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Mark Caserta: Donald Trump: The Presidential Art of the Deal

4 Aug

Democrats are collapsing beneath the weight of Trump’s wins!

Most politicians “over promise and under deliver” during their campaigns and into their role.   They’re totally comfortable doing so, as it seems to be enough to get many of them elected. Their “model” if you will, is to grab the attention of the voter and subsequently hope that the success rate of their promised accomplishments will not be tracked. 

Some campaigners use a “smoke and mirrors” strategy, aiming to exceed expectations by consistently under-promising and over-delivering. Unfortunately, this positions the elected official to be able to maintain the status quo without ever having to put forth any real effort to improve their skills in representation. 

President Donald Trump has an altogether different approach.  This skilled negotiating businessman chooses to make his promises based on common sense and the reality of the moment, then he is committed to exceeding everyone’s expectations!  This inevitably forces him to “up his game” to over deliver on attainable promises, which he does time and again.  As a builder, he was always on time with his project and under budget! 

This attitude is what makes President Trump unique, both as an individual and as a commander-in-chief. 

I just started my third time reading his book, “Trump: The Art of the Deal”.  Donald Trump doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, and he certainly doesn’t take drugs.  In fact, he hates to take medicines altogether!   

President Trump gets his kicks by making deals, and the bigger and more difficult the deal, the better!  As the leader of the free world, he is now using those skills he has mastered and employed since he was 27 years old, on behalf of the American people. 

Democrats cannot keep up with him. By the time mount a defensive posture on an issue, President Trump is already three deals ahead of them.  The absolute only position liberals can take is an “anti-everything” Trump, which has given them the lowest approval rating in history. 

Let’s face it.  Democrats will do or say anything to see Donald Trump fail.  Frankly, as seen in recent headlines, it doesn’t matter if it means loss of life or damage to our nation!   

Liberal politicians are being exposed by their offenses.  Our nation was in a downhill spiral during the Biden presidency, and they were completely fine with it!   Control and power are their master motivator!  Democrats have totally abandoned the ideology of our Republic. 

I’m taken back each time I hear a political pundit refer to Democrats as the “Democratic Party”.  Democracy left Democrats years ago!  The term “Democratic” is an adjective describing this group of lost socialists.  They are simply the Democrat Party! 

In this columnist’s opinion, we are blessed as a nation to have a president committed to exceeding our nation’s expectations!  He is bringing our nation back to common sense and back to God.   

I expect, given his success, Democrats are going to be miserable for a very long time. 

And that’s a good thing for our nation which is, once again, winning!

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Mark Caserta: Democrats have become prolific supporters of domestic terrorism in the US.

12 Jul

They no longer represent America first values.

The Democrat party has become the most prolific sponsor of domestic terrorism in the United States.

I wish I were embellishing.

President Donald Trump was elected on his promise to close our borders to illegal immigration and strategically remove illegals within our country, beginning with, but not limited to, the criminals.

Less than 6 months following his inauguration, he has already successfully closed our borders, something Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said couldn’t be done without legislation.

The majority of Americans are ecstatic they finally elected a president willing to keep his promises!

Yet Democrats are not only encouraging criminal behaviors in aiding and abetting these illegals, in liberal states like California, they are willing to provide taxpayer dollars to these illegal aliens for legal fees! Additionally, they are willing to not only provide sanctuary but provide some sort of alert support system when ICE agents are planning to sweep the area.

Multiple news outlets report that illegal attacks on the law enforcement individuals are up over 700 percent! And Democrats are cheering them on!

In blue states across the country we are seeing protests, often involving rock throwing, bottles hurled, and even guns being fired in an attempt to stop these brave individuals from doing their jobs.

Any rational person would agree this is inappropriate, lawless behavior, but no one on the left has condemned these protests.

But Democrats have ceased being rational. They have ceased representation. They have embarked upon a progressive agenda that simply involves “anti-Trump” rhetoric. If President Trump supports it, we must fight it, regardless of the impact on U.S. citizens.

