What’s next?
Jim Thompson
By Jim Thompson
HCP columnist
No one could have predicted the events of the last 60 days in the 2024 presidential race. It once again reminds me of the spring of 1968 when President Johnson announced he wouldn’t run for re-election, and Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated.
Biden is gone, Trump was nearly assassinated, and now we have Kamala Harris, who still can’t put a sentence together on her own.
Coming up is the Trump sentencing hearing and at least one debate, all before the middle of September.
But what happens if Harris wins in November?
There is a movie coming out this weekend that might give us a hint. Dennis Quaid is playing Ronald Reagan in “Reagan.” Jon Voight has a leading part as well. The Wall Street Journal generally pans the film.
But let’s think about the real times of Reagan if you are old enough to remember those times. Reagan was definitely anti-communist and was not bashful about it. He called the USSR the “evil empire” more than once without apology.
I’ll equate communism with socialism unabashedly. I see Harris and Walz as communists, wannabe leaders of the new “evil empire” – the one they want to make out of the United States.
A clue? In the Harris/Walz pre-taped interview on CNN, Harris is quoted as saying, “While my policies have changed, my values haven’t.”
Other than the obvious – which is that is too clever a phrase for her to have come up with by herself – what does that mean? It sounds like something Obama would write – and perhaps did.
When one looks at the people incarcerated in the past three and a half years, our country has all the looks of the evil empire. Why is anyone in jail for what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 at the Capitol Building? There have been plenty of other riots/demonstrations and so forth where no one was incarcerated for as long as these people have been.
Why haven’t the people who defaced and tore down monuments been arrested and incarcerated? I see these as worse crimes than trespassing at the Capitol Building.
Look at the list of laws passed in Minnesota and signed by Gov. Tim Walz. Are these not crazy? No longer do you have to go as far as California to see the far left, the communists among us.
Look at the show trials that have been foisted on Donald Trump. All these judicial actions were created from thin air to drive him from the presidential race.
Yes, if the real Ronald Reagan came back, he would be able to point out the evil empire already right here. Harris and Walz will only make it worse.
Jim Thompson, formerly of Marshall, is a graduate of Hillsboro High School and the University of Cincinnati. He resides in Duluth, Ga. and is a columnist for The Highland County Press.
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No predictions, just hope
“While my policies have changed, my values haven’t.” - Kamala.
Many Americans would like to know your current policies. We heard your 2019 "policies" before you dropped out of a democrat primary before it even started. Your highlights before you quit were inferring that your current boss, The Big Man Biden, is a racist.
Fast forward when it was common knowledge that VP Kamala was the de facto "border Czarina." Record numbers of illegal immigrants, opiate drugs, terrorists, and sex trafficking slipped by the unsurly bonds of the Biden/Kamala policies on our borders.
Now with very little leadership skills or experience, you have fallen into the role as the current democrat nominee for President. Communication skills: somewhat important, but your off-the-cuff answers and statements have been routinely described as "word salads", meaning: You don't make no sense! Gobbity-gook! As if you're an aloof college-aged protestor that spouts random, incoherent platitudes with bongo drums in the background.
Your ideals (and values) are radical to common-sense Americans: Late-term abortions and abortions on demand. Hawking for money to post bail for violent rioters and others who have committed serious felonies. Squashing capitalism and limiting energy production and resources which have led to record-high inflation and prices for all Americans. And you turn your nose up to law enforcement, to effective military personnel and their traditional missions, and to the every-day citizens that keep and bear arms.
And this Tim Walz... Kamala, are you going out of your way to offend Veterans and other common-sense Americans by picking a devout commu-... uh, socialist (30 trips to China and many other issues that serve as proof) as your running mate? Tim Walz did not retire as a Command Sergeant Major, and he did not carry any weapons in war. Any statement or insinuation that he let it be falsely known are all-out lies and the false information are border line stolen valor cases. And many other concerned citizens are wary of Walz's "friendliness" to minor boys and his self-promotion of being a "coach", when in reality, he was only an assistant coach. (Assistant coaches are vital and their work is appreciated, but to broadcast to the highest levels of news media that you were a Coach, without clarifying you were actually an asst. coach...) That's a rank political ploy to garner more political support. As if Walz is a wholesome mid-western "bird hunter..." More like, Walz is a weird socialist Elmer Fudd.