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The Armor of God: Facing danger with coolness and tenacity

In many ways, it was a gift to President Trump to have that assassin attempt to kill him.  Watching him in that rally in Montana, it’s good to see Trump having fun with the issue instead of doing what globalists have been trying to advocate in our culture for a long time now.  This ridiculous Beta male approach to problems, crying about their feelings and destroying the concept of masculinity, to surrender to some child-like dependence on the government to be a perpetual parent has not been good.  As a man, it feels good to face a bullet and an attempt on your life from those who are jealous of you and want to destroy you.  Trump has spent his life building a tough guy image, and he has been challenged in business, of course, and has survived many things that have made him very successful.  But until death has come knocking on your door the way it did in Butler, Pennsylvania, you never really know how you will deal with it.  It’s a similar anxiety that young boys face when they worry about how they will do in their first fight.  And yes, that is a genuine problem for boys.  Girls don’t have those same challenges.  They have other challenges, but winning fights is something that young men worry about a lot.  And men worry even more about facing death with boldness.  And Trump, after a lifetime of building his tough-guy brand, was given the ultimate test with an assassin’s bullet.  And he passed, surviving and throwing his fists in the air triumphantly.  He will go down in history with some of the greatest presidents who have survived such a thing, which positions him well for the kind of leadership most needed now.

One of the things that made General Grant such a great battlefield commander was his coolness under fire.  All through the Civil War, he rode his horse through gunfire with projectiles flashing all around him, cannon fire nearly missing his head by inches, and surviving detriments that would have killed most people.  The Union Army won the Civil War because of General Grant’s tenacity and coolness under fire.  The same could be said of General George Washington, who had displayed similar traits of boldness on the battlefield, especially early in his life during the French and Indian War at Fort Duquesne, also in Pennsylvania.  Then, President Jackson engaged in many duels that could have killed him many times.  He was shot at and hit many times, sometimes to the point of nearly being killed.  And I think of Teddy Roosevelt, who wanted to go to Cuba with the Rough Riders to have an opportunity to shoot another man and to be shot at. It was very important to him to test his valor or to be killed doing it.  Later in life, after his first eight years as president, he was running for president again and was shot by an assassin.  He finished his whole speech before seeking treatment.  This is the kind of behavior that men endeavor to be in.  And I understand it very well.  I have lived my life in such a way. I have had many guns pointed at me and I know what bullets feel like as they pass near you.  And yes, it’s a great feeling to survive those occasions, better than life itself.  It’s even better to know that you can be calm under the pressure of fire and face death boldly.  You don’t feel like you’re living like a man until you do that a few times. 

It is essentially the problem that the Israelites had when God told them to leave the wilderness and attack the Promised Land, the land of Canaan, which is still a point of contention.  At first, the spies seeking a path into battle saw that Canaan was filled with giants, and they refused to attack because they feared what might happen to them against such a superior force.  So they turned away from the task as cowards.  And God punished them with 40 years in exile until a new generation would head into battle with the trust that God had their back.  That is expected in America, with masculinity displayed among the best of our leaders.  They did so when given the opportunity to put on the Armor of God and fight in the face of death boldly.  Washington did, Jackson, Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Reagan, and now Trump.  By not cowering in fear, which is the point of the exile story in the Bible of the Hebrew people, it points to an alignment toward God’s purposes, and a trust that you are there to do his work.  And you are not afraid for your own preservation.  Because God has your back.  For Trump, surviving that bullet gave him the assurance he needed to know that he was on the right path and that he dared to stand up to it.  And I’m sure he slept very well that night and ever since.  Because those are the fundamental rules of the universe.  Not this woke garbage of manhood that the progressive, communist, left has been trying to sell to the world.  For all the same reasons, Israel turned away from the challenge of attacking the land of Canaan the first time when God told them to. 

Behind a coward is to say that a person, especially a man, did not trust to put on the Armor of God and proceed with destiny boldly and without fear.  We should not be afraid because to fear is to say that you do not trust that God is with you and will let you perish before you accomplish your task of divine intervention.  The gunslingers of history, leaders such as Grant, Washington, and Jackson, threw caution to the wind often and faced down gunfire without blinking an eye for self-preservation.  We love the stories of Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral because he faced gunfire without fear and brought justice to the bad guys.  That’s why we like stories of Wild Bill Hickok, who often was the last to shoot in a gun duel but was the one who hit his target cooly and under tremendous pressure.  We don’t like men who cry like babies when danger is near.  Or who looks at their mother’s skirt for shelter from danger?  Or to a skirt of mother government.  We like bold, unshakable men, who will look down a bullet without fear and know that their destiny is in boldness.  And that they can face down fear without reservation and show great tenacity when challenges come knocking at their door.  They don’t sip on lattes and eat pastries when trouble shows itself.  They meet those challenges with courage and persistence.  The way that Trump did at Butler, Pennsylvania.  And in many ways, he shook off a dark cloud hanging over America for many years.  God’s plan was working; he trusted in it, and many people witnessed it in a way that would bring us all out of exile and meet the danger before us in ways that the world has never seen.  And when it’s over, we’ll all feel better about our place in history.

