Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Rush

Pages: 1 ... 29 30 [31] 32 33 ... 161
451
Spin Zone / Woke Netflix
« on: June 04, 2023, 06:25:17 AM »
72 Dangerous Animals.  I started watching this and in the first minute knew it was going to be trouble when the guy says jaguars are “more intelligent than us”. 

So I continue on and they tell the story of little Jasmine Joseph, age 3, out by the river with her mother. Jasmine gets attacked by a jaguar, it clamps its jaws around her head, and drags her off into the bushes.  And… she’s in the hospital with a crushed skull and wounds on her face and chest.

WAIT A MINUTE.  You skipped over a very important piece of the plot.  How did she get away from the jaguar?  Presumably her mom saved her?  Not with her bare hands I guarantee.  She had to have had a gun and shot the thing.  Why would Netflix or whoever the hell made this series leave out the most important part of the story?

So I google it and after reading 3 or 4 articles finally get some facts.  Apparently there were “aunts” there too and somebody had a gun, shot the cat and killed it.

The girl survived and apparently recovered.

Bottom line: Woke will never admit guns save lives.  They also don’t ever admit that countries besides the evil U.S. allow their citizens to own guns.

452
Spin Zone / Re: Vivek Ramaswamy
« on: June 03, 2023, 02:24:22 PM »
"The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to..."

As I understand it, the historical norm in the U.S. was the extended or multigenerational family where three or more generations live together (grandparent(s), parent(s), children) rather than the nuclear family of only parents and children. I believe nuclear families started becoming the norm on account of the industrial revolution so that they began to dominate during the twentieth century.  My understanding is that the extended family previously provided more security to both the youngest and oldest members. The advent of alternate means of security - or greater wealth due to advances - for older people allowed them to depart the extended family.

Not that you’re wrong.

Family governance presumes a lack of agency on the part of young people. Sadly, the treatment of children in a family is used by authoritarians to justify authority of the same sort over adults as if they were children. This is evident in frequent use of the idiom "An adult in the room" by authoritarians.  I worry that Vivek may actually think the authoritarianism of the nuclear family is something to be replicated at the state or national level.

Could you be overthinking it?  Maybe he just means the lack of fathers in their children’s lives which is turning out to be a disaster.

Not that you’re wrong.

453
Spin Zone / Re: Trump v DeSantis 2024
« on: June 03, 2023, 08:42:36 AM »
The RINO - we are all manipulated by the fucking lamestream media - contingebt grasp at any bullshit, no matter how pathetic to pretend to prove we should all. It’s against our interests so our Facebook friends won’t make fun of us.

I’ve never heard a fake conservative. Moment on the fake republicans like murkowski, romney, and Collins doing everything in their power to cut the ground out from under the only president in the last forty years who actually tried to do only what was in the best interest of the people.

This is the long and short of it.

454
Spin Zone / Re: Trump v DeSantis 2024
« on: June 02, 2023, 08:28:57 AM »
That is actually Rush's excellent post and I am flattered that you'd even think it was mine.     ;D

I take that as a compliment. Thanks!

455
Spin Zone / Re: Joke Thread: Post 'em if ya got 'em
« on: June 02, 2023, 07:50:54 AM »
So after 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife went to see a therapist. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a tirade listing every problem they had ever had in the years they had been married.

On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she had endured.

Finally, after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and after asking the wife to stand, he embraced and kissed her long and passionately as her husband watched with a - raised eyebrow. The woman shut up and quietly sat down as though in a daze.

The therapist turned to the husband and said, "This is what your wife needs at least 3 times a week. Can you do this?"

"Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays, but I fly model airplanes on Fridays."

456
Spin Zone / Re: What is a Woman streams on Twitter at 8:00 ET
« on: June 02, 2023, 06:44:09 AM »
Wow, he not only took off the restrictions, he retweeted it himself!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664609193230204929

457
Spin Zone / Re: Trump v DeSantis 2024
« on: June 02, 2023, 05:32:49 AM »
  Go back a few post and read the article I posted from The Conservative Tree House.   It sums up where the republican party is going and what they are doing.   

