Now I’m 64 Years Old
I began writing this bog at 42
It’s been a hot minute, and while I’m not here to sit and pontificate endlessly about this, something feels right about this moment. I could wait until next year when I hit 65, but why? This feels like a sea change in life, not just for me but globally. It coincides with the most amazing and awesome shift in domestic and international geopolitics I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. Born in 1961, I didn’t really get what was going on until the late 60s.
I’ve seen some good stuff happen, but in the political sphere, it’s been mostly disappointment after fucking disappointment. Reagan was my political wet dream when I was 19 in 1980, but his effectiveness was very limited and talk about a letdown since. Every Republican since Ronald Reagan has been an enormous disappointment. Even Trump in 2016, who was a boost, turned out to be just as green when it came to the political game.
We’ve had four years of basically not having a president at all—a puppet president who might as well have been Obama’s third term. This morning, I was vid chatting with my mom, and I told her, “I’m of the mind that nobody should be president, but if we’re going to have one, at least make it someone who gives a fuck and is effective as fuck.” And that’s what I feel now. This feels like the first presidency of my lifetime that’s worth a serious fuck.
I have to pinch myself every day: Is it real? Donald Trump, in the space of one week, has thoroughly redefined what it means to be an American president. So, I take pause, I pinch myself, and I think, “Is this the time to shake up my life?”
That’s what I’m pondering right now. Here I am, 64 years old today. What am I going to do to make the next 20 years fucking awesome? What are you gonna do, Richard? That’s the question.
Are you asking that balls-ass question of yourself?
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Short answer: hell the fuck yes, balks full out! Lol
This is the thing all the TDS crowd doesn’t understand: this guy has changed, dare I say spiritually. He learned from his mistakes from 2016-the moment he was shot, and has come gunning ever since. It IS inspiring, and, though I’m mad at myself for being this sensitive, I feel hope and encouragement from this guy (and the 75% of the country that wanted him in!) after being told me and my way of life suck, and don’t deserve to live. So yeah, it’s gonna be AWESOME…I’m jumping on the coattails of this historic week.
If the change in Trump from 2020 to now is real, it may be one of the most astounding changes in a man I will ever see in my lifetime. I can’t help but feel a little cynical, worry it’s some deep state psy-op ruse, but……damn if it does not seem real. The man that came up from the ground in Pennsylvania does not seem to be the man that went down. I was not a fan of Trump before, his biggest selling point to me, the way he got under the skin of so many. THIS man seems to be, dare I say it, on a mission from God. This 9 days has been a wonder to behold.
In hindsight, Trump’s 2020 loss was the best thing that could possibly have happened, because a Biden administration confronted the public with an undeniable demonstration of the Democrats’ extreme incompetence and evil.
There’s still a ton of hopeless idiots that trust the msm, but there have been more awakenings in the meantime. Those extra believers are keeping all this silly, tired Hitler narrative from being effective.
Trump also had four years to rest, regroup, and refocus. And to boot out swamp dwelling traitors like Bolton in favor of capable people like Musk.
Trump is talking about abolishing the income tax now, something that would have been dismissed as crazy talk even a couple years ago. I’m extremely optimistic overall.