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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 18, 2022, 07:28:18 AM »
About the two splits in each party, I somewhat disagree with your take on it.

In the case of the GOP, the RINO wing has never warmed up to or adopted MAGA. MAGA is winning simply due to blunt force trauma against RINOs from the grass roots of MAGA. The split is clear, and it’s really the grass roots vs the establishment. No RINO has tried to engraving itself into MAGA.

In the case of the Dems, I’ve been STUNNED with the rapid, WILD swings to the far left minority of the party. If Biden ran 10 years ago, he would probably be the idiot centrist he claims he is, but which he isn’t any more. 100% of the MAJORITY of establishment democrats have gone from border integrity to unlimited illegal immigration, from being loath to the military to demanding we intervene in Ukraine, from non-intervention to being globalists, and ALL have adopted the most radical green, socialist and Marxist policies advanced by Bernie and AOC. And I do not see grass-roots democrats moderating whatsoever. I think the ingrained thirst for power by democrats has made even the most
Moderate democrat a rabid far-left voter just to remain in power.

Not sure I understand what you’re saying about RINOs and MAGA.  Of course the RINOs aren’t engraving themselves to MAGA.  Did you think I was throwing them in together?  I meant RINO vs MAGA, not RINO and MAGA.

For the Dems, I’m talking about the people, not the politicians.  There is a lot of evidence that the far woke are not the majority of Democrats (common people) by a long shot.  They aren’t going along with third trimester abortions, gender reassignment of little kids, and CRT in schools.  But they are still voting Democrat out of habit and out of TDS, but there are signs that is beginning to change. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Odds Mike Pence Wins GOP Nomination
« on: August 18, 2022, 06:14:05 AM »
For that to happen, Trump, DeSantis, and Rand Paul (or Ron, I can never remember which is the father and which the son) all would have to not run plus nobody else I can think of that would also handily beat him, so, zero. 

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Spin Zone / Re: EIGHT Unanswered Question From the January 6 Hearings
« on: August 17, 2022, 02:21:34 PM »
The worst thing about the Jan 6 hearings and the Mar A Largo raid and the whole Russia Russia years, all these Trump witch hunts - the worst part is that we, the taxpayers, are paying for it.

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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 17, 2022, 01:10:36 PM »
OK. I'll agree that's the case sometimes but many of these women are dumpy and/or old, fat, etc. How do you explain that? Men afraid of being alone or going through a financially devastating divorce? (I've done both and survived, btw, and actually came out the happiest I've ever been).

You’re right, half or more women get too fat but so do men, sexual attraction goes away in both directions.  Probably fear of financial ruin then, especially if you have children. Did you have any children? If not that’s why you came out ahead. If a man finds himself with a wife who no longer treats him nice and children to support, it must feel like a suffocating trap. Keeping the peace then becomes the overriding priority. Until you can’t stand it anymore and the high price of leaving becomes worth it, or she kicks you out.

I heard a statistic, don’t know if it’s true. 50% of marriages end in divorce and of those that don’t, 80% are “not happy”.  Staying together for economic reasons or whatever.  Good lord, that means only 10% of people who get married end up in a happy marriage.

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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump raid and "3 Felonies A Day"
« on: August 17, 2022, 11:13:18 AM »
Of course the President can declassify anything he want, but I can't speak to whether or not the President can issue such an order...

however, automatically declassifying materials would be a monumentally stupid thing to do...  unless you are one of the people that thinks we have waaaaaaaaay too much classified data and we should declassify everything.

I’m sure it was written to apply to anything Trump specifically took, not just anything that walked out!

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Cool Places to Fly / Re: OshKosh 2022
« on: August 17, 2022, 11:10:41 AM »
Did you guys see this?  I didn’t know a Baron could do this.


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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump raid and "3 Felonies A Day"
« on: August 17, 2022, 10:37:18 AM »
Starts at 5:30.  Trump had a standing order that anything he took out of the White House was automatically declassified.  So there can be no classified documents at Mar A Largo and the DOJ/FBI has no case.

Keep listening if you want to hear Tulsi Gabbard talk about it.


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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 17, 2022, 09:15:47 AM »
Hey, I thought alpha males (Marines) worshipped their women (who are often alpha females). Please don’t disillusion me. Appreciation of the opposite gender’s differences is wonderfully healthy but currently under attack by the left.

Mutual worship, that’s the ticket! 

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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 17, 2022, 09:13:23 AM »
“Extremely sweet,” eh? In my experience far-left women play a good game in sweetness with a steel plate inside it. I’ve seen it over and over, and in most instances a man who crosses her belief system even slightly is either jettisoned or given the mark of the beast and placed outside her sphere. All done with a smile.

Possibly.  I have no idea what goes on behind closed doors of course.

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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 17, 2022, 09:12:30 AM »
Yeah, it's the sex.  Always the sex.  AOC is kind of hot, but not hot enough to be anywhere near.

I suggest that you just talk to him.  Not about politics, but about everyday things.  Find common interests, common ground for talking about cool stuff like guns and planes.  You'll see pretty soon where the boundaries are around topics that you disagree about and topics that you agree with.  And how willing he is to discuss facts vs. emotion.  But do this out of earshot of his wife.  She will put a wet blanket on any discussions that are not 100% left.  Being your brother is a feature and you already have common family ground.

