Throughout history we encounter great men who had to undergo their own, personal crucible before they made their mark helping their people or country survive a greater, national crucible.
To prove their mettle, as it were, they proved more than equal to standing before and weathering adversities that had doomed many leaders before them.
And when you research such men, as it is usually men, you almost always find that personal crucible they managed to survive and overcome.
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THE INDISPENSABLE MAN OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
My personal favorite is Winston Churchill, who, as a member of the English nobility entered public life after a raucous, adventurous youth both as a soldier and a war correspondent having made his mark as an author and becoming a millionaire before the age of 27, rose like a rocket ship to the pinnacle of success in British affairs as First Lord of the Admiralty which is where he was when World War One broke out.
Churchill, age 40 in 1915 as First Lord of the Admiralty.
Churchill confidently strategized a brilliant naval/army campaign to quickly end the conflict involving the Dardanelles and the Straight of Gallipoli where a decisive stroke of the United Kingdom’s forces would confound Germany’s Turkish allies and swiftly put the Kaiser’s forces in an untenable position.
It was a horrifying DISASTER.
The Admirals had hidebound minds and didn’t grasp even the basic points of Churchill’s strategy or the need for their ships to move through the Straight quickly.
On the Army side of things Lord Kitchener, already a harsh critic of Churchill thanks to his criticisms of Kitchener as a Journalist during the Mahdi uprising in the Middle East had said derisively that the war was going to be won in the trenches of France, not the Dardanelles.
As both parties tasked with implementing Churchill’s vision either didn’t understand the battle plan or didn’t believe in it, it ended up littering both the waters of the Straight and the beaches of Gallipoli with British dead.
The Royal Navy lost several capital ships to Turkish mines placed strategically because the slowness of their approach had allowed the Turks to sow the mines the day before.
These delays in landing the troops gave the Turks and their German Advisors time to prepare a gauntlet of fire from the high ground and it was a slaughter.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN THOUSAND British and Commonwealth troops were killed and 73,000 were wounded during the Campaign before it was abandoned.
Churchill was inconsolable.
His daring gambit in which he had hoped to SPARE THE LIVES of his Majesty’s Soldiers had instead turned into a stunning charnel house of death and defeat.
Churchill’s wife, Clementine who wasn’t known for hyperbole, said she thought he would die of grief.
Churchill promptly took responsibility for the disaster and resigned from the government
He shut himself away for 3 weeks, then emerged to face a parliamentary investigation by both outraged houses.
Winston Churchill was FULLY EXONERATED of any wrongdoing.
Since his battle plan was clearly written but NOT followed Parliament could find no fault with the planning, only with those tasked with it’s highly flawed execution.
It’s what Churchill did next that won my surprised admiration.
Did he go back to Chartwell, his manor estate, to sulk and cry about his misfortunes?
Did he relegate himself to a back bench to count his grievances and wallow in his sadness?
No.
Churchill resolved to go to France and fight.
If he couldn’t save the lives of British soldiers, he would go take his chances with them.
The Army didn’t want him.
He persisted.
Finally he was given a Colonelcy and assigned to a Regiment of the Royal Scots Fusiliers who were training to go to France.
They didn’t want Churchill either, having read about Gallipoli and bivouacked Winston in a muddy ditch figuring they would run him off.
He won them over within three weeks.
When the Regiment went into action Churchill led from the Front AT the front as an Infantry Officer.
He fully expected to be killed.
Churchill saw heavy fighting and came under enemy fire numerous times. This picture was taken shortly after he arrived in December of 1915. Look at his face. The resolve.
This was his personal crucible.
Another word I use for crucible is SOULWAR.
I understand that even to this day Winston is a lightning rod for controversy but I cannot fault him for his courage in facing and defeating that devastating crisis.
It is, I am certain, what prepared him to lead his nation thought it’s crucible in the Second World War.
AMERICA’S FAVORITE SON.
Donald Trump is our Churchill.
Who is also, a lightning rod for controversy.
He has been able to successfully weather everything Our Enemy has thrown at him.
Because Donald Trump, an amazing Family man, has undergone his own crucibles.
Multiple crises, multiple SOULWARS.
In his family and in business.
Preparing him to lead the American Nation out of captivity.
I say, with no shame at all, he is delivering a CAPTURED NATION out of it’s bondage like Moses of old.
I have said that Trump, witnessing 9-11, made a PROMISE to himself to see those responsible for so viciously attacking his beautiful and glorious New York City held accountable.
The ACTUAL villains, not the ones blamed in the MSM.
He refers to those responsible as MAINE-IACS. (THE BUSH FAMILY)
That hideous attack on our Nation gave birth to two things that are now being used to destroy us.
THE PATRIOT ACT and the DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.
