Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom

By Rich Kozlovich

During Trump's first term he accomplished more than the previous four Presidents combined.  Now, Trump has been in office for six months and in these last six months he's accomplished more than the previous five Presidents combined, which includes Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush, and if I add Jimmy Carter, he's accomplished more than all six of them combined.  In point of fact, he's had to undo the damage they brought to the nation and the world, and Carter is at the top of that list with his idiotic economic and foreign policy decisions, and now some nitwit at the US Postal Service is issuing a Jimmy Carter Forever Stamp.  Even Reagan, as successful as he was, didn't match what Trump has accomplished. 

He's managed to end a number of wars, or at least getting cease fire agreements, for conflicts that have gone on for years, and the left is outraged, and their catspaws in the media twists and turns like the snakes they are trying to diminish, defame, and discredit what he's accomplished, a corrupt media he's pretty much destroyed.  

He's ending illegal immigration, deporting those here illegally, and taken on an out of control federal judiciary, fixing education, working to end unbridled lawlessness, and challenging terrorists including drug cartels. 

He's worked hard to dismantle a remarkably corrupt administrative state including the DOD, DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA and a number of agencies that have thrown billions away, and more often than not, in support of America's enemies.  

I noticed one of my Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom articles being hit, and when that happens I'll go back to see why.  Well, I'd forgotten about those articles and as I read them I thought they were really quite good, and given the insanity being promoted by the left, especially the Democrat "leadership", and media, against Trump I decided I should put them forward once again.  

So, enjoy my Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom Series.   

• Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part I, It's All Trump's Fault!
• Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part II, Did America Really Vote For This? 
• Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part III, Voter Fraud
• Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part IV, Anyone But Trump, Election 2024

 

 

Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part IV, Anyone But Trump, Election 2024

By Rich Kozlovich

American politicians, and media talking heads, on both sides of the aisle, proclaimed, "Anyone but Trump", and got Biden, along with an entire band of insane cretins destroying America, Israel got an "anyone by Netanyahu" government and the results were even worse.   

So, first, let's start with my four Anyone But Bibi commentaries, wherein I show the left wing Israeli government that ousted Netanyahu had only one moral foundation:  Create an "Anyone but Bibi" government.  A government with no shared vision, plan or direction.   The end result?  Suffering, which was turning into a very real existential threat to Israel.  

Suffering really is the beginning of wisdom, and the nation of Israel, after four failed elections in five years, voted to bring Bibi back, and they voted overwhelmingly to do so, allowing him to create a stable government which the disgruntled "Never Netanyahu" camp of leftists have consistently failed to do.   

But aren't we here in America so happy there are 'adults' in the White House and all the departments and agencies of the federal government instead of Trump and MAGA supporters?   "Adults" who think men can get pregnant and imposing communism via diversity, inclusion and equity schemes is mature and intelligent thinking.  Imagine that!

After all, based on the outcome of this last election America is thrilled Target took a "$400 million in losses due to retail theft, based on the Democrat-run cities' refusal to prosecute crime", and voted for more of that.   

And shocker of all shockers, it turns out Americans love high inflation, high fuel prices and high food costs, and think it's just wonderful illegal immigrants are storming over our borders and we're spending untold tens of millions of dollars to house them, feed them, and take care of their medical expenses. 

Whodathunkit.

 

And it seems clear America loves crime, especially violent crime.  Really, America loves crime.  Since its skyrocketed beyond anything America has seen in it's over 225 year history, and America voted in people who are deliberately failing to prevent crime, or even prosecute criminals.  America must think that's just wonderful.  

Then there are sane people who think all that is maniacal, and an existential threat to America.  

We're now watching another "Anyone but Trump" parade of dumb misfit Republican turncoats, along with Democrats who want to "help" the Republicans choose DeSantis over Trump, or for that matter, anyone but Trump, and talking heads, on both sides of the aisle, spewing out the same old narratives.  

Trump's rude, he says nasty things about people, he attacks other Republicans, and horror of horrors, he's unpleasant to adversaries.  And no one noticed that before?  He's exactly who he was in 2016, and that worked then, why would we believe he's going to be any different now, and if that worked them, why wouldn't it work now?  

The fact is he generates media coverage.  They just can't resist fire fights between Trump and ....well .... take you pick, and quite truthfully, that makes him a political genius. Especially when so many seemingly outrageous things he says turns out to be true. 

