Category Archives: Mr. Smith Takes on Washington

Justin O. Smith has lived in Tennessee off and on most of his adult life, and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, with a B.S. and a double major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – minors in Military Science and English, for what its worth. His real education started from that point on. Smith is a frequent contributor to the family of Kettle Moraine Publications – including Metropolis.Cafe

Smith ~ Artificial Intelligence: Kill It Before It Grows!

Never has it been more apparent to me that our people and their product, capital and wealth are seen as nothing more than a means to an end by those who preside over Congress, as they continuously grasp for more, more and more – never satisfied and always demanding that we, the American people, make the sacrifices they themselves fear to make, or simply refuse to make from their own positions of greed and lust for power, fame [or infamy in most cases] and whatever glory they can manufacture in front of the mainstream media cameras. Always at the expense of the American working man and woman, and ultimately at the expense of America on the whole.

As noted fifty years ago, by Rod Serling – writer and producer of ‘The Twilight Zone’:

The totalitarian state has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom.”

Artificial Intelligence is a destroyer, of children and their futures, freedom and liberty, mineral resources, and, most importantly, our water resources. Essentially it is an entity that can and most probably will make things much worse for all humanity before it finally pushes us to that one last extinction moment. And the real hell of it all is the fact that it really won’t make things better for the average American or any other person in the world, as the returns on the massive number of resources and wealth pumped into A.I. gives little in the way of beneficial returns or even profits on the dollar. Continue reading

Smith ~ How to Rake Dumbasses Over the Coals: “In Debt Forever, In Debt For Life”

This is just the latest adventures with President Trump who seems to just spew new things off the top of his head, for reasons that are beyond me, unless he somehow is truly worried for the midterm elections and his legacy. He and quite a few other Republicans in both the House and the Senate don’t really mind moving left of center and doing things that stand in contravention of sound economic policies and the traditional conservative philosophy.

For over a decade now, I have repeatedly told people that Donald Trump is far from being a conservative as a goat is from being an elephant, and nevertheless, his better policy ideas regarding energy and the border helped propel him into the presidency. Now, once again President Trump is proving to me and all America that he is a yellow-dog Democrat holding tightly to Democrat idiotic notions, as he recently compared himself on Truth Social in glowing terms to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a socialist, and proposed implementing a fifty-year mortgage to help more Americans become first time homeowners, one of the worst effing ideas ever set forth by a sitting U.S. president. Continue reading

Smith ~ Save Traditional America: Destroy Islam

Throughout the years of my life, I’ve never witnessed one good thing come from Islam on the whole, which isn’t to say I haven’t known and actually befriended a few solitary Muslims during those years. But get to know them well enough, and soon the veneer slips away and their contempt for you and America comes through in the little nuances and subtext of conversations, as they regularly defend the indefensible in regard to their imams’ numerous anti-American rants and calls to violence against Christians, Jews and all other non-believers.

I was taught to be a tolerant man, but the older one grows the more one realizes that just as one can never compromise with evil, one certainly cannot tolerate it, not in one’s home and certainly not in one’s country, And Islam is the manifestation of evil in this world if ever there was a manifestation. Continue reading

Smith: Finding My Way Home ~ The Quiet Hours and Reflections On Liberty

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It saddens me beyond words to witness so many of our youth so anxious to jump into the arms of Big Brother, all for a bit of sucker and comfort for the price of a nickel, government minions, serfs and whores all too willing to betray everything good and decent about America and in fact destroy Her completely. No matter that the Charlie Kirk movement may reveal a bit of a trend back towards the America of Her founding, we still see far too many indoctrinated poltroons who know not what it is that they do not know – and who do not care so long as the federal government is continuously forced to fund their lifestyle on the backs of the producers, those who would see all America turned into queers, deviants, Muslims and communists if only the Democratic Party Communists of the same cloth as Zohran Mamdani could have their way. Continue reading

