George Rebane
[This article, sans update, was published here in the 25oct23 issue of The Union.]
Recently I attended a luncheon sponsored by a local Republican club that featured as speaker one of the party’s eight candidates for US Senate. She gave a barnburner talk outlining all the familiar iniquities of the Democrats both in Sacramento and Washington. Specifically, she reprised the Democrats’ work in
- Always raising taxes;
- Issuing more stifling regulations;
- Mismanaging the economy;
- Indoctrinating Neo-Marxism in the media, education, and entertainment;
- Watering down critical curricula in our schools – dumbing down students;
- Rewarding criminals and punishing victims;
- Promoting trans-gendering in schools, denying parental rights to raise their children;
- Maintaining wide open borders for illegal alien entry;
- Projecting foreign policy weakness, inviting bad actors to make war;
- Etc, etc.
The problem with her enthusiastic rhetoric was that her Republican audience knew all that stuff, and most could have given that speech themselves. What was sorely missing, and has been missing for years at such gatherings, is recognition of the dire straits the party is in, and what would be required for its resurgence in California.
Recounting the above list yet one more time is nothing but imitating a long-playing echo chamber which might be of interest to those conservatives who don’t pay attention to what is going on in the country and the world. The problem is that most of those folks don’t show up at such luncheons and meetings.
So, the Republican Party, irrelevant statewide and nationally chaotic, continues to ignore the fact that it can right none of the liberal and woke wrongs without first regaining its stature as a recognized can-do political force in the country. Endlessly repeating and pointing out the passing signposts to socialism has done nothing to change the direction of the country, and doing the same thing over and over again only confirms the definition of ignorance.
If Republicans are not putting their energies into planning and making progress on the party’s road to resurgence, then the rest of it will only be an ongoing stream of empty rhetoric growing weaker with the passing years.
[27oct23 update] An added thought. Given how other states are adopting our public policy insanities, California’s cancer has been aggressively metastasizing across the land. The reason is clear and hangs on ‘other people’s money’ that can best be understood in light of what Garrett Hardin (q.v.) taught us about the behavior of commons (more here and here). California has been very successful in taxing ‘the rich’, regulating the bejeezus out of everyone, and getting the feds to pony up every time we get our tit in a wringer, that it seems like a good idea for the folks in Ohio and Nebraska to copy. As our snowballing national debt attests, with everyone piling on, this commons awaits its inevitable fate.
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376 responses to “The Reprobate Republicans (updated 27oct23)”
Why didn’t her parents make a complaint?
I’m talking about Ashley Biden moron! She complained! And I’m sure it’s been made quite clear to Ashley that if she doesn’t shut her mouth her lifestyle will suffer significantly.
For someone so old and who likes to present himself as wise in the ways of the world you are ridiculously naive!
….and sorry Punch but I know fugly and you’re pretty fugly!
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Can you provide a link to your accusation against Biden. Don’t know anything about it.
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Don’t know anything about it.
You never do when it makes democrats look bad.
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Don’t know anything about it.
….and you don’t read links….something about being busy.
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Just as I thought. Fishole made it up just like his fake name because he’s embarrassed to be on this blog.
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Posted by: Punchybot | 21 November 2023 at 09:13 AM
Punchybot reruns……!
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punchy 553a
” So whats wrong sit “get-out-the-vote” campaigns Gregory? Don’t the Republicans do it and if not why?”
Republicans don’t do it by infiltrating public election offices.
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I’m gonna guess Punchy still doesn’t grok the situation. Is it because he isn’t smart enough, or he’s smart enough to know it’s a dark place that he doesn’t want to know about.
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Gregory quote:
“Republicans don’t do it by infiltrating public election offices”
Why is that Gregory if it’s legal. According to you the Dems have outsmarted them
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So, Punch, you’re saying Republicans have principles and Democrats don’t?
Everything that is technically legal is not good.
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Dems are sneakier, not smarter.