This MOTHERFUCKING SHITWEASEL was carefully positioned as the head of DHS to oversee and protect THE MIGRANT INVASION as well as set Trump up for his Butler PA Headshot. And when confronted by Congress about his AIDING AND ABETTING the treasonous attack on our Country his response was, in essence “Congress, WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM?”
Well Donald Trump, even in the face of multiple assassination attempts has vowed to see justice done for 9-11.
He’s going to keep that promise. And DHS is going to be abolished and those engaged in violating the Constitutional Rights of Americans are going to be prosecuted.
Trump has made other promises as well.
When Donald Trump saw the DoJ and US Three Letter Agencies LEAP to Jeffrey Epstein’s defense, ensuring an IRON CLAD sex trafficking case made by competent & impartial investigators that included Ghislaine Maxwell was watered down to ONE CHARGE of soliciting sex from a minor that DID NOT INVOLVE MAXWELL (see how they did that?) and that illegal sweetheart deal let /Epstein off, TRUMP MADE A PROMISE TO HIMSELF.
As President, he fulfilled it.
Did you know Donald Trump was involved in Epstein’s first fall from grace?
Trump made another PROMISE to himself as well. To reveal ALL of the parties involved in the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
People rightly point out Trump promised to do this if elected the first time.
Upon reading the files, he realized WE WEREN’T READY as a Nation to learn of the hidden hand that directed the CIA to do the dirty deed.
Being exposed to THAT truth in 2017 would have ripped the nation apart.
But now, after four LOOOONG years of Biden’s punitive campaign to PUNISH US for unending their precious #AGENDA2030 it’s clear that Obama, Biden & Kamala are simply figurehead Leaders for that SAME HIDDEN HAND.
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And now we are, as a PEOPLE, ready to learn the truth.
And that truth is going to SET US FREE.
MY OWN PERSONAL SOULWAR.
I have very personal spiritual beliefs.
I don’t beat people over the head with them, I show them by kind word and action.
I came up with the term/hashtag #SoulWAR in 2014 to describe what I was experiencing as my senses were overwhelmed by a viral overload of information from the internet my MIND could not process but my instincts (your instincts are SOUL MEMORIES) discerned completely.
This all began with Biden’s disastrous DELIBERATE failure of our Status of Forces Agreement in Iraq coupled with about a dozen CIA STAGED PRISON BREAKS of Al Qaeda Fighters in Iraq and Syria.
I watched in growing horror THE RISE OF ISIS culminating in the Iraq Army abandoning an army’s worth of main battle tanks, Humvees, artillery and machine guns to be picked up by an ISIS force 1/20th their size. (DOES THAT SOUND, I DON’T KNOW, FAMILIAR?)
I then watched in SHOCKED DISBELIEF as a MURDER/RAPE CARAVAN of those ISIS Butchers drove for TWENTYONE DAYS to the Syrian Border, murdering innocent people every day.
And during that entire time they were doing that, they were not hit by a SINGLE MOTHERFUCKING AIRSTRIKE.
There is only ONE EXPLANATION for that. A new enemy was being ALLOWED to take the field to justify FOREVER WARS.
I. WAS. ENRAGED.
Obama and Hillary were HIP DEEP in that Three Letter Cesspool that gave rise to ISIS and all of its horrifying depredations including terror attacks in Europe and the US (Bataclan and Pulse Nightclub) to give them the EXCUSE they needed to lock us down for future, further abuse.
Like say, COVID, a Color Revolution and a GODDAMN MIGRANT INVASION!!!!
All planned since the 1960’s and now being implemented by the HYDRA that has ensnared our government.
I sank into a DEEP depression from 2014-2016.
I felt completely alone and powerless.
I had ONE PAYMENT left on a Car and I didn’t bother.
It was repossessed with a handgun in the glovebox and OF COURSE the Tow Truck Driver had NO IDEA what had happened to it.
I stopped taking care of myself, including my teeth.
I bloated up to over 360 pounds and lost most of my molars.
I had named my personal crisis in watching a nation and people, MY PEOPLE go deeper into an all pervasive darkness AS PLANNED by Lady Liberty’s hideous Captors.
I named it a SoulWAR and I was failing in waging it.
There seemed to be no way out, no hope of any brighter future and for my own SANITY I began to consider quitting social media, surrendering my DIGITAL VOICE, allowing my Digital Footprint to be washed away by the internet tide.
Well, I’m so glad I didn’t
I resolved to FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! My SoulWAR to the bitter end, while shouting TRUTH TO POWER as loudly as I could.
AND THEN CAME TRUMP!!
Even when The Donald came down that Golden Escalator in Trump Tower, Melania at his side, I was too far gone in anger and fear to see what that meant.
