The lightning move toward autocracy

[Hardcore troubadour 14,919]

19 minutes ago, Death said:

More childish name-calling. Useless.

Troubadouche here. Just wanted to say Clownzo. 

[Horseman 2,353]

1 minute ago, Death said:

I have concerns, and no one in this thread has done anything to assuage that. It's been all tired platitudes and vicious responses.

Not helping.

Nobody cares about your concerns. MAGA is in charge now and you'll just have to sit there and take it like a man.

Or throw tantrums like a child.  

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[weepaws 3,152]

1 minute ago, CaptainObvious1 said:

You left out your discourse towards the right when the left was in charge.  Now that the right is in charge, you want the hate on Democrats to all of a sudden stop?  GTFO.  You all spent 4 years hating on everything about the right.  

Yeah, that’s the conservative way to act, conservative are just liberals with a different title.  Indeed 

Matthew 10:32.  Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, Him I will confess also before My Father which is in.  Amen Thanks 

[Patented Phil 1,469]

6 minutes ago, Death said:

I have concerns, and no one in this thread has done anything to assuage that. It's been all tired platitudes and vicious responses.

The Left should be concerned.  They are getting stampeded right now by Trump and the Right.  And no one is in a forgiving mood.  There’s a lot of people on the Right who feel exactly as @Voltaire does.  They want the Left destroyed.  Thoroughly.

[Death 300]

1 minute ago, CaptainObvious1 said:

You left out your discourse towards the right when the left was in charge.  Now that the right is in charge, you want the hate on Democrats to all of a sudden stop?  GTFO.  You all spent 4 years hating on everything about the right.  

Not toward the right. Toward the MAGA mentality that resulted in Jan. 6, calls for civil war, a misinformation epidemic, an ugly hatred toward anything to the right of itself and a convicted felon getting elected president with an agenda to turn our country into something where democracy dies. 

I've stated all the positions considered conservative. But the Republicans whom I admire get dismissed with the RINO label because they're not MAGA enough.

I don't agree with white evangelical nationalism dominating our country in so many ways.

 

[weepaws 3,152]

Just now, Patented Phil said:

The Left should be concerned.  They are getting stampeded right now by Trump and the Right.  And no one is in a forgiving mood.  There’s a lot of people on the Right who feel exactly as @Voltaire does.  They want the Left destroyed.  Thoroughly.

I think that’s great, but, then whose going to fight the powerful force known has the right?   Indeed 

[Death 300]

2 minutes ago, Patented Phil said:

The Left should be concerned.  They are getting stampeded right now by Trump and the Right.  And no one is in a forgiving mood.  There’s a lot of people on the Right who feel exactly as @Voltaire does.  They want the Left destroyed.  Thoroughly.

That's exactly what I'm talking about, and that's dangerous as hell and boldly underscores why I started this thread.

We need a strong two-party system of checks, balances, mutual respect and compromise.

That's what our founding fathers intended.

 

 

[Voltaire 5,182]

20 minutes ago, Death said:

I agree on a lot of this, including transgender overreach, and I know transgender people who are tired of it as well and just want to live their lives without all the noise.

I'm for smaller government, lower taxes, oil and gas, a mighty military, supporting businesses, clamping down on illegal immigration and a lot of conservative things.

I'm a bit more liberal on social issues, but "overreach" is a great word to apply here. 

I'm for a strong two-party system of checks and balances, one that people on both sides have to work together to come up with solutions, and that to me is how a democracy works.

I don't viciously hate on conservatives and don't respect those who do; I'm concerned with how MAGA viciously hates on Democrats. It has reached an unhealthy level. Sure, there are lefties with an unhealthy dislike for the right, but they're not running the country right now. 

The Republican Party has evolved into MAGA.

I have concerns, and no one in this thread has done anything to assuage that. It's been all tired platitudes and vicious responses.

Not helping.

It'd be nice to have two functional parties as well but one is off the rocker insane. RFK and Tulsi Gabbard have been running as Democrats in the last two elections and taken the last remaining drops of sanity with them as they were labeled apostates and getting kicked out the door.

The clouds of oppression are parting. The evil is being purged. Its purveyors are in full retreat. Its a great time to breathe the air of freedom. Every day is better than the last. Too bad you can't enjoy, it but those of us that can are. As far as saving Western Civilization goes, this is BETTER than the collapse of the Soviet Union.

As far as your worries.... that's the sh8t being escorted out the door. Team Shitbag pulled every dirty trick, pulled ever lever of power they had, weaponized every establishment they controlled, threw everything they could at defeating President Trump for the past eight years.... he took it all, all tehir arrows and lies and slander, and won anyway. We've come out the other side intact and this is the reward the country and western civilization has. Refreshed from all the tarnish and a bright future ahead.

