by Clayton Tramel
I don’t know her name. I don’t know where she currently lives. All I can assume about her is what she told us on the sidewalk outside of Madison Square Garden.
A male reporter I don’t recognize, probably local, was in the crowd acknowledging the enthusiasm for former President Donald Trump when she jumped in and took his microphone.
She looked close to retirement age. She spoke English well, though somewhat broken. She said she was first generation Chinese, and now a legal US Immigrant.
She also spoke more truth in two minutes than any candidate or any news anchor has said this entire election cycle.
A combination of her demographics, broken English-accent, and unrivaled love for Trump made the start of her speech the type of viral video that spreads like a wild fire because it’s funny. The twitter post I saw it shared from had phonetically captioned to accommodate the video “Kamawa is sooooo Stoopid.”
I laughed. Again, elderly female Chinese immigrant is not exactly who comes to mind when you think of Donald Trump’s base. But then she kept going.
“Kamala is not qualified for that position. She has lost our trust! She has lost our vote! She needs to go away. You cant answer any question! How can you fight for America? To protect American people. To protect the world!”
Sure, she was preaching to the choir at this point. I’ve long asked the same questions as every Kamala Harris voter I’ve encountered only can offer words against Trump and not for Harris. Do people realize what they’re voting for? If she has to take two days off to prepare for a one person CNN town hall, how many days off does she need when America needs immediate leadership?
The crowd began to cheer with her. Then she said something that really hit home for me of what this election is all about: “you need to let Trump save America, then America can save the world. To put America first, for America to be strong and safe, and then America can save the whole world.”
That’s it. End of story.
Put it on t-shirts. Put it on coffee mugs.
This election is about so much more than Donald Trump winning or losing. Those planning to vote against him don’t seem to factor what they’re empowering just to spite him.
The saying is Country over Party. The Democrats are Party over Country.
There is no excuse for the immigration debacle they opened up by reversing Trump’s policies. None. We need immigrants, but not the unchecked floodgate they opened. It doesn’t make us safer. It doesn’t make us better. It just gives the party of Evil more avenue for power.
They will weaken the Country to hold onto influence.
They will weaken the Country to hold onto influence.
Invite…no…incentivize as many illegal immigrants as you can to enter the Country, strip election integrity under the guise of dismantling voter suppression, and promise immigration amnesty if you vote for them.
You get the vote of the immigrants who came here unjustly, and the vote of the Liberal whose feelings don’t care about your facts.
But back to what my new hero was saying: “save America, then let America save the world.” We are by far the most blessed Nation. We should continue to be the bedrock of the Globe.
But what does that look like?
Let’s say, we’re all on a boat. Every country. And while you’re playing along with this, I mean a boat with a wooden oar. Not an extravagant cruise ship that hits an iceberg and one rich woman floats on a wooden door that could easily have fit two people.
We’re on a boat.
On our boat, we switch Captains every four years by letting the people in the boat decide who gets to be the Captain and lead us where we go.
It used to not matter as much because, except for some limited choppy water, both Captains wanted to end up in the same place.
Now…not so much.
I have no idea what’s gotten into the Captain’s in blue over the last ten years but for some reason they keep wanting to take us into some pretty ominous waters.
Also, there’s other boats. And those boats need help.
Captain Blue gets an idea. If he lets more and more people from the other boats onto his boat, they’ll see what he did for them, and along with the emotional (but not rational) passengers, they’ll keep voting for ‘ol Blue because of what he (have I really made it this far with using gendered language?), or should I say, he/she/they/them/ze/zir/Joe/Kamala is doing for everybody. Keep letting unlimited people on the boat.
And pretty quickly, the boat will sink.
It’s like the guy said to his wife trying to zip her dress after eating too many sweets: “you cant stuff a mattress in a pillow case.” Well, you cant put too many bricks in a boat either.
Captain Red rally promo outside Madison Square Garden
Captain Red has an orange face, and hair, inexplicably, like golden straw. He understands that other boats need help too, but he’s not going to sacrifice the people in his boat to save the others. And not just because he’s prioritizing his people either, but because the other boats have a better shot to make it when his boat is stronger.
Captain Red wants to help others fix their boats to make them sustainable. Not drown his to appease the illogical emotions of his detractors.
He makes his boat better by making it stronger. More self sufficient. Not taxing it to death or ignoring it’s natural resources. By not dividing his passengers based on the color of their skin or where they start in life. He realizes they’re all in the same boat now.
He’s gotta have strong shoulders. Captain Blue is going to call him Hitler and spread misinformation that his detractors will accept as gospel. It’s not easy being the Captain. But some people on the boat get it.
“Trump, we love you Never ever surrender! Fight fight fight! Fight for Trump! Fight fight fight!”
Remember the Chinese immigrant before we got all boatey? That’s how she ended her speech. She gets it.