Well let me jump on into the right side
way monologue and I'll remind you guys that Attorney
Stan MacDonald partner at the law firm of Wilmer
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about him in a few minutes damn McDonald from Wilbur
and Lee all right let me ask a question did
you receive the Robin Williams movie called Hook I mean
I love that movie hit the theaters back in
19 9 1 directed by Steven Spielberg starring Robin Williams Dustin
Hoffman Julia Robertson Moore all in a classic recreation
of the story of Peter Pan but it takes kind
of a different twist on the old story because
it starts off with Peter Pan played by Robin Williams all
grown up with a family of his own and
responsibilities and business to attend to I mean I
will get to the whole story but suffice to
say it's a great movie for the holidays coming
up but there was one scene that to me
is one of the most incredible moments in modern
movie history you see in the movie Robin Williams 's
character of the grown-up Peter Pan he had forgotten who
he was the once great Pam could not remember
his childhood adventures it was like a distant dream
and now he couldn't fly he couldn't fight he
couldn't smile he was at the stodgy grown-up with
no joy overwhelmed with the cares of life but
then came that scene when the lost boys found
him and they began to wonder if he was
really their Peter Pan and the smallest of the lost
boys came up and began to touch his face
and push on the wrinkles and touch the gray
hairs and then he pushed back both of Robin Williams
's cheeks and made kind of a smile on
Peter 's face and he said oh Peter there
you are it was the moment that the lost
boys knew that Peter Pan was back Peter Pan found himself
and he got back to really living and I
gotta be honest sometimes I feel like that's where
America is I feel like we've lost the joy
the clutter of serious life the inability to remember
who we really are as a nation as if
America has forgotten itself sometimes the past four years
have been hard no kidding Covid Covid lockdowns civil
unrest epic inflation of bumbling White House the loss of
Afghanistan and the lack of cohesive plan for our
future skewing of priorities cancel culture law fair transgender
activism BLM accusations all of it nothing about the
past four years was it all with America's really
about but it did serve to somewhat stifle who
we are and in the midst of hard times
Americans began to lose some of the sense that
this is the greatest nation on the face of
the Earth I feel like we lost a sense
of ourselves we are beaten down a bit but
the truth is being on the ropes does not
mean the fight is over and I'm gonna tell
you right now I sent the turning there's a
real impress sense right now that America is climbing
its way back to the joy of living the
adventure of being American I mean not just the
business not just a seriousness the distant dream of
what America was is on the return and we're
gonna find that smile and get back to flying
and fighting and living and I see it in
many ways but one of the most tangible ways
that I see it isn't events like what we
saw this past weekend President Trump vice president elect JD
Vance and a whole host of patriots all attended
the annual army Navy football game it was epic
it was so good it was also poured out
by the way that Joe Biden never once did
that as the national anthem was being sung by
cadets from both West Point in Annapolis in their dress
uniforms President Trump stood at attention is saluted a
military flyover follow the crowd went wild it felt
different you know it felt better it felt like
the America that's been missing for a few years I've
heard it said the army Navy game was one
of the only sporting events you could watch where
every member of both teams has committed to the
idea of giving their life for every person who's
watching the game and that's humbling but it's so
true in my sense is this was not a
one time moment I think patriotism is coming back
I think pride America's back I think peace through
strength is back I think America is so back
I think back over the past four years under
the Biden administration is there anybody in the Middle East
that fear Joe Biden is there anyone in China
who believe that Chinese interests were better served by
having a strong friendship with the US the interest
no have the drug cartels in the coyotes on
the southern border have they had any concern at
all whatsoever with US law-enforcement if oil prices have
been steep with the OPEC nations pick up the
phones when we called probably not when we warned
Russia not to invade Ukraine they just did it
anyway when we abandoned friends and allies Afghanistan the
Taliban were in bolded and Iran was invited in
the world is filled up with foreign leaders who
stopped valuing our friendship and they had no fear
of having us as an enemy because the Biden
administration is filled with glass ceiling breaking do nothing
America bashing beta people who insist that climate change
is the existential threat to our way of life
and that your use of pronouns is somehow the
clearest indicator of your worth it is imperative that
on the world stage our foreign policy has as its
core the notion that it is best to be
our friend and then if we extend the hand
of friendship you should not reject it we must
build relationship to further the fight and we must
fight to build those relationships relationships that are forward
through warrior diplomacy with the underlying thought that it's
better to be our friend than our foe which
always should be on their minds but you can
only do that by the way you can only
do that you can only have warrior diplomacy when
you walk in the authority of who you are
when you exude confidence in your position but the
truth is to buy administration found that whole line
of thinking to be offensive by administration would rather
that we lead from behind and apologize for being
the biggest dog on the international block and I'm
not surprised to have seen President Trump standing in
attention and saluting during the army Navy game and
I'm equally not at all surprised that Joe Biden
never did it's how they do things it's how
they view the world Trump believes in leading from
a position of strength and reminding people that being
an American is a gift from God and Biden
believed and apologizing for being strong for a number
of years we've seen a left a agenda that his
time made our national pride and it's beyond time for
civilian leaders to go back to a position of
strength and readiness not equity and wellness the world
is not a stable place even more so based on
four years of the United States being dragged through the
Manhattan tea party we have to restore the sense of
identity that made us the Cowboys of the world
we have to walk in our God-given authority as a
force for good in a photo to evil it's
a sense of maintaining our national honor of not
allowing somebody else much less some rogue group of
violent backward thinking Harry knuckle misogynist to dictate our
reputation on the world stage our honor is of
our making it is a sacred matter not to
be taken lightly because this is our country our
home our refuge it's a place where the sweat
of our brow in the work of our hands
has forced a future for our kids our country
where the generations before us labored and fought and
loved and laughed to form a more perfect union
duty honor in country it's far more than just
a phrase not some melodramatic intonation of old school
promises it's real to the vast majority of Americans
duty honoring country we care about that I mean
sure the network news they may want you to
believe that critical race theory and antifa and white
supremacist and black lives matter that somehow those fringe
elements are the core of who we are in
someway the true nature of who we are and
they most certainly are not the core of our
Citizen recognize the value of who we are as
a nation the vast majority of Americans will fly
the flag stand for the anthem and volunteer for the
cause duty honor and country we still have that
full capability as a nation as a military to
fully engage the process to fix the situation we've
been in to restore the pride and the patriotism
that has been flagging for for long years and
look I'm no rocket scientist I'm just a salty
old Ranger who gets misty eyed when I see
the flag waving I don't know everything but I
can see a few things even from this side of
the fire horizon I can see a nation America
that is hungry for leadership that reminds them of
who they really are the biggest dog the greatest
friend the one who helps the hurting and hurts
the harmful the one that promotes the good opposes
the bad the bad guy United States of America where it's better
to be our friend than to be our phone
any day of the week the kind of nation
that is willing to win friends and kill enemies
the kind of nation that we have been and
really still are we just need to be reminded
I'll look America there you are that's a wrap
for the right side way