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Only the strong survive |
Little Johnny is not an Obama fan A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans. Not really knowing what an Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny. The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different…again. Little Johnny said, “because I’m not an Obama fan.” The teacher asked, “why aren’t you a fan of Obama?” Johnny said, “because I’m a Republican.” The teacher asked him why he’s a Republican. Little Johnny answered, “Well, my mom’s a Republican and my dad’s a Republican, so I’m a Republican.” Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, “if your mom were a moron and your dad were an idiot, what would that make you?” With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, “that would make me an Obama fan…”  41 41 | |||
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Oh and the others won more........ WTF kind of nonsense are you babbling? ------------------------------ Knowing is half the battle! "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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His usual kind. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed. Luke 11:21 "Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." -- George W. Bush | |||
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Southflorida-law, you should just mambo dogface to the banana patch. | |||
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Trump finally has some competition. __________________________ They keep saying they just want "sensible gun laws" but they hold up countries where they are banned and confiscated as their ideal. Antis thinks guns are only good for killing people. I think guns are good for self defense. So I'm the one with the "problem"? The Bill of Rights affirms the Rights of the Individual Not the State. Anyone tells me different is a liar. “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”― Christopher Hitchens | |||
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Contrary to the perspectives of many, Conservatism is NOT 'of a time'...it is preserving that which has been learned through all of human experience in order to promote the 'civil society'. It is the intellectual perspective of those like John Locke who informed our enlightened founders as they constructed the blueprint for the American 'civil society'. We have been infested for years with the statist, pseudo-intellectual babble and coercive thought of those like Wilson, LBJ, Reid, Pelosi, and Obama that is based in hollow emotion. I totally understand the thinking that Donald Trump is the best option at this time to at least slow down the 'progressive slide' as he irritates the establishment. However, I fear that since Trump's campaign is based purely in 'emotion' this will easily facilitate an establishment to continue to promote the idea of an imperial president who can dictatorially solve all 'problems'. How is this any different from Stalin, Castro, Hitler, Mussolini, Chavez, or Obama? This 'progressive slide' has been going on for 100+ years with the Reagen conservatism now merely a 'blip' in the timeline - the 'civil society' is nearly extinct. I have a gut feeling that Trump is not an 'independent' figure who can spit in the eye of the establishment, but rather, the next step in reaching the 'ends'. Perhaps Divine intervention can happen again as it did some 240 years ago... George Washington did what was right. Now it is our time to do the same. Restore the Republic! | |||
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^ You have a gut feeling huh? Maybe it's was some bad cheese you ate. ------------------------------ Knowing is half the battle! "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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Reagan was what the nation and the world needed at the time. Trump is the best we have now and therefore what is needed at this time for this nation and much of the rest of the world. The much more rampant liberalism, PC, socialist ideas as prevailing ideologies and threat of terrorism all around the globe need strong medicine. Reagan's speech or him as a person was full of ideological intellect, elloquency and conviction which i really wish our leaders posses today. but i also wish that same person can affect the society today with our brainwashed youth living in shallow pop culture. Trumps apparent low intellect messages are more consumable. Try to use the 1964 speech to fight Political Correctness and socialism with 95% of our youth today. This in my humble opinion is one of the issues with the gop establishment and some of our self claimed true conservatists today that they fail to recognize its a different world they live in. Given our key issues today, what would Reagan do with fiscal policy, illegal immigration, muslim terrorism, Syria, Russia, China and N Korea? More similar to what Trump will do or what JBush Rubio and Cruz will do? | |||
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Good post, agree with and find these view points logical and convincing. | |||
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You know,when we elect Trump...And I pretty sure we will. The issuing changes will have to further the outlook, world wide, that the American voting public as a whole are schizophrenic. And I'm with that view. You would think the majority would pretty much vote the same for the same type character but no we vote with enthusiasm or/of dread with our feelings. because we can never truly believe what the politicians are shoveling. I know change is inevitable but come on! How many times do we need to go down this yellow brick schizoid road? It's enough to think the tin foil hat wearers could be right. There just might be a power group that laughs and laughs while we dangle with anticipation of a better life if only we vote correctly. | |||