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OH HELL NO!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/21/migrants-get-free-turkeys-for-thanksgiving-ahead-of-low-income-new-yorkers/
😉
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Gregory
Is your contention that Trump can legally declassify top secret documents by just thinking about it an example of something that is technically legal but not good ? 21 Nov 02:58
Trump quote:
“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said. “You’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-i-could-declassify-documents-by-thinking-about-it-00058212
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/21/trump-i-could-declassify-documents-by-thinking-about-it-00058212
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Direct quote from you on the topic
“Funny you’d pick the items that Trump was absolutely correct about.”
The link to the conversation:
16 August 2023 at 01:36 PM
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So, you ran off and decided a fresh change of subject is what you needed to win the day.
I accept your forfeit… better luck next time.
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Once again Gregory comes out as a super Trumper. Gregory believes Trump can declassify top secret documents by just thinking about it.
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Trump cannot declassify anything. Biden is the POTUS.
I thought you knew that.
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Gregory
I was talking about when he was President Gregory. He claims that things were automatically declassified if he just thought about it. You agreed it was ok for him to do that. You said that Trump was Trump quote:
“There doesn’t have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said. “You’re the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it.”
You said he was “absolutely correct” in doing that.
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Once again, my former friend Paul Emery slimes me as a super Trump supporter. I realize there are many folks that frequent this blog that ARE super Trump supporters, but I am not.
I’ve not voted for Trump, ever, and I have no plans to do so this year. I also have never visited the web site that Trump presides over.
Paul does this to destroy my reputation in town. Shame on you, Paul.
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Where in the constitution does it say anything about classified documents? I missed that part.
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Gregory
I can’t recall one time you spoke in opposition to Trump on this blog. You always support him no matter what he does. He lies about the election you agree with him, he is accused of sexual abuse by 25 women and they are all liars, he promised to build the wall and Mexico was going to pay for it and they didn’t and you claim he got them to pay another way, he claims he can de-classify intelligence material by just thinking about it and you say it’s ok. I can go on and on and on. You are an intelligent man yet Trump is alright by you. Never once have you spoken out against him that I can recall. Sad.
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Talk about ducking the question again @835 that kind of thinking get us this –
Louisville Mass Shooter Believed Killing ‘Upper Class White People’ Could Finally Secure Gun Control
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/11/22/louisville-mass-shooter-believed-killing-upper-class-white-people-secure-gun-control/
😉
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Where in the Constitution did it say Barry that women don’t have the right to an abortion? It was legal at the time the Constitution was written.
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re: Paul Emery@8:32AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States
“Abortion has existed in North America since the European colonization of the Americas,[28] was a fairly common practice, and was not always illegal or controversial.[4][2] On the other hand, James Mohr wrote that even though pre-quickening abortion was legal in the first 3 decades of the 19th century, only 1 in 25 to 1 in 30 pregnancies ended in abortion. By the 1850s and 1860s this number had increased to 1 in 5 or 1 in 6.[29][5] Quickening indicates the start of fetal movements, usually felt 14–26 weeks after conception, or between the fourth and sixth month.[4][30][31] Its determination was generally at the discretion of the pregnant woman,[32] but the rules were unstated or unclear in written statues.[33] When the United States became independent, most U.S. states continued to apply English common law to abortion…
…
In 1716 New York passed an ordinance prohibiting midwifes from providing abortion”
.more.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC487792
“From the 13th century to the early 19th century induced abortion was legal under English common law, before the onset of quickening at 15 to 18 weeks gestation. However, to cause the death of an animate child in utero was considered homicide. ”
…sounds like a trimester system. Luckily, we have Oregon showing the way to a wet foot/dry foot kind of system.
as usual.
a) there’s more to it than that and
b) why bother looking anything up. Just shoot from the hip. KVMR Newsmen base everything on their feelz.
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Well…..look who’s back from the dead!
Happy Thanksgiving….you’ve been missed!
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re PaulE 835am – The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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