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BACK TO THE BEGINNING
By J.B. Shurk, January 2, 2025

So it begins: a new year, a new presidency, and, for America, a new lease on life. Yet it feels as if we’ve been here before, doesn’t it?

Political juggernaut Donald Trump has ascended like a Musk rocket and vanquished the Obama-Clinton-Deep-State machine. Authoritarian members of the medical community are panicking about “bird flu” and demanding masks, lockdowns, and experimental “vaccines.” National debt continues to rise, and the rusting, sclerotic Establishment offers only war, climate taxes, and central bank funny money as lead-weighted “life buoys” to keep the financial system afloat. The people are finding their voices, and because Western authorities somewhat secretly despise free speech, governments and technological powerhouses are all clamoring for more censorship and A.I.-managed algorithms capable of isolating and punishing dissent. It’s 2025, but as Yogi Berra would say, it’s déjà vu all over again!

Some things are different, though:

(1) Hollywood has been mostly silent since President Trump’s electoral triumph. Aside from D-list has-been Mark Hamill’s whiny tantrums over Trump’s return (a tired role for a tiny man desperately seeking a spotlight), the opinionated nincompoops have little to say. Did the Democrat Consulting Class forget to write Tinseltown some new lines for this season’s soapy political drama? Or are many “stars” from the Walk of Fame too busy chasing bit parts in pharmaceutical commercials and Hallmark Christmas movies to risk pissing off what’s left of their fan base?

What happened to the “brave” thespians who promised eight years ago that Trump would never assume office? I think they all ended up taking co-hosting gigs on The View. Remember when the forgotten cast from The West Wing and some of Rob Reiner’s favorite pod people starred in commercials arguing for the Electoral College to ignore the 2016 results and install unlikable Hillary? So very insurrection-y! Such an attack on our fragile “democracy”! Yet wealthy celebs never got the J6 treatment! Two-tiered “justice” is (D)ifferent for privileged “elites.” Although...I hear there are a few new sheriffs coming to town.

(2) Some of the worst propagandists on cable news are dabbling in a bit of belated introspection. Shocker, I know! Our national “reporters” are so dumb and arrogant that I didn’t realize they even knew what the word “introspection” means. Newly self-aware reporters on CNN: Should we have been more honest about Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive infirmities? Did our endless gaslighting make us look daft and perhaps expose us as information warfare operatives for the State (which we are — fist bump!)? Answer from every sentient American: Duh, you journalistic nitwits; nobody believes anything you say. Learn to code, losers.

Do you recall when “journalists” received so much unsolicited career advice from sensible Americans that they redefined “learn to code” as “hate speech” and got people banned on Twitter? Nobody hates the First Amendment as much as the American press corps! In their small, incurious, and easily managed minds, only people who work for big corporations should be allowed to talk! In 2025, the mainstream media’s mendacious, dull-witted, and self-aggrandizing reign comes to an end.

(3) The same Deep State that gave us the Russia collusion hoax, fake criminal investigations, fake White House scandals, fake news, fake insurrections, fake impeachments, and fake justice (stay strong, J6 political prisoners!) is remaining relatively mum for the time being. I know that our spy agencies are busy overthrowing other elected governments throughout the West (sorry, Romania, Georgia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Serbia, Moldova, and everywhere else the U.S. State Department and Agency for International Development run cover for the CIA’s covert political operations), but shouldn’t the FBI and its seventeen spooky friends in the domestic espionage business be flooding our communications networks with reasons why Russia stole the 2024 election for Trump and informing us that a super-secret executive order from the days of the Cold War magically reverts all power back to Barack Obama? That’s why Obama has been the only president to keep a residence in D.C. after his time in office, right? Because otherwise, his refusal to leave the capital looks a lot like the action of someone hell-bent on directing a shadow government, undermining constitutional norms, dividing bureaucratic loyalties, and biding his time until he can seize the crown.