Democrats are showing a complete disregard for our country and the rule of law. It simply does not matter to them any longer if it ever really did.

Initially, Trump Derangement Syndrome was a term that facetiously referenced the hatred of our president. But something, truly, has happened to these individuals who were elected by their constituents to represent them in our republic.

They seem to be willing to turn a blind eye to violence, murder, rape, human trafficking and even death to see President Donald Trump fail – at anything.

We can only hope and pray that voters see the light and realize Democrats no longer represent them.

They are, in fact and in action, putting their constituent’s lives at risk.

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Mark Caserta: The Purge has begun! President Trump moves quickly to return to common sense and America first policies.

5 Feb

And liberal Democrats are losing their ever-loving minds

February, 2025

The “purge” has begun.

Early in Donald J. Trump’s campaign he made it clear that Washington, D.C. was indeed a decaying “swamp” filled with nefarious creatures slithering about seeking whom they may devour.

President Trump’s first term in 2016 surprised, angered and even frightened liberal Democrats.  And frankly they’ve never recovered and still suffer from aggravated Trump Derangement Syndrome.

 While his initial tenure in the White House was inundated with learning curves, his impact as a leader was enough to convince the left, he had to be stopped – at all costs – even if it meant destroying America.

The end-result, following a scarred 2020 presidential re-election bid for President Trump, asked us to believe sleepy Joe Biden garnered 81 million votes from his basement, while never venturing into the public view or answering even softball questions from his loving liberal media.

 In fact, “weekend at Bernie’s” Joe received more votes than any president in history, to include his former boss, Barack Hussein Obama.

President Trump, on the other hand, all the while earning over 74 million votes, 12 million more than in 2016, lost in the extremely controversial (some say rigged) election.

The subsequent four years of Biden/Harris will go down in history as the single, largest failing liberal experiment in our nation’s history.  The trail of devastation as a result of inept policies, prompted voters in every single state to move to the right and vote for a true leader capable of saving our nation and its inhabitants from demise – before it was too late.

Liberal Democrats, true to form and perhaps looking into their progressive crystal ball, kept the attacks alive on Donald Trump.  They attacked him personally and professionally.  They conjured up delusional spells of denigration and libel and rallied liberal legal loons to perpetuate lawsuits and illegalities against the president and even his family.  Democrats and a complicit Biden/Harris administration did everything in their villainous playbook to prevent Trump from ever setting foot on the political stage again. 

Donald J. Trump returning to the White House would be their worst nightmare!

They leveraged and weaponized every form of government to take down Donald J. Trump, hoping to break him and return him to his very comfortable lifestyle, out of politics and out of their hair. 

But the perseverance of Trump and his family was nothing short of amazing.  He stood his ground and when exhausted, leaned on principle.

But ultimately, when the ground is trembling and the lava is pouring down the side of the volcano, it’s impossible to tell the people to stay calm, “there’s nothing to see here.”  But that’s all they could do!

Everything, I mean everything was failing – miserably.  There deepest attacks seemed to result in more support for Trump!

It’s true, typically people don’t react until it impacts them directly.  But thanks to “Bidenomics” and lamentable leadership, every U.S. citizen was feeling the impact of liberal, woke policies lacking common sense and serving everyone but Americans.

Then, Democrat’s worst nightmare became a reality!

In the largest, single political comeback in our nation’s history, Donald Trump was returned to the White House in resounding fashion!  Eager to hit the ground running on the behalf of all Americans, he had his cabinet primed and picked to move rapidly and efficiently.  Patriots agree it’s beginning as one of the most lucrative, successful presidencies of all time, with no holds barred in keeping with Trump’s mantra of “America first”.

