are coalescing and coming together in what Ronald Reagan would have called an “axis of evil” (Russia, joined with Iran, and they together joined with China, and Putin two weeks ago flagged North Korea where we see the red carpet reception on the tarmac, they being given a hero’s welcome in a parade through town with the North Korean leader – thereby completing the circle) – the ‘axis of evil’ that wishes us ill.
The word ‘nuclear’ is back on the lips of world leaders (Putin has threatened to go nuclear if we don’t stop helping the Ukraine). The head of North Korea before that (when President Trump was in the White House) told the U.S. President he had a button (implied nuclear) on his desk. Trump replied that he had a button too and that his button was bigger and it worked! That settled that – or at least settled it for the time being. Now North Korea is courting Putin (who has a button that is as big as ours that works), and now North Korea can obtain nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles as big as ours from Russia that work.
Meanwhile, in our own nation, the word ‘nuclear’ is back on the lips of those in Congress (they are asking the question. “Do we want someone with dementia to continue to be in possession of the nuclear codes?”)
Yes, our nation has in place a system as fool proof as we can make it safeguarding our nuclear arsenal and providing that not a single nuclear weapon in our arsenal can be launched without an order to launch and a matchup of the nuclear codes. They are changed all the time and are contained in a briefcase someone carries for the president at all times. It remains with him except when he goes to bed at night and then he takes the briefcase personally and places it at his bedside.
When the dam broke following the debate last week, the leaks began to flow out of the White House. What’s this we heard about Jill moving the briefcase to her side of the bed at night? What? The telephone is on her nightstand to take that call at 3 am in the morning? Yes. She (and Hunter) can readily match up the nuclear codes as coming from the president himself. Am I missing something here? This is insanity! At President Trump’s rally in Florida on July 9th, he stated “I’m told that Hunter Biden is calling the shots at the White House.”
Let’s consider Putin’s reaction to all this. Newt Gingrich stated on Fox News during an interview last week that Russia has brought a nuclear submarine off the coast of Havana, Cuba, (90 miles from the tip of Florida) along with 5 Russian destroyers. Biden is oblivious, and Hunter and Kamala Harris are standing in Biden’s shoes to soak up all the power they can. They will not give away their subterfuge of power by taking a stand as John F. Kennedy did and demand that Russia remove this nuclear submarine and these destroyers from their ominous position off of our coast.
Biden is not cut out for the task. He just wants peace and to please Jill. It’s all he can do to summon the cognition and acuity to stay in the race for president which he is doing because Jill demands it (elder abuse).
When someone is in politics, they have to rely upon their spouse to be the one person who has their best interest at heart and truly loves them. If Jill fit this description, she long ago would have suggested to Joe that they take a victory lap and bow out gracefully and enjoy their remaining years together with their grandchildren.
The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) was before the days of sophisticated nuclear submarines. Our spy planes (before the days of satellite imaging – the world’s first satellite was Sputnik in 1957) had taken photographs of missiles under canvas on the deck of Russian ships headed to Cuba. Kennedy realized the risk of this. If an intercontinental ballistic missile is launched from Russia, the Congress and the president (and for that matter all the rest of us) have 15 minutes to seek shelter before impact. The president has such a shelter (the situation room beneath the White House). Congress has them (and has had them for years) beneath Capitol Hill.
What Kennedy realized is that if we allowed Russia to set up nuclear missiles in Cuba (off the tip of Florida), the time from launch to impact upon our nation’s capital would be reduced from 15 minutes notice to 3 minutes notice. This was unacceptable because one nuclear device detonated high above the nation’s capital would wipe out the entire United States’ government, including the president’s briefcase with the nuclear codes, leaving our generals in charge of our nuclear arsenal, helpless and unable to respond.
The system is set up that way to be foolproof, so even one of our most trusted generals, if he went rogue, could not start a nuclear war on his own.
Years ago, automobiles had a metal key. The key was good for putting a screwdriver in the lock and twisting it or hotwiring the car under the dash. The car manufacturers have defeated the thieves as modern keys have a computer chip in them. The computer chip of your key will only fit your car. It won’t start another car. It’s the same if you want to start the launch sequence of a nuclear missile. You need launch codes plus the president’s launch codes. Without them, it’s a ‘no go’.
Imagine trying to start your car today without that little key fob with the computer chip in it. Even in an emergency, there would be no way to start the car.
The Cuban Missile Crisis (fortunately, Khrushchev backed down at the last minute, turned the ships around and ordered them back to Russia) is the closest the world has come to nuclear war. Nuclear war is unwinnable. Einstein is reported to have said that he did not know how the 3rd World War would be fought, but he knew how the 4th World War would be fought – with sticks and stones.
Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev, knowing all of this, met for their fireside chats and did all they could in their lifetime to phase out nuclear weapons, seeking the hope of nuclear disarmament. What they feared has happened – the proliferation of nuclear weapons around the world. This is not good given the fact that man has yet to devise a weapon that he didn’t eventually use against his fellow man. “Man’s inhumanity to Man makes thousands mourn.” War is hell! War is mass insanity!
Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. America has become soft with pleasure. The history of civilization is satin slippers descending the staircase and the thunder of hobnail boots coming up! We need the King of Heaven’s Armies on our side.
This self-proclaimed triumvirate are feeding upon one another resulting in the ill management of national affairs. If we don’t get them out of there, the world is going to do it for us. They were aware that cocaine was found in the White House (they covered it up). They have seen the pictures of Hunter Biden doing drugs in bed with his prostitutes. They have visions of Hunter in bed at the White House doing drugs with multiple women with the nuclear code briefcase open on his lap and all of them curious to see how it works.
Imagine how the investment world feels about that. America is the greatest country in the world with the greatest military in the world, the nuclear weapons of which have fallen into the hands of the wife of the president and her cocaine addicted son who is “calling the shots”.
Let’s imagine for a moment that the tables are turned, that Putin has fallen into a state of cognitive decline and has to be given note cards to know where to walk, where to stand, when to eat his vegetables, etc. – like a child; and his power crazed mistress was running the show in Moscow along with her cocaine addicted son who dropped a laptop off at a repair shop in Moscow that contained pornographic pictures of the son in bed with prostitutes smoking crack. We would be thinking to ourselves. “Who is minding the store?” If somebody in Russia couldn’t straighten the situation out and take back possession of their own briefcase with the nuclear launch codes, we would be happy to send in the navy seals to get it for them. It’s either that or sleep with one eye on the horizon.
In high school, I did a report on the nuclear weapons of the day. I based it upon an informative article in US News and World Report. At the time, we had a 100 megaton hydrogen bomb (equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT). If dropped on Washington, DC, it would leave a crater, one mile deep (think Grand Canyon) and 9 miles in diameter. The entire city of Washington, DC, is a 10 mile square ceded off by the State of Maryland to the federal government when we set up the country.
Stop and think about it. Where Washington was; all its buildings, all its monuments, Capitol Hill, the White House – everything – is gone. There is nothing left but a one mile deep hole in the ground nine miles across. The blast, it is said, would continue to knock down brick and cinderblock buildings for a radius of 20 miles and would continue to ignite trees and frame structures for a radius of 60 miles. (I remember the 60 miles distinctly because my grandparent’s farm is located in Emmittsburg, Maryland, about 60 miles away from where I grew up in the Washington metropolitan area.)
Fortunately, it is my understanding that the U.S. no longer has a weapon of that magnitude in its arsenal. Maybe it was discontinued because it was thought that nothing that powerful would be needed. I don’t know about Russia. A weapon that is one fifth as powerful (20 megatons) is what they call “theater nukes”. They are fired like artillery shells in the immediate theater of war – a much lesser amount of 50 to 75 kilotons (1000 tons of TNT, 7500 tons of TNT). Of course, regardless, you have radioactive fallout. It’s carried by the wind and it circles the globe.
The late Dr. Jerome Lejeune said that he was invited to go to Russia and advise Brezhnev about the genetic effect upon the human species of nuclear war. He said he sat with his knees facing the knees of Brezhnev and they had a chat. I believe it was the gentle, kindly spirit of Dr. Lejeune that caused Brezhnev to say to Ronald Reagan, “Yes, let’s get together,” when Reagan proposed fireside chats for nuclear disarmament (détente).
We have lots of politicians in the world. We no longer have any statesmen.
Have we aborted them somewhere along the way? The preborn child aborted in 1973 (Roe v. Wade) would potentially be a 51 year old statesman (someone we desperately need right now). Where are the Ronald Reagans? Where are the Winston Churchills?
When President Ronald Reagan was about to take his oath of office to be sworn in for his second term as president, he let it be known on Paul Harvey News that his mother’s Bible on which he would place his hand to take his oath of office would be open to 2 Chronicles 7:14 because he thought it was the message to the nation at this time in history:
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
We need to pray as a nation! Prolife America can lead the nation in that! We need the King of Heaven’s Armies on our side. Without Him, we are up the creek without a paddle.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
R. Martin Palmer
P. S. There is a putrefaction taking place at the White House right now, and the stench has reached high heaven. Some of the Congress (and it should be a small bipartisan group) needs to stumble over to the White House and pay a friendly social call and request from Joe Biden the briefcase containing the nuclear codes (this self-proclaimed triumvirate of power including the vice president, Kamala Harris, is not to be trusted after the massive deceit they pulled off on the nation).
Following the order of succession (to the presidency) provision of the Constitution, after the vice president comes the speaker of the house. He should lead the delegation that pays a social call to Joe Biden. He, and he alone, should take possession of the nuclear codes briefcase for safekeeping pending the outcome of hearings they are going to be holding by which they summon the neurologist who has come to the White House 8 times to examine and treat the president. Just as we would breathe easier if there was a similar situation in Russia, and we learned some representatives of their representative assembly had secured their nuclear codes, even so the world will breathe a sigh of relief when we do the same.
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