THE VIEW FROM ST. CHARLES

JANUARY 16, 2024

VOLUME 57

KITCHEN TABLE CONVERSATIONS

I’ve done a couple of these over the years, and after our kitchen table conversation last evening after dinner, I thought it was time to do another one. When you know the backgrounds of myself and my wife it would make you wonder how we ever found each other. I was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she in London, England. My dad was a steelworker, my mom a homemaker. Both of them excelled at what they did. My wife’s father was a successful London real estate developer, her mom a homemaker. Both of them excelled at what they did. We both grew up in strict, follow the rules families. My family was lower middle class, Her’s upper middle class. She was given an around the world cruise for her graduation, I was told to get a job.

We met each other a year after my first wife passed with brain aneurism and which will be 17 years ago this month. She had been a single lady for about 20 years, and I had been married for 46 years or most of my life. Let’s just say, the period of adjustment was a little prolonged. But here we are 16 years later, enjoying life with our little Wire Fox terrier, thoroughly enjoying our so-called golden years. (which by the way is a bigger lie than Biden ever told) The so-called “golden years” suck, trust me.

As you can imagine, our vastly different backgrounds lead to some very interesting discussions. We are both die hard Trump supporters, we are both rabidly patriotic conservatives.

Our conversation this evening began with discussion about what is going on with Fanny Willis. Then the conversation centered around the other black female attorney generals, and DA’s that have gone completely off the rails recently. The crazy Democrat hack in NYC, Letitia James, Boston ATG Marilyn Mosby in the Freddie Gray incident, Kim Foxx on Jussie Smollett. This is not all of them that haven proven to be absolute clowns. There are others that are openly racists. They don’t ever try to hide it. Yet all of them are holding their offices through raciest means. We both agreed that the justice system in this nation is being seriously tainted due to raciest programs, placing people in powerful positions that are not qualified to hold them. I can tell you assuredly that we would be equally distraught no matter which race was doing it.

The discussion then turned to the issue of slavery which blacks can’t seem to let go of, even though it happened over 200 years ago. Blacks in the United States have more opportunity to succeed than anywhere else in the world, but somehow the issue of slavery is holding them back and they need to be paid an enormous amount of money to make that go away. This where reality comes into play. My wife is very familiar with what life was like in London in the 1800’s and early 1900’s from her history studies, and stories from her family. Life for poor whites was extremely hard, women turned to prostitution to keep from starving to death. Adults and children worked side by side in factories for pennies, to survive in the cruelest of circumstances. Women dying during childbirth was a common occurrence, and the father simply couldn’t take care of his children and work, which was a terrible family disaster. Youngsters born to impoverished parents were sent to work in cotton mills in terrible conditions, forced to work long hard hours, poorly nourished, riddled with disease, and often died at a very young age. My wife said life as a slave in America would have been one hell of a lot better life. At least they were housed, fed and didn’t freeze to death from exposure.

My wife went on to tell the story of her father who was born in early 1900’s. His mother was widowed with six young children. They lived in abject poverty. Her father would fight bare fisted on the street corners for money, grown men would bet on the fight. If he won he would get six pence. That is how he helped his mom and his brothers and sisters to survive. There was no welfare to turn to, it was do or die. Her mom came from similar circumstances. Her father was obviously a fighter and went on the become a wealthy real estate developer through hard work and being driven to never be impoverished again.

My wife went on to say that life in Paris, Edenborough, and Dublin was probably worse than London. She also talked about how terrible the Romans treated the British during their occupation of Britain. Make no mistake, life for white folk in Europe from the 1600’s through the early 1900’s was no cake walk. Her message to blacks is to “suck it up buttercup” shut the hell up and get over yourselves.

I didn’t really add much to the conversation, she was making some dynamite points. Then she went on to talk about how bad life was for early Italian and Irish immigrants in New York. It wasn’t much, if any better than London. Kids were still working long hours in factories and facing grinding poverty.

She brought up the topic of “Indentured Servitude”. Something I had very little knowledge of.

This is a “snip” from Wikipedia, be sure to go to Wikipedia.com and read the whole article for yourself. Basically, white folk were being bought and sold in the same time period blacks were being bought and sold. Granted, under a little better circumstances, but not much.

MY SUMMATION

Young Americans today are a bunch of whiney crybabies. Not all, but most. Even those that live in what we call poverty don’t even begin to have the challenges that our ancestors had. They don’t have the threat of starvation hanging over their heads every day. They aren’t forced to work in factories and farm fields at 10 years old, losing limbs and eyesight from industrial accidents. They have adequate clothing; most have adequate housing. American youngsters facing absolutely dire circumstances that their ancestors did, are a very small number today.

The playing field for blacks has been tilted in their favor for a number of years now, and they still demand more. The attitude I see displayed by young blacks is that they are now convinced that they are above the law, and can have anything they want, just for the taking. How can you blame them, they are arrested, and the system simply turns them back out on the streets. The lax laws and failure to prosecute crime by ideolog prosecutors, are creating a monster that is going to be very hard to get under control. Large bands of people looting stores is something new, I never saw it before a couple of years ago. Gangs of blacks beating white people to death in broad daylight is certainly something I never imagined I would witness. The amount of lawlessness in this country is intolerable. The permission to act like this is coming from government leaders, making it possible through lack of law enforcement and failure to prosecute crime. Did you ever think you would see a government official suggesting cutting back policing our streets. That’s the very definition of insanity.

I totally agree with Vivek when he says we are on the cusp of change. It’s either going to get one hell of a lot better, or one hell of a lot worse. Only time will tell. But it’s looking to me like the house of cards the left has built is beginning to collapse. People are getting tired of the craziness that Biden has wrought. They are getting tired of open borders, they are getting tired of the quasicrystalline dictatorship of Joe Biden and his lefty Hanger Oners. The sooner we get Ron Claine, Susan Rice and Barrack out of the white house the better.

I’m beginning to get fired up again after seeing DJT clean house last night. I am seeing a glimmer of hope that we may be returning to better times. Wow, we have some great people in our group now; Tucker, Vivek, Kristy Noem, MJT, Trumps former cabinet members, and a host of others. We seriously need to weed out the old Republican establishment garbage once and for all, especially Mitch McConnell. We must get rid of Ronna McDaniel soon, replace her with Harmeet Dhillon.

Gotta go, getting close to time for reuniting with My Pillow. Stay alert, call out the liars and fakes. Things are looking up.

VERITAS VINCIT ~ LIVE FREE OR DIE