I’m so used to the Intelligence Community overthrowing our elected leaders (read: Kennedy and Nixon) and blackmailing those in office that the looming transfer of power seems too peaceful to feel normal. The Deep State is usually too coup-coup for regime change to respect the outcome of democratic elections, but here we are on the cusp of Trump II, and the powers that be have thus far failed to prevent his return. Even Obama’s corrupt, commie-curious director of the CIA, John Brennan, complimented Trump’s transition team the other day. Sounds as if someone would rather stay out of prison for fraudulently defending the bogus Steele Dossier, fraudulently labeling the incriminating and authenticated Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation,” and undermining both the 2016 and 2020 elections with Intelligence Community–sponsored lies.

Here’s hoping that we do have regime change this year — and transition from a failed Deep State to a functioning constitutional republic. If we are successful, could someone kindly remind King Barack that he has outstayed his welcome in the nation’s capital? Time for him to sell his D.C. titles, flee to one of his other donor-financed manors, and perhaps “pay his fair share.” After all, Obama could shelter a lot of illegal aliens with his Kalorama mansion, Martha’s Vineyard estate, Chicago retreat, and beachfront plantation on Hawaii. Maybe border czar Tom Homan can help some of Obama’s DACA DREAMers find new forever homes.

(4) The Antifa domestic terrorists, the Black Lives Matter arsonists, and all the abortion-on-demand, “I don’t know what a woman is, but no man can tell me what to do,” vulva-hat-wearing screechers are AWOL. Shouldn’t they be setting fires and murdering people right now — or at least annoying those of us with eyes and ears with their rude, shrill, off-putting, and often perverse theatrics? Have they lost their will to “resist,” or have their billionaire sugar daddies temporarily cut off their allowances? Maybe Kamala Harris burned through all those astroturfing activists’ Soros cash when she lit two billion dollars on fire for her “Make America Obnoxious and Dumb” campaign. I’m so glad we didn’t get MAODed! I’m also glad that the toy soldiers who like to playact at revolution have decided to get high and sit out new episodes of The Resistance. Their performance art is tiresome community theater, and Americans deserve better than their “Che” Guevara cosplay.

(5) Finally, Mar-a-Lago has become the unofficial capital of the world. Foreign leaders, tech titans, and Wall Street honchos have lined up to congratulate the president-elect, seek his assistance, or beg forgiveness for their roles in whatever Deep State schemes they might have helped orchestrate when their orders were to sabotage his first term. So much water has flowed under the bridge, right? Surely we should let bygones be bygones and look to the future, correct? Well, if President Trump’s past behavior is any indication, he will forgive and move forward. It is rare to see a leader so maligned yet so willing to find common ground with enemies. Perhaps that’s the spirit that has made Trump a great builder. It is surely the right spirit for building a stronger, more prosperous America in the years to come.

As for the rest of us, we may forgive the backstabbers and saboteurs in time, but we will never forget what they have done to us or our nation. Our eyes are open, and we are watching. We have much to do. This is only the beginning.

Reprinted with permission from the American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com

HOW TO INVALIDATE THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM IN ONE FELL SWOOP
By Patricia McCarthy, January 5, 2025

The Biden administration, whoever is running it, is illegitimate.

The 2020 election was stolen, rigged to defeat Trump by any means necessary. Many means were employed, all illegal, all unconstitutional.

The truth is coming out, bit by bit.

We should know by now that the left could not care less about the Constitution; they hate the limits it imposes on government, so they ignore the Bill of Rights and most of the Articles. These past post-Constitutional four years have been a disaster by any measure, from the open border to the third world and China to the imposition of woke on our military.

But beyond Biden’s hostility to all things American is his administration’s gross immaturity. It is intent upon poking Trump and his supporters in the eye on their way out.

They are like spoiled little playground bullies. Their actions since the election have been not only childish but treasonous. They would rather destroy the country than make the transition to the Trump presidency smooth and trouble-free.

This bunch is far worse than the Clintonites who stole the letter 'w' from all the computers in the White House as they left.

This bunch is preternaturally vindictive and evil. Everything they’ve done over the past four years, especially since Trump’s victory, has been destructive. More destructive than any other president in American history. And it’s all been done on purpose.