I mean we'll look out for overreach but ... ha ha ... we are so very very far from overreach at this moment. First the restoration and we'll worry about that later - if ever.

Oh no! Fair trade policies, normal social more returning, and colorblindness... such horrors for the leftoids to deal with.

[Patented Phil 1,469]

5 minutes ago, Death said:

That's exactly what I'm talking about, and that's dangerous as hell and boldly underscores why I started this thread.

We need a strong two-party system of checks, balances, mutual respect and compromise.

That's what our founding fathers intended.

The Constitution, and its system of checks and balances, was designed to protect - get this - the Constitution.  It wasn’t designed to protect Leftist tyranny.

[Death 300]

4 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

It'd be nice to have two functional parties as well but one is off the rocker insane. RFK and Tulsi Gabbard have been running as Democrats in the last two elections and taken the last remaining drops of sanity with them as they were labeled apostates and getting kicked out the door.

The clouds of oppression are parting. The evil is being purged. Its purveyors are in full retreat. Its a great time to breathe the air of freedom. Every day is better than the last. Too bad you can't enjoy, it but those of us that can are. As far as saving Western Civilization goes, this is BETTER than the collapse of the Soviet Union.

As far as your worries.... that's the sh8t being escorted out the door. Team Shitbag pulled every dirty trick, pulled ever lever of power they had, weaponized every establishment they controlled, threw everything they could at defeating President Trump for the past eight years.... he took it all, all tehir arrows and lies and slander, and won anyway. We've come out the other side intact and this is the reward the country and western civilization has. Refreshed from all the tarnish and a bright future ahead.

I mean we'll look out for overreach but ... ha ha ... we are so very very far from overreach at this moment. First the restoration and we'll worry about that later - if ever.

Oh no! Fair trade policies, normal social more returning, and colorblindness... such horrors for the leftoids to deal with.

Hate speech. 

Unbridled anger.

Uncompromising.

Intolerance.

Unrealistic expectations.

This isn't going to turn out the way you want it to.

We need less of this mentality in this country.

 

[Death 300]

1 minute ago, Patented Phil said:

The Constitution, and its system of checks and balances, was designed to protect - get this - the Constitution.  It wasn’t designed to protect Leftist tyranny.

Or MAGA tyranny, but it's being weaponized to do just that.

Just because a Democrat gets elected president and you disagree with his policies doesn't make it a tyranny.

We never were close to tyranny the past four years.

But we're rapidly getting there now.

[seafoam1 2,799]

4 minutes ago, Death said:

Hate speech. 

Unbridled anger.

Uncompromising.

Intolerance.

Unrealistic expectations.

This isn't going to turn out the way you want it to.

We need less of this mentality in this country.

 

 I can only hope Trump gets a third term. This is wonderful. 

[CaptainObvious1 323]

12 minutes ago, Death said:

That's exactly what I'm talking about, and that's dangerous as hell and boldly underscores why I started this thread.

We need a strong two-party system of checks, balances, mutual respect and compromise.

That's what our founding fathers intended.

 

 

Well one party nominates Trump.  The other nominates a senile 97 year bumbling idiot and replaces him with a pole smoking cackling DEI hire.  

[seafoam1 2,799]

3 minutes ago, CaptainObvious1 said:

Well one party nominates Trump.  The other nominates a senile 97 year bumbling idiot and replaces him with a pole smoking cackling DEI hire.  

Life is good now that the old creepy guy that falls down all the time and spends like an ignorant liberal child has been put to rest. 

[Patented Phil 1,469]

1 minute ago, Death said:

Or MAGA tyranny, but it's being weaponized to do just that.

Just because a Democrat gets elected president and you disagree with his policies doesn't make it a tyranny.

We never were close to tyranny the past four years.

But we're rapidly getting there now.

Bullshittt.  What is more tyrannical than ignoring federal law, leaving the border wide open, letting in 11 million illegal aliens, then when they commit crimes - preventing ICE from deporting them?

That is the textbook definition of tyranny.

[Horseman 2,353]

Rusty is on full TILT

This is awesome. More lib tears please. Thanks Trump!

[seafoam1 2,799]

4 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Rusty is on full TILT

This is awesome. More lib tears please. Thanks Trump!

I hope he and gutternuts and generalpimpledoosh and timmy and the rest all keep it coming non stop. 

It is so awesome. 

[Voltaire 5,182]

3 minutes ago, Death said:

Hate speech. 

Unbridled anger.

