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Originally Posted By XNARC: Do you hate dogs? Please don’t post something like this again, as somewhere a Never_Trumper is now kicking his dog! Originally Posted By XNARC: Originally Posted By mike103: I vote exactly for this. Boarder closed. Crime down. Mass deportations. Unemployment down. American manufacturing back. Iran no nuke. Greenland secured. Woke gone. Men out of woman’s sports and bathrooms. America feared. Fraud down. USAID abolished. Energy independence. Green new deal dead. Military strengthening. Gun rights being restored. Panama canal secured. Maduro jailed. I’m not voting for commies, socialists, democrats, child molesters, drag queens, libertarians , the mentally ill, pot heads, progressives, Muslims, or Karens. I’m 71. Been voting since I’m 18. Fooled once, twice and even three times. But I know now any Republican is ten times better that any democrat. And no we will never have a viable third party in this country so don’t waste your brain cells. Vote republican this fall or you are the problem. Do you hate dogs? Please don’t post something like this again, as somewhere a Never_Trumper is now kicking his dog! And people renting rooms out everywhere are sad.  |
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Originally Posted By NN300BLK: It's not the one thing though. No new wars became "law enforcement" operation in Venezuela and Operation Epic Fury. Tariffs to bring back American manufacturing became tariffs on everything including coffee and tea (which we can't really produce) and trade wars with our biggest trading partners. (I admit that I believe tariffs alone are not an effective means to bring back our manufacturing.) Drill baby drill became US oil companies scoring lucrative export deals while the price of diesel is high and rising. Supporting our farmers became making a deal for cheap foreign beef. Securing our borders has become mass deportations unless they work in a favored industry. Restoring American history became renaming bodies of water America. Extending his tax cuts became such an obsession that unacceptable deficit spending was fine. And what happened with DOGE? What did that accomplish? It's a big club and we ain't in it . GC |
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Originally Posted By dreiwhit: OP, you won't get much love on here for your post, but I agree with you. Trump has screwed the pooch. Iran has become Trump's bridge too far. I voted for Trump three times. I voted based on his first term. I feel like I got sold a bill of goods. Trump's second term has made me so angry that I left the Republican party after 45 years of being a Republican. I'm an independent now. Trump has committed the unpardonable sin of politics - he has taken more money out of my pocket. When you start screwing with my family finances, you get on my bad side. I'm angry and I feel betrayed. Right now, I'm paying more for everything. Not one thing I regularly buy has gone down in price. The only other time we've had to watch out spending this closely was when I was out of work 25 years ago! People are angry at Trump and rightly so. Remember the stickers of Biden saying "I did that" at gas pumps? Trump versions are showing up now. The mid terms are going to be a blood bath for the Republicans. And rightly so. Americans are angry. For those still on the Trump train, that's fine. But the bridge ahead is out and the Trump train is going full speed. Originally Posted By dreiwhit: Originally Posted By Primetime_1: We all dogpiled the Democrats for defending Biden when he was obviously asleep at the wheel. We have to get rid of Trump. For the Republican party to survive...this guy has to go. I say this as a self-professed non MAGA cult conservative. I actually am under 45 and have young kids. I don't care about Iran, "sorry your girl lost" or any of the other bullshit. This guy is going to run our country aground. We need to let everyone know that he doesn't represent most republicans *ETA- I AM a 3 time Trump voter....FDJT...I DIDN'T vote for this OP, you won't get much love on here for your post, but I agree with you. Trump has screwed the pooch. Iran has become Trump's bridge too far. I voted for Trump three times. I voted based on his first term. I feel like I got sold a bill of goods. Trump's second term has made me so angry that I left the Republican party after 45 years of being a Republican. I'm an independent now. Trump has committed the unpardonable sin of politics - he has taken more money out of my pocket. When you start screwing with my family finances, you get on my bad side. I'm angry and I feel betrayed. Right now, I'm paying more for everything. Not one thing I regularly buy has gone down in price. The only other time we've had to watch out spending this closely was when I was out of work 25 years ago! People are angry at Trump and rightly so. Remember the stickers of Biden saying "I did that" at gas pumps? Trump versions are showing up now. The mid terms are going to be a blood bath for the Republicans. And rightly so. Americans are angry. For those still on the Trump train, that's fine. But the bridge ahead is out and the Trump train is going full speed. The word that comes to mind when I read these posts is 'selfishness.' Absolutely no concern with the bigger picture if it effects them negatively financially. |
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Originally Posted By dreiwhit: It's really easy to offer such platitudes when you're not suffering in the real world. Originally Posted By dreiwhit: Originally Posted By Martlet: There was a time when men valued liberty over wealth. Those men put all their wealth, and lives, on the line for it. These days "men" are willing to give it all up to put cheap gas in their car so they can make it to Burger King for a cheaper Whopper. It's really easy to offer such platitudes when you're not suffering in the real world. Said every subject, ever. |
