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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1000 on: June 17, 2022, 08:29:55 PM »
ccp:  "lets say we don't vote at all....
let them win all elections from here on in.
Would that be smart?:"


[Doug]   No.

Why would we surrender or have a shooting war over something that could be solved as simply as:
a.  Have one election day with polling places.
b.  Require voter ID.
c.  Count the votes in plain view.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1001 on: June 17, 2022, 08:44:22 PM »
ccp:  "lets say we don't vote at all....
let them win all elections from here on in.
Would that be smart?:"


[Doug]   No.

Why would we surrender or have a shooting war over something that could be solved as simply as:
a.  Have one election day with polling places.
b.  Require voter ID.
c.  Count the votes in plain view.

Please show me the jurisdictions with those voting requirements.

Meanwhile, 18-19 state have vote fraud by mail in place permanently.

Oh look:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/go-mail-votes-catapult-radical-karen-bass-ahead-primary-challenger-8-point-swing-la-mayoral-race-final-results-wont-known-days-weeks/

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1002 on: June 18, 2022, 05:33:20 AM »
A powerful example GM, but still it does not engage with the idea that we must make every effort this coming election.  This may be our last chance to overwhelm the fraud.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1003 on: June 18, 2022, 06:55:11 AM »
A powerful example GM, but still it does not engage with the idea that we must make every effort this coming election.  This may be our last chance to overwhelm the fraud.

You can't outvote vote fraud. They will always "find" enough votes to win. Did you ever play "3 card Monte" in NYC?

Why not?

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1004 on: June 18, 2022, 07:03:19 AM »
Tangent regarding three card monte:

Back in the mid 80s Paul Vunak was my martial arts teacher/friend/business partner (No longer!  But that is a different story haha) We were in NYC and there was a three-card monte game going on and he wanted to play.  I pointed out to him the pickpockets at work as people revealed where their wallets were as they played the game.  Then!  Miracle!  Someone shouted out "The Police!" and they all scattered to the wind.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1005 on: June 18, 2022, 07:21:25 AM »
The difference between 3 card Monte and vote fraud.

Law enforcement tried to shut 3 card Monte down.


Tangent regarding three card monte:

Back in the mid 80s Paul Vunak was my martial arts teacher/friend/business partner (No longer!  But that is a different story haha) We were in NYC and there was a three-card monte game going on and he wanted to play.  I pointed out to him the pickpockets at work as people revealed where their wallets were as they played the game.  Then!  Miracle!  Someone shouted out "The Police!" and they all scattered to the wind.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1006 on: June 18, 2022, 07:54:54 AM »
Actually, I suspect the cry of "The Police!" was from one of the pickpocketing gang as a signal to scatter to the winds while befuddling the marks.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1007 on: June 18, 2022, 08:00:54 AM »
Actually, I suspect the cry of "The Police!" was from one of the pickpocketing gang as a signal to scatter to the winds while befuddling the marks.

Understood.

If I recall correctly, Philadelphia Police Officers actually forced republican poll watchers out of vote counting locations.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1008 on: June 18, 2022, 12:17:13 PM »
That is my understanding as well.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1009 on: June 18, 2022, 02:24:46 PM »
(a.  Have one election day with polling places.
b.  Require voter ID.
c.  Count the votes in plain view.)


"Please show me the jurisdictions with those voting requirements."
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I think you know, a, b, c above are rules we need, not where we are now.

Something like 80% support voter ID.  It can be done.

Where I live, Democrats have arguably stolen an election or two  that had 1/10th or 1/100th % margin. 

On that margin, I agree with you.  If we don't  truly defeat them and leave it a virtual tie, expect to lose.

How that translates to: why bother, give up, hand it all to them, is beyond me.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1010 on: June 18, 2022, 02:41:24 PM »
Exactly so.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1011 on: June 18, 2022, 11:21:53 PM »
Your ideas for reform are nice. So is the idea of playing "president and intern" with a clone of Cindy Crawford in her prime.