Smith: Trump’s AI Agenda Threatens America and Individual Liberty

All President Trump can ever really seem to think about is dollar signs in everything he does, and that’s all well and fine, as far as it goes. But he and his ilk are so focused on making money, no matter how and no matter the actual overall cost to the average American that he is essentially now championing an AI initiative that serves the wealthy of America a whole hell of a lot more than the middle class and the poor – I don’t care how he explains it all away and tries to characterize it as a thing that will “Make America Great Again“. Continue reading

Whispers in the Wind: Jane Goodall’s Final Words and Lasting Legacy

Over my own lifetime, I have had a huge appreciation for this world we’ve been handed to steward and do with as we wish. And it’s always been my wish that we as humans across the globe always wish and choose wisely, if only that all life survives and thrives.

This isn’t a communist or capitalist – left-right – issue, since the health of the Earth and our environment has a marked, significant effect on all life on the planet, and it’s just pure old, good and simple common-sense that we should all do our utmost best to keep the environment as pure and clean as possible for the sake of future generations and humanity overall.

But curiously, if one does their due diligence, one will find that historically, it is the developed, capitalist nations of the globe that have the best track record for protecting wildlife and the environment.

The following is a tribute to one of the most amazing women I have never had the opportunity to meet, a lady I would have given my eye-teeth to have met in my early manhood days. She is the sort of lady who provides inspiration to all to be better than the person you were yesterday, to do better for those you may leave behind upon your own death. ~ J.O.S.  Continue reading

Smith: Flushing Out America’s Treasonous Communist Snakes

For all reasonable Americans who are still capable of using logic and facts in tandem with existing U.S. legal code, they will be unable to come to any other conclusion other than finding the events from 2016 to the present as directed and guided through Democrat criminal complicity, to be nothing less than treason against the United States and the American people.

Handing down a judgement and punishment may be an entirely different dynamic though, given his fate will be in the hands of people who will more than likely be Democrat Party minions, but should they dare to be so misdirected as to let him go without any punishment whatsoever, it will be a slap in the face of all America. Continue reading

Smith: Freedom and Liberty: An American Birthright

Unfortunately, wherever one finds a free people and a free society, one will always find evil men and women who will do anything to control them, to bring them to heel, and to conquer them in fact – to force them to do their bidding upon pain of death. And in that, just as has always been the case, we will always find ourselves in a war to survive and defeat the forces of tyranny, those monsters who hate freedom and liberty.

People who hate freedom and liberty are angered that anyone would choose to tell them “NO” to some dangerous, insane, and asinine idea – how arrogant and ungrateful we must be to reject their overtures and the cold chains of serfdom to an authoritarian government, the Leviathan – how dare we reject their mantel of master and the cradle to grave control they offer, under the guise of “care”. Continue reading

Smith: Letter Beneath a Dimming Sky

So many past generations have failed the generations of today, and regardless of the short gains being made by the Trump administration, this nation is headed to a dismal destination, in reality, whether or not anyone wishes to acknowledge the fact. ~ J.O.S.

A Spoken-Word Poem from a Father to His Children

My Sweet Children, I pen this beneath a sky gone gray, Where once the sun would swagger, now it slinks away. The clouds hang heavy, like guilt in a liar’s chest, And the wind moans low, like a world that’s lost its zest.

I had dreams for you – wild ones, bold and bright – of meadows unscarred, and stars that sang at night. But the world’s gone crooked, like a gambler’s grin, And the dice Americans roll now are loaded with sin. Continue reading

Smith ~ The Harsh Reality of Open Borders

January 13, 2019 ~ America is currently witnessing the harsh reality of a Democratic Party intent on gaining power by any means necessary and so enraged by the election of President Trump, that they will not even acknowledge America and her patriots have a right to determine who and how many enter our nation, under any set of circumstances.

The resulting stand off between President Trump and (Speaker) Nancy Pelosi and their respective supporters has allowed the harsh reality to come home, that the Democratic Party really has become the anti-American Party of Brown Ascendancy; and, the Democrats, such as Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, place more value on their own power and their by and large white-hating communist, socialist, and fascist allies from South and Central America and North Africa and the Middle East, than they do on America’s own citizens. Continue reading

Smith ~ America’s Turning Point: That’s Right, It’s Come to This!

