By: Daiman Teer for The Simpleton Star
There is a specific kind of rotted grave juice that settles into a man when he has spent fifty years thriving on the scent of American retreat. We saw it this week on the flickering screen of the late-night abyss, where John Kerry—a man whose face now resembles a melting waxwork of every bad diplomatic deal in history—sat across from Stephen Colbert to whisper sweet nothings into the ears of the defeatists — The self-hating Americans.
It wasn’t enough that Kerry built a career out of throwing medals over fences and shaking hands with the world’s most dangerous mullahs; now, with the world teetering on the edge of an atomic nightmare, he has decided to take his act to the comedy stage.
While the Islamic extremists in Iran sharpen their knives and refine their uranium with the explicit goal of wiping us off the map, Kerry is busy intimating that the United States is “losing” the fight. It is a spectacle so grotesque and so fundamentally un-American that it makes one wonder how we ever allowed the “Water’s Edge” of politics to be washed away by such a tide of narcissism.
Imagine, if you can, the sheer audacity required to go on a television program hosted by a man who treats the destruction of our values like a punchline and openly root for the other side. This is the same Iran that has spent decades murdering our soldiers and lying to the face of every inspector sent to their door. There is no mystery here; they are Islamic extremists who want a nuke because they want to use it, not because they want a seat at the table. Yet, there sits Kerry, the gray-haired specter of a failed era, acting as a volunteer PR agent for the very people who wish to see us burn. In any other age of our history—certainly if this were the 1940s and the threat was Hitler instead of Tehran—a man speaking this way while our country was engaged in a struggle for survival would be treated with the silence and exile he deserves. Instead, he is celebrated by a media class that hates the flag as much as he does.
The Architecture of the Sell-Out
We have to ask who exactly benefits when a former Secretary of State tells the world that America is failing. It isn’t the American worker, and it certainly isn’t the soldier on the front lines. The only people cheering for Kerry’s “analysis” are the fanatics in Iran who see his words as proof that the American spirit has finally snapped.
By going on a show like Colbert’s—a platform that has become a toxic waste dump for anyone who despises the heartland—Kerry is signaling that he doesn’t care about the outcome of the war; he only cares about being the smartest man in a room full of losers. It is a performance of peak ego, a nasty display of a man who would rather see his own country humbled than admit that his decades of appeasement were a catastrophic mistake. He is an old, ugly monster of the establishment, haunting our airwaves and poisoning the well of national resolve at the exact moment we need it most.
BIBLE VERSE
“Who so keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.” — Proverbs 21:23-24
WHY I CHOSE THIS VERSE
This verse strikes at the very heart of the Kerry problem. It warns that a man who cannot control his tongue, especially one who speaks out of a sense of haughty pride, brings nothing but trouble upon his soul and his people. Kerry’s “proud wrath” against his own nation’s efforts is the mark of a scorner—someone who thinks his own intellect is greater than the collective safety of the citizens he once swore to protect.
LET US PRAY
Lord, we ask for a hedge of protection around this nation as it faces enemies both abroad and within. We pray that You would silence the voices of those who seek to demoralize our people and provide comfort to our adversaries for the sake of their own vanity. Grant our leaders the discernment to see through the lies of the extremists and the courage to stand firm against the nuclear shadow. May the truth rise above the noise of the talk shows, and may we find the strength to remain a unified house that cannot be divided by the words of the proud. Amen.
