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Sandbox – 6feb19

06 February 2019

[Our leftwing commenters keep reporting that all of our border problems are nothing but rightwing propaganda, so why have the national news been reporting illegal entry numbers surging, caravans at the border trying to get in, and more caravans on the way from central America? And how come Dems keep saying that walls don't work, and the border security authorities keep testifying and presenting data that they do? gjr]

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368 responses to “Sandbox – 6feb19”

Don Bessee

06 February 2019

Comrade bernies socialist paradise is going up in flames and is starving the nation yet they wont take any aide for the people unless they can siphon off the aid to their dwindling supporters –
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/venezuelan-military-barricades-bridge-bid-block-aid-162209057.html
😉

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Todd Swallows

06 February 2019

When people start invoking God when defending the president, I do start to get scared. Then I laugh.

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George Rebane

06 February 2019

The comfort of the lefties. They declared it all by their responses to the many republican propositions that Trump saluted and presented in his SOTU. They are all anti-American when we stack them up against the America that the overwhelming share of Americans believe in and the vision of America that draws the hundreds of thousands for other nations. Were either of these cohorts aware of what the American Left has in store for the country, none would seek to make their way here.

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Walt

06 February 2019

Now swallow chokes at the mere mention of GOD? The same one that this nation was built on the principals of same?
The nation that says you have a right “not to believe”, Try “not believing ” in the Muslim nations. You know,, those that really dislike your point of view.(in more ways than one,,, gulper..)
One thing is certain. Swallows give a whole new meaning to “Comrade”.

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Todd Juvinall

06 February 2019

When the left started criticizing “America, love it or leave it” back many years ago I could see they were not Patriots. Now they attack the Founders and attack all that is good. Never admitting the country is good and the people of the world are better off because of America. I suggest we take that 5.4 billion and buy tickets to the country of their choice. I am not interested in changing this wonderful country. So perhaps we can get legislation to get those people that want a “better” place a ticket home.

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Todd Swallows

06 February 2019

America is aptly named the world’s melting pot of ideas and ideals. When one cohort (regardless of bias) claims that America belongs to their ideas and their ideas alone, I find that distinctly un American.
“You are either with us or you are against us” is one of the most frightening things I’ve ever heard a president say. Black and white. Straight out of Mein Kampf and fundamentalist Islam. No shades of gray. The history of America is painted in shades of gray. Our Constitution was written in shades of gray – if it weren’t we wouldn’t need a Supreme Court to interpret the damn thing. I hope the future follows that soft and nebulous path bumpered by rebels, ideas and ideals of ALL sides (not simply BOTH sides).
Despite what you portend George, the left is not anti-America. Their ingredient into the mix of ideals is so distinctly American it makes us what we are as a country. Your concept of “one mind, one country’ is not what makes us America.

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Walt

06 February 2019

Nice Marxist line of shit there.
America was built on a set of values. Those values are was has made it the greatest nation on this third rock from the sun.
Everyone wants to come HERE. Not Canada, Not Mexico.
Yet here you are cheering to change it. OH NAME the many reasons.
Somehow you feel equal opportunity must also include equal outcome.
Socialism has gone to shit everywhere it’s applied.
Can’t make it in the real world on your own? Need BIG MAMMA Government to wipe your ass? Pissed that others do better than you? Just tell why you feel your owed something.
Since you don’t care who comes over our border, lets send a few people we don’t know over to your place. Nope, you can’t kick’m out either.(you insensitive bastard)
Lets see how fast you start bitching. (Or build a damned good fence real fast)

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scenes

06 February 2019

Mutterings from da Mob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScUdj9bpTE

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Walt

06 February 2019

Hear Chuck Schumer? “OH NOOooo.. We don’t really call it Socialism.
Just think of it as a “softer kind” of socialism.”
The Son of a bitch just admitted it.

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Don Bessee

06 February 2019

Looks like the socialist paradise is getting its talking points from comrade Bernie. So comrade foreign minister how many Venezuelans even get a pay check much less food or medicine?
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/02/06/venezuelan-foreign-minister-fact-checks-sotu-u-s-economy-is-failing/
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Walt

06 February 2019

Where did our comrades in socialism slither off to?
More wonderful news about your brand of lifestyle.
When your dictator refuses to leave, cut off food and goods.
But he and the ruling class will be eating good.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/maduro-blocks-aid-venezuela/
I know I know…. It “just can’t happen here”. Your elites know how to do it much better.