It was time for a major change.  And Americans voted for just that!  They sent a clear mandate to Washington that they’d had enough.  Donald J. Trump had overwhelmingly won 76 million popular votes, 312 Electoral College votes, all 7 swing states and an increased number of Democrat votes in every single state in the union.

The mission and directive were clear.  The people of our republic were demanding change and empowering a new leader, a true leader to take charge and make America great again.

So, just 2 weeks into the swearing in of President Trump as the 47th President of the United States, the purge of the Washington swamp has begun, with a vengeance.  And despite the whining and complaining from the left, there are no surprises here.  Trump is doing exactly, EVERYTHING, he said he would do.

This time around, there is no time needed for a learning curve.  Impact is immediate and decisive!

And he’s doing it so fast, by the time Democrats rally to have a news conference to denounce his actions, President Trump has completed three more deals for the American people. 

Liberals are losing their minds over Trump winning for America. How truly sad and telling is that?

Get ready, America!  This is just the beginning.  This administration is not going to slow down.  Internationally, our allies will trust us.  Our enemies will fear us.  American’s will once again be proud of their country and our leadership.  Politicians will be forced into representing their constituents and living up to their promises.

It’s a new day and a new age. If liberals choose to remain oblivious to the wishes of the people, they are going to be sad for a very, very long time.

Welcome to the Golden Age of America.

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Biden sets record for number of presidential pardons

20 Jan

https://apnews.com/article/biden-commutes-2500-nonviolent-drug-offenders-83174cd0602a0bf5d491aa60184f3568

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Mark Caserta: Joe Biden attempts to rewrite the history books on his foreign policy achievements.

14 Jan

Not to mention how he is handing Donald Trump a nation better off than when he took office

Recently, President Joe Biden took to the podium in an attempt to “recap” his foreign policy achievements for the nation.

I want to caution everyone of a tactic departing politicians often leverage in which they fill out their own “political scorecard” for the liberal media to banty about and use as historical fact moving forward.  Most of the time the actual truth lies somewhere between the bookends of the “true/false” spectrum.

But Joe Biden is absolutely delusional in his characterization of his accomplishments as the 46th president of the United States.

Biden sought to frame his presidency as a transformational one, claiming he was handing off a nation better positioned to compete in a new era to President-elect Trump, than the one he inherited from Trump four years ago.

“New challenges will certainly emerge in the months and years ahead, but even so, it’s clear my administration is leaving the next administration with a very strong hand to play, and we’re leaving them and America more friends, stronger alliances. These adversaries are weaker and under pressure. An America that once again is leading, uniting countries, setting the agenda, bringing others together behind our plans and missions,” Biden said in remarks at the State Department.

 “The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years ago. America is stronger. Our alliances are stronger, our adversaries and competitors are weaker.”

Mr. President, frankly, I’ve never heard such intellectually, dishonest rhetoric in all of my years following politics.

I pen this particular column primarily to benchmark the status of our country in several areas.  Anyone paying attention and willing to be objectively analytical must agree Joe Biden is “absolutely NOT” leaving the United States in better condition than when he took office.

Joe Biden spent the first half of his presidency enacting plans to steer at least $1.6 trillion to transform the economy and spur a clean-energy revolution which is failing miserably and costing taxpayers money during a time is isn’t easily accessible.

Utility bills have never been higher.  Electricity costs have risen 25% under the Biden administration per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics which tracks the average cost of electricity across U.S. cities every month.

Gasoline prices during the Biden administration have risen well over 50% at the pumps.  When Biden took office in January 2021, gas prices were an average of $2.4 per gallon across the country. Even though they’ve come down a bit, the average price per the graph below from Forbes.com is around $3.47 per gallon.

The New York Times, a publication which is certainly no friend to Donald Trump, reports that compared with four years ago, grocery prices are up about 20%, which is devastating families everywhere.

A recent Department of Homeland Security stats factsheet reporting on border encounters since 2021 shows an historic nationwide border collapse allowing 11 million illegal migrants to enter our country with hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied alien children unaccounted for and at risk.