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Originally Posted By HecklerKac: Nah he's right...younger people aren't falling for the Israel bullshit. Boomers are seemingly in a corner chanting "muh greatest ally" as they live out their golden years. Israel is not our enemy, but they aren't loyal friends above all else either. They will look out for themselves first. America has no friends, that's part of the package of being the global hegemon. Everyone looks to get the most they can from a relationship with the US. That's not new. Europe, Canada, China, India...the ME...they are all relationships based on what we can get from each other. That's how it works. The notion that the US was lead into a war by Israel is horseshit. Trump told Bibi to sit down and shut the fuck up multiple times....in diplomatic speak, in public. Bibi isn't running anything. He does what Trump tells him to do where it effects the US. Israel will also do what it feels it must to protect itself, and they won't apologize for that. The Israel hate is a strong leftist agenda that is being pushed harder than anything I've seen since Russia gate. The JE stuff feeds into that as well. You can't convince people they are being mislead. It's impossible. Israel is an ally of convenience, they aren't loyal, they aren't friends, they are friendly until it doesn't serve their purpose, welcome to the big world. Every nation is like that. |
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Originally Posted By BuddyChryst: It's the hypocrisy that gets me. We decry a creepy old decrepit diaper wearing idiot with a big mouth whose dumb policies get people killed and make prices jump. Now we have a different creepy old decrepit diaper wearing idiot with a big mouth whose dumb policies get people killed and make prices jump and y'all would literally line up for the chance to blow the guy. If Biden enacted the exact same policies, y'all would've been at him with pitchforks and torches not because they're bad, but just because of who's doing them. Don't misunderstand me, I despised that slimy, POS career politician. But you gobble up bullshit just because it's coming from Trump. You claim everything he does is great and exactly what you wanted even if it's the legit opposite of what you elected him for. Just be honest and consistent. I know it's hard. Actually, no, I don't think it is. But it seems really hard for a lot of people. |
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Originally Posted By urbanredneck: I voted for it. I voted for someone to deal with Iran. Unfortunately his timing was wrong and it is probably going to hurt bad in the midterms. Better trade deals. Energy independence. Illegals flows stopped and people being sent home. Voted for all of this. Gas just hit $5 a gallon here yesterday. Anything coming from overseas now has a tariff enhancement cost. Even if it’s an antique or historical item. Illegals are everywhere, was in Aurora, Illinois at an outlet mall a few weeks ago. Almost no one spoke English there. Going to the grocery stores costs me an extra hundred at least in the last year. Going to any restaurant anywhere is double the price in the last few years. Biden was flying us into the ground but Trump put a turbo boost on the engine. |
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Originally Posted By Martlet: There was a time when men valued liberty over wealth. Those men put all their wealth, and lives, on the line for it. These days "men" are willing to give it all up to put cheap gas in their car so they can make it to Burger King for a cheaper Whopper. |
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Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: The word that comes to mind when I read these posts is 'selfishness.' Absolutely no concern with the bigger picture if it effects them negatively financially. Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: Originally Posted By dreiwhit: Originally Posted By Primetime_1: We all dogpiled the Democrats for defending Biden when he was obviously asleep at the wheel. We have to get rid of Trump. For the Republican party to survive...this guy has to go. I say this as a self-professed non MAGA cult conservative. I actually am under 45 and have young kids. I don't care about Iran, "sorry your girl lost" or any of the other bullshit. This guy is going to run our country aground. We need to let everyone know that he doesn't represent most republicans *ETA- I AM a 3 time Trump voter....FDJT...I DIDN'T vote for this OP, you won't get much love on here for your post, but I agree with you. Trump has screwed the pooch. Iran has become Trump's bridge too far. I voted for Trump three times. I voted based on his first term. I feel like I got sold a bill of goods. Trump's second term has made me so angry that I left the Republican party after 45 years of being a Republican. I'm an independent now. Trump has committed the unpardonable sin of politics - he has taken more money out of my pocket. When you start screwing with my family finances, you get on my bad side. I'm angry and I feel betrayed. Right now, I'm paying more for everything. Not one thing I regularly buy has gone down in price. The only other time we've had to watch out spending this closely was when I was out of work 25 years ago! People are angry at Trump and rightly so. Remember the stickers of Biden saying "I did that" at gas pumps? Trump versions are showing up now. The mid terms are going to be a blood bath for the Republicans. And rightly so. Americans are angry. For those still on the Trump train, that's fine. But the bridge ahead is out and the Trump train is going full speed. The word that comes to mind when I read these posts is 'selfishness.' Absolutely no concern with the bigger picture if it effects them negatively financially. Tell us genius what’s the “bigger picture”? Because that picture is showing to me to be a marxist controlled government in the very near future. |
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Originally Posted By DubyaB: California the most heavily taxed fuel in the country. Gavin Newsom’s disastrous attempt at restraining California’s sky-high gas prices has backfired so tremendously it’s almost comical. Just days after signing his new bill, ABX 1-2, several of the state’s largest oil refineries shut down operations, erasing 8% of California’s gas capacity instantaneously. . California's high gas prices aren't going anywhere Originally Posted By DubyaB: Originally Posted By KTMRIDER: $9.10 for diesel in California by my work site California the most heavily taxed fuel in the country. Gavin Newsom’s disastrous attempt at restraining California’s sky-high gas prices has backfired so tremendously it’s almost comical. Just days after signing his new bill, ABX 1-2, several of the state’s largest oil refineries shut down operations, erasing 8% of California’s gas capacity instantaneously. . California's high gas prices aren't going anywhere |
