Not for the weak

Last summer I learned a very hard lesson in “survival of the fittest.” I always have 3 hummingbird feeders filled from April to late September. We get swarmed with those gorgeous tiny birds during those months and there will be 12-15 females fighting over the best perch on the feeders. The males just do their thing seemingly disconnected from the feisty ladies. In late July I added a trellis outside my kitchen window and put out a hanging plant and a 4th hummingbird feeder. Soon I noticed a praying mantis on the outside kitchen window sill along with a skink, but never together. It was amazing to watch their world happen as I cooked or did dishes. The hummers buzzed the feeder, the mantis swayed with the wind, skink came and went. I came home one day chatting on the phone with my sister, Janine, unlocked the door, unloaded what was in my arms and decided to check out the window to see if any hummers were eating. I screamed in the phone “OH MY GOD!!!” Bless her heart – Janine prob thought someone was trying to kill me. I continued to yell: “SHE KILLED MY BIRD!” Janine kept asking – “WHAT???” I was finally able to compose myself a tad and explained that the praying mantis – while I was gone a few hours – somehow – caught a hummingbird, killed it, and was in the process of eating it. Janine then yelled – “KILL IT.” I sure felt like it, but at that point it was too late. The bird was dead.

I’m sorry if that is upsetting –  so why am I relaying such a morose story? Weakness kills! I heard a quote from a general speaking about America under Trump vs America under Biden: “Appeasement provokes, and strength deters.” The mantis portrayed herself as a leaf around the hummingbird feeders, and even mimicked leaves blowing in the wind, so much so the little hummers felt no fear which led to death. Trump was a wild card, and when he DID flex a muscle the world took notice, and for 4 years, things were mostly quiet. Biden has NO muscle. As VP, he spent so much time and effort making deals for HIS fam, not focusing on the jobs Obama sent him to do over in Ukraine and China, allowing his son to embarrass the whole country with his debautrous lifestyle, even Obama foretold his presidency: “never underestimate joe’s ability to f**k things up.”

And that’s where we are now as a Nation – in dire straits. We have the cleanest oil in the world and plenty of it. But joe won’t let us have it. Russia is murderering a whole country and joe says he’s exacting the toughest sanctions on Russia EVER – WHILE we’re buying hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil EVERY SINGLE DAY. Our purchases of Russian oil IS funding Russia’s war in Ukraine. Now joe is sitting at the table WITH Russia AND Iran to broker a nuke deal. Guess what we are?