DJ - Honorary Secret Service Agent - Brain Cancer

 

Free Republic - TwitterX ^ | 3/5/2025 | TwitterX User Mike Johnson

The night was electric, pulsing with the raw energy of a nation clawing its way back from the abyss. Donald Trump stood at the podium, a lion surveying his den, commanding the chamber with the weight of history pressing against his shoulders. The air was thick with expectation, with defiance, with the unshakable spirit of America refusing to be broken. And then, the moment came—the kind of moment that strips away the political filth and reveals the soul of a country.

A boy named DJ, clad in the crisp uniform of a police officer, stood proud and unwavering, though the cruel grip of fate had marked him for battle against something far more ruthless than any criminal—brain cancer. His father, a cop, watched with pride as his son, too young to understand the horrors of bureaucracy, stood before the most powerful men and women in the nation, believing in something greater than himself.

Trump, never one to miss the chance to honor the real beating heart of America, did what no other president in modern history would have dared. He made DJ an honorary Secret Service agent—not as a political stunt, not as a hollow gesture, but as a symbol of everything that still makes this country great. Here was a boy who, despite all odds, still dreamed of serving and protecting. A boy who saw the badge not as a mark of oppression, but of justice. A boy whose bravery outshone the cowards who sat in the shadows.

The chamber erupted. The walls of Congress shook with applause, the very rafters of democracy trembling under the force of true, unfiltered emotion. People stood, tears in their eyes, clapping until their hands stung. But not everyone.

No, across the aisle sat the Democrats, cold as corpses, eyes hollow, mouths twisted into grimaces of disdain. Not a single clap. Not a single nod of respect. Not an ounce of humanity. These are the same people who weep for criminals, who kneel for thugs, who scream about “justice” while letting chaos swallow the streets. But when a little boy with brain cancer stands before them, embodying everything they should pretend to care about—innocence, courage, sacrifice—they sit there like rotting statues, rigid in their hatred for everything that doesn’t fit their twisted ideology.

It was more than politics. It was a glimpse into the soul of the enemy. They couldn’t stand because standing would mean acknowledging something greater than themselves. It would mean admitting that Trump was right. That honor still means something. That America is still alive, still breathing, still roaring despite their every attempt to smother it beneath their boot.

That moment was bigger than all of them. Bigger than the swamp, bigger than the lies, bigger than the poison dripping from every Democrat's forked tongue. DJ stood there, stronger than the entire party combined, smiling as the President of the United States honored him. And they sat there, sneering, because they knew—deep in the blackened pits of their soulless chests—they would never know what it’s like to be that brave, that good, that true.

They will be remembered for that silence. The people saw. The people will never forget.

The hug.

Barron - What's In a Name?

Donald and Melania with their Barron.

Some were startled to learn that Trump's youngest son was named Barron, because it sounded like Baron at first, as if the parents giving away titles of nobility.

Not quite. The Hiltons, by J. Randy Taraborrelli, notes that Conrad Hilton's son Barron became friends with Donald Trump when Trump bought the Hilton hotel in Atlantic City. Subsequently, Trump named his last son after Barron Hilton.

But where does the Barron name come from? The family tree shows that Conrad's first wife was Mary Adelaide Barron.

 Roland Bainton was a liberal United Church of Christ minister,
but he believed in faithful research in the original documents.

Research
Research is like putting a vast jigsaw puzzle together. Large and small pieces have their place. Usually most of it cannot be put together, but if most of the parts are together, the overall picture makes sense.

Research means gathering random and conflicting information and theories, because errors and mistakes get published. Some people advance ideas that serve their interests.

One communications speaker told us about latent errors, such as when he told people that logs are left in water "to soak the rocks off." The audience looked at him with puzzled faces as he went on to say, "Sure, people throw rocks in the forest. Some stick to the trees and get into the bark. They have to be soaked off so the rocks don't hit the saws and break them." He slowly realized that a tall tale he heard as a child was lodged in his brain and came out just like that.

Unlike any other field, we have a clear, plain, final voice of the Truth in the Scriptures. No other original book has been so perfectly preserved and kept as written. Anyone can use a trustworthy translation and apply the revealed Word to the issue and resolve the problem in time.