Both are equally unrealistic.

The dems have 18/19 states that have adopted vote by mail fraud.

How many states have adopted the immensely popular reforms you have suggested?

Will they be in place in time for the midterms?

Or the next presidential election?




(a.  Have one election day with polling places.
b.  Require voter ID.
c.  Count the votes in plain view.)


"Please show me the jurisdictions with those voting requirements."
————

I think you know, a, b, c above are rules we need, not where we are now.

Something like 80% support voter ID.  It can be done.

Where I live, Democrats have arguably stolen an election or two  that had 1/10th or 1/100th % margin. 

On that margin, I agree with you.  If we don't  truly defeat them and leave it a virtual tie, expect to lose.

How that translates to: why bother, give up, hand it all to them, is beyond me.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1012 on: June 19, 2022, 06:43:34 AM »
18-19 is roughly the number of states where Republicans and what we see as constitutionalists currently have no say.  Yes, we need keep shrinking that number.

Flip side of that coin, 30 is roughly the number of states where the Left cannot get votes to pass their woke amendments, repeal or rewrite the second amendment for example, which is why they behave this way, through the deep state, instead of going through the channels set up by the Founders.
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"How many states have adopted the immensely popular reforms you have suggested?

Will they be in place in time for the midterms?

Or the next presidential election?"


That is the point of elections, bringing our representative government back for discipline. If 80% support it and they can't pass and implement it, out they go.

Keeping our eye on the ball, keeping the focus on what is most important is hard.  Sometimes we get sidetracked by other issues, shiny objects and by the cancer of negativity.

The challenge we face is monumental, but way easier that what the colonists faced,
what freedom seeking residents of China, Russia, Venezuela face, what freedom seeking residents of Nazi Germany faced, and what we will face if we don't do this right now.

If one person who cares sits out one more election, all of what you say, this can't be fixed through elections, comes true.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1013 on: June 19, 2022, 07:39:33 AM »
The systemic rot is beyond the ability of elections to cure.

The Feral government exists outside the constitution, with no loyalty towards it's ideals or limitations.

The Feral government blatantly performed a coup, removing a duly elected president for the unforgivable sin of not being from the DC Uniparty.

Where in human history can I find an example of a vote being respected by the junta that overthrew a constitutional republic?

The American Republic was not kept. It is lost.

If there is to be another, we will have to rebuild it.

Control what you can control. Be realistic. We will see very dark times very soon.

Plan accordingly.

18-19 is roughly the number of states where Republicans and what we see as constitutionalists currently have no say.  Yes, we need keep shrinking that number.

Flip side of that coin, 30 is roughly the number of states where the Left cannot get votes to pass their woke amendments, repeal or rewrite the second amendment for example, which is why they behave this way, through the deep state, instead of going through the channels set up by the Founders.
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"How many states have adopted the immensely popular reforms you have suggested?

Will they be in place in time for the midterms?

Or the next presidential election?"


That is the point of elections, bringing our representative government back for discipline. If 80% support it and they can't pass and implement it, out they go.

Keeping our eye on the ball, keeping the focus on what is most important is hard.  Sometimes we get sidetracked by other issues, shiny objects and by the cancer of negativity.

The challenge we face is monumental, but way easier that what the colonists faced,
what freedom seeking residents of China, Russia, Venezuela face, what freedom seeking residents of Nazi Germany faced, and what we will face if we don't do this right now.

If one person who cares sits out one more election, all of what you say, this can't be fixed through elections, comes true.


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Larry Kudlow radio 7.16.22
« Reply #1015 on: July 16, 2022, 02:40:46 PM »
https://wabcradio.com/podcast/larry-kudlow/

Newt was on show ~ minute 20 to minute 44 (corrected at 7:30EST)

The best I have ever heard Newt

He is getting closer to  the political solutions for Republicans and his take on Trump '24.