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Originally Posted By dreiwhit: It's really easy to offer such platitudes when you're not suffering in the real world. Originally Posted By dreiwhit: Originally Posted By Martlet: There was a time when men valued liberty over wealth. Those men put all their wealth, and lives, on the line for it. These days "men" are willing to give it all up to put cheap gas in their car so they can make it to Burger King for a cheaper Whopper. It's really easy to offer such platitudes when you're not suffering in the real world. If you think you are suffering now, just give the democrats a chance, and you’ll be screaming… |
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Originally Posted By JaredGrey: democrats want you disarmed, silenced, impoverished, imprisoned, dead, and replaced. Why would any sane adult not vote AGAINST that whenever they have the opportunity? The worst Republican is better than the best democrat. Absolutely! The part in red, I have been saying for years. If they get back in power again, all you have to do is look at the "blue" cities to see what the whole of the U.S. would be like. |
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Originally Posted By Primetime_1: We all dogpiled the Democrats for defending Biden when he was obviously asleep at the wheel. We have to get rid of Trump. For the Republican party to survive...this guy has to go. I say this as a self-professed non MAGA cult conservative. I actually am under 45 and have young kids. I don't care about Iran, "sorry your girl lost" or any of the other bullshit. This guy is going to run our country aground. We need to let everyone know that he doesn't represent most republicans *ETA- I AM a 3 time Trump voter....FDJT...I DIDN'T vote for this 
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Originally Posted By Guntoter: Tell us genius what’s the “bigger picture”? Because that picture is showing to me to be a marxist controlled government in the very near future. Originally Posted By Guntoter: Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: Originally Posted By dreiwhit: Originally Posted By Primetime_1: We all dogpiled the Democrats for defending Biden when he was obviously asleep at the wheel. We have to get rid of Trump. For the Republican party to survive...this guy has to go. I say this as a self-professed non MAGA cult conservative. I actually am under 45 and have young kids. I don't care about Iran, "sorry your girl lost" or any of the other bullshit. This guy is going to run our country aground. We need to let everyone know that he doesn't represent most republicans *ETA- I AM a 3 time Trump voter....FDJT...I DIDN'T vote for this OP, you won't get much love on here for your post, but I agree with you. Trump has screwed the pooch. Iran has become Trump's bridge too far. I voted for Trump three times. I voted based on his first term. I feel like I got sold a bill of goods. Trump's second term has made me so angry that I left the Republican party after 45 years of being a Republican. I'm an independent now. Trump has committed the unpardonable sin of politics - he has taken more money out of my pocket. When you start screwing with my family finances, you get on my bad side. I'm angry and I feel betrayed. Right now, I'm paying more for everything. Not one thing I regularly buy has gone down in price. The only other time we've had to watch out spending this closely was when I was out of work 25 years ago! People are angry at Trump and rightly so. Remember the stickers of Biden saying "I did that" at gas pumps? Trump versions are showing up now. The mid terms are going to be a blood bath for the Republicans. And rightly so. Americans are angry. For those still on the Trump train, that's fine. But the bridge ahead is out and the Trump train is going full speed. The word that comes to mind when I read these posts is 'selfishness.' Absolutely no concern with the bigger picture if it effects them negatively financially. Tell us genius what’s the “bigger picture”? Because that picture is showing to me to be a marxist controlled government in the very near future. We just left that. |
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Originally Posted By gotigers: Trump is He is running all the The next few years more conservative reps and senators will never again be in office thanks to Trump. You had a few errors in your post, I fixed them for you. |
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Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: The word that comes to mind when I read these posts is 'selfishness.' Absolutely no concern with the bigger picture if it effects them negatively financially. All people in a democracy vote to support thier own self interests. Fuck with their livelihood, democrat or republican and they will throw you to the curb. |
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Originally Posted By urbanredneck: I voted for it. I voted for someone to deal with Iran. Unfortunately his timing was wrong and it is probably going to hurt bad in the midterms. Better trade deals. Energy independence. Illegals flows stopped and people being sent home. Voted for all of this. Yep. No big complaints here except for wasteful spending...the complaint I have with every administration. It started out strong with DOGE but a lot of that was superficial. I feel like a lot changed after Charlie was martyred. |
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Originally Posted By Guntoter: Gas just hit $5 a gallon here yesterday. Anything coming from overseas now has a tariff enhancement cost. Even if it’s an antique or historical item. Illegals are everywhere, was in Aurora, Illinois at an outlet mall a few weeks ago. Almost no one spoke English there. Going to the grocery stores costs me an extra hundred at least in the last year. Going to any restaurant anywhere is double the price in the last few years. Biden was flying us into the ground but Trump put a turbo boost on the engine. Yes. And Trump campaigned on lowering the high prices from Biden. Lowering prices were his main campaign promise and one of the main reasons he was elected. |