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Don Bessee

06 February 2019

Winning!
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Thursday after U.S. crude inventories rose and as production levels in the country held at record levels, but OPEC-led supply cuts and Washington’s sanctions against Venezuela supported markets.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/u-oil-prices-dip-rising-crude-inventories-record-010719409–finance.html
😉

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Bill Tozer

06 February 2019

On a different current event currently unfolding…..the Virginia Gov, Lt Gov, and State AG conundrum.
This saga makes my eyes roll, from start to present. There are some points, however, that need to be raised.
1) How far back does one go to levy punishment for past transgressions in the present? 18 year olds involved in a knowingly racist prank? Back to 1981? If the Governor has to go, then the AG has to go since they both committed the same offense in the same time period.
2) what are the standards, the rules that we play by. Is there one set of rules for R’s and another set for D’s? Are there uniform rules? What in 2019 are the set of rules we play by?
3). Now we turn our attention to the Lt. Governor. As of today, it’s he said, she said. Both state a sexual encounter happened. We have both agreeing on a spefic place, time, and event (DNC Convention in Boston). Only one said the encounter was consensual. Is this going to be another Keith Ellison moment where one lets it slide, or is this going to be another Kavanaugh moment where the drumbeat is,”You must believe her”? It is important to note in the Kavanaugh accusations, no one could put the two in the same place at the same time nor collaborate the assualt ever took place then or now. What are the rules? Are there rules? Standards?
Of course I am talking about the court of public opinion here…which means social media in current practice. If someone taunts another then beats them to death, there is a debt to society that must be paid via the legal system. I am referring only to the ‘values’ of a place and process of forgiveness, rehabilitation, balancing the books, fairness, and mercy. Yes mercy. Where does forgiveness, context, and too much water under the bridge fit into today’s SJW’s demanding their pound of flesh???
To play my broken record, the head of the LA chapter of NOW was told by the National executive office of NOW in DC to shut down the silent candlelight vigils in LA for victims of domestic violence after the Nichole Simpson 911 tapes emerged. Shut it down, they were dissing “a brother.” It was silent candlelight vigils on cold nights for Pete’s sake! Thus, the pecking order. Race trumps sex, confirmed by the social media handling of the Keith Ellison election and pre-election accusations. Innocent until proven guilty…if you are of the preferred race, gender, and MOST importantly, the preferred political ideology.
Actually, I believe conservatism is a philosophy and liberalism is an ideology, but I will let that ride for now. The preferred ideology trumps innocent until proven guilty on social media in 2019.
Politically, if the Virgina Governor has to go, then the AG has to go. What about the Lt. Gov? Do you believe her? If all three go, that would mean a Republican Governor in a battleground state with 2020 knocking at the door. The Dems would never ever allow that to happen. So, who will be the sacrificial lamb the Dems toss on the alter to save the Blue State?? Oh, what to do, what to do in the era of Identity Politics?
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Now mercy. One of those stories one hears that sticks with ya the rest of your life: Goes like this…(and I have posted this before).
A mother of an deserter pleaded her case to spare her son’s life before Napoleon. Napoleon assured the pleading mother that her son (the deserter who had been caught) would receive a full fair hearing under the law. The woman cried out, “I am not seeking justice, I am seeking mercy!” Napoleon answered, “If it is mercy you seek, mercy you will receive.”
Where does context, forgiveness, rehabilitation and, yes, mercy, fit into the today’s social media mobs screaming for severed heads to be served to them on a platter…or on a stake?
https://patriotpost.us/articles/60981-social-justice-is-unforgiving?fbclid=IwAR2PLJ83VoHF1WFPnVGitLzFMN5K2-ENIeFGjqPwQQ9p3TNtKOqW8UxPwvw
Yes, I still roll my eyes at the whole current “CRISIS” in Virginia, but that’s just me.

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Walt

06 February 2019

The only thing missing was Sideshow Bob.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/house-democrats-climate-hearings/
AGW… Did the Commies happen to look out the window?

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George Rebane

06 February 2019

ToddS 652pm – “Your concept of ‘one mind, one country’ is not what makes us America.” Are you putting your words into other people’s mouths again?
But if you want to continue in this conversation, you and yours do have the burden of defining what it is that makes a country ‘this country’ and not ‘that country’.