• The Establishment Is Trying to Divide and Conquer MAGA

I'm disappointed in DeSantis, and he will be a good President but this is the time for Trump.  Everyone keeps ignoring he did more in four years than did the previous four Presidents combined and all the while being undermined by his own party and many in his administration.  Disliking him is easy, he earns it, but the fact is DeSantis couldn't have done what Trump did, nor have the pulse of foreign leaders in negotiations.  Trump must lead the way, and then DeSantis and the others can follow the path he sets.  My dislike for him is immaterial, and this new breed of "never Trumpers" need to get that.

 

Trump isn't the know all be all, and his business failures are testimony to that, but, failure creates insights, and he's the best available.  I don't like him, I will never like him, but it's impossible to fail to recognize what he has to offer is far and above what any of these others have to offer, or can hope to achieve. 

 

None of them have ever negotiated for anything at the level he has.  That kind of experience is priceless, and this penchant for blaming Trump for these election losses are nothing more than GOP projection and RINO ax grinding to move the blame from where it really belongs, the Republication leadership at the state and national levels.

 

It wasn't Trump who agreed 40 years ago to restrict Republican poll watchers, it was the Republican leadership. I wasn't trump who nominated so many unqualified candidates, it was the state Republican leadership. It wasn't Trump who failed to attack the left regarding fraudulent voting, it was the invertebrates in every state and national Republican leadership. It wasn't Trump who refused to fund good candidates as did McConnell.  It was the national leadership.

• Kari Lake fires back at those attacking Trump
• Charlie Hurt: Wrong to Blame Trump for Midterm Losses
• Stefanik Endorses Trump Ahead of His Anticipated Run

It wasn't Trump who is responsible for these loses!!!  The problem isn't Trump, its the fraudulent election schemes put in place in so many states, as Jared Peterson states in his article,  GOP must insist on a return to pre-2020 election system in competitive states or die, saying:

 

All the blather about weak candidates, wrong messaging, abortion and Donald Trump are so much barking up wrong trees. This atrocious Republican electoral outcome will have been produced by the electoral mechanics that the timid Republican establishment allowed to be adopted in 2020, and then to be extended to this election, and - for all the fight on this issue Republican leaders have shown - probably forever.  it’s the electoral mechanics, stupid! 

Here's the reality this election exposed. 

In order to win in 2024, the Republican Party must replace its entire leadership cadre.  Then they, the Libertarians, and conservatives must unite and acknowledge the dire situation facing the nation and that blue America is the enemy that must be defeated by any means possible. 

Over the next 18 months they must plan and execute a viable strategy to offset voter fraud and manipulation.   The 2024 primary season needs to be relatively free of acrimony and divisiveness as the best person with a proven track record and near universal popularity who can win at least 280-300 electoral votes and has shown a willingness to successfully confront blue America must be nominated.

DeSantis 2024? Think Again.  

 

 It should be clear by this time that popularity has nothing to do with electability. Trump filled rally after rally in state after state with countless, full-house, full-stadium crowds, and such numbers do not lie. There really was a red wave in the midterms, but it was macro-engineered to a trickle, as should have been expected. 

 

The scam of  “malfunctioning” voting machines, the shortage of paper ballots, the tsunami of mail-in and late ballots, the temporary closing and slow-downs of polling stations, and so on would have been sufficient to determine an electoral result. 2020 was an early run for 2022, which in turn should be regarded as a template for 2024. I am absolutely sure that the Dems are now, even as we speak, preparing favorable ground for the next presidential election. As Stalin is reputed to have said, “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.” To make Trump responsible for Democrat malfeasance is wholly misguided.

 

Every movement has a leader that represents all for which that movement strives.  And invariably those leaders are sacrificed for the movement through abuse, and even death in times past, but for sure with unbridled attacks and abuse of their character.  

 

America is suffering, and that suffering is going to get worse, and it will take a leader that will be sacrificed in order to get it all fixed, and Trump has chosen to be that leader.  It will take Trump with his qualities, intelligence, guts and obnoxious character, which is immune to their petty attacks, to cut a path through the jungle of deep state corruption and media collusion created by Democrats.  Once that "shield wall" is breached, the path will be cleared for the main body of culture warriors, people like DeSantis, to sweep in and finish cleaning up the mess.  

