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Michael Wilson's avatar

I absolutely get it...and was right there with you. It was Winston Churchill who said: "If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."

But the current situation is more dire than ANY other in our Nation's history...it's GO time!

Andy rosenberger's avatar

My experience was just the opposite. I voted in my first election as a Republican by absentee ballot from Vietnam. For decades I voted Republican. As the party strayed from its roots and embraced some pretty bad people (Santos, Boebert, Greene, Cawthorn et al ) I reregistered as an independent. Is the world better than it was under Trump? Yes and no. We have toilet paper. Masks are optional. The stock market is way up. Inflation is bad. Interest rates are up. Sorry, I can’t vote for Trump. His lack of crisis management skills, his propensity to prevaricate, his tear gassing my old priest on his was to a photo op with an upside down bible PLUS the scary Project 2025 manifesto seal it for me.

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Mar 25, 2024
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Nancy P.'s avatar

Trump finally wins something:

During and after his term as President of the United States, Donald Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during Trump’s presidential term, an average of about 21 per day.[1][5][6][7] The Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims from January 2017 to June 2019, an average of 6.1 per day.[2] Commentators and fact-checkers have described the scale of Trump's mendacity as "unprecedented" in American politics,

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Mar 26, 2024
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Nancy P.'s avatar

Obviously facts don’t matter to you or anyone else in the MAGA cult bubble.

Henry Schulte's avatar

I receive a lot of praise behind the scenes which I still find disconcerting. The left is still winning the censorship war. As long as they continue to scare common-sense thinkers to remain quiet, they win.

Topeka's avatar

Voting is necessary ... to keep up the pressure ... and to force the Democrat party to cheat.

But it will not solve the fact that RINOs refuse to fight. They also refuse to defend their fellow Americans, and they refuse to go after tough districts and force the Democrats to waste (our) resources defending their seats.

Elections are decided by a handful of corrupt counties. About 50+ for the nation. 6 for Texas. 6 for Florida. Not sure how many in Cali. ... These election offices - along with the state office determine who counts the "votes," how many "votes" will count, and how many "voters" are available for "counting."

And if - and "if" is a big word - we win elections ... then what? ...

Lawrence Lambert's avatar

As Mr. Schulte's first vote indicates, lowering the voting age to 18 was a mistake. About 6% of all voters are now aged 18 to 24. Neurology tells us that most of these brains are not yet fully developed, and their voting patterns confirm this fact.

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Mar 25, 2024
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Lawrence Lambert's avatar

No one has been drafted in over fifty years. Time to raise both the draft age and voting age to 21.

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Mar 25, 2024
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Stephen H Siemsen's avatar

Not to mention that a great many of the recruits in the armed forces are foreign born, and the military provides them with a path to citizenship. With the armed forces struggling to recruit native-born Americans, why not set up recruiting stations just this side of the wall and concertina wire in order to enlist more immigrants? I know they will faithfully serve to "support and defend the Constitution" even while MAGA Republicans deport their parents, demonize their heritage, and slander their patriotism.

Jill Mosher's avatar

You absolutely nailed it, anyone who will vote for the Democrats in this next election are either on the tag where their heads are in the sand. Thank you for your commentary.

Nancy P.'s avatar

Yes, vote MAGA if you want 4 years of revenge and no policies to benefit Americans.Just look at the Republican House, they have spent their year doing nothing but Trump’s revenge bidding

Yes, vote MAGA if you prefer Russia over our European allies.

Yes, vote MAGA if you prefer an autocracy over a democratic Republic.

Yes, vote MAGS if you want to see Social Security and Medicare cut in order to fund more tax cuts for the wealthy.

Yes, vote MAGA if you dislike minorities, women, gays, science and history.

Yes, vote MAGA. if you are looking for a leader that was so afraid of losing an election that he started crying about fraud to prime his MAGA base before the election. A leader who claims to be a billionaire but incessantly begs for money from his less affluent base.

A leader so insecure that he courts the worst of world leaders.

Yes, vote MAGA if you want a leader who will surround himself with yes-men and toadies instead of those who are experts in their fields.

R.I.P Republican Party. You will be missed.

Lawrence Lambert's avatar

Who do I vote for if I like the Open Border, high prices, declining real wages, and Drag Queen Story hour?

Nancy P.'s avatar

Vote MAGA if you prefer to spend time arguing over Drag Queens in schools, revenge politics and other fringe or imaginary problems versus keeping our nation operating even at a basic level.

Kelly Griffon's avatar

Talk about hostile 😳 you have all the Democrats lies down pat🤮

Nancy P.'s avatar

So frivolous to accuse someone of lies without providing any facts. You sound like Trump.

Nancy P.'s avatar

Unfortunately the conservative movement has become the Trump movement and

Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America, casual racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandizement, vulgar on an epic scale. The fact that so many Republicans are comfortable with the thought of this monumentally unqualified man in the Oval Office shows how warped the party has become.

Thomas John's avatar

This is why I miss all the RINOs. I didn't agree with a majority of their policies - but I did agree with many of them. And even if one didn't agree it didn't turn into a name calling war, a party that would keep Santos around for the vote, a party where all the kids and step kids get jobs in the administration. Good lord what would Regan would think? He's be ashamed.

Stephen H Siemsen's avatar

Was that the same Reagan who held secret negotiations with the Ayatollah to convince him NOT to release the U.S. hostages until AFTER the November election? Then after becoming president orchestrated the Iran-Contra deal involving illicit arms and narcotics in order to raise money to circumvent Congress in his effort to arm the "contras," who then used the guns to kill American Catholic nuns in El Salvador?

Kelly Griffon's avatar

Right on 👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Fern's avatar

I worry that early voting by mail can be more easily tampered with? We know there is voter corruption…

Jill Mosher's avatar

Have you heard what Trudeau has passed a law for in Canada hate speech will not be tolerated. You can go to prison for life and face massive fines. Do you suppose we’re next?

Nancy Freeman's avatar

Henry Schulte: just one other Republican full of bad information. It’s a sin to tell a lie🎼🎼🎼🎶🎵

As Michael Wilson implies: “ heartless and brainless “.

Earl Brown's avatar

Nance-

Whew! I had to scroll almost to the bottom of the page before finding one of your mistaken rants on Henry’s brilliant dissertation! I thought for a moment you mightta had a GOP flash, realized how right he is, and had nothing to say! :)

Thomas John's avatar

Mr. Schultes GDP growth numbers seem to be way off - and too high. Please correct me if I'm reading this data wrong - but the greatest growth seems to start at 2020. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=US

Henry Schulte's avatar

Yes. The third quarter of 2020.

Thomas John's avatar

But the greatest upward change starts in 2020 and continues on. Interesting.

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Thomas John's avatar

I agree with much of this. Each team takes credit for what ever looks good and blames the rest on the other side. Even if the policies/laws took days or decades to come to fruition.