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Walt

06 February 2019

here we go! It’s OK when she did it. Anyone else,, fry’m…
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/photo-of-joy-behar-dressed-as-beautiful-african-woman

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Don Bessee

06 February 2019

So now the masters of the universe say you can not tell the truth about fauxahauntas even when its fresh news that puts the lie to her financially self serving game. Harassment of a public political figure ramping up a national campaign? Sounds like Instagram will be censoring the whole VA dem debacle too.
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/kayleigh-mcenany-says-instagram-took-down-her-elizabeth-warren-post-for-harassment-or-bullying
😉

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Todd Swallow

06 February 2019

Are you putting your words into other people’s mouths again?
Your own words, George. “They are all anti-American when we stack them up against the America that the overwhelming share of Americans believe in and the vision of America that draws the hundreds of thousands for other nations.”
Anti-Americans? Pretty hostile words to anyone who doesn’t lock step in your shadow.

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Walt

06 February 2019

Thanks for the warning. If the shit ever hits the fan swollower is to be out in front. It’s the kind that can’t be trusted to watch your back.
What “shit” you ask? Let your imagination run wild. From Canada invading to space aliens.
You would sell out anyone as long as your eaten last.

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Bill Tozer

06 February 2019

“Anti-Americans? Pretty hostile words to anyone who doesn’t lock step in your shadow.”
Found this in RR archives looking for jon smith’s very last post on these boards. Something about HH being a self lamenting finger pointing lesbian or something…. about the time Linda C was going through a rather non-amicable breakup. The exact phrase jon smith used escapes me. I wish I could find it. IAnyway, the word ‘puffery’ used with ‘finger waving’ sounded eerily reminiscent of jon smith’s last post.. Go figure.
From 2/2016, rings true today.
As Noam Chomsky put it: “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” Freedom of expression and the like does not mean we have to agree with what another person says…in fact, it means that when we do not, we certainly have the right to challenge it. But what myself and many others are seeing is the shutting off of dialogue entirely, for the purpose of “safety”. What could possibly be safe about censorship? What could possibly be safe about a group of people who claim to be freedom fighters dictating who can speak and what can be said, based on whether or not we agree with them? Study any kind of world history and you will find that censorship has never been on the right side of it.
https://medium.com/@UptheCypherPunx/why-this-radical-leftist-is-disillusioned-by-leftist-culture-63419aa85a58

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Bill Tozer

06 February 2019

T Swallower.
Take the Rebane 8:31 pm challenge. You can do it. I have faith in your, little buddy. Put it out there.

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Bill Tozer

06 February 2019

Don @ 9:31 pm
I saved the post, lol. Pocahontas apoligized again today! The Texas Bar certification card is no biggie in and of itself……except it was in her own hand writing at her own volition and shows a long pattern of claiming to be a American Indian. She cannot blame a staffer or some college aid writing her profile on a website. She choose those words without any prompting or editing or outside influence.
I don’t see how she will be able to shake the Fauxahontas shoe polish on her face. Every canidate for the highest office has to introduce themselves to the voters they wish to court and spin a nice story of where they came from, their upbringing, family, what their parents did and were like. Everytime her past will be bought up, Pocahontas will come out of the closet again and again. It is kinda overshadowing and that’s where all the questions will go. If her grandparents had to elope because one was a half-bred to avoid the social stigma, then her timeline is about 4-7 generations off. Do like her cooking on the skillet in the old family Oklahoma kitchen.
Her apology tour will continue and this being American politics, it may not sink her and she could become the next President. Stranger things have happened. But, then again, once you have been labeled by Trump, the moniker seems to stick. I still can’t even look at Don Lemon’s mug online without thinking Dumb Don Lemon. It’s true, He is dumb. Lol.

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Bill Tozer

06 February 2019

“Politicians should not tell women what to do with their bodies,” she [Kamala Harris] wrote, eloquently emphasizing each word with little clapping hand emojis. It was the most transphobic statement ever tweeted. I, for one, was devastated……
Harris knows as well as anyone that gender is a social construct. Issues of reproductive health are not exclusive to women. Why would she assume that Trump was telling only women what to do with their bodies? Men can get pregnant, too. Men can have uteruses. Man can have ovaries. Men can give birth. Just as a woman might have a penis and no ovaries. Any anatomical combination is possible with any of the 346 genders. Kamala Harris knows this. All modern leftists know this. Yet, in an act of unspeakable bigotry, revealing her own ingrained prejudices, she associated pregnancy only with women. Harris single-handedly transported us back to the dark ages.
In fact, the entire night was one huge display of transphobia and cis-het chauvinism on the part of biologically female Democrats. They even dressed in an exclusionary manner, donning white pantsuits in celebration of women’s suffrage or something. Notice how only biological females were invited to participate in this demonstration or protest or whatever it was.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/43125/walsh-horrible-transphobia-democrat-party-matt-walsh?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand

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Gregory

07 February 2019

49%
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/trump_approval_index_history

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MMM

07 February 2019

This is my country. There are not many like it, and this one is mine. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me my country is useless. Without my country, I am useless.
My country is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will keep my country clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other.
Before God I swear this creed. We are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is America’s and there is no enemy.

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Bill Tozer

07 February 2019

Interesting quick read….nothing we have not discussed in depth here. Social Justice
And this gets to the heart of why social justice is nonsense. Social justice is a kind of magical incantation that renders inconvenient impediments to its champions’ agenda illegitimate. Free speech is good unless it hurts certain groups. Property rights are fine except when social justice dictates that someone else needs your stuff more. The right to confront your accuser is negated by the need to “believe all women.”
Even facts are irrelevant in the face of social justice. As the United Nations put it a decade ago: “Present-day believers in an absolute truth identified with virtue and justice are neither willing nor desirable companions for the defenders of social justice.”
In other words, if you believe that the rule of law and simple truth should determine who’s right, you’re the enemy of social justice. I, for one, find those terms acceptable.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/social-justice-politics-power-play/

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George Rebane

07 February 2019

ToddS 934pm – Hard for anyone to follow your ripostes when you don’t reference them to a thread – young children do that, thinking that others can see into their minds.
How does your quoting my statement relate to your assertion of the “concept of ‘one mind, one country’” being the basis of America – which I have never said or even argued, yet you attribute it to me? Sounds like your position is so weak that for you to debate, you must contribute both sides of the exchange in order to make progress. (These pages contain about twelve years of that kind of exchanges with progressives.)

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Walt

07 February 2019

Nice try MMMoron Take the “rifleman’s” creed and change the words to fit your needs. That’s what Commie bastards do.
“This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My rifle, without me, is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will… My rifle and myself know that what counts in this war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit… My rifle is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will ever guard it against the ravages of weather and damage as I will ever guard my legs, my arms, my eyes and my heart against damage. I will keep my rifle clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will… Before God, I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life. So be it, until victory is America’s and there is no enemy, but peace! ”
Your not even worthy to be called “American”.

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Todd Swallows

07 February 2019

GR 8:31
You’ll have to be more specific. I’m not going to write you a dissertation. Which country is THAT country? Ethiopia, Sweden, Cuba, Myanmar, or Todd’s favorite all white country, Jamaica?
I imagine if this board was up in the early seventies, all the left wingers protesting the war in SE Asia would have been labeled Anti-Americans (who even let them vote?). Is David Dukes an American while AOC is not?

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Bill. Tozer

07 February 2019

The United States of Everyone
“In less melodramatic terms, we are watching a rare revolutionary phase in American politics as leftists have devoured Democrats. Progressives ate liberals. And progressives are now being devoured by socialists, and soon no doubt socialists will be eaten by hard leftists, Communists, anarchists, and nihilists. In such revolutionary logic, perhaps only Antifa will emerge as pure.
The result is that the 2020 election will offer the starkest choices in the past 50 years, far eclipsing the radical contrasts of 1972. The current parade of would-be Democratic presidential hopefuls is already apologizing for their past sins of Democratic centrism, in fear of being politically guillotined.
By the time November 2020 arrives, the Clintons will be seen as reactionaries and the Obamas as old fogeys.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/02/remodeling-america-modern-day-jacobins/

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Todd Juvinall

07 February 2019

When all those riots were happening about the Vietnam War we watched them on all three channels available here at the time. I and my friends at NU felt they were not right and that American leaders had it right. Of course, later we saw that the democrat LBJ lied us into an escalation. But we did resist calling our own country names of derision. I suggest our country is made up of many ideologies and people with their own motivations. It seems we have weathered the KKK, the democrats brownshirts as well as the socialists and communists. That tells me we have something to protect.

