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Mark Schmitz’s son, Marine Lance Cpt. Jared Schmitz, was one of the thirteen American service members who were killed in the Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) attack at Kabul’s Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. Mark Schmitz was thus watching President Trump’s Tuesday night address to Congress with intense interest as Trump announced that Mohammad Sharifullah, who planned the jihad operation at Abbey Gate that day, had been arrested. To Schmitz’s shock, however, the Democrats in the audience didn’t seem in the least pleased at the news. Welcome to the Democrat Party, 2025: the party that hates Trump so much, it readily sides with those who kill Americans.
Fox News reported Wednesday that Schmitz “said the Democrats’ reaction, or lack thereof, to the news that one of the masterminds behind the attack had been arrested was ‘disturbing.’” Although one would think that anyone in his right mind would applaud the arrest of a man who engineered the murder of at least 183 people (thirteen U.S. service members plus 170 Afghan civilians), Fox notes that “the news of the arrest was not met with a resounding approval across the political aisle. As Schmitz pointed out, only roughly a third of Democrats applauded the news, and none appeared to join their Republican colleagues in a standing ovation.”
Schmitz observed, “This should not be a partisan issue whatsoever – the death of our kids.” That’s right. It shouldn’t. And the fact that for the Democrats, it clearly was indeed a partisan issue was revealing. “You would think that every single person in that place would be standing up and applauding and cheering,” Schmitz added. To see the Democrats sitting there stone-faced at the news of the arrest of was “incredibly insulting as a Gold Star family.” He emphasized, “This has got nothing to do with politics. This is our military we’re talking about, and that needs to change.”
Of course it does, but it is not likely to. As many have observed, the Democrats have clearly chosen to regard anything that Trump does, no matter how good it is for America and even for the world at large, as “not normal” and something to be fought by any means possible.
The election of 2024 taught the Democrats nothing. Instead of retreating from their America-Last stances and stepping back from gender madness, the war on the freedom of speech, and the attempt to criminalize opposition to their policies, they have doubled down and are now the captains of a defiantly sinking ship. Back in 1972, the famed film director Werner Herzog’s movie “Aguirre: The Wrath of God” depicted a Spanish conquistador in South America slowly descending into madness, until finally he is piloting a raft of monkeys on a weed-choked jungle stream, all the while muttering, “I am the wrath of God!”
That’s as apt a summation as any of the Democrats after a month and a half of the new Trump administration. Their program is as insane as it ever was, but their primary and fundamental priority is that they hate Trump and want to destroy him, and they appear to be bent on chasing that goal into total electoral irrelevancy.
If the Democrats had wanted to show Americans that they still represented a point of view that people who care about this country could get behind, the least they could have done would have been to stand up and applaud at the news of the arrest of Mohammad Sharifullah. But since it was Donald Trump who announced it, it was back to muttering to monkeys on the raft.
It gets worse, as these things usually do. Schmitz says that even before Trump returned to the Oval Office, the Biden regime showed itself to be decidedly uninterested in apprehending those behind the Abbey Gate attack. “There was no communication from the onset,” he says. Indeed: when Old Joe Biden went to Dover Air Force Base for the return of the bodies of the slain servicemembers, he couldn’t wait to get out of there and was caught repeatedly looking at his watch, as if he couldn’t wait for the thing to be over.
It is no surprise that Old Joe and others who pursued America-Last policies for so long would actually be bored and indifferent to the families of Americans who have fallen in our nation’s service. And as always, no matter how appalled patriots such as Mark Schmitz are by their actions, the Democrats will learn nothing and repeat the same behavior later.
It’s not just Trump that the Democrats hate. They hate America, the US military, Western culture, men, whites, Christians and Jews. They are the party of hatred and envy. That this would shock anybody only means that they haven’t been paying attention to politics for decades.
The Domo-Rats don’t give a darn about the Lives of American G.I.s all they care about getting elected that’s why they want all those Illegal Aliens to keep voting for Demo-Rats
What absolutely petulant and infantile clowns, idiots, and morons the Democrats looked like waving those inane ping pong paddles all speech long. I have never seen something so stupid and idiotic at a Congressional speech.
There was even that infantile moron from Hawaii with graffiti written all over her jacket!
Pathetic, petulant, teenagers stuck in the year 1968, “Mommy and Daddy, we want the world and we want it NOW!”
“I have never seen something so stupid and idiotic at a Congressional speech.”
….until I looked in the mirror.
It’s kind of like being stuck in the 8th to 6th centuries BCE.
Absolutely right.
And the fact that they had pre-written responses means they did not think or consider context at all. All for show, no substance.
I think you are off by several years.
Ah wuzza kawlidge stoont then. I well remember things like the mourning of MLK’s murder. Had we known then it was an Eff Bee Aye hit job I am convinced the nation would have erupted in rebellion.
Many of us wanted OUT of the Vietnam debacle. Had we known that was LBJ’s war and that he had to kill our president to make it so, again, the nation would have erupted in righteous fury. We DID fear the Soviet Union and despised their bent to dominate the planet. We celebrated righteously when the whole mess began to crumble with the fall of Berlin’s Wall of Partition and the de-sovietisation of Europe. . My Mom was one of seven, Dad one of ten. Together they had nine of us. And we nine? only total of nine. That’s not multiplication. Its not even addition. Its marking place, no more.
the real changes you mention did not sweep over this country for another ten years or so.
Those stupid ass D-Bags just can’t accept reality. President Trump is Moby Dick and their party is the Pequod. At least Moby had Ahab as a worthy opponent. Trump has nobody except a bunch of wriggling remoras. And unlike Ahab, nobody has any empathy, much less respect or admiration, for D-Bags who have no concern for US military members killed by jihadi terrorists they enabled, mothers of girls murdered by illegal aliens they imported into America or even a 13 year old boy who’s had 13 brain surgeries and is doomed to die.
Ordinary Americans hate the D-Bags more and more with each passing day, and they’ve only been out of power and in opposition to peace and prosperity for less than two months. I think they’re going to be punished in the mid-terms and sorely deserve it.
The father should start voting for the GOP instead of the Demo-Rats if he already hasn’t
That’s Lance Cpl. not Cpt. Let’s honor him with his correct rank.
A Truman or a JFK would never recognize what the Dems have become. Like Gabbard, they would switch parties.