Source: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
Posted on 10/30/2020 4:33:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
Source: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
Michael Anton wrote a seminal essay for the Claremont Review of Books in September 2016 titled “The Flight 93 Election,” which went viral, particularly among conservatives. It was a wonderfully crafted metaphor, suggesting that the survival of America as a viable republic depended on the against-all-odds election of an outsider to the D.C. swamp by the name of Donald J. Trump. Although it was a gamble as to whether this brash businessman with no government experience could effectively lead the country, the alternative of a Hillary Clinton election was a guaranteed death sentence for a United States in which the people still ultimately ruled.
Guess what? The American people re-took control of the airplane in 2016 and put Donald Trump at the controls of the massive plane. The question now is whether he can stave off the near fanatic efforts by those hell-bent on putting back in charge those who would drive the plane into the ground.
The real Flight 93 of course was the ill-fated United Airlines jetliner that was hijacked by al Qaeda terrorists on September 11, 2001 in their suicidal mission to destroy an American landmark. A heroic group of passengers, realizing they had nothing to lose, rose up to charge the cockpit in an effort to re-commandeer the flight. While their incredible bravery did not result in the salvation of their own lives, it likely did prevent the deaths of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives at the hijackers’ intended target as the plane tragically crashed in a field near Shanksville, PA.
Thankfully, the American electorate was able to save itself in 2016. And one might draw out Mr. Anton’s metaphor a bit further.
Mr. Trump has been flying the plane now for nearly four years, arguably doing a magnificent job. The economy roared back to life following so many years of anemic growth under Barack Obama, thanks to Mr. Trump’s drastic cutbacks of job-killing regulations and onerous taxes. He unleashed the military to crush ISIS in a matter of months, after their caliphate had flourished for years under the prior administration, due to the utter incompetence of Mr. Obama and his feckless vice president, Joe Biden. In fact, Mr. Trump has achieved the unthinkable in the Middle East, engineering new peace agreements between Israel and the countries of Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, with the prospect of additional Arab countries allying with Israel. Mr. Trump has achieved the greatest re-alignment of the Middle East in 70 years.
Yet during the remarkable first three years of his administration, half the passengers on Mr. Anton’s metaphorical airplane grew increasingly rabid in their hatred of the salvific pilot who was asked to take control and save all those onboard. The leadership of that half of the air travelers in fact has mounted attack after attack on the cockpit, first with a fraudulently predicated counterintelligence operation against the pilot (complete with a doctored FBI document and illegally obtained FISA warrants), then a “special counsel investigation” of Hillary-formulated “Russian-Trump collusion,” which came to naught, then a badly concocted and ultimately failed impeachment bid over a perfectly normal telephone conversation.
After all else failed, and with remarkable timing, a mysterious virus swept through the cabin, handing Captain Trump yet another headache to address, while violent, occasionally homicidal, “mostly peaceful protests” broke out among the passengers. Talk about your flights from hell.
Not to fear, however. The half of the passengers who have been driven to the edge of madness by the presence of Donald Trump in the captain’s seat have their own prospective pilot to take command. His name is Joseph Robinette Biden.
Yes, this pilot has had a most unremarkable, near-half century career in Washington, most distinguished for its dearth of achievement. As former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in his memoir, Joe Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades." Well, that certainly instills confidence.
But of greater significance than the question of the prospective pilot’s competence is his integrity, or lack thereof. Thanks perhaps to providence, and the influence of powerful narcotics, Joe Biden’s son Hunter abandoned his personal “Laptop from Hell” with a computer repairman in Delaware. Under the terms and conditions of the repair shop’s agreement with Hunter, and Delaware law, the laptop and its contents became the property of the repair shop owner. And what a story it had to tell, with help from excellent reporting by the New York Post, which Big Tech, the mainstream media and the Democratic Machine have done everything they can to suppress.
We came to discover that Hunter and, it seems, his father, were hip-deep in shady influence-selling schemes with foreign actors including, apparently, the Chinese Communist Party through the Chinese company CEFC Energy Holdings. The damning documentary evidence yielded by Hunter’s laptop has now been bolstered by the testimony of a highly credible international businessman and Navy veteran, Anthony Bobulinski. His eye-opening interview with Tucker Carlson regarding Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s corrupt foreign deals is suggested viewing for every American voter.