Rich Hoffman

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It was Republicans who Freed the Slaves: Black Lives Matter is a front for Democrat fundraising off sins they committed

It’s a shame more people don’t read or are at least partially educated. I often say that it is crucial to any form of self-rule, or to any success of a proposed republic that the people be educated. Instead our public education system that should take care of these necessities are as useless as a typical BMV, overrun with government bureaucracy, red tape, and apathy that the goal of it is to simply graduate and get away from it, instead of becoming a well-rounded person full of knowledge. Keeping people in a stupid state is a strategy of war, and it is clear that warring anti-American factions are trying to destroy our country with the latest incursion being the Black Lives Matter movement. I was playing Call of Duty this past week and they have ads for the movement on the main page for multiplayer mode, so the riots and protestors of Black Lives Matter is a well organized uprising meant to raise money and votes for the Democrat Party, to oust President Trump in the November elections. Its not about civil rights, the entire premise of BLM is a farce, a charade to hijack the minds of the stupid and to turn them into empowered Democrat votes. But if people only knew the truth, which is easy to discover, they’d be quite upset regarding their treatment and how they have been lied to by the Democrats and their partners in the media who have been using Black Lives Matter as a mask to advance a political agenda for which they are guilty of.

Ron Chernow recently wrote a fantastic book that I read while traveling overseas called ‘Grant.’ Being overseas on very long flights and spending time in airports waiting on flights and transfers, this was just the book for that kind of journey as its over 1000 pages in length. So it was just the thing, plus Grant is from my hometown of Cincinnati and it reminded me of home while interacting with foreign cultures full of socialism and other forms of collectivism that was just an insult to my American sensibilities. Recently the History Channel did a three-part miniseries on Grant, largely based on this Chernow book and it is a good synopsis of that very good work that I think everyone should read. I knew a lot of the stories about Grant before, I have recently discussed a book report I did on Grant in the 3rd grade that I remember very well, but I came away from the Chernow book with a very renewed understanding of just how good and important Grant was to the formation of the United States. Particularly his role in reconstruction after the Civil War. The freed slaves that were the direct result of Grant’s victories under the Lincoln administration gave people of color quickly a very prominent seat at the table of American government and wonderful people like Frederick Douglas emerged to represent their intellectual aptitude for a new age after the devastation of the Civil War had created for the first time in the history of the world a nation of free people.

The freeing of slaves was solitarily a Republican enterprise. Without Republicans there would have never been a free person released from slavery. They were one of the first political parties in the world to even attempt such a thing, so they deserve all the credit for it. It is sickening, and even disingenuous to see any Republican in the modern times taking any credit for racism or the sins of slavery. Republicans stood against slavery and fought to free them. Lincoln tried to make peace with the Democrats by putting Andrew Johnson in his administration as a VP. Johnson was popular with the South and Lincoln thought it would show solidarity by giving him such a prominent role in government. But after Lincoln was killed at the Ford Theater a week after Grant forced General Lee to surrender, ending the Civil War, Johnson took over as president as a Democrat and fanned the flames of chaos, much like Democrats today are with Black Lives Matter, and the KKK was born.

Grant ran for president to get rid of Johnson and upon winning went to work to nurture reconstruction by giving the freed slaves a seat at the table all over the south which was too much for the newly defeated soldiers of that land to deal with. The reminder of their loss was emblazoned upon each person of color they were suddenly forced to interact with. And to make it worse, under Grant, many of these freed slaves were entering government and were adapting quite well to a new age of intellectual forum. Many of these people were noble and very intelligent contributors to the fabric of our Republic and the anger toward the Republican Grant was so intense that it fueled more and more KKK attacks on innocent people just trying to live their lives as newly freed people. Grant sought to put the KKK down with military force, but coming out of the Civil War years the public had little stomach for more garrisons of troops occupying the towns and villages of America so the KKK grew in power as a result of the lack of military force. After Grant it was Rutherford B. Hayes who also as a Republican tried to keep up the abolitionist cause as Ulysses S. Grant had, but voters put Democrats in the House and Senate that further weakened federal intrusion throughout the South as the KKK, filled with fellow Democrats continued to rise in power.

This process would go on for over 100 years robbing the slaves of the post war gains they had made under President Grant. Many of those KKK Democrats would stay in political power until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and it was then, when the writing was on the wall for the inevitable, that Democrats sought to flip the script and take credit for the Civil Rights Movement, a trick that was started by President Johnson in direct negotiations with Martin Luther King. If not for Republicans, nothing would have happened, there would still be slaves. Yet people are free, and have a chance at a good life because of great Republicans like Grant, Lincoln, and now Trump.

What a lot of people don’t know about Black Lives Matter is that donations sent to them go directly to a superpac called ACT BLUE. In essence, it’s a fundraising group meant to help out Joe Biden after he screwed up recently with a public gaffe on racism, so the Democrats are trying to repair his image by starting a race war. That is why the media has been cheerleading on the effort. They make it look like there is much more turbulence going on than there really is. African American’s only represent 13.4% of the total American population and many of them have become slaves to the Democrat Party once again by forgetting their history. Because they were taught incorrectly their roots and who freed who modern people of color think that it was the Democrats who they should vote for. But what they have forgotten is that it was Republicans who fought the KKK and worked to secure the freedom of all people in America. That the war between the whites was put forth by Republicans for the freedom of the slaves, and that fight is still alive, only the Democrats have tried to take credit for all the work that Republicans have done, and that is a serious crime that could be rendered with justice if only people would pick up a book, and learn their true history.

Cliffhanger the Overmanwarrior

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