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Originally Posted By Rem700PSS: Remember when we were seeing on national tv Biden having mental crash outs and it was clear he was no longer there? What did you think of the Democrats that knew that full well but then denied, denied, denied and refused to even speak about it? Pot calling the kettle black, don't you think? It's fine to be a Trump supporter. I was and still am. But it's fine to look at the current situation and state of affairs and be like "Meh...this ain't great". Originally Posted By Rem700PSS: Originally Posted By Glocked: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/483179/IMG_2188_jpeg-3829329.JPG Pot calling the kettle black, don't you think? It's fine to be a Trump supporter. I was and still am. But it's fine to look at the current situation and state of affairs and be like "Meh...this ain't great". Memes like that don’t exist because some people are critical of Trump. They exist because stereotypes are fun, and usually truthful. “I voted for Trump 3 times, but” is often the pretext before a long winded overly dramatic rant. It’s also often code, for “I’m actually a TGO on a gun website” but know admitting it would get you roasted for your beliefs, as you should be. |
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Originally Posted By mike103: I vote exactly for this. Boarder closed. Crime down. Mass deportations. Unemployment down. American manufacturing back. Iran no nuke. Greenland secured. Woke gone. Men out of woman’s sports and bathrooms. America feared. Fraud down. USAID abolished. Energy independence. Green new deal dead. Military strengthening. Gun rights being restored. Panama canal secured. Maduro jailed. I’m not voting for commies, socialists, democrats, child molesters, drag queens, libertarians , the mentally ill, pot heads, progressives, Muslims, or Karens. I’m 71. Been voting since I’m 18. Fooled once, twice and even three times. But I know now any Republican is ten times better that any democrat. And no we will never have a viable third party in this country so don’t waste your brain cells. Vote republican this fall or you are the problem. What you voted for can be undone & reversed by a replacement administration that's hostile to all those things because of 1 really bad decision that turns just enough people off to motivate them to vote for the alternative. Is that what you want? Is that what you voted for? What about government dividend checks for votes? Did you vote for that, too? It's not enough to just win an election. You have to win hearts & minds, & then maintain their continued allegiance. But if you screw them, they're going to say "screw you". But conservatives are stupid. |
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Maybe if Democrats didn't insist on forcing the most unqualified candidates on the voters they would win. You think Queen Kamala and Tampon Tim would be doing a better job? 
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Think of how stupid the average person is and realize half of them are stupider than that.
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Originally Posted By the_real_scout: The people telling this guy to STFU are all idiots. What happened to honest and open dialogue with our peers? Guy is just trying to have a conversation and express himself and we have boomers telling others their opinions don’t matter. You guys suck Exactly. Most of the sheep on here blindly following him are just as bad as the Biden supporters. I'm a lifelong republican, as are many of my friends. In the real world, the people I'm surrounded by are disgusted by the way things are going. Trump's a lifelong Democrat who is running this country into the ground like most Democrats want to do. As a huge 2A supporter who prioritizes that as one of my main issues, I'm happy right now. However, most of America doesn't feel as strongly about it as I do. They care about the economy, how much things cost in relation to their salary, etc. Things are rough for a lot of America right now. Real inflation (not the bs numbers the government provides) is insane and keeps getting worse. It's far outpaced salaries and a lot of people are struggling. The boomers care less because they are already set up, but a significant portion of the younger generation can't afford houses, can't afford food, can't afford a decent car, etc. and they are fed up. It's definitely not making them want to continue voting Republican. |
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Originally Posted By Master_Blaster: What you voted for can be undone & reversed by a replacement administration that's hostile to all those things that gets in because of 1 really bad decision that turns just enough people off to motivate them to vote for the alternative. Is that what you want? Is that what you voted for? What about government dividend checks for votes? Did you vote for that, too? It's not enough to just win an election. You have to win hearts & minds, & then maintain their continued allegiance. But if you screw them, they're going to say "screw you". But conservatives are stupid. The notion that anyone with a functioning brain can live through what we lived through under biden, saw the trajectory and is willing to vote those unamerican pieces of shit back into office is fucking insane. The threat is clear and present, but you're butt hurt over something that isn't existential..... so we'll show them by fucking ourselves over as hard as possible and ruining this country for generations. I wouldn't care if we were charting some unknown path, trying some ideas that no one has tried, but that's not the case. The world is full of the ideas progressives love and it's destroying every place where it's being tried. All we have to do is look. You are willing to destroy everything good we have, because you don't like a few relatively minor aspects. That's emotional voting, not logical voting. |