I used to find Kudlow totally boring yrs ago -  all I ever heard him say was one trick pony ->

we need more growth over and over again

He seems to have much more broadly fanned out to many more topics

and even comedy as he is funny when he is on Gutfield.

Larry has become one of my favorite hosts.

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Re: Larry Kudlow radio 7.16.22
« Reply #1016 on: July 16, 2022, 04:56:32 PM »
https://wabcradio.com/podcast/larry-kudlow/

Newt was on show ~ minute 20 to minute 24.

The best I have ever heard Newt

He is getting closer the political solutions for Republicans and his take on Trump '24.

I used to find Kudlow totally boring yrs ago -  all I ever heard him say was one trick pony ->

we need more growth over and over again

He seems to have much more broadly fanned out to many more topics

and even comedy as he is funny when he is on Gutfield.

Larry has become one of my favorite hosts.

We need more growth.   )

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1017 on: July 16, 2022, 05:37:58 PM »
Newt begins at 21:10.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1018 on: July 17, 2022, 08:35:23 AM »
 :-o

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1019 on: July 17, 2022, 09:06:48 AM »
???

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1021 on: August 17, 2022, 07:04:56 AM »
agree

but even worse and unfortunately labelling them commies

is not uniformly a negative now :

https://victimsofcommunism.org/annual-poll/2020-annual-poll/

it is the free shit mentality for all


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The Revolutionary Trigger
« Reply #1023 on: November 08, 2022, 06:38:25 AM »
This essay engages with a challenging question.

https://www.aier.org/article/the-revolutionary-trigger/


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Re: CNN exit polls by age demographic
« Reply #1025 on: November 09, 2022, 11:39:22 AM »
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/11/09/there-would-have-been-a-red-wave-but-one-group-saved-the-left-from-being-completely-obliterated-n1644558

 :-o

CNN National House Exit Poll

R+ 13    65+
R+ 11    45-64

D +2      30-44
D +28   18-29

#GenZ did their job.
7:52 PM · Nov 8, 2022
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I will self censor my thoughts about the politics of my daughter's generation.

I hate to say it, but let them live with inflation, abortion, open borders, unverified mail in elections, high interest rates soon to cause joblessness and wage losses of their peers unlike anything they have seen that come hand in hand with these policies.
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Supporting just a tinge of economic freedom is too extreme for them, but Ilhan Omar?  No problem!
✔︎      Ilhan Omar (i) DFL       214,217    75.2%
        Cicely Davis  Republican 70,698     24.8%
   100% of precincts reporting

My daughter's "religion" professor (at a formerly conservative college) was atheist and her economics professor was Marxist (or decidedly and admittedly to the Left).

Over 99 percent of University of Wisconsin system professors’ political donations benefit Democrats
https://www.thecollegefix.com/over-99-percent-of-university-of-wisconsin-system-professors-political-donations-benefit-democrats/

This is what we're up against.  But it isn't the professors alone doing this.  It's the numbers above.  Their peers are all liberal - at an age where what your peers think is everything.  Breaking out of that bubble will require a series of real world learning experiences, like getting mugged and carjacked.  Even then, it's conservatives' fault.
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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1026 on: November 09, 2022, 12:22:03 PM »
One further thought on that, the under 30s didn't watch their 401k's and IRA's tank.

They did watch their ability to buy a house disappear if they didn't buy one already, but no one explained to them in their own language why it all happened.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1027 on: November 09, 2022, 01:16:31 PM »
"Over 99 percent of University of Wisconsin system professors’ political donations benefit Democrats"

that is one unbelievable stat

that is worse than DC itself!

this generation will one day learn what REAL fascism is .
they think Trump is fascism ? 

and what it is like living under government control under elites and China .