Finally, I didn't watch Trump's announcement to run, but I never watch any of that kind of thing, because its all political showbiz, but I do read all the commentaries, and here's one I think is meaningful, and has the video of his announcement.  Trump's stellar presidential announcement reminds us why we voted for him in 2016 

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Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part III, Voter Fraud

The Red Tsunami Was Stopped by Massive, Widespread, Ongoing Voter Fraud - JD Rucker

By Rich Kozlovich 

Recently my friend Dr. Jay Lehr scheduled us to appear on a radio talk show dealing with the issues surrounding this election and our predictions as to what would happen. We both believed Republicans would take the House with at least 40 seats, and take at least two in the Senate and possibly more.  How could we have been so wrong?  We failed to take in to consideration covid.  

"When the scamdemic was at its peak going into the 2020 election cycle, some 17 states allowed for mail-in ballots. Now that the scamdemic is over, only nine of those 17 rolled back to the old voting methods."

This false pandemic gave the Democrats, who've been practicing voter fraud for decades, and in big numbers, now had the  opportunity to expand those fraudulent practices beyond anything they could have hoped for. 

Now, mail-in voting on a massive scale was allowed with drop boxes, ballot harvesting, and no identification needed at all. In short, there were no longer any standards for voter integrity in place, and the Democrats cheat....a lot.   Since they're not being challenged, caught, charged with a crime, and an invertebrate Republican leadership allows it to go on, why would they stop?  The Republican leadership nationally and in every state had to know this was happening and did nothing to put an end to it for two years.  As always these invertebrates were afraid of leftist accusations they would be trying to prevent people from voting and never daring to state the obvious fact the 2020 election was a total fraud.   

• The GOP Did Nothing to Stop the Fraud in 2020 or 2022 — What Now America?

How do they do it?  

I think the best piece I've read on this is another brilliant analysis by Jay Valentine, in his article, How Wisconsin Streetfighters Disrupted a Democrat Ballot-Gathering System, saying: 

Ballots and votes.....These two words seem synonymous, yet they imply opposite ways to choose a government.  There is a big difference between "votes" and "ballots."  The Republicans focused on winning votes; the Democrats focused on gathering ballots.  The ballots won. When Election Day became Election Month, mail-in ballots replaced in-person voters, and the electoral world changed forever.  It is not changing back.  

Democrats, expert in anything government-related, drove states to change laws, increase voting days, loosen voter standards.  Republican leadership dozed. Democrats, leftist non-governmental organizations, Big Tech invented every conceivable way to manipulate the ballot process: collect ballots, drop into streetside bins, fill them out if the voter doesn't.......... There were innumerable addresses where no voter could possibly live.

Democrats know how many votes they need and cast them during the forever campaign time in the name of phantoms.  Their ballot inventory comes from real ballots sent to fake addresses, then collected by someone — never a Republican — and voted.need tens of thousands of phantom addresses and voters.  A few is not enough.  Without thousands of loose ballots tied to phantoms, the edifice comes crashing down.

They also need Republicans to do nothing.........

(Editor's Note:  Make sure to follow the link to Jay's articles dealing with voter fraud, which appeared in American Thinker.  RK

When you have an unaccountable amount of ballots and drop boxes you don't need verification, you need agents to carry out this criminal activity.  A name and an address, and criminals to gather these fraudulent ballots, and a number of how many "drop in ballots" are needed to win, and that's why there are all these delays, interruptions and pauses.  That gives them the time to tabulate just how many fraudulent ballots are needed.

What is needed is for Republicans with spines to demand an immediate return to pre-2020 election system in competitive states or die.  And then each state party must push for an end to this "voting season" with massive early voting, an end to mail in ballots for everyone except American military and government employees serving out of the country, and that includes nursing home residents, which has been a hot bed of voter fraud for years. End ballot harvesting immediately.  Everyone votes on the same day, everyone votes at their polling place, everyone has a recognized legitimate I.D. 

 

As it is now, ballots in the tens of thousands appear out of nowhere, and invariably for Democrats, and in one of three ways.  Divine intervention, beamed in by Scotty from the Enterprise, or out right criminal fraud.   I think Occam's Razor applies here.  What do you think? 

Please review my 2022 Election file, much of it published today.  

Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part II, Did America Really Vote For This?

By Rich Kozlovich

 

I think this cartoon epitomizes the constant drum beat we're hearing from the media and politicians all over the nation, on both sides of the aisle.  If this cartoon is true, then we're really expected to believe this Red Wave failure was America's rebuke of Donald Trump and an embrace of unending inflation, high crime rates, massive spending, massive taxation, sexual grooming of America's children by the public education system, an out of control administrative state, expensive energy and energy shortages, racial disharmony, uncontrolled crime, unconstitutional mandates for false pandemics, and in short:  We're expected to believe Americans supports destroying America.  

Are we really expected to believe that? 