We have a stark choice on November 3. The pilot who took command in 2016 not only saved the aircraft from terminal leftist descent under a Hillary Clinton presidency. He made a severe, and positive, course correction, and in the process, exposed massive corruption within the administrative state (and complicit media and technology allies), and immense corrupt foreign influence as well. We can choose him to land our plane or a self-evidently senile, corrupt Washington swamp creature.
Be sure that if the rabid passengers are successful in placing their pilot, Joe Biden, in command, there is a very strong likelihood that this aircraft will be owned by the People’s Republic of China or other malign foreign actor. Destination, unknown.
Let’s roll!
Amen.
And again I say,
AMEN!
Liberals remind me of the French cowards who shaved women’s heads after they had slept with SS soldiers.
Of course it is not a good idea to sleep with enemies like these while others die and what not, terrible for morale.
Many of these women were cowards, collaborators or submissive. But a good portion of these women were not afraid of the NAzis the way those who shaved their heads were. This was the salient lesson of that flap.
Whenever I see a liberal threatening someone for voting Trump or attacking and old lady, remember the book burners and head shavers of that era... that is who these violent cowards are.
I am praying that one day history will be written about this, about this very dark passage of history in AMerica, so that it never happens again.
Liberalism and these big tech CEO cowards, the media etc... need to be dragged in the streets and tarred and feathered for the very tarring and feathering judgment they foist upon people disagreeing with them.
THis is the poetic karma justice I hope to see in the future.
Flight 93? Really?
That metaphor sucks! Leave Flight 93 to rest in piece.
Great metaphor. Post-Trump, we can’t get lazy and let the Left incrementally take it back. It starts with term limits to prevent temptation to get uber wealthy. I wish there also would be a limit on staff size...make them write their own bills.
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Let's see. Could have been A. or B.
A. Leave Flight 93 to rest in pieces.
B. Leave Flight 93 to rest in peace.
in this great experiment known as America, the founders understood the progression of things and government growth and the treasury being used to purchase votes and voters.
we are at a crossroads that will determine the direction of the country, but America as an ideal will live on in the reconstruction if Trump wins, or the resistance if the darker forces prevail.
“But a good portion of these women were not afraid of the NAzis the way those who shaved their heads were. “
That is one GYMNASTIC twist of reason or logic. I can’t imagine your basis for it.
I see the analogy to Flight 93. This whole world system is going down, and every nation has been hijacked by satan and his demons. But America got to be different in 2016 — the cockpit was broken into, spiritually speaking, with a charge led by Franklin Graham. If you recall, he visited every single state with his message of repentance, prayer, revival, and civic participation. Trump won, against all earthly odds! It remains to be seen if God Almighty will grant us another such reprieve or if time has run out.
Let’s pray.
Ok; how about Miracle on the Hudson then?
America is taking off to new heights when it is intercepted by a flock of Liberals and is going down; and only the skillful hands of the pilot saves all the lives; even though they did get wet.
If they had managed to kill the hijackers and take control of the plane, I wonder what are the chances they could landed it successfully?
If we all wore masks like Antifa it would be very easy to tar and feather these clowns with fear of reprisal
My thought was that some of the girls worked for the resistance.?.?
But such women would have been known. Their methods wouldn’t have been looked too hard into...
Well, in today’s world where women dominate, shaving a feminist’s head would be a true act of courage. (Which is why liberals always think there is right wing bias in the media, so as to give themselves the aura they are not conformists and are courageous people, which is absolutely false of course. This running after the Nazi or KKk boggey man while parading naked on pride week is getting old in terms of cowardice, as they do not do that in arab street, but in the streets where they can bully and emotionally blackmail individuals living their own peaceful lives in isolation).
However, those shaving their heads after the war is over are certainly cowards, the fighters of the last five minutes of the war, some even utter hypocritical collaborators themselves, while these women simply wanted to experience the Nazi man without fear. Sure, they were soulless for the most part, not caring one way or the other, but they were not cowering either and used their charms to escape where others used their legs. And that ability to fight with charm, to be protected that way, makes cowards very jealous.
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