I do think we need to speak more about climate change
somehow
which may reach them
and without destroying the entire fuel based economy

watch how Fettermen will be handled, managed, and covered for
one will think he is a genius with a speech impediment after the media covers for him

just like fumbling biden





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Dan Horowitz of Conservative review
« Reply #1028 on: November 09, 2022, 04:19:15 PM »

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1029 on: November 09, 2022, 04:30:14 PM »
What in your opinion is wrong with it?

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1030 on: November 09, 2022, 06:07:45 PM »
It seems to me the bottom line he is rationalizing DeSantis is the future

and does make it clear - sort of - that Trump is not:

" The problem with the Republican Party is not Trump per se, although it’s hard to see his mix of style, inconsistent messaging, and weak policies and personnel being the winning formula going forward"

[DUH]

I don't understand what was weak about GOP messaging.

DeSantis won in a mostly red state
he won over  a lot of  hispanics

big time

but many are Cuban hispanics who were there post Castro
and those in Florida are not the same as Cubans in AOCs community
or maybe those Latins flooding over the border.  those in AOC community appear to be more the free check crowds

so is this realistic  on a national scale ?

" They have no vision, and they stood for nothing. They produced nothing of the quality of Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America."

perhaps they should have produced McCarthy Gingrich new version sooner
rather then waiting till after the election

" Therein lies the problem. While it is puzzling that voters would choose Democrats given the state of the economy and security, let’s face it: Republicans barely disagree with Democrats on the issues"

what is he talking about ?
the differences were not stark?
I must be missing something but then again I did not follow individual campaigns

It may be the Republicans are not addressing issues that need to be addressed
perhaps we need to start addressing Climate Change
(not by destroying the fossil fuel economy ) at least acknowledge it as something to be careful about and not simply denying it or arguing it is all bullshit like we do

"Maybe we should celebrate the end of all abortion or birth control
maybe offer a consistent reasonable approach" - most want some abortion and to try to outlaw birth control is in my view totally NUTS


also
1) the RNC chairwoman was certainly making contrasts

not sure why he bashes Fox

does he like newsmax better? [I do]

I love Levin but I have not seen him change  many minds
His listeners like me are already in  the choir

Perhaps he simply cannot get his message out to those who need to here it.

 BUT they ain't going to play him on PBS or in academia
 
We kept laughing at the Democrats recently by saying it is a messaging problem

I am not sure if it is that or the people in this country do not like our message

lets figure that out first

then when we get that right

figure out how to get past the f''g media tech academia lawyer cabal to get the message out

Maybe we will have to wait till '24 if DeSantis runs
for surely no one but the die hards are listening to Trump anymore













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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1031 on: November 09, 2022, 07:10:08 PM »
Thank you.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1032 on: November 09, 2022, 08:09:49 PM »
Great post ccp.

"DeSantis won in a mostly red state
he won over  a lot of  hispanics
big time
but many are Cuban hispanics who were there post Castro
and those in Florida are not the same..."


I was thinking the same thing.  DeSantis is doing something right, maybe everything right, but that success doesn't transfer automatically nationwide. 

The Cuban Americans have never been able to convert the Mexican Americans or others.  I don't know about the Puerto Rican Americans, with a strong population in both Florida and NY (AOC).

I remember MN politicians having no connection in Iowa, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachman, Amy Klobuchar, and a Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker not connecting in MN.

I support DeSantis.  I like having two term (twice elected) Governors if possible for chief executive.  But he will have to introduce himself and win people over in PA, AZ etc from scratch.

DeSantis has great success in Florida where they know him and great potential nationwide, but pulling it off is far from automatic.

Trump was fully known nationwide when he entered politics, for better or for worse.
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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1033 on: November 10, 2022, 05:52:54 AM »
"those in AOC community appear to be more the free check crowds"

this reminds me of an office I worked in that had some young Latino women.

Good workers and friendly

What is interesting even though they were in their 20s they knew ALL the ropes on how to get government checks. - this benefit, that benefit.  They were even advising patients how to do it.

What I am saying does anyone think that those in NJ/NY will vote for "freedom" "work" "anti abortion". "smaller government"

vs fee checks if you qualify and know to apply?