“That’s right, it’s come to this, yes it’s come to this, and wasn’t it a long way down, wasn’t it a strange way down?” ~ Leonard Cohen, from ‘Dress Rehearsal Rag

And so here I am again, looking at the direction of our country, as I all too regularly witness our enemies-from-within having their way with Her, simply because they absolutely refuse to abide by the normal social order and any of our laws or the constitution which raise their ire on any given day. Too many erroneously identify this as “politics as usual” when, in fact, it is anything but “as usual” and denotes a marked shift in everything about our country, Her people and what will probably occur in the aftermath of recent violent events – and what really should and must happen, if America is to survive as a republic for much longer.

People can disagree with my assessment all they wish, all day long for months into the future, but they are sadly mistaken if they believe the Democrat Party rat bastards really have good intentions for the people or that there truly exists any peaceful solutions for America, going forward from this day on. Continue reading

Smith: September 11th, 2001 and the Battle Between Civilizations – Islam Is Still America’s Enemy

To this day I still burn with rage as I recall the Islamic terrorist attack against America, with jets plowing into the Twin Trade Towers and setting in motion the horrific scene that followed. Many readers may not have even been born when the most heinous act in U.S. history unfolded on that fateful day of September 1st 2001, but for those of us who sat it in real time, whether on our television screens or the streets adjacent to the Towers, it was a scene that everyone who has ever loved America had seared into their mind and heart, as hot tears of grief and anger flowed down our faces. Continue reading

Smith: Freedom Delayed Is Freedom Denied

I have been carefully watching our nation evolve over the past two decades, as it has morphed into something unrecognizable, becoming more tyrannical with each passing day, month and year, regardless of whether or not it’s the Democratic Party or the Republican Party holding the reins of power.

And nothing much is changing under President Trump who has only succeeded in proving my assertions from 2016, that he is indeed a Big Spending, Big Government Dyed-in-the-Wool Old-Style Yellow Dog Democrat or simply a New York liberal without any core convictions, when it comes to Americans’ Inalienable God-given Rights and the Bill of Rights and defending them. Oh, he’ll certainly defend them for himself, when he is under attack, but he certainly doesn’t mind trampling on them for the rest of us, especially when there are trillions of dollars at stake. Continue reading

Smith: Courage to Live Outside the Machine

As I researched Artificial Intelligence more intensely in recent days, I have found myself actually dreaming about all manner of things and events that reveal how a future controlled by A.I. might eventually lead the American people back to the most important things in life – spirituality and a belief in God and reconnecting with nature and the world around them in a positive way that aligns more with the principles of freedom and liberty than anything we have experienced in recent decades.

Perhaps all that is needed is for people to refuse to go along with it all, to unplug, to disconnect and refuse to be just another hackable component in the grand scheme of things, a thousand times removed from what God intended us to be as free born independent men and woman or closer to the sort of people we were when this country was first being settled, from the early 1500s to the early 1800s.

The youth of America would do well to learn and come to understand the rugged pioneer spirit that built this nation and to even strive to be more like those earliest colonists and our Founding Fathers, and to quit worrying about who is following them on Facebook or Instagram and how many “likes” they are receiving on their posts.

What follows was actually inspired by one of those dreams. ~ J.O.S.  Continue reading

Smith: Response to Mandani for Mayor

Editor’s Note: The following is an intense column written by Mr. Smith in response to the following link. In addition, Justin also published the following on his Substack page. ~ Editor

A sure indication that America is currently FUBAR — [F@#!ed] fouled-up beyond all recognition has once again been revealed by the dangerous rise of an ignorant, anti-American, anti-capitalist entitled, radical man-child Muslim communist to become the Democratic Party’s candidate for mayor of New York City, the hub of America’s economic system. The mere fact that a person such as Zohran Kwame Mamdani, who is aligned with and supported by some of the most radical communists and Muslim terrorists in America and abroad, could pull this off a mere twenty-four years after the worst case of Islamic terrorism in America makes one understand just how severely the Democrat Party’s multiculturalist, diversity immigration policies over the decades have damaged America.

