That's The Bottom Line 08/17/24

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to cover as usual, so let's get started. The Federal of Investigation says it is investigating a computer hack on former President Donald Trump's twenty twenty four campaign by an Iranian group working from the ay Atolas. It's a leak operation, suggesting that the Iranian regime is looking for ways to interfere with this year's US presidential election. They're working against

Trump as much as any Democrat operatives are the Iranians. No, they know Trump's on the American side, and anybody that's against Trump on his house. That's saying, go the enemy of the friend of the enemy of my enemy is my friend, right, That's the way they look at it. According to published reports, Iran has quickly emerged as the

chief election security concern within the US government. If true, this means Iran has joined Russia with being a pre eminent threat to the forthcoming US presidential election and the main objective of the Iranians is to generate discord with the twenty twenty presidential election work and to have former President Donald Trump defeated. Makes one wonder if indeed the FBI would seriously seek to prevent Russia from Iran working to interfere with the election. They don't like Trump anymore

than the Iranians do, it seems to me. Last week, the Trump campaign said it had been hacked by foreign sources hostile to the United States. The report went on to say those hacked items were then shared with domestic news sources already hostile to the Trump campaign as any anti Trump as anti Trump democrats and the news media have been toward Trump and they continue to be. Makes one wonder if the Democrats are involved in some bizarre

attempt to undermine the Trump campaign for presidency. I guess they might be. That's in their cause, right, But it is what it is within the hostile separation of American political parties being as they are, and that it is not beyond the realm of understanding that underhanded political operations to consort with foreign enemies of the United States to help the cause of opposing political entities seeking more power. Well, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that that's what's

going on. It is not unrealistic, ladies and gentlemen, to think the domestic political factions within the US would join forces with foreign enemies to acquire more power over domestic political opponents. But then things have gotten so out of control in recent years, it is not unreasonable to consider the probability of government forces to side with political allies still soft opposed to the cause of freedom, as we do here in the United States. Oh boy, I'll tell

you what, ladies and gentlemen, nothing's unreasonable anymore. Consider that the old saying of the enemy of my enemy is my friend. As the political nature of the United States becomes hardened beyond the precepts of patriotism. But this is what happens when political strength or loyalties exceeds patriotism. And that's really what I'm talking about. In many ways, we may have passed the point of no return with regard to assessing what exactly it is that patriotism in one

country expects of us. Our founders left us the unalienable right to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. It is the pursuit of happiness, which for many is the hardest to actually achieve, because happiness can be elusive, especially if one person's happiness results on the intrusion of another person's wishes. But it is what it is, and as long as one person's happiness doesn't infringe on another person's happiness, then

it all works out well. As in the Golden rule that says, simply do unto others as you would have them do unto you, easy enough advice for most of us to accept. In a world full of so much that brings with it all the challenges of living in peace with one another. One thing remains constant, however, ladies and gentlemen, and that it becomes very necessary to tolerate one another as long as it does not interfere with what we're doing to achieve our own individual success in life.

That is, of course what it is. As we're attempting to achieve what is legal right, we're about to come to a reckoning zoon within our country politically, and the forces of both sides are seeking to convince us, we the people, that what their offering is going to be the best we can do ourselves and to do for ourselves and our posterity. Everything we cherish in the United States is our freedom to pursue happiness and live in

peace with one another. Most Americans, I suspect just want to be left alone to pursue their dreams, whatever they might be. And that's really the bottom line. And anyhow, that's where we're beginning this morning's this morning's report. So let me tell you there's a lot of foreign conspiracies intertwined in politics these days. If we don't if we believe there's no such thing as interference in our election process, then we're just I don't know, we don't know what's

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that stolen honor. You've heard that term before, I know. Yeah, Kamala Harris's running mate, Tim Waltz, who is you know, he wants to be her vice president. He wants she's going to be if she's elected president, he'll be elected vice president along with her. Well, he claims to be a combat veteran and a command sergeant major who served in Iraq during the Iraq War. Mister Waltz resigned and never served in a combat zone. Ladies and gentlemen, you need to know that, nor was he ever even a

sergeant major. He never made that high rank in the military. He served in the reserves, but he never saw combat. When given the chance to acquire the rank of sergeant major and go into Iraq, Tim Waltz elected to not go, and therefore the lie he was a sergeant major in a combat unit also is a lie. If someone can't be trusted with little things, how can they be trusted

with bigger things. Ever since Vietnam, the news media is full of stories about individuals who claim to have been and have seen combat, but either were never in a combat zone or never even served at all. To claim to a war hero or someone who served in battle but did not well, they called that stolen honor. That means they have either not served at all, or perhaps