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It occurs to me lately that The Donald as President is the self-fulfilling prophecy of those who snubbed McCain under the logic that, "It took Carter to give us Reagan." At the time, these folks were saying things like, "I'd rather just let the lefties show everyone what they really are than have a RINO as president. I think those who thought like that now think Trump is the predictable response to Obama that they've been waiting for and that history will now repeat itself, with Trump in the role of Reagan. The problem is, as pointed out earlier in this thread, times change and people are different. Obama isn't Carter. Trump isn't Reagan. This isn't 1979. Trump is something completely different. We have no idea what he can or will do. It's really a complete Hail Mary pass. I hope it's a touchdown, I really do. But I think it's more likely to be a fumble and a turnover. | |||
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Isn't this also the case with every other candidate running? | |||
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Trump may indeed, be a "hail mary", however, it is not so much what he will, or will not do. It is what he is saying. His voice, is for many of us, our voice. His pro-America first, get the illegals out and "Make America Great Again" mantra resonates. And if, or when we finally go down and our country goes completely over to the other side, at least there was one politician that spoke for us on the way out the door. | |||
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No, the other candidates have track records in government. They've demonstrated, for example, that as governor they can work with legislators to get things done, even across party lines. Or as senators, they've got track records to examine. Trump's track record is that he's good at making money in real estate. We don't know whether that maps to being able to run the executive branch of the U.S. government, to enact domestic policy initiatives, or to manage foreign policy. The last time we saw a wealthy businessman as president was in the 1920s, which led to the Great Depression and Roosevelt's tenure with the greatest expansion of liberalism in history. Reagan was the Great Communicator. Trump is the Great Improviser. He's really good at it, it's how he's gotten where he is. I guess we'll get to find out whether you can improvise your way through the presidency. I'd prefer to have someone with a solid, guiding set of principles. | |||
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Yep, I understand this sentiment. The problem with t is that it's viewed through a close-up lens. In reality, this struggle between ideologies has been going on since the nation was founded. And we are schizophrenic--we lurch between right and left at the national level like a drunk weaving down the street at 2am. While it feels like this is our last stand, the reality is that the struggle will go on, no matter what happens, as it has from the conception. It's not more dire today than it was just before the Civil War, or when the Democrats had held the Congress for 40 years and had Carter in office. I think the main difference today is that we just get so much information, so quickly, and it makes us think we're mired in the worst times ever. The Internet can be an echo chamber that lets us focus on what we like to focus on, and it reinforces our worst fears. | |||
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That said, you still have no idea what they can or will do as President. I don't think any of the other viable candidates are any more/less a wild card than Trump. | |||
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And this is exactly why I don't like any of the other candidates. Professional politicians have done NOTHING to better this country or our way of life. NOTHING. Trump made money in real estate. Good. This tells me he knows how to negotiate, how to make deals, how to move things forward. How to put the right people in the right place. Politics is easy. Being a sucessful capitilist is hard. Professional politic types do not care about moving us forward. They care about their paycheck and their power over us. Trump is the result of being ignored. Call him Washington's pennance. If it takes four years of Trump to make Washington see reality, I am all for it. I survived eight years of Obama, I can survive four years of Trump. | |||
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Fair enough. I wrote a response to Fobos, but apparently it had a trigger word in it. No idea what it could have been. But I guess what I'm really saying is that we have no idea whether Trump's words will ever match any of his actions. There are other candidates where you can see what they said in the past and then compare that to what they did in office. That's a track record. Trump doesn't have that. | |||
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That's a pretty sweeping indictment. I'm not sure all of your fellow countrymen would agree with you. | |||
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