The shockwaves of his victory are filtering through the air across the nation as though every septic tank in the nation has overflown and filled the air with the scent of shit, worse than living next door to a corporate operated hog farm. Continue reading

Smith: America – Marching Toward Economic Serfdom

As anyone will tell, economics is a multifaceted, highly volatile, dynamic topic with more moving parts and components than Carter has liver pills, but I have done the best I could here, in my own layman terms, to deliver a fairly comprehensive overview of the entire American economy and what it and its manipulators are doing to the country on the whole and the American people in the end.

Life imitates art. Most of America’s so-called “role models” are immoral, and America’s society has become immoral on the whole, too. Outside of the severely flawed modern Christian churches, every organ on American culture, for whatever passes as “American culture” today, pushes materialism, self-aggrandizement and living for the moment, in the theme of the 1960s slogan “if it feels good do it“.

Many things have come together in an effort to kill the American Dream, intentionally or not, from executive greed, e.g. multi-million dollar CEO bonuses, and consolidation of wealth that stagnates wages for the rest of the workers participating in the jobs markets. Continue reading

Smith: Last Call for the Whiskey Girl

I am an empath, and at more times in my life it has caused me much of my own grief – it’s the reason I feel so deeply saddened by everything I see across America that is working to destroy Her, especially as I look at the images of a sea of American faces and the despair we now see in the eyes of far too many, for all the reasons you are all too well familiar and understand.

Normally, writing is a bit of work for me that entails reams of information and long tedious hours of research, because I typically write non-fiction white papers on the most important issues of the day. But having been a student of the human experience for all of my life, sometimes my inner-most being demands that I write something that takes a deeper look at what it really means to be “human” by way of some soul-soothing fiction, written with many thought-provoking factors in mind.

I recently came across a striking black-and-white photo, with a strong vintage vibe reminiscent of the raw, soulful energy of Janis Joplin, that was entitled ‘Whiskey Girl‘. This was the umpteenth time I had seen it, since it most certainly has been in circulation for at least the past fifteen years. It was pinned by Emmy Rose in a collection entitled ‘Shoot, camera, Action!‘ this year. Continue reading

Smith: ‘Liberation Day in D.C.‘ – Legal Authority, Political Power, and… the End Game

Too damned much of the same ol’ same ol’ and a government that never really seems to protect and defend true liberty on any given day. It seems to always be growing, demanding more power over all and more control, whether warranted or not.

While I do have a bit of a concern over Trump’s recent action in D,C., by and large, I have to admit that it is the correct move under these particular current set of circumstances and given the nature of the communists who have been looting and driving the area into the ground for decades.

Most normal Americans will understand my commonsense concerns for this creative and legal move by President Trump. Under every legal section one cares to mention, Trump absolutely can lawfully take control of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and the policing strategies and policies behind D.C.’s policing, but exercising this power in these politically charged days or in any indefinite manner comes with its own set of risks, and it could set a precedent for military-style urban governance in peacetime, much like we already witness throughout Mexico, Central and South America and other Third World shitholes. Continue reading

Smith: The Howl Beneath My Skin

The Soul That Never Learned to Lie

In a world where humanity has surrendered to the sterile hum of machines and the suffocating grip of routine, perhaps this poem may inspire some to be the one soul that remains untamed.

I was born with moss between my toes, and thunder and lightning braided into my hair. The world tried to tame me with clocks and codes, but I never fit into their cages or their prayers. Continue reading

Smith: Great Jeans and Faux Leftist Outrage

It is a sad state of affairs beyond what anyone of any advanced years might have ever imagined could come to pass in America. The Far Left Freaks still persist in their attacks on all that is traditional and truly normal, so intent as they are to destroy the country and raze it to the ground to be rebuilt under the guidelines of their totalitarian utopian world view.

It is something the Bible forewarns, in that today, they don’t merely call the abnormal and perverse and deviant normal. They present all manner of evil as good. Continue reading