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 ~ Weathering the Storm

This is what comes from “retiring” sooner than a man should. But truthfully, I must say I’m glad to be far and away removed from the madness of the corporate spinning and endless cycle of psychological bullshit aligned with all the politically correct programs that still persist in the corporate world today – that bullshit that ultimately led to the Woke movement and so many other detrimental and destructive programs across society, that which allowed the Transgendered Movement to grow to mammoth, militant proportions and tried to make the mutilation of children appear to be as ordinary as ordering a piece of apple pie at Mom’s Diner on 41A in Murfreesboro.

I know that in the grand scheme of things, no matter what anyone thinks of me, for better or worse. I am a man of little importance for the most part. And many people might question the reasons I write so prolifically on an entire array of topics, and to them, I say that it is to be certain there is an accounting of some sort left behind for whoever is to follow in this fight for the soul of America… Continue reading

Smith ~ Liberty Must Be Chosen, Defended and Lived! Continued…

Trumpism embraces the best and the worst of two sides of the political aisle, in a frenetic fashion that sometimes supports and defends freedom and liberty while trampling both at other times. It is a pitchfork populism that isn’t really making the reforms to government necessary to take the American people along a path to truly living free, and instead, it is bringing closer to fruition the very thing that so many liberty minded Americans reject – a massive surveillance police state that is on track to remain and grow as an ever more mammoth and intrusive Big Brother/Nanny State, as President Trump cannot seem to divest himself of his statist and globalist inclinations.

In the twilight of the American century, a profound question looms: How can the United States unwind its vast imperial commitments without descending into economic ruin, social dependency, or authoritarian control? The nation’s Founding Fathers envisioned a republic of free individuals, bound by limited government and inalienable rights derived from a higher moral order. Yet, over two centuries, America has morphed into a global hegemon, with a sprawling federal apparatus that often tramples those very principles. From endless foreign entanglements to domestic overreach – exemplified by agencies like the TSA detaining citizens without cause and demanding access to personal devices – the drift toward centralized power has eroded liberty. Continue reading

Smith: Liberty Must Be Chosen, Defended and Lived!

America cannot remain on its current trajectory forever, pushing constantly for more growth and more spending as our so-called “leaders” unchain the federal government from any and all real restraint, violating the Constitution even as they put on a good front – talking points and all – of trying to reduce spending and the size of the federal government. They may end one agency, but two more spring up, and although many often refer to our Congress as “the Swamp”, nothing has become more apparent than the fact it’s one big, nasty Sewer that leaves everything it touches covered in political bullshit far and away from anything the people truly ever asked to receive or even wanted.

America was born in defiance. The Revolution was not polite debate in drawing rooms; it was muskets fired at redcoats, pamphlets smuggled through towns, and men willing to risk the gallows for liberty. Thomas Paine captured the spirit when he wrote of the “summer soldier and sunshine patriot” – those who shrink from the hard work of freedom, waiting to reap the rewards after others have bled. Continue reading

Smith ~ The War of Our Youth: Leaving the Inferno and Crucible of War

Celebrating Christmas during the Vietnam War

There are sons of heroes, gaunt and grim, Who weathered the lean Depression; Their manhood forged on the anvil’s rim, In war’s infernal session. The youth of their day was a righteous flame, Survival, victory, freedom its name; They carried the torch through the smoke and fire, And built the bones of an age entire.

We were babes of the booming years, Fed on promise and plenty; GI Bills and Mickey Mouse cheers, And sitcoms bright and zany. John Wayne, Cooper, Reagan, and Jack, Echoes of battles that never looked back; Purple Hearts and Silver Stars shone, Citizen Soldiers – our fathers’ own.

The limb grew straight from the sturdy tree, The fruit fell close, as fate decreed; Camelot whispered its majesty, And teenage powers knew no need. We were bulletproof, five hundred pounds, Our courage blind, our ideals sound; Led by the Whiz Kids, bright and best, We marched with fervor, hearts possessed. Continue reading

Smith ~ Defend America and Liberty Against Big Government

I truly do believe that President Trump really loves America, but for some inexplicable reason, his past connection with the Democrat Party and its propaganda really took hold of him in the early days. And despite all his protestations to the contrary, his Democrat leanings and proclivities continue to shine through his so-called “conservative” rhetoric on an almost weekly basis. One cannot truly trust that what he says today will be standing as his ironclad conviction tomorrow, and that is a maddening thing to witness, since it by its very nature acts as a subversive element against America and suggests that America’s own founding principles and convictions are of little or no consequence to him.

He loves America but he doesn’t have a good grasp of how to really show it, or how to present Her with the things She and Her people really need – which isn’t necessarily more free stuff and an ever more burdensome addition to the national debt among other things. Continue reading

Smith ~ An American Coup: Seven Days in November!

Many conservatives may have some problems with many things President Trump is doing in this second term, but to date, nothing he has done has been blatantly illegal, as depicted by six Democrat know-nothing seditious assholes recently. Now the same can’t be said for his first term, when he suspended the Constitution over the Covid outbreak and violated all Americans’ inalienable God-given rights and individual liberty.

But regardless of how anyone currently perceives Trump, America cannot have either party – any party – utilizing such an egregious, seditious ploy to undermine the presidency and essentially attempt to incite a rebellion and the overthrow of a sitting U.S. presidency.

The only time I would ever support the overthrow of a sitting U.S. president is any such time that he would be suppressing Americans’ Inalienable God-given Right – the Bill of Rights – by illegal and extralegal means and moving to force the people to submit to the demands of the government and the leaders of said government, much as the world has witnessed under dictators throughout time, such as Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Ho, Pol Pot, and Fidel. Not to mince words, I would have happily supported a full blown rebellion against the Biden regime.

As Ecclesiastes notes…  Continue reading

Smith ~ Deport Every Last Damned Illegal Alien NOW!

Many Americans expected to see mass deportations right from the start upon Trump’s reentry to the Oval Office, but far from such, the number of deportations amount to barely a trickle when set alongside the 40 million illegal aliens who flooded across our Southern border during the four years of the Biden regime – DAMN! If ever a self-made red, radical rat bastard deserved to be executed in the harshest of manner, it’s Traitor Joe and every last one of his minions and acolytes, those anti-American nihilists and communists who are still to this day working overtime at all levels of government and in private occupations to bring about America’s destruction. Continue reading

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

Phill Magakoe/AFP

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