Other textbooks are so obscure for the beginner that their information is hidden by the academic skills needed to interpret it. But the Bible has the Holy Spirit as its interpreter, so every sincere believer can be taught the meaning of the Word of God.

Assaults against the Gospel and the Scriptures will continue until the end of time, and now that includes manipulating and disfiguring the New Testament text itself. But that is only an effect of the Faith taking root, Satan's constant opposition to Christ, and Jesus being conveyed to us by the Word and Sacrament. The battle against the Kingdom of God will never have a truce until the end of time.

The Reign of Dishonesty, Secrecy, and Corruption

I have experienced the dishonesty, secrecy, and corruption of the Lutheran synods, which not only parallel secular politics but even foreshadow the same tactics.

Dishonesty, secrecy, and corruption go together. One signals the dominance of the other two. The WELS cannot admit to anything less than perfection and infallibility. To maintain the mirage, scandals are covered up and denied. I joked with an ELS pastor's wife about the WELS mission that went Pentecostal (Taiwan?). She scowled and rebuked me, "That is not supposed to be discussed."

When a denomination suffers from major crimes - such as murder, embezzlement, sex abuse, child porn - keeping it a secret is the same as protecting the worst criminals and motivating others. The Book of Concord, Large Catechism, Eighth Commandment, points out that identifying public criminal behavior is  not slander.

Luther's words:

284] All this has been said regarding secret sins. But where the sin is quite public so that the judge and everybody know it, you can without any sin avoid him and let him go, because he has brought himself into disgrace, and you may also publicly testify concerning him. For when a matter is public in the light of day, there can be no slandering or false judging or testifying; as, when we now reprove the Pope with his doctrine, which is publicly set forth in books and proclaimed in all the world. For where the sin is public, the reproof also must be public, that every one may learn to guard against it.

This also applies to teaching false doctrine, as the red section makes abundantly clear.

But what do we have today? Questioning the blatant false doctrine - almost verbatim from Fuller Seminary - is slander! I used to keep an Eighth Commandment file, with letters from Gerlach, Kelm, Berg, Nitz, Paul Kuske, Paul Tiefel, James Tiefel, et al.

Meanwhile, how do these consecrated and consecrating leaders deal with issues? They invent, promote, and magnify slander. No one wants to run into the buzz-saw, whether WELS, LCMS, ELS, or CLC (sic). They sew the canker shut, disguise it with make-up, and cannot find this false doctrine or know nothing of the criminal behavior.

What might be a healthy discussion and cleansing of the problem turns into an even bigger problem. The net result is also magnifying of evil and a hardening of hearts, so people say, "Larry Olson is not a problem. Everyone knows he's a heretic," or "Paul Kelm listens to confessionals." One pastor in WELS said, "I cannot disagree with the Circuit Pastor, because the Holy Spirit appointed him." Haha - I have a higher regard for the Trinity than that - I never viewed a tubby, lazy, alcoholic District President as the embodiment of the Holy Spirit.

Roman Catholics teach that the Holy Spirit does not allow the Pope to err in doctrine, so now we have Lutherans aping the papacy in this and other ways.

Run Up to the Election
I had to correct many friends before the election because of the external polls. The public polls were wrong and the exit polls were even worse. Why was that? Polling is a business. They get paid to promote statistical baloney to help their cause, knowing the faked results are lies.

The candidates pay big money for internal polls. Remember that term. The real, secretly viewed polls are closer to the truth. That is why Hillary canceled the fireworks days before the election. They had to apply for the permits weeks in advance to hold the NYC fireworks. They also had to give advance notice of halting them. Everyone was hailing a Clinton victory, and Newsweak (sic) put her on the cover. But Clinton's leaders knew she was doomed.

The media people are so dishonest that they believed the lying external polls and scoffed at anything dissenting from the accepted results. My favorite mockery of the facts was averaging the external polls. Let's say we have a classroom of math incompetents or adroit liars. If we average their results of 8 - 6 x 2 + 4.1, then we will have the correct answer? I do not think so.

God only works through the Word, so whatever happens from applying the Word is good, divinely willed, and bound to prosper God's mission. Tis time to start trusting God's Word rather than man's feeble efforts at manipulation.