Finally, but far from comprehensively, the United States has never received less respect from our enemies or our allies, militarily.

Recently, two top U.S. generals who oversaw the evacuation from Afghanistan testified before lawmakers that the Biden administration was chaotic in it’s approach and planning for the evacuation.  Thirteen U.S. service members were killed by a suicide bomber at the Kabul airport in the final days of the war by the Taliban due to a lack of support. 

For Joe Biden not to acknowledge many errors during this poorly planned evacuation and to continue to applaud his decision-making is a slap in the face to Gold Star families and our troops everywhere.

That’s not leadership.  In fact, it highlights the dark cloud of ignorance and apathy that has enveloped the Biden administration since 2021.

So, don’t forget where we are and where we truly were prior to the Biden administration. And don’t allow the liberal media to change history when reflecting on the failed presidency that is preparing to exit the White House.

It, truly, can’t happen soon enough.

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Mark Caserta: The U.S. is the most powerful nation on earth…aren’t we?

3 Jan

So, how safe should our citizens really feel? It will surprise some.

The United States of America is considered by most to be the most powerful nation on earth.

So, how safe should we currently feel as her citizens? 

In October 2024, the Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security released their 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment which indicates the “threat of domestic and foreign terrorism” in our country.

This is, of course, tantamount to the IRS reporting on how your tax dollars are being squandered every day in Washington.

Frankly, the report may as well have instructed U.S. citizens to build bomb shelters, stockpile food and water and purchase ammunition.

The threat to our citizens’ safety is as high as it’s ever been.  Yet, the secretary of Homeland Security assured the nation, we are in good hands.

“It is because of the remarkable DHS workforce, and our close collaboration with our federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and private sector partners, that we are able to meet the challenges and keep the American people safe and secure,” said Alejandro N. Mayorkas. 

So, given the state of the union, how would you grade the Biden administration for its role in keeping Americans safe?  In my opinion, there is no mark low enough to score this administration’s lackadaisical approach to homeland security.

The report captures the highlights of several security topics.  This is a Reader’s Digest version:

  • Public Safety and Security:  The terrorism threat environment in the Homeland is expected to remain high over the coming year… foreign terrorist organizations, including ISIS and al Qa’ida maintain their enduring intent to conduct or inspire attacks in the Homeland.
  • Illegal Drugs: Illegal drugs smuggled into and sold in the United States by transnational and domestic criminal actors continue to pose a lethal threat to communities in the United States.
  • Influence Operations and Transnational Repression: We expect the Homeland will face threats to public safety from state actors using subversive tactics in an effort to stroke discord and undermine confidence in U.S. domestic institutions.
  • Border and Immigration Security: Migrant encounters at our border have steadily declined since the beginning of 2024…  (Note: The report ignores the previous 3.75 years when the administration allowed millions of illegal migrants to cross our border and “paid for the cost of the move and lodging” with your tax dollars!)
  • Critical Infrastructure Security: Domestic and foreign adversaries are expected to continue to target our critical infrastructure via prepositioning, cyber, and physical attacks.
  • Economic Security: Our adversaries – including the PRC (China) – will continue non-market policies and practices, economic espionage and coercive economic tools, and illicit acquisition of technologies and intellectual property to undercut U.S. and partner competitiveness.

What a glowing report of success!  Isn’t it simply unfathomable that given this level of threats to our nation, the Biden administration refuses to secure our borders?

It’s equally disturbing that we still have liberal leaders in Democrat (stop saying “democratic, please) pockets of our nation who continue to harbor illegals using your tax dollars and refuse to work with the incoming Trump administration to make America safe again?

 It won’t be long until illegals already in our country make a mass exodus to the nearest sanctuary city or state – PERFECT!!

Folks, we must not forget there are nations and entities that despise America and our allies. And the Biden administration has emboldened these people to take action on their hatred.