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scenes

07 February 2019

T. Swallows: “I imagine if this board was up in the early seventies, all the left wingers protesting the war in SE Asia would have been labeled Anti-Americans”
Nah. I’d just be asking everyone what the benefit was to fighting a war there. The benefits weren’t clear, but it all happened piecemeal.
The bestest thing about modern days is that the left wingers actually became the establishment, perhaps it’s just aging and demographics. Was there much to be gained by getting involved in a Vietnamese civil war? Probably not. Blowing up the Libyan government? Probably not . Sticking troops in Syria? Probably not. Nation building in Iraq? Probably not.
It’s a nice thing about Trump. There’s some chance of breaking loose from the ClintonBushObama wheel. I doubt that the Pussy Hats and the War Party will go down that easily though. Maybe they just like to see mayhem on TV.

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Walt

07 February 2019

Is the gulper an Emery? Won’t answer nothing, makes crap up as it goes. When call on it’s BS, changes the subject.

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Todd Swallows

07 February 2019

GR 6:01-
The comfort of the lefties. . . They are all anti-American when we stack them up against the America that the overwhelming share of Americans believe in and the vision of America that draws the hundreds of thousands for other nations.
I would define yours as a clear statement of “one country, one mind”. Americans -vs- The Lefties. Would you not?

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Walt

07 February 2019

Ahh. Vietnam. The Dems. war. The war Dems LOST by fighting by DEM rules.
It was such a GREAT idea to warn the enemy where we would attack next. Fight to take a piece of ground, just to give it back.(over and over again)

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George Rebane

07 February 2019

ToddS 850am – I’m sorry I didn’t say it well enough for you to understand. One more time – can you share your thoughts about the attributes which differentiate one country from another country. Now these would be attributes the specifics (technically ‘the values’) of which would serve to unite a country’s people and agree that ‘we are like this and others are not’ or ‘others are like that’. If generalizing is hard, then to make it easier, you can also think of such attributes very parochially, ‘What are the things that make us uniquely American, that are not shared by other peoples?’

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Walt

07 February 2019

Again no specifics from the swallower. Just Socialist nonsense.
Today’s “Dem” is all about taking from those who do well to give to those who don’t want to do anything.
Today’s DEM, You can do anything you like.. Just as long as “we” allow it.
If “we” don’t like it, ban it.
It’s all for the “greater good”(as we define it)
You can say anything you like, just as long as “we” agree to what you say.
So Gulper, what does your side do when OPM runs out?

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Todd Swallows

07 February 2019

GR 9:30-
Okay. We are thick headed and arrogant. We don’t need no metric system, no matter how much sense it makes.
We have the world’s highest medical costs with far from commensurate care in return.
Profits are rewarded over health and welfare. Big pharma comes to mind.
We have vast properties protected in the public trust. Our Park Services are second to none. Public access to navigable waterways is modeled after European law, but we do it much better. Both pro and con the list is endless.

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Todd Juvinall

07 February 2019

Funny how the lefty loons who want the government to run our lives, every aspect of our lives, think they are not one mass of sameness. We on the right are all about individual value and freedom, You cannot make a rock head understand that apparently. Sheeple all on the left.

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Todd Juvinall

07 February 2019

I wonder how many moon shots the British did with their metric system? Anyone?

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Walt

07 February 2019

Here ya’ go swallower
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-unveils-green-new-deal-economic-transformation/
Who’s going to pay for YOUR electric buggy?
How far will that electric big rig get pulling 50,000 lbs of goods… Anywhere?
Kiss air travel BYE BYE.(unless your a RICH COMMIE,, with “special privileges)
Heating in Winter? Just mover to a warmer climate….. Right? (and how will you manage that??)
Your side really don’t think things through.

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MMM

07 February 2019

,,,Altered Walt,,,I figured you couldn’t stand to own that variation of ‘’’The Creed’’’ just because I did it – even though it applies to all American citizens.
Keep on divding Altered and maybe you can drum up another civil war,,,
Lots of McCarthy era buzzwords being tossed across the roundtable,,,anti-Americans,,,socialists,,,waiting for the Hitler references…

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Todd Juvinall

07 February 2019

Hey Walt, will AOC find a way to heat those millions of houses in the winter in the liberal bastions of the Northeast? Darn coal, and natural gas.