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Originally Posted By xd341: I think like a lot of things in the political space in this country, that's a narrative being pushed and younger people (i'm in my 40s) are way more exposed to it because of social media use. Israel is not our enemy, but they aren't loyal friends above all else either. They will look out for themselves first. America has no friends, that's part of the package of being the global hegemon. Everyone looks to get the most they can from a relationship with the US. That's not new. Europe, Canada, China, India...the ME...they are all relationships based on what we can get from each other. That's how it works. The notion that the US was lead into a war by Israel is horseshit. Trump told Bibi to sit down and shut the fuck up multiple times....in diplomatic speak, in public. Bibi isn't running anything. He does what Trump tells him to do where it effects the US. Israel will also do what it feels it must to protect itself, and they won't apologize for that. The Israel hate is a strong leftist agenda that is being pushed harder than anything I've seen since Russia gate. The JE stuff feeds into that as well. You can't convince people they are being mislead. It's impossible. Israel is an ally of convenience, they aren't loyal, they aren't friends, they are friendly until it doesn't serve their purpose, welcome to the big world. Every nation is like that. Originally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By HecklerKac: Nah he's right...younger people aren't falling for the Israel bullshit. Boomers are seemingly in a corner chanting "muh greatest ally" as they live out their golden years. Israel is not our enemy, but they aren't loyal friends above all else either. They will look out for themselves first. America has no friends, that's part of the package of being the global hegemon. Everyone looks to get the most they can from a relationship with the US. That's not new. Europe, Canada, China, India...the ME...they are all relationships based on what we can get from each other. That's how it works. The notion that the US was lead into a war by Israel is horseshit. Trump told Bibi to sit down and shut the fuck up multiple times....in diplomatic speak, in public. Bibi isn't running anything. He does what Trump tells him to do where it effects the US. Israel will also do what it feels it must to protect itself, and they won't apologize for that. The Israel hate is a strong leftist agenda that is being pushed harder than anything I've seen since Russia gate. The JE stuff feeds into that as well. You can't convince people they are being mislead. It's impossible. Israel is an ally of convenience, they aren't loyal, they aren't friends, they are friendly until it doesn't serve their purpose, welcome to the big world. Every nation is like that. Yes. Despite what many say. You can both hate Iran, want their death and destruction. And also not care even the slightest bit about Israel. Frankly, until Americans are willing to stomach what’s needed to deal with Iran permanently. We should stay out of the way, pop some popcorn, and enjoy the show while Israel levels Palestine, Iran, and the rest of their neighbors. If we can sell them the bombs at profit, all the better. |
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Originally Posted By xd341: Conservatives are secretly the biggest bitches in this country. The notion that anyone with a functioning brain can live through what we lived through under biden, saw the trajectory and is willing to vote those unamerican pieces of shit back into office is fucking insane. The threat is clear and present, but you're butt hurt over something that isn't existential..... so we'll show them by fucking ourselves over as hard as possible and ruining this country for generations. I wouldn't care if we were charting some unknown path, trying some ideas that no one has tried, but that's not the case. The world is full of the ideas progressives love and it's destroying every place where it's being tried. All we have to do is look. You are willing to destroy everything good we have, because you don't like a few relatively minor aspects. That's emotional voting, not logical voting. Originally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By Master_Blaster: What you voted for can be undone & reversed by a replacement administration that's hostile to all those things that gets in because of 1 really bad decision that turns just enough people off to motivate them to vote for the alternative. Is that what you want? Is that what you voted for? What about government dividend checks for votes? Did you vote for that, too? It's not enough to just win an election. You have to win hearts & minds, & then maintain their continued allegiance. But if you screw them, they're going to say "screw you". But conservatives are stupid. The notion that anyone with a functioning brain can live through what we lived through under biden, saw the trajectory and is willing to vote those unamerican pieces of shit back into office is fucking insane. The threat is clear and present, but you're butt hurt over something that isn't existential..... so we'll show them by fucking ourselves over as hard as possible and ruining this country for generations. I wouldn't care if we were charting some unknown path, trying some ideas that no one has tried, but that's not the case. The world is full of the ideas progressives love and it's destroying every place where it's being tried. All we have to do is look. You are willing to destroy everything good we have, because you don't like a few relatively minor aspects. That's emotional voting, not logical voting. So basicallu you're saying a lot of General Discussion acts like fickle women....not all women....the emotional flake jobs who shift their belief system with the slightest shift of the wind. |
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Originally Posted By slowr1der: Exactly. Most of the sheep on here blindly following him are just as bad as the Biden supporters. I'm a lifelong republican, as are many of my friends. In the real world, the people I'm surrounded by are disgusted by the way things are going. Trump's a lifelong Democrat who is running this country into the ground like most Democrats want to do. As a huge 2A supporter who prioritizes that as one of my main issues, I'm happy right now. However, most of America doesn't feel as strongly about it as I do. They care about the economy, how much things cost in relation to their salary, etc. Things are rough for a lot of America right now. Real inflation (not the bs numbers the government provides) is insane and keeps getting worse. It's far outpaced salaries and a lot of people are struggling. The boomers care less because they are already set up, but a significant portion of the younger generation can't afford houses, can't afford food, can't afford a decent car, etc. and they are fed up. It's definitely not making them want to continue voting Republican. This is a solid take. All the EO’s signed will be undone the second a Dem enters the office, hell maybe another republican if we ever have another. The border is objectively his best accomplishment because it stopped the hemorrhaging but the wound is still open due to lack of mass deportations. That of course can be ramped up, if you’d target employers for hiring illegals. |
