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I quit celebrating all their fucking “days” years ago. Quite liberating and I highly recommend it. Bunch of bullshit anyway. Christmas too yeah I said it.

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Excuse my ignorance but WTF is “ghetto airstrike style shooting”?

Oh FFS. A strange thing can happen when a person stands up publicly for what's right. Other people see them doing it and some of them, not all certainly but some, are encouraged to do something similar and stand up themselves. Yet other people see this and some of them are similarly encouraged and act similarly, and this ripple effect continues on throughout the population. This can happen even when you’re standing against strong opposition, or worse, against seemingly insurmountable odds. In fact sometimes that increases the effect. When you do it from an EXTREMELY high profile position like the presidency, it gives you the opportunity to potentially increase the effect by many orders of magnitude. At the very least, standing up for what’s right encourages those who are already striving for the right to continue on regardless of the apparent odds. And this in itself is totally worthwhile and worth doing, even if it's all you accomplish. It IS NOT mere virtue signalling.

Maybe I'm jaded at this point but I'm pretty tired of everybody and their brother asking for money for this-or-that these days. And I say that as someone only a couple hours away from Asheville and have friends there in the middle of it. FWIW, I've been informed by them that all of people pouring in to "help" are actually causing more problems than they're solving.

Do you need validation (payment) for doing good things? Why even post the thread?

He’d probably have sided with Hamilton who eas calling for the hrshest penalties including summary execution. Big Brother is wise. Big Brother is good. We should all love Big Brother.

There is a VAST difference between giving in to one’s self-preservation instincts and grudgingly complying with SOME of the bullshit so as not to wind up dead or in prison, which you are correct in saying all of us do to one extent or another, and publicly advocating that more of those “essential Libert” be stripped away for the sake of your own temporary safety, which is what you’ve been doing. If you can’t see that difference, well, then I feel sorry for you. Carry on.

Oh spare me. ‘Honestly, if full-on fascism is what it took to prevent one world government, it'd be worth it.” - The%exan ‘Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin Nut up or shut up, please. “

Sorry, brother, but it’s hilarious to see you accusing others of lacking “critical thinking skills” when it’s patently obvious from your last post (#93) that your own position is based quite firmly in fear, and not at all the result of reason or “critical thinking.” It would probably be best to keep your accusations to yourself until you get that fear under control. Just a friendly suggestion.

It’s a real tragedy how far the levels of discourse and civility have plummeted here since the rise of Trump.

No, I don’t believe he is.

Lips that touch liquor will never touch theirs? I find their terms acceptable. Don’t think I’d care to even be in the same room with any of those sour looking shrews let alone kiss any of them. Ugh

:rolleyes:

Simple. Hoes doing what hoes do. Selling their souls for a few bucks.

I do not advocate globalism and never have. That is a lie. You know it’s a lie. Yet you keep making the accusation. I won’t bother asking you to stop. I know how that would work out. I just wanted to point it out for anyone who might not already know how disingenuous you are.

Careful what you say there, Swordy. People might mistake you for an advocate of economic freedom rather than the prponent of socialistic central economic planning that you actually are!

Hmmmm….

Touche!

Appreciate the effort but I already read the whole thing on twitter/x. A lovely piece of free verse. So inspiring. NOT.

That WAS moving, wasn’t it?

I can’t tell you how truly moved I was by this young man’s “poetry.” Or, to put it another way, why the fuck is that barely literate drivel being honored as “art”? SMGDH

When all else fails, resort to an appeal to authority. Seems to me I’ve seen you yourself denounce that quite a few times. Curious.

Hold on… Waiyt a second here. Let me re-read what I wrote… Mmmhmmm, yes, I see. After carefully re-reading my comments above, and applying just a rudimentary understanding if the English language, it’s obvious by the syntax and context that my words were directed, not at you personally, but at you own comments. So, whatever else they may or may not be, my words certainly ARE NOT ad hominem.

“I know you are but what am I?” That’s the best you got? ROTFLMFAO!!!!11

Your first two sentences are pure speculation with absolutely no factual data to support them. Your last comment is just pure bullshit. But you already know that.

Now he’s praising the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909? I wonder if he knows that Sen. Nelson W. Aldrich was the very guy who organized the covert meeting on Jekyll Island that gave birth to the Federal Reserve Act? But I’m sur Aldrich had nothing but the best interests of the average American in mind when he helped craft that tariff act. Certainly there couldn’t have been any other motive from a stand-up guy like Aldrich, right? ETA: Aldrich was, in fact, the father in law of old John D. Rockefeller himself. Future vice president Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, his grandson, was actually named after him. At the time Aldrich was well known as a “Rockefeller man” in congress. He represented not his actual constituents but the Rockefeller financial empire. IIRC his reputation among real conservatives and liberty loving Americans was so bad that his involvement with the Federal Reserve Act had to be carefully concealed lest that revelation doom the bill’s chances. As I recall, he even pretended to oppose the bill in a successful effort to dupe enough Americans to go along with it to get it passed. He was a globalist, progressive scumbag and NOTHING he was ever involved in, including the tariff act bearing his name, was good for America or its people.

At best he’ll start quoting from Ian Fletcher’s book about how great tariffs are and how horrible free trade is. What he WON’T tell you is that Fletcher is actually on the board of a group called the Coalition For A Prosperous America, a lobbying group for a bunch of rent seeking corporations and industries seeking to enrich themselves unjustly at the expense of American consumers through tariffs and trade restrictions. Fletcher is nothing but a shill lobbyist and his book is just pro-protectionist propaganda. But you didn’t really expect any better, did you?

As I understand it ending the fed is on his agenda, immediately following eliminating world hunger, ending poverty and curing cancer. Give the guy a break! He can’t do EVERYTHING all at once you know.