I never asked them but hard to think they were Republicans

Some maybe could be convinced but I waver on how many.

remember most of America is living on paycheck to paycheck


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Newt Gingrich with Jordan Peterson
« Reply #1034 on: November 18, 2022, 06:37:48 AM »

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Insightful Essay in WSJ: "Conservative" is a bad label for good policies
« Reply #1035 on: November 25, 2022, 07:02:45 PM »
This makes great sense to me:
‘Conservative’ Is a Bad Label for Republicans’ Good Policies
The narrative of ‘progress’ is far more attractive than the prospect of standing athwart and ‘yelling Stop.’
By Hyrum Lewis
Nov. 25, 2022 12:24 pm ET
WSJ

Since their disappointing showing in the midterm elections, Republicans have been trying to explain what went wrong. The answers they have come up with—Donald Trump was a handicap, they appealed exclusively to the base, their candidates weren’t likable—all have merit, but there is a deeper and more longstanding issue: Republicans have a narrative problem that originates with the idea of “conservatism” itself.

Prevailing political mythology holds that the Democratic Party’s policies are “progressive”—meaning they promote change toward greater justice—while the Republican Party’s are “conservative”—meaning they try to slow or arrest this progressive change. As William F. Buckley Jr. put it, a conservative is someone who “stands athwart history, yelling Stop.” In this framing, there is a natural momentum toward progress in human affairs (“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. said), but conservatives resist this progress out of concern for excessive disruptions or the ability of the public to adapt to change.

There are two big problems with this political mythology. First, it’s false. Each party stands for a bunch of unrelated policies that are connected only by happenstance, not philosophy. What does abortion have to do with tax rates? Ideologues are uncomfortable with the reality that each of our two political tribes stands for some policies that strike them as correct and others that seem incorrect, so they have invented grand ideological narratives about “progress” and “conservation” to give the illusion of coherence to policies that are incoherent.

Second, this political mythology inherently disadvantages the Republicans, since the narrative of progress is far more attractive than the narrative of conservation. It was progressive change that abolished slavery, gave women the right to vote, and achieved civil rights for racial minorities, so conservatives are stuck with the impossible task of arguing that these changes were somehow bad, that they were enacted too quickly, or that “this time it is different.” Technological progress is good, medical progress is good, moral progress is good, and if we don’t want to stop progress in those realms, why would we want to stop progress in politics? By characterizing their policies as “conservative,” Republicans imply that they would rather accommodate the backward and bigoted than stand up for justice and the rights of victims.

The conservative narrative might work among actual bigots or voters who don’t think in terms of grand narratives, but it will inevitably lose among cultural elites. This is the main reason academia, Hollywood, the media and tech corporations are so alienated from the Republican Party: Cultural leaders demand a morality-affirming narrative, and the story that says intellectual elites can be in the vanguard of history, leading the charge for progressive change, is far more attractive than the story in which they stand “athwart history, yelling Stop.” If we are going to bundle unrelated policies together using ex post facto stories, the “right side of history” story will always win over the “not too fast” story. And given a choice between progress and conservation, thoughtful people looking for a moral politics will, unsurprisingly, almost always choose progress.

The problem for Republicans isn’t that all of their policies are bad, but that the story they use to unify and justify their policies is bad. Why is it that unpopular and extreme measures—such as the mutilation of children under the guise of “gender-affirming care”—have become so widely accepted among cultural elites? Because the label “progressive” endows these policies with the moral force of historical inevitability.

Why is it that obvious and sensible measures—such as the freedom to cut hair without onerous licensing requirements—are somehow controversial? Because the label “conservative” associates these policies with backwardness and bigotry. It makes Republican policies seem guilty by association with evil causes such as segregation, slavery, and male-only suffrage and historical villains such as John C. Calhoun, Stephen A. Douglas and Bull Connor, who were actually all Democrats. Republicans need to advance policies on the idea that they are right, not because they are unified by a label that has such negative associations. By acceding to the progressive-conservative framing and adopting the narrative of “conservatism,” Republicans have unnecessarily handicapped themselves.

