Lena Belle Griffin

Lena Belle Griffin, 1923-2021

Lena Belle Stout Griffin, age 97, peacefully passed away on July 4, 2021, at the Beacon Hill Nursing Facility in Denison, Texas. Lena was born on December 14, 1923, in Howe, Texas to Wilton and Leo Wilson Stout. Lena was a class of 1941 graduate from Howe High School. She married David Garland Griffin on March 16, 1943. She attended Decatur Baptist College and studied at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Lena was taught to sew at a very young age by her mother. During her lifetime, she became quite an accomplished seamstress, sewing things such as tailored suits and draperies. She truly loved being a minister’s wife and happily served right alongside her husband. She served as secretary at Lake Lavon Baptist Encampment for 22 years while David was the administrator there. Her passions in life were sewing, baking, teaching Sunday School, Bible study, entertaining and spoiling her grandsons. Lena is survived by her son, J.D. Griffin and wife, Tammy of Sherman, grandsons, Joshua Griffin of McKinney and Matthew Griffin of Joplin, MO. as well as cousins, nieces and nephews. Her parents and husband, David preceded her in death. The family would like to thank the nurses, aides and staff of Beacon Hill for taking good care of our loved one during an especially difficult time the last 15 months and Elysian Hospice for their added care the last two months. The family received friends and relatives on Tuesday, July 13 from 9:15 AM until 10:00 AM prior to funeral services.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday, July 13 at 10:00 AM at Forest Avenue Baptist Church in Sherman with Rev. Brian Taylor officiating. Burial will follow at Ridgeview Memorial Park Cemetery in Allen, Texas. You may sign the online register book at waldofuneralhome.com

“The Deplorables” were a name given to Trump supporters by Hillary Clinton.

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tion. It’s hard to describe to people on the left, who are used to thinking of the American government as a conspiracy (see for example, Watergate, COINTELPRO, the Weapons of Mass Destruction, etc.) how shocking and disillusioning this was for people who encourage their sons to enlist in the Army, and who are appalled when others don’t stand for the Anthem.

They could have managed that shock if it only involved the government. But the behavior of the corporate press is really what radicalized them. They hate journalists more than they hate any politician or government official, because they feel most betrayed by them. The idea that the press is driven by ratings and sensationalism became untenable. If that were true, they’d be all over the Jeffrey Epstein story. The corporate press is the propaganda arm of the regime they now see in outline. Nothing anyone says will ever make them unsee that, period. This is profoundly disorienting. Many of them don’t know for certain whether ballots were faked in November 2020, but they know for absolute certain that the press, the FBI, etc., would lie to them if there was. They have every reason to believe that, and it’s probably true. They watched the press behave like animals for four years. Tens of millions of people will always see Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist, based on nothing, because of CNN. And CNN seems proud of that. They led a lynch mob against a high school kid. They cheered on a summer of riots.

Trump supporters always claimed the media had liberal bias. Fine, whatever: they still thought the press would admit truth if they were cornered. They don’t think that anymore. It’s a different thing to watch them invent stories whole cloth in order to destroy regular lives and spark mass violence. Time magazine told us that during the 2020 riots, there were weekly conference calls involving—among others—leaders of the protests, the local officials who refused to stop them, and media people who framed them for political effect. In Ukraine we call that a color revolution.

Then, throughout the summer, establishment governors took advantage of COVID to change voting procedures. It wasn’t just the mail-ins: they also lowered signature matching standards, got rid of voter ID and notarization requirements, and much more. Forget the ballot conspiracies. It’s a fact that governors used COVID to unconstitutionally alter election procedures (the Constitution states that only legislatures can do so) and help Biden to make up for a massive enthusiasm gap by gaming the mail-in ballot system. (Continued on page 7)

At this point Trump people had lived through not only the collusion scam but also a fake impeachment. We now know that Trump’s request for Ukraine to cooperate with the Department of Justice regarding Biden’s financial activities in Ukraine was in support of an active investigation being pursued by the FBI and Ukraine Attorney General at the time, and so a completely legitimate request. So Trump people expected shenanigans by now. Then you get the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Big Tech ran a full-on censorship campaign against a major newspaper to protect a political candidate. Period. Everyone knows it, all of the Tech companies now admit it was a “mistake“—but, ya know, the election’s over, so who cares? It hardly needs saying that if the New York Times had Don, Jr.’s laptop, full of pics of him smoking crack and engaging in group sex, lots of lurid family drama, emails describing direct corruption and backed up by the CEO of the company they were using, the New York Times would not have been banned. the New York Post was banned for reporting on true information. The reaction of Trump people to all this was not, “no fair!” That’s how they felt about Romney’s “binders of women” in 2012. This is different. Now they see, correctly, that every institution is captured by poeple who will use any means to exclude them from the political process. And yet they showed up in record numbers to vote. He got 13 million more votes than in 2016— 10 million more than Hillary Clinton. As election night dragged on, Trump supporters allowed themselves some hope. But when the four critical swing states (and only those states) went dark at midnight, they knew.

The Aftermath

Over the ensuing weeks, they got shuffled around by grifters and media scam artists selling them conspiracy theories. They latched onto one, then another increasingly absurd theory as they tried to put a concrete name on something very real. Media and Tech did everything to make things worse.

CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE

So now think back: Stories about Trump being urinated on by Russian prostitutes and blackmailed by Putin were promoted as fact, and the only evidence was a document paid for by his opposition and disavowed by its source. And then Everything about the election was strange—the changes to procedure, unprecedented mail-in voting, the delays, etc.—but rather than admit that and make everything transparent, they banned discussion of it. Everyone knows that, just as Don, (Continued on page 8)