Uncompromising.

Intolerance.

Unrealistic expectations.

This isn't going to turn out the way you want it to.

We need less of this mentality in this country.

 

I tell you what, get with your Democrat friends and tell them to drop the 80/20 issues: the tranny bullsh*t, the DEI bullsh*t, identity politics, the mass censorship, and the open borders bullsh*t, Hamas support, and the rewriting of US history along socialist/marxist lines.

Maybe we can have debates about tax rates vs social programs again, health care financing, energy / environmental policy, foreign policy priorities again.

I won't vote for the 2028 Dem candidate because I'm worried zer/zim will be a fake front to reintroduce all the evils of the Biden administration being purged, but hey, if they denounce that sh*t and keep it in a box, its entirely possible they can make some semblance of an argument that the GOP candidate has it wrong to support this policy and that one.

Right now, I just want the GOP to cobble together coalitions amongst themselves to get to 218 in the House and 51 in the Senate, which is hard with such small majorities. Reaching out to the Dems is to open Pandora's box. They are at present just a collection of radical un-American degenerate scum with very little upside remaining and best left to scream and be ignored. Since we don't have to deal with them for two years, lets get as much housecleaning done as we can in that time.

[Death 300]

 

Sweet dreams Geek Club. I'll see you tomorrow.

[BirdGang 385]

26 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Rusty is on full TILT

This is awesome. More lib tears please. Thanks Trump!

It’s so fun to check in and see who’s shedding the most tears. Rusty doesn’t like the swamp getting drained? Too bad. Elections have consequences. 

[Horseman 2,353]

8 minutes ago, Death said:

 

Sweet dreams Geek Club. I'll see you tomorrow.

All weekend long huh?  A big part of your life is it?  

Pathetic.  

[Voltaire 5,182]

18 minutes ago, Death said:

Or MAGA tyranny, but it's being weaponized to do just that.

Just because a Democrat gets elected president and you disagree with his policies doesn't make it a tyranny.

We never were close to tyranny the past four years.

But we're rapidly getting there now.

Such BS. The Biden tyranny was intense but rather than call it out, you were masturbating to it and cheering it all on. Now your shaking your head in terror like Bobby Heenan use to do in 1990s wrestling when the shoe of justice was finally on the other foot.

They tried to keep Trump off the ballot, due him over bullsh*t, prosecute him over bullsh*t lawsuits, de-bank or de-platform those they didn't like, censor dissenting voices, pack the Supreme Court, end the fillibuster, rig elections,. Then there was the steady overwhelming diet of woke, intersectional DEI and tranny bulsh*t at every turn. Woke sh*tbags infecting and contaminating every government, corporate, academic, and non-profit institutions.

But he overcame all of the persecutions and arrows and now (((poof))) that era is rapidly evaporating. And sh*tbags like you who were 100% behind all that cr@p are shedding crocodile tears of horror over him possibly doing exactly the very you'd cheered on happening to him just five minutes ago.

 

[Patented Phil 1,469]

Like Adriane said in Rocky 2 - “Stop the fight!”

Whatever Voltaire was drinking tonight, keep drinking it.

[lickin_starfish 1,889]

8 hours ago, seafoam1 said:

I hope he and gutternuts and generalpimpledoosh and timmy and the rest all keep it coming non stop. 

It is so awesome. 

They will keep it coming. They can't help themselves.

[TrailGuy 552]

6 minutes ago, lickin_starfish said:

They will keep it coming. They can't help themselves.

Profile pics of Hitler.

I don't know how much longer I want to be associated with this filth here.

[Mike Hunt 261]

9 hours ago, Death said:

That's exactly what I'm talking about, and that's dangerous as hell and boldly underscores why I started this thread.

We need a strong two-party system of checks, balances, mutual respect and compromise.

That's what our founding fathers intended.

 

 

Well, sadly that has not existed for a long time. 

There were many votes under Biden-Harris that were 100% along party lines on each side.   Are you telling me that not one person on either side might have had a different view and vote?  Some were so close Harris had to cast the deciding vote.

All the people in power care about is staying in power that is why they rarely vote against party lines. I am talking both sides.

[lickin_starfish 1,889]

1 hour ago, TrailGuy said:

Profile pics of Hitler.

I don't know how much longer I want to be associated with this filth here.

Wtf are you talking about? That ain't Hitler, it's a triple cheeseburger. I swear, you people can see Nazis everywhere you look.

[RLLD 4,143]

14 minutes ago, lickin_starfish said:

Wtf are you talking about? That ain't Hitler, it's a triple cheeseburger. I swear, you people can see Nazis everywhere you look.