it served but never saw combat. Anything going back to the Vietnam era is especially dishonorable, as so many young Americans fought and died in that conflict, and despite showing great heroism in the face of hostile enemy gunfire, were treated poorly by their countrymen for service in a war they served in, and for the most part, when they came home, were shunned by the American news media and the anti war movement, which permeated much of the news

of those dark days in American history. You remember that, if you're old enough, and if you're not old enough, there was a period in US history, maybe when you were a child growing up, when there was disdain for the flag of the United States. There's still a lot of disdain from the flag of the United States. And what we better do is we better wake up and start realizing this is the greatest country on earth with

the best opportunity for everyone. So let me tell you about Tim Waltz, who now seeks to be Kamala Harris's vice president on the Democrat ticket. He claims to have been a command sergeant major during the Iraq War. That was not He was in a National Guard unit in Wisconsin, but chose to leave act of service before being deployed to action. Many have served our country with honor in both war and peace, and their service, of course, is

greatly appreciated. But claiming to have been in the front lines of combat within a period of conflict who was not well, that's considered stolen honor. Right. When someone joins the military, they're assigned to units based on their civilian test scores or other criterion assigned to them by the military itself. Many are assigned to frontline combat units because that's where most are needed. Serving on the tip of the spear, so to speak, is difficult, and it's difficult

in both war and peace. It's rough duty, whether there's a war going on or not. If you're in a frontline unit, it's tough duty. It's the real military. You might as well say, I don't know the ones we see in the movies, if you want to look at it that way. But it's not right to claim to have served in the front lines during wartime if you have it, and that's why it's called stolen honor. Tim Waltz wants the American people to elect him vice president

of the United States. He wants you to elect him right. He has claimed honors not awarded him for for his time in military service. He should not have done so simply because it isn't true. This doesn't mean his service should be totally disregarded as worthless. That's not right either. Being in the military in both war and peace can be rough enough without the added inconvenience of having enemy

soldiers trying to kill her mainu right. Sometimes it's a lot of fellows would tell you it's it's it's tougher to be in a unit during peace time than it is when you're actually in combat. Well, that's basically the difference is you know, a but it's a big difference. If you ask me. Because Tim Waltz, getting back to him, stole the honor belonging to others, he should therefore, he should not be considered as an acceptable candidate for Vice

President of the United States. If he hadn't stolen someone else's honor, it wouldn't matter. But he did, and so it does matter. In a few months, we will have the opportunity to voice our opinion on this matter when we vote right. But for Tim Waltz, he's already shown himself to be a dishonorable individual who took credit for something he didn't accomplish. That's wrong. You know it's wrong, no way around it. It's just wrong. And we should

hold our leaders to higher standards. It's like my old platoon sergeant used to say, if we didn't have any standards, we wouldn't have standards at all. And in a world comprised mostly of chiefs and Indians like it is in the military, too many chiefs and not enough Indians makes the job more difficult than it should be to begin with. Any ow, ladies and gentlemen, I wanted to share that with you because this keeps slipping out about Tim Waltz

is Kamala Harris's sidekick there. He wants to be her vice president if she's elected president of the United States. And among the things that he's claiming to be is a veteran of the Iraq War. Okay, why it's not. He was in the I think the Wisconsin National Guard and spent a lot of time there, and that's honorable service. There's nothing wrong with that. But then you shouldn't take credit for what other people have suffered and died doing either.

So no matter how you look at it, and that this becomes an issue, it becomes an issue because well, it becomes an issue because it is an issue. That means the old saying goes, if you can't be trusted in little things, how can you how can you be trusted in important things? I think Jesus said some words that that effect at one point during his ministry here

on planet Earth. So where are we right now? If the American people have the wisdom to elect Donald Trump to another term, it will be what's one of the benefits going to be? Will it will be his administration will be putting up a fence along the border between the US and Mexico. That fence gun is going to

go back up again. It's going to begin the process of sending illegals back to where they came from and continue a un continue rather not an unorganized process, but a very strict organized process for legal immigration with screening rules to keep undesirables out. And if you pay any attention to the news these days, ladies and gentlemen, you see that unfortunately, so many of these people slipping in are undesirable. So okay, now we have a lot more to cover. We'll be back sure.

and I want you to listen carefully. The liberal news media is on a campaign to boost votes for Democrat Kamala Harris, who's running for president against Republican Donald Trump. If you didn't know that, then you better wake up and pay attention, because that's what's going on right now.