To avoid long-term underperformance of the kind we saw on Election Day, Republicans need to jettison the conservative narrative and move beyond the idea that all their policies stand against progressive change. They should replace the morally flawed conservative narrative with a more principled, positive one that can attract educated voters. Donald Trump is undoubtedly a millstone around the Republicans’ necks, but so too is the narrative of “conservatism” that serves to repel most cultural elites except those few who prefer stasis to progress.

Mr. Lewis is a professor of history at BYU-Idaho and a co-author of “The Myth of Left and Right,” coming in January from Oxford University Press.

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moved from election thread. GOHARMEET1
« Reply #1036 on: December 12, 2022, 10:05:53 AM »
I thought we had way forward for Republican thread but can't find it so this makes next most sense:


honestly I though Repubs were out there for this election cycle
ballot harvesting

boy did I overestimate the RNC  :-o

of course we need to go out and get votes. ; was it not obvious
I was told they had many thousands of workers .....

I like the way Harmeet Dhillon talks the talk on FOX news lately
I would rather have her the Rhonda McDaniel who was RNC chair for 6 yrs
and 3 losing election cycles.  I agree it is time for Mitt Romneys niece ( :-o) to fade into another role :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qcCPJbA2Oo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmeet_Dhillon#:~:text=Harmeet%20Kaur%20Dhillon%20(born%201969,called%20Dhillon%20Law%20Group%20Inc.

of course will she be able to unseat a swamp creature?
who has not realized we MUST fight the Dems at their own game

all the while they are flooding us with illegals and calling for citizenship for all  :x


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Re: Kurt Shlichter on amnesty and Republican Party
« Reply #1038 on: December 13, 2022, 08:50:30 AM »
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2022/12/12/amnesty-will-destroy-the-gop-n2616991


 They reveal their true colors as they leave office.  No recourse from the voters, but permanent attention on the pitiful news shows.

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Roger Simon: Has America been a hallucination for nearly 60 years?
« Reply #1039 on: December 18, 2022, 07:43:52 AM »
Has American Democracy Been a Hallucination for Nearly 60 Years?
Roger L. SimonRoger L. Simon December 16, 2022 Updated: December 17, 2022biggersmaller Print


Call it a democracy, call it a democratic republic, call it a constitutional republic, call it anything you want—it doesn’t really matter what America is if there is truth to what Tucker Carlson was reporting the other night via a source who had “direct knowledge” of still-hidden documents concerning the Kennedy assassination, implicating the CIA.

If indeed the CIA was in any way involved in the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, then anything that has happened in the public sphere in our country since that day has basically been a hallucination created by an intelligence agency far deeper than most of us—certainly me, since I was never much given to conspiracy theories—ever imagined.

The affairs of the day—RNC chief Ronna McDaniel revealed to be a profligate spender on her own luxury travel, not on Republican candidates; Donald Trump releasing self-aggrandizing NFT pseudo-art as a fundraiser (rest in peace, Johannes Vermeer); even Elon Musk’s exposure of the multiple mendacious censoring creeps behind Twitter, although that has an eerie similarity—pale by comparison to CIA involvement and, therefore, massive coverup for decades in the JFK assassination.

That former CIA director Mike Pompeo declined to appear on Carlson’s show to discuss this is not insignificant. We all know about 51 intelligence officials—John Brennan and others who fallaciously claimed two years ago the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. They have to have known otherwise. Now this?

Why are 3 percent of the Warren Commission documents on the assassination still being hidden after those nearly 60 years with all the major players dead, if not to hide something of serious importance from the American public?

It’s time to reconsider Oliver Stone’s “JFK” that, though I admired Oliver’s filmmaking, I originally thought to be a crackpot.