You hit on two exact points.  Discussing facts without emotion.  It can’t get emotional or it all goes south fast.  My thought was to discuss the changes occurring in both parties and both sides from an objective perspective.  Step outside personal positions and talk about the changes, for example, how the liberals used to be anti vax and now they are pro vax without talking about the Covid vax in particular and whether I think it is a scam or should be taken.

How the Republican Party is splitting in two (MAGA and RINO) and the Democrat party is also splitting in two (far left woke and traditional moderate Democrat) and how the Republican it’s more a 50/50 split or better toward MAGA but the Democrat, the far woke left is a much smaller percent.  Maybe we can’t have that discussion without self identifying.  I’d have to say I’m in the MAGA half if I’m Republican at all, and my question for my brother is whether he is in the radical wacko AOC squad part of the Dems or does he still identify more with the traditional Dems.  I don’t know if we can go that far without veering into emotional ranting.

Your second point is yes, it has to be without the wife, although we never see each other in person anymore, it would probably be via email exchange which I’m sure he’d share with her.

We do talk by phone about our physical health problems, we very much share that in common. Both have long standing back pain and concurrent neurological deficits.

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Spin Zone / Re: The Trump raid and "3 Felonies A Day"
« on: August 17, 2022, 08:29:39 AM »
Hate to say it, but I strongly suspect they will find something to charge him with. Just like they can most citizens. See the book referenced at the top of the thread.

And then the process is the punishment.

It is possible he has been so exceptionally careful they won’t be able to find anything at least arguably felonious - but I think that unlikely.

I’d like to believe this guy is right.  I’m not completely sure.  He’s right about a lot of stuff but I’m reserving final judgement until after the midterms.  If he fails to predict rampant cheating resulting in a big Dem win this November I will be disappointed and alarmed because 1. It will mean the Dems pulled it off and Styx failed to see it coming, and 2. Fair elections and the country itself are permanently dead and we are now a dictatorship.

https://rumble.com/v1gamn3-if-the-doj-indicts-trump-it-is-evidence-that-they-are-insane.html

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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 17, 2022, 07:52:15 AM »
Even Marines become slaves to their wives sometimes.  I am amazed at how so many Men kowtow to their wives and live in absolute fear of them.  I don't know from where this emanates.  It is a Mom thing where they grew up used to having to listen to and fear their Mother???  I had a strong willed, well educated, but emotional and insecure Mother who made ALL THE RULES in the house and my Dad lived in absolute fear of her.  I rejected all that, hence part of my problem with relationships with women.  I just won't do that.

It’s the sex.  I’m not male so I’m just guessing, but I postulate it’s fear of being cut off from the sex.  In my brother’s defense, his wife is gorgeous and sexy and has not gotten fat, even after 17 years of marriage, plus she is extremely sweet and nice and dotes on him, is a great mother and even has a good job and brings in money.  Also a great cook.  I don’t think it’s that she is overbearing at all, I think it’s more like my brother happily goes along with whatever she wants because he can’t believe he landed such a woman. However if he disagreed with her she might give him the cold shoulder, hence keeping access to the sex is a priority over politics.

Well if my brother were not a liberal to start with that might not be the case.  I doubt any man here who is conservative or libertarian would go far left just for a woman, so my brother is at least on that side of the fence to start with.  I just want to know if he has fallen all the way into lunacy with the radical far left we have seen grow just in the last couple of years.  If he (and maybe even his wife) have any sanity at all one would hope they’re questioning it a little.

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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 17, 2022, 06:48:34 AM »
At the very core of Democrats (far left, fasco-communist control freaks) is HYPOCRISY and DISHONESTY.  Don't waste your time.

But that’s my question, has he become a far left fiasco-communist control freak?  Or just stayed a liberal from the 70s who supports legalizing pot, and opposed wars in the Mideast, who just has TDS because he listens to CNN?  He was an active duty Marine and supports the 2nd Amendment and has a work ethic.  He doesn’t have a man bun nor drinks soy latte.  His wife is a lost cause though, but she’s female so I wouldn’t even try to reason with her.  You might be right about not wasting my time. I’m not sure he doesn’t just get told what to believe by the wife.

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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 17, 2022, 05:38:24 AM »
She’s already announced she will consider running for president in 2024 which is laughable.  Neither party would vote her in.

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Spin Zone / Re: A Going Away Gift for Liz Cheney
« on: August 17, 2022, 03:57:25 AM »
I’m thinking about opening a conversion with my liberal Dem brother about politics which we have not discussed since 2016 when we had a blowup over Trump winning.  He is ten years younger than I am but still old enough to have become a liberal Democrat back when the Democrat party was still for free speech and pro social freedoms such as being against vaccine mandates, as well as anti-warmongering.  My brother hated the Bushes and Dick Cheney.

I want to ask him now why the Dems love Liz (we know the answer: she hates Trump) and whether my brother has followed the Dems into woke wacko land.  He has a 15 year old son.  A white male, presumably straight.

So the kid has everything going against him. He’s in public school probably being taught that all the world’s evil is his fault for being male and white.  That he is going to college is a foregone conclusion.  If he gets a worthless liberal arts degree he will be doomed.  So I wrote him a letter on the subject of career choice and encouraged him toward a STEM field but that’s beside the point.

The point is, could my brother, a liberal from the 20th century, be questioning whether the left has gone too far?  Maybe worried what the schools are teaching his son?  Maybe worried about what jobs his son will be able to get?  Between 2016 and today the Dems have lurched into full on authoritarianism and are currently destroying the economy.  I’m curious if my brother went with them all the way or might be having second thoughts.

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