Listening to most of the US news media on a daily basis, an unobservant American voter could assume Kamala has the election in the bag, and based on current poling and news analysis, has the twenty twenty four presidential election all sewed up. Well, I'm here today to tell you don't believe it. Kamala Harris doesn't have anything all sewn up in the has nothing in the bag, at least of which would be to win the November election. Today's news media. Listen to me carefully. I want you to

try to get this in your mind. Today's news media is composed mostly of blue state liberals, and for all intents and purposes, in the last several decades, has become the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, and long ago having forfeitted its obligation to print the truth, now they have an obligation to print the truth. They're protected by the US Constitution when they do print the truth that

goes against the government. But they choose, for reasons unknown to be in recent years to be pretty much anti government, if you want to put it that way, or at least anti freedom in the sense that they lean to the left, which is the left as the Democrats, and

they want a more controlled government infringing on individual rights. Now, for the most part, they're all mostly the news medium talking about they're all mostly left wing liberals, opposed to the traditional values that once was the cornerstone of the American Republic. No one but the Almighty knows the future and based on truth rather than fiction. Most American voters are very likely to send Donald Trump back to Washington, d c. For another term as President of the United States.

They're going to try still try to put them in jail, you know, for that nonsense up there Manhattan that's coming up soon. No one knows for sure what's going to happen there with that Judge Marshan and Manhattan. There are several big news items still not on the horizon, but whenever they're released, they're going to be explosive. They're going to be some big explosive the news breaking in the

days ahead. And one of these big news items is going to be the announcement of massive Medicare costs coming your way. They probably haven't heard much about that. Well, wake up, smell the coffee. You got big Medicare costs coming your way. And one reason for this is because so far within the Biden administration, Biden and his cronies have been spending money like those proverbial drunken sailors we so often hear about. As always due respect for drunken,

it's just what they do. Joking fellas just joking. But listen, big increases in what we Americans will be paying for Medicare, and that bombshell that it's going to bring upon us is expected to hit your pocket book before the election occurs. Joe Biden does a reckless spendthrift. He's a liberal, a liberal spend thrift, and you better believe so is Kamala Harris. Expect soon to hear more about the big increases coming to the cost of medicare. It's going to be shrinking

your paychecks, ladies and gentlemen. And here's something else you should know. Today's modern multi millionaire tycoons. Who are these people? Well, I'm going to tell you something right now. Who are these big multi millionaire tycoons, the fat cats. Well, I'll tell you this. Listen to me carefully. They're not big rich Republicans like it used to be when you hunt, when you go back and parken back to the Great Depression decades ago, that's really no longer the case at all.

I'm going to reveal something to you. Most of them, listen carefully. Men such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezo's all donate heavily to the Democrat Party. Up today's two biggest political parties. Democrats are the richard of the two statistically households in the United States, with annual incomes in excess of five hundred thousand dollars per year our Democrat households. Did you know that? Now, I'm not I have no problem with people making a lot of money.

That has nothing to do with what I'm talking about here, But I want you to know that. So when Democrat politicians start raping about the country being run by rich Republicans, obviously they're not telling you the truth. They're they're looking at themselves in the mirror. That's who That's what I want to let you know. Now, don't get me wrong, Please don't get me wrong. This is not class envy.

This isn't anything you know. You're not supposed to honor, you're you're not supposed to be jealous of your neighbor's goods. You know that. So don't get me wrong. I'm not talking in that vein. There's nothing wrong with working hard and providing a good life for you and your family. Nothing wrong that, nothing wrong at all. But by the same token, when left wing Democrats make it sound as if Republicans are a bunch of fat cats feasting on the sweat and work of others, it's not true. It's

just not true. Here in the land of milk and honey, ambitious people can rise from rags to riches, and many do within our economic system. That's the beauty of the United States of America. God bless America because you can be born in rags and end up in riches, but it's usually rich Democrats. You are the ones becoming wealthy on the backs of four people and other parts of the world. Now, I'm certainly not bashing wealthy entrepreneurs who find success in the American workplace. I'm not. I'm not

bashing that. I'm instead saying, work hard and develop American talent and opportunities here in the United States for our own people first, and for others who come here legally and seek to become part of the American dream. That's where I'm coming from. I'm more concerned about those who seek the use or use the wealth of a blessed America. They want to use our wealth but exclude Americans from

participating in great ideas and opportunities. That's what I'm fussing about. Anyhow, as we approach election day twenty twenty four, I just felt it important to remind everyone, as Donald Trump says, when we hear him say make America great again, we

know what he means. We don't want to lose our country to a handful of sleezy left wing politicians seeking to enrich themselves on the back of the working poor by making empty promises and destroy the American middle class in the process, because that just wouldn't be right, would it. That's the issue there. In other words, we have opportunity. This is the land of opportunity. If you come here, you apply yourself, and you work hard, then you will do well back after this.

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