It is a religious war for some rogue nations.  The goal is to destroy “the great Satan” as they describe the U.S.  Israel, of course, is described as “the little Satan”. 

It is a power struggle for other nations.  Their goal is to bring the U.S. to her knees economically and militarily.

Leadership with the resolute desire to put Americans first and gain the respect and yes, even fear, from other nations is critical.  We must have a president who will build on American exceptionalism rather than diminish it.

And even then, it will take more than a man.  It will take the favor of God.

We are in the process of righting this ship, but the real task lays ahead.  Do not fall into the pre-911 mentality!  Continue to diligently pray for our nation and DO NOT BE WEARY IN YOUR WELL-DOING!

Our work has only begun.

Donald Trump will not make America great again – you will.

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Mark Caserta: How did Democrats really win the 2020 presidential election?

11 Feb

Mark Caserta has been an Opinion columnist for over 22 years and is Editor for Free State Patriot.

Heading into the 2024 presidential election, this is a republication of a 2023 column.

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“Two years ago, the economy was reeling. I stand here tonight, after we’ve created, with the help of many people in this room, 12 million new jobs — more jobs created in two years than any President has created in four years — because of you all, because of the American people” –  President Joe Biden

Stunned.  That’s the only word I have to describe my feelings about Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to the nation.

There are two possibilities:  Either Biden can’t recall what was actually happening two years ago, or his integrity as president means nothing to him or his staff – potentially both.  The only thing “reeling” is Joe Biden’s memory.

Two years ago, gasoline was below $2.00.  The employment rate was at its lowest rate since the 1970’s.  Our country was energy independent.  We had regained respect from nations around the world.  The Obamacare individual mandate had been negated.  Americans were regaining their pride as a nation.  Our country was literally recovering from 8 years of a failed liberal experiment under Barack Obama, the “Liar-in-Chief”, who promised everyone they could keep their healthcare and doctor if they wanted.  Politifact declared that to be the Politifact “Lie of the year” – FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

But liberal Democrats were miserable.  President Donald Trump’s tweeting and demeanor was simply not worth the price of a healthy nation.  And it certainly wasn’t worth losing all of their power and government control!

On day one of Trump’s presidency, Democrats began putting together a plan to win back the White House – at any cost.

This plan was multi-faceted and supported by every liberal media outlet in the country.  It involved a conspiracy to exercise the most massive pre-planned voter fraud ever inflicted upon the American people!

Just look at the number of votes Joe Biden and Kamala Harris supposedly garnered in 2020!  Really?  According to the Census Bureau, there are approximately 168 million registered voters in the United States.  Are we to believe that 81 million of those voters voted for Joe Biden during the 2020 election when our nation was at its peak of prosperity in years$

Presidential ticketYearPopular Vote
Obama / Biden201265,915,795
Romney / Ryan201260,933,504
Trump / Pence201662,984,828
Trump / Pence202074,223,975
Biden / Harris202081,283,501

After months of research and contemplating the facts, these are the steps I believe liberal Democrats employed to win the 2020 presidential election.

  • They moved to remove any proof of U.S. citizenship or identity to vote in the U.S. and encouraged illegal immigration to bolster a predictable voter base.
  • They inundated the nation with voter “drop boxes” in heavily liberal populated cities.
  • Democrats employed “dark voters” to encourage and execute multiple illegal votes on every liberal front possible.
  • Dems bombarded liberal mailboxes with write-in ballots which could be submitted as often as possible.
  • They leveraged computer hacking technology designed to interrupt, skew and even change votes.
  • Democrats grew a network of conspirators at the state and federal level strategically planted to be “boots on the ground” to identify Trump voting tendencies and reverse them at every opportunity.
  • They partnered with a complicit media willing to report information not to inform, but to influence results.
  • Liberal Dems utilized a “war room” approach to delegitimize anything and everything in Donald Trump’s favor and divert attention away from massive voter fraud.
  • Finally, liberal Democrats had a plan to insert votes, electronically or physically, as often as needed and where logistically possible right under our noses.