The Kennedy assassination has special ramifications for me because it occurred on my 20th birthday. I was a Dartmouth student at the time and drove down to spend the weekend with my girlfriend at Skidmore (Saratoga Springs, New York) and sat in a motel room stunned and mesmerized watching Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald, live on the black and white television.

I cannot remember seeing anything more inexplicable in my life. How could this have been allowed to happen only hours after the assassination? In retrospect, it becomes even more incredible. In a certain sense, I now feel that most of my adult life, what I have thought was real, has been erased.

Although most of us of a “certain age” have our own personal stories, that’s the relatively minor part. Historically, for our country at large, the Kennedy assassination was a disaster. It led to the ascendance of Lyndon Johnson and his “Great Society” social programs.

What actually occurred because of these programs was the not-so-gradual destruction of the black family, the women having been financially induced via handouts to marry the state instead of the men who normally would have been their husbands. The statistics on the decline of the black family and the rise of single-parent households are well known, as are the results that the black community and the rest of us live through on a daily basis. What becomes of a man, black or white, who no longer has the responsibility of being a father? LBJ was in many ways the godfather of Black Lives Matter, not to mention the hugely sad violence in the streets of our biggest cities, most notably Chicago.

If all this is true, the question becomes how do we get out of this hallucination that is more powerful than, though not unrelated to, the mass formation psychosis described by the Belgian academic Mathias Desmet.

To begin with, we need the full information, every document, and we need it now. Without the public being able to review that last three percent we can go no further. We should be calling for that—loudly.

The Everly Brothers perhaps put it best, although in another context.

“Wake up, little Susie, wake up
We’ve both been sound asleep
Wake up little Susie and weep
The movie’s over, it’s four o’clock
And we’re in trouble deep.”

Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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« Reply #1040 on: December 18, 2022, 01:30:01 PM »
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-victim-blackmail-videos

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"I noted the presence of many Orthodox Jews to Ryan Mermer, head of Jewish engagement of the RNC. He said, “We’re proud of everything we’ve done. The Jewish Republican vote is now 33% nationally and, in Florida, it’s 45%, the highest it’s ever been.”

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1043 on: January 16, 2023, 06:11:24 AM »
The FOX morning show this morning was joking that they didn't know that this still existed.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1044 on: January 16, 2023, 06:27:59 AM »
"The FOX morning show this morning was joking that they didn't know that this still existed."

who knew?

but I miss the swim suit competition instead of the weird and sometimes woke outfits they wear now.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1045 on: January 16, 2023, 06:43:49 AM »
Love the sniveling by the outgoing Miss who put on weight.

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« Reply #1046 on: February 17, 2023, 08:44:05 AM »
We all know the term RINO.

I propose the term AmINO:  American In Name Only.

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WSJ: How America Can Win the Info War
« Reply #1048 on: March 17, 2023, 01:11:38 PM »
How America Can Win the Information War
Confirm Elizabeth Allen, whose office produced a brilliant video called ‘To the People of Russia.’
By Joe Lieberman and Gordon Humphrey
March 17, 2023 2:55 pm ET


When Xi Jinping visits Moscow next week, Vladimir Putin will doubtless ask for weapons to replenish his badly depleted arsenal. Whatever scheme they concoct will further endanger U.S. national security and that of our allies.

A broader danger confronts us in the new axis of evil that spans Europe, the Middle East and Asia. China and Russia have combined with Iran. All three are determined to replace U.S. leadership in the world and to destroy freedom wherever it exists. China’s threats to take Taiwan by force, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and Iran’s threats to “annihilate” Israel raise the possibility of simultaneous aggression. Together, this axis may confront us with one of the most serious challenges ever to our security, values and prosperity.


The threats to global stability and the US homeland are growing. How will the war in Ukraine end? Can China and the US develop a less combative relationship? Join historian and Journal columnist Walter Russell Mead and editorial page editor Paul Gigot for an interactive conversation on the threats to US security.