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Walt

07 February 2019

Proggyism gets even BETTER
https://www.atr.org/green-new-deal-air-travel-stops-becoming-necessary
“Upgrade or replace every building in US for state-of-the-art energy efficiency.”
Will end all traditional forms of energy in the next ten years.
Plans to ban nuclear energy within 10 years if possible.
Build trains across oceans and end all air travel!
Don’t invest in new technology of Carbon Capture and Storage, just plant trees instead!
Mandates all new jobs be unionized.
May include a carbon tax.
“We’re not ruling a carbon tax out, but a carbon tax would be a tiny part of a Green New Deal.”
May include cap and trade.
“…Cap and trade may be a tiny part of the larger Green New Deal plan.”
How much will it cost?
No estimate of the total cost of implementing the Green New deal is offered by Ocasio-Cortez.
However, as Ocasio-Cortez admits, “even if every billionaire and company came together and were willing to pour all the resources at their disposal into this investment, the aggregate value of the investments they could make would not be sufficient.”
She does provide one estimate that the cost to “repair and upgrade infrastructure U.S. infrastructure” alone will cost “$4.6 trillion at minimum.”
Hope you can afford it (good bloody luck)

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Walt

07 February 2019

New York already did that Hummmer. It’s called legal infanticide.
Your Hitler would be proud.

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Bill Tozer

07 February 2019

Americans have never been united, except in times of war. We were rubes and rabble since the founding, a founding that saw a minority partake in the Revolutionary War and duels were common to settle differences of opinion and ‘disrespect’. Your mama wears combat boots.
Today, there are two visions for the future. The Lefties (probably most of the RR readers of the Lefty persuasion here in our neck of the woods) see a America that can be improved by more government programs and efforts to alleviate the misery of the downtrodden. Capitalism plus. They probably view moi as a reactionary, decrying the tides of change.
The other vision is one that the American Dream is alive and well and if one man can do it, another can as well. One vision is a vision put forth at the founding, with future generations left to resolve contentious issues. Don’t tread on me, thank you very much.
It is noteworthy that Trump’s SCOTUS spent time with the old WII vets. The subtle message is we enjoy the freedoms and successes today because such liberties and liberations are built on the efforts and backs of our predecessors. Not one female in attendance voted for the 19th Amendment. Fewer of those who stormed the beaches of Normandy are around today. The last Civil War vet is long gone, think we lost the last WWI vet recently.
One side sees where we have been to know where we are now and uses that history as a compass into the future….the other sees a brave new world that began today, thus we are not unified even on the interpretation of “We hold these truths….”. Have we arrived or do we need to “get there”?
There is an old joke that Columbus did not know where he going, did not know where he was when he got there, but at least he got a woman to pay for it all. That’s how I see the well intentioned, but uniformed, Lefties. Strapping devises on cows to capture flatulence comes to mind.
https://www.facebook.com/DailyWire/videos/418388255561144/

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George Rebane

07 February 2019

ToddS 1024am – That was it??! I’d like to say I’m surprised, but I’m not. None of you on the Left have EVER stepped forward to answer questions about your credo, definitions, or visions for the future of our country. Many of you apparently don’t have the wherewithal to do that, and the remainder are wary of how such revelations would be received by the rest of us. Best do the Socialist Sidestep when such questions arise.

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Bill Tozer

07 February 2019

Well, Congress is back to work. The House Judiciary Committee is holding their first hearings on preventing gun violence and the fireworks already began.
https://www.oann.com/watch-democrats-block-rep-scalise-from-speaking-at-gun-violence-prevention-hearing/
Odd that Gabrielle Giffords praised a introduced proposal for universal background checks on the anniversary of her taking one in the mellon. Odd because the bill would not have prevented her shooter from obtaining a firearm.

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fish

07 February 2019

Is anyone surprised……?

IT’S NOT THAT THEY’RE ABANDONING THEIR PRINCIPLES, IT’S JUST THAT THEIR ONLY REAL PRINCIPLE IS STAYING IN POWER: Democrats mute calls for Va. resignations with power at risk.

https://www.wric.com/virginia-politics/democrats-mute-calls-for-va-resignations-with-power-at-risk-1/1761626491
#SHOCKEDFACE

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Todd Swallows

07 February 2019

Todd 10:25
Same old mindless refrain about individual freedoms and keeping government out of our lives. You Rally around that flagpole until the feds want to regulate pot, a woman’s right to choose, or putting bibles in schools. Then it is a ok. Do you ever think before chanting your slogans? A kept man doesn’t think.

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