Except the mirror of course.

i disdain those who permitted malfeasance by Democrats only to suddenly care when Republicans were in power.

[CaptainObvious1 323]

1 hour ago, TrailGuy said:

Profile pics of Hitler.

I don't know how much longer I want to be associated with this filth here.

Then you turn around and post this nonsense.  Just leave.  You can't you're addicted to trolling and have no life.

 

 

[BirdGang 385]

1 hour ago, TrailGuy said:

Profile pics of Hitler.

I don't know how much longer I want to be associated with this filth here.

You are the filth, thanks for the red wave. 

[Voltaire 5,182]

10 hours ago, Death said:

Hate speech. 

Unbridled anger.

Uncompromising.

Intolerance.

Unrealistic expectations.

This isn't going to turn out the way you want it to.

We need less of this mentality in this country.

 

This is every post you made in the last eight years and every single -thing Biden was pulling for the past four years.

 

 

[TrailGuy 552]

18 minutes ago, CaptainObvious1 said:

Then you turn around and post this nonsense.  Just leave.  You can't you're addicted to trolling and have no life.

 

 

Says the guy who can't stop replying to me

[TrailGuy 552]

18 minutes ago, BirdGang said:

You are the filth, thanks for the red wave. 

Supports Hitler.

[CaptainObvious1 323]

2 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

Says the guy who can't stop replying to me

Not threatening to leave over a cheeseburger, dummy

[Voltaire 5,182]

Do you guys remember how the Palestinians were all out in the streets cheering and celebrating the slaughter of Israelis and welcoming the return of kidnappers and hostages on the day of the attack in Israel; then they immediately called for peace  the moment the  last motorcycle returned to Palestine?

This encapsulates Rusty's position.

It was all good - we have four years of his posts masturbating himself when it was his vile sh*tbags going Trump and Trump's supporters. Having been put through the wringer, Trump isn't in a very forgiving mood - and who can blame him? It'd be nice to return to the precedent set when John Adams walked away from power and Thomas Jefferson didn't sic the government on him and his supporters but it was the Dems who broke that social contract.

Cry me a river. 

[TrailGuy 552]

14 minutes ago, CaptainObvious1 said:

Not threatening to leave over a cheeseburger, dummy

Cheeseburger?  You don't have to play dumb.

[CaptainObvious1 323]

5 minutes ago, TrailGuy said:

Cheeseburger?  You don't have to play dumb.

, waterhead

[Hawkeye21 2,380]

This sounds like the Bizarro World version of @JustinCharge

[listen2me 23 1,825]

Is this the pivot off "racist"?  I know Libs have to run with something.    Not a terrible move.  We shall see if it works.  

If you cant call the right racist any longer and make it work just run with some other doom and gloom.  

Nazi! Racist! Dictator!   This is their idea of winning over voters.  

The left are the ones that wanted to level and label anyone who didnt kneel down and kiss the woke ring.  Do not forget that.  They are the party of trying to make people submit.  If people dont fall in line, easy, just call them white supremacists or conspiracy theorists off the rip to try and deligitimize them.  Look how they handled covid and vax.  Tried to basically say anyone who wasnt vaxed was a threat.  Look how they handled race relations.  Anyone who doesnt kiss the woke ring is racist end of discussion.  

[The Real timschochet 6,402]

12 minutes ago, listen2me 23 said:

Is this the pivot off "racist"?  I know Libs have to run with something.    Not a terrible move.  We shall see if it works.  

If you cant call the right racist any longer and make it work just run with some other doom and gloom.  

Nazi! Racist! Dictator!   This is their idea of winning over voters.  

The left are the ones that wanted to level and label anyone who didnt kneel down and kiss the woke ring.  Do not forget that.  They are the party of trying to make people submit.  If people dont fall in line, easy, just call them white supremacists or conspiracy theorists off the rip to try and deligitimize them.  Look how they handled covid and vax.  Tried to basically say anyone who wasnt vaxed was a threat.  Look how they handled race relations.  Anyone who doesnt kiss the woke ring is racist end of discussion.  

Actually it’s your reaction that is intolerant. 

There ARE authoritarian aspects to what Trump is doing. That doesn’t mean he’s Hitler or that we’re headed for a dictatorship. It means exactly what I wrote: authoritarian aspects. They’re troubling and it’s not wrong to point them out. 

But how do you guys respond to this criticism? Not by rebutting it but by wrapping yourself in an “us vs them” scenario: guys like yourself and @Voltaire act like our side is evil and you need to be at war against us, which in some ways is even more troubling an attitude than what Trump is doing.