JIM “PAPPY” MOORE: Send in the Clowns

By Jim “Pappy” Moore

My first memory of politics was standing in front of our new black and white television in 1952 and watching segments with aspiring presidential hopefuls Dwight Eisenhower Republican versus Adlai Stevenson Democrat. I had no idea what it was about at age three, but that did not stop me from standing a few feet from the screen and listening. By 1960, I would be hooked on politics and watching the Kennedy versus Johnson convention fight, followed later by the Kennedy-Nixon debates. 

I sat with my Dad in the summer of 1960, watching on our black and white TV the Democratic Convention, as the nominees of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson were getting votes from various states. As the name of each state was called, someone would step up to the microphone and say “the great state of Texas casts all of its votes for the next president of the United States, Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson!” Pomp and circumstance would follow. It was great excitement for a boy on the verge of being eleven years old.

I did not know the outcome was largely known by everyone but me. To me it was hanging on every vote announced. Daddy told me we were for Lyndon Johnson. He was our Texan! And we wanted him to win.

Oh, the things each side said about the other. It was pretty strong stuff. When the dust settled, that Kennedy fellow was the Democratic nominee. Then something I could not fathom happened. He chose our guy – Lyndon B. Johnson – to be his running mate in the vice-president slot. That is when I knew something was odd about the way politics worked.

Lord have mercy! Oh, for the days when competent people were the face of other administrations. The Biden Brigade has set a new low in personnel. Never in our history has a presidential administration looked and acted like a clown car at the circus, with all manner of clowns piling out with their buffoonery. 

President Biden’s press secretary – Karine Jean Pierre – is the person who faces the friendly press and spews one big lie after another. If she’s talking, she’s blabbering nonsense. She is thoroughly incompetent for the role of press secretary. Lying is her only job under Biden.

Then there’s President Biden’s Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, who was born a man and in his mid-fifties transitioned to being a trans woman. Biden also made Levin a four-star Admiral who wears a uniform with such proclaiming it. The whole thing brings to mind the lyrics of Gilber and Sullivan’s song “and now he is the Ruler of the Queen’s Navy!” It’s upside-down world in Biden land.

Homeland Security is headed by a man who should be called Secretary of Bringing Millions of Illegal Immigrants Into America. He is being impeached and should be removed from office but he probably will not be since Democrats control the U.S. Senate. Elections do matter.

The United States is upside down. People who hate everything about our history, about the founders, about the freedoms we treasure, want to end it as we know it. They want big cities running the country. The same big cities that create the environmental disasters they cry the most about. The same big cities who have run big cities into the ground for decades. The same big cities who call 90% of the country “fly over” lands. They want to steal your freedoms. You have to get out the vote and stop them. Vote the first day voting is allowed. That is the only way to make sure YOUR vote is counted as yours. Numerous people in the country went to the polls on election day in 2020 and were told they had already voted. Don’t let that happen to you. Vote the first day you can.

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