Well, if that's true then why aren't we seeing that being played out in the real world?   

If this election is a reflection of what America believes, then why is it we're seeing corporations that went all Woke, like Disney, are doing so badly?

Their stock is crashing, there are travel restrictions for company business, a hiring freeze and layoffs in the planning, and the nitwits running Disney claim they've been around for a long time and they will weather this storm.  The only problem for Disney is there isn't a Walt Disney in charge.  There are leftist nitwits who caved in to pressure from a small group of radicalized employees, and picked a fight with DeSantis, and lost.  Their share value has dropped 62%.  

If this election is a reflection of what America really believes then why are all these

If this election is a reflection of what America believes, then why is it all over the nation parents are challenging the dictates of out of control tyrannical school boards who are mandating sexual grooming of America's children, pandemic mandates on masks and vaccination and CRT, and replacing these petty tyrants with conservatives who understand they work for the parents, not the other way around. 

Election night did not deliver the overwhelming victory Republicans had hoped for on a national level, but on a local level — in school board races — conservatives picked up a wave of wins across the country. This week, conservatives flipped at least nine school boards in at least six states — Michigan, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, and Florida — giving them conservative majorities, according to two parental rights groups who endorsed many of the victorious candidates.

If that's true, and it is, then why would we believe these same parents voted for candidates who oppose them on every issue involving education, protection of America's children, and societal stability, even targeting them as domestic terrorists?

In the media the far left wing misfits like CNN's Don Lemon are being demoted because their viewership is dying, and I don't think CNN will survive, even under the new ownership.   So, are we expected to believe Americans who are fleeing these left wing news sources are voting for the very things they're refusing to watch?   

 

Are we really expected to believe that?  

 

Crime is exploding all over the nation.  And it's being caused by Democrat leadership and their failure to prosecute criminals properly and often not at all.   The streets of Philadelphia sre so bad Mexico is using footrage of them in ads to scare young people away from drugs. 

 

Defund the police and release violent criminals into the public is an unending theme among Democrat politicians.  Politicians who have absolutely insane views and yet were elected, like John Fetterman.  Are we expected to believe Americans really want to defund their police forces all over the nation, have uncontrolled illegal immigration, create sanctuary cities to prevent their deportation? A constant theme among these leftist politicians.  It's clear these leftist elitists don't care people are being killed on the streets, in stores, and worrying about paying their rent. Daniel Greenfield asks:  “How Could Anyone Possibly Vote for These Freakshows?”

 

In New York City a man was beaten to death with wooden board by a mob.  Was this an anomaly?  No, in point of fact this Democrat-controlled city is facing a major increase in major crimes:

 

".......increasing by 29.1 percent since this time last year, according to NYPD crime statistics. Felony assault is up by 13.9 percent, burglary is up by 28.4 percent, and robbery is up by 31.5 percent.  Furthermore, in the North Queens Patrol borough — where Sunday’s homicide occurred — crime has risen higher than the city rate at 45.9 percent since last year. Felony assault is up by 24.2 percent, rape is up by 26.6 percent, and robberies within the area have risen by 58.3 percent."

 

Are we expected to believe that's what America likes, and voted accordingly?  

 

Well, if what Americans are supporting, and what Americans are rejecting in the real world is any indication, it would appear Americans don't like any of that, and yet Democrats managed to flip several state legislatures, putting those states under total Democrat control.  

 

If Americans don't support businesses, school boards and the news media that supports Democrat policies, then why in the world would America vote Democrats into offices that gives them tyrannical control over their lives?    

 

They wouldn't, so there must be another explanation, which I will address tomorrow. 

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Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part I, It's All Trump's Fault!

By Rich Kozlovich 

This election is a shocker to just about everyone, including me. I expected to see forty seats go Republican in the House and two in the Senate, and I actually thought they could possibly take five or six. Well, I was just as wrong as the rest.  The Democrats will have control of the Senate, giving Chuck Schumer another two years of tyranny to pick our pockets, drive us deeper into debt and destroy the very fabric of America's culture and structure.  

Republicans hold 212 seats in the current Congress, and needed to pick up just six more to gain the majority, and while it's being predicted they will get 9, giving them 221 seats, that's a far cry from what was expected, and now it looks as if they may not even get a majority.  So, what went wrong?  Well, there can only be one answer?  I's Trump's fault ....of course it is!  What other explanation can possibly be acceptable?  Orange man bad, very bad!!!!!!

Well, maybe.....just maybe mind you........ there might be one or two other explanations, so let's do a little analysis on the election, and view the current themes being promoted.  