 This one quote is telling



”The RNC Club wants, as billionaire donor Ken Griffin explained from his discussions with Ronna McDaniel, Ron DeSantis and Kevin McCarthy, to remove the populist elements within the Republican Party, vis-a-vis MAGA, and realign with the multinational corporations on Wall Street.  “He wants to improve the diversity of the GOP and blunt the vein of populism that has complicated the party’s relationship with the corporate world — two things he’s consulted with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy about.”


That right there tells you everything you need to know. About half of Republicans are MAGA according to some polls but I think it’s actually more who are ideologically populists.  The polls might ask if you support Trump over DeSantis and maybe people like Stan or Little Joe, who I believe (correct me if I’m wrong guys) are basically in line with Trump’s economic and international policies, want to drain the swamp, etc., but just don’t like his mean personality, think he’s too old, has too much baggage, or is less electable in the general, want someone who can give us two terms; they’ll be asked if they support Trump over DeSantis and when they say no, are not counted as MAGA, but are in fact more populist than establishment. 

What I am saying is I think the polls are underestimating the fraction of Republicans who are this “populist element” that these RINOs want to get rid of.  These voters do NOT want the GOP to strengthen it’s alignment with the corporate world at the cost of the working man.  You have to look at how these polls are worded.  People may not admit to being MAGA and they might not prefer Trump, but that doesn’t mean they are happy with the disconnected Republican establishment.  I believe the “populist element” is far more than half. And you don’t have to be a Trump supporter to lean populist. Many people believe DeSantis is “MAGA Light”.

What I am saying is Republicans like McCarthy and McDaniel (and Griffin thinks DeSantis himself) wanting to remove the “populist elements” from the Republican Party, are miscalculating it’s size: the depth and breadth of Republican unhappiness, falsely aligning it with Trump (who is a galvanizing focus -NOT THE INVENTOR- of our unhappiness) and therefore if they succeed in severing the Party from populism, they will either become a small fraction of themselves and lose power, or become a small fraction of elite out of touch tyrants who hang on to power through corrupt duplicitous means just like the Democrats.

The grassroots movement to elect populist politicians will continue but if these establishment Republicans continue blocking them, to “keep populism out of DC”, we have a choice: Form a third party, or just go to sleep and let America continue to decline. No, I don’t think it’s time to go civil war - yet.

458
Spin Zone / Re: another icon bites the dust...
« on: June 01, 2023, 04:41:08 PM »
I thought you were dating a different model of Corvette.

Speaking of Corvettes, Mark just finished painting the body. He is fully restoring a 1980 model.  I’m really proud of him, he’s worked very hard on it.  Well I say finished, but it has to cure now, then I guess he polishes or some other step.  He’s already done the frame, the brakes, the engine, I think the wiring harness is next.

459
Spin Zone / Re: Trump v DeSantis 2024
« on: June 01, 2023, 11:45:11 AM »
I’m no McCarthy fan, but an extremely conservative Wisconsin US Rep. Glenn Grothman was on morning talk radio today.

He said he has been in Congress for 8 years, and he has voted on 6 debt ceiling increases. Until this recent bill, not a single debt ceiling bill did anything to curb spending. ALL of them had spending and deficit increases.

He said this bill is not perfect, but it rejected Biden’s demand for a 6% spending increase, and reduced spending to sub-FY 2022 levels. It should have reduced to 2020 levels, but it’s a far cry from the fiscal irresponsibility under Trump’s 4 years, including 2 years where Trump had both the House and Senate.

They didn’t get rid of expanding the IRS.  That should have been a hill to die on for the Republicans.  They should have told the Dems to go pound sand and allowed the government to default.

460
Spin Zone / Re: Joke Thread: Post 'em if ya got 'em
« on: June 01, 2023, 06:18:05 AM »
On the first day, God created the dog and said, "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past.  For this, I will give you a life span of twenty years."
The dog said, "That's a long time to be barking. How about only ten years and I'll give you back the other ten?"
And God saw it was good.
On the second day, God created the monkey and said, "Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. For this, I'll give you a twenty-year life span."
The monkey said, "Monkey tricks for twenty years? That's a pretty long time to perform. How about I give you back ten like the dog did?"
And God, again saw it was good.
On the third day, God created the cow and said, "You must go into the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer's family. For this, I will give you a life span of sixty years."
The cow said, "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. How about twenty and I'll give back the other forty?"
And God agreed it was good.
On the fourth day, God created humans and said, "Eat, sleep, play, marry and enjoy your life. For this, I'll give you twenty years."
But the human said, "Only twenty years? Could you possibly give me my twenty, the forty the cow gave back,
the ten the monkey gave back,
and the ten the dog gave back; that makes eighty, okay?"
"Okay," said God, "You asked for it."
So that is why for our first twenty years, we eat, sleep, play and enjoy ourselves.
For the next forty years, we slave in the sun to support our family.
For the next ten years, we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren.
And for the last ten years, we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.
Life has now been explained to you.
There is no need to thank me for this valuable information.
I'm doing it as a public service.
If you are looking for me I will be on the front porch...