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Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: The word that comes to mind when I read these posts is 'selfishness.' Absolutely no concern with the bigger picture if it effects them negatively financially. Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: Originally Posted By dreiwhit: Originally Posted By Primetime_1: We all dogpiled the Democrats for defending Biden when he was obviously asleep at the wheel. We have to get rid of Trump. For the Republican party to survive...this guy has to go. I say this as a self-professed non MAGA cult conservative. I actually am under 45 and have young kids. I don't care about Iran, "sorry your girl lost" or any of the other bullshit. This guy is going to run our country aground. We need to let everyone know that he doesn't represent most republicans *ETA- I AM a 3 time Trump voter....FDJT...I DIDN'T vote for this OP, you won't get much love on here for your post, but I agree with you. Trump has screwed the pooch. Iran has become Trump's bridge too far. I voted for Trump three times. I voted based on his first term. I feel like I got sold a bill of goods. Trump's second term has made me so angry that I left the Republican party after 45 years of being a Republican. I'm an independent now. Trump has committed the unpardonable sin of politics - he has taken more money out of my pocket. When you start screwing with my family finances, you get on my bad side. I'm angry and I feel betrayed. Right now, I'm paying more for everything. Not one thing I regularly buy has gone down in price. The only other time we've had to watch out spending this closely was when I was out of work 25 years ago! People are angry at Trump and rightly so. Remember the stickers of Biden saying "I did that" at gas pumps? Trump versions are showing up now. The mid terms are going to be a blood bath for the Republicans. And rightly so. Americans are angry. For those still on the Trump train, that's fine. But the bridge ahead is out and the Trump train is going full speed. The word that comes to mind when I read these posts is 'selfishness.' Absolutely no concern with the bigger picture if it effects them negatively financially. Attached File Selfishness? Trump’s net worth has reportedly climbed and he bragged about making billionaires money with his “reciprocal” tariffs market swings. (Reciprocal is in quotes because we our tariffs were higher after Trump’s adjustments.) Meanwhile every American is paying more for food, for fuel, and for goods while Trump lauds making his income tax cuts permanent; raising taxes on importers (and the consumer indirectly through tariffs); getting into costly trade wars with our biggest trade partners; undercutting our farmers with cheap foreign beef; wasting tax payer money renaming things; and pressuring the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates when they needed to raise them due to the still high inflation. This is all bad news for ordinary Americans and someone pointing out that Trump 1.0 was better than Trump 2.0 for almost everyone who isn’t a 100 millionaire or billionaire is hardly being selfish, no? |
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Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: We just left that. Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: Originally Posted By Guntoter: Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: Originally Posted By dreiwhit: Originally Posted By Primetime_1: We all dogpiled the Democrats for defending Biden when he was obviously asleep at the wheel. We have to get rid of Trump. For the Republican party to survive...this guy has to go. I say this as a self-professed non MAGA cult conservative. I actually am under 45 and have young kids. I don't care about Iran, "sorry your girl lost" or any of the other bullshit. This guy is going to run our country aground. We need to let everyone know that he doesn't represent most republicans *ETA- I AM a 3 time Trump voter....FDJT...I DIDN'T vote for this OP, you won't get much love on here for your post, but I agree with you. Trump has screwed the pooch. Iran has become Trump's bridge too far. I voted for Trump three times. I voted based on his first term. I feel like I got sold a bill of goods. Trump's second term has made me so angry that I left the Republican party after 45 years of being a Republican. I'm an independent now. Trump has committed the unpardonable sin of politics - he has taken more money out of my pocket. When you start screwing with my family finances, you get on my bad side. I'm angry and I feel betrayed. Right now, I'm paying more for everything. Not one thing I regularly buy has gone down in price. The only other time we've had to watch out spending this closely was when I was out of work 25 years ago! People are angry at Trump and rightly so. Remember the stickers of Biden saying "I did that" at gas pumps? Trump versions are showing up now. The mid terms are going to be a blood bath for the Republicans. And rightly so. Americans are angry. For those still on the Trump train, that's fine. But the bridge ahead is out and the Trump train is going full speed. The word that comes to mind when I read these posts is 'selfishness.' Absolutely no concern with the bigger picture if it effects them negatively financially. Tell us genius what’s the “bigger picture”? Because that picture is showing to me to be a marxist controlled government in the very near future. We just left that. I see Trump signing a lot of EO’s, but not so many laws. Executive fiat is not how our government is supposed to work. Obama did a bunch of EO’s and we conservatives rightly criticized him for it, but if Trump does it, we’re supposed to blame Congress, right? 