Folks, unless Republicans figure out a way to either diminish the Democrat fraudulent voter conspiracy or devise their own plan to legally match their efforts, the GOP will never win another election.

It doesn’t matter who runs or what they promise. Liberal Democrats simply do not care about you or our nation. They will do or say anything to keep control. And the longer they are in control, the weaker our nation will become.

And the more emboldened other nations will be to attack us on the most obvious fronts.

Perhaps they may even fly a huge information gathering balloon over our country, if they believe we are truly without leadership.

Don’t complain about what you permit.  Fix this GOP!

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Mark Caserta: Raise your hands to fight!

24 Nov

The battle belongs to the Lord!

Mark Caserta is an opinion columnist and editor for Free State Patriot

Have you looked around lately?

It’s as though people are walking about dazed and confused as to how our country hit rock bottom so rapidly.  Drivers stand at the fuel pumps shaking their heads at skyrocketing gas prices.  Grocery carts seem less filled as shoppers attempt to navigate incredible pricing.  Lines at benefacting institutions inundated with people hoping to be able to provide for their families this time of year.

I downloaded a police scanner to my phone the other night, simply needing traffic information, and I had to delete it!  The flurry of activity of the downtrodden and hopeless was inescapable!  It made me anxious and irritable, just as the mainstream media news does to so many people!

There was a time when evil tried to disguise its antics, but that’s no longer the case.  It’s ramped and in your face!  Government officials are wielding the power they’ve finagled to obtain for years.  “We the People” have become the enemy of the left.  The Constitution of the United States is being portrayed as an antiquated document written by white supremacists in an era falsely portrayed by historians.

I’m appalled at those claiming to have “awakened” to social injustice in our nation when they don’t know the first thing about history!  It’s akin to those engaging in a riot when they haven’t a clue why they’re there.  They simply join the emotions of the moment.

Abraham Lincoln once was quoted as saying, “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next”?  I believe we are in the season of harvest for just that sort of progressive planting by liberals. 

For decades progressives have fought tumultuously to remove any semblance of God from society, beginning with the classroom.  Without the Bible, morality and principles fall on a sliding scale commensurate with the movement of the day.  Activity one witnesses on mainstream television would have been deemed highly inappropriate even 20 years ago.

Liberals operate in a process called, “desensitization”.  Their modus operandi is to gradually move the needle of acceptable behavior with an infinite number of small victories.  Incorporated into a long-term plan, these wins moderately but consistently produce an altered degree of acceptance.

We essentially have become desensitized to the behavior and allow it to exist.  Yes, we allow it.

Why do you think the Bible says dozens of times that God’s Word is everlasting? It brilliantly reflects the holy, unchanging character of God Himself!  God knew that mankind, in their consistent failures, would attempt to change the rules to accommodate their lustful behavior.  Hence, removal of God’s Word is prerequisite to an adaptive and progressive lifestyle.

So, what does all this have to do with what’s happening around us?  Everything!  Understand, God’s strength is made manifest in our weakness.  We must humble ourselves and seek His face in resolving the world’s problems.

No man or woman is going to be able to repair the devastation in which we find ourselves.  God may choose to use them as an instrument, but His Will and Works will be the key.

Every election season, people ask me how they should vote.  I will continue to recommend they become knowledgeable about the issues and pray about how and for whom to vote.

Only God knows at this point. 

I heard a pastor from my church recently say, “When I raise my hands to fight, I raise them like this!”  He had his hand raised in the air, praising God!

Good words for us all.

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Joe Biden struggles badly during virtual round table as gaffes pile up.

16 May

So, this is the presumptive Democrat nominee for president?

Liberals will give up EVERYTHING YOU OWN to see Trump fail.

Believe it!

 

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