First off, Trump isn't the know all be all, and his business failures are testimony to that, but, failure creates insights, and he's the best available.  I don't like him, I will never like him, but it's impossible to fail to recognize what he has to offer is far and above what any of these others have to offer, or can hope to achieve.  In four years he accomplished more than the previous four President combined, all of which the Biden administration is destroying, and we're to believe America thinks that's a good thing.  Imagine that.

None of these people have ever negotiated for anything at the level he has.  That kind of experience is priceless, and this penchant for blaming Trump for this loss is nothing more than RINO ax grinding to move the blame from where it really belongs:  The Republican Party leadership at the state and national levels.

• It wasn't trump who nominated so many unqualified candidates, it was the state Republican leadership.
• It wasn't Trump who failed to attack the left regarding fraudulent voting, it was the invertebrates in every state and national Republican leadership.
• It wasn't Trump who refused to fund good candidates as did McConnell.  It was the national leadership.
• It wasn't Trump who agreed 40 years ago to restrict Republican poll watchers, it was the Republican leadership.  It wasn't Trump who crumbled and gave in on what had now become a "Decades-Old Consent Decree Lifted Against RNC's 'Ballot Security' Measures".  Clearly that was the act of invertebrates fearing bad publicity.  
• It isn't Trump who is responsible for these loses!!!

So then, who is responsible for all that?  The Republican Party leadership, and I use the word leadership loosely.   The very same people who railed against Trump are the very ones responsible for every failure.  

Richard McDonough notes the following in his article, Republican Leadership Worse than Worthless:

Republicans have brilliantly supported the Democrat push for early voting and mail-in ballots that even Jimmy Carter’s commission concluded is ripe for cheating, and which the Democrats have used since the pandemic to defeat Republicans..............Mitch McConnell and ten other Republicans — John Cornyn (TX), Thom Tillis (NC), Roy Blunt (MS), Rob Portman (OH), Lindsey Graham (SC), Richard Burr (NC), Pat Toomey (PA), Susan Collins (ME), Mitt Romney (UT) and Bill Cassidy (LA) — all eager to virtue-signal and show how much they care, agreed to the Democrat framework for gun control, not understanding that the problem of gun violence in America is a moral problem rooted in the destruction of the family, the proliferation of drugs, thugs and a “gang culture” in which rebellion and violence are glorified; not a problem with the inanimate hardware per se.

Mitt Romney marched with the corrupt and Marxist-led Black Lives Matter movement saying that “we have to stand up and say ‘black lives matter,’”...........Mitch McConnell came out, and naturally not in private where it would be most appropriate, but rather in public to provide the Democrats a great talking point, and disparaged many of the Republican senate candidates as “bad candidates.”........  McConnell seems more interested in defeating Trump-affiliated firebrands than he is in defeating Democrats..............The feckless behavior by Republicans by no means began recently.............

It was Trump who accomplished much in face of massive hostility from the "mainstream media, Hollywood, and all public forums", resistance in his own party and even treasonous activity undermining his efforts in his administration, and not only did he do well....again..... he did better than all the previous four Presidents combined.  

So now all the hype about the Red Wave failure is his fault?   

It was Trump who went to Europe and demanded they pay their NATO dues.  It was Trump who opened up the Keystone XL pipeline and expanded drilling nationwide until we not only became energy independent, we sold energy to the rest of the world, including Europe.  It was Trump who scraped that insane Paris Agreement on climate.   It was Trump who put foreign policy in place that made it clear America's military wasn't going to jump into any foreign wars, and replaced the military funding Obama took away. 

So, why is all this Trump's fault?   

America has voted for those who promote crime, higher taxes, uncontrolled spending, massive inflation, sexual grooming of our children in America's schools, the murder of the innocent unborn, unrestricted immigration, drug use, violence against political opponents, and the end of free speech.  

Do we really believe America voted for that? 

Flawed as Trump may be, it seems clear to me he's truly saddened over what's happening to America, otherwise why would he put himself through all the suffering he's endured, is enduring and will continue to endure?  And make no mistake about it....it's that obnoxious personality that's needed to cut the trail through this political jungle the left has created. 

America is suffering, and that suffering is going to get worse as the Democrats now have secured the Senate and it looks as if they may hold the House.  Suffering is the beginning of wisdom, and on the surface is appears America has failed to make any withdraws of our national bank account of wisdom.  But is that really true, or is it shadow over substance?  We'll explore that in this series.

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