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Originally Posted By J_Smith: So basicallu you're saying a lot of General Discussion acts like fickle women....not all women....the emotional flake jobs who shift their belief system with the slightest shift of the wind. About GD or women. |
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Originally Posted By fdawg: All valid points, but if you bring them up you have TDS or whatever the copout statement is. It's a big club and we ain't in it . GC Originally Posted By fdawg: Originally Posted By NN300BLK: It's not the one thing though. No new wars became "law enforcement" operation in Venezuela and Operation Epic Fury. Tariffs to bring back American manufacturing became tariffs on everything including coffee and tea (which we can't really produce) and trade wars with our biggest trading partners. (I admit that I believe tariffs alone are not an effective means to bring back our manufacturing.) Drill baby drill became US oil companies scoring lucrative export deals while the price of diesel is high and rising. Supporting our farmers became making a deal for cheap foreign beef. Securing our borders has become mass deportations unless they work in a favored industry. Restoring American history became renaming bodies of water America. Extending his tax cuts became such an obsession that unacceptable deficit spending was fine. And what happened with DOGE? What did that accomplish? It's a big club and we ain't in it . GC Be that as it may...still better than Kamala, Biden, or Barry. |
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Originally Posted By xd341: Conservatives are secretly the biggest bitches in this country. The notion that anyone with a functioning brain can live through what we lived through under biden, saw the trajectory and is willing to vote those unamerican pieces of shit back into office is fucking insane. The threat is clear and present, but you're butt hurt over something that isn't existential..... so we'll show them by fucking ourselves over as hard as possible and ruining this country for generations. I wouldn't care if we were charting some unknown path, trying some ideas that no one has tried, but that's not the case. The world is full of the ideas progressives love and it's destroying every place where it's being tried. All we have to do is look. You are willing to destroy everything good we have, because you don't like a few relatively minor aspects. That's emotional voting, not logical voting. Originally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By Master_Blaster: What you voted for can be undone & reversed by a replacement administration that's hostile to all those things that gets in because of 1 really bad decision that turns just enough people off to motivate them to vote for the alternative. Is that what you want? Is that what you voted for? What about government dividend checks for votes? Did you vote for that, too? It's not enough to just win an election. You have to win hearts & minds, & then maintain their continued allegiance. But if you screw them, they're going to say "screw you". But conservatives are stupid. The notion that anyone with a functioning brain can live through what we lived through under biden, saw the trajectory and is willing to vote those unamerican pieces of shit back into office is fucking insane. The threat is clear and present, but you're butt hurt over something that isn't existential..... so we'll show them by fucking ourselves over as hard as possible and ruining this country for generations. I wouldn't care if we were charting some unknown path, trying some ideas that no one has tried, but that's not the case. The world is full of the ideas progressives love and it's destroying every place where it's being tried. All we have to do is look. You are willing to destroy everything good we have, because you don't like a few relatively minor aspects. That's emotional voting, not logical voting. Almost no one here is voting for a Democrat. People who are more conservative than Trump who don’t like Trump’s less conservative governance and policies aren’t going to go vote for the even less agreeable Democrat. It’s the swing voter that will decide the midterms, not the disaffected conservatives. In 2018, I don’t think the Republicans had done anything to justify the Blue Wave and the Democrats certainly didn’t do anything to make a good case for them winning the House. But in 2026, the Republicans have stepped in it and their only potential saving grace is that the Democrats are even less popular and even further left now than in 2018. |
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Originally Posted By NN300BLK: Almost no one here is voting for a Democrat. People who are more conservative than Trump who don't like Trump's less conservative governance and policies aren't going to go vote for the even less agreeable Democrat. It's the swing voter that will decide the midterms, not the disaffected conservatives. In 2018, I don't think the Republicans had done anything to justify the Blue Wave and the Democrats certainly didn't do anything to make a good case for them winning the House. But in 2026, the Republicans have stepped in it and their only potential saving grace is that the Democrats are even less popular and even further left now than in 2018. |
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Originally Posted By Glocked: He’s got executive orders, and should have control of his party members in his state. If he can’t get results with his own state’s Republicans, I don’t have much faith he’ll be able to get any better results nationally. So the man in the big chair is supposed to be in control of the legislators too? Okay, where's my SAVE Act. |
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Originally Posted By Prijador: If you are trying to convince someone of something, making them feel like shit will *not* work. “But they did it to me!” Ok, but back to the first sentence. People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel. If you want to get all emotional in your arguments, ok, but don’t expect it to work. If your focus is “hurting them back”, that isn’t going to work, either. Originally Posted By Prijador: Originally Posted By centrarchidae: Originally Posted By SamuelAdams1776: Originally Posted By centrarchidae: We had better candidates during the primaries in 2024. But you guys didn't like their boots and saddled us with this nectarine retard. And shouted us down when we pointed out that he was a nectarine-colored retard. Every time anyone said anything against Trump we had to listen to an onslaught of SYGL and "yur a commie who doesn't want to make America great durr." So you got your orange moron who blew up the budget even worse than Obama and managed to either win or lose the same war fourteen times. Your advice worked out so well in the 2024 primaries and led us to this, so why the fuck would we listen to you now? Who? Christie, Pence? Maybe we can still get Romney or Jeb? I wish that we had better candidates. We don't. We could have had RDS. And even Pence or Jeb (had Pence run in 2016 or either in 2024, and if you want to bring up 2016 candidates then both Cruz and Paul get to enter the chat) would have been less of a fuckup than Trump turned out to be. And it was you people who spent the last thirty years inflicting absolute POS GOP candidates on me and then telling me that I had to vote for them because democrats were worse. You've been