The USA Political Thread

[lennco]

Here you can spout your USA political views.

Rules:
1. Keep it clean
2. No fighting
3. Respect the views of others.
4. US Political views, No Religious views
5. Have fun

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[GILSAN]

 

[lennco]

To everyone on this thread, both on the left and the right.....

Myself and my wife wish you and your family a:
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Thank you Dawg, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family as well.

 

[iowadawg]

Especially all those serving overseas for sure!!!
I have always said, I would for for anyone who will bring ALL our military home.
That includes those serving in peaceful or almost peaceful places like Germany, South Korea, Okinawa, etal....

 

[.X.]

And presidential campaigns are a diversion.

will we ever get any candidates that we actually want?

 

[.X.]

I guess they were just a little upset when the results came in.

 

[GILSAN]

will we ever get any candidates that we actually want?

The best ones are the ones the Liberal Media hates or ignores...

 

[GILSAN]

 

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[Domainace]

will we ever get any candidates that we actually want?

I think it's all a puppet show. Even if the ideal person shows up and somehow gets elected, he will be undercut by within and not be able to get much done. They keep offering new puppets every 4 years while both parties and all the wealthy keep milking working people for all they are worth. And the milkees think they are making important progress by being able to choose their gender or some such nonsense.

Seems pretty clear to me that this particular bus is headed for the cliff no matter who is in the driver's seat.

 

[enlytend]

if trump was “sent by god”, then so was Obama, Clinton...

 

[iowadawg]

God does not meddle in the affairs of men.
Especially when it comes to politics.

 

[enlytend]

God does not meddle in the affairs of men.
Especially when it comes to politics.

I agree.

Now tell that to some of these crazies who are spouting otherwise - though they get a lot more press for this nonsense than they deserve, imo.

Actually, that’s one reason why we have so much polarization and tribalism in today’s political climate. The media - left, right, mainstream, social, ALL of it - amplifies the whackos and edge cases. Hey - it gets a lot of viewer attention which makes the advertisers happy, but at the cost of rational discourse..

 

[TestCase]

God does not meddle in the affairs of men.
Especially when it comes to politics.

But it appears SATAN may have no no such qualms with interfering!

At least that's what a couple of popular evangelicals seem to suggest.

During his November 21 interview with Graham, Metaxas, a Salem Radio Network talk-show host, asked the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, “What do you think of what is happening now? I mean, it’s a very bizarre situation to be living in a country where some people seem to exist to undermine the president of the United States. It's just a bizarre time for most Americans.”
Franklin Graham, president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association, responded, “Well, I believe it’s almost a demonic power that is trying—”

At which point Metaxas interjected, “I would disagree. It’s not almost demonic. You know and I know, at the heart, it’s a spiritual battle.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/franklin-graham-claims-demonic-power-behind-attacks-on-trump

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...vangelicals-everyone-else-is-a-sinner/602569/

 

[GILSAN]

Actually, that’s one reason why we have so much polarization and tribalism in today’s political climate. The media - left, right, mainstream, social, ALL of it - amplifies the whackos and edge cases. Hey - it gets a lot of viewer attention which makes the advertisers happy, but at the cost of rational discourse..

Since 90-95% of the Media is Liberal, it's really easy to calculate where the vast majority of whackos and edge cases are!

 

[GILSAN]

London Bridge killer, 28, was jailed for eight years in 2012 for plotting to BOMB the London Stock Exchange and build an Islamic terror training camp - but was RELEASED last year and had an ankle tag on when he stabbed two people to death yesterday

• The Met Police have named the London Bridge terrorist as Usman Khan, 28
• The knife-wielding terrorist had been released from prison in December 2018
• He was jailed for a minimum of eight years having been convicted of terrorism
• Police have raided an address in Staffordshire linked to the slain terrorist

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...dge-known-police-security-sources-reveal.html

Here's the face of the SOB....

David Vance
✔@DVATW
This is unbelievable. The Jihadi shot dead on [URL='https://twitter.com/hashtag/LondonBridge?src=hash']#LondonBridge was not only a convicted terrorist who had been released on a tag but he was a guest of a Cambridge University sponsored conference in London today on “prisoner rehabilitation”. You just couldn’t make this stuff up! [/URL]

 

[enlytend]

First Crimea, now Belarus. Looks like Vlad is quietly getting the band back together...
https://belsat.eu/en/news/lukashenk...rliament-govt-top-diplomat-about-integration/

Relevant to US politics because of the obsequiousness of this administration and the GOP to everything Putin.

 

[iowadawg]

Believe Crimea was under the watch of obama....
His fault, not Trumps...

 

[enlytend]

Believe Crimea was under the watch of obama....
His fault, not Trumps...

I wasn’t assigning blame, just pointing out relevance.. Putin’s “fault” ultimately. He would like to get the former USSR back together and regain its former power. (And acquire more assets for him and his oligarch mobster buddies.)
The more Putin can convince or coerce the US to step back, the easier for him to step in.

Crimea - Russia took advantage of the chaos in Ukraine after the corrupt Russia-friendly Yanukovich was removed. (He fled to Russia.) Russian military moved in, took over the Crimean parliament, captured some key cities, installed a pro-Russia government. They held a dodgy (and some say illegal) referendum which declared Crimea independent. After which Russia incorporated it as part of Russia.

 

[SirDrago]

I wasn’t assigning blame, just pointing out relevance.. Putin’s “fault” ultimately. He would like to get the former USSR back together and regain its former power. (And acquire more assets for him and his oligarch mobster buddies.)
The more Putin can convince or coerce the US to step back, the easier for him to step in.

Crimea - Russia took advantage of the chaos in Ukraine after the corrupt Russia-friendly Yanukovich was removed. (He fled to Russia.) Russian military moved in, took over the Crimean parliament, captured some key cities, installed a pro-Russia government. They held a dodgy (and some say illegal) referendum which declared Crimea independent. After which Russia incorporated it as part of Russia.

You weren't assigning blame yet you stuck there GOP in there. It was the DNC who gave their buddy and best customer the opportunity to begin his actions and failed terribly to control the dog after.

 

[GILSAN]