CardinalBacker

Republicans literally ransacked the Capitol the last time they lost. Rs are no better, and possibly even worse than, the Ds.

Double.

Just don’t be mad when the next Dem president sends troops into a Republican controlled area to “restore order in the time of emergency.”

It’s just funny to me how the group party that was supposed to be against big government, massive spending, uncontrolled borrowing, and for states’ rights, individuals’ rights, freedom of speech, etc… will turn their back on their beliefs because of their devotion to a would-be autocrat. Our forefathers fought the American Revolution to escape being under the thumb of England. Y’all are literally welcoming the feds to take control of any area that’s governed by politicians elected by people from another party. Wrong doesn’t become right just because you admire the guy who’s doing it.

The most violent day in recent DC history was January 6th, 2021

This…. The wild deficit spending that Trump put in motion with reckless tax cuts and subsequent borrowing put inflation in motion. It took months for it to take hold. And for what it’s worth, you can’t credit Biden for fixing it. All it took was somebody that doesn’t espouse Trump’s philosophy of “tax less, spend more, and let the grandkids figure it out” and it fixes itself.

And who was the president who guided us back out of that period of high inflation? I’ll give you a hint- it’s not the one who’s currently trying to figure out how to fire the Fed Chief for not slashing interest rates to generate another round of 9% inflation.

Trump just fired the commissioner of labor statistics for truthing.

I don’t know of any other country that has a policy like ours…. “If you’re born here, you and your family can stay.” To understand the 14th, you have to remember that the US had a labor shortage based on the end of slavery. We encouraged people to come here and fill our demand for cheap labor. A simple promise of “come here… you’ll have a chance to carve out a good life for yourself-the possibilities are endless” was all that was promised. In 2025, the promise is free housing, free food, a free education, free health care. It’s a “free ride” for immigrants that is hardly free for the American taxpayers. If your wife drops a kid while you’re taking a late-gestation vacation in Mexico, guess what? You’d better get your yankee butts back to America, because you can’t stay there, and you dang sure don’t get benefits.

But those 19 were here (or at least came here) legally.

If he’d have been on Epstein’s list, Trump would have protected him.

“Reminder and warning to not call people names or call them stupid. If you can't make your pointwithout insults, then don't post. I assume most of us are adults.”

I don’t agree with you. Most voters oppose the school voucher program here in Texas, but the local leadership of the Republican Party made sure that any candidate who opposed the vouchers got an opponent, and the local party leadership rallied around the candidate who supported vouchers… we’ve never seen local party leadership at sitting local rep like this area went after Dade Phelan last fall. The local party went as far as censuring him. How does that even happen? They’re out of control ideologues. They literally pick the most extreme candidate other because he/she most closely aligns with their own radical beliefs. To put it frankly, moderates don’t feel strongly enough about moderate stands on issues to devote their lives to fighting for the middle. Extremists do. Most of us here are more interested politically than 97% of the population. And we’re not interested enough to get involved locally. Those people who DO care enough to attend meetings, etc… are just mean, hateful people who devote their lives to fighting “the other guys,” whether they be of the the same party or not. And they’re the ones who pick the candidates we vote for. You seem level headed. Go down to your local Republican Party meeting and tell them how you feel… you’ll be a dirty RINO in minutes.

The problem is that the most hardcore extremists are who populate the local party machines. The masses don’t pick the candidates that we vote on in the fall…. The whackjobs who actually vote in the primaries keep selecting the most extreme candidates on both sides of the aisle. Normal people don’t spend time on message boards engaging in political discourse… but with the exception of Reagan, I don’t sense the type of dedication from any of yall that would indicate a willingness to participate in the local party from either side. The truth is that most people don’t vote general elections. And only a fraction of that fraction also vote in the primaries where general elections candidates are chosen. The candidates are handpicked by the most fervent ideologues among us, and it shows by the way we keep getting dog crap candidates like Trump. And it was worse than that when the Ds circumvented their primary voters to pick VP Harris to run against Trump in 24. We need to wrestle control of the parties from the whackos or the American Experiment is over. Who am I kidding? It’s already over. We’re just waiting on the credits to roll.

No, I assume he now knows and is doing everything in his power to make sure it remains secret to protect the guilty. Breaking news… he called the Wall Street Journal to kill the story. Details on drudge.