following Lee Atwaters' "fuck the gun owners, where else are they gonna go" playbook every since he said it out loud. And because of that, since I started voting you've forced Drool, W (twice), McLame, Mittens, and The Orange Obama (three times) on me. And this is where following your advice and voting for your candidates has landed us. So, like I said above, with a track record like yours why the hell would I listen to you now? If you are trying to convince someone of something, making them feel like shit will *not* work. “But they did it to me!” Ok, but back to the first sentence. People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel. If you want to get all emotional in your arguments, ok, but don’t expect it to work. If your focus is “hurting them back”, that isn’t going to work, either. I don't think he's capable of the amount of self-reflection to either feel like shit from anything I said, or to learn from anything I said. And after a decade of he and his making it personal, I also don't care whether he learns this lesson easily from me or painfully from democrats. He and most of his side of the debate were fine with years of "sorry your gurl lost TDS people are all commies and pedos," so now they can enjoy the world they helped create. |
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Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: Wait...you're in here stumping for Pence and Jeb? LOL. This is an awesome thread. Much morning laughter. Originally Posted By mooreshawnm: Originally Posted By centrarchidae: Originally Posted By SamuelAdams1776: Originally Posted By centrarchidae: We had better candidates during the primaries in 2024. But you guys didn't like their boots and saddled us with this nectarine retard. And shouted us down when we pointed out that he was a nectarine-colored retard. Every time anyone said anything against Trump we had to listen to an onslaught of SYGL and "yur a commie who doesn't want to make America great durr." So you got your orange moron who blew up the budget even worse than Obama and managed to either win or lose the same war fourteen times. Your advice worked out so well in the 2024 primaries and led us to this, so why the fuck would we listen to you now? Who? Christie, Pence? Maybe we can still get Romney or Jeb? I wish that we had better candidates. We don't. We could have had RDS. And even Pence or Jeb (had Pence run in 2016 or either in 2024, and if you want to bring up 2016 candidates then both Cruz and Paul get to enter the chat) would have been less of a fuckup than Trump turned out to be. And it was you people who spent the last thirty years inflicting absolute POS GOP candidates on me and then telling me that I had to vote for them because democrats were worse. You've been following Lee Atwaters' "fuck the gun owners, where else are they gonna go" playbook every since he said it out loud. And because of that, since I started voting you've forced Drool, W (twice), McLame, Mittens, and The Orange Obama (three times) on me. And this is where following your advice and voting for your candidates has landed us. So, like I said above, with a track record like yours why the hell would I listen to you now? Wait...you're in here stumping for Pence and Jeb? LOL. This is an awesome thread. Much morning laughter. I understand that you feel like you have to make the boss look better, but if you're claiming weekend overtime for this would it kill you to make at least a little bit of effort? |
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Originally Posted By centrarchidae: I don't think he's capable of the amount of self-reflection to either feel like shit from anything I said, or to learn from anything I said. And after a decade of he and his making it personal, I also don't care whether he learns this lesson easily from me or painfully from democrats. He and most of his side of the debate were fine with years of "sorry your gurl lost TDS people are all commies and pedos," so now they can enjoy the world they helped create. Did Trump fuck your girlfriend or something? I get the criticisms, he deserves them to a degree, but you just offered up two of the worst politicians in recent memory. We'd have open borders forever with either one of them. And frankly open borders are the biggest risk to every aspect of this nation. The #1 existential threat. We must have border control, then we can deal with everything else. |
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Originally Posted By xd341: Conservatives are secretly the biggest bitches in this country. The notion that anyone with a functioning brain can live through what we lived through under biden, saw the trajectory and is willing to vote those unamerican pieces of shit back into office is fucking insane. The threat is clear and present, but you're butt hurt over something that isn't existential..... so we'll show them by fucking ourselves over as hard as possible and ruining this country for generations. I wouldn't care if we were charting some unknown path, trying some ideas that no one has tried, but that's not the case. The world is full of the ideas progressives love and it's destroying every place where it's being tried. All we have to do is look. You are willing to destroy everything good we have, because you don't like a few relatively minor aspects. That's emotional voting, not logical voting. Originally Posted By xd341: Originally Posted By Master_Blaster: What you voted for can be undone & reversed by a replacement administration that's hostile to all those things that gets in because of 1 really bad decision that turns just enough people off to motivate them to vote for the alternative. Is that what you want? Is that what you voted for? What about government dividend checks for votes? Did you vote for that, too? It's not enough to just win an election. You have to win hearts & minds, & then maintain their continued allegiance. But if you screw them, they're going to say "screw you". But conservatives are stupid. The notion that anyone with a functioning brain can live through what we lived through under biden, saw the trajectory and is willing to vote those unamerican pieces of shit back into office is fucking insane. The threat is clear and present, but you're butt hurt over something that isn't existential..... so we'll show them by fucking ourselves over as hard as possible and ruining this country for generations. I wouldn't care if we were charting some unknown path, trying some ideas that no one has tried, but that's not the case. The world is full of the ideas progressives love and it's destroying every place where it's being tried. All we have to do is look. You are willing to destroy everything good we have, because you don't like a few relatively minor aspects. That's emotional voting, not logical voting. Okay, they're insane. But if they vote the legislatures back to D control come the midterms, then what? Is name slinging going to fix anything? Managing things well enough to motivate voters to stay the course should've been in the calculus. I was all for finishing off the IRGC, but we paused a month into it & gave them enough room to survive. Why? It would appear that the administration's wasn't willing to do the needful. Why not continue to pound them until they surrender unconditionally? The people were all for it. It's looking like Vance, Gabbard, & Rubio were right to advise against getting into this. If nothing else, there's no stomach for it. Not really, anyway. |