461
Spin Zone / Re: The Debt Ceiling
« on: June 01, 2023, 06:09:09 AM »
Trump is only a Conservative when it suits HIM.  He has no problem with being liberal when THAT suits HIM.

Trump has never been a conservative at all.  He doesn’t have a pie in the sky ideology of any stripe.  He’s about pragmatic results. He’s for the forgotten man, and America first, whatever ideology that means on any one issue.  Sometimes that looks conservative, sometimes it looks liberal.  Once in a while it looks libertarian and sometimes even authoritarian.  Sometimes it’s right and sometimes wrong. He’s not perfect.

But for the most part he is consistently opposed to the swamp, Uniparty, Deep State, whatever you want to call it, and the global cabal.  He is opposed to government overreach at the expense of the working man and the common man.  He is opposed to centralized control not only at the federal level but internationally.  He is opposed to relinquishing any of our sovereignty to the no-borders global oligarchy.  He stands between us and all of their destructive schemes to end civilization as we know it, which is based on fossil fuels.

I cannot overemphasize how important this one man is because he is not slave to an ideology but rather interested in actual real world pragmatic results.  He proved this in his first term. This diminished the power of the Uniparty and the global elite because it empowered us, the people.  More jobs and cheap energy means self sufficiency and that lessens their control over us.  This enraged them.  They can’t have him in office again because of just this and are deploying every weapon they have against him, including putting up DeSantis to try to deny Trump the nomination.

462
Spin Zone / Re: The Debt Ceiling
« on: May 27, 2023, 07:37:28 AM »
The SS threat is fearmongering. I called our local SS office and fortunately got an agent who didn’t seem to swallow the Kool-Aid and told it to me straight.  He said the government will NEVER not send out SS checks.  They’ll print money out of thin air if they have to. Inflate the dollar so bad they’ll lose a lot of value, but the checks themselves will keep coming. The reason is that millions of Americans now rely on them just to eat so the backlash would be so bad they won’t dare.

However that doesn’t address tweaking the system for those not yet retired. Raising full retirement age for example. This screws the young who are already burdened unfairly to support the retiring population bubble.  The fact is social security is unsustainable unless we quickly start making a lot more babies and also bring the work ethic back to the young.  I don’t see any sign of either of those happening. 

But to fearmonger by implying you’ll stop getting your check is akin to propaganda.  The core problem is way bigger than just funding social security.  Without young people to replace the old, we won’t be growing food, making energy, transporting things, maintaining infrastructure, etc. IOW survive as a country or survive period.

463
Spin Zone / Re: The Debt Ceiling
« on: May 26, 2023, 01:18:01 PM »
The pandemic did damage the economy, partially through things Trump did but mostly through lockdowns which he opposed after the first few weeks.

But the MAIN reason the economy is tanked is because of what Biden did to the cost of energy starting his first day in office.  Period.

464
Spin Zone / Re: another icon bites the dust...
« on: May 24, 2023, 05:03:57 AM »
I believe it was George Burns, when he was in his '90s that explained why he still liked 19 yr old women:

When I was in my '20s, I loved 19 yr old women; and 19 yr old women haven't changed.
(of course, this was before the obesity epidemic and the tranny cult).

That’s such a good point.  Women these days are repulsive. Even the ones in shape if they spew woke ideology just makes them ugly as hell.  Of course, I’m not a straight man. Y’all be careful out there:

465
Spin Zone / Re: Joke Thread: Post 'em if ya got 'em
« on: May 21, 2023, 10:16:44 AM »
Laundry instructions for men:

Pages: 1 ... 29 30 [31] 32 33 ... 161