To prevail, the U.S. must employ every tool of national power. Regrettably, one of the most forceful and inexpensive weapons has withered over the last 20 years: advocacy—the marshaling of truth and fact to persuade foreign audiences. Recall the important part played by the U.S. Information Agency in winning the Cold War. Its Voice of America broadcasts persuaded Soviet citizens that life on our side of the Iron Curtain was better than theirs.

VOA didn’t rely on news alone; it employed editorial writers and even contracted for made-in-Hollywood films. If sole reliance on news sufficed, today’s war criminal and serial violator of human rights, Mr. Putin, wouldn’t stand high in Russian polls. Instead, the U.S. must bring back advocacy meant to persuade. That’s where wits come in.


Defeating propaganda with truthful advocacy is more difficult than in USIA’s heyday. Our adversaries outspend us by orders of magnitude and, using bots and social media, dump disinformation into millions of computers, eyes, ears and brains every day. They have massively stepped up their game. So must we.

Overtaking adversaries requires the president to order explicitly the development of a long-term program of advocacy surpassing that of our adversaries in budget, creativity and technology. Leading such an effort requires an official who is highly experienced in communications and public relations and who has the heft to overcome bureaucratic timidity and inertia. President Biden has nominated precisely such a person, Elizabeth Allen, to be undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs.

Ms. Allen served as deputy communications director at the White House when Mr. Biden was vice president. That background indicates she’ll have the ear of the president whenever the bureaucracy needs a push. That’s vital to success.

The office is charged by law with “detecting and countering disinformation emanating from abroad” and actively advocating the “values and policies of the United States.” The Senate would serve the nation well by speedily confirming Ms. Allen with a bipartisan vote.

While public diplomacy is on the minds of senators, they should join with their colleagues in the House to review thoroughly all aspects of our messaging of foreign citizens. To quote a recent Heritage Foundation paper: “The State Department’s public diplomacy programs abroad are skewed toward fringe aspects of U.S. domestic social issues and away from core, enduring U.S. values. ‘Woke’ diplomacy does not fit within the State Department’s own strategic plan and does not advance U.S. national security.”

As a prototype demonstrating the kind of advocacy that should be produced at scale, consider the first-of-its-kind video made recently by the undersecretary’s office, “To the People of Russia.” It echoes Mr. Biden’s assurance to the Russian people: “You are not our enemy.”

It’s a masterpiece of advocacy, richly illustrated, that begins by recalling the time when as allies the U.S. and Russia won World War II. It speaks of our cooperation in space and compliments the Russian people for their great contributions to the arts and sciences. Toward the end, a clip of Mr. Putin’s war appears, accompanied by the words: “We do not believe this is who you are. We stand with each of you who seeks to build a more peaceful future.” The video played on Telegram, the platform widely used by Russians seeking alternatives to Moscow’s propaganda.

Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president and now deputy chairman of the Security Council, was outraged after viewing the video, labeling the U.S. government “sons of bitches” for what he called use of the techniques of Joseph Goebbels. That Mr. Medvedev found the video offensive attests to the Kremlin’s fear of a popular uprising like that in Iran.

The office of undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs hasn’t had a Senate-confirmed occupant in more than five years, which speaks volumes about the neglect of the power of advocacy. To leave so important a national-security post filled by a series of short-term, temporary acting officials is unacceptable.

The U.S. invented the internet and virtual private networks that defy most censorship. Until it gets serious about advocacy it will continue to lose the information war by default. The price is the continuation of a 17-year-long decline in the number of free nations and, ultimately, a sharp decline in the West’s security, freedom and prosperity.


Mr. Lieberman was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000 and a U.S. senator from Connecticut, 1989-2013. Mr. Humphrey was a Republican U.S. senator from New Hampshire, 1979-90.

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Re: The Way Forward for the American Creed
« Reply #1049 on: March 17, 2023, 01:51:49 PM »