The final indignity the Biden regime has inflicted on the American people is to present Hillary Clinton and George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

HRC and Soros are two of the most corrupt, self-serving creatures ever set loose on our republic. It was bad enough that he gave the loathsome Liz Cheney and Benny Thompson, her partner in crime on the J6 committee, the Presidential Citizens Medal. That committee was a fraudulent panel if there ever was one; it was a theatrical production full of lies, and its members destroyed actual evidence. That committee was a purposeful insult to all the people who have been destroyed by the Biden/Garland pursuit and persecution of anyone present in D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021.

Giving those two a citizenship award is a disgrace. They both belong in prison for their treachery and their manipulation of the facts of Jan. 6. It was a fedsurrection, carefully orchestrated to prevent further investigation of the stolen election. Giving HRC and Soros an even more prestigious award is a bridge too far.

The Biden administration has been pure Stalinist in its targeting and imprisonment of Trump supporters, Catholics who oppose abortion and protest peacefully, and parents who opposed the introduction of LGBTQ sexual practices in elementary schools.

Biden’s DOJ has been solely focused on what they deem “domestic terrorists.” That is who the FBI and DOJ have spent four years harassing. At the same time, the thousands of real terrorists who have entered the country have had free rein to plan and carry out their attacks on our civilians, not to mention the daily crimes migrants and the gangs amongst them commit against innocent Americans.

Biden and his handlers seem to relish the havoc wrought upon those of us who oppose the open border and the chaos and crime it has brought to our cities.

In short, the Biden regime has been sabotaging the country since day one: mandating vaccines and masks, presiding over the Afghanistan withdrawal and the death of thirteen American soldiers, handing the Bagram Air Base over to China, and relinquishing at least $60 billion worth of U.S. state-of-the-art equipment to the Taliban, provoking a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, betraying Israel over and over again, irresponsible spending that ignited the highest inflation in decades, etc.

This regime has been the most purposefully devastating in all of U.S. history.

How did the people who cast their votes for Kamala Harris not realize she would have ushered in more of the same? The authoritarianism of the Biden administration would have become ever more authoritarian, for she would have been another easily manipulated puppet of the left’s Marxist globalists.

‘Tis a mystery. Do they even know that they’ve been rescued from a fate visited upon the victims of Stalin? Probably not.

The presentation of those once-sacred medals to persons so obviously and utterly undeserving is the final affront to the American people who want their country back. Now those awards have been rendered meaningless, invalidated by the illegitimate president who has done terrible damage to all of our formerly respected institutions – the FBI, DOJ, CIA, and all their underlings who bought into the Biden anti-American agenda.

The imposition of DEI, CRT, and ESG made any potential whistleblowers afraid to come forward; cowards all. Consider how different things might be had even one or two of the people who contributed to or knew about the phony Russia hoax had come forward and told the truth or if only one person had come forward to reveal the truth about the illegitimate impeachments of Trump.

But they did not.

Instead, pathological liars like Adam Schiff got their way until the truth was finally revealed. There was never any there there. And now he is a senator! He has no business being anywhere near Congress.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.” --Cicero

Above all else, what we should hope and pray for over the next four years is fearless leaders, people unafraid to tell the truth of what they know, unafraid to do their jobs without the financial influence of lobbyists, blackmailers, and threats. One thing is clear: Trump’s cabinet nominees are all immensely qualified; none of Biden’s were but were confirmed by mindless RINOs who didn’t give their incompetence a second thought. Any Republican who votes against even one of Trump’s team will be revealing himself or herself as a hated RINO, bound to be despised and primaried and soon defeated. If even one of them misses the blaring significance of giving Cheney, Thompson, Hillary, and Soros such once-meaningful awards, they do not belong in Congress in any capacity.

Reprinted with permission from the American Thinker: https://www.americanthinker.com

SUNRISE SIDE REPUBLICANS WOMEN'S CLUB

The Sunrise Side Republican Women's Club holds monthly meetings on the 4th Tuesday of the month.  The location and speaker will be announced for each meeting.  Unless otherwise stated, the lunch will be at 11:30 a.m.