Brian and I started off as seeing Trump as an ego driven non-serious candidate.
Brian evolved, thanks to the circles he was moving in, into a NEVER-TRUMPER.
It Took Trump smoking all comers to nail the GOP Presidential Nomination for me to decide to actually WATCH a Trump Rally for myself with NO MSM filter.
In a mean spirited funk, I was determined to study him carefully to see why he was going to LOSE TO HILLARY.
Well, that was his Rally in Denver, Colorado on July 29th.
After Trump finished his Rally I sat there in stunned amazement.
“What the HELL had I just witnessed?”
I watched the next Trump Rally in rapt fascination.
And became a Trump supporter on the spot, never looking back.
During the Louisiana Flood I saw this:
“It’s just a PHOTO OP!!” The Left SNEERED! It was a Trailer full of $75,000 of Disaster Aid paid for BY TRUMP. “Holy SHIT!” I exclaimed! “Trump just won the Presidency! (Obama & Hillary were nowhere to be seen for DAYS!)
In 2016 I cast my first vote for Trump, followed by a second time in 2020.
Trump’s rise rekindled my spirit and resolve to see the SoulWAR through only now with a rising hope and focus.
A pulmonary Edema nearly killed me just before his Inauguration.
After 48 hours in Christus Spohn’s ICU and 3 days of monitoring I was discharged weak as a kitten and watched Trump take the Oath from my Recliner.
In 2018 I expanded my Digital Voice onto YouTube with my #AmericanaRISING Channel and focused on growing awareness of the National #SOULWAR underway.
In 2020 I was banned from Twitter which hit me financially.
In 2022 I was forced off YouTube.
Two revenue streams GONE.
Even though I was working two part time jobs as a Work-At-Home Roadside Assistance Agent, by simply asking people to donate via my PayPal if they liked my Twitter Threads had been making me and average of $1,900 a month.
My YouTube channel at it’s best, was $500-600 a month.
Listen, it WAS a hit, but having stared DEATH in the face these weren’t even speed bumps.
Brian suggested I move to Twitch and I did, where I tried my 3rd stab and becoming a Twitch Streamer with real success.
Soon my new THUNDERDOME Streams coupled with my unique Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 Chill Flights began earning me subscriptions exceeding my Twitter donations.
This, coupled with my THUNDERDOME Substack allowed me a financial freedom I’d never enjoyed before.
SO OF COURSE TWITCH BANNED ME AS A “HARMFUL MISINFORMATION ACTOR.
Bitches, I AIN’T ACTING!!
The Truth is labeled by you SHITWEASELS as misinformation because your are trying to END our 1st Amendment at the behest of the Foreigners you serve.
I went from that monetary freedom to struggling once again.
MOVING ON UP…
Brian moved out of our Apartment, The Cates Command Center, in May of 2022 and I began to struggle maintaining the bills for a place much bigger and expensive than necessary.
Then in September of this year, I went into medical distress thanks to a gastrointestinal bleed that over a few weeks “evacuated” over half of my hemoglobin.
Once again, I smiled wanly at DEATH and managed to recover thanks to clearer and saner heads than my own. (Oxygen Starvation makes you do dumb things as Ye Olde Noggin is starved of Brain Power)
My two brothers, Brian & Stan, decided I needed a significant change after that, including being located close by (Stan works at Pensacola NAS as a Safety Inspector and Brian lives & writes in Lakeland)
So on Saturday, October 12th, Brian, who’d driven all the way from Lakeland in his 2017 black Toyota Camry, shepherded me in my own fire engine red 2014 Camry for an amazing three day road trip to his home in Florida.
We drove for 8-10 hours every day, getting hotel rooms at night as we crossed Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala-Freakin’ Bama and Florida.
I was amazed and entranced by the landscapes we drove through.
I am now a Floridian.
#ENDGAME
The American People’s #SoulWAR is coming to a head in seven days.
Our Enemy is going to be SOUNDLY defeated.
The signs are everywhere and the panic of their captured sycophants in the VILE Legacy Media & Hollywood is real.
After the victory and the reestablishment of the American Republic from it’s CAPTURED STATE, comes THE RECKONING.
The next phase in Our SoulWAR.
Thanks for what you wrote. It was because of you and the Chill Flights that I finally (this year) realized the truth of 911. My younger son knew this from the get go as he worked in EOD (Explosive Ordinance Demolition) when he was stationed in Iraq. He had told me many times that it wasn’t the airplanes but a controlled demolition. Until this year, I didn’t believe him.
Thanks Duane for all that you do.
Great writing Duane! Glad you are hanging in there. We are winning! Yesterday I stood in the long line for early voting with plenty of happy voters, silent no longer!